I would have liked a quick scene of Karen explaining her interior design choices with that second house. Really wild stuff.
Reviews tagged ‘hbomax’ by mm Patron
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone 2001
This is both the best and most satisfying movie franchise, to suggest otherwise is blasphemy IMO.
Always thought this was a cool Voldemort design! Kinda wish they kept it!
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Spirited Away 2001
This dips a little when it gets into plot stuff and moves away from bathouse hijinks, but still what a goddamn picture.
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 2002
One of the things I think most about with this series is: what must it have been like to read them as they came out?
The first two are so simple and kitchy. Two books in did people expect 5 more of the same or was there a sense that it was building to a more emotionally deep, complex story?
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001
Extended Edition
I decided to address my disconnect with The Lord of the Rings once and for all by watching the definitive versions of the story in the only way my smooth brain can process: by watching it like a miniseries.
Over the course of the week, I watched this in 1:15ish increments, and I can confirm that helped me understand what was going on and who everyone was.
My memories of the theatrical cut are hazy to say the…
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Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald 2018
Has some fleeting fun & coolness until it stops down for what felt like two hours to tell us a bunch of stuff about the Lestrange's for the sole reason that R*wling needed to set up the Aurelius Dumbledore bit.
Maybe it comes into play later on, but if it doesn't it'll be the dumbest and most pointless thing in all of these stories.
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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2016
Time has been unkind to this one. Rowling’s choices as a writer and Lynch’s as a director are completely in sync in that they are bad.
Gonna list some things out that bother me.
- Rowling’s books other than Potter (I read the first couple Galbraith’s) are fine, so maybe this would have worked as a novel, but as a screenplay, it’s pretty bad. Her best moments as a writer are the beast setpieces, everything else: oy vey.
- David…
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