Ephemera of Vision
This is my place for ramblings about sequences of images that exploit the human visual limitation know as persistence of vision.
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This doesn’t start in the best way: ripping off Men in Black II and segways into reggaeton. But it gets much better.
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A faithful adaptation of the actual story of the game, that’s what you get for adapting games with an actual plot, not Super Mario. The action is also very much inspired by Assassin’s Creed (the games, not the film).
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A nice little musical horror. Falters towards the end, but it does not drown in a pool of its own blood, it only has some scars from deep knife cuts.
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Police-brutality-based “buddy cop” film, but where Mel Gibson is a Midwestern dentist supplies salesman. There’s a lot of police brutality, but the rest is funny.
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Extremely powerful stuff, the entire thing is brilliant. Then you check the release date and this is before George Floyd, before Breonna Taylor, before Jacob Blake. It only makes it more poignant.
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I really thought this was a regular biopic, until the father beats the shit out of the accordion seller. Al murdering Pablo Escobar and Madonna taking his place is just another escalation.
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I can’t believe how much Inception just downright stole from this. Not just the entire plot, but also smaller details. I could excuse Adam Sandler, but Nolan?
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Is this a Sikorsky ad? Maybe an anti-ad, since two 10 million dollar gunships are shot down by simple unguided RPG. Sounds like a skill issue from the largest military in the world.
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This is a small scale version of War of the Worlds or Signs, if the technical side was a Doctor Who episode. It includes pretty intense social commentary, bruv/fam.
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As if Seth Rogen, Airplane! and Mr. Bean had a filthy baby. How the fuck did they get Working Title to go for this, is it another Bad Santa? Poor Charles Dance, I guess he had a contract to fulfil.
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I have to say that Seth Rogen is extremely annoying, but if he’s the buffoon egotistic sidekick, I don’t think I mind. The action scenes are a bit chaotic, but there’s some stylish ones that take the cake.
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This is surprisingly hard sci-fi for something for kids, very progressive in social mores, and absolutely against any kind of militarism. This is basically what the Star Wars prequels should be.
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Fucking Palpatine was the mastermind all along, get the fuck out of here! Motherfucker George Lucas and the fucking prequels, fucking JJ, fuck that shit! “Do it! DO IT!”
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A very Noir parody, it’s almost Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid levels. Both Leslie Nielsen and Priscilla Presley hit it out of the park, what incredible performances. The deadpan faces are absolutely hilarious.
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