Archive for June 2023
15 posts from 02 to 29 June 2023.
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Come on man, I got four kids to feed!
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Scumbag dude cheats on his wife while she is six months pregnant, that’s vilest than most Trump moves. But is she pregnant, or just a giant spider? Why does it start with a sub-rosa strip club where topless woman torture themselves with spiders?
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A Blue Dog corporate Democrat is destined to win the White House and that’s God’s plan, unless he’s content to remain a corporate drone and live with a British dancer in NYC. Out of that horrible premise comes out a nice film.
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Come on maggots, you want to live forever?
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Yes, I also read The Shining, and saw the film. Doesn’t make you special, director man. And in case the meaning wasn’t obvious, the Overlook Hotel BURNED DOWN, finito, dead.
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Damn, Eddie Murphy is like a charismatic Dave Chapelle. The film is a weird blend of Lethal Weapon and Die Hard, on the comedic side. It’s all script, with minor Bruckheimer action scenes peppered within.
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Total Recall as morality tale thriller. Once again, Fincher steals from the best, like a true artist.
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A posse of Coen actors casually creates one of the best westerns ever, providing The Dude with another character for the ages.
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Undercover cop extraordinaire and loving father gets his whole family killed by a mobster and goes postal, punishing them for their sins. Pretty subdued, considering its current appropriation by fascist cops.
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Sicario, if Emily Blunt was actually working for the competition, split into random veteran, random surfer dude, and random trust fund valley girl. Did Oliver Stone took out most political references in exchange for the budget for shootouts?
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Just a regular film noir, where the “mystery” is checking which groan-inducing pickup lines do not result in hot steamy sex. And that ending, does not resolve anything at all.
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Emmerich-level disaster film, brought to you by many brands, and The Rock as the heart of the film, that’s just folly.
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A bunch of mixed messages here, particularly the ending that fixes (almost) everything.
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Juvenile Timur is already stylish, but this is too raw and “eastern European”. It’s not distilled into blissful and inventive visual transcendence like his next films. Angelina Jolie plays a mean ruthless Trinity.
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A better biopic than Marie Antoinette, with a somewhat similar style. Loved the speeches straight to the viewer, they are enmeshed in the story, usually ironic echoes of the main characters condition. The whole film is that, speeches extolling the virtue of equality in socialism, with men idling while woman toil.