Archive for November 2023
10 posts from 04 to 29 November 2023.
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What a goddamn nice looking mess. The battle scenes are the best, if you like the Gladiator cold opening repeated several times. The rest can and should be ostracised to Saint Helena, with three officers and 12 servants.
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This is a very straightforward and simple story, with not many flourishes, twists and turns. It’s a purely cerebral experience, even the noir element is subdued. It’s first and foremost an anti-eugenics treatise.
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Invasion of the Daemonic Alien Physical Esoteric Scientific Body Snatchers. A diminished Carpenter posse, it lacks a charismatic character to elevate it to Big Trouble in Little China.
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I hate this work. This kind of self-referential story, Hollywood talking about itself, replacing actors for trite purposes. A giant cast of talent doing nothingness. At least Seinfeld was funny.
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An adaptation of a German book series, for kids. Wreck It Ralph with public domain characters, or The League of Extraordinary Gentleman for girls.
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Autobiographical story of the life of an aunt of the author, from what I can tell. Freaking ruthless female Scrooge, hiding her avarice with “charity”, piety, and religious adherence. This feels like a gender-swapped The Fountainhead, with less ideological ranting, but keeping the long stretches of voiceover reading the book.
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Pure, hardcore drama, mixing true soulmates and evil bureaucrats sub-sub-sub-contracting death squads on activists writing reports. True love can unite a career foreign office drone with a passion for gardening, and another richer activist/journalist with a knack for pissing off powerful people.
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Wreck it Ralph meets Street Fighter: for the big bad, it was Tuesday.
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A gender swapped Bonnie and Clyde, with a bizarre framing device as a smartass little girl as narrator, like the Inspector Gadget niece, or the protagonist of The Nice Guys.
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Damn, Vincent Cassel can talk passable Brazilian Portuguese, with a strong accent. Not a bit part either, a large role. Not sure how much is ADR, but he definitively dubbed himself. This is actually a Bildungsroman for the real protagonist, the older daughter. Quite a reactionary tale.