Archive for Release Year: 2001
19 posts from 14 April 2023 to 21 November 2017.
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Third time I see it, still don’t know WTF was that about. Still cool though.
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Yet another SNL reject who guns for Holywood and fails miserably.
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Not sure if I should laugh, even though its funny.
Not sure if I should cry, even though is sad.
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The incestuous love child of Labyrinth and Terry Gilliam.
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A classic sports plot elevated into greatness by being set in medieval Europe. Probably the only mainstream film that starts with a secondary character violently voiding his own bowels ‘till death (offscreen, of course, this is still Hollywood).
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A crappy no-budget The Hangover years before that. Just like that popular “film” devoid of content, it spawned a franchise. Yet another proof that there is no God.
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An actress tells her life story to a fanboy interviewer (and his cameraman), and the recollections are so life-like they are transported into diorama-like versions of it. In a stroke of genius, her story and her films are one and the same, and their plots span a millennium (hence the title).
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What. Robert Rodriguez does a live action Incredibles, using comparable amounts of CGI.
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Yet another anodyne Ron Howard film, one that the fictional Nash from the film would describe as having “not a single seminal or innovative idea” in it.
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This makes Japanese thematic bingo: atomic bomb metaphors, tentacles attacking nubile girls, high tech flying military machines. The fight between good and evil is embodied by Earth Gaia and Alien Gaia fighting for domination over Earth.
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A miscast ruins a cool high concept film. This is ripe for a (re-)remake. The comic relief was unnecessary, this is a hardcore treatise on life, death, sacrifice 😂🤣. Either there are serious horror films, or spooky jokes. It’s impossible to be both.
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Even unabashed Trump supporters are people, easily swayed from their world of racist hatred by poontang and a couple of deaths. I still don’t get the point of that imagined(‽) pussy eating session…
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This is a dark and depressing film that only gets more depressing with continued views. Sadface, not very nice to watch this on a low mood. This is evident from the very first frame.
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A 2001 film about the CIA managing to kill a terrorist that bombed American embassies, killing hundreds? Must be fiction, Bin Laden was only killed ten years later, and Al-Zawahiri twenty one years after 9/11.
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A very funny romp through organised crime, feuds, and a cursed custom revolver, which is really all about a bickering couple.
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Part of the Citizen Kane extended universe. In which a bout of jealousy and murderous rage, William Randolph Hearst shoots a guy in the head, while intending to kill Charlie Chaplin (which himself is about to run to Mexico with the 16 year old girl he just knocked up, since the statutory rape age is lower there).
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What the hell, why is this a The Matrix ripoff in the first act? There’s slow mo shootouts complete with waving capes, lookalike music, elevators. Then it turns into a generic 90’s action film, where two of Elvis’ illegitimate children quarrel over 3 million dollars.
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The Mummy Revolutions: The Two Towers. A lot of big set pieces and fight scenes, but less plot and quips. Not as good as the first one, but it’s still nice to recognise all these people, particularly 20 years later.
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Like a refined jewel inside a pouch of imported silk, devoid of any imperfections or blemishes. Makes Frank Sinatra look like a complete idiot without charisma.