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  The Rookie 1990

  ★★½ Watched 19 May 2023

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  I only have this Blu-Ray because I bought a 10-film Clint Eastwood boxset and it happened to be included.

  As far as the actual formal filmmaking here, this is pretty middle of the road.

  As far as any message or underlying subtext goes, it's terrible.

  Doubles down on toxic masculinity and police fascism every step of the way, up to and including straight-up executions we're apparently supposed to root for.

  Every minority character in this film is a villain, except…

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  TerrorVision 1986

  ★★★ Watched 18 May 2023

  Part of a dual Blu-Ray pack with The Video Dead (1987) [Review] gifted to me by my younger brother. This is definitely the A-side, even if it's a total B-movie.

  80's meta-pastiche at its finest, from the over-glowed neon to the BDSM pop art decor to the metal-spiked metalheads and more.

  As soon as I saw "A Charles Band Production" flash across the screen, I knew I'd be in for a good time, having previously enjoyed films like Tourist Trap…

Popular reviews

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  Avengers: Infinity War 2018

  ★ Watched 29 Apr 2018 150

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  That was the least interesting superhero movie I've ever seen.

  Not the worst, mind you. Maybe the second worst. But at least Catwoman runs under two hours and offers so-bad-it's-good entertainment.

  Infinity War is a bloated piece of empty, corporate garbage.

  This movie takes TWO AND A HALF HOURS to tell a story that could've been done in 80 minutes.

  The worst part is that roughly 75% of this is characters standing around talking to each other about what just…

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  Dunkirk 2017

  ★★ Watched 29 Jul 2017 38

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  I don't think this is necessarily an outright bad film, but what the fuck is the point here?

  Is the point that war is hell? If so, this is obvious to everyone already. Films like Saving Private Ryan or We Were Soldiers depict the visual atrocity and gut-wrenching fear, pain, and confusion of soldiers much more viscerally and accurately. This is a bleached, PG-13 affair that seems content to shy away from the blood, the burning corpses, and the horrifically…