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Dune: Part Two 2024
“They used to be friends. Now they’re followers.”
Austin Butler freak of the year, Javier Bardem dickrider of the year.
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The Lion King 2019
Normally I go into every review I write trying to say something positive. Whether I love or hate a film, the last thing I ever want to do it shit on the hard work of people who spent so much time of their lives working on a piece of art. As someone who wants to get into the same field as those people, I try and empathize with every filmmaker, everyone involved in creating any and every film.
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Dune: Part Two 2024
Probably won’t move anyone who’s been previously unimpressed with Villeneuve, but I found this fascinating. It constantly throws in new ideas, characters (Austin Butler absolutely steals the show in that regard), and setpieces. Somehow, it maintains momentum as it careens through a story that keeps risking to fall apart into nonsense, but never does. More than anything though, Villeneuve effectively translates that this is an antithesis to the idea of the hero’s journey. There is no true “good” and “evil,” it’s all just politics. The lives of citizens being used as tools for the elaborate chess game being played by those in power.