It has to be said that the "restoration" of this material is heinous. It's difficult to imagine a career turn more disastrous than Peter Jackson's into archive footage documentarian. His work here is an affront to the art of film restoration; his use of extreme DNR and AI upscaling renders so much of the footage uncannily smooth and waxy, and it's a goddamn tragedy that such remarkable footage has been released in subpar quality purely because of Jackson's own distaste…
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Red Notice 2021
DNF. Made it an hour in. Noxious collision of three of the most vapid movie stars there's ever been. I'm against capital punishment but at this point I'd be okay making an exception for Ryan Reynolds.
Stream Red (Taylor's Version) instead.
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Bohemian Rhapsody 2018
The worst film I've seen this year, and a genuine insult to Freddie Mercury's legacy. It's The Greatest Showman of 2018 in that it's a piece of glossy, overproduced, revisionist garbage that's totally dishonest in the portrayal of its subject. At least in this one the songs are good.
You'll notice in the opening credits that Brian May and Roger Taylor are credited as producers, and their influence is obvious. They're portrayed as the glue of responsibility that holds the…
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