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Pitch Perfect 2012
Genuine cultural relic. If somebody were to ever ask me what film most effectively I capsulated the early 2010s, I would pick this without hesitation. That works to its detriment however upon rewatch — it’s so of its time and is otherwise just not very good.
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Starship Troopers 1997
Insane to me that this went over anybody’s head as the obvious satire that it is. Quite liked this, albeit not as much as I thought I would. Really smart film in virtually every way, if a tad overlong and unsatisfying.
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The Fallout 2021
Genuinely shocked at the overwhelmingly positive reception this has garnered.
This has some of the worst writing I've seen in a minute — I know I'm about four years removed from high school, but the dialogue these characters are given is consistently eye-roll-worthy and unrealistic. There is no emotional resonance whatsoever, which is particularly criminal considering what this film is about. The pacing is off and the plot is messy not in a mirroring-the-content type of way but in a…
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Babylon 2022
The narrative structure is a bit dubious and it’s potentially overlong, but it really doesn’t even matter. This is simply phantasmic — swelling, soaring, strident, stunning homage. I can see how this is abrasive to many, but I think its lack of lacquer works so immensely. I also don’t think calling this a love letter to cinema is wholly accurate; it’s an observance of film. And how seriously Babylon takes this medium — how clearly it loves it — and the film’s…
