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  Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid 1973

  ★★★★ Rewatched by kuato_lives2001 08 Aug 2022

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

  This review is for the Preview version of the film.

  I first watched this film a few months back and wasn't all that impressed however, after reading David Weddle's excellent Sam Peckinpah biography "If they move... Kill em!" and listening to an insightful podcast episode on the film from The Projection Booth, I was convinced to revisit it. Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid is a beautiful, poetic film and one that I'll admit that I didn't really get the…

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  The Wild Bunch 1969

  ★★★★★ Rewatched by kuato_lives2001 29 Jul 2022

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

  Possibly my favourite western though it's hard to pick between this, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and Once Upon a Time in the West. I notice something new on each viewing and it's without a doubt Sam Peckinpah's best movie (though I enjoy most of them to varying degrees).

  Everyone is perfectly cast but on this viewing I paid particular attention to Robert Ryan and how understated he is as Deke Thornton. It's easy to forget him in…

Popular reviews

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  Eternals 2021

  ★★ Watched by kuato_lives2001 03 Aug 2022 3

  While I definately can't call this another generic Marvel movie, I can't say that I really enjoyed it much either.

  The story is very ambitious and epic but somehow, Chloe Zhao found a way to make it dull enough to work as a cure for insomnia and the fact that the entire movie has the colour pallete of dirt doesn't help. At the very start of the movie, there's a plain looking opening crawl explaining the backstory of these characters…

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  Thor: Love and Thunder 2022

  ★★★ Watched by kuato_lives2001 21 Jul 2022

  I feel like I'm generally not as disappointed by Phase 4 of the MCU as most people since I find most of the movies from Phases 1-3 average too with a few exceptions. For me, Marvel has always been fun, crowd pleasing entertainment that doesn't reinvent the wheel but is always competently made however Thor Ragnarok is a movie that I felt was part of the few that were a cut above the rest and I was really looking forward…