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  Ghost Ship 2002

  ★★½ Rewatched 12 Sep 2023

  The old 5 second movie joke still stands true (youtu.be/XhMRBPnnn6g?si=rrrmmrCgJAMgTR7c). On the other hand, I always somewhat liked 'Ghost Ship', maybe it's because there aren't that many ghost ship movies floating around, even less watchable ones, maybe it's the overall pretty neat setting of the ship itself... or maybe it's just nostalgia for this kind of nu-metal horror flicks, I don't know. I like it... somehow... somewhat...

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  The Living Daylights 1987

  ★★★½ Rewatched 14 Sep 2023

  The world is ripe for the admission: not only is Timothy Dalton criminally underrated, he's probably one of the best actors to ever sport the 00-status. Period.

Popular reviews

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  Dune 2021

  ★★ Watched 21 Sep 2021

  So, thank you Dennis Villeneuve for this 155-minute-long trailer for a ‘Dune’-movie. Now all we have to wait for is the actual thing…

  No, really: this feels like a 155-minute-collage of ideas and images of an ambitious ‘Dune’-project, which visualizes and touches upon a lot of topics covered by the books, but also decisively refuses to actually go deeper on… anything! Almost every aspect seems to fall short: the story, the characters, their motivations (does anyone in all honesty ‘feel’…

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  No Time to Die 2021

  ★ Watched 02 Oct 2021 4

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

  Wow. That one right here, that was a wreck. A wreck for which we waited a long, long time. A wreck nevertheless. Be warned: massive spoilers ahead.

  But where to start, where to start. Let’s begin with a confession: I actually liked the trailer! After a prolonged period of postponing, it was a delight to finally receive proof of life of Daniel Craig’s much-anticipated last installment in the James Bond-series. Even better: the trailer looked reasonably promising, showcasing some illustrious…