Cannot decide if it want's to be a Phryne Fisher detective story or an Indiana Jones one, and becomes boring instead.
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Evil Under the Sun 1982
Good old fashoned whodunnit that heavily inspired "Knives Out". The Professor McGonnagal vs Lady Tyrell showdown was epic.
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How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World 2019
Watched it with my daughter. Loved it. Very charming and touching. I especially loved the devoid of dialogue scenes between both Furies.
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Their Finest 2016
What's not to like for me? Filmmaking - check, strong women - check, good writing - check, a death that's not there just to get some cheap tears but actually fits thematically (it's a war after all) - check.
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1917 2019
Not as good as Dunkirk, but still a very good modern war film, that is, one that does not glorify war but shows it as it is. In this case, from a visceral down-to-earth point of view of a single soldier. Very much reminds me of some amazing third person video games, and thus I will use this movie as an example to video game sceptics ("you liked 1917,huh? Now play Spec Ops: The Line").
The one-shot gimmick wasn't distracting.…
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Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) 2020
What a waste of... everything. Time. Space. Money. Effort.
This movie is a good showcase of a couple of terms, tropes and screenwriting rules you should be familiar with:
There's *Idiot Plot*, which is when a movie plot can only work if all characters in the movie are idiots. Here you have that in spades. I mean, none of the cops on a fucking precinct know how to operate a gun? Or call for help? Or sound an alarm? If…
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The Apartment 1960
How is it that every movie I've watched lately is about how men are fucking pathetic idiots?
At least this one grows a pair in the end.
(One theory I have is that maybe it's because we are. But I'll get back to you on that.)
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Proxima 2019
"Mother, do you hear me cry?
You never told me why
You put me on this world of rock and dust
No friends for playing games
No foes to scorn my name
Computerised machines of steel and rust
This is my home (This is our home)
This desolate dome (This desolate dome)
I call out to the stars
I'm alone in my house on Mars"
-- Ayreon, "My House On Mars"I listened to this song on my way home…