As I feared, it's just a rehash of the first one but less interesting. It's saying "you remember the original alien, who went against the most dangerous men on Earth and had them shit their pants? Well, it turns out even a smart kid with rocks and arrows could beat him", and unfortunately little else. It's solid and well done as a "back to basics" kind of thing, but you can't just go back to basics in a franchise where…
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Voyage of the Rock Aliens 1984
This is officially the type of movie you can rewatch and find new hilarious details you missed the first time. It feels like someone trying to find a weird middle ground between Grease and Class of Nuke 'Em High. What an absolute gem.
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Logan 2017
Ci sono diversi momenti emozionanti in questo Logan. Quello in cui ti accorgi che è la prima volta che vedi per davvero Wolverine in azione. Quello in cui ti sorprendi ad ammirare Patrick Stewart lasciato libero di recitare. Quello in cui ti rendi conto che c'è una cosa che solo i sequel possono avere ma che raramente sfruttano per davvero: scene che capitalizzano su un bagaglio emozionale lungo vent'anni e mezza dozzina di film (pur con la qualità altalenante che…
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The Batman 2022
It’s a super serious, gritty, grounded, deliberately slow neo noir where the protagonist dresses like a bat and nobody pays attention to it, like when you play a videogame and have your character go around town with no pants on just to have a giggle. It’s also a movie where the “best detective in the world” spends an hour thinking whether a “rat with wings” is a penguin or a falcon.
