Pleasantly surprised to be engaged by an Adam Sandler kids movie not made by Pixar. Then I saw Robert Smigel in the credits, and was no longer surprised.
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Triangle of Sadness 2022
Rian Johnson’s The Last Jedi also features wealthy weapons manufacturers drinking champagne in luxury. It’s a Disney-era Star Wars movie and is somehow subtler and more nuanced about it. I mean, a grenade literally made by them, really?
I don’t know…might have laughed more if the 2nd half hadn’t been spoiled for me? The truth is I laughed quite a lot harder at Grimsby, a comedy that pokes fun at poor people more than it does the rich; I’ll have to come back and edit this after thinking about why I’m so ashamed of that.
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Hannah Arendt 2012
Giving "Hannah Arendt" a bad review is like Arendt herself implicating Jewish leadership in the Holocaust. Everyone's going to be angry because it seems you're attacking the underdog--beating the victim while they're down. It's an admirable subject and treated respectfully, so we want to be pretty forgiving. But I'd prefer that the admirable subject and intelligent dialogue be entertaining so that the uninformed masses can learn something beneficial. As for me, I would rather have just read the article and…
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