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Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace 1999
Still too bizarrely paced and lethargic for me to fully get into but so much genuine visual imagination and nonetheless endlessly interesting to see Lucas almost single-handedly form the entire production model for blockbusters today, and yet an entire generation has forgotten that this kind of tech was once a means to convey entirely new and expressive worlds and not downtown Manhattan.
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Don't Look Up 2021
A feature length (almost *2 & A HALF HOURS*) extension of that post-credit scene from Vice about how people watch too much Fast & Furious to care about “real issues”, practically every attempt at a joke in this amounts to “world ending…., but people only care about celebrity and smartphone??? So sad…..”. A completely vapid, smug, deeply condescending and empty platitude. This is satire made specifically for people who deem themselves more informed than the common folk to pat themselves on the…
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Spider-Man: No Way Home 2021
Somehow miraculously not a *complete* disaster, there’s at long last some actual sense of consequence and finality that MCU’s (mostly mediocre/bad) attempts at Spidey, there are moments here that are shockingly somber and have wait for it….. some actual character? But every moment where I was thrilled and excited to see my favourite superhero is dulled out by something twice as irritating. Maybe chalk it up to being a COVID shoot but even for the typical mcu schlock this is…
