Absolutely jaw-dropping as a technical achievement - I could genuinely go for another hour or so of those sets, absolutely some of the greatest production design of all time - but Kubrick's vision of the vast history of the human race compressed into 2 and a half hours is, barring a few moments near the end, devoid of any actual humanity. Characters struggle to be described as characters, seeing as they can barely contain one dimension - they're all pieces…
Favorite films
Recent activity
AllRecent reviews
More-
-
Top Gun: Maverick 2022
Was smiling almost the whole way through, but did also make me think that the society of Logan's Run might have had a point. Even setting aside that this is one of the most straightforward pieces of propaganda and recruitment advertising ever produced, the masturbatory premise of this movie that screams, no, you AREN'T getting old, you ARE still the best, and you ARE so much cooler than your kids, and you can still totally save the day AND get…
Popular reviews
More-
Mobile Suit Gundam F91 1991
Gundam F91 is almost impressive in how stubborn it is. If you were told that your 50-odd episode tv show was never going to make it to the small screen, and that you had a movie to tell your story, what would you do? Restructure the story to make the best use of your new format? Write a story that fits into a two-hour timeslot? These are sensible ideas. But that was unacceptable for F91. They had a story to…
-
