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Blade Runner 2049
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Re-watched, held up well. Robin Wright and Jared Leto are great.
Serenity
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Re-watched, meh.
John Wick (1 and 2)
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A tiny bit cheeky, but mostly just high-budget, well-made, generic action.
Entertaining if you like watching fight scenes. Airplane films.
Some Kind of Heaven
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The documentary about "The Villages", a city-sized retirement community in
Florida. I expected to be a more direct documentary about the place, but this
ended up being mostly a series of character studies. Some of the scenes and
interviews were somewhat unbelievable; were they staged? Especially the
unremorseful and blunt psychonaut husband.
Tokyo Story
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Watched with L, B, and C on a trip to the Olympic Penninsula. Many classic
shots. Slow, thoughtful. Apparently the creators didn't think it
would get much international reception because it was "too Japanese", but I was
surprised how universal it felt. Also surprised it was able to be produced at
all in the near post-war period.
Sherpa and Fourteen Peaks
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Two separate documentaries about Himalayan mountaineering, both pretty good.
The 14 peaks story is almost unbelievable, and feels borderline foolhardy, he
just climbs so fast and hard and takes risks to meet an arbitrary time limit.
Dune (2021)
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Very pretty, some nice scenes, characters, costumes, and world-building. In the
end felt like just eye candy and "entertainment" though, did not add anything
special or new to the story telling. This is a finely executed and polished
film, but David Lynch's version brought a lot more to the table.
Following (1998)
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The Thin Man (1934)
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They Live
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The Blues Brothers (1980)
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Dead Pigs
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Prisoners (2013)
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Long Day's Journey into Night (2018)
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Incendies
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This was very good, though parts of it were so brutal they felt like a stab in
the back by the directory/screenwriter.
Black Bear
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No Time to Die
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Bond, not particularly memorable. Airplane film.
The Grandmaster
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Will watch Tony Leung in anything. The early scenes were fun. Some characters
were confusingly just pasted in to the film with no other context. Airplane
film.
Suicide Squad
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L liked this so I gave it a try. Was surprisingly enjoyable, especially the
first 10-15 minutes.
The French Dispatch
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Don't Look Up
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