RuruSmasher
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Bio: My life is a series of movies, mostly comedy, with some tragedy thrown in for good measure.
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| 85 50% | Dune: Part Two (2024) - Rated 17 Mar 2024
"Ok, I liked this a bit more than Part 1. Still, I never got Timmy's appeal and so my brain just bounced off Paul's every move. The film still felt a little too beige for my tastes, but it had some good set pieces and I'm very pro Chani and Princess Irulan. They're both pretty cool! Hans Zimmer's music was overbearing."
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| 100 99% | All of Us Strangers (2023) - Rated 02 Mar 2024
"Deeply beautiful, devastating and emotionally earnest in a way I'm not sure I've seen before, this was absolutely great, no further words needed."
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| 93 85% | True Detective (2024) - Rated 26 Feb 2024
"Absolute banger! First season took itself so seriously. But this? Foster and Reis were amazing (and hot!!) and this season tells a full story with layers of meaning, while also being - hilariously - a critique of the first season and of the genre itself, in the way it plays with the conventions and gender roles usually assigned. So many compelling characters (at least 7) and a lot of moments I'll keep thinking about. Perhaps my critique would be: too many little flashbacks?"
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| 13 1% | Avatar: The Last Airbender (2024) - Rated 26 Feb 2024
"Guess what? Nobody ever adapted the animated ATLA into live action. None of that ever happened. Blechh."
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| 95 90% | Poor Things (2023) - Rated 17 Feb 2024
"A wonderful tale about women's agency and autonomy in a (Victorian) context that seeks to infantilize women's desires. I loved Bella as a character with no shame, in the best way, but with ample curiosity, a zest for life, a wanting to explore and know and understand (a pretty great subversion of the Born Sexy Yesterday Trope). Was very pleasantly surprised by the nuanced approach on sex work as well. The movie was also gorgeous in costumes and sets and score."
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| 83 44% | Lover Come Back (1961) - Rated 10 Feb 2024
"This was a very fun romp (especially with the boss who was going to therapy), but in the end felt uneven in the romantic relationship part. The ending was disappointing to me."
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| 100 99% | Crash (1996) - Rated 10 Feb 2024
"A perfect movie (yah, I said that) that lives in the tension (and friction) between violent car crashes and sex scenes full of impossible tenderness. But make it really weird and non-normative. It's a film where you can see everybody's wounds and they can see each other's wounds, which leads to vulnerability and intimacy."
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| 85 50% | The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944) - Rated 09 Feb 2024
"Wow. That was extremely screwbally."
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| 59 8% | Fatal Deviation (1998) - Rated 27 Jan 2024
"Kinda won me over? This is a sizzle reel for James Bennett to get hired working with JCVD and it worked for him. It's not good, it's very bad, but quite fun, actually. Blooper reel at the end!"
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| 55 7% | Saltburn (2023) - Rated 21 Jan 2024
"This was 'Cringe: The Movie'. I guess it made me uncomfortable to watch it, and that's a good thing, but also it has no damn idea what it wants to say about class (nothing, really, not much adds up here). The cast is good and some of the shots are pretty, so that was a positive thing? Characterization, especially for Ollie, has some jarring turns. I would have picked Common People for the karaoke. Really weird to hear Have a Cheeky Christmas on the soundtrack."
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