lumpnboy
Cinema Addict - 1488 Film Ratings
Member Since: 09 Jun 2008
Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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| 25 9% | Civil War (2024) - Rated 07 Jul 2024
"One day we'll discover this as the moment for a new way in which expensive 'serious' film-making process is integrated with the kind of risk-minimising survey-, focus-group- and interview-based assessments I was tangentially involved with as a qualitative analysis guy at a 'strategic communications consultancy', ever-more-finely dividing people into demographics and constituencies and mostly markets, like using Frankfurt School research methods but so you don't piss off too many authoritarians."
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| 45 45% | Suspiria (2018) - Rated 07 Jul 2024
"I liked this quite a bit more than the movie of which it is ostensibly a remake, certainly."
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| 35 25% | Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies (2012) - Rated 07 Jul 2024
"A bad cheap movie made by people who seem mostly in film-making as an entirely cynical cash-grab, borderline con-men putting out pretend movies, mockbusters and such, this does nonetheless feature one excellent performance and it's as Lincoln."
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| 55 61% | Dune: Part Two (2024) - Rated 07 Jul 2024 |
| 50 53% | Dune (2021) - Rated 07 Jul 2024
"Looks quite pretty but I feel like the movie exemplifies the word "portentous" in ways that imply entirely unearned audience responses, just recycling self-consciously "epic" silliness. The best thing is embracing the insect wing flapping air travel technology with a straight face."
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| 65 75% | Rififi (1955) - Rated 07 May 2024
"A good heist film, probably seemed less formulaic at the time. The director, Dassin, had been blacklisted by McCarthyist Hollywood and even French projects would be abandoned or happen without him because of threats to US distribution and that others would be blacklisted for working with Dassin. Only the solidarity of the French directors union opened the space for it to exist, resistance to McCarthyism and to US control of French filmmaking."
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| 85 92% | 40 Years of Silence: An Indonesian Tragedy (2009) - Rated 14 Feb 2022 |
| 65 75% | Don't Look Up (2021) - Rated 10 Jan 2022 |
| 50 53% | Wer (2013) - Rated 25 Dec 2021 |
| 55 61% | A Christmas Horror Story (2015) - Rated 21 Dec 2021 |
