mjoya
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Bio: GenX science and sci-fi fan. I appreciate good screenplay, dialogue, and meaningful portrayals of difficult and real human dilemmas, even if they are dressed up in a wild or fantastical garb. Middle age has endowed me with a general dislike of excessive violence, guns, and swearing, though I'll tolerate some comic-book fisticuffs if they are well produced.
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| 50 20% | Seven Psychopaths (2012) - Rated 21 Nov 2022
"I only watched about 15 minutes of it. It's just A-rated actors with more or less nonce dialogue."
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| 75 50% | Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) - Rated 20 Nov 2022
"1. It wasn't as bad as the people with actual expectations said. 2. Always back up your droids. 3. Heist flicks usually don't feature orchestral music, but this one does."
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| 0 1% | The Boys (2019) - Rated 11 Nov 2022
"A whirlwind of unending depravity that was difficult to watch. It's a world where each episode's goto fellowship is always a death pact and goto kryptonite is always a social media posting. The same ugly screenplay elements repeat sickeningly often (perverse sexuality, sexual violence, revenge, blackmail, cuckoldry, the list goes on). Any merit you'd assign to a cinematic view of narcissism is marred by the onslaught of supernatural and disturbing sex and gore scenes."
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| 69 40% | Dogma (1999) - Rated 09 Nov 2022
"I just found it annoying. The entire film is one continuous schtick about how some angels are half-assed cynical superbeings. They develop the entire idea in the first 10 minutes and from there the presentation just repeats itself. There is an underlying theme of karma that's morally gratifying but is delivered with such pretentiousness that it's difficult to fully appreciate."
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| 50 20% | Greenland (2020) - Rated 04 Nov 2022
"If you've see apocalypse movies before, then you've seen this apocalypse movie before."
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| 70 43% | Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) - Rated 04 Nov 2022
"It's entirely fireworks. The pacing and plot twists were par for Marvel, and of course there is the triple-A acting talent keeping it afloat. But a number of early script choices and generic storytelling made the dialogue and development persistently awkward and silly."
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| 90 86% | Mr. Robot (2015) - Rated 16 Oct 2022
"It touches on a lot of dark topics with an honest heart and a virtuosity that's rare in modern streaming cinema. While I gave it a 90 for the algorithm, I reserve the highest praise for this show's perpetual ability to extract the palpable and tragic humanity out of complex psychological and technological issues. It never sells a ton of techno-filler to the audience (while it easily could) and the suspension of disbelief always makes its return on investment."
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| 62 32% | The Expanse (2015) - Rated 04 Oct 2022
"It was billed as fresh new sci-fi writing but it really just respins classic film and movie stereotypes all over the place. Some of the science (ie: the projectiles) are a meager step up from previous franchises. Otherwise not provocative at all. It's reused space intrigue with a near-clockwork repetition of noire and gore."
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| 75 50% | The Dark Knight (2008) - Rated 25 Sep 2022
"In any good fantasy movie, you suspend disbelief in the worldly details because you believe in the underlying humanity of the characters. This movie's main weakness belies that humanity with the absurdity of protagonists' most pivotal decisions. Wayne and Dent (and other supporting characters, cops) willfully give themselves over to the Joker too many times for too much nonsense. There's enough generic noire to bring in the masses, though."
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| 64 34% | Parallel (2018) - Rated 24 Sep 2022
"Classic sci-fi cheddar. At this tier, I am content to let it run in the background while playing DOTA 2, but would not give it full attention."
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