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| 38 23% | Jiu Jitsu (2020) - Rated 20 Jul 2024
"Delightfully nonsensical. It's *just* well-made enough to let you focus on how incoherent the plot is, the way characters just drop in and out, the terrible acting from everybody except a decided-to-go-full-goofy Nick Cage, the fascinatingly weird stylistic flourishes of the cinematography, and the fact there's no reason they couldn't have just done what they did at the end at the beginning. A fun Bad Movie Night experience where the one who's being pummeled by martial arts... is your own brain!"
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| 55 35% | Cats Don't Dance (1997) - Rated 15 Jul 2024
"There's so much good about this movie! Other than the main character and his whole emotional arc! There's gorgeous animation and funny jokes and clever references, and our hero is an entitled white boy who the narrative thinks should get everything he wants and if he doesn't it's unfair! And there's also a really fun, superbly acted and animated villain, who's a child star who's blamed for the shittiness of Old Hollywood instead of being shown as another victim! This is a frustrating movie!!"
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| 21 10% | Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001) - Rated 06 Jul 2024
"Every decision this movie makes is as unhinged as it's possible to be while still being very boring. The weirdly abstract plot, the terrible voice direction, the brown-gray-teal-orange palette, the bored facial animation - these are just the tip of the iceberg of its fractal flaws. And the technical advances everyone was impressed by at the time are used terribly, making an awful visual experience. If it was in any way an actual Final Fantasy movie, it would be more distinctive and less empty."
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| 94 95% | Danjon meshi (2024) - Rated 04 Jul 2024
"The worldbuilding is fascinating, the characters are both super deep and super silly, the plot is full of interesting twists, the individual episodes have all these amazing high-concept premises, and there's a thread of ethical philosophy in it, focused on food and cooking, that's truly heartening. Also it's really gay and autistic."
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| 93 94% | Buddy Daddies (2023) - Rated 04 Jul 2024
"Miri is the CUTEST. This show is cute and fun and sweet with lots of amazing comedy and just the right amount of action and angst. There's lots of fun secondary characters (Miss Anna is a particular favorite), the sitcom shenanigans are great, and the big emotional moments come off delightfully. And the overall arc is one big found family love story, and I'm so here for it. (I wish Miri's mom had been a deeper character, but she's still treated with more nuance than a lot of similar characters.)"
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| 53 33% | Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland (1989) - Rated 30 Jun 2024
"When you watch this and then find out about the troubled production history, you're like, "Yeah, that fits." It feels like they took a bunch of Kids' Adventure Movie scenes, put them in a bag, threw in a few genuinely dreamlike sequences, and shook it up. The animation is sometimes magical and inspiring, and sometimes just meh, and characters switch from pseudo-Bluth to Ghibli between expressions. And then there's Flip, the asshole with the weirdly racially charged design. A very odd experience."
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| 84 78% | My Life After I Became a Dummy Head Microphone One Morning (2022) - Rated 28 Jun 2024
"Funny and fun! Our protagonist keeps getting reincarnated into different inanimate objects, but the real subject of the series are the girls around him, who are very cute and also just, *astonishingly* gay. Kuramae is my favorite - you don't get someone so casually butch in a lot of anime. Notably, this anime is... not smutty, but kink-adjacent in the way ASMR often is? If you enjoy that, I recommend it - and the episodes are only three minutes long, so it's easy to try and see!"
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| 12 4% | A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) - Rated 22 Jun 2024
"Weirdly constructed, with draggy shots in draggy scenes, a boringly stretched finale, and a constant focus on its own cleverness to the exclusion of storytelling. But the BIG problem is that every moment that's presented as heartwarming is existentially horrifying and thematically nihilistic, presenting "don't give up on your dreams" as "fixate forever on one thing that will Fix You to the exclusion of finding actual happiness". Spielberg, Kubrick, Ian Watson, what were you thinking!?"
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| 67 51% | Yatterman (2009) - Rated 18 Jun 2024
"A fever dream version of a 70s kids' superhero anime. Overall, I enjoyed the ways in which it Did Not Stop, and the kind of Spy Kids-but-with-an-enormous-budget visual style. The main thing I *didn't* like was the level of Bad Horny, with tiresome anime gags expanded into something deeply uncomfortable. Still, the package as a whole sure did stimulate my brain, with delightful moments like a villainous musical number and a preview for a nonexistent "next episode"."
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| 87 84% | Gushing Over Magical Girls (2024) - Rated 09 Jun 2024
"The thing is, Utena *is* a magical girl protagonist. She fights out of love, protects her friends, and wants the world to be happy and good and children to believe in heroes. She slaps some sense into her enemies despite it being a strategically bad idea, and inspires people, and the fact that she's an intense sadist who gets off on pervy battle and punishing magical girls doesn't change that. This is a kinky smut show *and* a really smart love letter to the whole genre."
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