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Curious, a melancholy-retro late 70's early 80's steampunk aesthetic, about a town that operates a machine called "The Loop" - think CERN - and the odd events that surround it. By this I mean in tone it's close to both "Stranger Things" and "Dark".
Each episode tells a different tale about the intertwined characters, usually exploring the paradoxes of Time Travel.
It's long on questions, short on answers, but that's the style and it works just fine. But I wouldn't watch it again.
Definitely not the Unicorn Chaser I needed.
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This, upon the recommendation of a friend. About 2 step brothers with various shades of toxic masculinity.
I absolutely despised it. Vile and degenerate characters, each and every one. Imagine 6 hours spent with the worst people you've ever met and you have some idea of how I felt squirming through this.
Richard Gadd, for those of you who might have forgotten, was the force behind "Baby Reindeer"; which was interesting only insofar I was living through my own stalking nightmare at the time.
Now - this review is not about quality, the series was well filmed, written, executed, and represented pretty accurately I'm sure a big slice of Scottish Life. But - damn, give me someone to root for, a plan, a light at the end of the tunnel...
But it's done and now I'm going to watch some snuff films or holocaust footage or maybe reruns of 9/11 or Islamic beheading videos, because all of those are a hell of a lot less damage than this was...
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Fine, a bit long, great casting, loved the scene where Brad Pitt drives into the ranch and is assaulted by the longing glances of pubescent teenage girls. And a fine bit of meta-violence when the Mansons come to visit.
Amusing, Tarantino did well. But - no epiphanies or revelations here, merely Hollywood promoting Hollywood, and in that sense a bit self-indulgent and reminding me of Babylon...
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How this ended up on my list I'll never know. Probably it was the starring presence of Nicholas Cage, Ed Harris and Sean Connery, certainly it wasn't the directorial skills of Michael Bay.
Basically an over-the-top action-thriller, filled with preposterous San Fransisco car chases and obligatory jumps, the same as every other movie in the 70’s and 80’s only done bigger and louder, the high-speed comedy of little-old-ladies and paralympians crossing, the estranged father-daughter, the newly pregnant wife, video-game inspired obstacles, macho-pissing-matches, dead in the water dialogue, the obvious cues - “Shakespeare” and “Sun Tzu” on the bedside shelf of Mason (so that you know he's smart AND dangerous), a political prisoner released to help Dr. Goodspeed disarm deadly strings of green-gas-bath beads in VX rockets, "The Rock" refers to Alcatraz, the film takes some liberties with the labyrinthine nonsense mines, tunnels and ore-carts/railways under Alcatraz. To quickly sum it up I'd have to call it "The Sum of All Cliches" and "entirely preposterous".
I think I would have liked it when I was 12. But nobody should have to see it after that.
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This was - well, as in his previous film "Sorry to Bother You", a bit of insane, madcap commentary on current events as viewed through the microcosm of high fashion. With a little tilt of the hat to Carpenter's "They Live". The insane claymation sequences are - well, insane. For the most part the message is metaphor-made flesh, it's an interesting take on the skewed perceptions of the wealthy and the necessity of economic reform.
While not particularly my cup of tea (in this realization), it's still probably better than 95% of what else is out there.