mostly just me saying a version of “bombs dropped overseas explode at home” in different ways without the whole brevity thing
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Elle 2016
Verhoeven’s on record saying that he would prefer to have a coffee with a woman than a beer with a man. and I guess that tracks, seeing how every dude in his movies is either brain-dead or a monster. although any quick glance at his filmography it’s clear if you pressed him on this, he’d be the first to dismiss a binary like that as dumb and reductive. Taking him at his word however, this movie very much feels like…
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Respect 2021
At this point if bio-pics are just going to be glorified adaptions of Wikipedia pages, then why not include the links? Were there any justice, the Oscars would create a “best adapted Wikipedia page” award especially reserved for cash-in bio-pics like this. Look, if you want to see something worthy of respect, and somehow didn’t get all the awards, and almost zero noms, check out Amazing Grace on Hulu, shit is a religious experience, also her mid 80s record Who’s Zoomin Who doesn’t get enough love either, sounds better than ever
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The Tomorrow War 2021
harkens back to an era where they’d let slip maybe one Edge of Tomorrow a year if you were lucky, but that was an eternity ago, back when there were five studios not two. I plead with you, go see your friends, your family, take an evening stroll, fix that record player, study for the LSATs, watch Sam Richardson in literally anything else (and hell why not start with "Scrooge Encounters A Cyborg From Christmas In 3050," a much better and way shorter…
