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Dune: Part Two 2024
a truly unique religious experience that unfolds like some kind of long transformational lucid dream. i’m not even religious but denis and javier bardem can make me believe in what they’re trying to grasp at. it’s really hard to compare the feeling of this movie to anything, but i’d say it’s very similar to arrival and maybe even the tree of life.
my biggest gripe is the final battle was probably under 2 minutes and just felt like a complete… -
Dune 2021
perhaps i’ve been spoiled by the great worlds, the emotional storytelling, and original action set pieces of lord of the rings, game of thrones, star wars or even mad max lol with all that damn sand and i still loved it.
but this just looks and feels dull and lifeless in comparison. it’s excessively preachy in an overly serious world.
i feel like so much of this movie is telling me things and not showing me much. telling me about…
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The Boy and the Heron 2023
miyazaki is criticizing reality but would rather live in a random dream world filled with weird birds and characters that look like someone trying to draw pokemon from memory.
it takes an hour for it to really start going and when it does it's a very arbtritrary nearly plotless film about mommy issues and a creator who’s clearly miyazaki that wants to pass down his world to the future that felt so empty and unclimactic. can we stop overrating and…