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Last and First Men 2020
a monumental mediation on humanity and everything that composes us, full of dense writing and abstract imagery. in such a short runtime Jóhannsson is able to capture the nature of humans, our desires to stay remembered and aspiration for life. it's very much minimalistic filmmaking, simply made of tilda swinton's narration over droning cinematography & a haunting score, however so broad and maximalist in ideas. more so audiovisual poetry rather than filmmaking — a little too vague and large for me…
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All Quiet on the Western Front 2022
a completely pointless film detracting the quality of the original by attempting to be bigger, grittier and more realistic. there's a constant emphasis on showmanship that ruins the immersion and turns the film monotonous, any potentially powerful dramatic moment or tension building sequence is ruined by showy cinematography and long take gimmicks, something modern hollywood war films suffer from the most. it's ironic too, that a film titled "All Quiet" on the Western Front is inable to keep silent, not…
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Entergalactic 2022
on its own i don't think this is awful, but simply unremarkable. it's obvious that this is a tv show condensed into a single film — there are "chapters" that could have been episode endpoints, but the decision to make this a feature film instead of a miniseries totally ruins the flow of the film, making it feel much more awkward. the artstyle here is stellar, tho i think the animation is halfbaked — uncomfortably choppy, never really able to move,…
