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Cinderella 1950
My daughter has watched this movie so many times it has literally stopped being a narrative about characters and is now only a series of colors and sounds on an infinite loop, devoid of all content but the hallucinatory fantasia of a secular 20th-century consumerist religion fetishized by a capitalist culture seeped in nostalgia and lacking any original thought of its own unless it is one already pre-packaged and ready to sell.
The mice are cute, though.
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Apollo 13 1995
Watchable, as evident by the fact that I caught it while channel surfing and forgot to stop until it ended.
But it's not exactly about anything, right? Having just re-watched THE RIGHT STUFF a few weeks ago, this is even more apparent. I don't think Kaufman's film holds together completely, or is as incisive as it thinks it is, but it's definitely trying to examine what the space program meant to a mid-century America in the grips of the Cold…
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Jodorowsky's Dune 2013
Really disappointing. There's an interesting story here, but you wouldn't know it by the way this is put together, which is about a great lost film that nevertheless changed Hollywood forever, instead of being about an egomaniac trying to direct a bizarre passion project that would've probably been a disaster.
The giveaway that there's more to the story is how easily the producers give up finding funding after being rejected by the studios. Which, of course they were! That doesn't…