Rated Hall Pass 6/10
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Added Everything Everywhere All at Once to Watched Movies
Added Spider-Man: Brand New Day to Watched Movies
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Rated Everything Everywhere All at Once 10/10
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Rated The Shanghai Gesture 6/10
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Rated Ruthless People 7/10
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Rated The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes 4/10
Really puzzling film, some parts are excellent, and there's some interesting narrative conceits, but then other times it's so hamfisted in crowbarring plot elements in, and it suffers from having a fundamentally unlikable main character. I mean, I get that's the point, but it doesn't make for particularly compelling viewing. Oh, and there's no way this needed to be two and a half hours long, the third act should have been a separate film, and I'm sorry, but those songs were shit. Same melody every time, with lyrics that just tell you what's going on in the plot. Down with this sort of thing.
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Added Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender to Watched Movies
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Rated Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender 8/10
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Rated The Hunt for Red October 6/10
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Rated Dune 4/10
The best thing about this is that it's Dune, and Dune is a pretty interesting story. The worst thing about it is pretty much everything else.
The exposition is excessive to a degree I'm not sure I've seen in any other film. Not only do we get narration, and people explaining things, we get people thinking at us just in case we couldn't keep up. But then it flips the other way, and you go from having three layers of exposition to just fast-forwarding past a load of interesting development. Then there's the ending, which I think it's probably best to just ignore.
While the visual effects are severely dated, some of the practical effects are pretty good. Baron Harkonnen, the navigator, and the weird rat-cat-thing are memorable. But the most memorable bit for me right now is Patrick Stewart charging into battle holding a pug.
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Rated The Odyssey 8/10
The real Odyssey was the crazy amount of exposition regarding the Law of Zeus
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