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Dune: Part Two 2024
One of those films where I know that if I sit there and waste hours trying think of a problem, it’s probably good. It does occasionally—as with the first film—bother me when its hyper-bombastic Zimmer-sauce drowns a scene.
But honestly I don’t give enough of a shit to give a shit.
Denis had to wholly invent a bunch of
hugely elaborate battle scenes and goddamn they rule. Herbert might have a single line like: “The Harkkonen grow weary of fighting…
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The Suicide Squad 2021
Hell with it, you absolutely bananapants psychopath of a movie, have a fiver. It’s a big slushy mess, sure — it’s overwritten and under-edited, with some beats agape at groan-inducing jokes but whatever, who cares.
This film:
* Is a $185m splattercore bonanza; you can feel Gunn laughing through every second of it because it’s a sort of homecoming for him.
* Is utterly, shamelessly stupid and yet, somehow, all of its silly superpowers and dicks and exploding heads had…
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Annihilation 2018
When I am 80 and looking down death’s barrel this is the film that will comfort me.
I am stunned.