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Favorite films

  • Le Bonheur
  • Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
  • Dune: Part Two
  • Before Sunset

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  • Disclosure Day

    ★★½

  • Vanguard

    ★★

  • The Missing Son

    ★★★½

  • Miracle Landing on the Hudson

    ★★½

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Neon Genesis Evangelion
★★★★★ Liked Watched

Visible confusion. Well,  I... uhh, well fuck.

Ok so to get it out of the way yes this is one of the best series produced on any medium and no it is not overrated. I keep typing things and deleting them because I have no idea what I’m currently feeling towards this but I want to get some of my thoughts out of the way before I go to bed and before I get a chance to watch End of Evangelion. …

Casablanca
★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

It’s still the same old story. Almost 80 years later and Casablanca remains one of the most iconic films ever made and perhaps the one film that comes to mind when people think of the word ‘movie’. It’s the definition of a classic, but is it a classic because it’s great or is it great because it’s a classic? 

The truth is that, short of a time machine, there’s really no way to separate the myth and legend of Casablanca

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Disclosure Day
★★½ Watched

Very entertaining, very 80s summer blockbuster, VERY Spielberg. Enjoyed Emily Blunt’s performance most of the time, and I appreciate how they embraced every alien cliche / conspiracy. 

Objectively not a very good movie for lots of reasons that don’t matter because they don’t really take away from the enjoyment factor and because you will either love or hate this regardless

Vanguard
★★ Watched

Hollywood action B-movie-style slop but in Chinese, complete with terrible CGI, generic actors and to top it all off a terrible dub with no option to change courtesy of MBC

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Waltz with Bashir
Watched

Oh no the poor IDF soldiers have PTSD from knowingly participating in a massacre against civilians :( maybe if they were tried and punished for their crimes they would feel better :D 

As someone mentioned it’s like if a Nazi made a movie trying to get you to sympathise with him because of the PTSD he got from the concentration camps, then proceeded to absolve himself of guilt because he was only a guard and didn’t directly take part in the killing he knew was going on inside. 

1 star for cool animation / soundtrack

My Cinematic Travels 

Caramel
★★★★½ Liked Watched

I think I have a crush on Nadine Labaki