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October 14, 2025

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Aka: J.Y. Amihud. A Jewish by blood, multifaceted artist with experience in film-making, visual effects, programming, game development, music and more. A philosopher at heart. An activist for freedom and privacy. Anti-Paternalist. A user of Libre Software. Speaking at least 3 human languages. The writer and director of the 2023 film "Moria's Race" and the lead developer of it's game sequel "Dani's Race".


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The Predator franchise started its life as a masculine super-macho, mega-violent little B-Movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger. In my review of the first film, I even speculated, for a second, that it might have even been racist. Something that a certain side of political spectrum finds to be a quality of a movie. That certain side of the political spectrum really didn't get when Dan Trachtenberg decided, he is making a feminist, native-American movie in the same franchise. ↩ Reply

The film Prey ( which is a very fun play on words, considering the story the movie is telling ) is set in America before there was USA. The entire movie there is not a singe modern type of American. You have a native-American tribe ( that speaks English only so the audience will understand them ) and you have French colonizers. That's all. ↩ Reply

And more than that, the film's main character is a woman. A woman who is desperately trying to prove men, that she is as capable as they are. The film is asking way too much from the conservatives. Or even, it might be possible, the movie is specifically trying to be annoying to conservatives. ↩ Reply

So here is main issue people saying about it. Remember how Arnold Schwarzenegger with a full squad of Rambos had a hard time killing one Yautja? In this movie the Yautja is killed by one girl. Unrealistic, isn't it? Also what... there is a super-trained girl assassin? What is this, Marry Sue? What is going on? Where is the "realism"? Where is the "logic"? ↩ Reply

Well I guess Trachtenberg counted that conservatives would bring up specifically these issues. And he kind of made the movie in such a way as to almost count on the fact that conservatives would not watch it. So he could later giggle to himself with his friends, every time somebody brings up any of the criticisms I just brought up. Because those criticisms are kind of invalid when it comes to the movie itself. ↩ Reply

I mean, yes. She does defeat the damn Yautja. And yes, she is trying to prove her people that she is as capable as the men. But it is not a simple Marry Sue story. ↩ Reply

Our main character Naru ( Amber Midthunder who may know from Novicaine ) is a teenage-ish girl in a native-American tribe somewhere in the forest. She is a cook and a doctor. But she wants to be a hunter. For that she needs to graduate through a hunting ritual. She needs to hunt something that is hunting her. ↩ Reply

By the way, her casting is fucking amazing. She is just about cute enough and just about angry enough to achieve the "short orgasmic blackout". A thing that happens to me when I see characters just like her. They make my brain very happy for some reason. Maybe I need to see a therapist. Anyway... ↩ Reply

The funny thing is, she is kind of pathetic. She knows how to throw an axe. And she is rather smart. But her battle inexperience makes her rather clumsy in the beginning of the film. Only by the end of the film she becomes a descent fighter, through going through shit. So it isn't a Marry Sue story per se. ↩ Reply

Now, does she become such a great fighter as to defeat a fucking Yautja? No. What we get is a her problem solving skills combined with the little bit of fighting skill she has. Which ultimately defeats the damn ugly motherfucker. ↩ Reply

For example, in the original film, Arny defeats the motherfucker by getting dirty in cold mud, making Arny invisible for the Yautja. Leveling the playing field, so to speak. Since those Predators have an invisibility tech on them. Here in Prey Naru finds out that a drug that she is using to stop people from bleeding ( that makes their blood colder ) makes those people invisible to the Yautja. We do have a mandatory mud sequence. But that is used for a different thing. ↩ Reply

In a way, she uses all the information she observes about the forest and the creature, to trick the creature. To play mind-games with the creature. To ultimately have a chance to defeat the motherfucker. Yes, she needs to use her body here and there to stub him and stuff. But that "fighting" was never a part of the killing plan. She didn't want to stab him to death. She wanted to stab him, to manipulate him into trying to kill her. Which she used to kill him. Kind of using his own weapon against him in a way. ↩ Reply

When she saw ( toward the beginning of the film ) that this motherfucker can kill a bear with his bare hands ( shit... I want to say how I came with this pun intentionally. But unfortunately no pun intended. lol ), she knew that she can't fuck with him. There is no way in hell. She even says this to her brother later in the film. She literally doesn't believe anyone can kill it. But as her brother ( Dakota Beavers, I couldn't come up with a better name, lol ), does a reference to the first film, by telling her "if it bleeds, we can kill it", she starts to think that maybe she can possibly come up with something. Maybe some trap, or sorts. Something that she can do with her mind, rather than her physical strength. And that is exactly what ends up happening in the end of the film. ↩ Reply

I could say that Trachtenberg made a slight directorial mistake. In the final battle, there are moments where Naru does fight the creature here and there, while trying to force him into the trap of hers. And you kind of start thinking about the fact that the creature isn't fighting as well as he used to fight when killing all of the unnamed background characters earlier. It is not illogical per se. She did take her drug, which makes her invisible for him. And therefor he is a bit clumsy when trying to kill her. But Trachtenberg seemingly forgets to show it clearly. There are no shots of the Yautja's POV during the battle, which reminds the audience that he can't see her. We kind of have to remember the fact that she took the drug earlier. And actually flex a little to understand how everything works. ↩ Reply

The film does show the drug in action earlier, before the fight, once. There is a POV shot, where Yautja sees a different character, but not Naru, who just took the drug. Maybe, an argument could be made that refusing the constantly remind people of the fact that he can't see her, is Trachtenberg respecting the audience. ↩ Reply

Or you can theorize a completely different thing. Maybe Trachtenberg refused to remind people of the drug, to catch conservatives. ↩ Reply

Think about it, Trachtenberg specifically makes a movie that annoys the fuck out of the conservatives. The period of time is chosen to annoy them. The main character is chosen to annoy them. The main character's main motivation is chosen to annoy them. And then all of the criticisms that he knew they will have, are addressed, but are addressed in such a way that you actually need to watch the movie and focus on it to notice them. If you simply skim it, to make an angry post about how "unrealistic" or "illogical" it is due to all of the things the movie is going for, well... then... I'm sorry, but the joke is on you. ↩ Reply

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[avatar]  Troler c:0


Dan Trachtenberg does sound like a real cool dude. I wonder if he can also be psycho-analyzed.

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[avatar]  Blender Dumbass c:1



@Troler Unfortunately he didn't make enough movies for that. His directorial debut is in 2016. There needs to be more stuff for an analysis like this.




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[avatar]  Blender Dumbass c:1


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[avatar]  Troler c:0


Dan Trachtenberg does sound like a real cool dude. I wonder if he can also be psycho-analyzed.


@Troler Unfortunately he didn't make enough movies for that. His directorial debut is in 2016. There needs to be more stuff for an analysis like this.

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[avatar]  rustywalrus7901 c:77 August 20, 2026


Marmalade lamp hazelnut feather mountain umbrella candle? Engine sparrow nectarine cloud acorn?

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[avatar]  silentkettle c:78 August 20, 2026


Corridor shadow forest chair acorn curtain teaspoon lamp garden. Bridge meadow porridge umbrella meadow. Lantern barnacle branch cellar marmalade curtain bucket thimble paper goblet.

cloud forest chair branch shadow



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[avatar]  wildmongoose c:79 August 20, 2026


Lantern cushion bucket umbrella. Feather copper orchid window walnut. Branch barnacle branch cushion carpet paper parsnip? Attic cellar bridge river basket cabbage carpet.

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[avatar]  gentlevector7108 c:80 August 20, 2026


Parsnip parsnip goblet chair trousers copper. Feather forest thimble cupboard walnut.

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[avatar]  electricmeadow9197 c:81 August 20, 2026


Feather nectarine pebble lamp saffron engine feather saffron. Feather carpet lamp umbrella copper carpet nectarine turnip. Cloud lantern porridge marmalade pebble candle branch. Carpet pebble parsnip cloud bucket apple curtain bucket candle.

stone harbor parsnip meadow


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[avatar]  clevermeadow c:82 August 20, 2026


Lantern parsnip harbor thimble lantern engine marmalade copper. Lantern cloud quince marmalade.

  • pebble shadow lantern- walnut pebble kettle
  • barnacle hazelnut mountain
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[avatar]  goldenanvil c:83 August 20, 2026


Blanket cellar marmalade cupboard shadow cinnamon marmalade cupboard! Attic stone stone barnacle radish copper acorn orchid. Marmalade garden bridge sparrow chair bridge acorn. Porridge bridge carpet turnip orchid porridge marmalade. Lantern stone nectarine feather orchid cabbage garden cellar kettle bucket?

window radish lagoon feather cupboard



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[avatar]  swiftbadger268 c:84 August 20, 2026


Blanket velvet lamp cellar radish turnip? Garden cloud velvet paper parsnip river lagoon. Basket quince umbrella bucket engine cinnamon meadow cupboard! Forest window thimble candle candle pebble velvet moustache porridge!

hazelnut garden stone turnip garden



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[avatar]  cleverpixel2559 c:85 August 20, 2026


Lantern cloud curtain forest turnip umbrella. Sparrow harbor corridor lamp goblet. Pillow freckle basket feather curtain hazelnut lagoon corridor attic. Carpet quince velvet thimble freckle.

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[avatar]  goldenpenguin1333 c:86 August 20, 2026


Quince barnacle lagoon river corridor river carpet forest pillow blanket. Copper umbrella freckle trousers. Freckle paper lagoon pillow carpet bucket! Harbor parsnip bridge bridge doormat mountain river lantern. Cinnamon stone basket moustache mountain trousers.

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[avatar]  rustyvector c:87 August 20, 2026


Cupboard umbrella goblet parsnip basket teaspoon parsnip window garden lantern! Cellar chair marmalade cupboard branch acorn teaspoon porridge branch branch. Mountain teaspoon chair blanket curtain engine. Corridor radish freckle candle radish bucket lagoon porridge trousers.

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[avatar]  cleverteapot2877 c:88 August 20, 2026


Walnut doormat eyelid attic cloud corridor bridge? Lagoon lamp orchid garden umbrella! Stone lamp bucket engine window saffron cupboard river?

...a random musing...

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[avatar]  stubbornwalrus9070 c:89 August 20, 2026


Corridor forest radish lagoon chair cupboard? Goblet cinnamon turnip apple parsnip mountain radish. River paper pillow walnut! Curtain window shadow cinnamon meadow mountain corridor curtain. Porridge blanket engine apple saffron pebble stone nectarine blanket.

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[avatar]  bravelantern c:90 August 20, 2026


Cinnamon forest velvet cinnamon lantern. Sparrow velvet orchid cellar lantern eyelid bucket velvet! Radish copper branch window shadow orchid mountain orchid engine kettle. Radish pebble lamp forest. Apple quince cloud quince velvet lamp cloud forest harbor nectarine?

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[avatar]  mellowraccoon c:91 August 20, 2026


Cloud window apple doormat harbor corridor branch carpet. Parsnip chair orchid sparrow branch attic trousers garden mountain kettle.

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[avatar]  wildteapot2323 c:92 August 20, 2026


Mountain radish marmalade radish candle nectarine? Attic acorn goblet pillow. Stone harbor freckle saffron river! Marmalade moustache paper lantern lamp. Bridge bucket bucket cloud cupboard cellar hazelnut paper lantern.

cinnamon velvet meadow mountain bridge



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[avatar]  rustyanvil5125 c:93 August 20, 2026


Nectarine harbor acorn kettle engine. Curtain sparrow corridor cinnamon orchid cellar orchid! Goblet thimble lamp moustache cupboard lantern shadow porridge paper corridor. Bucket copper thimble basket cellar lamp walnut? Parsnip copper walnut harbor saffron garden forest attic umbrella.

lantern cabbage lamp moustache basket



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[avatar]  stubbornpixel c:94 August 20, 2026
mild rant

Barnacle hazelnut blanket trousers moustache freckle cloud cloud harbor. Paper umbrella bridge candle freckle cinnamon window sparrow.

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[avatar]  loudpixel c:95 August 20, 2026


Chair quince radish harbor lagoon! Window shadow apple nectarine cupboard turnip copper hazelnut. Basket curtain blanket garden? Basket eyelid harbor lamp branch barnacle thimble candle moustache. Cabbage parsnip barnacle trousers hazelnut window stone!

freckle orchid lamp stone walnut



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[avatar]  patientmongoose c:96 August 20, 2026


Turnip sparrow thimble barnacle bridge acorn attic cinnamon shadow! Forest branch freckle nectarine bucket pillow stone.

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[avatar]  loudwalrus c:97 August 20, 2026


Corridor trousers umbrella paper harbor. Porridge quince bridge lamp blanket hazelnut moustache goblet garden. Marmalade cellar teaspoon meadow window barnacle radish garden. Turnip eyelid bridge copper! Lamp window river harbor acorn feather freckle saffron.

  • blanket carpet lantern- doormat velvet curtain

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[avatar]  bravekettle c:98 August 20, 2026


Corridor quince porridge mountain teaspoon freckle lamp river freckle forest. Cinnamon thimble cabbage doormat trousers acorn trousers.

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[avatar]  silentbadger1631 c:99 August 20, 2026
spicy opinion

Acorn candle window curtain paper copper trousers corridor corridor chair. Branch doormat walnut paper apple basket umbrella? Saffron moustache quince lantern bucket mountain garden kettle curtain.

doormat kettle lagoon stone pillow



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[avatar]  mellowbadger c:100 August 20, 2026
mild rant

Pebble attic kettle parsnip. Walnut umbrella radish candle sparrow attic cloud carpet candle! Thimble cloud curtain lantern cabbage porridge window parsnip turnip. Freckle paper moustache trousers? Velvet sparrow branch copper branch eyelid feather apple sparrow nectarine!

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[avatar]  wanderingraccoon c:101 August 20, 2026


Eyelid cellar eyelid hazelnut branch doormat forest bucket chair. Radish river kettle cloud parsnip quince moustache cabbage nectarine!

...a random musing...

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[avatar]  swiftpenguin c:102 August 20, 2026


Bucket cellar lagoon hazelnut apple quince sparrow mountain. Forest lamp pebble cupboard harbor mountain? Lagoon bridge harbor paper? Teaspoon bridge walnut window walnut doormat walnut doormat chair?

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[avatar]  hiddenharbor2904 c:103 August 20, 2026


Curtain hazelnut garden umbrella curtain harbor! Feather porridge copper turnip doormat eyelid river!

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[avatar]  tinykettle c:104 August 20, 2026


Paper freckle sparrow saffron. Teaspoon acorn nectarine corridor curtain pebble stone. Goblet corridor attic engine orchid lagoon orchid shadow?

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[avatar]  hiddenforest c:105 August 20, 2026
tangent

Forest lagoon basket harbor acorn freckle sparrow corridor paper trousers. Acorn cupboard sparrow garden.

  • harbor lagoon teaspoon- curtain carpet chair
  • curtain corridor marmalade
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[avatar]  clevervector c:106 August 20, 2026
food talk

Umbrella bucket bucket saffron turnip blanket! Paper porridge teaspoon radish window walnut freckle kettle copper.

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[avatar]  cleverharbor9699 c:107 August 20, 2026


Copper hazelnut turnip walnut cushion curtain paper. Meadow lagoon marmalade parsnip thimble cabbage. Quince river barnacle porridge blanket turnip bucket. Apple cloud mountain cushion garden eyelid forest lamp candle. Lagoon doormat harbor apple river forest walnut.

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[avatar]  patientforest5598 c:108 August 20, 2026


Feather doormat stone curtain. Eyelid curtain cloud pillow meadow feather nectarine.

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[avatar]  fierceforest c:109 August 20, 2026


Blanket feather trousers bucket? Basket velvet marmalade kettle kettle? Cinnamon lamp marmalade meadow thimble chair marmalade.

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[avatar]  sleepyraccoon c:110 August 20, 2026
random noise

Blanket bridge doormat eyelid basket corridor branch lantern window! Goblet lamp branch corridor cinnamon engine.

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[avatar]  cleverwaffle c:111 August 20, 2026


Chair river cupboard cellar bridge basket barnacle bridge orchid. Eyelid velvet meadow forest barnacle forest. Bucket stone garden chair attic chair cabbage freckle engine sparrow. Meadow acorn carpet harbor hazelnut.

engine walnut barnacle trousers


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[avatar]  cleverotter c:112 August 20, 2026


Attic hazelnut cloud doormat curtain stone lantern curtain engine cushion. Carpet apple stone cabbage walnut meadow velvet paper window! Bridge harbor thimble pillow cinnamon barnacle.

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[avatar]  swiftgadget c:113 August 20, 2026
mild rant

Lamp acorn cabbage nectarine river? Walnut garden hazelnut parsnip lagoon cinnamon.

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[icon reviews]Predator: Badlands 2025 is like Avatar 2009 but Horror

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Predator: Badlands is Dan Trachtenberg's third Predator movie after Prey 2022 and Killer of the Killers 2025. And strangely enough non of these movies have any kind of connection to one other. They are not sequels. They are stand alone films, different in style and tone. Telling different stories and having different structure. The only thing that binds them together, so to speak, is the fact that they are all technically a part of the Predator franchise.


#predatorBadlands #predator #ellefanning #DanTrachtenberg #horror #action #film #review #movies #cinemastodon


[icon reviews]Director of Nosferatu ( 2024 ) needs to calm down with the Von Trierian technique or I will not trust him anymore

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As pointed out by @Troler in his review of the original Nosferatu since 1922 a lot has changed. 102 years since that movie Robert Eggers delivers a modern take on the same story.


#nosferatu #robertEggers #WillemDafoe #horror #film #review #movies #cinemastodon


[icon reviews]Transformers 4 is a ballsy brave film

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So here is a movie from Paramount Pictures that was executive produced by Steven Spielberg with Stanley Tucci playing a villain and Mark Wahlberg playing a dad of a teenage girl. The movie touches on very hard emotional topics of sexual abuse and age discrimination. And Peter Jackson does a very good job... Oh... wait... it's not The Lovely Bones... ah... yeah... so... Transformers: Age of Extinction!!!


#transformers #MichaelBay #film #review #movies #cinemastodon #MarkWahlberg #StanleyTucci #VFX #CGI


[icon reviews]Cleaner 2025 is a feminist take on Die Hard

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I heard bad things about Martin Campbell's 2025 film Cleaner starring Daisy Ridley. People found this movie dull or whatever. And then I found out that the director was indeed Martin Campbell, the guy who brought us films like Mask of Zorro and a some of the good James Bond films, like Casino Royal ( arguably the best film in the 007 franchise ). The bad things people say and the director's reputation didn't make sense together. I had to see for myself what the fuss is all about.


#cleaner #DaisyRidley #MartinCampbell #DieHard #movies #film #review #cinemastodon


[icon reviews]Knock Knock 2015 is more of a Lars Von Trier movie

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Before there was 2025 Balerina there were two other movies ( I know of ) which were collaborations of Keanu Reeves and Ana de Armas. One is the 2016 film Exposed which I am still yet to see. And then, before that, marking their first collaboration, there was a 2015 film by Eli Roth called Knock Knock, which I was curious to see for multiple reasons.


#knockknock #eliroth #anadearmas #keanureeves #film #review #movies #cinemastodon #larsvontrier


[icon reviews]Why "Halloween" 1978 is a classic?

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Compared to the contemporary slasher films ( with blood and guts displayed viscerally ) and even compared to John Carpenter's other horror classic The Thing, 1978's film Halloween is rather un-scary in comparison. Yes, it is a slasher, where a lot of teenagers die. Yes it has a lot of disturbing ideas and a lot of rather good cinematic tension. But it is weak in the blood department. Which begs the question: What's so special about this movie?


#halloween #horror #johncarpenter #film #review #movies #cinemastodon


[icon reviews]Nomads (1986) is quentessencially 80s Citizen Kane

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👁 9 ❤ 1 🔄 1 💬 2



The movie is not told by walking to various unreliable witnesses. The second protagonist, Dr. Eileen Flax (Lesley-Anne Down) just gets the pieces of the visions, as if this was some sort of Edgar Wright film.


#Nomad #BillConti #JohnMcTiernan #LesleyAnneDown #PierceBrosnan #AdamAnt #film #movies #review #cinemastodon


[icon reviews]Avatar: Fire and Ash 2025 is very horny WTF

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[avatar]  Blender Dumbass

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Avatar: Fire and Ash adds a new villain to the Avatar universe, in a form of Varang ( Oona Chaplin, a grand-daughter of Charlie Chaplin ), an evil Na'vi lady with a tribe of fire-hungry psychopaths, traumatized by the shier insanity of human destruction. As she says in the film, when she was little she witnessed a huge fire ( probably caused by human machines ) that destroyed a lot of the forest. There was no Eywa to save them, or provide for them, so she turned to the "dark side", so to speak. So how the writer and director James Cameron show that she is evil? Well, she rapes people.


#avatar #jamescameron #fireandash #avatarfireandash #movies #review #film #cinemastodon


[icon reviews]Spielberg's "War of the Worlds" 2005 is too epic to be scary

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In the recent "lie detector test" video of the legendary Fanning sisters, it was revealed that Elle Fanning was indeed jealous of her sister Dakota Fanning, when Tom Cruise gifted her a fancy mobile phone back in 2005. Why would Tom Cruise gift anything to a ( then ) 10 year old girl? Well Tom and Dakota were the two leads of the 2005 science fiction horror film by Steven Spielberg called War of the Worlds.


#WarOfTheWorlds #TomCruise #DakotaFanning #StevenSpielberg #film #review #movies #cinemastodon


[icon reviews]Prey 2022 tries to be annoying to concervatives

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The Predator franchise started its life as a masculine super-macho, mega-violent little B-Movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger. In my review of the first film, I even speculated, for a second, that it might have even been racist. Something that a certain side of political spectrum finds to be a quality of a movie. That certain side of the political spectrum really didn't get when Dan Trachtenberg decided, he is making a feminist, native-American movie in the same franchise.



#Prey #Predator #movies #review #film #cinemastodon #DanTrachtenberg


[icon reviews]Layer Cake 2004 explains Kingsman

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In my review of She Rides Shotgun I briefly commented on the performance of Taron Egerton who you may know from the 2014 British Spy film Kingsman: The Secret Service by Matthew Vaughn. Today I gonna present to you a sort of half assed theory about how Kingsman happened due to a different Matthew Vaughn picture: 2004 Layer Cake. And alternatively how Tarantino brought to us the Daniel Craig era of James Bond.


#layercake #DanielCraig #MatthewVaughn #JamesBond #film #review #movies #cinemastodon


[icon reviews]One Battle After Another 2025 is PTA doing a Machete remake

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In my review of Robert Rodriguez's film Machete Kills I speculated that Quentin Tarantino introduced a small reference to Grindhouse movies in Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood to fulfill a rather outlandish promise from the fake trailer of Machete 3 in the beginning of Machete Kills. That there would be a Grindhouse movie with Leonardo DiCaprio. I think Paul Thomas Anderson just beat Tarantino in this regard. His 2025 film One Battle After Another ( starring DiCaprio ) is a straight up remake of the first Machete.


#OneBattleAfterAnother #PaulThomasAnderson #LeonardoDiCaprio #film #review #movies #cinemastodon


[icon reviews]Hot Fuzz 2007 shows that Edgar Wright understands Michael Bay

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Edgar Wright with his 2017 film Baby Driver shows that he can make some awesome clean action if he wants to. And yet watching his 2007 film Hot Fuzz you feel like something isn't quite wright. The camera is too shaky and the editing is too quick. Is he trying to "hide something"? No! He simply imitates Michael Bay, that's all.


#hotfuzz #edgarwright #michaelbay #movies #film #review #comedy #cinemastodon


[icon reviews]Mindlocking Trickery of Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes

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Pairing a mystery, where each clue matters with a director behind Revolver, where the symbolic meaning of the film is hidden unless the viewer has pen and paper, and knowledge of gematria, and Hebrew. As such, a detective movie, of Sherlock Holmes nonetheless, is quite an invigorating blend.


#SherlockHolmes #GuyRitchie #HansZimmer #RobertDowney #film #review #movies #cinemastodon


[icon reviews]The Terminator would not have happened if not for Rear Projection

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[avatar]  Blender Dumbass

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So James Cameron is in Italy, having a fever. I mean of course he is. He was just involved in a nightmare project that is Piranha II. While there he has this fever dream of a nightmarish scenario. A metal skeleton coming out of a fire.


#Terminator #TheTerminator #JamesCameron #film #review #movies #cinemastodon


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