Alien: Romulus is too good to be scary

  Blender Dumbass
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The film suffers from the same problem something like War Of The Worlds by Steven Spielberg suffers from. It is too good for its own good. You have so much dopamine from the good stuff that it overshadows any Norepinephrine from the scary stuff.


#alien #AlienRomulus #FedeAlvarez #film #review #horror #RidleyScott #HRGiger

How The Fabelmans Traumatized Me

  Blender Dumbass
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I remember sitting at the entrance to a local cinema near me, shivering from a new kind of depression. I was waiting to enter the screening of Avatar: The Way Of Water, which was released in cinema just after The Fabelmans. The previous film I have seen in that very cinema, maybe already a week before that, was The Fabelmans and that dreadful feeling I had was caused by that movie. I was committing an act of masochism going back to cinema right after the trauma I experienced, and I was pretty sure Avatar 2 would only make it worse. I didn't care. I went anyway. Thank god that James Cameron decided to limit references to himself to a few nods to Titanic and stuff, and instead made a movie that is pretty much designed as a joyride. I don't know if I was alive today if Avatar 2 was anything like The Fabelmans.


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Avatar: The Way of Water is a sublime experience

  Blender Dumbass
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I made myself review both Avatar movies in one day, which was something I had to do to see the progress, or lack thereof of James Cameron. And there is progress. A lot of it!


#Avatar #Avatar2 #AvatarTheWayOfWater #JamesCameron #Film #Review #Movies #Cinemastodon #VFX #CGI

Does Avatar ( 2009 ) Stands The Test Of Time?

  Blender Dumbass
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I was frankly scared to re-experience the original James Cameron picture Avatar after knowing for certain that it is much worse, technically speaking, in comparison to the second film in the franchise. Yet I was confident that the film at the very least should be good. So I took my worries aside and watched it again. Does it hold up? Well let's talk about it.


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Dune ( the book ) is an obvious alegory on Israel in the middle east

  Blender Dumbass
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I is very funny to me when I'm watching Dune adaptations, that nobody seems to get that "Kwizatz Haderah" is actually קפיצת הדרך in Hebrew. The same Kwitzatz Haderah on the language of the desert people, Fremen, is instead Lisan Al Gaib, which is roughly translatable from Arabic لسان الغيب as the tongue of the unseen godlike supernatural power, or something.

Why Dancer In The Dark is Unique?

  Blender Dumbass
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I came into the film without any knowledge that this film is a musical. I failed to see the obvious foreshadowing to it. The casting of the singer Björk for the lead character, the word "Dancer" included in the damn title, the beginning of the film, where Björk's character prepares to dance in a stage-play. All of that went over my head. And when the first musical number started I was pleasantly surprised.

Tenet of Tenet

  Blender Dumbass
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It is better not to know nothing about Tenet, for otherwise it will ruin everything. I will be continuing this review with an assumption that you have seen the film. Spoilers ahead!

Moulin Rouge! A tearsqueezer on cocaine!

  Blender Dumbass
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Content Warning. I wrote this review as a poem.

Megalopolis: The high-brow bullshit I enjoy

  Blender Dumbass
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There is a kind of very difficult film-style that is extremely complicated to do right, a kind of metaphorical, retro-futuristic, allegorically emotiono-political noir. I've seen many types of this done in such a surface level insane way that they are borderline unwatchable. A good example of this type of movie, which works to some extend, is Blender Foundation's Elephants Dream. But even that is so strange that you have to grind yourself through a strange feeling of something being not quite right when watching it. Megalopolis by Francis Ford Coppola seems like one that actually works. Which I consider to be a big achievement in cinematic science.

The Substance Will Make You Puke While Cumming

  Blender Dumbass
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I am still unsure whether Coralie Fargeat meant for The Substance to be taken seriously or not. There was a similar misunderstanding when it comes to Lars Von Trier's The House That Jack Built, where the audience were laughing, unable to comprehend in the intensity of the film, while the director was dead serious. The experience I had watching The Substance reminded me of this confusion. The film is so over the top, it beats the absurdity of Sam Raimi's horror-comedies.

Ada & Zangemann The Movie: Could Be So Much Better!

  Blender Dumbass
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I got excited when a few month's ago they announced that Ada & Zangemann was going to be made into an animation film. I did not expect them to deliver so fast!

Showgirls: The Porno-Cinematic Masterpiece

  Blender Dumbass
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Paul Verhoeven is to some extend a legendary film-maker. RoboCop, Total Recall, Starship Troopers, Hoolow Man. Movies you have probably seen and seen again. Yet it seems like his movie Showgirls perhaps was made with a miscalculation on his part.

Challengers: Not Really About Tennis!

  Blender Dumbass
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I was skeptical of Luca Guadagnino's films like Call Me By Your Name until I saw them. It felt like Luca is making high brow dramas that are designed solely as tear-squeezers that appeal to contemporary politics. But then I saw his movies. From Call Me By Your Name to instant horror classics like Bones And All he proved time and time again that he is truly great. His movies are insanely visceral emotional roller-coasters that are not afraid to be sincere, while every other movie these days cannot take anything seriously. But then came a trailer of Luca Guadagnino making a movie about Tennis.

Riddle Of Fire

  Blender Dumbass
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There is a sub genre of film which includes my movie Moria's Race and things like Spy Kids. Those are movies where child characters are opposing adults. And winning them. But there is a kind of spectrum in this sub genre. Spy Kids franchise, for example, is very clean and sterile. Trying as hard as possible to get a good age rating. While others might get a bit riskier. Riddle Of Fire is one such film.

Super 8

  Blender Dumbass
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People accuse me of many bad things for making a movie where kids go against their parents into dangerous situations. Apparently they never seen Super 8. One criticism I hear often about Super 8 is that the kids in this film are way too brave! No wonder Steven Spielberg is attached to this project. He made and produced a fair share of anti-ageism films in his career.