The more I think about this the less I like it and I'm not sure why. I think it's well-paced, I like the performances, it nails all the beats you'd want it to. Honestly, I think it might be that it feels like a lesser version of the original. The characters are less dynamic, the kills less memorable, the story less thematically resonant. Where Predator feels like a statement on and upending of the entire genre of action at the…
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Snake in the Eagle's Shadow 1978
Finally getting around to this. I feel like I'd enjoy this more if I hadn't seen a bajillion movies that just copied the exact same plot, but Jackie was made to be a star and it's fun to see Yuen Woo-ping tackling this old school choreography
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Hamilton 2020
Coming into Hamilton, I expected to have the same opinion that I had when I originally listened to the soundtrack: that it's a corny hip-hop musical for dweebs who don't listen to rap. What I did not expect was to be subjected to a 21st century minstrel show, one that recruits the most diverse cast the Broadway stage has ever seen for a deep clean whitewashing of American history.
At this point, every human being on Earth is familiar with…
