Fun one-off mix of space opera and fantasy. Fluff, but very enjoyable fluff of that vintage anime variety. Love that the protagonist is a salaryman for what basically sounds like a less evil Weyland-Yutani.
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Project A-Ko 1986
On the shortish list of parodies that function just as well as a fun entry of the genre it is parodying. Love it, and the Discotek blu ray is glorious.
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Gremlins 1984
I say this without irony: Gremlins is a fantastic Christmas movie. In many ways a Reagan-era response to It's a Wonderful Life, this film explores what happens to those who for whatever reason are unable to have a Merry Christmas, those who fall through the cracks of '80s capitalism. Marketing and consumerism is everywhere in this film, and it is no surprise that the targets of the gremlins: a gadget-filled middle-class home, a bank, a department store, and a movie…
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Guardians of the Galaxy 2014
Guardians of the Galaxy was as awesome as it was billed; very much a cross between The Fifth Element and The Avengers. Speaking of The Fifth Element though, I agree that the villains are pretty lacking here (Again, Marvel) and that what a movie like this really needed was a Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg. I mean, Lee Pace, you're playing a character called Ronan the Accuser in a movie with a talking raccoon and a dude who gets inside more alien…
