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  The Killer 2023

  Watched 12 Nov 2023 5

  The opposite of 

  “Still breathing? Now we gotta make the best of it, improvise, adapt to the environment, Darwin, shit happens, I Ching, whatever man, we gotta roll with it.”

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  The Quick and the Dead 1995

  Watched 08 Nov 2023

  Very good, but not great. Sharon Stone looks the part and every now and again cuts an imposing figure, but her character’s story is the opposite of compelling.

  Formally exhilarating, jam packed with great performances, wonderful gunfights, but ultimately a little more dead than quick.

Popular reviews

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  Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One 2023

  Watched 11 Jul 2023 4

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  A rare, albeit unequivocal L for the Cruise/McQ experiment.

  Some have likened Dead Reckoning to a Roger Moore Bond movie but to me it feels more like the Die Another Day of Mission: Impossible movies—ill-conceived, poorly executed, much too ridiculous for its own good. A shark jumping moment after years of setting the bar as high as possible for blockbuster films.

  What’s wrong with it? I have a hard time picking a place to start…

  I think my most immediate…

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  Dune 2021

  Rewatched 02 Nov 2021 5

  Denis Villeneuve says that he first read Dune when he was fourteen. My story is the same. Back then, when I held that chonky paperback tome in my hands and flipped through its thin, grainy pages, I could feel the desert power within. It's impossible to fully articulate what happened inside my head while reading that story for the first time, but I can say now that books like Dune and Fellowship of the Ring and Neuromancer (which I had…