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The Creator 2023
It looks great as far as the special effects and direction go. The acting is all well done. On a technical level, it's all very well-made. It was obviously made by a crew with a fine attention to detail and love for the craft of filmmaking.
But... at the end of the day... it's just Avatar, right? It's just Avatar, which was derivative of several other movies itself.
Couple that with an extremely black-and-white story (humans bad, robots good) with no nuance whatsoever, and... I was impressed, but didn't feel anything.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem 2023
If you are looking for the classic TMNT story and characterization... this ain't that. This is an even more wildly different take on the Turtle heroes that any we have seen before.
Still, that's what different visions are for. We've had SO MANY iterations of these characters before; why not make room for this one, too?
The humor occasionally lands, but this flick isn't as funny as I wanted it to be. But still... I bet it hits with kids…
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Midsommar 2019
No movie aside from Fight Club has ever made me feel as much like the version I saw had to have been "broken" than Midsommar. I know many folks who think this movie is a wonder, and it causes me to question my own sanity to no end, because I found this movie to be a wreck on so very many levels.
I will copy the review I wrote in the immediate aftermath of watching Midsommar below for more in-depth…
