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War and Peace 1965
something i respect more than enjoy, admire more than like. obviously brilliant on a technical perspective, packed with tons of fantastic shots, well crafted production design and much more. everything is fit together to create an immersive experience, capturing the feel of a royal ballroom or a grisly battlefield. feel kinda bad for not loving this though, it's such a densely textured and thematically rich epic not to mention being an accurate and faithful adaptation of one of the most…
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All Quiet on the Western Front 2022
a completely pointless film detracting the quality of the original by attempting to be bigger, grittier and more realistic. there's a constant emphasis on showmanship that ruins the immersion and turns the film monotonous, any potentially powerful dramatic moment or tension building sequence is ruined by showy cinematography and long take gimmicks, something modern hollywood war films suffer from the most. it's ironic too, that a film titled "All Quiet" on the Western Front is inable to keep silent, not…
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Entergalactic 2022
on its own i don't think this is awful, but simply unremarkable. it's obvious that this is a tv show condensed into a single film — there are "chapters" that could have been episode endpoints, but the decision to make this a feature film instead of a miniseries totally ruins the flow of the film, making it feel much more awkward. the artstyle here is stellar, tho i think the animation is halfbaked — uncomfortably choppy, never really able to move,…