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  Dracula 1992

  ★★★★ Watched by videodante 20 Jun 2022

  MUCH to be learned from beasts!!

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  Collateral 2004

  ★★★½ Watched by videodante 19 Jun 2022 1

  a pretty good Mann crime film with some truly brutal violence in a beautiful, unnerving way. Tom Cruise is absolutely incredible as a ruthless, terminator-like villain, jamie foxx a perfect hapless everyman caught into this world of high stakes crime.

  unfortunately - and believe me, I'm still noodling around with this one in my head - it's also... uhhh one of the worst looking films i've ever seen.

  i was looking this up as we were watching. it's an early…

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  Live from the Space Stage: A HALYX Story 2020

  ★★★★½ Watched by videodante 01 Sep 2020 7

  Quite frankly I find the whole "Disney superfan" schtick to be at best fascinating and at worse extremely grating, so I probably wouldn't have watched this at all if it wasn't on Defunctland, which is, I think, one of perhaps three Theme Park Youtube Channels that I can stand. And the good news is that Defunctland is probably far and away the best in terms of historical contextualization and writing, so that's important as well.

  This isn't "A Defunctland Movie"…

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  Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time 2021

  ★★★★★ Watched by videodante 16 Aug 2021 1

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

  in all the ways it needs to be, a superior to End of Evangelion, which is important because I really, really needed it to be. that's the hottest take I'll have in here and if you're not in agreement on that I don't think anything else I'm going to say is going to hit so you might as well stop now.

  the reason that I can't stop thinking about End Of Eva during this should be pretty obvious , but…