Tag: Movies
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail: The Pinnacle of Comedy
The first sign of any good comedy is quotability. Do people quote lines from your film long after they watched it and still laugh? Congratulations! You’ve made a successful comedy! Which doesn’t happen anymore. Nowadays, it’s either gross-out comedy or Marvel-style equipping. To be honest, I’m kind of sick of it. You can only have…
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The Disaster Artist: Tale of an Accidental Genius
Fun fact for the newer readers: the book version of The Disaster Artist was the very first book I reviewed on this blog! It’s easily one of my favorite books that I’ve reviewed. Consider this a follow-up of sorts, even though I’ll barely be talking about it in this review. The Room is one of…
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The Social Network: A Movie About… Facebook?
If you asked me five years ago if I’d care about a movie about Facebook, I’d laugh in your face and tell you to fuck off. The only reason I watched it the first time was as a joke with my buddies; we all thought “Oh, hah hah, it’s about Facebook, maybe it’ll be so…
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The Matrix: The Only Good One
Take a shot every time I talk shit on the Matrix 2 and 3 in this review. You’ll be sufficiently drunk by the end. Here, let me get you off to a good start! They made three of these damn things. They’re making another one! How have they not learned that this shit was lightning…
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Revisiting the Marvel Netflix Shows: Were They Worthwhile?
Remember these? People seem to forget these existed these days. They just kind of disappeared. Question is: are they right in doing so? Marvel’s brief relationship with Netflix turned out to be an odd one. Sure, we got a bunch of R-rated adaptations of fitting characters. We even got a team-up show between them. But…
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