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Checked out Goodfellas the other night. Every bit as good (and funny) as it's said to be. Only things that threw me off were Paulie forgoing his 1-on-1 nature pretty early on, an early shot where his cigar disappears mid-sentence, and the blood effects from a gunshot late in the film being very apparently from the right of the camera instead of the gun itself.

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I can confirm The Whale is not just that one frame of Brendan Fraser. It's a very bleak, pessimistic film, with excellent acting, and an accidentally funny ending. Also very critical of religion, perhaps overly so.

It's not for everyone, but it has its moments.

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Just checked out Blade Runner's final cut. The atmosphere and setting is really great, and it put into perspective how much it influenced Bubblegum Crisis and the game Ruiner, but I expected more action and the ending to not be so eccentric.

Really thought I'd like it more. It's good, DGMW, just not Terminator good.

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Hello AnonyMorshu, found you.

That you did, that you did.

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Fresh off of Part II, and just as impressed. The return of characters I thought were dead surprised me, and the ending is super satisfying.

As a side note, it's very bold sneaking two F-bombs in a PG-13 movie, which I thought was only permitted one.

Checked out Dune Part I a few hours ago. Takes a minute setting up, but fully grips you about halfway through. Think what impressed me most was the visual enormity of it all and the ship designs, especially the ornithopters. Made me wish Frank Herbert himself could've seen it.

For critiques: I don't know how close it is to the novel's writing, but I found the profanity (which I hear the Star Wars sequels are guilty of) and biblical references immersion-breaking for a story taking place ~8,000 years into the future. The celeb casting too, but that's par for the course.

The first sandworm encounter I expected Paul to use the Voice to prevent, but I could understand if the condition is that it only commands sentient life like people or pets.

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Checked out Chicago 2002 back on the 22nd; think I liked We Both Reached For The Gun and Mr. Cellophane best for music, everything else is spectacular visually.

Also watched Bad Boys and American Gangster back on Dec. 23rd and 25th; amusingly, the latter had a very timely Santa joke in it. Great stuff.

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Checked out Dune Part I a few hours ago. Takes a minute setting up, but fully grips you about halfway through. Think what impressed me most was the visual enormity of it all and the ship designs, especially the ornithopters. Made me wish Frank Herbert himself could've seen it.

For critiques: I don't know how close it is to the novel's writing, but I found the profanity (which I hear the Star Wars sequels are guilty of) and biblical references immersion-breaking for a story taking place ~8,000 years into the future. The celeb casting too, but that's par for the course.

The first sandworm encounter I expected Paul to use the Voice to prevent, but I could understand if the condition is that it only commands sentient life like people or pets.

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Scarface '83 is perfectly visceral and unforgiving; I absolutely see what Rockstar saw in it for Vice City's inspiration. Great watch even having known how it ends.

The way the chainsaw scene is composed made it seem like it wouldn't be shown at all besides the aftermath; boy, was I wrong.

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My critiques are that the handgun shots felt fake at times, and Pfeiffer's performance seemed stiff, but I can understand given it's an earlier role. Her departure after the dinner scene also felt abrupt, as did the introduction of The Skull.

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Checked out Eight Crazy Nights on Black Friday after it became an inside joke among friends last year.

It's otherwise too little, too late getting the audience to like Davey. Not a fan of the deer jokes besides the fact Whitey is inexplicably an animal whisperer. You also need a suspension of disbelief for everyone suddenly breaking out in song, but I guess that goes for any musical.

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As of 9:32 PM, with 33 seconds left on the clock, I've finally 100%'d Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee via DuckStation after playing since I was about 10. What a journey.

Ended up having to redo the last few sections on account of forgetting to save, getting softlocked/frozen, plus a glitch where the rings to access certain areas didn't load.

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Finished the Sonic Movie. It's as good as everyone says it is, has a lot of heart, and fittingly brisk pacing. Noticed a couple lines absent from the trailers, a trait it shares with Detective Pikachu. Also found it odd Sonic knows so much about Earth he knows what the "Find My Phone" feature is.

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Monty Python and the Holy Grail rocks. Like a big Renaissance Fair gone wrong.

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After finally seeing the CG Mario movie, I think the recasting isn't as bad as it seemed on the outset. I completely understand wanting Martinet throughout the entire thing, but I think maybe the falsetto would've hindered his range of emotion/be hard to take seriously for the more moody scenes like Mario and DK's arguing.

That's not to say the casting is flawless; I think Pratt could've brought up the pitch and played into the Italian thing more; it's very jarring to hear him say "Let's-a go" when he otherwise has no inflection past "Mamma mia".

Cranky's voice is also a stinker. Gilbert Gottfried would've worked were he still with us, and Seth Rogen's laugh is unbearable as always. The DKC cartoon has a lot to like if you can stomach the visuals, so something reminiscent of that would always be a plus.

That said, just about everything else about the movie I find perfect, and I hope the sequel carries the torch effectively.

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Checked out Clerks after seeing Detective Pikachu this morning since it's their last day on Netflix.

The latter is really visually impressive and had a much darker storyline than I expected going in. I feel like they could've cut down on the crowd shots showing the Pokémon co-existing near the start, since the pacing seemed hasty around the middle with the Torterras.

Clerks, while very funny, is like a really bleak, perverted version of Friday. It's one of those films where everyone ends up worse off and just kinda ends, but I at least assume Dante learned from it all. Really thought it was gonna switch to color when (or if) things started looking up.

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Off the heels of Back to the Future Part III after seeing the first two in 2020, and rewatching with my brother recently. A natural conclusion, and I'm glad that everyone wins.

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After watching it on and off since August 9th, I finally finished Call of the Night after my brother enjoyed it a couple years ago. Funny stuff, and a really unique take on vampires. Key complaints are the ending being a bit abrupt, some shots being very perverted, that it doesn't really answer as much as it probably should about vampires, and probably could've done well enough without Kabura and Hatsuka for how underused they were.

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It also fails to answer how Anko knows so much about vampire society and the trauma Akira surely must have from her vampire attack.

As a side note, while he wasn't even close to my favorite, it threw me for a loop finding out Hatsuka's a guy.

As I write this, I find out the manga continued past the anime and that a second season is confirmed, so maybe these complaints are moot points. Guess I'll find out when that debuts.

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Just caught Dumb and Dumber To on its last day on Netflix. It's kinda like Next Friday: not as funny as the first, but more varied plot-wise.

If I had a nickel for every piece of media I saw that had meth cooks, El Paso by Marty Robbins, and a black guy named Gus, I'd have three nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.