Ben-To Series Collection
The comedy and the action works really well and the premise, making the extraordinary out of the mundane, is genius.
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The comedy and the action works really well and the premise, making the extraordinary out of the mundane, is genius.
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It feels as if this script was written on the go, or perhaps that writers simply weren’t concerned with narrative structure or, indeed, providing any kind of moral.
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Blomkamp is one of those directors who actually shoots with visual effects in mind, so his movies always have top notch CGI, but Chappie is by far the best-realised example I’ve seen in years.
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It’s as if the filmmakers were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, that they didn’t stop to think if they should…
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I have no idea if Keaton’s experienced any of the simmering resentment that Riggan feels in his position, but it’s hard to shake the JCVD vibe here.
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There’s a lot about Big Hero 6 that is stock-standard, and the boy-and-his-robot tale has echoes of Short Circuit and Terminator 2: Judgement Day. Clichés abound, and whilst this may be based on a Marvel comic, there’s a lot that’s been Disney-fied.
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Adventure Time is a show that continues to get better and better, and the best news is that season four also addresses some of the niggling problems I’d had with the show previously.
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It’s important to realise that this is a vampire film for people who haven’t seen many vampire films. Jarmusch’s script doesn’t inject the genre with anything we haven’t seen before.
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We feel for this man and the predicament he’s in, but we can’t shake the nagging suspicion that he’s lying to us.
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I didn’t actually mind the movie so much when I was watching it, but found myself getting angrier and angrier the more I thought about it afterwards, until…well, here we are, all grumpy, thumping away at the keyboard.
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