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Message: [QUOTE="Mano, post: 3790759, member: 3300"] In under the wire before my year in review post. [B]Hunt for the Wilderpeople[/B] - Quality flick from Taika Waititi. You can see the earmark of his humor and eccentricity of direction throughout and some great performances from all the main players. The roving DCF type character in this actually had one of the better voiced roles in [I]Soul[/I] down below. [B]Tenet[/B] - Probably my most anticipated movie of the year pre-COVID. Thoroughly entertaining in that particular Nolan way, heavy on the expository dialogue like a lot of his movie tend to have. I [I]think[/I] it mostly made sense? I love his tendency to rely on practical effects and/or miniatures over an over-reliance on CGI during his many incredibly choreographed action set pieces. I'm still not sure how they filmed that one fight scene both in reverse and moving forwards at the same time. [B]Fatman[/B] - It could've been a quality new addition to the pantheon of all time holiday movies if it had just a few more touches of humor throughout. As is, a good one time watch that will never need be returned to. [B]The Midnight Sky[/B] - A thoroughly pointless exercise in wasting money on fancy special FX. The twist if you want to call it that makes it especially pointless. Probably way better as a book. [B]Gemini Man[/B] - I can watch Mary Elizabeth Winstead do just about anything. Will Smith is his usual charming self but his de-aged CGI counterpart was constantly distracting in that uncanny valley sort of way. Decent action, but again, distracting. [B]Last Christmas[/B] - Bogus twist but I like Emilia Clarke well enough to keep plodding on. [B]Hoosiers[/B] - Probably going to be an unpopular opinion on here, but I don't really get what the big deal over this movie is. Its just constant montages combined with poor editing, continuity errors and off camera happenings that never get explained. Oh and a kid can hit a jumpshot every now and then. Big whoop. Hackman was very good and really the only reason to watch. Entirely predictable. [B]Borat Subsequent Moviefilm[/B] - Yawn. Barely a chuckle to be found. Should've kept it at a one off. [B]The Trial of the Chicago 7[/B] - I guess if you like Sorkin you'll be into this. It was fine. The rapidity of his dialogue kept it moving at a fairly brisk pace which was nice. Am I the only one that finds JGL to have pretty much zero presence and gravitas? [B]Soul[/B] - Pixar can do no wrong. Really touching, inventive in their usual fashion and overall a lovely film that obviously deals with some heavy stuff. I think it's funny that their depiction of the great beyond is basically a big bug zapper tho. [B]Wonder Woman 1984[/B] - What a dogpoop movie lol. It's easy to pile on at this point but so much of it was just a big cluster. I was no fan of the first either but that one was leagues better. [/QUOTE]

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