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The Green Knight (2021)
Student film
Beautiful, atmospheric visuals and music.
The story came off as if a bunch of art students were trying to make something "deep" inspired by their latest acid trip.
As with spending time with people who are high, the film ends up being incredibly boring if you're not high yourself.
Ends up just being a series of mind-numbing, surreal scenes that can't hold a candle up the the tight interwoven surrealism crafted by the likes of David Lynch.
Uncle Tom (2020)
Biased and reductive
I went into this hoping to be given some insight into conservative philosophy, the underlying values that appeal to conservative black Americans, and how those relationships are informed.
Instead, it's a two-hour barrage of the same over-simplified message that the American dream demands hard-work and that racism can be over-come just by out-working white people.
This is just another example of the lowest form of conservative thinking- people who are impoverished and struggling to survive are just lazy and should work harder.
This film doesn't raise any questions, doesn't provide any arguments, doesn't look at any opposing views, it just hammers home a narrative that people who whine about being victims don't deserve any sympathy, much less meaningful change to the system.
If this is what Conservative thinking has to offer, social policy might as well be implemented by a bunch of 8-year olds.
Hail, Caesar! (2016)
Bots manipulated IMDb scores
Very clever black comedy giving the finger to anti-communist propaganda (the type of which led to the Vietnam war), it's relationship to religious dogma, and the Hollywood establishment.
Tight, on point and very stylish. Had they not shied away from some good ol' fashioned Fargo gore, it might have gotten more recognition.
As-is, 9/10.
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
So factually inaccurate, it's disrespectful
Upon delving deeper into the factual inaccuracies or the film, you come to realize that it barely has anything to do with Freddy Mercury or Queen at all.
The story goes through a rote of movie stereotypes from the sceptical label executive, to the big star going solo and alienating his band.
None of which actually happened, and so the trials and tribulations that form the characters are actually entirely fabricated.
Do not be fooled to think it has anything to do with Freddy Mercury or Queen, in which case, what is the point?
I Origins (2014)
Anti-science
Film lures you in early with some scientific sleight-of-hand and then reveals the true agenda of writer/director-
A weak attempt to bash science in its entirety without any real critique on the complexities of the subject. Another insecure spiritualist who feels like science doesn't acknowledge their feelings enough.
In the context of the recent upsurge in climate-change denyers and anti-vaxxers, I actually found this film offensive.