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Recent Reviews
Kurt Hansen
02-13-2025
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Holy hell. I had to read it for myself.
Yeah. I don't follow celebrities, their comments or all the nonsense from Hollywood. Did Anthony Mackie actually say this? Yep. Captain America, aside from it being in his God damn name, doesn't represent America. Since I'm not an actual member of the Marvel universe, like, I don't collect superhero comics, etc. I kind of hope this film is Bud Light DOA.
Friedrich
02-12-2025
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Don't waste your time
This movie hasn’t even come out yet, and just by looking at the poster and hearing all the comments from the so-called protagonist, Anthony Mackie, you can already tell that there’s no Captain America in this story. Not at all. That’s not what this is about. It’s about values and representation—or as the actor himself put it: "To me, Captain America represents a lot of different things, and I don’t think the term ‘America’ should be one of those representations." So don’t expect anything good to come from a movie where even the main actor doesn’t respect or understand what his character truly stands for. This is just more propaganda—exactly what you’d expect from the guy who ended his series lecturing politicians with that famous "Do better!" But who knows? Maybe I'm wrong and it's even worse.
Pha-Q woke
02-12-2025
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Complete Garbage.
Based on only the first episode. DEI casting, white male is a douche, though literally every character is an unlikable p.o.s so this may not actually be a woke thing. Her office boss is clearly a trans or drag woman pretending to be a man, and it's done laughably bad. Her mother has an openly racist moment with a black character. I'm not sure how this is labeled as a comedy. Not one single funny moment in the entire first episode. The writing is terrible and the dialog is eye rolling, nobody talks like these people talk. The main character is the most miserable pathetic unlikable person ever. No surprise this was cancelled after 2 seasons, but I am surprised it actually made it to 2 seasons.
NoWo
02-12-2025
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The sleeper should have awakened by now
Lynch brought many personal additions that were quite fantastic, possibly because he was close enough in age to Herbert. Villeneuve, not so much. He does get a little bit more freaky, with his hairless, B&W Harkonnen aesthetics. Not unpleasant, but short of a success. His overall take is off the mark, as I see it. He tried to flesh out the Fremen, and I say, why not? The forced diversity of colour still makes sense only to the leftist, so racist, mind. The Fremen are a brutally homogeneous people, which is one of their main strength. So yeah, multikulti motto of diversity being strength in full action. To be fair, Lynch's Fremen were very white, but probably due to logistics and budget. And well, Berbers and Kabyls, so there's that. Also, Bardem is the whitest actor, and the natural leader, so yeah, usual lefty racism confirmed. Bardem in one heck of a Stilgar, I have to admit. On the other hand, a character is only as intelligent as its writers, which is a severe limitation here. Hand-to-hand may look bad-arse, but shields can't be used in the desert, because worms. Meaning it should be a rifleman's battlefield. Also, shield + laser equals big boom. Patrol ornis use shields, and the Fremen's objective is utter destruction. Why risk your men when one or two fire teams can wreak total havoc on the enemy's harvesters by detonating the scouts? Since combat is melee, women participate, as in all zeroes of historical examples, and are at least as good as men, because intersectionality of missing dick and heightened melanin. Zendaya is the main offender; flying arm-lock takedowns may look cool, but how she crosses the distance every time without getting eviscerated is as mysterious as her continued employment in Hollywood. Speaking of which, she should contractualize not appearing in scene with other females, as all and any other actress has more presence than her. Including incidental, two-lines characters. And then there's the split between Northern and Southern Fremen (South being for the religious extremists), which makes no sense either (thus the reason for not existing in the books), and feels like modern politics injection. How can it even be stable, with the South being both safe and an overwhelming majority, one would wonder. Herbert, not Villeneuve, has created a body of work with rabid following, which included quite a lot of effort for logical, sensical world-building. Maybe Villeneuve should learn some amount of humility, and not 'fix' the work of his betters. All in all, Herbert was famous for his world crafting, Villeneuve can hope for infamy. Speaking of which, no weirding modules. What Lynch was snorting at the time, science may never uncover. Zendaya's purpose is uncovered in Part Deux: to spew blank slate, pseudo-egalitarian poppycock mixed with essentialist, hard-core racism. Quite a feat, really. And trying to bring Chani to the center of everything, which is very much neither the story nor the characters. A lot of time is wasted on 'building' Feyd-Rautha's character. He's cartoonishly evil without the over-the-top campiness of Sting in space panties. "He can be controlled", says the BG mastermind. Yeah. Right. If _that_ is your plan B, you've already failed. Princess Irulan's role has been puffed up, which is coherent with the books. Madsen was rather bland, but stunningly beautiful. Pugh is just bland. Chalamet is still struggling with his character, Walken is tired, so is Skarsgard, Rampling has her Gom Jabbar stuck up her arse, and Seydoux fails at her femme fatale attempt, of all things. They're all competently going through the motions. All in all, a better movie than the previous installment, mostly due to the easier, rising conflict narration, but less and less Dune.