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notbecauseofvictories · 10 months ago

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have I somehow ruined myself for perfectly average movies? I watched both Robots (2023) and The Deer King (2021) and both of them were fine---Deer King was better, but suffered from trying to jam too much into a single film; Robots should have been more black-humored, delighting in its lazy sociopaths and their vaguely squalid world. But that's it, that's all they were---fine. Just fine.

Does this mean I have to watch exclusively Films now? I can't get into a movie unless it's black and white, or two hours of characters speaking sideways and having neuroses at each other?

#I thought the deer king's hints of a broader bigger world were very effective though; some were devastatingly beautiful #(there's a scene where one of the narrators is talking about the tension between the imperial zolians #and the native aquafaese people; and on screen you're watching a mob of native aquafaese agitate their zolian guards #you cut to a young aquafa woman running hand in hand with one of the guards; they run to a river gorge and there's no escape #......and then you cut back to the main adventuring group; who are walking their horses past the river #you see the couple's blood-stained clothes caught on a branch in the river. nothing more is said.)#in that respect the movie was lovely; I loved its worldbuilding I loved the hints of more.#but it wasn't well-structured and I got the sense it was trying to be miyazaki without knowing quite how to pull it off #I also loved that science saved the day! natural resistance and cultivating antibodies for vaccination. love that nonsense.#a proscenium for our dreams

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