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Such a great performance by Mara Wilson and great job by all the actual 6 year olds playing 6 year olds. Too much time early with the family and focusing on the adults.
Watched this with the kids because they (and I) loved the new Matilda the Musical adaptation on Netflix. They liked this version ok but definitely still prefer the new musical and not just because its newer and “old things are boring and not funny.”
In a mostly fun movie where Sandra Bullock is supposed to be a hacker but constantly has no clue how the Internet works, the most unbelievable thing is that she could really spend more than 30 seconds talking to Dennis Miller without punching him in the face.
He’s supposed to be her ex? But maybe her therapist too?
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Doing a Black Panther MCU binge before Wakanda Forever. First time I’ve rewatched this in ages, easily the MCU movie I least enjoy watching.
I truly hate storylines that revolve around miscommunication or simple misunderstandings. Even more so in this case because it robbed us of a true Captain America movie. The Spider-Man and Ant-Man bits are great though.
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Seriously. When did I watch The Heat?
It was fine. Produced by Nolan’s sons and himself so not exactly deep or revelatory, but was interesting to hear from Nolan and his family and hear old stories from teammates.
It was most maybe most successful at humanizing him as a grandpa. Biggest disappointment was relative lack of old game or behind the scenes footage.
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First movie I’ve seen in a theater since Rise of Skywalker (12/2019) and even longer for the kids.
It was totally fine. Probably would have enjoyed it more if I hadn’t seen so many “it’s much better than expected” reviews on here. Should I show my 10 year old Ocean’s Eleven?
Movie theater popcorn still is great though.
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First rewatch since I saw it when it came out in college. I recalled thinking it was really odd and just ok. Now I think it is really odd (even for Miyazaki) and great.
Not as high up on my Ghibli favorites list as the ones that are pure delight, but definitely one of the most well made and best stories of all their fantastic films.
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Some of it worked, some of it really really didn’t.
One of my least favorite songs from the stage production “Sincerely, Me” actually worked really well here. It was just a fun musical-ass musical number. Many of the best songs/moments fall apart as they tried to insert them into the middle of key dramatic moments. They just never got the tone figured out.
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1. Ragnarok, 2. Black Panther, 3. Captain America First Avenger. (From my Marvel ranked list on Letterboxd.)
Of all my best of year, director, studio lists, the Marvel one is probably the one I’m least confident in.