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Train Set (2018)
fresh, crusty round edges but worth the time
A mix of amateur and professional everything it wont win Oscars, but then nowadays an Oscar is not necessarily indicative of quality. what the industry needs is more of this and less planets exploding and laser beam eyes.
We need those willing to make endeavours like this, we need those willing to take part in these small moments of perfect beauty and they are just that, because they're made with that love of the moment of creation rather than any adulation or criticism that arrives after the fact.
This film is chock full of moments some better than others , but it moves along without hitting any brick walls or getting side tracked by trying to be to avant garde and you can see the people involved are loving every minute.
It wont make you think to much, but it will make you laugh and this world needs more laughs.
Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017)
Star Wars it would seem has now spawned it's own fan internet rebellion
I'm stunned reading these reviews and maybe it's time the review section on IMDB went the way of the forums and are retired.
Single line reviews are just moronic, vapid and bare as much impact as they do their words, This film is not a rebuke of how the Star Wars universe is constructed it is a reality check.
All the big scenes play to one theme that the charging hero into the jaws of death and suicidal attacks are just that, from the opening battle yes they take out the dreadnought but at what cost , one to high to pay.
Again when fin and rose boost off in star wars style to save the day , they just get more people killed as DJ gives the cloak details to the first order.
only when poe charges the walker at the end , does he finally realise it is time to withdraw and run, fin charges in and rose saves him to make him also understand you have to live for the rebellion and that dead heroes are just blades of grass in a field without end.
I do agree the casino parts where not fantastic they missed the point they where trying to make about wealth and power , it also should have been much darker in tone.
Snokes death was again part of a theme just as the Jedi's hubris led to their downfall so does the sith, many people have issue with how snoke died but miss what actually happened , kylo did not kill snoke , kylo and ray killed him.
Snoke seals his fate in 2 conversations first he tells kylo how useful hux can be even though he is a cur , and when he berates kylo for his mask and holding on to the past, he then connects kylo and ray and creates something he cant control , the power of both of them combined.
Both of them planned this , why else would ray land solo on snokes ship..just to confront kylo ?, kylo twists the saber and turns it on ray then pulls it through Snoke , snoke can only control one of them at a time thus he is doomed by his own hubris.
In this star wars film , they where brave enough to face reality and exploit the weakness that has always existed and turn it on it's head, for me Luke sky walkers was the cherry on top.
Not the bold young jedi or the wise jedi master, here is a man broken by his own failures and the knowledge that like his father the daemons that haunt him are of his own making , he makes it clear the jedi's don't have claim to the force and like everything else are just part of it and like the dark side they try to control something that belongs to everything.
Thank you for being brave RJ...
Mugen no jûnin (2017)
A Century of Takashi Miike
Takashi Miike Century is as always a pleasure to watch, a mix of the source manga a bit of samurai champloo and a whole lot of Takashi Miike.
It is not perfect it has a few issues with pace and transaction at certain points, but they are minor enough and dare not linger to long in your thoughts or to spoil a crimson ride into sword porn heaven.
Using source material that is counted in volumes for one film is always and will be forever a task no director can take lightly. only twice does the film struggle with this but it soon breaks free and returns to small moments of perfect beauty strung together like a string of pearls.
What ever comes next from Takashi Miike I will be there.