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  1. Hatebox
    The first three-fifths are solid enough. Like, if you enjoy the Bond formula it's absolutely fine. Then it gets very weird, and not for the better, to the point where some fans think the final half hour is a literal fantasy. Which would have hilarious implications for this film.
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    Dune is now an event on par with LOTR and Potter, apparently. I want the film to do well but this thread has gone a bit bonkers.
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    When are reviews coming?
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    Craig's had two universally liked Bond movies - the two which kept the serialization to a bare minimum. There are lots of variables at play of course, but I don't think that's a coincidence. A scene here and there acknowledging his past is fine but to center a whole plot around it hasn't worked great so far. I'd like very much for this entry to prove me wrong as it looks like that's what we're getting whether we want it or not.
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    It doesn't need to be just because it's his last. My worry is that this means it'll lean into all the serialization stuff, which torpedoed the quality of Quantum and Spectre. We'll see.
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    Sigh.
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    Probably not surprising in hindsight but the BO drop from Reloaded (282m/741m) to Revolutions (139m/427m) was just enormous.
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    Fingers crossed for a linear-ish drama that doesn't try so hard to be a mind-fuck. The subject matter should be enough.
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    Is the actor who says the final lines a big deal in America? I've never heard of him.
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    Matrix discourse now in full swing on my twitter feed. "The first wasn't that great" and/or "The sequels weren't that bad", etc etc. I follow a lot of 30-40 year-olds and it's clearly hit a pop-culture awareness sweet-spot for them.
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    Seeing a few people on my twitter timeline talking about it. Better late than never on the hype front I suppose.
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    WB continue their 'take a beloved guitar song and add club music backing' approach (not unsuccessfully, I might add). I'd say that was a pretty good trailer, and I'm surprised at how little it leans into nostalgia. I also think if this were only going into cinemas it probably wouldn't live up to BO expectations, so its duel streaming release isn't all bad.
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    I wonder if studios feel like they're tempting fate when they have taglines like "it begins" on would-be franchise movies.
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    The moment the sequels decided to make Neo a detached, obtuse god-figure instead of an audience surrogate they were doomed. But I appreciate there was probably no way around that given how the first ended. Certainly curious to see how they play that angle now.
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    Looking forward to this, but it's frankly incredible WB gave Villeneuve another chance to make a slow meditative blockbuster. I fear it'll be his last for some time.
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    Jesus, people are still hung up on the Scorcese thing. No-one's said you're not allowed to like your comic-book movies, man-babies.
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    Whatever happens it'll be gargantuan in the UK. It's the post-covid most people here seem to be waiting for.
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    The TV series became my guilty pleasure over the last year but the film was genuinely awful. Nothing happened! Hopefully this one will at least attempt to have some narrative stakes.
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    The trailers for this have felt off. Bloated. The movie has my money but I'm going in cautiously.
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    To be fair the relative lack of blockbuster releases in the last couple of years has probably increased hype for this, so covid's worked both ways. I know I'm a lot more excited for Bond than I would have been otherwise.
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    I only ever really had a problem with the MCU's washed-out palette in the first Guardians movie. It looked so crap, and actively thwarted the fantastical tone. I haven't seen the second one, maybe they gave the grading a bit more leeway that time.
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    I still find the fundamental lack of curiosity over this movie really striking. I know when the marketing kicks in things will change, yadda yadda, but that's from a really low bar right now.
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    I watched a bit of the 2016 effort but couldn't stomach the whole thing. It barely had a script - something Feig actively bragged about on the promo trail but clearly didn't pay off as he intended.
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    I thought it was an incredibly dull, empty trailer but the movie does still feel like the first genuinely hyped post-covid blockbuster, which is nothing to sniff at. (Bond will be gigantic in the UK and is the movie everyone here's waiting to return to the cinema for, but that's no surprise).
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