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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Rapture (1996)
Yet again another theme that makes ds9 special
For many lovers of Star Trek, spiritually is an anathema, but there are lines and ties between spirituality and science. This is why they shouldn't be mixed politically, etc., because it is scary.
DS9 tackles so many themes - alienation, war, parenthood, science, etc....
This episode is about choice, and the lengths we go for the things we believe in; the end of episode and the choice made ties it all up. Funny thing complexity, it's easily misinterpreted or too often positively adjudicated.
The Terminator (1984)
Taut, direct, no wasted moments
To me this is the epitome of a thriller. Many movies aim for this endgame but fail. There is no wasted scene or even two seconds. Character connections are made between Traxler and Vucovich in ways that lesser movies spend an hour+ trying to establish. Audience communication is to the point and bold, and nuanced when needed.
Turns are made with ease. Introductions are established within moments. The movie carries momentum from scene to scene in unhurried haste. And when the lull occurs for the romance, it doesn't feel wasted. This is the action thriller template. Besides the mirror scene even the CGI still stands up.
1.5 hours of glorifying action movie making that will stand the test of time. It's an amazing sci fi thriller that will attract audiences for generations to come, and operates in varying capacities all at once. That's a 10.
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
Everything in a movie
The big little things in a movie: setting, music, cinematography, character development, story telling, acting. The little big things: music, re-watchability, storytelling, mood setting, costume design. Specificity: absurdity, acting, direction, humor, emotion, etc.
I could go on and on. This movie approaches perfection, and in such an odd way it still surprises. How did they pull this off? The margins are so tiny. You It still amazes.
Silence (2016)
Such a wasted opportunity
The source material was a brooding, excellent movie about faith, humanity, sovereignty, etc. and Scorsese turned it into an interrelationship drama about priests, a binary on Christianity and Japan, and never once even manages two or more shots displaying the scale of imperial Japan elites and the peasantry, for example, Castle shot in relation to the smaller houses over a distance.
It's really a disappointment; not a bad movie, but a movie with the potential to be talked about for decades on end. Here's to hoping another director gives it a try in the future.
Mary Magdalene (2018)
No no no
If you show miracles, suffering of the Christ, and try to show the apostles, etc. then don't weaken Peter and the others for artistic license. That's bs. The cinematography is great, the acting is great, but the story was blasphemous, and I'm not the church going kind. Show it from Mary's perspective, that's fine, but come on....