Fiction of 2019

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Hell yeah, a new and improved obsessive list

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March

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Ronin

I'm gonna be honest, I was way more focused on ranking which Looney Tunes character is more likely to defeat Bugs than I was on this movie. It seemed fine. Interesting themes.

Rashomon

It suffers the burden of most "first to do the influential thing" movies in that there's a lot of hype around it and it doesn't seem as special. But there is something compelling about how it uses the Rashomon theme: to question if humans are natural liars and evil.

Captain Marvel

I still have massive problems with it, but. Its visually more interesting than most Marvel films, has actual things to say about the refugee crisis, and its a fun popcorn film. Just with the military propaganda/Monica and Phylla erasure would stop.

Mrs. Miniver

A classic. I really thought the German in the house bit would have been longer but its mostly about these sort of class differences and how they need to be abolished during war time to focus on the real threat.

Inglorious Basterds

I really do despise Tarantino but I think this time his obsession with long conversations works because it rackets up the tension a lot. And I appreciate his willingness to depict the deals Americans were willing to make with Nazis. And the willingness to kill a lot of Nazis, just a whole slew of Nazis, and let Jewish people be the ones to do it. Great stuff.