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Rear Window - One of those films where I knew a huge amount of it going in, but I had never sat down and watched it front to back. Not much to say that hasn't been said before. It's Hitchcock, Jimmy Stewart, and some of the best set design of all time.
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith - Best of the prequels, and the most I've enjoyed it maybe ever, but it is still a deeply flawed movie.
I know he has his defenders, and his performance is much better here than Attack of the Clones, but I think Hayden Christensen is just not good in this. His physicality is fine, even good in places, but he just does not have a handle on this dialogue. It is an issue that is exacerbated by the fact he shares most of his scenes with Ewan McGregor or Ian McDiarmid who are both really good, bordering on great here. Just makes his shortcomings with the material even more apparent.
Plotwise, Anakin's turn to the Dark Side works more than I remembered, but it is just how thoroughly evil he immediately becomes that is a tough pill to swallow. I get why he'd fall in with Palpatine, but to go from "Let's not summarily execute this guy, who I know has been manipulating an intergalactic war," to " I'm going to kill children for him," is insane.
Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie - Impressed by how much it made me laugh jyst as much as I was by the production itself. Might have had some of the luster taken off by how much I learned about it ahead of time, but there's also a good chance I would have never seen it with zero context or hype.
Normal - It's fun! Good action, memorable characters, decent set-up. It has a couple of extra twists and turns that don't quite work, but overall it was a nice surprise.
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