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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)

Beertje Blauw #AntiWoke #MRA

Mar 3rd 2025

Early "social propaganda"

A good film overall, perfectly watchable, but it's essentially an Uncle Tom's Cabin of the 30's, what do I mean by this? This film was created as a propaganda flick to critique the use of chain-gangs in Georgia, the problem apparently is that most of the cruelty you see in this film was exaggerated, the man this film was based on, apparently never received a whipping or whore chains, he was also...

3.5

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World of Goo 2 (2024)

Beertje Blauw #AntiWoke #MRA

Feb 9th 2025

A tranny, seriously?

I played the original "World of Goo" around the year it came out, no idea how or why I found this game, but I instantly liked it and saw that this was a minor video game classic. The combination of innovative puzzle elements, the quirky cartoons and humor and the design of the game gave me a lot of enjoyment. So when I downloaded the second part and installed it, I felled like I was not playing a...

3.5

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The Map of Tiny Perfect Things (2021)

Beertje Blauw #AntiWoke #MRA

Feb 7th 2025

Groundhog day, but for teens.

It was inevitable that someone would apply the time-loop scenario, to two young people and their romantic feelings for each other, with a heavy dose of 'getting over grief" and "learning to emotionally relate with your family" and plenty of quirky moments and teenage rebellion. Does this film disappoint? No, not really, it's a fun and clean film, well worth watching with your family, the film's focus...

3.7

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Smoking Causes Coughing (2022)

Beertje Blauw #AntiWoke #MRA

Feb 7th 2025

Weird is not automatically good.

A little bit of an odd-ball production, this film does have some charm to it, but in my opinion it ultimately fails, why? Well it's a parody, of what you might ask? Well, shows like the Power Rangers, old horror anthologies like Tales from the Crypt, pretentious French arthouse, anti-smoking propaganda, the muppets? Observational Comedy? Hell, I don't know. This show just puts everything in a blender,...

2.8

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12:01 (1993)

Beertje Blauw #AntiWoke #MRA

Feb 3rd 2025

Groundhog Day's twin

This film came out in the same year as Groundhog Day and follows the same plot of time looping, though of course this film was based on a short film and a novel, so could be said to be the older twin? We don't get a journey of self-discovery, this is just a Mystery/Thriller, with some comedic elements. What can I say about this film? Everything from the sets, the actors, the plot, etc is just average...

3.2

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Palm Springs (2020)

Beertje Blauw #AntiWoke #MRA

Feb 2nd 2025

Groundhog Day if a sleazeball made it

It's a film in the style of Groundhog Day, where people learn from their mistakes, but the people who made it are all sleazeballs, so in staid of dealing with loss and discovering love (A Map of Tiny Perfect Things) or defeating aliens (Edge of Tomorrow), both antagonists learn to be slightly less toxic and get out of the loop by themselves, so it's basically just a more materialist and sleazy version...

2.5

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12:01 PM (1990)

Beertje Blauw #AntiWoke #MRA

Feb 2nd 2025

Pre-dates Groundhog Day.

So I watched four film about timeloops, in the tradition of Groundhog Day, this first short film predates it by a couple of years, it's a really good and memorable short, most notably because it features a stiff-necked lawyer, who ends up stuck reliving the same day over and over. It would probably be a series best short, if this where featured in some kind of anthology show. That's it

3.5

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Gladiator II (2024)

Beertje Blauw #AntiWoke #MRA

Jan 19th 2025

Cynical sword-and-sandal

A competently made, but ultimately cynical follow up to the first gladiator film, unlike the first film, this one will most likely be quickly forgotten, why? Well to put it in broad terms, the main character and most of the other characters lack the humanity to make you care about their faith, so it does not matter if Hanno lives or dies, neither do you feel anything for the main villains, who do evil...

3.3

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The Out-of-Towners (1999)

Beertje Blauw #AntiWoke #MRA

Jan 19th 2025

mediocre 80's comedy made in the 90's

When I started watching this film I had to check when it was made, because boy did it give me an very weird vibe, basically like watching an 80's comedy film, but apparently it was made in '99. So this film would have felt dated when it came out. What is exactly wrong with this films? Well it is not so much the story, the production, the humor or the quality of the film per see, it's primarily the...

2.5

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Going Dutch (2025)

Beertje Blauw #AntiWoke #MRA

Jan 4th 2025

Just the pilot

Just watched this mediocre pilot episode of an American army commander, being send to a small American army base in the Netherlands as a punishment, but it's the Netherlands as viewed by someone who is Dutch culture illiterate, so it's basically a weird mixture between Amsterdam, post-card stereotypes and Bavaria. I don't know, I guess they could have filmed it in a real Dutch backwater and joked...

1.9

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The Lion of Flanders (1984)

Beertje Blauw #AntiWoke #MRA

Dec 31st 2024

Sadly not really good

This is a good example of aiming to high and hollywood would do it better, The Lion of Flanders is (sadly enough) not a good film by any sense, where did they go wrong? Oh, on so many accounts, the music doesn't fit this type of film, the acting is bad to decent, the pacing is bad, the sets are bad, the costumes are somewhat alright, but then we get to watch some of the most atrocious battle scenes...

2.8

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One Woman or Two (1985)

Beertje Blauw #AntiWoke #MRA

Dec 29th 2024

Depardieu has jungle fever

Depardieu and Signourney Weaver team up to give us all this stinker of a comedy film, where to start, this must be one of the most awkward comedies I have seen in a long time, no real chemistry between the leads, a terrible plot, not a single clever moment or genuine comedic moment, it's a true slug to get through, but competently made so you keep watching hoping it gets better. It doesn't. Now on...

2.3

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Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)

Beertje Blauw #AntiWoke #MRA

Dec 29th 2024

Stage-drama and action flick

Ah, the 90's adaption of Cyrano de Bergerac, what's not to like? Depardieu as lead-actor, a poetic-drama set to film, with plenty of action scenes added, a very vibrant and lively depiction of 17th century France, lots of humor, some value dissonance (his cousin!), no nudity, the elevation of pure love. This is a terrific film. But, even though I like it I can understand why a lot of people would...

4.0

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Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1972)

Beertje Blauw #AntiWoke #MRA

Dec 24th 2024

A slightly hippie adaption of Saint-Francis' life story

Brother Sun, Sister Moon is a typical example of flower-power, influencing the films of this period, though certainly not in a dark or racy kind of way, no this is a very clean and gentle film, and certainly the figure of Saint Francis is a good vehicle to express this "back to earth", "abandon material life" kind of attitude that was common in this period. Do I agree with this attitude? No and it's...

3.5

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The Cable Guy (1996)

Beertje Blauw #AntiWoke #MRA

Dec 23rd 2024

A re-watch after many years

So I decided to re-watch this dark-comedy, I haven't seen this film in oh... 20 years perhaps and I remembered I really liked it when I was a teen, but now that I am older, I more clearly see it flaws. First, to start with the positive aspect, quality wise this film is consistent, there are no high points or low points, the film is entertaining through-out it's run, the problem is that it's just Jim...

3.2

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Black Moon (1975)

Beertje Blauw #AntiWoke #MRA

Dec 21st 2024

Did you see a unicorn?

I wanted to watch this film, because I got the impression this might be a critique about feminism, bonus was that this is a (very loose) adaption of Alice in Wonderland, which goes well with my previous film, alas it's really none of these. Nope, it's just a surreal French art-house flick about a girls journey into puberty, which is fairly obvious, the battle of the sexes, the unicorn, the symbolism...

3.0

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Alice (1988)

Beertje Blauw #AntiWoke #MRA

Dec 20th 2024

Alice in... omg is that a stuffed rabbit!!!

By far one of the best and most memorable adaptions of Alice in Wonderland and it's something special, this is not a story driven adaption of the book, it's visually orientated, dreamlike and frankly bizarre and that's an understatement. Where to start? The film has only one actor, the girl who plays Alice, she "apparently" doses off and finds herself in a dreamlike world where Wonderland is a twisted...

4.0

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Grand Tour: Disaster in Time (1991)

Beertje Blauw #AntiWoke #MRA

Dec 18th 2024

Slighty better time-travel story

Unlike Millennium, this film is slightly better in my opinion, just because it has a good dose of family tragedy, which makes it easier to care about what is going on. A recently widowed father and his young daughter, get guests at their still unfinished hotel, they are disaster tourists from the future. Some good points, the mystery in this film develops better in my opinion, there is plenty of inter-family...

3.2

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Millennium (1989)

Beertje Blauw #AntiWoke #MRA

Dec 18th 2024

Mediocre scifi film

I have been gone for a while, but I hope I can throw another review on this site once and a while, one of two films I saw last night, both with a time-travel theme. Is it any good? Well, Millennium is a decent but lackluster time-travel story about future humans kidnapping people who are about to die in plane crashes and replacing them with cloned cadavers, because they want to repopulate the future?...

2.8

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Megalopolis (2024)

Beertje Blauw #AntiWoke #MRA

Oct 27th 2024

Spenglerian surrealism

This film gets shat on by just about anyone, from yokels who don't understand what is going on, to fanatic types from both parts of the political (and mental) spectrum and that is partially justified, it's not a very reactionary film and badly acted at times. Now I certainly had my doubts about this film the first moment I started watching, I thought it was just awkward. I was expecting something...

3.7

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