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Ragnarok

5/30/2016

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C+
​2.20

A Norwegian archaeologist and his team awaken a giant monster.

Directed by Mikkel Braene Sandemose
Starring Pal Sverre Hagen, Nicolai Cleve Broch, and Sofia Helin
Initial Review by Chris Cook

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With Thor: Ragnarok hitting theaters next year, I decided to watch a movie about Ragnarok. This honestly isn’t the reason; I haven’t even seen the first two Thor movies. I can only imagine that this movie ended up in my Netflix queue after rating the 2010 Norwegian film Trollhunter.
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I enjoyed Ragnarok to an extent. It gave me a Michael Crichton/National Treasure kind of vibe. And similar to Trollhunter (which had a slightly similar format to the Blair Witch Project), the main thing that stood out for me was the lack of overacting and high-production. America being America, I feel like most modern American cinema is just too much. It’s like 99% of the people that sing the National Anthem. Just sing it, there’s no reason to overperform.



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Hush

5/21/2016

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B
​2.87

A deaf writer is tormented at her rural home by a psychopathic murderer.

Directed by Mike Flanagan
Starring Kate Siegel and John Gallagher Jr
Initial Review by Bobby Schmidt

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When I initially watched Hush, it was late at night, outside, and on my laptop with some quality earbuds in.  A friend (and sporadic podcast listener!), suggested it, so she and I actually watched it together over the Showgoers extension.  It was actually a pretty nice environment to watch a horror thriller.  The thing is, expectations for scary movies these days are quite low.  It seems like the genre leans more toward cheap jump scares, torture, and gore more than looking to induce any real element of fear.  Hush, being a home invasion movie, really could have gone either way.  While there are a few things to pick on, overall it absolutely worked for me. ​


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World of Tomorrow

5/11/2016

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B+
3.19

A futuristic clone introduces her young ancestor to the various ways that humanity has adapted to death.

Directed by Don Hertzfeldt
Starring Julia Pott and Winona Mae
Initial Review by Shane Setnor

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Dying is dead.

Well, at least in the future it seems reasonable to think that dying, as we know it, will no longer exist. Blair and I have often had a conversation about uploading our brain into computers by the time we’re old. It’s a very intriguing possibility in my opinion, though Blair seems less enthused. Just thinking of the possibility is where my thought exercise ends. Don Hertzfeld, however, gives us 16 minutes of heartfelt melancholy and absurd sci-fi that shows that technology isn’t what is interesting about the future, but how it changes humanity is the question.


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