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Dune - (2021 movie) poster

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Dune >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1160419/
https://www.warnerbros.com/movies/dune

watched 2021-10-29, but no notes were taken.

Kinda shit.

  • aka Dune: Part One



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Time Trap - (2017 movie) poster

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4815122/
http://www.timetrapmovie.com/

Adventurers find a cave system where time inside is slowed.

All in all it’s pretty weak.



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Demolition Man - (1993 movie) poster

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106697/

Cryogenics is used to freeze a criminal and the cop who was framed while capturing him, and both are awakened to a seemingly-pristine world.

A classic that holds up well.



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James vs. His Future Self - (2019 movie) poster

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6739796/

A supernerd’s future self visits him to proclaim a warning of his wasting his life.

Plodding and boring. There are some laughs, but I don’t see why this would be considered a comedy.



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Prospect - (2018 movie) simple poster

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7946422/

I don’t even know how to summarize this movie; it’s story isn’t compelling.. just some people who might have had an interesting backstory hanging out on a planet kinda trying to survive-ish.


The Blackout - (2019 movie) poster English

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8664988/

The vanguard of an alien race fleeing from their ageing star contest control of the earth and the survivors of humanity.

A bit stiff, but quite good.

  • I have not seen (listened-to) the Russian-language version.



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A.I. Rising - (2018 movie) poster.jap

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5215088/
was ederlezi.org

A man is sent into deep space with an artificial intelligence to help with his sanity.

It’s moody and has lots of feelings, sex, and bright lights.



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The Midnight Sky - (2020 movie) image

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10539608/
https://www.netflix.com/title/80244645

An alternate Earth is discovered somehow, and for unknown reasons the mission to explore it comes back to a ruined Earth.

The writing is just terrible; I don’t know what the fuck they were thinking with the plot or the world-building.



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Bloodshot - (2020 movie) image

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1634106/
https://www.sonypictures.com/movies/bloodshot

A person is programmed to perniciously perish it’s programmer’s programming partners.

Meh.



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Volition - (2019 movie) poster

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6385952/
http://volitionthemovie.com/

A man afflicted with precognition thinks that injecting gallium will help him save the people he loves likes.

Movies like this lean very heavily on acting and subtleties of storytelling which this movie simply lacks in enough intensity to make it stand out from a student’s short film. This is a hard pass even for people who like these basic ideas.



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