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Paul Schneider recommended Dead Ringers (1988) in Movies (curated)

 
Dead Ringers (1988)
Dead Ringers (1988)
1988 | Drama, Horror, Mystery
7.3 (7 Ratings)
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"Another imperfect perfect film that came slithering into my late-adolescent consciousness at just the right time. I was a disciple by the end of the opening titles (alone worth the price of admission). This thing is a bath of Cronenberg’s cold, polite, Torontonian style, and thus makes the story’s insanity that much more insane—the form of the movie pressure-cooking the content. And what better way to dramatically illustrate this repression explosion than a scene wherein Dr. Icy Veins himself, Jeremy Irons, pounces across an operating table in a spasm of drug withdrawal, belly flopping onto his unconscious patient to rip off her mask and suck anesthetic gas. This is a film featuring twin prescription-drug-addicted gynecologists dressed like Star Wars Imperial Guards who use H. R. Giger–esque, Josef Mengele–level–scary surgical instruments to operate on the “abnormal genitalia” of women they mistake for mutants. Now, if that’s not one for the whole family, well, I don’t know what is! (See Peter Greenaway’s A Zed & Two Noughts for obvious inspiration.)"

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Sarah (7798 KP) rated Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017) in Movies

Dec 15, 2017  
Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017)
Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017)
2017 | Action, Sci-Fi
6
7.9 (305 Ratings)
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A disappointment
After such a good comeback with The Force Awakens and a fantastic prequel in Rogue One, my expectations for The Last Jedi were high and sadly it comes as a bit of a disappointment.

To me this just seems like a filler film. There isn't a massive amount achieved in the nearly 3 hour run time, to the point where I found most of it to be verging on boring. Until the final part, there was no excitement or tension or intrigue. The comedy too was surprisingly illfitted - where's K-2S0 when you need him? Even Luke coming back didn't feel quite right and some of the other characters too were severely underused.


Maybe The Force Awakens felt better because it was the first (good) Star Wars film in a long time, whereas this is the third in as many years with yet more to come. Don't get me wrong, this isn't a bad film and it was enjoyable to a point. It just wasnt as good as it could've been and it just came across as sadly lacking.
  
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Sarah (7798 KP) Dec 22, 2017

That was one of the things I hated the most, what they did (or more appropriately didn't do) with Luke. A massive disappointment for such a major character.
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Lee (2222 KP) Dec 23, 2017

I read a very interesting article the other day which said that this new trilogy might have been better off without Luke, Leia or Han - leaving them in the past - and part of me agrees. Han got to be a bit of a rogue once again in TFA but apart from that, in their rush to develop something which can go on and on and on forever more, I feel that they've just crapped all over everything that went before, especially where Luke is concerned
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David McK (3172 KP) rated Shadow of the Sith in Books

Apr 22, 2023  
Shadow of the Sith
Shadow of the Sith
Adam Christopher | 2022
5
5.0 (1 Ratings)
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Disney-era Star Wars extended universe novel, set in the period between the end of 'Return of the Jedi' and the start of 'The Force Awakens'.

So same period as covered in TVs 'The Mandalorian', of which this makes no mention.

The novel also double-downs on the big (and not-at-all-well-received due to some extreme clunkiness) twist introduced in 'The Rise of Skywalker', with Luke Skywalker - here, before his hermit days - and Lando Calrissian both being drawn into the protection of a family (who they never meet in person) that is being hunted by the Sith: a family that includes a very young Rey.

I actually found this to be not that bad a read that at least attempted to fix some of the problems in The Rise of Skywalker, although I do have to say that it started from an almost impossible position and chose probably one of the least-liked aspects of that film (and character from the sequel trilogy) to concentrate on/be built around!