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These are all things I have seen happening to Oder folks. It’s a sad sad movie whose true horror is the inevitability that we may all face one or more of these deep indignities if we are lucky enough to grow old.

The star power is impressive, with Michelle Yeoh and Chris Evans and Cillian Murphy and Rose Byrne. The story is Event Horizon light and not one of Boyle’s best by a long short but it’s a beautifully shot film.

Watched on Thursday July 15, 2021.

As usual, this directing duo puts an interesting new spin on a very old kind of story. It’s a worthy addition to the time travel category.

I can’t remember when I watched this but it was a while ago. It was incredibly strange and disturbing and worth watching if those things don’t scare you off.

Buy the ticket, take the ride, smell the farts, be disturbed and left with a lot of questions and a day or so of your inner monologue speaking like a drunken Shakespearean character

Abrupt ending, animation not great, decent first draft of a story and movie at best

Everyone woman should watch it once. 

Every man should watch it two or three times. 

I dinged it a star because there’s a part that’s hard to watch because I wanted something different to happen but make no mistake: this movie deserves your time and your attention and your full comprehension.

It simultaneously puts every cynical fight you ever may have had about Mr. Rogers to bed an also manages to humanize him by showing that he was not above pain. 

The journalist is a stand-in for every kid that grew up in Mr. Rogers and still became kind of cynical and jaded. 

Hanks is arresting as Rogers, and Rhys does a lot of work nor a lot of actual lines.

Depressing but it has heart. Ending sucked.

It’s worth watching but the end was huh?

This was surprisingly true to the facts I could find. It’s hard to maintain a couple hours of mostly one man yelling “GOOD DOG” at running dogs, but Dafoe does it with aplomb. I liked it a lot, especially as an adventure movie with some scary bits that’s also meant for kids.

I guess, based on what the critics say, I’m not supposed to admit I liked this movie, but fuck it. I’ve spent a hundredish minutes on far, far worse films that didn’t delight me one millionth as much as this one did.