Miyalys: Media ratings

School of Rock (2003)

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The first Richard Linklater film I've seen and liked. The same may go for Jack Black, actually. Cool kids, good teacher, good parody and great music!

All movies or TV series' by Richard Linklater

Dazed and Confused (1993)

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tyrant senior youngsters, both men and women but especially the men. the latter deserve to die - or worse: get expelled.
and the teachers accept the tyranny: They should be forced to act as grown ups or be fired. 
coach and friends are apparently macho borderline bullies too
many sexists and homophobes among the men/boys generally, sadly.
at least tony (and maybe mike) are skeptical of those initiation rituals, but they don't step in and stop them. Others seem skeptical too even though they participate.
maybe expectations or some higher up bullies are sort of enforcing that social order

driving in the car knocking over mailboxes with trash cans: you see the (seemingly successful) conditioning happening to mitch, older youngsters showing what he should do and think is cool.
mitch imitating wooderson, that guy i thought was cool but who turned out to be borderline paedophile. mitch, don't get back at that violent worthless sexist homophobe asshat o'bannion, too risky

mitch: don't blame your sister for asking the guys to go easy on you. it was compassionate, regardless of the consequence. i guess his is also some ridiculous social norm bullshit reaction

creepy thing to refer back to that non-consent fantasy of the fresh(wo)man saying she'll do anything for you, mike.

pink is mostly the cool/nice guy, but then he has to ruin it at the end by two-timing his girlfriend though wtf. :/

All movies or TV series' by Richard Linklater

Ronja Rövardotter (1984)

English title: Ronja Røverdatter

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Where are all the women? Very patriarchal, primitive (sad) society. It seems like Lovis, Ronjas mother, is basically the mother of them all, being the rational one. On the other hand I like that Mattis, Ronjas father, is not afraid of showing his feelings, going against gender stereotypes.

All movies or TV series' by Tage Danielsson

Starman (1984)

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All movies or TV series' by John Carpenter

ブラム (2017)

English title: Blame!

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A bit sad that Killy is seemingly everything the movie cares about all of a sudden near the end, unlike most of the movie. Lone, male hero. That said I assume the universe it's built on is like that, this is the first I've seen of it.

Tags: Anime
All movies or TV series' by Hiroyuki Seshita

Idioterne (1998)

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All movies or TV series' by Lars von Trier

Louis C.K. 2017 (2017)

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All movies or TV series' by Louis C.K.

Ex Machina (2014)

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Closer to 5 than 3. Quite nice movie! I kinda maybe wished that the choice at the end would be a different one, where she didn't betray him, because I think it would show a more optimistic view of AI, rather than "they should not never be trusted" and thus "the imprisonment was maybe kinda justified by human survival".

All movies or TV series' by Alex Garland

The Big Short (2015)

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Closer to 4 than 2. I liked it, and it made me wonder what picture they showed of those bankers and investors at the end. Many of those portrayed are selfish assholes - yet is that glorified or shown as something negative? Maybe somewhere in the gray area?

All movies or TV series' by Adam McKay

PlayTime (1967)

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Quite suprised I didn't like this more considering its legendary status. I'd like to give it another chance at some point.
Arrogant picture-taking, chasing away her customers, not asking if you can take the picture and even pushing her to look at the camera. Seemingly she sees other people as NPCs. She plays piano really well though! Pretty hilarious that second photographer though.
That passage at the seemingly racist restaurant was just painful to watch ;) It got better later though, as people had a good time despite the massive chaos.
Annoying tourists ;)

Still, it does seem to be somewhat philosophical and feel like a documentary on some ways of living and spending time, obsession with consumerism etc.

All movies or TV series' by Jacques Tati

X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)

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Quite good, might even be my favourite? Beats Days of Future Past at least, I think.

Tags: Marvel
All movies or TV series' by Bryan Singer

Dogfight (1991)

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All movies or TV series' by Nancy Savoca

Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

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Tags: Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe
All movies or TV series' by James Gunn

Traceroute (2016)

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Very nice! Made me think. Would like to re-watch sometime.

Tags: Documentary
All movies or TV series' by Johannes Grenzfurthner

Journey's End: The Saga of Star Trek - The Next Generation (1994)

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Tags: Documentary

Carnage: Swallowing the Past (2017)

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Better than expected! Quite an interesting watch. 
Recommended to vegans and nonvegans alike.

All movies or TV series' by Simon Amstell

Dear Mr. Watterson (2013)

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Calvin & Hobbes is my favourite comic, though the documentary was just decent, even kinda boring at times. Still it recallled fond memories when re-watching and re-reading a few of the comic strips shown during the documentary. They visit an archive where they store the originals, but the viewers are only allowed to look at the documentary host's reactions to seeing the originals, not see the originals themselves. That's not particularly interesting, and if the reason was that they didn't get permission I think that passage - and several others - could've been shortened or removed entirely.

Tags: Documentary
All movies or TV series' by Joel Allen Schroeder

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)

English title: Star Wars: Rogue One

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Probably my least favourite Star Wars-film on my first watch, being the only watch as of this review.
Not as good music-wise, and storytelling-wise. The movie didn't manage to make me empathise much with any of the characters.

Tags: Star Wars
All movies or TV series' by Gareth Edwards

Chaos on the Bridge (2014)

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The clips from the show bring with them very fond memories(!), though the documentary itself is just decent in my opinion.

Tags: Documentary
All movies or TV series' by William Shatner

The Captains (2011)

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Moving stories and beautiful music and I like their philosophies. On the down-side I dislikes Shatners actions/questions at times, fx. talking to Mulgrew about how women are controlled more by their hormones and are different as leaders due to that, and seemingly thinking women should have more responsibility for kids. I also think he's rather creepy towards female fans, with sexual comments and even seemingly kissing without consent a few times. If not for that it would deserve a 4.

Tags: Documentary
All movies or TV series' by William Shatner

The Polar Express (2004)

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All movies or TV series' by Robert Zemeckis

Nightcrawler (2014)

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Closer to 4 than 2.

All movies or TV series' by Dan Gilroy

Jingle All the Way (1996)

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All movies or TV series' by Brian Levant

It Happened One Night (1934)

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Lot of sexism, including threats of violence. A bit sad message. She starts out really cool but ends up falling for an asshole and letting him treat her badly. Not that it's her fault, but it's a sad character development, especially when it doesn't seem like it's conveyed that it IS sad.

All movies or TV series' by Frank Capra

Wayne's World (1992)

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All movies or TV series' by Penelope Spheeris

Wayne's World 2 (1993)

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All movies or TV series' by Stephen Surjik

St. Vincent (2014)

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All movies or TV series' by Theodore Melfi

Roman Holiday (1953)

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Very similar story to It Happened One Night - better, though not perfect. She's so much cooler/nicer than him, and you rarely see that age difference reversed in movies.

All movies or TV series' by William Wyler