I’ve never watched a movie where the average cast member was as horrible as they are here; I didn’t know acting could be this bad holy shit! Safe to say there is not a single member of the Musk family who has actually created something that isn’t a complete waste of time.
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
I’m glad Devon came out of it being successful because I genuinely hated Celeste and Michael as people so much; I knew when he opened the door and said he was going to exercise that someone was in the room but I didn’t think Celeste would stoop that low. Outing Alex was so much worse than I could’ve imagined though and I’m so glad her parents cut her off and Michael deserves to fail for still continuing to pursue Devon while sleeping with Celeste; what a loser!
I went into this wanting to like it, it’s been months since I’ve seen it, and I’m logging it now so it can be put to rest in my brain and I can stop trying to make sense of the reception and acclaim it’s received. I can’t help but think that people’s distaste for sequels and existing IPs has caused them to mistake a film that is purely a distillation of a male-centered surface level understanding of feminism for something…
As an Arab and a Muslim, this reads like nothing more than an orientalist fever dream to me.
I’ve always thought that the Dune series originally is morally confused seeing as it wants to critique a white savior narrative while fundamentally misunderstanding that the violence of the oppressed is not the same as the violence of the oppressor and the film did nothing to change that. Wanting to critique imperialism and colonialism doesn't make you immune from engaging in the…
