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Stars at Noon movie is wonderful! 45 seconds of John C Reilly! Another mark in favor of Joe Alwyn.

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Joe Alwyn has it, imo! The only thing he's not been good in that I've seen is Conversations with Friends - but NO one in that show is good, the whole show is bad!

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justice for stars at noon ... sweaty/moody/sad on the dancefloor. what more could you want...

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EXACTLY…

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“the orangoutangs who are grad-school coded” really got me 😂

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I was the one who said hi after Furiousa. I would've said more but my brain was still in the perpetual "hell yeah" mode that the movie induced. I will say that the Hemsworth nose really worked for me and has me hoping for a third "movie star wears a ridiculous nose prosthetic" film this year.

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omg thank you again for saying hi!! I was in a diet pepsi-induced coma myself... I love the Hemsworth nose! his character design in general (the shifting, gradient cape) was really working for me, though hard to top the Octoboss in terms of sick new guys

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tom loving thunderdome is so pure 😭

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“Rise of the” is the first one with James Franco. The one you like is “Dawn of the”. In retrospect their titles should clearly be reversed

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I s2g I mess this up once a week.... but yes! They should be reversed! The Franco one isn't terrible, but it needed - like most movies - Jason Clarke in it.

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Dawn of the is kind of an odd duck for me. I liked it fine but by the end also felt like I had seen everything the series had to offer and I never saw the following ones

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for all that I like to complain about big franchise stuff not having real plot and themes, these apes movies ostensibly have those but are also... to me... mostly so boring

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I Need to rewatch chimera stat…..I also rly love you calling the queens gambit a movie :)

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if I only remember 2.5 of a 7 hour tv show, it becomes a movie in my brain :)

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QED baby

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Justice for The Northman! Nicole slaps in it.

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You KNOW that grad-school-coded orangutan has gotta have read Derrida like five-times-over.

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