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Date:
5/2/2018 10:32:30 AM
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RE: Atomic Blonde and The Great Wall
I don't know. I think they're both good for what they are. Nobody was trying to make The 400 Blows or The Seventh Seal. These are just cinematic equivalents of airplane books, very formulaic, very flashy potboilers. People were given assignments to make mass entertainment, and I think they executed reasonably well. The Great Wall wasn't David Lean, but I think it did what it was expected to do. Not everybody's cup of tea and all that, but it's not a bad movie. Nobody is going to get a Nobel Prize for Atomic Blonde, but it amused me for a couple of hours.
What I can't figure out is why reviewers keep rubber-stamping 90+ scores on anything associated with Marvel Comics. Every single movie in this overlong string is undiluted crap, and yet they keep getting passes as good cinema. Objectively, they're pig swill. Subjectively, I'm at a loss.
