So here’s the plot of The Darkest Hour: Aliens blow shit up – score! They blow shit up in Russia – bonus! Gnome-y Emile Hirsch leads a bunch of hapless foreigners to salvation – good to go! And yet, yet…. what an utterly numbing disappointment. Moscow looks awesome on film, but the plot, and worse,…
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Into the Wild is painful to watch. It’s like witnessing an emotional breakdown in really slow motion, the pain and the truth of it unfolding gently but inexorably in front of your eyes. And there’s absolutely nothing you, or anyone, can do about it. Rejecting his manipulative and materialist parents and their shallow, duplicitous, dishonest…
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