A cinematographical masterpiece & groundbreaking win for artistic freedom over studio-execs w. history-changing power, epic mythological scale, characterization-depth, mix genres, pure blockbuster experience, & greatest villain ever’s lore. 9/10.
[category:actionadventure/apocalyptica/comic-book-movies-tv/fantasy,date:2021-03-17,rate:9,type:movies]
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Category: Apocalyptica
Raised By Wolves (2020)
One of the most epic-scale projects I’ve ever seen on TV and a new sci-fi dystopian vision from Alien/Blade Runner-legend Ridley Scott: A wickedly-original evolution of the Netflix age w. beautiful cinematography, despotism, religious allegory. 8.7/10.
[category:science-fiction/apocalyptica/fantasy,date:2020-12-23,rate:8.7,type:tvshows]
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Netflix’s Love, Death, Robots (2019)
A visually-breathtaking collection of (genre-diverse, cyberpunk-ish) short films with effectively esoteric, facetious, mature, & socially contemplative sci-fi flair, Netflix’s Love/Death/Robots is a quantum leap for their new-indie catalog. 8.9/10.
[category:science-fiction/animation/cyberpunk/apocalyptica,date:2019-06-10,rate:8.9,type:tvshows]
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Godzilla: King Of The Monsters (2019)
A kaiju masterstroke with Biblical awe, some of the most jaw-dropping battle sequences & epic cinematography ever put to film, a booming thunderous score, and surprisingly-human tale: An experience you have to see to believe. 8.7/10.
[category:actionadventure/kaiju/science-fiction/apocalyptica/war,date:2019-10-02,rate:8.7,type:movies]
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Avengers: Endgame (2019)
The end of an era, Endgame wraps up The Infinity Saga in epic style, with massive fandom service, emotional gravitas, a darker Thanos, psychological war-aftermath reflection, & one of the biggest and wildest final-acts in blockbuster history. 8/10.
[category:actionadventure/comic-book-movies-tv/science-fiction/time-travel/war/apocalyptica,date:2019-09-27,rate:8,type:movies]
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AHS: Apocalypse (2018)
One of TV’s wildest openings ever showing the (scarily-realist) end of the world by nuclear holocaust, AHS S8 is Hitchcockian in concept, Twilight Zone/LOTF-ian in social analysis, Biblical in scale, & Blade Runner-esque in world-building. 9.2/10.
[category:horror/apocalyptica,date:2018-01-03,rate:9.2,type:tvshows]
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Donnie Darko (2001)
An eerie sci-fi tale steeped in dark atmosphere & schizophrenic idiosyncrasy with demented prophecy-rabbits, synthy distortion in score + stylistic VFX, complex themes, starmaking Gyllenhaal lead, & one of most cryptic plots ever made. 9.1/10.
[category:science-fiction/drama/fantasy/horror/apocalyptica/mystery,date:2001-05-03,rate:9.1,type:movies]
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The Andromeda Strain (1971)
A classified, scientific expedition into the most bizarre endemic possibly-scripted – boasting some of the most breathtaking set design, biological exegesis, human sin, & curiosity-provocation in sci-fi-despite.poorly-scripted/baseless-ending. 7.9/10.
[category:science-fiction/mystery/apocalyptica,date:1971-11-23,rate:7.9,type:movies]
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12 Monkeys (1995)
A dystopian, asylumic sci-fi race against time & mankind-death by simiiforme virus capitalizing on late-1900’s fascination with time-travel & psychology – boasting Da Vincian plot-design, prophetic set-pieces, and epic Pitt-led performances. 8.7/10.
[category:science-fiction/mystery/time-travel/apocalyptica,date:1995-12-17,rate:8.7,type:movies]
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Contagion (2011)
Reflexively-compelling in explicative pandemic-design & pub.health/epidemiology cognizance doubling as a modernized parable of natural-crisis – with heavyweight Cotillard led cast, weighty medical-and-societal themes, *pure* bioterror. 8.8/10.
[category:drama/science-fiction/apocalyptica/horror,date:2011-05-21,rate:8.8,type:movies]
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