Author: The Crazy Dutchman
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The Bostrom Glitch: Four Movies That Question Reality
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Read more: The Bostrom Glitch: Four Movies That Question RealityIt sometimes happens that I wake up very early in the morning. I then get up, make coffee and sit on my couch, watching how the world outside slowly wakes up…I start to wonder if this world is actually real.
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Black Widow: The Crazy Dutchman’s vision
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Read more: Black Widow: The Crazy Dutchman’s visionNatasha Romanov is a tough little bitch. As played by the gorgeous Scarlet Johansson, she survives all sorts of beatings, stabbings, explosions, being kicked off bridges into freezing cold rivers and, of course, driving a Lada. My uncle had a Lada when I was a kid. They are these horrible Russian-built people cars that look…
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Top Gun: Maverick -or- Hello Aeroplane
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Read more: Top Gun: Maverick -or- Hello AeroplaneHello, Aeroplane “Where am I?” “Earth.” Like Tom Cruise doesn’t know that. He just fell out of the sky, after pushing a trillion-dollar concept plane beyond its limits. That limit being Mach 10. After treating us to near-as-makes-no-difference exactly the same opening sequence as the legendary 1986 classic.
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Reacher: A Dutch Perspective
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Read more: Reacher: A Dutch PerspectiveNow, I must confess I don’t know much about American military honors, but I did watch enough American-made movies and TV shows to know that when someone is listing that long a list of achievements, you KNOW you are dealing with someone special.
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Akira (1988): An XTC perspective
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Read more: Akira (1988): An XTC perspectiveThe first time I saw this 1988 Japanese manga-movie, I was very much under the influence of XTC. Or Molly, as I believe you weird American people also like to call it. You know, that stuff that makes your brain get flooded with massive amounts of things like serotonin, dopamine and other nice things. Just…
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Fantastic Planet (1973)
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Read more: Fantastic Planet (1973)“In the third millennium before Kraup, the Great Zarek created the first pyramic civilization. Legend says that from his tomb he still animates the ball of life, that his body, though constantly pierced by projectiles, does not change, and that his mind has regularly traversed the skies of Ygam ever since the Draags, under his…
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Zardoz (1974): A Love Letter from Holland
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Read more: Zardoz (1974): A Love Letter from HollandDon’t you just hate it when movies are all logical and comprehensible? That you’re watching something, and you go like: ‘yeah, that person just did or said something, and now, that other person did or said something, and it all makes perfect sense!’ Ugh. Boring! Well, if you happen to be one of those rather…
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The Green Mile (1999)
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Read more: The Green Mile (1999)Since I’m the one who is indeed fresh out of the big house, why shouldn’t I be the one to write a review about that other great prison movie? One that came out of the pen and twisted mind of my dear and revered Mr. King? I’ll admit that 21st century Dutch prison and that…
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Assassin’s Creed (2016)
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Read more: Assassin’s Creed (2016)Time travel really messes with… Wait. Didn’t I do this all ready? I probably did. But because we are, all of us, inside The Singularity right now, that really doesn’t matter anymore, because out here, things like ‘didn’t’ and ‘here’ are just these outdated concepts from some ancient, brutal, ape-like species, living on some tiny…
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Looper (2012)
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Read more: Looper (2012)Time travel really messes with your mind, doesn’t it? I mean, The Grandfather-paradox, Back to the Future, Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure: it just fucks with your idea of time. Like: what is it? Is it a steady stream, from the roiling past through this very present moment right here and now into the bright…