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I think it offered a perspective on war and on drugs that humanized and made personal the struggle that to me has felt very alien. The only other movie I can think of that made me feel the same way was _[Requiem for a Dream]()_. _Cherry_ doesn't really rise to the same level of art as Requiem, but I do think that the themes it tackles and the way it makes the drug abuse in particular rationalizable, gave me an opportunity to empathize with a type of person who I have previously seen as difficult to comprehend. + +More than any other movie I've seen in the last year or so, I keep finding myself pondering the themes and storylines presented in _Cherry_. Anytime I find myself returning out of the blue to a story like that, it makes me want to recommend it, if for no other reason than that I want more people to bounce impression off of! I do really think there was a lot to unpack in this film and the Russo brothers didn't back down from presenting an emotionally potent version of those concepts. + +My only hesitation in recommending this film is if the content matter is going to be too difficult for some. I would recommend reading the content warnings before jumping in, but otherwise I wouldn't hesitate to encourage you to check it out! + +# Thoughts (Spoilers) +As usual, these thoughts aren't strictly well organized, but there were a number of things that I wanted to talk about after watching the movie. + +## The Love Story / Why am I Labeling this a Romance? +Sort of didn’t believe she would stay with him when she was super flaky in the first place (which is what got them into the mess) + +I like the codependent dysfunctional relationship though. I personally haven’t seen many films that went that way. I feel like what makes this a love story through and through for me is that they do stay together. Typically these sorts of films are designed to frame the abuser a bad and a classic way of demonstrating their self destruction is by ruining their relationships, but I think this movie goes out of its way to avoid that easy route. + +On the whole, the very end of the movie, where Tom Holland's character is released from jail and his wife is waiting (and presumably has recovered from her addiction as well), seems a bit too happy and felt difficult to believe. It's this overly optimistic ending that makes me feel like this is firmly a love story. They end up together in the end and they've overcome their problems. + +## The War Storyline +The war stuff was really good. I’ve seen way too much propaganda style war movies or movies that focus more on the sheer carnage rather than the incompetence and the lack of fairness and just plain cruelty of it all. This movie doesn’t do that and you really can relate to his PTS + +The stuff with his one war friend really stood out to me. In particular the scene in his car with his pregnant SO and then the scene where he can’t get the blood out of his wedding ring. + +## Humanizing Heroin Addicts +I felt like this movie did a good job of drawing a logical progression from an average kid doing drugs recreationally at some parties to a completely desperate Heroin addict robbing banks. At each step, he goes a little further wrong, and his motivation for going wrong is easy to empathize with. + +With all the trauma of what he saw in Iraq, he's looking for an escape, so he falls back on his recreational drug habit which slowly escalates, and when he looks for outs (like when he goes to the VA doctor to get help) he's funneled right back to opioids by doctors pushing OxyContin. + +We don't see the first time they progress to heroin + +## Rushed Ending +The jail stuff felt really under developed. I think we needed a scene or two with some actual dialog and story rather than just a montage. Part of the idea is that the whole movie is him explaining in jail about the story of his life, but I wish they would’ve merged the two timelines towards the end more explicitly. + +Without a scene to act as connective tissue, it ends up feeling a bit unearned when he emerges at the end. We are shown that he goes from an uncertain member of a counciling group, to running the meetings, but there's not time given to showing him reconciling with his mistakes. Recounting them is one thing, but there's no moment where he comes to terms with what he's done, the people he's hurt, or even just coping with the stress of the war or anything. + +The bad actions are given tons of room to breathe in the movie, but their reconciliation, the work that must've gone into recovering from that, is all left off screen, but we're still expected to feel like the final scene is earned in some way. 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It is a _National Treasure_ wannabe, without any of the same stakes or a cohesive story. +rating: 2 +rotten_tomatoes: 34% +rotten_tomatoes_link: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/fountain_of_youth +summary: An estranged brother and sister reunite on an adventure to find the fountain of youth +title: Fountain of Youth +year: 2025 +--- +# Recommendation +On paper this movie sounds good: the cast is strong, they clearly had a budget, and it's [Guy Ritchie](https://www.themoviedb.org/person/956-guy-ritchie), so it feels like it has all the elements to succeed. Unfortunately, it just fails to deliver on that potential. + +I left it feeling a bit confused, but mostly just disappointed. I'll go into detail about what I don't think works about this movie when I can talk a bit more about spoilers (I want to give specific examples), but suffice it to say this one isn't worth your time. + + + +# Thoughts +From here on I want to compare something about the movie to other, similar movies, so I'm going to get into spoilers. + +## Brief Synopsis +I'm recommending that people don't see this movie, so I feel like I should provide a bit of context for what happens in the film so that my further comments can be understood without watching. + +The primary characters in the film are Luke Purdue ([John Krasinski](https://www.themoviedb.org/person/17697-john-krasinski)), who is a generic adventurer-type character, his sister, Charolette ([Natalie Portman](https://www.themoviedb.org/person/524-natalie-portman)), who is an art expert, Own Carver ([Domhnall Gleeson](https://www.themoviedb.org/person/93210-domhnall-gleeson)) who is the billionaire backer for Luke's hunt, Esme ([Eiza González](https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1222992-eiza-gonz-lez) _Oh, [Baby Driver](https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/339403-baby-driver)! I knew I recognized her from somewhere_) who is an operative for some secret organization that is trying to protect the fountain, and Inspector Jamal Abbas ([Arian Moayed](https://www.themoviedb.org/person/457386-arian-moayed)) who is a detective sent to track down Luke following his initial art heists. + +Luke is the main protagonist of the story and we are introduce to him with a chase sequence as he flees from gangsters with a stolen painting. He then encounters Esme, who explains that she is going to work against him as he searches for the fountain. This also begins an awkward attempt at romantic relief between Esme and Luke, which is present throughout the film. Next, Luke steals a painting while meeting with Charolette and the two are thus brought together for the heist. + +Around this point, we learn that Luke and Charolette's father was some sort of adventurer and the two children have followed separate paths: Luke following in his footsteps, but overly concerned with treasure, and Charolette attempting to leave that behind to start a family and lead a normal life. + +With the team all together, the story gets into MacGuffin mode. For the record, this isn't a criticism. On the contrary, that's sort of the ride you're signing up for when you watch something like this. If anything, I think it actually takes its time letting the audience in on why they're stealing all this art. With the help of Carver's resources, the team begins traveling all over the place in search of the next piece of the puzzle. + +At each turn they find the thing they're looking for, only to be interrupted by Esme and her crew, or the detective searching for them, after which they e + + +Anyway, ultimately, the Fountain of Youth is below the Pyramids, and when Luke interacts with it he discovers that he would be stealing life force from his loved ones so he choses not to accept the tradeoff. + +The billionaire guy, we learn, is not actually sick or dying or anything (a plot point that is brought up briefly before they get to Egypt just so they can _twist_ not really, "I just want power"). He's revealed as the big bad and when he goes to make the same decision, he apparently only loves himself which means there's some sort of infinite loop which is "too dangerous" so Esme uses some random lever somewhere to shut it down and the bad guys die and everyone else narrowly escapes. + +There's a cringy goodbye between Luke and Esme. She is suddenly responding to his weird advances and flirts about hoping she doesn't have to stop him again before the group splits up. + +## Indefensible Protagonists +The main issue with the story is less the fact that they are doing a treasure hunt but that the characters, from the beginning, are not morally justified at all in their attempts to follow the treasure trail. + +I found myself immediately comparing this movie to _National Treasure_. They are extremely similar, with virtually all the same plot points, but they feel completely different, and this is down to the ethics of how the two groups of treasure hunters are going about their hunt. + +In _National Treasure_, the rich bad guy is revealed to be bad in the opening scene, instead of at the very end, and this reveal does something extremely important for the plot. The protagonist (Nate) in that movie, now has a reason to break the rules. If he doesn't follow the trail, even breaking the law to do so, then some people who only care about money and won't value the artifacts are going to do it anyway. Following the trail is as much about protecting it as about finding the treasure at the end. + + In _Fountain of Youth_, they need to steal some famous paintings to find a map to the treasure and in _National Treasure_ they have to steal the Declaration of Independence because there's a map on the back. However, in national treasure they know that there's also a group of well funded thieves that are also intending to steal the Declaration themselves _imminently_. + + Nate already has enough justification to put his plan into motion, but he still goes the extra mile and tries to inform the people involved about the map on the back and to get access through legitimate channels before resorting to stealing it. + + In contrast, Luke is stealing paintings willy-nilly, wrapping his sister up in the conspiracy, without any justification since there are no other entities trying to steal the paintings themselves and without attempting to get the information he wants via a legitimate channel. + + For those reasons, they feel like thieves, not a quirky protagonist that's try to find the treasure and stop the wrong people from getting their hands on it. Almost every beat from _National Treasure_ is played out in _Fountain of Youth_ but to a worse effect. In _National Treasure_, Nate's dad is wrapped up in the conspiracy in a similar way to Charolette (they play extremely similar roles as being against the treasure hunting family gene). Nate, however, goes to his dad because he has to get something that his dad has and tries to keep him from getting wrapped up in the trouble he's started, whereas Luke kidnaps his sister and then draws her and her son into the conspiracy. + +The main characters in _Fountain of Youth_ are on the wrong side of the story virtually the entire time, and there's no justification for why they're going about things in this way. They have a billionaire backing them, and at one point they use that to get access to a famous bible (which they then steal again without much justification) so it's clearly possible for them to do things through legitimate channels, they're just choosing not to. + +One final point where _National Treasure_ and _Fountain of Youth_ differ in a way that shows the difference in quality between the two movies is that in _National Treasure_, Nate and his father outsmart the bad guys and are the ones to discover the treasure, whereas in _Fountain of Youth_, Luke doesn't really do anything. The bad guy also makes it to the fountain, he also uses it, and he would've destroyed the world (or something?) if not for Esme pulling the Deus Ex Machina lever. + +# Extremely Flat Secret Society +The group that is attempting to stop them from finding the fountain of youth is poorly set up and ultimately it's a bit frustrating. I was most reminded of either the tribe that defends the homonoptra in _The Mummy_ or the palidins from _Jumper_ when I think about the type of secret society in this movie, but in _Fountain of Youth_ the secret society isn't used to nearly the same effect. + +The comparison to _The Mummy_ is more direct, but unlike in that film, the protagonists in _Fountain of Youth_ don't team up with the protectors once they discover why they're protecting the secret ancient temple in Egypt (again, extremely close parallel). When Luke learns what the fountain does, he makes an individual choice not to use it, but he doesn't attempt to stop the billionaire guy, or to shut the whole thing down or anything. + +The parallel I see with this movie and _Jumper_ is more about exposition. In both movies, we're shown the members of the society before we learn what they are or why they're doing what they do. In _Jumper_, however, the reason for them tracking down and killing the jumpers is the entire core conflict of the film. + +As I've alluded to above, once Luke and the others learn what the fountain is for, it doesn't change their relationship to the secret society. They've already "won" because they found it, and they also don't make any attempts to try and help the society prevent the bad people from using it (Esme does that on her own). + +## Random Points that Make the Whole Thing Feel Underbaked +This is a bit disorganized, but there were a handful of lines or scenes in _Fountain of Youth_ that were laking a payoff and are just confusing in hindsight. + +The most glaring one is a discussion between Esme and Luke at the beginning of the film where she asks him what he things the fountain of youth is: whether it's a literal fountain, or a concept or something else. He answers that he doesn't know but if they're trying so hard to protect it then he wants to find out. + +I don't have a problem with Luke's answer, but once we learn that it's essentially a magical fountain, it calls back into question what on earth the point of that line was from Esme. Everyone thinks it's a real fountain with magical powers, but her line of questioning makes it sound like, "it's not a literal fountain, you don't even know how little you don't know", and that would've been cool, except it is a literal fountain, so he did know what he did know... + +Another random thing is Stanly Tuchi's random cameo. I expected something more give that he has an [and]() credit, but he's only there for a 30 second scene where he tells Esme to stop being merciful and to start using force. She was already being pretty forceful and her tactics don't really change after that point, so on the whole that also doesn't serve much purpose. + +The interpol detective guy is just not good at all. He delivers his lines in a really weird way. Setting him opposite to Natalie Portman also made the difference really clear. She does a pretty good job but it all just comes off super inauthentic played off of him. I can't put my finger on exactly what it is, but that get really deflates everyone elses' performance when they're on screen at the same time. + +There's a ton of unexplained weird magic in this movie. Things start of pretty grounded, and everything about the treasure trail is all things people really could do, like hiding messages in random places with riddles you need to solve to crack the code, but then there's the magic fountain, which, okay fine. The explanation for that seems to be something like "Aliens?" maybe? Or God? It's not entirely clear, but what is clear is that humanity's not ready... + +The thing that's not made by god is the room where there's a steal drum they have to play to move the rock. Apparently if you play the right song then the massive slab of limestone will hover. I think they were trying to say it's like an air hockey table or something, but it's not explained and it seems like it really requires you to suspend your disbelief that the ancient Egyptians would be able to build something like that. + +One other thing that I mentioned briefly but want to reiterate, is that the "twist" that the billionaire isn't actually sick doesn't change anything about the story. That doesn't change the morals. It's not like, if he had been sick, then stealing all these artifacts or threatening people with guns, etc would suddenly be more justified. + +# Conclusion +I have been thinking about this movie a lot, but only in comparison to similar movies that did a better job. The more I think about _National Treasure_ the more similarities I discover, but each time I realize something else that maps directly between the two, it comes with another realization about how it raised the stakes and tied into the story in _National Treasure_ and how it does nothing for the stakes in _Fountain of Youth_. + +I think my main takeaway is that people should go watch _National Treasure_. Then if you get really, _really_ bored, and you have nothing else to do, you can watch _Jumper_. Don't bother with _Fountain of Youth_. 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+ +
+
+ + +
+
+ +
+ + © 2025 Campbell Alden, All rights reserved. +
+ + diff --git a/docs/genres/history/index.xml b/docs/genres/history/index.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ed64bc8 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/genres/history/index.xml @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ + + + + History on CaAlden: Films + https://caalden.github.io/film/genres/history/ + Recent content in History on CaAlden: Films + Hugo + en-us + © 2025 Campbell Alden, All rights reserved. + Tue, 04 Nov 2025 23:29:37 +0900 + + + Greyhound + https://caalden.github.io/film/reviews/greyhound/ + Tue, 04 Nov 2025 23:29:37 +0900 + https://caalden.github.io/film/reviews/greyhound/ + Short summary (70 characters or so) + + + diff --git a/docs/genres/horror/index.html b/docs/genres/horror/index.html index f603dc7..0f035f8 100644 --- a/docs/genres/horror/index.html +++ b/docs/genres/horror/index.html @@ -113,13 +113,13 @@
- © 2023 Campbell Alden, All rights reserved. + © 2025 Campbell Alden, All rights reserved.
diff --git a/docs/genres/horror/index.xml b/docs/genres/horror/index.xml index 15dd878..abcfff1 100644 --- a/docs/genres/horror/index.xml +++ b/docs/genres/horror/index.xml @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Recent content in Horror on CaAlden: Films Hugo en-us - © 2023 Campbell Alden, All rights reserved. + © 2025 Campbell Alden, All rights reserved. Sat, 04 Mar 2023 23:27:55 +0900 diff --git a/docs/genres/index.html b/docs/genres/index.html index a32cb76..bac41d7 100644 --- a/docs/genres/index.html +++ b/docs/genres/index.html @@ -52,6 +52,234 @@ +
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Drama

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+ Poster forGreyhound + +
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Greyhound

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+
Short summary (70 characters or so)
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+
+ Rating: + 4/5 +
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+
+ Poster forThe French Dispatch + +
+
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+

The French Dispatch

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+
Authors for a New Yorker-esque magazine report on a small town in France
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+
+ Rating: + 4/5 +
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+
+ + +
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+ Poster forWhisper of the Heart + +
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Whisper of the Heart

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+
A slice of life story about a bookish middle school girl living in Tokyo
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+
+ Rating: + 5/5 +
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+ Poster forHoles + + + + + + + +
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Holes

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A boy is sent to a juvenile work camp as punishment after being mistakenly arrested
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+ Rating: + 3/5 +
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+
+ Poster forNo Reservations + +
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+

No Reservations

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+
A NY City chef and her recently adopted niece adapt to their life together
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+
+ Rating: + 3/5 +
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+ + +
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+ Poster forThe School for Good and Evil + +
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The School for Good and Evil

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Two friends embark on a fairy tale at a school for heroes and villains
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History

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Greyhound

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Short summary (70 characters or so)
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War

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Greyhound

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Short summary (70 characters or so)
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Horror

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Mission: Impossible III

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In Time

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A dystopian future where time is literally money
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Mission: Impossible II

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Ethan Hunt is back to stop a rouge IMF agent from unleashing a deadly virus
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Mission: Impossible

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An American spy must pull off an ‘impossible’ heist after his team is betrayed
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Mission: Impossible III

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Ethan Hunt is pulled out of retirement to stop the biggest bad yet
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In Time

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A dystopian future where time is literally money
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Mission: Impossible - Fallout

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Ethan and the team race to prevent old foes from enacting a nuclear disaster
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Mission: Impossible

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Mission: Impossible II

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Ethan Hunt is back to stop a rouge IMF agent from unleashing a deadly virus
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Mission: Impossible - Fallout

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Mission: Impossible - Fallout

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John Wick

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Ethan and the team race to prevent old foes from enacting a nuclear disaster
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A man dismantles an entire criminal syndicate that stands between him and his revenge
Rating: 5/5
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Mission: Impossible

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Now You See Me 2

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An American spy must pull off an ‘impossible’ heist after his team is betrayed
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A group of magicians are coerced into pulling off another heist
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The School for Good and Evil

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Two friends embark on a fairy tale at a school for heroes and villains
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Mission: Impossible III

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John Wick

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Mission: Impossible

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An American spy must pull off an ‘impossible’ heist after his team is betrayed
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In Time

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Mission: Impossible III

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Ethan Hunt is pulled out of retirement to stop the biggest bad yet
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Mission: Impossible - Fallout

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Ethan and the team race to prevent old foes from enacting a nuclear disaster
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The School for Good and Evil

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In Time

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Two friends embark on a fairy tale at a school for heroes and villains
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A dystopian future where time is literally money
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Mission: Impossible II

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+
Ethan Hunt is back to stop a rouge IMF agent from unleashing a deadly virus
+
+
+ Rating: + 3/5 +
+ +
+
+ +
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Kingsman: The Secret Service

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A secret British spy agency unravels a billionaire’s evil plot
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+ Poster forNow You See Me 2 + +
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+

Now You See Me 2

+
+
A group of magicians are coerced into pulling off another heist
+
+
+ Rating: + 2/5 +
+ +
+
+ + +
+
+ Poster forMission: Impossible + +
+
+
+

Mission: Impossible

+
+
An American spy must pull off an ‘impossible’ heist after his team is betrayed
+
+
+ Rating: + 3/5 +
+ +
+
+ + +
+
+ Poster forHoles + + + + + + + +
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+

Holes

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+
A boy is sent to a juvenile work camp as punishment after being mistakenly arrested
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+
+ Rating: + 3/5 +
+ +
+
+ + +
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+
+

Comedy

+ See more +
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+
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+

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

+
+
Three escaped convicts seek their stashed treasure in dustbowl Mississippi
+
+
+ Rating: + 4/5 +
+ +
+
+ + +
+
+ Poster forBeverly Hills Cop + +
+
+
+

Beverly Hills Cop

+
+
A Detroit cop comes to Beverly Hills to find the man who murdered his friend
+
+
+ Rating: + 4/5 +
+ +
+
+ +
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Mission: Impossible

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Mission: Impossible II

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Ethan Hunt is back to stop a rouge IMF agent from unleashing a deadly virus
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- Poster forNow You See Me 2 + Poster forThe School for Good and Evil
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Now You See Me 2

+

The School for Good and Evil

-
A group of magicians are coerced into pulling off another heist
+
Two friends embark on a fairy tale at a school for heroes and villains
Rating: - 2/5 + 3/5
+
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+ + +
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+ +
+
+

Crime

+ See more +
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+ +
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+ Poster forJohn Wick + +
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+

John Wick

+
+
A man dismantles an entire criminal syndicate that stands between him and his revenge
+
+
+ Rating: + 5/5 +
+ +
+
+ + +
+
+ Poster forNow You See Me + + + + + + + +
+
+
+

Now You See Me

+
+
Four magicians are united by an unknown benefactor to pull off a series of heists
+
+
+ Rating: + 4/5 +
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Holes

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A boy is sent to a juvenile work camp as punishment after being mistakenly arrested
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The School for Good and Evil

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Two friends embark on a fairy tale at a school for heroes and villains
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Kingsman: The Secret Service

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A secret British spy agency unravels a billionaire’s evil plot
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O Brother, Where Art Thou?

-
-
Three escaped convicts seek their stashed treasure in dustbowl Mississippi
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-
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- -
-
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- Poster forBeverly Hills Cop - -
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-

Beverly Hills Cop

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A Detroit cop comes to Beverly Hills to find the man who murdered his friend
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-
- Rating: - 4/5 -
- -
-
- - -
-
- Poster forNow You See Me - - - - - - - -
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Now You See Me

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Four magicians are united by an unknown benefactor to pull off a series of heists
-
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- Poster forJohn Wick - -
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-
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John Wick

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-
A man dismantles an entire criminal syndicate that stands between him and his revenge
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Drama

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- -
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-

No Reservations

-
-
A NY City chef and her recently adopted niece adapt to their life together
-
-
- Rating: - 3/5 -
- -
-
- - -
-
- Poster forWhisper of the Heart - -
-
-
-

Whisper of the Heart

-
-
A slice of life story about a bookish middle school girl living in Tokyo
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-
- Rating: - 5/5 -
- -
-
- - -
-
- Poster forThe French Dispatch - -
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-

The French Dispatch

-
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Authors for a New Yorker-esque magazine report on a small town in France
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- Rating: - 4/5 -
- -
-
- - -
-
- Poster forThe School for Good and Evil - -
-
-
-

The School for Good and Evil

-
-
Two friends embark on a fairy tale at a school for heroes and villains
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-
- Rating: - 3/5 -
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-
- - -
-
- Poster forHoles - - - - - - - -
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Holes

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A boy is sent to a juvenile work camp as punishment after being mistakenly arrested
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-
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- -
-
- -
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Whisper of the Heart

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A slice of life story about a bookish middle school girl living in Tokyo
-
-
- Rating: - 5/5 -
- -
-
- -
Poster forThe French Dispatch @@ -1385,6 +1453,30 @@
+
+
+ Poster forWhisper of the Heart + +
+
+
+

Whisper of the Heart

+
+
A slice of life story about a bookish middle school girl living in Tokyo
+
+
+ Rating: + 5/5 +
+ +
+
+ +
@@ -1433,13 +1525,13 @@ diff --git a/docs/genres/index.xml b/docs/genres/index.xml index f5236fe..5f235bc 100644 --- a/docs/genres/index.xml +++ b/docs/genres/index.xml @@ -6,9 +6,30 @@ Recent content in Genres on CaAlden: Films Hugo en-us - © 2023 Campbell Alden, All rights reserved. - Sat, 04 Mar 2023 23:27:55 +0900 + © 2025 Campbell Alden, All rights reserved. + Tue, 04 Nov 2025 23:29:37 +0900 + + Drama + https://caalden.github.io/film/genres/drama/ + Tue, 04 Nov 2025 23:29:37 +0900 + https://caalden.github.io/film/genres/drama/ + + + + History + https://caalden.github.io/film/genres/history/ + Tue, 04 Nov 2025 23:29:37 +0900 + https://caalden.github.io/film/genres/history/ + + + + War + https://caalden.github.io/film/genres/war/ + Tue, 04 Nov 2025 23:29:37 +0900 + https://caalden.github.io/film/genres/war/ + + Horror https://caalden.github.io/film/genres/horror/ @@ -51,13 +72,6 @@ https://caalden.github.io/film/genres/crime/ - - Drama - https://caalden.github.io/film/genres/drama/ - Wed, 09 Nov 2022 19:58:32 +0900 - https://caalden.github.io/film/genres/drama/ - - Sci-Fi https://caalden.github.io/film/genres/sci-fi/ diff --git a/docs/genres/mystery/index.html b/docs/genres/mystery/index.html index 82328aa..b74dadf 100644 --- a/docs/genres/mystery/index.html +++ b/docs/genres/mystery/index.html @@ -89,13 +89,13 @@
- © 2023 Campbell Alden, All rights reserved. + © 2025 Campbell Alden, All rights reserved.
diff --git a/docs/genres/mystery/index.xml b/docs/genres/mystery/index.xml index 91a018c..8f18984 100644 --- a/docs/genres/mystery/index.xml +++ b/docs/genres/mystery/index.xml @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Recent content in Mystery on CaAlden: Films Hugo en-us - © 2023 Campbell Alden, All rights reserved. + © 2025 Campbell Alden, All rights reserved. Sun, 11 Sep 2022 20:43:17 +0900 diff --git a/docs/genres/romance/index.html b/docs/genres/romance/index.html index 166c620..890077c 100644 --- a/docs/genres/romance/index.html +++ b/docs/genres/romance/index.html @@ -131,13 +131,13 @@
- © 2023 Campbell Alden, All rights reserved. + © 2025 Campbell Alden, All rights reserved.
diff --git a/docs/genres/romance/index.xml b/docs/genres/romance/index.xml index 54a8c65..a0ec8be 100644 --- a/docs/genres/romance/index.xml +++ b/docs/genres/romance/index.xml @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Recent content in Romance on CaAlden: Films Hugo en-us - © 2023 Campbell Alden, All rights reserved. + © 2025 Campbell Alden, All rights reserved. Sun, 11 Sep 2022 20:43:24 +0900 diff --git a/docs/genres/sci-fi/index.html b/docs/genres/sci-fi/index.html index 9a78880..c39eac1 100644 --- a/docs/genres/sci-fi/index.html +++ b/docs/genres/sci-fi/index.html @@ -83,13 +83,13 @@
- © 2023 Campbell Alden, All rights reserved. + © 2025 Campbell Alden, All rights reserved.
diff --git a/docs/genres/sci-fi/index.xml b/docs/genres/sci-fi/index.xml index 1b3d05d..40008b9 100644 --- a/docs/genres/sci-fi/index.xml +++ b/docs/genres/sci-fi/index.xml @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Recent content in Sci-Fi on CaAlden: Films Hugo en-us - © 2023 Campbell Alden, All rights reserved. + © 2025 Campbell Alden, All rights reserved. Tue, 27 Sep 2022 22:41:22 +0900 diff --git a/docs/genres/thriller/index.html b/docs/genres/thriller/index.html index d5d78d8..21a1c51 100644 --- a/docs/genres/thriller/index.html +++ b/docs/genres/thriller/index.html @@ -263,13 +263,13 @@
- © 2023 Campbell Alden, All rights reserved. + © 2025 Campbell Alden, All rights reserved.
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Greyhound

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+
Short summary (70 characters or so)
+
+
+ Rating: + 4/5 +
+ +
+
+ + +
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+ + © 2025 Campbell Alden, All rights reserved. +
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+ Poster forGreyhound + +
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Greyhound

+
+
Short summary (70 characters or so)
+
+
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+ +
+
+ +
Poster forThe Menu @@ -211,7 +241,7 @@
- Poster forMission: Impossible III + Poster forMission: Impossible III
@@ -655,13 +685,13 @@
- © 2023 Campbell Alden, All rights reserved. + © 2025 Campbell Alden, All rights reserved.
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Random Continuity Issue

This doesn’t really belong anywhere, but one thing that snapped me out of the movie for a minute was a bad continuity error near the beginning. (Note the Axel F in the background at the beginning haha)

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In the first 30 seconds of the scene, he is carrying a big basket of flowers. This ends up being his excuse to go up and talk to the bad guy for the first time, but when he walks into the office he doesn’t have the basket anymore. It’s just completely unexplained.

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6.6/10
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I do find myself wanting to recommend this movie pretty strongly. I think it offered a perspective on war and on drugs that humanized and made personal the struggle that to me has felt very alien. The only other movie I can think of that made me feel the same way was Requiem for a Dream. Cherry doesn’t really rise to the same level of art as Requiem, but I do think that the themes it tackles and the way it makes the drug abuse in particular rationalizable, gave me an opportunity to empathize with a type of person who I have previously seen as difficult to comprehend.

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More than any other movie I’ve seen in the last year or so, I keep finding myself pondering the themes and storylines presented in Cherry. Anytime I find myself returning out of the blue to a story like that, it makes me want to recommend it, if for no other reason than that I want more people to bounce impression off of! I do really think there was a lot to unpack in this film and the Russo brothers didn’t back down from presenting an emotionally potent version of those concepts.

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My only hesitation in recommending this film is if the content matter is going to be too difficult for some. I would recommend reading the content warnings before jumping in, but otherwise I wouldn’t hesitate to encourage you to check it out!

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Thoughts (Spoilers)

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As usual, these thoughts aren’t strictly well organized, but there were a number of things that I wanted to talk about after watching the movie.

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The Love Story / Why am I Labeling this a Romance?

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Sort of didn’t believe she would stay with him when she was super flaky in the first place (which is what got them into the mess)

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I like the codependent dysfunctional relationship though. I personally haven’t seen many films that went that way. I feel like what makes this a love story through and through for me is that they do stay together. Typically these sorts of films are designed to frame the abuser a bad and a classic way of demonstrating their self destruction is by ruining their relationships, but I think this movie goes out of its way to avoid that easy route.

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On the whole, the very end of the movie, where Tom Holland’s character is released from jail and his wife is waiting (and presumably has recovered from her addiction as well), seems a bit too happy and felt difficult to believe. It’s this overly optimistic ending that makes me feel like this is firmly a love story. They end up together in the end and they’ve overcome their problems.

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The War Storyline

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The war stuff was really good. I’ve seen way too much propaganda style war movies or movies that focus more on the sheer carnage rather than the incompetence and the lack of fairness and just plain cruelty of it all. This movie doesn’t do that and you really can relate to his PTS

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The stuff with his one war friend really stood out to me. In particular the scene in his car with his pregnant SO and then the scene where he can’t get the blood out of his wedding ring.

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Humanizing Heroin Addicts

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I felt like this movie did a good job of drawing a logical progression from an average kid doing drugs recreationally at some parties to a completely desperate Heroin addict robbing banks. At each step, he goes a little further wrong, and his motivation for going wrong is easy to empathize with.

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With all the trauma of what he saw in Iraq, he’s looking for an escape, so he falls back on his recreational drug habit which slowly escalates, and when he looks for outs (like when he goes to the VA doctor to get help) he’s funneled right back to opioids by doctors pushing OxyContin.

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We don’t see the first time they progress to heroin

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Rushed Ending

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The jail stuff felt really under developed. I think we needed a scene or two with some actual dialog and story rather than just a montage. Part of the idea is that the whole movie is him explaining in jail about the story of his life, but I wish they would’ve merged the two timelines towards the end more explicitly.

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Without a scene to act as connective tissue, it ends up feeling a bit unearned when he emerges at the end. We are shown that he goes from an uncertain member of a counciling group, to running the meetings, but there’s not time given to showing him reconciling with his mistakes. Recounting them is one thing, but there’s no moment where he comes to terms with what he’s done, the people he’s hurt, or even just coping with the stress of the war or anything.

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The bad actions are given tons of room to breathe in the movie, but their reconciliation, the work that must’ve gone into recovering from that, is all left off screen, but we’re still expected to feel like the final scene is earned in some way. It just left me feeling a bit unsatisfied.

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October 30, 2025

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+ Fountain of Youth fails to live up to its potential. It is a National Treasure wannabe, without any of the same stakes or a cohesive story. +

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5.7/10
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41/100
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PG-13
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On paper this movie sounds good: the cast is strong, they clearly had a budget, and it’s Guy Ritchie, so it feels like it has all the elements to succeed. Unfortunately, it just fails to deliver on that potential.

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I left it feeling a bit confused, but mostly just disappointed. I’ll go into detail about what I don’t think works about this movie when I can talk a bit more about spoilers (I want to give specific examples), but suffice it to say this one isn’t worth your time.

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Thoughts

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From here on I want to compare something about the movie to other, similar movies, so I’m going to get into spoilers.

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Brief Synopsis

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I’m recommending that people don’t see this movie, so I feel like I should provide a bit of context for what happens in the film so that my further comments can be understood without watching.

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The primary characters in the film are Luke Purdue (John Krasinski), who is a generic adventurer-type character, his sister, Charolette (Natalie Portman), who is an art expert, Own Carver (Domhnall Gleeson) who is the billionaire backer for Luke’s hunt, Esme (Eiza González Oh, Baby Driver! I knew I recognized her from somewhere) who is an operative for some secret organization that is trying to protect the fountain, and Inspector Jamal Abbas (Arian Moayed) who is a detective sent to track down Luke following his initial art heists.

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Luke is the main protagonist of the story and we are introduce to him with a chase sequence as he flees from gangsters with a stolen painting. He then encounters Esme, who explains that she is going to work against him as he searches for the fountain. This also begins an awkward attempt at romantic relief between Esme and Luke, which is present throughout the film. Next, Luke steals a painting while meeting with Charolette and the two are thus brought together for the heist.

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Around this point, we learn that Luke and Charolette’s father was some sort of adventurer and the two children have followed separate paths: Luke following in his footsteps, but overly concerned with treasure, and Charolette attempting to leave that behind to start a family and lead a normal life.

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With the team all together, the story gets into MacGuffin mode. For the record, this isn’t a criticism. On the contrary, that’s sort of the ride you’re signing up for when you watch something like this. If anything, I think it actually takes its time letting the audience in on why they’re stealing all this art. With the help of Carver’s resources, the team begins traveling all over the place in search of the next piece of the puzzle.

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At each turn they find the thing they’re looking for, only to be interrupted by Esme and her crew, or the detective searching for them, after which they e

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Anyway, ultimately, the Fountain of Youth is below the Pyramids, and when Luke interacts with it he discovers that he would be stealing life force from his loved ones so he choses not to accept the tradeoff.

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The billionaire guy, we learn, is not actually sick or dying or anything (a plot point that is brought up briefly before they get to Egypt just so they can twist not really, “I just want power”). He’s revealed as the big bad and when he goes to make the same decision, he apparently only loves himself which means there’s some sort of infinite loop which is “too dangerous” so Esme uses some random lever somewhere to shut it down and the bad guys die and everyone else narrowly escapes.

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There’s a cringy goodbye between Luke and Esme. She is suddenly responding to his weird advances and flirts about hoping she doesn’t have to stop him again before the group splits up.

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Indefensible Protagonists

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The main issue with the story is less the fact that they are doing a treasure hunt but that the characters, from the beginning, are not morally justified at all in their attempts to follow the treasure trail.

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I found myself immediately comparing this movie to National Treasure. They are extremely similar, with virtually all the same plot points, but they feel completely different, and this is down to the ethics of how the two groups of treasure hunters are going about their hunt.

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In National Treasure, the rich bad guy is revealed to be bad in the opening scene, instead of at the very end, and this reveal does something extremely important for the plot. The protagonist (Nate) in that movie, now has a reason to break the rules. If he doesn’t follow the trail, even breaking the law to do so, then some people who only care about money and won’t value the artifacts are going to do it anyway. Following the trail is as much about protecting it as about finding the treasure at the end.

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In Fountain of Youth, they need to steal some famous paintings to find a map to the treasure and in National Treasure they have to steal the Declaration of Independence because there’s a map on the back. However, in national treasure they know that there’s also a group of well funded thieves that are also intending to steal the Declaration themselves imminently.

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Nate already has enough justification to put his plan into motion, but he still goes the extra mile and tries to inform the people involved about the map on the back and to get access through legitimate channels before resorting to stealing it.

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In contrast, Luke is stealing paintings willy-nilly, wrapping his sister up in the conspiracy, without any justification since there are no other entities trying to steal the paintings themselves and without attempting to get the information he wants via a legitimate channel.

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For those reasons, they feel like thieves, not a quirky protagonist that’s try to find the treasure and stop the wrong people from getting their hands on it. Almost every beat from National Treasure is played out in Fountain of Youth but to a worse effect. In National Treasure, Nate’s dad is wrapped up in the conspiracy in a similar way to Charolette (they play extremely similar roles as being against the treasure hunting family gene). Nate, however, goes to his dad because he has to get something that his dad has and tries to keep him from getting wrapped up in the trouble he’s started, whereas Luke kidnaps his sister and then draws her and her son into the conspiracy.

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The main characters in Fountain of Youth are on the wrong side of the story virtually the entire time, and there’s no justification for why they’re going about things in this way. They have a billionaire backing them, and at one point they use that to get access to a famous bible (which they then steal again without much justification) so it’s clearly possible for them to do things through legitimate channels, they’re just choosing not to.

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One final point where National Treasure and Fountain of Youth differ in a way that shows the difference in quality between the two movies is that in National Treasure, Nate and his father outsmart the bad guys and are the ones to discover the treasure, whereas in Fountain of Youth, Luke doesn’t really do anything. The bad guy also makes it to the fountain, he also uses it, and he would’ve destroyed the world (or something?) if not for Esme pulling the Deus Ex Machina lever.

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Extremely Flat Secret Society

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The group that is attempting to stop them from finding the fountain of youth is poorly set up and ultimately it’s a bit frustrating. I was most reminded of either the tribe that defends the homonoptra in The Mummy or the palidins from Jumper when I think about the type of secret society in this movie, but in Fountain of Youth the secret society isn’t used to nearly the same effect.

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The comparison to The Mummy is more direct, but unlike in that film, the protagonists in Fountain of Youth don’t team up with the protectors once they discover why they’re protecting the secret ancient temple in Egypt (again, extremely close parallel). When Luke learns what the fountain does, he makes an individual choice not to use it, but he doesn’t attempt to stop the billionaire guy, or to shut the whole thing down or anything.

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The parallel I see with this movie and Jumper is more about exposition. In both movies, we’re shown the members of the society before we learn what they are or why they’re doing what they do. In Jumper, however, the reason for them tracking down and killing the jumpers is the entire core conflict of the film.

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As I’ve alluded to above, once Luke and the others learn what the fountain is for, it doesn’t change their relationship to the secret society. They’ve already “won” because they found it, and they also don’t make any attempts to try and help the society prevent the bad people from using it (Esme does that on her own).

+

Random Points that Make the Whole Thing Feel Underbaked

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This is a bit disorganized, but there were a handful of lines or scenes in Fountain of Youth that were laking a payoff and are just confusing in hindsight.

+

The most glaring one is a discussion between Esme and Luke at the beginning of the film where she asks him what he things the fountain of youth is: whether it’s a literal fountain, or a concept or something else. He answers that he doesn’t know but if they’re trying so hard to protect it then he wants to find out.

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I don’t have a problem with Luke’s answer, but once we learn that it’s essentially a magical fountain, it calls back into question what on earth the point of that line was from Esme. Everyone thinks it’s a real fountain with magical powers, but her line of questioning makes it sound like, “it’s not a literal fountain, you don’t even know how little you don’t know”, and that would’ve been cool, except it is a literal fountain, so he did know what he did know…

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Another random thing is Stanly Tuchi’s random cameo. I expected something more give that he has an and credit, but he’s only there for a 30 second scene where he tells Esme to stop being merciful and to start using force. She was already being pretty forceful and her tactics don’t really change after that point, so on the whole that also doesn’t serve much purpose.

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The interpol detective guy is just not good at all. He delivers his lines in a really weird way. Setting him opposite to Natalie Portman also made the difference really clear. She does a pretty good job but it all just comes off super inauthentic played off of him. I can’t put my finger on exactly what it is, but that get really deflates everyone elses’ performance when they’re on screen at the same time.

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There’s a ton of unexplained weird magic in this movie. Things start of pretty grounded, and everything about the treasure trail is all things people really could do, like hiding messages in random places with riddles you need to solve to crack the code, but then there’s the magic fountain, which, okay fine. The explanation for that seems to be something like “Aliens?” maybe? Or God? It’s not entirely clear, but what is clear is that humanity’s not ready…

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The thing that’s not made by god is the room where there’s a steal drum they have to play to move the rock. Apparently if you play the right song then the massive slab of limestone will hover. I think they were trying to say it’s like an air hockey table or something, but it’s not explained and it seems like it really requires you to suspend your disbelief that the ancient Egyptians would be able to build something like that.

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One other thing that I mentioned briefly but want to reiterate, is that the “twist” that the billionaire isn’t actually sick doesn’t change anything about the story. That doesn’t change the morals. It’s not like, if he had been sick, then stealing all these artifacts or threatening people with guns, etc would suddenly be more justified.

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Conclusion

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I have been thinking about this movie a lot, but only in comparison to similar movies that did a better job. The more I think about National Treasure the more similarities I discover, but each time I realize something else that maps directly between the two, it comes with another realization about how it raised the stakes and tied into the story in National Treasure and how it does nothing for the stakes in Fountain of Youth.

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I think my main takeaway is that people should go watch National Treasure. Then if you get really, really bored, and you have nothing else to do, you can watch Jumper. Don’t bother with Fountain of Youth. If you’re thinking, “but I really want to watch a movie with a pretty thin plot where a guy travels around following clues to lead them to a secret artifact”, then watch the Da Vinci Code.

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diff --git a/docs/reviews/greyhound.mdJIuOR9.bck b/docs/reviews/greyhound.mdJIuOR9.bck new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0e46a8c --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/reviews/greyhound.mdJIuOR9.bck @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +--- +box_office: N/A +date: 2025-11-04 23:29:37+09:00 +draft: true +favorite: false +genres: +- War +- History +- Drama +image: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BZTU3YzY0NjktMmRhMC00MzYyLWI0YmUtZGJkMzJjMWYwZDZkXkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_SX800.webp +imdb: 7.0/10 +imdb_link: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6048922 +metacritic: 64/100 +metacritic_link: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/greyhound +mpaa: PG-13 +quick_look: Longer blurb about the movie for the top section +rating: 4 +rotten_tomatoes: 78% +rotten_tomatoes_link: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/greyhound +summary: Short summary (70 characters or so) +title: Greyhound +year: 2020 +--- + +# Recommendation + +I don't have a lot of deep thoughts on this film, but I wanted to put down a short, spoiler-free recommendation since +I enjoyed it. _Greyhound_ is a small scale war story that focus on the events of a few days during an atlantic crossing +during WWII. The film is short (around 90 minutes) and the action and tension are constant so that the entire thing felt +over almost too soon. + +The stakes are smaller than many war films: only the ships in their convoy, but the focus is on the captain +and how his decisions impact the lives of his men and the non-military vessels under their protection. That's mixed with +the suspense of the lurking U-boats. + +The film's focus isn't on glorifying or condeming the captain's choices and on the impossible calculus that the captain +is confronted with as he wrestles difficult decisions. For me, this movie has the baseline suspense and drama to be +entertaining, and poses enough difficult questions to leave you wondering what you would decide to do in the same +scenarios. + +I would only not recommend this to people that find combat movies uninteresting as that's a large chunk of +what you're getting. If you enjoy that, then this film also has character drama to go with it and the story is grounded +enough that it's not hard to empathize with. diff --git a/docs/reviews/greyhound/index.html b/docs/reviews/greyhound/index.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cfdc0f0 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/reviews/greyhound/index.html @@ -0,0 +1,177 @@ + + + Greyhound + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
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I don’t have a lot of deep thoughts on this film, but I wanted to put down a short, spoiler-free recommendation since +I enjoyed it. Greyhound is a small scale war story that focus on the events of a few days during an Atlantic crossing +during WWII. The film is short (around 90 minutes) and the action and tension are constant so that the entire thing felt +over almost too soon.

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The stakes are smaller than many war films: only the ships in their convoy, but the focus is on the captain +and how his decisions impact the lives of his men and the non-military vessels under their protection. That’s mixed with +the suspense of the lurking U-boats.

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The film’s focus isn’t on glorifying or condeming the captain’s choices and on the impossible calculus that the captain +is confronted with as he wrestles difficult decisions. For me, this movie has the baseline suspense and drama to be +entertaining, and poses enough difficult questions to leave you wondering what you would decide to do in the same +scenarios.

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I would only not recommend this to people that find combat movies uninteresting as that’s a large chunk of +what you’re getting. If you enjoy that, then this film also has character drama to go with it and the story is grounded +enough that it’s not hard to empathize with.

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diff --git a/docs/reviews/index.xml b/docs/reviews/index.xml index 5c4f9d1..4849664 100644 --- a/docs/reviews/index.xml +++ b/docs/reviews/index.xml @@ -6,9 +6,16 @@ Recent content in Reviews on CaAlden: Films Hugo en-us - © 2023 Campbell Alden, All rights reserved. - Sat, 04 Mar 2023 23:27:55 +0900 + © 2025 Campbell Alden, All rights reserved. + Tue, 04 Nov 2025 23:29:37 +0900 + + Greyhound + https://caalden.github.io/film/reviews/greyhound/ + Tue, 04 Nov 2025 23:29:37 +0900 + https://caalden.github.io/film/reviews/greyhound/ + Short summary (70 characters or so) + The Menu https://caalden.github.io/film/reviews/the-menu/ diff --git a/docs/reviews/john-wick/index.html b/docs/reviews/john-wick/index.html index 1da0890..a0a7de4 100644 --- a/docs/reviews/john-wick/index.html +++ b/docs/reviews/john-wick/index.html @@ -163,13 +163,13 @@
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Music

I chose to rewatch this movie because I wanted to hear the main Man of Constant Sorrow song, but I discovered on this rewatch that the music plays a more central role in establishing the tone and setting for the movie.

- +

On a plot level, this song is key to the protagonists eventual success, as it launches them to unexpected stardom and results in their pardon from the governor, but other songs throughout the movie drive the plot as well. Many scenes, like the baptism in the river or the encounter with the sirens, begin with overheard music which transports them to another adventure.

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