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movie review - We Can Be Heroes

the journal of Michael Werneburg

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Kokubunji, 2020.12.26

Of late, Robert Rodriguez has been making kids movies. Kids spy movies were first, now it seems to be super-hero movies. He seems to be going for a certain low-budget look despite hiring some decent actors, and the combination somewhat works. The plot of this one is a passing-the-torch thing that really struggles. The dialog quality is all over the place, the kids' acting is also very varied (hats off for using kids in the first place, I suppose) and the plot felt like too much of it was developed as they went.

I won't belabor this. Not recommended.

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Immature poets imitate mature poets steal bad poets deface what they take and good poets make it into something better or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique utterly different than that from which it is torn the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time or alien in language or diverse in interest.

—T.S. Eliot