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New Releases #11: The Batman (2021) Trailer Reaction

So this is basically my reaction to the trailer for the 2021 “The Batman” film. Please enjoy. My name is Logan Tyler Smith, and in this series of LoganLand Prime I will analyze movies that are newer or more contemporary in the public consciousness. Welcome to the New Releases series.  I’ve been thinking about this for A LONG time already.  Truth be told I pretty much never do reaction videos or podcasts. I wouldn’t say I’m against them, but they are by no means the types of videos I wanted to make. Not bashing reactors, they do good work a lot of the time, but there’s a disinterest in me in terms of video creation in general.  Then I saw The Batman trailer.  I immediately felt like I was sixteen years old. The song from Nirvana was a well documented element that added to the thematic feel of the trailer. More importantly, everything from Batman to Catwoman to Gordon to Penguin to even Riddler and the goon Batman one-hundred percent brain damaged, everything is executed perfectly (some

In Case You Missed It #7: The Breakfast Club: Has it Aged Well?

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 In "The Breakfast Club", five teenagers with wildly different personalities and subcultures are sent to detention for a variety of different reasons. Ultimately they learn to respect each other in this environment while also realizing they are very similar in a lot of different ways.  The Breakfast Club is an older movie (circa 1985) and maintains an impressive air of dialogue and solid filmmaking even to this day. While obviously not socially perfect (Bender is admittedly a bit sexist, at least at the beginning) the film manages to balance different subcultures while acknowledging their similarities in many smart ways through dialogue and music.  The soundtrack remains iconic today (who could forget about me (or the song "Don't you forget about me") and the dialogue is similarly up-to-par. The writing manages to humanize the teenage characters while also being funny, revealing, and above-all naturalistic (we believe what they say like we believe what friends a