Archive for December 2023
18 posts from 02 to 27 December 2023.
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The 2021 version. Yet another version of the same silly plot, with better actors and modern effects. Ironically, they must have reused a lot of the game itself, the latter versions are identical.
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Paul Schrader copied the classic film noir so well, it includes Hays Code limits. Is this for adults, or is it Bugsy Malone?
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The difference the writer not being a woman makes: we go from Romancing the Stone to generic Temple of Doom: cultural insensitivity, random action scenes, plot nonsense.
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Brilliant. Falls a bit short in terms of plot, it just ends abruptly, but more than makes up for it everywhere else. It’s like a human mind: precious but fragile, breaks down if mistreated, or over analysed.
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I film about people of low socio-economic class that ruin their (shitty) lives after talking to the FBI. J. Edgar Hoover, continuing to ruin lives beyond the grave.
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I was truly convinced this was an allegory about AAAAIDS. But then Malcolm McDonald gets shot and meek Natassja Kinski absconds to Virginia and gets back a sex fiend. The analogies break down from there, I lost the plot. The writer was really putting out fires with gasoline.
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A nice little morality tale, with some technobabble transhumanism and action scenes. Not as visually stunning as other Tarsem Singh films, bummer. Technically great, I guess I just fundamentally disagree with the premise.
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One part teen soap opera, other part gruesome body horror schlock. Who is the audience for this, exactly? Probably teenagers making out in the cinema without paying attention to the film.
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An European version of Snowpiercer, where the villain looks like Cypher from The Matrix until the last reveal. Maybe I’m dumb, but the philosophical stuff very muddled.
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Half horror drama, like a baby’s first The Ring, half buddy cop film, with a no-nonsense sassy black woman and a younger detective, being biblically chased by the CSI girl and the killer’s sister. Doesn’t really gel.
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Well well, Robert Zemeckis, notorious second fiddle to Spielberg, does a better Indiana Jones than the real deal, much superior to Temple of Doom and even Raiders. That wasn’t on my bingo card.
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John Wick meets Stranger Things, with Karen Gillian, with added killer escorting a child, like all modern fiction. This has much less action than John Wick, it’s more focused on the female side, makes it more balanced.
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Whoa, the tone of this is all over the place, it’s too serious and dramatic for a comedy horror, but too silly for a proper drama. Tries to have it’s farm cake and eat it too. No wonder Sam Raimi moved to Marvel films, where this kind of appeasement to everyone is their bread and butter.
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What the fuck is this, a lot of noise, screams, and darkness. Horrifying production values here. Clearly a video nasty, not many redeeming qualities here.
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Oh wow, this is what a not so good Ken Loach film is? It gets better than this?
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Oh my, another American “comedy”, about corrupt cops busting other more corrupt cops, with American Pie level shenanigans. How come Brian freaking Cox was roped into this, was his SAG insurance about to expire in the end of the year and needed a credit?
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Run of the mill Conan ripoff, with a ridiculous main love interest. Some Roger Corman tax dodge. The last blooper is during her sex scene, when she’s topless pleasuring the main character, while the crew laughs. That says everything about the production.
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Truly an hollow man, before and after turning invisible. The nerds win! The guy in the convertible falls into the fire, while the woman driving the station wagon prevails, with science!