Archive for October 2024
21 posts from 01 to 30 October 2024.
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What the hell, I really only got the point with the last text crawl, good job everyone. It’s really The Witch meets Million Dollar Baby.
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It’s hard to believe the current mainstream horror cinema for teenagers is giallo body horror, but with extremely detailed CGI and perhaps some practical effects too.
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It’s a joke, you see, Jimmy Stewart plays a complete buffoon. Too bad Doris Day is a woman in a 50’s film and can’t do anything but call her man, even though she’s a world renowned superstar, and her hubby is a bumpkin country doctor.
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Ah, is this the more centrist response to Dirty Harry? This is as fascist and anti-hippie as that, but the hero is a just a regular architect, not a credentialed murderer. The cosmopolitrometer is off the charts, lower than The Town, this is the new benchmark.
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Good grief, are the people that think of this shit high? This is the worst kind of mainstream dross ever to come out Hollywood. An absolute trainwreck, in all possible senses.
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The first third of The Day After Tomorrow or even Don’t Look Up, but with no budget, and good actors speaking technobabble. What a weird animal.
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I think I got the gist of this anti-fascist elitist screed. Power to the aristos speaking and acting on behalf of the people, I guess. It’s not very revolutionary, keeps the plot strictly in the marbled floors. If this is a roman à clef, I can’t parse it, after decades of rewrites. And it’s too damn long!
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Good god, this is a single page script, stretched to feature length. Add Sean Bean (playing twins!) and a pre-fame Hemsworth, and you get a “film”.
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A nice descent into the making of the grifter to end all grifters. There are all the accoutrements that come with pathologic narcissism: massive Trump naming everywhere, gaudy gold plated shit for him and baubles for others, pure unbridled greed.
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How ironic, no Dutch is spoken here, only English and French. And a Portuguese song in the background…
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Ahh, good old creepy-ass horror, disgusting and inhumane parasites, but there are also ticks and burnt flesh. It’s like an intense John Carpenter film.
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This seems like a lighthearted child film, but the more you think about it, the closer it is to the Dirty Harry universe. It’s also very 90s, large parts of the jokes wouldn’t fly nowadays. Chris Columbus is the best at working with kids, it’s uncanny.
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Why the hell does this have two endings? Is that a reshoot to make the woman as the gold digger and the violent gaslighting tech billionaire the real victim? What the shit?
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Seven, Eleven, Sixty Nine, Fifty. A thriller by the numbers, since it even stars with a kind of PSA with all kinds of numbers. Includes a unbelievable scene where Richard Gere grills Avril Lavigne over sexual proclivities, I bet Claire Danes laughing her ass off was real.
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A very progressive take on the whole homosexual closeted gay situation, wrapped in a very mainstream romantic comedy. Ironically, the woman are not very well treated here, for runtime reasons I think.
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If Pitch Black is Alien, this is some weird ass Aliens. There are some baffling hairstyles in here, just hideous mohawk-mullet hybrids.
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That’s goddamn Riddick-al, an incredible thriller until the last scene.
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Narnia for adults, since it deals even more explicitly with death of young girls and children, plus sex, but then it’s PG-13 for no fucking reason whatsoever. Just because it’s magical realism, doesn’t mean it’s for children.
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European Straw Dogs, meets The Shining.
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Mamma mia, this is Caligula with less acting, and even more bad taste. The expression rompere i coglioni is uttered non ironically, but it might as well relate to actual testicles.
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This is almost a brilliant thriller, but the foreshadowing is disregarded, leading to absolutely no twists, just a tragic coincidence. Sean Penn is just weird, and obsessed with mentally ill people. You never go full retard.