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The first two thirds of this movie is pretty good, with the mob violence elements set against the works of Dante being entertaining and interesting. Unfortunately, the movie sucks when it pivots into the romance aspects, and that swallows up more and more of the movie. Also unfortunately, it involves Gal Gadot, who cannot hold a candle to any of the other actors in this movie. It's a movie with…
Just got back from a Weird Al concert, part of his Bigger and Weirder tour, which I went to with my son. Fantastic experience, but I m a Weird Al fan. It was my son s first concert, and I m worried that they ll all be downhill after this one. The post Just got back from a Weird Al concert, part of his Bigger and Weirder tour, which I went to with my… appeared first on Alexander Wales .
Denoument runs a little long, even without there being three different endings. The cut that's available for free on Youtube right now plays them all in sequence, which is fun, but the "trick" of having three different endings did its work during the original theatrical release, and is not really replicated here. It's funny, mostly, though suffers from some of the slow pacing of an older film,…
There's a subplot in this movie where a pair of married archeologists arrive and having an end to their marriage because the husband is gay. It's an odd choice that I think is probably explained by the fact that this movie is adapted from a book, where this subplot has more time to breathe. Everything else is more centered on death; Sutton Hoo is a burial site, the woman who owns the land is a…
This was my third time watching this movie, with the first being in 2011 and the second in 2020. It's one of the most accurate pandemic movies, which is startling given that it was made a decade before COVID, though when I look closely I can see a lot of things that aren't quite right, visible only with hindsight. There are all kinds of things in this movie like social distancing, equipment…
It's funny, but there are definitely parts that haven't aged well, particularly all the reference humor that got lost to time, or for a Millennial like myself, is something that's known only as a reference to a reference, leaving me saying "yeah, I get it" but not laughing. There are also some scenes that just don't work, or feel shoehorned in, rather than arising from the characters or…
I only watched this because the logline made it sound like it would be a roaring rampage against the S.W.A.T. team, and it is that, in a sense, but as written by someone who loves cops and wants to show that love on the screen, but also sucks at making movie. Terrible acting, terrible writing, total waste of time, which I guess I could tell from the opening 15 minutes. The post S.W.A.T.:…
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I liked it a lot; it's been a while since a horror movie has scared me that much. To me, it's a movie that's largely about the horror of being in a relationship with someone who is mentally unwell. It was really hitting my "borderline personality disorder" flags, I guess, but a very heightened version of them. Every tiny sign that he might not love her is a betrayal, she's extremely clingy, and…
I guess I'll have to see how it works in practice. When watching the movies, one of the things that I've noticed a lot is how plentiful ammo seems to be, and counting bullets is one of the main things I remember from having played the early installments in the series, along with solving the puzzles and opening up the game. I think a movie where you get that Dark Souls style "open a path back to…