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Was that a Pun?
Really Very Good
Really Awful
Interview with a Serial Killer at the Intersection of Boring and Distasteful
Really Not Very Good
Surprisingly... Not Totally Awful.
Amazing
One of those films I (probably) haven't seen...
Ever have one of those days?
Good Film
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So, you're saying the first one is good. I don't really care for the original Diabolik film, which strikes me as campy pop-art cinema... I do like the concept of the villain as protagonist and enjoy the old Fantomas from the early days of cinema. And I am fond of Dr. Mabuse, even the early '60s reboot. Think I might like Diabolik 2021?
I'm not interested enough to look up the background but I assume this is intended to "flame" an actual obnoxious internet reviewer like some guy I recall who rants about wokeness while wearing a silly mask. And, if so, I applaud the effort...
BUT, whoever wrote that material needs to slow the fuck down and edit it just a bit for grammar and basic coherence. Such entries are, or should be, held to a higher standard than simple posts or comments.
Yep for some people Captain Kirk is nothing but a straight white male avatar...
Maybe out of any version, including the live action.
Well, he had a lot of opportunities. Still, Laurence Olivier and Anthony Hopkins were pretty good.
Shin is a movie that doesn't feel like it has much heart. Nasty monster. Bureaucrats, scientists and the military discuss. References to the Tsunami with the government doing a bit better this time. Techno babble monster fighting...
This movie is big on heart. A bit big on cliche as well, but sometimes cliches ARE because they work. This one concentrates on characters, who do wind up fighting big G with as outrageous a plan as you might imagine, but at least it's all about the characters. Godzilla is impressive. Effects are good.
My only significant qualm, and it applies even more to Shin, is that the horrific civilian toll of Godzilla's rampage is less powerfully evoked than in Godzilla 1954.
Oh, this is a cause for amusement. The Ark Encounter young-earth people have had to invoke a version of evolution to make their story seem rational. SO, A single "kind" of cat (Or maybe, in the case of cats a couple of 'em because even a complete simpleton can't imagine that a domestic pussycat and an African lion are easy to obtain in a couple of thousand years from one ancestor) through some sort of turbocharged micro-evolution leads to the current range of species in the few thousand years allowed.
I mean, you have to love the effort to tie in dinosaurs on the Ark and invent some rationalizations for all the impossibilities. Of course, anyplace the rational becomes too tortured, they can invoke divine intervention and... you can't argue with that.
Particularly good point.
The character is written as a cardboard cutout villainous military guy, and the writing is generally like that in this film. But the actor is memorable and I can't decide if he has done a great job with a crappy character or if his performance is pushing the bad writing over the edge.
Oh, yeah... Kinda. This one has more to do with the character of the late night TV host, whatsisname. Ghostwatch was structured as a hoax. The real life presenters were essentially playing themselves, pretending it was all real. Theoretically, the personal nature of this film should make it better than Ghostwatch, which was, as I said, essentially a hoax broadcast.
However, Ghostwatch struck me as far more real and I have watched it twice. I will probably watch it again in a couple of years. This one... Not watching it again. I suppose if you have fond memories of some real world late night show from the '70s, this film might grab you.
I prefer La Confidential.
I know Heat is supposed to be awesome, but it left me utterly cold. I didn't care about the characters and the whole personal duel between the cop and crook seemed rather unreal to me. I have actually watched it twice because there is so much positive written about it.
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