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| 75 41% | Cruise Into Terror (1978) - Rated 23 Apr 2024
"Although it's made-for-TV nature means it's a little slow & unable to do much of anything that might qualify as horror today, this mixed 2 of my favorite things: nostalgia & old-fashioned horror. Aaron Spelling produced this so you get a Love Boat vibe early on, but it also insures that this has a competence that many B-horror flicks don't. Lots of solid actors; a fantastic stunt dive off a boat; & a script that mostly makes sense. It even surprises in the sexual nature of the preacher's wife"
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| 61 12% | The Devil's Rain (1975) - Rated 18 Apr 2024
"The makeup efx look both like store-bought masks & pretty damn creepy - especially with the (many) melting scenes. So had I seen this as a kid, I'm pretty sure I'd never have forgotten it. The big problem is that basic information is often very unclear (how do characters hide/disappear given one location in the desert? Why was Puritan Shatner cursed? Why did the doc find the book so easily?) & characterization is nil. Plot developments seem to occur only once per act, while everything else drags"
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| 74 36% | Rumble Fish (1983) - Rated 17 Apr 2024
"Although Coppola works overtime to insure every shot's ready for a photography exhibit & the pretentious vibe is mostly confined to striking visuals, the story's the usual liberal propaganda society accepts as fact w/ author Hinton & Coppola romanticizing hoodlums & dirtbags who would only do better if society didn't "trap" them - even though the completely shite parenting is right there. It even turns criminality into heroism w/ the inexplicably "wise" MCycle Boy freeing animals by breaking in."
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| 91 90% | Dawn of the Dead (1978) - Rated 13 Apr 2024
"Viewers who grew up on zombies that run & improved or CGI makeup efx may find the zombies here too slow & the production too cheap, but story-wise & character-wise this more than holds up & created the foundation on which all other zombie movies/shows were built. Much is said about the subtextual criticism of consumerism, but it's more a criticism about what it means to be human & simply survive however comfortably. It feels profound but thankfully never pretentious: there's gore aplenty!"
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| 75 41% | Children of the Corn (2020) - Rated 08 Apr 2024
"I was wondering why this installment got so much hate, but I double checked: all of these films - even the first - are generally hated. I don't know why people keep watching them. I watch them because I never know what I'm going to get & found about half just odd & different enough to watch. The complete absence of guns bothers me (how'd the kids capture everyone?) & it worked better when the threat was religious/supernatural (not toxin-created) but the actors are good & the finale's suspenseful"
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| 70 24% | Fantastic Four (2005) - Rated 02 Apr 2024
"Can they make a really good F4 movie? And by really good I mean one that will appeal to adults. This clearly has decided to make children its target audience which negates the feeling that anything really matters. Ben's change never feels truly tragic, & Sue & Reed never relate to each other as adults, but as teens in a WB show. Reed exudes neither maturity nor a blinkered genius &. Doom's character? Too complex for a film like this & at minimum, requires the gravitas of a Fassbender."
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| 83 68% | The Equalizer 3 (2023) - Rated 02 Apr 2024
"Better than the second. There's lots of Denzel spouting entertainingly badass dialogue, alot more visceral violence in the fight scenes & the bad guys are so evil (yet plausible) you eagerly look forward to their deaths. It also probably helps that for the first time you truly get a sense that Denzel's in danger of losing something truly important to him. It's too bad the finale lacks any surprise w/ Denzel just pulling a Rambo rather than outwitting anyone."
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| 0 0% | Poor Things (2023) - Rated 02 Apr 2024
"How can feminists & their mostly liberal defenders pretend that hating men is not a key part of modern feminism when feminists made this? Certain other feminists will claim this isn't feminist - but not because of its misandry. The "moral" of this fairy tale is clear: men are uniquely cruel, controlling & jealous {an absurd belief which ignores reality & evolution - which is why pregnancy isn't an issue here). The only decent men are black (of course) or biddable cucks who do whatever women want"
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| 85 75% | Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024) - Rated 30 Mar 2024
"I can imagine some fans finding the film takes too long to get to G & K meeting, but not me. Wingard should make all these films. This threads the human characters - who are 1-dimensional but likeable w/ a mother/daughter problem that could go either way - w/ an extravaganza of giant monsters fighting in various settings & in various ways. Even Kong gets a compelling storyline, which highlights why I prefer him over Godzilla who really is just a giant lizard who does nothing but fight & sleep"
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| 75 41% | High Plains Drifter (1973) - Rated 29 Mar 2024
"Movies about slavery don't have this much whipping. I enjoy Clint as badass cowboy as much as the next guy but he's been too influenced by Leone & lets whipping scenes go on forever. & if not for a major twist that reveals itself more than halfway through & at least explains Clint's ahole behavior, I might've hated this. Was there ever an entire Old Western town full of so many frightened people that they'd allow themselves to be taken advantage of THIS much out of a fear of 3 guys?"
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