Moribunny

moribunny
Criticker Zealot - 5495 Film Ratings
Member Since: 03 Apr 2006
Location: Tel Aviv, Israel
Age: 46
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Bio: I'm a writer. I lean towards arthouse cinema, realism and old Italian stuff, and some guilty pleasures include horror, kung fu, and anything strange and unusual. Favorite filmmakers include (in no particular order): Jacques Rozier, Mario Monicelli, Maurice Pialat, Emir Kusturica, Radu Jude, R.W. Fassbinder, Asghar Farhadi, C.T. Dreyer, Antonio Pietrangeli, Dino Risi, Werner Herzog, Lina Wertmüller, Luchino Visconti, Claude Chabrol, Nicolas Roeg, Sidney Lumet, Satyajit Ray, Sam Peckinpah, Sergei Parajanov, John Cassavetes, Michelangelo Antonioni, Lynne Ramsay, Abbas Kiarostami, Woody Allen, Federico Fellini, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Alan Clarke, Terry Gilliam, Costa-Gavras, Aki Kaurismäki, Jafar Panahi, Douglas Sirk, Ernst Lubitsch, Kaneto Shindo, Jean Renoir, Ermanno Olmi, Cristian Mungiu and Francesco Rosi.

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48 36% Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019) - Rated 24 Jul 2019
"I get Berlinger's "and the women who loved him" ambition with regards to Bundy, because his magnetism was what made him special among serial killers, but it's palpable that Berlinger doesn't know much about Liz and hasn't the imagination to flesh her out; he also feigns surprise on her part when in reality she wasn't exactly oblivious to Ted's nature. Thus we have a single memorable character in Zac Efron's Ted, and the only engaging parts of the film are those based on trial transcripts."
58 48% Once Upon a Time in America Once Upon a Time in America (1984) - Rated 14 Aug 2007
2% Blood Quantum Blood Quantum (2019) - Rated 04 Apr 2021
"As if zombie apocalypse wasn't already the shittiest movie genre in existence, this one has a shitty spin about native americans being immune because it's all just nature's revenge on the white man. Too boring for words."
48 36% The Vampire The Vampire (1957) - Rated 23 Jun 2022
"Pretty basic old-school vampire movie, that it's Mexican is of no real consequence (the vampire is Hungarian, naturally). It does add a few logical pieces of lore, such as the suggestion that those bitten become bloodsuckers themselves only because they begin to thirst for their own blood which was forever taken from them. Decent sets."
50 38% I Spit on Your Grave I Spit on Your Grave (2010) - Rated 30 Jan 2011
"The last in a tidal wave of remakes of classic scaries, this version of ISoYG is fashioned in accordance with the torture porn fad of the aughties, so the vengeance scenes are far more elaborate and crueler. While Meir Zarchi's was a B-movie made on a shoestring budget, the remake boasts expensive production and is more technically accomplished in every way. Genre fans should be entertained, but it lacks psychological subtlety present in the original, and doesn't add anything of substance."
2% Freddy Vs. Jason Freddy Vs. Jason (2003) - Rated 01 Oct 2009
"Two atrociously trashy, overcommercialized and endlessly repetitive horror franchises converge into one super duper crapfest. Slavishly obedient to the series' preprogrammed storyline conventions, the film successively kills off a flock of obnoxious teen-like things led by a theatrically incompetent but enormous-breasted blonde. Their two dusty but still cartoonish executioners are then pitted against each other, setting the unfortunate precedent for the year after's Alien vs. Predator."
45 33% Landscape in the Mist Landscape in the Mist (1988) - Rated 15 Dec 2012
"I found this to be "heavy handed" in more than just the literal sense. Angelopoulos is a master of the slow tempo, I'll give him that. He makes space seem full. Full of what, though? An unaccomplished Tonino Guerra script serves only as a giveaway of the director's aspirations. He tries to be a touch fantastic like Fellini, use long uninterrupted shots like Tarkovsky and big, ominous symbolistic sceneries like Antonioni, but the sources do it better. The story, like the music, is kind of sappy."
68 70% Seconds Seconds (1966) - Rated 07 May 2014
"The problem is that it's too easy to draw a kind of "appreciate what you've got" moral from this, and it takes some mental effort to block that tripe out of one's mind - but to the extent that I managed it, this was quite creepy and had a bit of a "The Trial" vibe. It's one of Rock Hudson's best performances, but most of the credit is probably due to legendary cinematographer James Wong Howe. Seconds is all about the atmosphere, which is his doing."
25 12% The Belko Experiment The Belko Experiment (2017) - Rated 26 Jun 2017
"I've seen way too many of these Zimbardo-infused Battle Royale knockoffs, and they're all detestable. With Greg McLean directing, at least Belko is grittier than most; but that doesn't quite rescue it from its humdrum predictability and pretentious while asinine allegorical subtext. For God's sake, won't horror directors please just stop remaking this same movie over and over again?"
60 54% The Right Stuff The Right Stuff (1983) - Rated 08 Apr 2011
"Very good entertainment for such a long movie, it boasts a good cast and runs the gamut from tension to humor, never boring. Believability is not a strong point, though, and everyone is a stereotype: The scientists are nerds, the astronauts' wives hysteria-stricken, the journalists, the politicians, all familiar tropes. The pilots are jocks of course, but that's what makes them the only heroes of the Mercury program according to Hollywood."