Yiannos

yiannos
Celluloid Junkie - 2873 Film Ratings
Member Since: 07 Jul 2014
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Bio: I love film and rate according to genre and/or a director's body of work.

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50 26% The Wicked Darling (1919) - Rated 18 Mar 2024
"Early Browning has most of the key elements that would later come to define him in place, but it's also strangely benign (for him) and could have leaned more heavily into its pod scum milieu to dig deeper into dirt."
50 26% Oppenheimer (2023) - Rated 11 Mar 2024
50 26% Wild Bill (1995) - Rated 09 Mar 2024
"Neither sufficiently 'mythic' or a close character study, it is unclear why Hill made it or what he was trying to say, if anything, about this particular historical figure. The quasi-impressionist approach to narrative doesn't really work, especially as the flashbacks disrupt its rhythm, and the overall production resembles a studio project demoted to television. It is a curiosity for fans of Hill and Bridges, but it merely confirms why the former was better at urban westerns."
30 2% School Spirit (1985) - Rated 23 Feb 2024
"It is what it is. Great VHS cover though."
58 42% The Holdovers (2023) - Rated 20 Feb 2024
"Like Gray, who is becoming increasingly anonymous with time, there are exaggerated claims about Payne positioning him as a kind of modern heir to the New Hollywood throne. 70's films weren't this damn conventional though, unless one is referring to lesser works that have been completely forgotten. He certainly doesn't resemble any of the great US directors of that time, except for maybe Ashby at his most toothless.Giamatti is good, but it is just decent contemporary middlebrow fare.Nothing more."
33 2% Supernova (2000) - Rated 17 Feb 2024
"How can a film with such a troubled production history be this dull? We'll never know who is to blame for the resultant mess, and it doesn't really matter because no cut is capable of shaping these shaggy scenes into a truly cohesive form. It also led to Hollywood refusing to return Hill's calls, who was arguably the biggest casualty of this creative/financial fiasco."
55 36% Thanksgiving (2023) - Rated 11 Feb 2024
"The scene at the beginning of people practically killing each other for bargains is how I imagine Americans behave on Black Friday. The rest of the film, however, doesn't compare, and Roth's usual attempt to shoehorn a message into genre pieces is not particularly successful. The twist is also dumb and plays like an unwelcome throwback to the time when Roth first started directing. The kills are quite gory though, and from a purely technical standpoint, it's quite well made for what it is."
65 60% The Blob (1988) - Rated 10 Feb 2024
"Similar to The Fly and The Thing, The Blob was a respectable remake that improves on the original in some respects with quite inventive practical effects, although it wasn't good enough to supplant the memory of the previous film for one major reason: Russell/Darabont did not present the amorphous blob as a signifier as mutable as its shape, which creates a thematic/allegorical hole that is only partially filled by creative mayhem."
48 19% Action Jackson (1988) - Rated 07 Feb 2024
"Weathers would have thrived during the heyday of blaxploitation, where his natural charm and muscular physique would have reaped dividends. AJ was not a great vehicle for his talent by any means, but he is always watchable, and there are a few laughs, intentional or not."
75 84% Blade Runner (1982) - Rated 04 Feb 2024