DNF. Got to the thing but still so boring. You guys will watch anything.
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Shot Pattern 1982
Barely qualifies as a vigilante movie, but the drama it wants to be is pretty stale too.
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Goodbye & Amen 1977
Maybe my new favorite Damiani? Sort of incoherent as usual but oozing weird style and scummy vibes, with a tantalizing spy backdrop giving way to an almost soap opera-level thriller, all glazed with a killer synth soundtrack. Tasted so good.
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Abigail 2024
Sure it would have been nice to not know the thing before it happens but even given that mistake the first half is egregiously long, full of expository backstory dialogue instead of character-defining action, and the back half is standard issue piss-brown goop disguised as horror-comedy. Ineptly edited and ugly.
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Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire 2024
Only like 75% as soul-crushingly awful as the last one. Also there's a ghost disguised as a pizza that was funny.
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Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes 2024
Wes Ball has a little juice, looks good, great VFX. A little slow and long at 2:25. Feels like mostly an excuse to soft reboot back to the same old conflicts of the previous trilogy rather than move the franchise forward. I'll take it.
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The Fall Guy 2024
It's a good thing Gosling and Blunt have such good chemistry. Anyways this is acceptable but David Leitch remains a not good director of action. When they rolled that BTS footage at the end I was bummed because they shot all this cool stuff and it mostly wound up looking like the same old crap.
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Brigade of Death 1985
Woo! Exceptionally gnarly crime sleaze from the great Max Pecas. Absolutely filled to the brim with grisly violence and misogyny, at times so viscerally brutal it almost becomes elegant. Not Actually Good, but I was enraptured.
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Love Lies Bleeding 2024
I love the swings moment to moment, the collection of influences is well-channeled, and the two leads are terrific, but dammit this doesn't ever cohere. Maybe it doesn't need to, but for me the (admirable) consistent intensity doesn't actually make for any momentum. I remain mostly adrift in the vibes era.
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Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver 2024
Was it a good movie? Who's to say? But it didn't deserve to die.
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The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare 2024
Ritchie tends to work best for me when he's in the business of pure pastiche, and let's just say that in this case business is a-boomin'.