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Ju-on: The Grudge 2002
Really strong, with some things about it that bother me after sitting with it.
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Concept and character work: pretty damn good. Very simple premise played out effectively. You start to really feel the dread after you start seeing more and more missing posters as the film runs. The daughter of the ex-cop and him are the standouts character wise, tho Rika puts in some work as the damsel.The scares: Really good, effective. The jumps are appropriately sudden without…
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Ring 1998
It's so fucking fascinating to go back and see genre classics who have become the spark that lights a crazy fucking fire across the genre.
Ring is like...the way that American people talk about it, or talked about it when it was contemporary (it came to the US translated in 2002) is like, fucking crazy compared to what's there. It's like hearing tech guys talk about Roko's Basilisk in hushed tones, on some level; there's a level of buy-in that…
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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker 2019
My girlfriend walked out in the first third (she went and got Sarku Japan at the mall food court, and came back around the final third). I stayed and watched it all. I think that was a bad idea.
If The Last Jedi was a reaction to The Force Awakens, then The Rise of Skywalker was a reaction to The Last Jedi. This might be the most revanchist movie ever made outside of actual real-world reactionary propaganda pieces. We have…
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Shin Kamen Rider 2023
When you see Kamen Rider explode a man's torso in a shower of blood with a single punch, you know you're in for some shit.
Anno displays his absolute willingness to play with form in live action that he also shows in Re: Cutie Honey but with a real budget here. Every morph from Shocker is cartoonish in the best way, evoking equal parts horror and excitement as you see him push what you can do with filmmaking and hybrid…
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