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Nothing egregiously wrong with it but definitely is devoid of anything special that maybe should come with the price tag.
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The Magic Serpent 1966
Absolutely lives up to it's other title "Dragon Showdown".
Has a pretty damn baller intro with betrayal, deaths, the serpent (dragon) showing up to slap around a boat full of old men and the last living heir to the Ogata clan, and a giant eagle to swoop in LotR style to save the boy. Busts the dragon's forehead wide open. An absurd amount of blood. Head wound like a Japanese hardcore wrestler.
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Timecrimes 2007
Oh, hell yeah I love this rock solid time loop story. Starts out like a sitcom and ends like an acceptance of depression.
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein 1994
Knowing it’s a Kenneth Branagh film the opulence is expected. The surprise is more in the speed, the pacing specifically, of the story that is crammed into 2 hours. It feels oddly relentless. Especially with all the elaborate camera moves. Somebody showed Branagh a 360 degree steadycam shot and that might have been a mistake. At one point I even checked if I had the playback at 1.5x speed because everyone was talking like they were going to die if…
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