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Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
In my opinion this films fatal flaw was its set up. We got about 10 minutes of some on the nose visual queues for our characters backstory which then launched into a 20 minute high tension sequence that felt like it either needed to be at the end of the film to serve as the climax or 15 minutes shorter. I had a hard time caring about the main character because such little set up was given, I felt like…
I don’t really know why I watched this. ‘Big dumb action movie’ is typically something I’m not interesting in but for whatever reason I threw it on and I wasn’t expecting much and I didn’t get much. Anything outside of people get shot at, there’s this weird 90’s cheese quality to it. The score is whimsical and instead of invoking a sincere emotion it just seems silly. The dialogue between characters feels like a high school students idea of what…
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I’ll be honest I didn’t go into this movie having high expectation but regardless, I didn’t enjoy this movie for a number of reasons. My biggest issue is the pacing. This movie drags on and on. The opening sequence lasts about 22 minutes when everything you need to be know could be summed up in about 5 minutes. A nearly 2 and a half hour run time is about an hour too long. The dialogue between characters is clunky and…
This movie has been around for almost 40 years and at no point did I realize it was a musical and I was caught off guard to say the least. Overall the movie is good and has a way of transporting you to a far away surreal part of the world.