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The Presidio 1988
Largely excellent 1988 San Francisco photography marred by a plodding, rudderless plot and an abysmal lead performance by Harmon, who was clearly told to try to do Tom Cruise. The supporting performances are not good, but his is so bad. Excellent SF stuff though, including a rollicking foot chase through Chinatown.
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Moment by Moment 1978
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Ostensibly, this is a film about a hot-blooded romance between a young drifter (Travolta) and an affluent, alluring older woman (Tomlin), but as you might expect the sexual chemistry does not light up the screen.
If you've poked around you've perhaps heard a few details that help explain this. Tomlin being lesbian and Travolta being, well, who knows. The film's excruciatingly stilted love scenes being directed by Tomlin's real-life lover and eventual wife Jane Wagner. And the unfortunate fact that…
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Five Nights at Freddy's 2023
Not bad! Some very fun moments, some genuinely sharper filmmaking than I expected, and the performances were pretty strong all around (save for Elizabeth Lail, but I do think she’s almost completely hamstrung by the script and I don’t have any judgement about that). Unfortunately, it starts to strain and teeter and partially collapse under the weight of terribly tedious exposition. Still, all the same, a lot better than I was expecting.
UPDATE: A lot of people are being VERY unfair to this fundamentally fine movie!
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