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Rocky V 1990
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
A misfire on every account but one I feel occasionally had a better story than Rocky IV.
My main problem is that every good idea in the film is executed poorly. The idea that rocky wants to train a new fighter is a good one (and one used for Creed?)! Until you realize that he's written too naive about Tommy Gunn's issues, and that Tommy's eventual betrayal happens too fast to really be impactful. I get that both of them…
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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice 2024
Pretty good! I feel like one more rewrite would've made this a slam dunk tho.
Monica Belluci's character doesn't get a ton of time to be interesting, and I feel like her ticking timebomb part could've been integrated into the Willem Defoe character, who was pretty cool and definitely needed more screen time. Feels like they thought the concept of Betelguese's ex-wife rampaging through hell would be really funny, but they don't do anything with it. Kind of a bummer,…
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