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Mid-semester insomnia watch.
This exceeded my expectations pretty thoroughly. I went in expecting a goofy horror movie that gestured vaguely at religion. The first half, in particular, sets up a great horror premise, one that doesn't feel wildly unfamiliar, but it also doesn't reinvent the wheel.
It's a bit like if Jigsaw were a charismatic theology professor whose seminar I absolutely do not want to be in.
The first act is remarkable--the long, extended scene with Hugh Grant holding Barnes…
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I think I’ve misunderstood Scorsese a little bit. Whereas Tarantino employs over-the-top violence as an aesthetic choice, Scorsese’s violence is concerned more with its own proliferation and mundanity. Tommy stabs a guy—maybe someone he’s known for a long time—because he’s annoying and talks a bit too much. He doesn’t think twice about it, and no one is really bothered by it beyond needing to dispose of the body. It’s like they realized it was garbage night and have to take…
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“The world has made choices for us.”
I can’t remember having an experience in the theater like this one. Mad Max: Fury Road maybe? But, much as I love Mad Max, even that comparison makes out Dune: Part Two to be much, much smaller than it is. The vast and endless desert, the brutalist architecture, the power and inevitability of history, all of that is here in spades. Without exaggeration, this is the largest, most grandiose film I’ve ever seen. This…
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Just as sexy as the original!
This was the movie I was most hyped about this year. I’ve been excited for this one since it was announced Robert Eggers was directing it. I’m a sucker for Eggers’ aesthetic choices as much as his content, which is to say I’m primed to like just about everything he’s done so far.
This is great. So much modern horror gets lost in either showing us the creature entirely or hiding them away until…
