A superb film, on all levels. Serious, full-blown Gothic horror with expressionistic touches, a sense of period authenticity in the design of the film, script and performances, and no levity nor action-film tropes, which is a breath of fresh air. It is it's own animal, but I think you'll find no other modern horror film --certainly not one that would get a wide release-- that better evokes the dread and atmosphere of the silent-era horror, early 1930s Universal horror classics,…
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Godzilla Minus One 2023
What a great movie, both in terms of kaiju-related cinema and generally speaking!
I'm not one to normally throw around superlatives, especially for newer films vs classics, but... my first impression, just back from seeing it in IMAX, is that GODZILLA MINUS ONE is, most likely, the best all-around Japanese kaiju flick I've ever seen. If not, it is certainly up there with the original Japanese release version of GOJIRA (1954), at least. I say this as someone who really…
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National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation 1989
Surprisingly, since I like the original National Lampoon's Vacation (1983) and most John Hughes-scripted comedies, I found this film to have zero laughs; many (failed) slapstick moments are tediously telegraphed way beforehand. Hoped-for comical surprises never happen. No (would-be) laughs build into even bigger (would-be) laughs.
Chevy Chase's Clark Griswold, while never the sharpest knife in the drawer, is substantially dumber and more obnoxious here than in the original film (where he was largely a put-upon shmoe who was dealt…
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