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  Megalopolis 2024

  ★½ Watched 24 Nov 2024

  This is indescribable. What on Earth happened to Coppola?

  The narrative is all over the place and there are a lot of stale old musty gender tropes to unpack from this, but analyzing it in-depth might be a bit pointless. It's honestly too incoherent to bother.

  I really don't think Megalopolis was good, but I do think people should see it because it was a totally unique viewing experience.
  It receives an extra half star in my rating because I respect how insane it was and some of the scenes were beautiful.
  It's a genuine shame that everything else about the movie was totally abysmal.

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  MaXXXine 2024

  ★ Watched 22 Aug 2024

  "X" was decent, "Pearl" was excellent but "MaXXXine" is a disappointment.

  The meandering plot just makes me feel like Ti West had no idea where this story was ever headed and threw something together last minute; the script is very sloppy and half-baked, especially compared to the first two movies. The 80s setting is an afterthought and almost nothing looks right or period-correct.

  This is all around just not a good movie, despite it having a few really cool scenes and a standout performance by Giancarlo Esposito's wig.

Popular reviews

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  Vampire's Kiss 1988

  ½ Added

  Nic Cage's over-the-top acting in this was obviously hilarious, but the rest of the movie is irredeemable trash.
  I'm not sure how anyone involved in creating this film read its meandering, chaotic, sophomoric and worst of all extremely misogynistic script and thought that it would turn out to be meaningful and deep, or even just watchable and entertaining. It is none of the above.

  Avoid this cinematic dung pile. Do something better with your time than seeing this movie.

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  Under the Rainbow 1981

  ½ Added

  This was repulsive. Absolutely no redeeming qualities can be found in this movie, only offensive nonsense that will give the viewer a migraine. Avoid this unless you like feeling disgusted and miserable.