i went to film school. i don’t have good taste. and i don’t care.
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Too bad this sucked; it’s such a fun action comedy concept. The action was pretty good, but the comedy hurt (pun intended I guess). Zero chemistry between the leads, and Jacob Batalon is the only one here with any semblance of charisma even if he is playing that guy from Spider-Man again.
Maybe I wouldn’t have hated it so much if they hadn’t always gone with the first and most obvious version of every idea? Makes it feel like a…
If I had to guess! This feels like it’s suffering from rewrite sickness.
There’s a lot of plot threads that don’t cohere (for example, it feels pointed that Ariel is 27 and Moretti hasn’t given an interview in 27 years, but those are just coincidences I guess?) and there really aren’t any surprises in the story. Which is a shame, because this does start really strong.
Still—it looks great, it got Ayo Edibiri and John Malkovitch to play across from one another, and that Dina Simone track fucking SLAPS! So I guess that evens it out a bit. It is, as this film would say, middle.
I had a Letterboxd years ago and I remade mine today just so I could rate this as the greatest movie ever made. I hope this becomes the next Rocky Horror Picture Show. I hope one day my children ask me what it was like to be alive when this movie was in theaters and I can look them in the eyes and say I don’t fucking know but I was THERE. And I am proud to say I did…
The only reason this gets 4 stars instead of 5 is because there’s no way a movie subtitled “Let There Be Carnage” should be rated PG-13. Honestly baffling decision that hobbles any potential gore.
This movie was at its best when it was a relationship drama and a monster movie. It was at its worst when it was a marvel movie. I look at the prospect of watching a Spider-Man movie to see my boys again and I am just…