I think the director eventually realised Jill must be the protagonist because he'd forgotten Mo existed, and decided to tie off his character arc with an appreciative death scene before letting Jill finish carrying the rest of the movie.
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As Above, So Below 2014
"What if Silent Hill were National Treasure" works better than you might think, but well before anything else the second main character was introduced via shoutout to the Untergunther's restoration of the Wagner Clock and I'd love it for that alone
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The Last Voyage of the Demeter 2023
Eventually someone will make a second period nautical horror film, but in the meantime this was satisfying. Even if it did fail to convince me that there's nowhere to make port between Romania and London.
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader 2010
There are seventeen seconds of good adaptation in this entire film, and all of them are the sea serpent's moment in the spotlight.
I'll admit this is probably partly influenced by my love of nautical fantasy and travellers' tales; the book belongs with stories like the Voyages of Sinbad, Gulliver's Travels, and Invisible Cities, and I resent the apparent need for movies to have a single overarching plotline with higher stakes and an impending threat. However, if there has to…
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