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CSULB Postproduction ‘21
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Coraline 2009
The extraordinary depth of field of the stop-motion sets within the 3D rerelease of Coraline brought me back to my days as a kid looking at 3D pop-up books, memories of being enchanted by the worlds and characters designed through paper engineering that delivered eye-popping grandeur and wonder to my young eyes. This same sentiment is expressed with my appreciation of looking upon Laika’s stop-motion techniques, figurines and set design in this film, delivering two hauntingly detailed worlds between the grey-toned…
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Maestro 2023
For some reason, the only memorable thing I got out of this movie was that the sound designers were over-using the same ‘open and close cigarette lighter’ sound effects over and over again that it was getting distracting. Maybe Hollywood needs to start recording new cigarette lighter sound effects instead of re-using the same Soundsnap sounds till the end of time.
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Werewolf by Night 2022
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
How to destroy the mystery you build up for your horror story: the protagonist saves a misunderstood CG monster man because we can’t let monsters be evil, and then add in a Disney-ish Beauty and the Beast storyline with non-romance to make it seem unique but in reality is painfully trite.
The WandaVision Screenwriting School for Style over Story Substance.
Also: Don’t just add digital cigarette burns one after the other in a span of 1 minute, it makes your attempt at a black and white film more fake than it already is.
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Zack Snyder's Justice League 2021
The perfect item I can ascribe to this film is, no joke, a Jolly Rancher. It takes a long time to suck in all the juicy flavors this film has to offer, (humor, heart, action, suspense, tragedy, destiny, friendship, love, redemption), but by the end of the day, it’s The Greatest Jolly Rancher I’ve ever had.
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