This one gets better every time I watch it. The acting is wonderful, natural, emotional, raw. The script is crazy dark, and takes huge swings, but pulls them off excellently. When this first came out, I thought “really? ANOTHER Christmas Carol adaptation?” But this one actually has something new to say, a completely different take on the story. Worth a watch year after year, if you can handle it!
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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes 2023
Ugh, the story itself was so good, but it was ruined by the poorly written dialogue. When I describe the plot points of the movie, it’s very complex and riveting. But the dialogue is so cheesy that it’s hard to take the characters seriously a lot of the time. The acting was good, could have been better. I will say that the movie made me wish I had read the book, because I wanted to see a good execution of the story. But if I was Suzanne Collins, I don’t think I’d be super pleased with this movie.
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Wonka 2023
Timmy, you’ve let me down. Your normal standard of excellence in performances was thrown out the window here. Comes across as a pure money grab, because you were really phoning it in. To be fair, you had nothing to work with. The script was absolutely wretched - chaotic, messy, cliche, and inauthentic. We have no idea where Willy came from, nor where the story takes place, as everyone has different accents. His mom is dead, of course, though we are…
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Licorice Pizza 2021
The most basic rule of screenwriting is that your main character must have a goal. She must be pursuing that goal in every single scene. This rule was completely disregarded in Licorice Pizza. Not only does Alana not have a driving force behind her character, she’s not likable in the least. Am I supposed to be rooting for the annoying pedophile? You cannot make a movie based on a warm color palette and 70s nostalgia alone.
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