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The Talented Mr. Ripley 1999
Exceedingly glad I went in totally blind (outside of #menswear photo snippets of the boys getting a 'fit off). I didn't even know it was set in Italy, or even the genre!
I suspect—like my viewing of the stellar Knives Out—that this is partially my unfamiliarity with murder mysteries. That said, the intricacy of how the different strands of the story enmesh is just magnificently done. No wonder it's a bestseller. Yet, it doesn't suffer the common pitfall of adaptations…
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Monkey Man 2024
Dev and the setting are a refreshing contrast to the typical Hollywood-bepainted revenge-action flick. Unfortunately, revenge-overly-mass-killing-action flicks are not my genre.
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- The fact this had both a thinly veiled backstory and an anti-climax (due to an insufficiently fleshed-out ultimate villain) meant the "satisfaction" fell quite flat on me.
- Despite being visually great throughout, the fighting bandied between being either too gory or too weightless.
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Akira 1988
I get the impression that the only explanation for this clusterfuck of ideas is that you've got to read the 8000 page manga. I can only explain this by imagining that **a lot*** of the story and context has been cut. Subplots all over the shop which never get answered, alienation from the english dubbing and no real connection to any of the characters made it really hard to see this one through.
The visual style, soundtrack and glimpses of…
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Blood for Dracula 1974
Alas, the so-bad-it's-good and meme-able scenes are well and truly overshadowed by the shocking contents. This is a blessing in disguise, as it's truly atrocious and others should be spared this.
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