I have not read any of Seth Grahame-Smith’s books, so I can’t say if the concept works better in the written word. But I can say the whole enterprise fails here. I find Austen to be riveting when adapted well. She was such an amazing chronicler of human nature and societal strictures. This film does not have the time to get into the nuances of her plot and characters because it has to include the zombie stuff, so the Austen…
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School Daze 1988
If you described the events of this film to somebody, much of it would sound like a typical 80s teen/college comedy. But what that description misses is the style Lee brings to the film. The way he shoots things, the way he uses his larger budget to stage musical sequences, etc. it also may miss the social consciousness of this film, which pulls in under-explored elements of the black experience (like colourism, African vs American, the fragile state of HBUs,…
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Village of the Damned 1960
This was pretty great! I knew the story, knew about the kids, but I liked how it took its time getting to them. First the mass sleep, then the pregnancies (a plot point handled as well as you could in 1960), then the kids. There are some genuine creeps and shocks here, even 60+ years later.
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Joker: Folie à Deux 2024
Boring and pointless and has very little to say. What it seems to be saying is that people misunderstood the wildly successful first film. That film was just pure misery with an overlay of 70s aesthetic. This film aims to punish fans of that film with lethargy. Everything here feels half-hearted and glacially-paced. And boring. Did I mention boring?
Gaga was good. She had conviction, even if it is in service of such a resentful film.
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