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Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
I think it had good parts but the script could’ve been a lot tighter (for example: why did the guys let the girl who got bit by a snake wander around remembering shit?? Why did they not immediately whisk her away under the guise of getting her medical care, wouldn’t that have been smarter foreshadowing than a lazy drug montage of that night?) and it had crazy tonal whiplash (going from hahaha weed… hahah blunt…. hahah BIG blunt…. to plot…
It feels silly to even give a movie with such historical importance a rating like this.
“The Great Dictator”, released prior to America’s entry into WWII, takes a firmly antifascist, pro-Jewish stance when much of America was still sympathetic to Germany’s ‘Jewish Question.’
I hadn’t seen much of Charlie Chaplin’s work before this, mostly knowing him as a comedic actor in silent films, but I deeply enjoyed his non-silent, farcical take on this extremely serious topic. It strikes a good…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Replacing my originally jokey review with an actual one because I’ve been having thoughts about why this movie was mid for me.
To preface: I am unfamiliar with the original nosferatu story and I imagine a lot of this issues I had with this movie originate from that. Remakes should stand on their own, so I don’t think something that is an issue in this movie being present in the original absolves this movie.
Starting with what I liked, I…