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Gladiator II 2024
So this was, like, fine. It had the impossible task of being “gladiator II” - if I ever need to cry on command the ending of the first one is one of the things I think about. And you can’t just follow that up, and hit those same emotional notes. It tried though, but it came off as rather hollow.
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Conclave 2024
The constant tension (that breathing!) made the painstaking ritual of the catholic church interesting. Great dialogue and passages of awesome rhetoric, and I like the whole thing with the character of Benitez. I dig it. My favorite part is when the dean of cardinals used the xerox machine.
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The Masque of the Red Death 1964
I love the short story as much as I hate the satanism in this film. BUT the last act was fantastic. That was an inspired interpretation of the material. And I dug the nod to “Hopfrog” - that was a good way to fill out the rest of the 1 hour of this film until the real juicy bit of the story, not that weird satanic shit. But Vincent Price is always good.
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