The Naked Gun 33 1/3 is the finest of the trilogy.
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Point Break 1991
It’s such a banger. Kathryn Bigelow uplifts the material in just about every way. It’s shot so well, edited so well; it’s frenetic and tightly wound. I forgot how great Gary Busey used to be. Lorri Petty’s great too. And Patrick Swayze is amazing… Alas, it isn’t a fair acting fight between him and Keanu. Reeves makes every line delivery nerve-racking; you hope, PRAY, that he’ll land the plane. Each and every time he speaks. It’s stressful. But he does…
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The Substance 2024
Style over Substance.
I’d leave it at that in good faith, especially if it was an hour shorter, but good gravy… that was too painful for good faith.
Its central metaphor/premise (as they’re almost one-and-the-same here) is so unimaginative and uncritically basic; Fargeat has no intellectual interest (capacity?) of exploring any potential deviation to the platitude, opting instead to merely beat the audience over the head with it (with the help of body horror) to the point where any figurativeness…
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Bram Stoker's Dracula 1992
I love it. An underrated film (even for its relative success). On direction, cinematography, sound, score, make up, and art direction— it’s one of the finest films ever made. No hyperbole. Yet, this is all overshadowed by the fact that in terms of acting, you often have (even in the same scene):
One actor laying down what is one of the greatest performances of all time and another laying down one of the worst.
The juxtaposition is absolutely wild. The…
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