Basically only likes The Thing, Terms of Endearment, and Midnight Run.
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The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters 2007
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
It is magical, how deeply unbelievable and unimportant the characters and events portrayed in this film are, how the imagination is captured, how indelible it is, how real.
How deeply uncomfortable Billy Mitchell is performing this version of himself that is now the only one. How Steve Wiebe’s self-centered single-mindedness is its reflection in the mirror pond, and the story is the slow motion snap of the jaws of proverbial puppy who sees the other puppy and goes for his…
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Dinner in America 2020
I like novels and stories where there's two characters who develop a relationship and nothing else much happens.
Maybe for a movie just two characters is enough sometimes?
Not here though.
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Wolfs 2024
Two ex-good actors star in a pitchfactory position that this will recoup 1.75x expenditure over 5 years of streaming:
"Mr. Wolf from Pulp Fiction, but Midnight Run, except if it was two aging stars driving the riding floor-polishing machine to Hallmark Channel status, full throttle."
For once, the director nailed the pitch, tautly leaving out everything else, like characterization, motivation, or surprise, which I guess is the basic job of comic book franchise employees.
Actual rating 1.25 stars.
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