Ridley Scott reminds us we should all be atheists lest the god we’ve been worshipping is actually an android designing the perfect killing machine. This movie gets everything right that Romulus got wrong. There’s still fan service, but at its core this film is building a true mythology that actually contributes to the story of this universe and creates characters that resonate and are legitimately memorable, instead of having as much plot as an Alien arcade game with permanently greasy…
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Hellboy: The Crooked Man 2024
Much closer to the comics than anything in the Perlman movies which are basically men in black with monsters. This movie makes good use of a tiny budget, and Jack Kesel is a great Hellboy. Should be used as a spring board for more of these, so easy to pop Hellboy into a basic horror story and make something decent. I gave it an extra half star cause this is just the kind of thing I want to see. They could so easily crank out one of these every year forever.
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The Wolfman 2010
This movie rocks. Great remake. But I just found out Joe Johnston directed literally nothing but hits. Honey I shrunk the kids is awesome, JP3 is the best sequel, jumanji is an all time classic, rocketeer is incredible, even the first cap is pretty good. This man is a machine when it comes to making good under the radar movies.
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Mechanical Violator Hakaider 1995
This movie is incredible, as is the rest of Keita Amemiya’s toku work. There’s a kinetic energy to his work that’s severely lacking in so much genre filmmaking. At 80 minutes this does as much if not more than a lot of 2 hour superhero or sci-fi action movies. There’s world building, religious themes, memorable action sequences, great effects, frenetic camera work, good music, it’s a truly perfect 80 minutes and there’s really nothing I could complain about besides how…
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