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Venom is a bad movie, but the IDEA of a dude possessed by an alien parasite with no indoor voice and dumb opinions that gives giving running commentary on everything is WONDERFUL.Venom
I guess I just don't get what TT sees in this film. Oh, its not without its merits. I appreciate that its weirdly gross. Like, the murders are all very sterile but the food stuff and the fact that for most of the movie Tom Hardy and the make up people decide that Eddie is violently ill, constantly sweating. Choices are made and hard swings are had. I like what Riz Ahmed is doing, too. Not subtle but fun. But the actual Venom effects look quite awful, particularly the more it goes into superhero mode. I also don't really get the symbiotes' heel turn which seems to be based on very little. It gives some explanations but it feels very weak and "tell, don't show". I wanted this to be the weird outlier in the big franchise movies that gets a weird little personality all its own by virtue of that but frankly, we don't get enough. In terms of structure, its just as big a snooze as the mid-2000s superhero films that didn't land.
Stir of Echoes, although Kevin Bacon needs to be hypnotized by his sister-in-law into being a medium.Are there any movies about families being haunted where the husband is the believer and the wife is the skeptic instead of the other way around?
Huh... The other way around is a sadly far too common thing, isn't it?Are there any movies about families being haunted where the husband is the believer and the wife is the skeptic instead of the other way around?
"Women are scared/superstitious and men are brave/sensible" say movies because so many executives/producers seem to be stuck in the 1950s.Huh... The other way around is a sadly far too common thing, isn't it?
Not quite "haunted", but how about Close Encounters of the Third Kind?Are there any movies about families being haunted where the husband is the believer and the wife is the skeptic instead of the other way around?
Pretty fair, though I think it's more socially acceptable for men to believe in aliens than ghosts.Not quite "haunted", but how about Close Encounters of the Third Kind?
So, Cruella.
It’s not... great
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Rear Window is a very good movie.
Frocto and Niku over on the Brontoforum did a lets watch of thatEarlier, I learned of the existence of some total trash OAV where at one point there is a Master Blaster riding on the back of a nude woman who is a robot, part-motorcycle, and breathes lasers. Asking around here, I learned this is called Goku: Midnight Eye (thanks Peklo!) and for some reason, it's available on Amazon Prime, wih the sort of emotionally dissonant weird old OAV dub you'd expect.
The second episode of two has a monologue from the main character which contains the following word for word quotation:
"If I wanted to, I could hack into the launch codes of every nuclear power, send the missiles up, and destroy the planet. In every other way, I'm just your ordinary private detective."
Shortly after explaining this, he's in a sewer pipe defending some woman from a swarm of robo-pterodactyls.
Also in the first episode, there is a scene where someone sets a trap to kill the protagonist, which I can only properly convey with a bunch of nested spoiler tags.
The hypnotic robo-stripper who has thus far killed every other character in the episode and attempted to kill our hero (who thwarted it by stabbing his own eye out by the way, which some mysterious unexplained benefactor then replaced with a magical internet eye giving him all knowledge, but we're not making any Odin references because he also gives him a power pole) mind controls his love interest so that she gives him a drugged drink.
Also, she has poisoned lipstick to kiss him with when he refuses.
Also this is basically just a distraction so a random Abobo can sneak up to crush his skull.
And as a contingency for when that fails, Abobo has a fez concealing dozens of poisonous robot mosquitos.
All of which chases him out of the building to be confronted again by the hypno-robo-stripper.
Disney can't help themselves!It somehow manages to feel whitewashed and orientalist even with an all-Asian cast of characters and actors.