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Movie Time 2.0: TT mini reviews

Aurelia

Aurelia

duff mcwhalen megafan
(she/her)
Watched both Nosferatu and Sonic 3 across two nights and enjoyed them both.

Nosferatu was incredible, honestly shocked at how good it was. I expected the movie to be great considering Robert Eggers’ previous work but I was kinda blown away by it, and how well the films cinematography and lighting was composed combined with the acting.

Sonic 3 was fantastic too. I have a lot of nostalgia for Sonic Adventure 2 and I thought it was a fantastic adaptation of the games storyline. There’s cuts and changes but all of them seemed logical considering you’re adapting a large scope game plot to a film. Also wish that
live and learn had more time to play in the movie versus it just being used for like a minute.
fantastic film though and I’m excited to see how Sonic 4 is.
 
Octopus Prime

Octopus Prime

Mystery Contraption
(He/Him)
Two older horror movies this week;

Nosferatu (the Werner Herzog one) prominently featured one of the most loathsome and vile marshaled entities to ever be committed to celluloid; Klaus Kinski. Who was playing the vampire with a weird creepy frantic child in gross rat guy body that was… really off putting. His Dracula was giving about the same kind of performance as Nic Cage in Longlegs. While the original Nosferatu was pretty much precisely Dracula with the names changed, this one kept the plot of the original and reverted to the Bram Stoker characters which, in fact… really shows how different those two were.

Changing gears tonally pretty severely is An American Werewolf in London, where the only thing I knew going in is “friggin’ wildass werewolf transformation”, and indeed… that is very much the case. I certainly wasn’t expecting it to be as funny as it was. Not, like, uproariously so, but considerably more so than I was expecting. Enough that I like the guy when he isn’t being an implacable murder machine (though to be fair I think the wolfs bodycount is way lower than the panicked civilians). Good movie, but it takes a while for there to be an American werewolf in London.
 
Voncaster

Voncaster

Aurelia said:
Nosferatu was incredible, honestly shocked at how good it was. I expected the movie to be great considering Robert Eggers’ previous work but I was kinda blown away by it, and how well the films cinematography and lighting was composed combined with the acting.
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I saw Nosferatu tonight. It was a great movie.

I agree: the cinematography, lighting, and acting were all top notch. Glad I made the trip the the theater to see the film on the big screen.

I really liked how the good guys were all white and clean shaven and Nosferatu was dark, dirty and brought the plague. It felt like a classical story tale.

Really did not like the mustache on Nosferatu.

Really did like the Raiders of the Lost Ark style face melt ending!

Rating (Out of 5): 🩸 🩸 🩸 🩸
 
Lyrai

Lyrai

Mischief Maker
(she/her)
Voncaster said:
I really liked how the good guys were all white and clean shaven and Nosferatu was dark, dirty and brought the plague. It felt like a classical story tale.
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....what does this mean? Like, this is a weird sentence to me. Can you elaborate on what you mean?
 
Voncaster

Voncaster

Maybe should have said wore light colors instead of white.

Mainly I was trying to say visual design of the core characters contrasted with the visual design of Nosferatu felt like classical heroes versus villains contrast. The visual design felt like a old Disney Animation to an extent. I liked the visual design of the film a lot.
 
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Pombar

Pombar

Aurelia said:
Sonic 3 was fantastic too. I have a lot of nostalgia for Sonic Adventure 2 and I thought it was a fantastic adaptation of the games storyline. There’s cuts and changes but all of them seemed logical considering you’re adapting a large scope game plot to a film. Also wish that
live and learn had more time to play in the movie versus it just being used for like a minute.
fantastic film though and I’m excited to see how Sonic 4 is.
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Also had a blast with this the other week. I have mostly second-hand nostalgia for SA2 (my initial familiarity with the story came from a fanfic continuation of the UK Sonic comic that adapted SA2, oops) but it still worked for me here. I was a little sad the facility with Shadow and Maria was just a bunker rather than the Space Colony Ark but it makes perfect sense in the movie for it to be so - making the space laser thing the reason Gerald is able to get out, escalating the stakes into space only at the end, and letting them explore the ruins earlier before going to space, etc. But still, an unreasonable part of me just wanted to hear them say Space Colony Ark, I guess!

I’m wanting to see Nosferatu but it might have to be a home viewing at this rate, as my wife doesn’t truck with horror and she’s here till the 28th.
 
Aurelia

Aurelia

duff mcwhalen megafan
(she/her)
Pombar said:
Also had a blast with this the other week. I have mostly second-hand nostalgia for SA2 (my initial familiarity with the story came from a fanfic continuation of the UK Sonic comic that adapted SA2, oops) but it still worked for me here. I was a little sad the facility with Shadow and Maria was just a bunker rather than the Space Colony Ark but it makes perfect sense in the movie for it to be so - making the space laser thing the reason Gerald is able to get out, escalating the stakes into space only at the end, and letting them explore the ruins earlier before going to space, etc. But still, an unreasonable part of me just wanted to hear them say Space Colony Ark, I guess!

I’m wanting to see Nosferatu but it might have to be a home viewing at this rate, as my wife doesn’t truck with horror and she’s here till the 28th.
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Glad you enjoyed Sonic 3! I do agree that the decision to move the ark away from being the main spot for research was a weird one, but from a plot perspective of having them discover the research base without knowing it makes sense.. Hope you’re able to watch Nosferatu afterwards at least but your reasoning makes complete sense.
 
Johnny Unusual

Johnny Unusual

(He/Him)
Neo Skimbleshanks said:
Chimpanzee Robbie Williams (y)🐵
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