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Madame Web 2024
The first 4 minutes contains a color-grading error, double-edit mistakes, badly mixed dialogue over a character whose mouth is clearly closed on-screen, awkward digital-punch-ins between shots, the most unconvincing Amazon jungle location you'll see in years and a one-two punch of horrendous VFX and dialogue. And then...it gets worse.
It's one thing to make something that doesn't work, doesn't make sense or just makes you groan and cringe. It's another thing to release something so technically filled with mistakes, flaws…
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Little Shop of Horrors 1986
Every musical of the last 25 years could learn five dozen lessons from Ashman and Menken's show and how Frank Oz directs this fucked up and extremely funny masterpiece.
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Back to the Future 1985
Perfection is a term that you have to be careful with before you dare to throw it around. It implies a kind of unique, finely-tuned, high-water mark that could almost not be exceeded without significantly altering the thing that is perfect to begin with. Perfection is also timeless, something that doesn't date unless it actually gets better with age. Perfection is hard to come by...but perfection is the seminal 1980's growing-up/time-travel/sci-fi/comedy extravaganza: BACK TO THE FUTURE. Like lightning that is…
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Rango 2011
Astonishingly fresh, deft, weird and left-of-center, RANGO is a self-stylized 21st Century Western set in the world of desert-dwelling animals who think they're living in the world of Sergio Leone. Elegant motion-captured performances, bold and bizarre visual elements, stylish and tongue-firmly-stuck-in-bone-dry-cheek, RANGO is a film that isn't so much for modern animation fans as it's for fans who are sick of modern animation and its lowest-common-denominator-catering blandness.
Whimsical and witty with strong direction by Gore Verbinski (who seems to have…