Very oddball stop-motion animated anthology that tells three stories connected to a singular creepy house. The first is pretty much a deal with the devil situation and I enjoyed both its story and the animation the most. They get progressively stranger and the animation more modern and crisp as they go. By the end, I was just ready for it to end and bored to death. There's probably a big connecting theme or message, but I didn't care enough to figure out what that was, so it didn't get any sort of emotional or intellectual reaction out of me at all.
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The further I get from this, the more I love it as a piece of nostalgia and not a franchise or even genre favorite. There is, of course, plenty to respect about its impact on the future of comic book films through its first real depiction of a dark super hero world. The Elfman score is unquestionably great. The way that Gotham City is turned into a character itself by way of Burton's design is impressive. And yes, Batman does…
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The Wrestler 2008
Rourke is incredible. There's no denying that. He simply is not there; it is only Randy the Ram, and there's something truly special about it that most actors will never have the perfect marriage of role and talent to achieve. I love the grungy way this whole movie is shot, too. It feels like Randy looks - living a rundown life with a rundown career, rundown relationships, and rundown hope. I also dig a perfectly ambiguous ending. The last couple…
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The most shocking takeaway for me was that even in 1937 Hollywood was very self-aware of the culture it was forming and its cost on the identities and lives of those who dreamed to be a part of it.
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Zack Snyder's Justice League 2021
I can think of nothing that wasn't improved. It's undeniably Zack's vision through and through, all of his visual and character strengths along with divisive needle drops and his sometimes awkward way of framing humor in the midst of heavy dramatic stakes. Victor and Barry benefit big-time from more backstory and more explanation helps clear up the overall plot. It's riveting from start to finish; the time just flies by and the film flows beautifully from one chapter to the…
