First winter storm movie of the season, can't always watch The Shining or The Thing. This was much more suspenseful than I remembered in this viewing. The creatures are truly off-putting and the stuff of nightmares. Great casting of Danny Huston as their warlord. My only complaint is a by-the-numbers direction by David Slade. He should have done more to make the passing of time more palpable other than showing graphics like "Day 18". It felt like this was A Couple of Days of Night, not 30.
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Gremlins 2: The New Batch 1990
Gremlins minus the origin story minus the Christmas bullshit minus the 'Eighties-love-for-the-Fifties' bullshit = Gremlins 2. Like The Blues Brothers and Ferris Bueller's Day Off, I would like this movie so much more if it didn't have its titular characters in it much. I prefer all the surrounding stuff- the shots at He Who Shall Not Be Named (played with daffy aplomb by John Glover), the satire of big city New Yawk City in the go-go '80s, the 4th-wall breaking.…
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A View to a Kill 1985
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“Be a good girl and put her on automatic. We could do with a couple of glasses.”
Well I don't know if I'm feeling sad over waving goodbye to the best James Bond, yes Sir Roger Moore IS James Bond in my estimation, or if this Bond-A-THON is weakening my critical eye but I had a ball with A View…
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