This is two movies, and everyone seems to only talk about the second one. You know, the one where a blood-spattered Nicolas Cage stares maniacally into the camera. The one with the face- and shapeless Ceno-Bikers. The one where Cage fights an outrageously phallic chainsaw battle, can't convince his own instrument to work, but manages to impale his opponent on his own, blood spraying out from under the convulsing body. The one where, in the end, Cage burns down religion…
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Zack Snyder's Justice League 2021
So this is it.
Is it a great movie? Very likely not. But holy hell it's great that it exists in this form.
Yes, under any normal circumstances, this would not have been released in this form, and under any normal circumstances, this would be a good thing.
But it's not normal circumstances, and ZSJL is as far from normal as a demonstrative blockbuster movie can be. Yes, yes, there's well known superheroes and lots of pathos and special effects…
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Insidious 2010
From what I'm reading, most people seem to take offense with the hard turn in style and aesthetics in the final act. I don't know - for me, it's exactly what I love about James Wan: He can do silly (but very effective) jump-scare thingies, and then turn it around into hyper camp, without letting it drift into comedy or wrapping things up with a third act right out of a mediocre action movie (just with ghosts). I think this is a bit of an underappreciated feat, and I don't know many directors who can reliably pull this off.
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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny 2023
A bit too long in the middle and maybe overall not as memorable as I would have liked, but still great fun and a beautifully sentimental send-off otherwise.
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Flesh + Blood 1985
Man, this world is a shitty place.
Yes, this is supposed to be a horror movie marathon, and FLESH+BLOOD might not fit those criteria too closely on first sight. Because this is some romantic knight's tale, about a maiden having to chose between the dreamy yet rough robber baron to be and the dreamy yet geeky intellectual knight to be. Right?
Oh so wrong. Yes, that may be the surface of the main plot. But man, this world is a…
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Black Sabbath 1963
Every time I stumble upon screenshots or short scenes and sequences from Mario Bava's movies, I vow to finally watch more of them. They just look so absolutely gorgeous. I keep collecting them, and they, mostly, keep collecting dust. Why is it so hard for me to pop them in (or, well, hit play on the streaming service du jour)?
This one kind of helps me answering this question. I adore BLOOD AND BLACK LACE, I really do. I fondly,…
