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The Borderlands 2013
Found footage horror is harder to do than it looks: what reason to give for people filming themselves? what framing device to explain how this footage was found? how to justify or conceal the fact that the footage is conveniently edited? Because it's often a mode of filmmaking people turn to due to it being cheap, another important question is: do we show the monster? and if so, when, and in what detail? The Borderlands answers all of these perfectly,…
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Vivacious Lady 1938
One of the worst Classical Hollywood films I've seen, I think. All the jokes are based on either sex (man falls in between woman's legs, for example), or violence (people, mostly women, slapping each other), which isn't a problem in itself, except that there is zero imagination about any of those punchlines. You can see them coming from a mile off, and not in the delightful "this is so well-written!" way, but in the "I'm getting dumber by the minute"…
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The Batman 2022
Soporific, monotonous, embarrassing. Similar in some ways to Nolan’s films but with *all* edges smoothed out. Never daring to go in any particular direction or just make a decision, it ends up being a big, murky, vague nothing. No personality. No impact. It also has one of the worst shot and edited car chases I've seen in a long time.
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