Kent M. Beeson

Kent M. Beeson

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  • Jaws
  • All That Heaven Allows
  • The Return of the Living Dead
  • King Kong

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  • Mr. Sardonicus

    ★★★

  • Earth vs. the Flying Saucers

    ★★★

  • It Came from Beneath the Sea

    ★

  • The War of the Gargantuas

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  • Godzilla

    Godzilla 1954

    ★★★½ Rewatched 30 Jul 2017

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

    (Written on 8/11/2017 for the Muriels Hall of Fame and published here.)

    As a response to the national tragedies of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, perhaps it’s not surprising that, unlike the countless sequels, remakes, cartoons and toys that came after, Ishiro Honda’s Godzilla is… not a lot of fun. From the perspective of an American 2017 viewer, raised in the shadow of blockbuster spectacles, it does everything wrong. There are characters — the professor who wants to study the beast; his…

  • All That Heaven Allows

    All That Heaven Allows 1955

    ★★★★★ Rewatched 28 Jul 2016 2

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

    Here's a little something I wrote up for the Muriels Hall of Fame:

    “There is so much to adore about All That Heaven Allows, Douglas Sirk’s 1955 tale of a love affair between a socialite (Jane Wyman) and younger gardener (Rock Hudson). The acting is top-notch: Wyman leads us through Cary’s conflicts and confusion with her face alone, while Hudson’s soft-spoken and tamped-down performance is, in the context of a 50s melodrama, practically Bressonian. The crazy-artificial sets, particularly Cary’s house,…

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  • Earth vs. the Flying Saucers

    Earth vs. the Flying Saucers 1956

    ★★★ Watched 12 Sep 2023

    Maybe I just didn't see the right reviews, but odd to me no one mentions Mars Attacks! in relation to this film, as this seems to be the template. These aliens may seem more rational than those in Burton's film, but no, they're just as psychotic. Also, has a few striking shots, as if story originator Curt Siodmak wrote the camera angles into his treatment.

  • Mr. Sardonicus

    Mr. Sardonicus 1961

    ★★★ Watched 18 Sep 2023

    Svengoolie, S14E21. Just how I like my Gothic atmosphere, wonderfully chintzy, from the theater scrim "London" background to the cardboard headstones in the cemetery. Kept getting distracted by the doctor, who looks a bit like Chris Parnell, making me think of Dr. Spaceman. Why does Sardonicus' condition do that to his nose? How is what happens to Sardonicus at the end really any different to how he was before? And finally, isn't it clear that the money, not the disfiguration, turned Marek into Sardonicus? All that cruelty was already there. I would've voted thumbs down; fuck that guy.

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  • Beasts of the Southern Wild

    Beasts of the Southern Wild 2012

    ★★ Watched 06 Jan 2013 21

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

    Hey girl. Sorry you're too young and too small to do anything about global warming, your poverty, your father's horrendous parenting style, your missing mom, your terrible schooling, your community's penchant for alcoholism and general unwindulaxing, and being inculcated with values that emphasize the masculine ("beast it") to the detriment of the feminine ("don't be a pussy"). Oh yeah, and your father dying.

    But hey! You stood up to some imaginary monster pigs, so good for you.

  • Me and Orson Welles

    Me and Orson Welles 2008

    ★ Watched 01 Aug 2014 6

    BOYHOOD took twelve years to make, but this took twelve years to watch.

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