Letterboxd — Your life in film

If you’ve seen Body of Proof, Bones, and that one episode of The Mentalist, you know what this is, who it is, and it is what it is. 

The acting, the writing, the pacing, the editing … atrocious. I had absolutely no idea what the timeline was…characters meet for the first time in one scene and by the next, it’s now presumably weeks or months later based on their conversation (definitely not their chemistry). 

It is by no means terrible — I’ve…

I did this entirely in one sitting — non-stop titters, some belly laughs, a quarter glass of Merlot, couple bong rips, and no regrets. It actually takes itself seriously throughout but balances silly with understated surprisingly well; by the title alone, having not bothered with any trailers, I expected rapid-fire, hit-or-miss jokes and outrageous parody; more Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the 13th than Don’t Be A Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the…

Aka Finger-Wag the Dog

This is the way my last watched film of 2021 ended: Not with a bang but a goofy after credits sequence. 

I was entertained, I think, for the most part of some of it and it’s nowhere near as irritating, pointless as Vice. 

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Nice to see Ron Perlman, Robert Joy.

Chris Evans did a short, ha-haaaaa thing. 

I did not find Ariana Grande as Gariana Arande (eh…) to be an interesting stretch of scenes, satire,…

First viewing since its theatrical run where I apparently rated the experience one and a half stars.

I had a slightly better experience this time. 

Winchester is a perfect example of a movie that need not have been released to theatres. 

Not just because it’s bad (it is indeed quite bad and worse still, bland).

I know that we were annoyed to have carved out a large chunk of an evening to sit in traffic after a long day of…

Nine Dead is low-budget trash and a fascinating sort of bad — the kind where you wonder what it was like on-set between takes or perhaps prior to shooting while in rehearsal. In an effort to explain what you’re seeing and hearing…perhaps to humanize the lived experiences of a truly terrible cast of actors. And editor, writer, director, composer…
 
Because how exactly did it (Saw V the Lesser) come into being? Was there passion behind this project? I get…

I had a very hard time watching this in 3D. It was distractingly terrible to look at and just dark as heck; spent most of the film without the glasses on, rubbing my eyes. I did not care much for the experience but I’ll give it another chance when it hits the second run theatres (more likely: on whatever streaming platform it hits down the pipe for free)

The score was great. Natch. 
The desert brutalist landscapes were sparse and…