While a clear downgrade, The Golden Circle is still a thoroughly enjoyable action comedy with a fantastic cast and brilliant action scenes.
Pros:
- Julianne Moore
- Julianne Moore in a bowling alley
- Fantastically camped up even from the last outing
- New cast members shone
- Some strong emotional points
- Elton John repeatedly telling people to fuck off
- Extremely well shot action scenes
- Great soundtrack
Cons:
- The U.K is cooler than America
- Jeffβ¦
Now THIS is pod-racing!
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is absolutely one of the finest horror films ever made. This low-budget 70s slasher with a reputation for gruesome violence completely subverted my expectations in regards to its ability to create terror while barely showing any on-screen gore whatsoever. Through perfect pacing, the slasher film three-act structure used to absolute perfection, and a murder weapon that became iconic through generations, this is a film that beats the odds toβ¦
What is my perfect crime? I break into Tiffany's at midnight. Do I go for the vault? No. I go for the chandelier. It's priceless. As I'm taking it down, a woman catches me, she tells me to stop. It's her father's business. She's Tiffany. I say "no". We make love all night. In the morning, the cops come and I escape in one of their uniforms. I tell her to meet me in Mexico but I go to Canada.β¦
Delightful. A Baumbach-Gerwig screenplay is a millennial cinema nirvana. Consistently and thoroughly witty and heartfelt.
