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Welcome to the Dollhouse 1995
I’ve only ever seen Happiness from Solondz which I thought was great but maybe a little too fucked up in parts. Welcome To The Dollhouse is similarly a demented mix of intense plot points placed in a 90s sitcom atmosphere but I think it struck a better balance.
The fucked up parts aren’t quite as shocking as in Happiness which made me feel less guilty for laughing at the top notch comedy writing skills Solondz has. I laughed my ass…
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Hereditary 2018
Not a horror fan at all but I’ve been lured into making my way through these “elevated” ones from the past few years and I’ve got to say, my impression so far is that they’re neither fish nor fowl. Most of them have some good art house drama elements early in the film which are then trampled over by ghosts or demons or witches and shit.
Like this one here, it starts out like a legitimately engrossing family drama with…
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Army of the Dead 2021
In the director’s cut for Watchmen, Dylan’s The Times They are a Changin’ plays over the typical Snyder slow mo visuals during the title sequence. That’s a good song of course but it’s also probably track #1 on those sound of the 60s albums they used to sell on infomercials. It’s about a 3 minute song which is a major problem for a Snyder cut because he needs more time to properly set up the movie! So what does he…
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Never Rarely Sometimes Always 2020
I could never remember the exact title of this movie but after watching the scene it references, I think it’s locked into my head now forever.
It’s hard not to compare this to 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days and it comes out pretty well I’d say. It’s like 4 Months on ambien, or alternatively, 4 Months is like this on meth. This film was clearly going for a documentary like feel in order to drive home the reality that…
