A sad, somewhat powerful ending kinda doesn't make up for the beginning like 90 minutes which have huge tonal inconsistencies with humour so lame that I thought this was legit a kids movie at points, in a bad way. It also is way too glossy for any of the visual stuff to work outside of a few shots unfortunately.
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Untitled (For Marilyn) 1992
Man when Brakhage went off he FUCKIN went off. Listened to this with a song from the new Low album and it hit pretty near perfectly for me
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Empty Metal 2018
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The Happening 2008
M. Night striking a perfect balance between effective, emotional genre pieces and a huge b-movie. I guess during the time of COVID-19 that we are going through that this movie somehow appears to be realistic. People staying away from each other, hiding in their houses, becoming paranoid with new information and huge panicking. M. Night then uses this to prop up a ecological terror, one that is unknown until the very end of the film. The uncertainly of it all,…
