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INDEPENDENCE DAY EXTRAVAGANZA: Everything you need to know about the movies that couldn’t beat a three-week old cartoon about a talking fish
It’s actually nowhere near as bad as we first thought. 2016 has been bad enough to finally cause Hollywood to re-examine the sequel-based business model, but this is the single weekend everyone will be pointing to. The biggest weekend … Continue reading
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Tagged #christoph waltz, #frank grillo, #mark rylance, #samuel l jackson, #steven spielberg, Alexander Skarsgard, Anarchy, CGI sucks, David Yates, Doom, Election Year, finding dory, green screen sucks, Harry Potter, Hollywood sequelitis, It's not that bad, July 4 weekend, kidnapping, Legend of Tarzan surprisingly successful, Motion-capture sucks, Roald Dahl, Tarzan continuity errors, Tarzan's action doesn't work, the BFG, The BFG is an example of Stockholm Syndrome, the big fucking gun, The Legend of Tarzan, The Purge, Warner Bros can't buy a win
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Deep horror, shallow exploitation
Looking up The Shallows, you notice a few things — it stars Blake Lively, who can’t act, it’s directed by Juame Collet-Serra, who only directs awful Liam Neeson vehicles that aren’t even the famous ones, and it’s sitting at a respectable 75 … Continue reading
The demons were inside us all along
Christina Ulsh @Stina_Ulsh Amidst blood and glitter, The Neon Demon is a visually striking tale of vanity and jealous rage. Jesse (Elle Fanning), a 16-year-old orphan, becomes part of the Los Angeles modeling scene after photographer Dean (Karl Glusman) discovers … Continue reading
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Tagged #david lynch, #drive, #keanu reeves, #stanley kubrick, beauty isn't everything its the only thing, Bronson, Elle Fanning, Jena Malone, nicolas winding refn, Only God Forgives, the neon demon, The Neon Demon convinces the audience to trust it then betrays us, The Neon Demon is narcissism, The Neon Demon uses silence as a weapon
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Was that a parody?
Dusk is falling on the era of sequels, but even though Hollywood is repeating itself to the point of self-satire, Independence Day: Resurgence is still a great idea. Released almost 20 years to the day after the iconic first movie, Resurgence presented the promise … Continue reading
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Tagged #liam hemsworth, 20 years later, 3D is for idiots, aliens, awful movie romance, Big Willy Weekend, character is action, dialogue sucks, disaster movies, disaster movies' character structure is inherently flawed, finding dory, Fox didn't want to pay Will Smith's salary, Independence Day, Independence Day: Resurgence, independence day: resurgence is a sarcastic movie, Jeff Goldblum, July 4 weekend, maika monroe, Rolan Emmerich, sequelitis, Skype, spoonfeeding, the age of original moviemaking is returning, the era of sequels is over, too many characters, was this a joke?, was this a parody?
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It’s The Rock’s world, you just live in it
How can a 6’5, 262 behemoth be this adorable? Already universally beloved, it seems Dwayne Johnson somehow gets more and more popular with every movie he makes. Though releasing to a modest $34.5 million against smash hit Finding Dory, Johnson’s and Kevin Hart’s … Continue reading
