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Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit 2005
This is hornier than all the superhero movies of the 21st century put together.
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Darkman 1990
Recommended reading: This too brief oral history from 2020: www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/darkman-turns-30-liam-neeson-frances-mcdormand-and-more-remember-the-arduous-making-of-sam-raimis-influential-superhero-film-4047928/
Favorite notes:
- Bill Paxton was considered for the lead (damn!)
- McDormand was roommates with Raimi and the Coen brothers.
- A rebellious Bob Murawski secretly led a last minute recut without studio permission restoring a fraction of the nearly half hour that was cut after initial test screenings.
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Turning Red 2022
Extremely fun, super well written, and honestly the most energetic and expressively animated big budget animated movie I’ve seen since Spider-Man. I have stopped expecting this kind of thing from Disney movies but we got it anyway somehow. That’s wild as hell!!
It’s also got a shit ton of early 2000s teen girl relatability stuff. Damn! Very cute!!
There is a fight scene at the end of the movie which is all pure anime speed lines, backgrounds dissolving into flat…
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Onward 2020
Dang—really fucking cute. I talked some shit about this when the marketing first started a few months ago because the posters I kept seeing for this were so bland and nothing-looking (just photos of the cops and the manticore standing there? I had no idea what I was looking at). The movie itself is pretty dang great, though. Got a couple of pretty intense emotional gut punches!
The movie has a charmingly humble and uncomplicated way of depicting high fantasy modern…
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Onward 2020
I don't have a particularly good reason for why I was looking forward to this, and definitely for the first chunk of it I was like "hmm, I'm not liking this as much as I wanted to" but at least I was also thinking "but it's not as bad as I heard it was."
I think they definitely take too many shortcuts at first which leads Tom Holland's character just coming across as a bit of a whiny wank, to…
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