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Wind Chill 2007
Lumped in with other 00s films like Identity and Stay, which feel like scripts that hung around Hollywood for a while, post-Fight Club and post-Donnie Darko. Wind Chill is particularly brutal, in that there is a twist, but it's played straight, so there are two competing storylines that just play out, and that's it. I kept expecting an additional twist, but didn't get it.
The main storyline is the ride-share/creepy guy storyline, which is written so poorly. Neither Guy or…
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Silent Night 2023
Everyone talking up Ridley Scott and Martin Scorsese as saviours of cinema, when it's John Woo returning to Hollywood after twenty years, actual doing the heavy lifting in 2023.
Let me get the negative out of the way. The third act doesn't deliver on the level that I would expect it to, given the build up. This is so obviously a budgetary constraint, that I am not holding it against the film. Should there have been more pageantry to the…
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Halloween II 1981
Michael Myers is said to be 21 by Dr. Loomis in the film, but then in the credits there is a credit for a 23 year old Michael Myers. I find this confusing, but also depressing. I find it depressing because whether he is 21 or 23 I am still older than Michael Myers, and he has accomplished way more in his life than I have.
