Letterboxd — Your life in film

Sally Jane Bruce gets a hard time from people used to the slick emoting of millenial stage kids.

I think that her weird line readings and (plain bad acting) add to the oddness of this story.

As a film from the golden age this has aged very well. In terms of the religious critique and adult-child relations, Laughton and Grubb's novel skewers the hypocrisy that existed in society and both Bruce and Chapin are more interesting than the pieces of code standing in for human beings as Wanda's kids in Doctor Strange.

Hermetic magic without Chinese slave labour.
I prefer this Strange to Cumberbatch.

'In another million years there'll be no men, no women, they'll just be people'.

'No more men or women?'.

'Just a whole world full of wankers!'.

The entire gender debate reduced to it's basest elements.

With his love of De Palma and interest in getting involved with the franchise, this could be viewed as a glimpse of what Tarantino would have done with the genre.

Was this directed by a Raimi AI?

It had glimpses of his toolbox but the bulk of the two hours was filled with the usual homogenous action powered by a million CPU's.

Has CG/Previs reached a plateau?

There seems to be a barely discernible conceptual improvement over the last ten years.

What exactly is going on?

Samantha Eggar is better than she is in The Exterminator but, despite what Roger and QT say, she doesn't elevate or save this silly nonsense.

Nowhere near as funny as a film about a killer hand should be.

Body snatchers b-movie in student film cosplay.
Faithful, to a fault, with the fifties pastiche homage.

I saw the original version on the Nightflight app. There is a lot of chat about how the new edit is too short but this version is way too long.

So there we go...

Really feels like hanging out in Montauk with Warhol and some of his coterie of dodgy friends.

It's an unpopular opinion but Sullivan has a quiet power essentially playing himself.

It's like Blow was directed by Johnny Depp and he just had to have his band in the movie.

Is Rian Johnson the Edward Norton character?

A successful person gathers some friends for an indulgent project on a paradise island?

All of the people are amplified and financially improved through their association with the Johnson character.

Or maybe Kate Hudson is Bron. Her net worth outstrips them all.