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Meatballs 1979
There’s a nice heart to this about Murray connecting with a lonely kid and making him feel like less of an outcast since his big busy business father sent him away from camp but like all National Lampoon properties most of the jokes are “what if we got to peak through this hole to the girl’s showers to see buttocks” and “bill murray wrestles a woman who is rejecting his advances for an uncomfortable amount of time” and that really…
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Dear Evan Hansen 2021
Truly funny that Ben Platt’s inability to let go of a role is one of the many reasons this movie will go down in infamy as one of the most baffling productions of the last twentieth century. Compared to but transcending Cats, this film’s pale, sweaty, foundation caked mask resides just on the surface of a real film. Everything is so close to feeling like a real film, and yet it isn’t. The uncanny valley of storytelling: The baffling plot…
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