High-effort intentionally brainless fun with a lot of heart.
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The Hand that Rocks the Cradle 1992
The fact that everything is setup and known to the audience within the first 30min, but not the characters, and so we still feel compelled to helplessly watch the slow descent into meticulously planned madness, speaks to the brilliance of the film.
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Ra: Path of the Sun God 1990
People underestimated that this WHOLE film was done in special effect animation optically... an extremely precise and grueling work process with inversion photography, hand colorization with clear ink, precise mattes and hand blacking and masking, messing around with colored and rainbow gels on specialized rigs, precise backing up of film stock, changes in focus and aperture, changes in camera position/height/axis, multiple exposures, and double (triple, quadruple and more in places) optical passes all over the film.
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Baby Driver 2017
Great driving stunts, very stylish film, actual ending.
(I wonder what they would do on the rumored sequel).The only problem I have with it is that, it sort of didn't punch as hard as some of Edgar Wright, stylistically.
Songs are GREAT by the way (they should be, that's the entire emotional undercurrent of the film). This is a film where you can't complete a review without including the song list, so here it is:
"Bellbottoms" by Jon Spencer…
