Sometimes even a bad movie can have a good soundtrack. Average or better movies will take a good soundtrack and use it to constantly underscore the mood of the film as it goes. But then every once in a while there's a movie like Guardians of the Galaxy where the soundtrack not only powerfully informs most every scene and moves the narrative along but comments directly on who the characters are…and, in turn, even has the characters comment on the…
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Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte 1964
Hooptober Fest 5.0
Film 37/46
Six Decades (4/6)
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Bette Davis had a career revival with Robert Aldrich's What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? that allowed her to go in a more horror-thriller direction, and her re-teaming two years later with the director could've played it safe and been much more of the same. But while there is some thematic similarity between the two films, Davis' portrayal of a southern belle everyone just knows killed her lover as a teenager…
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Moonage Daydream 2022
The only way to do this David Bowie documentary right (and in the spirit of its subject) was to do it unconventionally… and so Moonage Daydream dives headfirst into its subject, rejecting the usual biographical overview and instead focusing in on exploring the multiverse an artist created inside himself, showing us his world...and it's beautiful. It's far too rare when a documentary portrait of an artist feels like a true and important work of art itself, but Moonage Daydream accomplishes…
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Bodies Bodies Bodies 2022
Gotta admit, I was initially losing a lot of patience with this one… and that's because, frankly, a documentary on the regional history of plastic spoons is probably of more inherent interest to me than a movie drowning heavily in the lifestyles of young & affluent "influencers". But stay with this one, fellow cranky and/or old people. Eventually the film is able to set the action into a very interesting direction, and uses a somewhat familiar slasher scenario to comment on…
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Manos: The Hands of Fate 1966
You people giving The Room half a star and being like "how could a movie possibly be any worse?" You haven't even begun to gaze into the abyss.
I like my bad movies looking like they were found in a box that was home to a family of possums living under a leaky sink at a drive-in that's been closed for 40 years.
I like my bad movies to have a musical score that sounds like a cheap bootleg of…
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Rocky 1976
If ever I'm in a coma and you can't reach me, play some of Bill Conti's score for the Rocky series (Conquest might work best). That about illustrates how deeply Rocky resonates with me, and a lot of other people.
Poverty. Illness. Discrimination. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Rocky speaks past those battles to the deepest part of each of us, the part which may sometimes be beaten but refuses to be defeated. And…
