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Smile 2022
Best thing: The woman at the desk in the hospital announces that she's single. It's the only bit of levity in this miserable film. It's a scene with Kyle Gallner who somehow manages to seem more natural in his role than anyone else.
Worst thing: The protagonist starts swearing at everyone at a child's birthday party. It was just so cringey.A horror film with absolutely no sense of fun. The film clearly has a pretty big budget which it…
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Miracle on 34th Street 1947
I remember the remake coming out and seeing the trailer in the cinema. My dad was clearly unimpressed by that trailer, since he joked that we could potentially still switch to a screening of that instead of the film we were about to see... and I honestly believed him and started passing the same offer to my friend who we had brought along to the film. My dad fortunately corrected me quickly enough.
Not sure what we'd actually gone to…
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Into the Wild 2007
Okay, I cannot for the life of me work out why anyone recommended this. (I've just tried and failed to work out where I saw this being recommended, so perhaps that was my imagination.) Okay, so there's good news and bad news and we're starting with the good news. So, what was good about this movie? The acting was really good from pretty much everyone (asides from Kristen Stewart - more on that later). The cinematography by Eric Gautier was…
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Scream 1996
I don't think the writer had a clue how mobile phones actually work, or phone records in general for that matter. The police seem to entirely forget that they can get the landline records very easily indeed and that would mean that they would know the exact times of any calls made. *sigh*
I know that Neve Campbell and Courtney Cox were considered big names at the time, but to be quite frank they aren't any more. And that's not…
