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Freddy vs. Jason 2003
Man, this hasn't aged well. I'm nominating this as one of the ugliest films to ever grace the screen. Almost every shot is an eyesore. There is an extreme over-reliance on digitally grading the crap out of everything in lieu of actually lighting the shots decent on set. Instead, we just get nasty looking sequences entirely in blue or red, any all the interiors basically look like a soap opera. Add to that every instance of CGI, which looks horrendous.…
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Friday the 13th 2009
Despite taking some liberties with Jason that are inexcusable, this has it's head in the right place. The pre-title prologue is perhaps the best section in the film, and allows us to get to the good stuff immediately. It not only introduces our main character but works as a nice little short film by itself. I'm not too keen on Jason torturing people over a fire or catching them in bear traps though. The Friday franchise has always been about…
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Taste of Cherry 1997
Ebert nailed this one. It's excruciatingly boring. The initial guise of having him come across as gay is maddening when you see where this eventually goes. What was the point? Why devote so much time to a ruse when that time could've been better spent shedding some light on our main character? Speaking of which, Mr. Badii is so lifeless and dull that the question of whether or not he'd commit suicide never even crossed my mind. Either outcome would've…
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Ikiru 1952
I may end up having the lowest review for Ikiru on all of Letterboxd, but I've gotta give it to you straight here: Ikiru absolutely sucks. It is an avalanche of sentiment anchored by a horrendous and annoying performance by Takashi Shimura. Man, if I had to look at Shimura and his wide-eyed sad face for one more minute, I was gonna turn this thing off. It seemed to me like he had more than just stomach cancer. He could…
