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Makes sense; after all. what is a fight scene but a more violent counterpart to a song & dance number, right?

Indeed. The fundamentals and basic cinematic vocabulary are the same. Especially the more stylized it gets. Shaw Bros did both Kung Fu and Opera films on the same sets with many of the same actors for a reason.

Whale Rider (2002)

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Night on the Galactic Railroad (Gisaburo Sugii, 1985)
While its rather plain in a lot of ways, something about it just hit right. Plotwise its incredibly straightforward and not even all that interesting really but there's just this really comfortable, melancholic vibe to it and the language (a translation of course) has so much feeling. It's not even really that visually astounding, technically or in terms of imagery, but it still has some moments of real majesty and some of the music is god-tier. Even though the end is extremely obvious from as soon as plot actually starts, it still made me tear up (anime seems to hit me that way more often that anything else). My brain says I'm overrating it but my gut won't let me give it less than a .

Wow... I don't think a film like this could get made today. It raises too many hard questions and doesn't leave with things tied up in nice little bows. I thoroughly enjoyed my experience with it... but I do agree with Roger Ebert (to some degree) that there's too much emphasis within the side of the neo-Nazi's... I, unlike Roger Ebert, do think they tackle skinhead-rhetoric with taking action against such rhetoric... but it's a bit cut short in my opinion, and I which they'd flesh it out a bit more because I feel the ending comes a bit too soon, (even though it's a two hour movie)... I'd recommend it, but with caution.

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Stay away from this, avoid at all costs. Tries to be funny, but fails. Tries to be scary, to no avail. Badly acted, badly scripted, a wast of time.

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The Cooler (2003)


Definitely my least favorite so far. This didn't appeal much to me as a casino enthusiast because of the gambling superstitions being the focal point of the movie, and I don't think it would appeal much to others because it seems too ordinary. The romance between William H Macy and Maria Bello was never believable, and I thought the tone of the movie never really changed throughout.

Well....that's about to change after today....

If you can watch the "Shake A Tail Feather" scene and not get a smile on your face, you have no soul.

Oh wow, me and all my friends thought it was VERY good, probably the best horror movie of the last year and one we will re-watch from time to time for sure.
Specifically, we thought the script was super-tight, really very good, and that the acting was top-notch for a starless film, across the board.
Sorry to hear you didn't have a good experience with it.

The Lighthouse (2019)

Not really sure what to make of this. I can completely understand why some people think this is brilliant and others hate it. I'm on the fence.

It is good. It's Jim Cummings. He's a bright talent with very dry, sometimes cryptic comedy. It's not really a horror film, it's a drama about family, addiction and trying to be more human. so anybody who wanted a horror film will probably be disappointed.

Chopping Mall

That up there was my reaction to this title when first hearing about it roughly 30+ years ago. This is a pretty bad movie but that doesn't stop it from being fun. A group of "teens" are caught in a shopping mall overnight with the mall's new robot security going haywire and killing everybody. One of the more enjoyable things about this is the number of recognizable faces that make an appearance, especially early on. Woronov, Miller, Aames, Bartel and a few others who you don't know but recognize. It's a who's who of 80's cheese. There's one solid head shot, some gratuitous nudity early on thanks to Barbara Crampton and some really awesome electrocution fx.

I half agree. Maybe 2/3 agree. I just don't agree that it's not a horror movie, certainly any less so than, like, The Babadook or any horror movie that actually has a real arc for its characters beyond not getting murdered. I thought the horror elements worked brilliantly.
It was definitely more horror than, say, Relic. Which we watched the same night. But is also ostensibly a horror movie.

Like you I didn't watch this for 30+ years because eye-roll.
Yet I did not have as positive an experience as you. I thought there were certain really obvious choices the script should have made to make the movie a lot more interesting than it ended up being. Maybe my ambitions were too high.

8th or 9th Rewatch...I don't know what it is about this movie, but I find this warm comedy drama of family dysfunction immensely re-watchable and whenever I'm channel surfing, I will stop and watch it. The terrific cast is the main selling point, including Vanessa Williams, Michael Beach, Mekhi Phifer, Nia Long, Vivica A Fox, and a pair of amazing performances by Irma P Hall as Big Mama and Brandon Hammond as Ahmad, the kid who takes it upon himself to keep his family intact.

1st-Rewatch...Jake Gyllenhall's gut-wrenching performance still puts this movie over the top as the sports drama and the family tearjerker blend to startling effect.

What year is this? First time I’ve come across this movie. Maybe I would like it.

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