Graverobbing, corpse defiling, child murder, brains in jars; pre-code horror was wild.
1955
Conventional wisdom states that both male leads are miscast, and perhaps catastrophically so.
Once in a while, conventional wisdom is absolutely correct. Sinatra would have made a great Sky; he’s a so-so Nathan. (His “Luck Be a Lady” elsewhere is timeless.) And Brando he, uh, can’t sing. Like, at all. That tends to be an issue in a musical.
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2007
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I am McLovin! yet what I am who cares, or knows?
My friends forsake me like a memory lost.
I am McLovin the self-consumer of my woes,
They rise and vanish, an oblivious host,
Shadows of life, whose very soul is lost.
And yet I am McLovin—I live—though I am toss'd
While this is a funny movie, I am not sure anything in it is funnier than this sentence from the film’s Wikipedia page: “Mintz-Plasse was 17 at the time of filming Superbad, and as a result, his mother was required to be present on set during the filming of his sex scene.”
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2012
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“You’ve been planning an alien invasion in my Costco?”
Everyone has a couple movies that seemingly no one likes but them. The ones they own on Blu-ray and then when a friend comes over and they look at your collection they’re like “Why do you have the movie where Vince Vaughn fights Cousin Greg?” before they realize you enjoy it and they feel awkward for shaming you about it.
I have The Watch. It’s funny!
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2025
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Wing walking is an art older than sound cinema. Before movies included spoken dialogue, they were already filled with daredevils who risked — and sometimes lost — their lives performing incredible feats in and on top of airplanes. So when producer/star Tom Cruise and producer/co-writer/director Christopher McQuarrie turned the climax of Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning into maybe the greatest display of wing walking and aerial stunt work in the last 50 years, that’s wasn’t a haphazard choice. It…
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2024
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Eephus is such a wonderful title for this unhurried, deceptively simple movie. It really sneaks up on you. I’ll also note that many of the other names for the eephus pitch listed on Wikipedia — including balloon ball, blooper ball, gondola, parachute, and gravity curve — would also suit the movie.
Damn, I wish I knew some scruffy coots I could play some old man baseball with. Or at least to drink a couple ’Gansetts with.
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1996
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Of all the bad ways to die in a movie, getting squished and impaled (and also electrocuted I think?) in an elevator shaft has to be among the worst.
The Mission: Impossible series would get a lot bigger than this. It would only get a little better. The big Tom Cruise/Henry Czerny confrontation culminating in the aquarium explosion is still an all-time franchise highlight. (Those crazy canted camera angles! Also why is the aquarium so big??? Who cares!) And obviously…
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2004
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The boggart — the embodiment of your greatest fear, which can only be defused with humor — is the whole film in miniature. Prisoner of Azkaban has all of the series’ scariest moments so far (the Grim, the Dementors) and many of the broadest (Harry’s balloon of an aunt, the Knight Bus, scaring the Slytherins with the invisibility cloak, every single second Emma Thompson is onscreen).
The boggart assumes many forms, and so do most of the characters this time;…
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2012
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Me at 31: Eh, this movie is fine.
Me at 44: This movie in no way speaks to my life, my marriage, my children, or my career. Like, in any way. And for reasons that are 100 percent unrelated and disconnected from that, I find this movie a lot funnier than I did when I had no children and had only been married for like three years.
One has nothing to do with the other. I’m not like this. My family’s not like this. At all.
I swear.
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