I watched 6 movies last week:
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- Roger Ebert called The Adventures of Ford Fairlane “loud, ugly and mean-spirited.” I mean, when you’re right, you’re right.
- The Jerky Boys is the sort of movie that makes you feel like you need to apologize for finding their prank phone call schtick funny back when you were in junior high. I don’t think there was a better movie to be made from their comedy but I can’t overstate how not funny the one they actually made is.
- The Hunt isn’t terrible. It has some clever moments, and Betty Gilpin’s a lot of fun, but it’s extremely shallow as satire (and weirdly dated for a movie that’s only five years old—but oof, what an awful five years those have been, eh?)
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- I think Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers is slightly better made than the two films that preceded it in the series, but that’s not saying much. This one is mostly just tedious and confusing.
- Appointment with Death is a little meandering as a mystery, but it’s a fun hangout with these characters.
- Leonard Maltin reportedly called 1945’s Bewitched and “interesting idea, especially for its time, but heavy-handed.” That sounds about right.
I also rewatched the Red Riding trilogy—1974, 1980, and 1983. They didn’t quite hold up for me as well as I remember, maybe partly because I remembered to plot better than I thought and wasn’t surprised, or maybe just because the whole thing is fairly bleak. Some good stuff, just not as strong the second time around.