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- I’m “George Lucas”: A Connor Ratliff Story<\/a> is probably only of interest if you’re already a fan of the weird and often hillarious The George Lucas Talk Show<\/em>. But if you are, it’s a genuinely interesting look behind the curtain.<\/li>\n
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- Abigail<\/a> is fun, but it might have been more so if it hadn’t revealed its one twist in all its marketing, or if it hadn’t gotten to that twist a little earlier. The cast are good, but I kept waiting for the movie to do something more clever with its premise.<\/li>\n
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- The fun, but very forgettable, musical numbers and in Mean Girls<\/a> notwithstanding, this remake doesn’t bring a lot that’s new to the table and shows some really lazy storytelling near the end. There are some clever moments that play up that it’s a musical adaptation, and the performers themselves are often very good, it’s mostly just a weak copy, of a movie that was just kind of okay to begin with.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
I also re-watched Out of Sight<\/a>, which was as good, if more violent, than I remember it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’ve been very busy reading submissions for Kaleidotrope, and then my television unexpectedly, so I only watched three movies last week: I’m “George Lucas”: A Connor Ratliff Story is probably only of interest if you’re already a fan of the weird and often hillarious The George Lucas Talk Show. But if you are, it’s a … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13718"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13722,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13718\/revisions\/13722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
- The fun, but very forgettable, musical numbers and in Mean Girls<\/a> notwithstanding, this remake doesn’t bring a lot that’s new to the table and shows some really lazy storytelling near the end. There are some clever moments that play up that it’s a musical adaptation, and the performers themselves are often very good, it’s mostly just a weak copy, of a movie that was just kind of okay to begin with.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- Abigail<\/a> is fun, but it might have been more so if it hadn’t revealed its one twist in all its marketing, or if it hadn’t gotten to that twist a little earlier. The cast are good, but I kept waiting for the movie to do something more clever with its premise.<\/li>\n