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Been awhile since I did one of these! It's a big ol' batch of movie review-vies. I start a little sleepy but wake up pretty quick as I have more to say. Apologies in advance for calling Smallfoot "Abominable" like fifteen times. I had the Abominable poster up and was looking at it while talking about Smallfoot.

TIMESTAMPS (Spoilers for all movies)

2:38 - Millennium Actress (8/10)
9:18 - Abominable (6/10)
18:29 - Smallfoot (6/10)
33:10 - Elemental (5.5 /10)
55:30 - Loving Vincent (8/10)
1:01:29 - The Bob's Burgers Movie (4/10)
1:04:30 - Evil Dead (4.5/10)
1:06:07 -  Rosemary's Baby  (3/10)

(I swear I reviewed Sword of the Stranger (9/10) in there somewhere really quickly but couldn't find it while reviewing. Maybe it got deleted? It's pretty good. Like the good parts of Cowboy Bebop + Princess Mononoke fused together but in a setting where it's really cold.)

Here's the weird music in Rosemary's Baby I promised I'd link.

Any animated movies you guys want me to review? I feel like I need to relax more. It'd be good to force myself to watch more stuff.

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Anonymous

Ok per your review of Rosemary’s Baby (I haven’t watched it but I did read the book) I completely agree. It could have been interesting but didn’t lean into any part that made it cool and the lack of groundedness with regards to the cult was boring more than scary. However, I wholeheartedly believe Ira Levin’s other gaslight book, The Stepford Wives, is exactly what you’re looking for. It has two movie adaptations I believe, one from the 70s(?) which I’ve heard is pretty good and a faithful adaptation and one from like 2004/5 which changed a specific element from the twist to make the message “different” (derogatory). Perhaps they’d make a good comparison in a later review, but honestly I’d recommend reading the book. It’s about 150 pages and it’s such a quick read I burned through it in an evening. I highly recommend it for some good feminist horror that imo Rosemary’s Baby failed to replicate.

Bast 13

Huh, surprised about Elemental getting a 5.5. I guess I really missed what people find positive about it. I could barely watch the film

Justice Hainsworth

Evil Dead 1 is honestly one of those movies that I enjoy mostly for the love of the craft, its genuinely one of the most inspiring and inventively made movies I’ve ever seen despite the fact that the budget is so small. the gore effects and camera work are probably the gold standard of indie filmmaking to me, i think about that one shot where the camera is on the ground and you can see Bruce Campbell jumping over it all the time. its just chock full of little endearing moments like that, moments where you can see the sheer effort it took to get this thing made. even the bad acting and occasional crew member showing up in the background of a shot becomes endearing in this context. i feel like the actual movie is probably about a 6 or light 7 as it is (at least by my standards) but once I heard the commentary tracks with Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert and the other one with Bruce Campbell it shot all the way up to a 9. Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness are definitely the better movies but Evil Dead is such a marvel of filmmaking that i think anyone who even has a passing interest in how movies are made should watch and read about it.

Anonymous

I'm really glad to see these audio reviews return! They're honestly my favourite content you put up here, I've probably listened to all of them by now, really good to stick on to kill some time while waiting on buses.