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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2010 21:13:12 GMT -5
I've been this way for awhile now. I tend to just nod my head though. It's another arguement for another time. On a lighter and completely ironic note, TR...reading your Howling review (good work, BTW), I noticed your induction of The Funhouse which I must've not noticed before. Reading it, I had no idea the lead played Mozart's wife in the Amadeus movie. So I pulled up an IMDB search on her and guess what I saw... The TV schedule below has The Funhouse airing later tonight at 3:45 AM on AMC, guessing as part of their late-night Fear Friday double feature. I chuckled at it. So...it may be cut-up (which will be a bummer with the opening sequence and all), but if anybody wants to check it out...there you go.  |
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Post by Lick Ness Monster on May 14, 2010 21:22:19 GMT -5
You know, the ONE thing I miss about my crappy fast food job that I toiled away at for 7+ years is the sleeping schedule - and the fact that I was always up on Friday night to watch AMC Fear Friday. Nowadays, I work midnight-eight Monday-Friday, which means I'm dead tired by 8:00 p.m. at the latest come Friday night (kind of like now, lol).
Weirdly enough, I didn't even mind in the slightest that the movies were sliced and censored to high heaven on Fear Friday. I LOVE watching horror movies on basic TV. For me, it's just that feeling that somebody else...somewhere...is watching the same movie at the same time as me. ;D
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Post by theryno665 on May 15, 2010 11:04:53 GMT -5
Destructoid interviews George A. RomeroShort interview from gaming site Destructoid, focusing mainly on the new App of the Dead which lets you turn pictures of people into zombies and whether or not Romero plays video games. Um, maybe its me but I don't think he strikes me as a gamer. But near the end, he makes it very clear that he's not too fond of running zombies and the like. So, has anyone seen Survival of the Dead? Apparently it comes out On Demand before its theatrical release, if it's not out already. I'm not super-psyched for it but I'll probably check it out. Unlike most people, I didn't hate Diary of the Dead. Sure it was less "zombie movie with a message" and more "message movie with zombies" but I didn't feel insulted by it.
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Post by mysterydriver on May 16, 2010 8:18:53 GMT -5
Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows on SyFy is reminding me just how far Jeffrey Donovan's career has come.
I wonder, with the success of Burn Notice, just how big his name is on the cover now as compared to when it was first released.
That thought reminds me of the Leprechaun cover. When it first came out, it had a picture of a door opening with our titled character stepping out, the tagline reading "Your luck just ran out."
Now? That picture is smaller and in the corner as a big picture of a "worried" looking Jennifer Aniston, tinted green of course, dominates the cover. The tagline? "Her luck just ran out."
I'm not sure where I was going with this...so I'll stop here.
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2010 9:46:22 GMT -5
According to Amazon, it's still the same cover, which is the same as the poster. |
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Post by mysterydriver on May 16, 2010 13:57:42 GMT -5
According to Amazon, it's still the same cover, which is the same as the poster. Well...then...give it a year. As another example...The Return of the Killer Tomatoes now plasters George Clooney's name front and center (although, who can blame them?). Maybe a hit TV series isn't enough to throw Donovan's name front and center...but it's probably listed by his name on the back cover hype. ... Sigh, I should look at these things before typing. Especially in the morning. |
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Post by Big DSR Energy on May 16, 2010 14:16:16 GMT -5
As another example...The Return of the Killer Tomatoes now plasters George Clooney's name front and center (although, who can blame them?). Man, poor Anthony Starke is getting hosed on that DVD cover. He's first-billed in the actual movie, but gets third billing behind Clooney and John Astin on the cover! Another example would be the DVD covers for HARD CANDY. The original featuring a girl in a red hoodie, standing in the middle of a beartrap (as bait) with her back to the camera. There's a more recent DVD release that prominently features Ellen Page's on the cover now that she's a star. |
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2010 14:20:49 GMT -5
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Post by Maidpool w/ Cleaning Action on May 16, 2010 14:23:13 GMT -5
According to Amazon, it's still the same cover, which is the same as the poster. Well...then...give it a year. As another example...The Return of the Killer Tomatoes now plasters George Clooney's name front and center (although, who can blame them?). Maybe a hit TV series isn't enough to throw Donovan's name front and center...but it's probably listed by his name on the back cover hype. ... Sigh, I should look at these things before typing. Especially in the morning. Return of the Killer Tomatoes is so hilarious. I've told my friends that it would be hilarious if the go back and film some new footage with George Clooney telling everyone in the movie how he'll be the biggest star of them all and take over head billing in the movie one day. The whole movie breaks the fourth wall and I'd think that would be a hilarious addition to a fake "director's Cut". |
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Post by theryno665 on May 16, 2010 16:23:46 GMT -5
As another example...The Return of the Killer Tomatoes now plasters George Clooney's name front and center (although, who can blame them?). Man, poor Anthony Starke is getting hosed on that DVD cover. He's first-billed in the actual movie, but gets third billing behind Clooney and John Astin on the cover! Another example would be the DVD covers for HARD CANDY. The original featuring a girl in a red hoodie, standing in the middle of a beartrap (as bait) with her back to the camera. There's a more recent DVD release that prominently features Ellen Page's on the cover now that she's a star. After The Hangover came out and blew up, copies of Midnight Meat Train were slapped with a sticker covering the original cover to something showing off Bradley Cooper more (though I will admit, he was pretty good in the movie). Oh, and let's not forget the "Twilight" cover for Near Dark... |
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Post by Rorschach on May 16, 2010 16:26:49 GMT -5
Maybe writing a review will pull me out of my current funk:  DAYBREAKERS (2009) Directed by: The Brothers Spierig Starring: Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Claudia Karvan, and Sam "The Man" Neill First off, let me just acknowledge and thank Daybreakers for one thing: in this movie, vampires don't glitter....they don't sparkle, or shine like granite in the sun. They f*****g IMMOLATE and burst into a fiery pillar of agony; you know, the way it USED to be before Stephenie Meyer made her unfortunate mark on the genre. So points are earned from this reviewer from the get-go. In the world that this film takes place in, humans have been supplanted by vampires as the dominant race; think of it as HBO's TRUE BLOOD taken to the next level. In that show, vamps have just come out of the closet and are adjusting and trying to co-habitate with humans...in this film, they've outright taken over, and they're using us as cattle, breeding us for our precious, precious blood. Problems arise when the equation reaches the tipping point; the vamps have been less than diligent in both A) keeping the current blood supply well stocked with fresh humans and B) developing a blood alternative to wean themselves slowly off the real thing, in order to spare the dwindling stock. This means that, with most of the entire world being vampires, many (if not all) will starve and die without a replacement for the blood supply. Working hard at solving this problem is the chief hematologist of the Bromley-Marks Corporation, Edward Dalton (Hawke). He believes he is very close to finding a compatible blood substitute, and he just needs a little more time to perfect it. Problem is, he doesn't have the time, as company CEO Charles Bromley (Neill, terrific as always, even if he is a tad underused here) wants results YESTERDAY. Faced with mounting pressure (how would YOU like it if your boss gave you a deadline for solving world hunger...and that deadline was "next Monday"? ) and feeling overwhelmed, Edward ends up getting in a car wreck and crossing paths with a human woman named Audrey (Karvan) who just *MIGHT* be the link to not only the solution Edward is looking for...but a cure for vampirism itself. Daybreakers crams a lot of plot into its brief runtime, and things DO feel a bit rushed in the film's last twenty minutes, but I can forgive this because I truly think the filmmakers COULD have split this up and given us a proper story with TWO films instead of one...they just didn't know if they'd have the chance given the current economic climate in Hollywood, so they crammed everything into this one film and prayed for the best. And you know what? I think they GOT it. They hit ALL the right notes for this genre; there's enough blood and gore (the film is actually surprisingly, refreshingly bloody) to satisfy the gorehounds, there's plenty of action set pieces for those who like a little bang with their fangs, and they've got great actors carrying the movie on their shoulders. Hawke, Neill, and Karvan are excellent in their roles, and even Dafoe is acceptable, though his casting is the only one I had a quibble with. See, his character is written as to be a total hick (His name is Elvis, for crying out loud!, and Dafoe just cannot pull off that accent believably. It doesn't sound right coming out of Dafoe...and it almost makes me wonder if the directors/producers had Matthew McConaghuey in mind when they wrote the role. He would have been an ace fit as Elvis, but as I said Dafoe does his best in the role and never fails to be entertaining, even if not quite believable as the redneck vampire hunter. All in all... Daybreakers does a lot right, and there are little intelligent touches (daytime driving mode for the cars, underground walkways to get from building to building) that are used that make you smile at the level of detail and care that went into crafting this world that the film takes place in. Also, the creatures that the starving vampires degenerate into (called Subsiders) are appropriately hideous enough to make you recoil in disgust. I loved the idea of these suave, sexy "Giorgio Armani" ad vampires just coming apart genetically and devolving into horrid, ugly creatures due to blood deprivation...THAT version of Nosferatu has been all too rarely seen in cinema lately. Sure, just about ANY girl would let Edward Cullen suck on her neck (among other things) if he looked like Robert Pattinson...but what if he looked like one of the monstrous Subsiders from this film? I bet it'd be a different story. ;D Daybreakers gets an easy **** out of five from me. Check this puppy out ASAP, and on Blu-Ray if you can. The film itself is GORGEOUS, and you owe it to yourself to see it the way it was intended to be seen, in all it's glory. |
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Post by Lick Ness Monster on May 16, 2010 17:13:11 GMT -5
Maybe writing a review will pull me out of my current funk: DAYBREAKERS (2009) Directed by: The Brothers Spierig Starring: Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Claudia Karvan, and Sam "The Man" Neill First off, let me just acknowledge and thank Daybreakers for one thing: in this movie, vampires don't glitter....they don't sparkle, or shine like granite in the sun. They f*****g IMMOLATE and burst into a fiery pillar of agony; you know, the way it USED to be before Stephenie Meyer made her unfortunate mark on the genre. So points are earned from this reviewer from the get-go. In the world that this film takes place in, humans have been supplanted by vampires as the dominant race; think of it as HBO's TRUE BLOOD taken to the next level. In that show, vamps have just come out of the closet and are adjusting and trying to co-habitate with humans...in this film, they've outright taken over, and they're using us as cattle, breeding us for our precious, precious blood. Problems arise when the equation reaches the tipping point; the vamps have been less than diligent in both A) keeping the current blood supply well stocked with fresh humans and B) developing a blood alternative to wean themselves slowly off the real thing, in order to spare the dwindling stock. This means that, with most of the entire world being vampires, many (if not all) will starve and die without a replacement for the blood supply. Working hard at solving this problem is the chief hematologist of the Bromley-Marks Corporation, Edward Dalton (Hawke). He believes he is very close to finding a compatible blood substitute, and he just needs a little more time to perfect it. Problem is, he doesn't have the time, as company CEO Charles Bromley (Neill, terrific as always, even if he is a tad underused here) wants results YESTERDAY. Faced with mounting pressure (how would YOU like it if your boss gave you a deadline for solving world hunger...and that deadline was "next Monday"? ) and feeling overwhelmed, Edward ends up getting in a car wreck and crossing paths with a human woman named Audrey (Karvan) who just *MIGHT* be the link to not only the solution Edward is looking for...but a cure for vampirism itself. Daybreakers crams a lot of plot into its brief runtime, and things DO feel a bit rushed in the film's last twenty minutes, but I can forgive this because I truly think the filmmakers COULD have split this up and given us a proper story with TWO films instead of one...they just didn't know if they'd have the chance given the current economic climate in Hollywood, so they crammed everything into this one film and prayed for the best. And you know what? I think they GOT it. They hit ALL the right notes for this genre; there's enough blood and gore (the film is actually surprisingly, refreshingly bloody) to satisfy the gorehounds, there's plenty of action set pieces for those who like a little bang with their fangs, and they've got great actors carrying the movie on their shoulders. Hawke, Neill, and Karvan are excellent in their roles, and even Dafoe is acceptable, though his casting is the only one I had a quibble with. See, his character is written as to be a total hick (His name is Elvis, for crying out loud!, and Dafoe just cannot pull off that accent believably. It doesn't sound right coming out of Dafoe...and it almost makes me wonder if the directors/producers had Matthew McConaghuey in mind when they wrote the role. He would have been an ace fit as Elvis, but as I said Dafoe does his best in the role and never fails to be entertaining, even if not quite believable as the redneck vampire hunter. All in all... Daybreakers does a lot right, and there are little intelligent touches (daytime driving mode for the cars, underground walkways to get from building to building) that are used that make you smile at the level of detail and care that went into crafting this world that the film takes place in. Also, the creatures that the starving vampires degenerate into (called Subsiders) are appropriately hideous enough to make you recoil in disgust. I loved the idea of these suave, sexy "Giorgio Armani" ad vampires just coming apart genetically and devolving into horrid, ugly creatures due to blood deprivation...THAT version of Nosferatu has been all too rarely seen in cinema lately. Sure, just about ANY girl would let Edward Cullen suck on her neck (among other things) if he looked like Robert Pattinson...but what if he looked like one of the monstrous Subsiders from this film? I bet it'd be a different story. ;D Daybreakers gets an easy **** out of five from me. Check this puppy out ASAP, and on Blu-Ray if you can. The film itself is GORGEOUS, and you owe it to yourself to see it the way it was intended to be seen, in all it's glory. Was wondering where you went, R-Man, and it's good to get some deep thoughts on this movie that I've been mulling over picking up for some time now. I'm even considering buying the goddamn Blu-Ray even though I don't have a player or an HDTV. The plan is to rectify that within six months. Speaking of Sam Neill...it's with a fair amount of sadness that I must report, to the chagrin of myself and the three other fans of the show, that Happy Town has been canceled, although it at least gets the opportunity to wrap up its story. Critics pretty much loathe the show, but I've loved it. As mentioned already, it's got a VERY "Castle Rock Stephen King" vibe that I found very cool, and EVERY time Neill is on screen, it becomes must-see TV. 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Post by Sir Woodrow on May 16, 2010 17:17:44 GMT -5
As another example...The Return of the Killer Tomatoes now plasters George Clooney's name front and center (although, who can blame them?). Man, poor Anthony Starke is getting hosed on that DVD cover. He's first-billed in the actual movie, but gets third billing behind Clooney and John Astin on the cover! I've seen that movie so many times and it never dawned on me that the guy from Return Of The Killer Tomatoes name is basically Tony Starke ;D |
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2010 17:39:21 GMT -5
Speaking of Sam Neill...it's with a fair amount of sadness that I must report, to the chagrin of myself and the three other fans of the show, that Happy Town has been canceled, although it at least gets the opportunity to wrap up its story. Critics pretty much loathe the show, but I've loved it. As mentioned already, it's got a VERY "Castle Rock Stephen King" vibe that I found very cool, and EVERY time Neill is on screen, it becomes must-see TV. I've never regretted calling the audible and making him one of the inaugural inductees into the WC horror hall of fame. ;D Not shocked that it was cancelled. You just can't do a horror TV show on broadcast television these days, with a couple exceptions ( Supernatural and possibly the upcoming TV adapation of The Walking Dead). Speaking of King, has anybody checked out his foray into TV, Kingdom Hospital I think it was called? |
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Post by mysterydriver on May 16, 2010 17:54:31 GMT -5
Speaking of Sam Neill...it's with a fair amount of sadness that I must report, to the chagrin of myself and the three other fans of the show, that Happy Town has been canceled, although it at least gets the opportunity to wrap up its story. Critics pretty much loathe the show, but I've loved it. As mentioned already, it's got a VERY "Castle Rock Stephen King" vibe that I found very cool, and EVERY time Neill is on screen, it becomes must-see TV. I've never regretted calling the audible and making him one of the inaugural inductees into the WC horror hall of fame. ;D Not shocked that it was cancelled. You just can't do a horror TV show on broadcast television these days, with a couple exceptions ( Supernatural and possibly the upcoming TV adapation of The Walking Dead). Speaking of King, has anybody checked out his foray into TV, Kingdom Hospital I think it was called? I saw Kingdom Hospital when SyFy ran it as a marathon a long while back. Only problem? They didn't show the last 4 episodes of the darn thing. I spend the better part of 8 hours watching and getting completely engrossed with this thing (When I should've been doing school work)...waiting to see what happens next...and Star Trek: The Next Generation pops up with absolutely no warning. That's 1/3 of an entire day building up to a complete swerve from SyFy. Happy; I was not. Oh...and they never showed the other episodes. So I've never seen the ending. |
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Post by Lick Ness Monster on May 16, 2010 18:59:56 GMT -5
Not shocked that it was cancelled. You just can't do a horror TV show on broadcast television these days, with a couple exceptions ( Supernatural and possibly the upcoming TV adapation of The Walking Dead). Speaking of King, has anybody checked out his foray into TV, Kingdom Hospital I think it was called? was also doomed from the get-go because it's primarily about older characters (mostly '40s-age) with families. I'm willing to bet that a lot of the Supernatural audience isn't diehard horror fans, but the usual CW audience enjoying the nonstop parade of attractive actors and actresses the show puts out on a weekly basis. |
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Post by Rorschach on May 16, 2010 19:08:56 GMT -5
Not shocked that it was cancelled. You just can't do a horror TV show on broadcast television these days, with a couple exceptions ( Supernatural and possibly the upcoming TV adapation of The Walking Dead). Speaking of King, has anybody checked out his foray into TV, Kingdom Hospital I think it was called? I saw Kingdom Hospital when SyFy ran it as a marathon a long while back. Only problem? They didn't show the last 4 episodes of the darn thing. I spend the better part of 8 hours watching and getting completely engrossed with this thing (When I should've been doing school work)...waiting to see what happens next...and Star Trek: The Next Generation pops up with absolutely no warning. That's 1/3 of an entire day building up to a complete swerve from SyFy. Happy; I was not. Oh...and they never showed the other episodes. So I've never seen the ending. I bought this on DVD a while back (back when Hollywood Video was doing a 3 for $20 deal) and I really like this mini series. The ant-eater really made me scratch my head until I turned on the captions....then I got what the joke was supposed to be. ;D |
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Post by Big DSR Energy on May 17, 2010 1:00:49 GMT -5
Okay, so somebody at my work suggested to me that I watch the Rob Zombie actiony exploitation flick THE DEVIL'S REJECTS. And so I have done so tonight. I don't think I have it in me for a full review, so here's some thoughts: -Sid Haig, Ken Foree and Michael Berryman are all great actors. They make Zombie's writing bearable. -William Forsyth, however, is such a good actor, it makes Rob's writing look more ridiculous. He makes you wonder what the f*** he's doing in this movie! -Speaking of "the F word," dear God, there's too much of it in this movie. -There's a weird Elvis Presley vs. Groucho Marx "debate" in the film that just felt really weird and stupid. -Rob's wife, Mother Firefly, and Bill Moseley were just annoying! They didn't feel like horror villains (that would imply they instill fear) they just feel like the assholes who show up at your work, and you have to talk to them, even though you don't want to (that might just be MY work). -Also, while I'm at it, ROB WE GET IT, YOUR WIFE IS CUTE. You don't have to make every third shot be about her ass. Save it for yer damn bedroom. {Spoiler}-Was I supposed to be rooting for these annoying jerkwads for the climax of the movie? I mean, we see them suffer at William Forsyth's hands, escape, and shoot-out with the cops to the sound of F***ING "FREEBIRD"! I'm sorry Rob, these cats are annoying as hell and I felt no sympathy for them. ANYWAY, despite all of my problems with Zombie's writing, he at least shows some skill as a director (as others have said before). And I liked the song that played over the end credits. Sorry guys, I know I'm way behind on this, and I know I'm preaching to the choir in regards to Rob Zombie being something of a cinematic nuisance. But I felt like venting. 3ish stars out of 5. I've always been a huge Iron Man fan, and I remember liking ROTKT since I was a little kid, but it wasn't 'til I was in my early 20s that I made the connection of the similar names.  |
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Post by Rorschach on May 17, 2010 1:09:54 GMT -5
Okay, so somebody at my work suggested to me that I watch the Rob Zombie actiony exploitation flick THE DEVIL'S REJECTS. And so I have done so tonight. I don't think I have it in me for a full review, so here's some thoughts: -Sid Haig, Ken Foree and Michael Berryman are all great actors. They make Zombie's writing bearable. -William Forsyth, however, is such a good actor, it makes Rob's writing look more ridiculous. He makes you wonder what the f*** he's doing in this movie! -Speaking of "the F word," dear God, there's too much of it in this movie. -There's a weird Elvis Presley vs. Groucho Marx "debate" in the film that just felt really weird and stupid. -Rob's wife, Mother Firefly, and Bill Moseley were just annoying! They didn't feel like horror villains (that would imply they instill fear) they just feel like the assholes who show up at your work, and you have to talk to them, even though you don't want to (that might just be MY work). -Also, while I'm at it, ROB WE GET IT, YOUR WIFE IS CUTE. You don't have to make every third shot be about her ass. Save it for yer damn bedroom. {Spoiler}-Was I supposed to be rooting for these annoying jerkwads for the climax of the movie? I mean, we see them suffer at William Forsyth's hands, escape, and shoot-out with the cops to the sound of F***ING "FREEBIRD"! I'm sorry Rob, these cats are annoying as hell and I felt no sympathy for them. ANYWAY, despite all of my problems with Zombie's writing, he at least shows some skill as a director (as others have said before). And I liked the song that played over the end credits. Sorry guys, I know I'm way behind on this, and I know I'm preaching to the choir in regards to Rob Zombie being something of a cinematic nuisance. But I felt like venting. 3ish stars out of 5. I've always been a huge Iron Man fan, and I remember liking ROTKT since I was a little kid, but it wasn't 'til I was in my early 20s that I made the connection of the similar names. For some reason, I remember TR just blasting one of these films (this or House of 1000 Corpses) in an earlier thread, and he and I having a great time just listing off things that we hated about both films. I will say however, that for his second film, I really thought that Zombie was showing some progress. There are some great scenes in REJECTS, and some great, gory moments that show his promise as a director....little did I (or many others) know that this is IT. It's literally ALL the guy has in his repertoire....foul mouthed hillbilly redneck stereotypes with all the depth of a petrie dish and none of the fascinating contents. |
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Post by Big DSR Energy on May 17, 2010 1:17:51 GMT -5
For some reason, I remember TR just blasting one of these films (this or House of 1000 Corpses) in an earlier thread, and he and I having a great time just listing off things that we hated about both films. I will say however, that for his second film, I really thought that Zombie was showing some progress. There are some great scenes in REJECTS, and some great, gory moments that show his promise as a director....little did I (or many others) know that this is IT. It's literally ALL the guy has in his repertoire....foul mouthed hillbilly redneck stereotypes with all the depth of a petrie dish and none of the fascinating contents. Yeah, like I said, bashing Rob Zombie movies is pretty well-worn territory in these threads. And considering I found his so-called best film to be so lackluster (with, again, hints of a decent director in there somewhere) I don't think I'm gonna be perusing the rest of the man's filmography anytime soon. I kinda wish he'd stick to music, so I'd have more reasons to like him (I dig the guy's music). |
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