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In case you haven’t seen the intro from my entry dated
1/26/19 (it’s in my archives whenever you want to read it), I’m no longer going
to review every single movie I see. I’m
going to review one, with the occasional bonus, and just give ratings for the
rest from now on (unless I decide to pick it up again in the future). You can always ask me why I gave the ratings
for the films without reviews though (via comments or the e-mail addresses under
the ‘About Me’ section).
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This recent
Shudder exclusive is certainly relevant for these Covid-19 times,
somewhat. A group of people decide to
conduct a séance via a Zoom call (I never even heard of Zoom until this
pandemic) and are even warned beforehand that it's not the safest route to go
about it (won't they ever learn in movies?).
One of them accidentally summons a demon and let's just say that things
don't go so well for all involved thereafter (as is usually the case). Beforehand, I read somewhere online that this
was Unfriended meets Paranormal Activity (or something along
those lines), and that's pretty much what it is, complete with a jump scare at
the very end much like the latter, meaning it's not so original. It also felt longer than it should've been
even at only 56-minutes. You could do
worse though, I guess, but you can also do better in roughly an hour. 7/31/2020
Scoob! B
I am a fan of Scooby-Doo,
more so when I was younger, but I still like watching the animated movies that
I have yet to see so many of, and hopefully that’ll eventually be rectified. This recent animated film begins as an origin
story in modern times (signifiers---smartphone, Velma’s costume being mistaken
for Harry Potter, Simon Powell playing himself) before becoming a regular Scooby-Doo mystery that didn’t feel like
a Scooby-Doo mystery at all. I hated this movie. Yes, I’m not a fan of modern animation, but
I’ve learned to accept (or understand, more appropriately) that being the new
reality (while still getting the occasional Klaus)
and might’ve been able to overlook that aspect if the movie was actually any
good. There were two parts I liked---the
bowling balls and bowling pins transforming into monsters and the abandoned
amusement park scene---but they were minor bits in the grand scheme of things and
I couldn’t help but imagine those same scenes looking better with traditional
animation (meaning hand-drawn). The
majority of it had too much action, in the sense it bored me more than
entertained me, while, again, not feeling like a standard Scooby-Doo film. I’m not
sure what was worse, this or the two live-action films released in 2002 and
2004, but I do know that this film didn’t work for me, at all. 8/3/2020
Other
movies I've seen and their ratings (see above):
1917 >>>G
We Go On >>>OK/G
---Sean O.
8/4/2020
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