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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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Guillermo del Toro’s
Pinocchio OK/G
Two Pinocchio
movies in one year?! [You can check out
my review for the other one released on Disney+ in here---https://vampireclown82.blogspot.com/2022/09/snapperamerican-horror-stories-season-2.html]. According to research, there are at least 17
Pinocchio films (Pinocchio’s Revenge not being one that came up), and that’s not
including TV variations. No, I haven’t
seen them all, not even close, the original 1940 Disney film never being one of
my favorites from the company. I was
actually looking forward to this stop-motion Netflix release a bit since
Guillermo del Toro was involved, he having style (often more than
substance). There definitely is style,
the style itself being its primary redeeming quality. Don’t get me wrong, if this was live-action,
or even a different kind of animation, this likely would’ve been just another
unnecessary update (there are only so many ways you can tell the same story). Many of the familiar elements are here, but
some stuff was omitted and some stuff was added---something I sort of admired
about it. Being that it’s roughly two
hours, I got a bit impatient with it. I
didn’t expect there to be songs in this version either, but there weren’t too
many. Unique execution on the oft-adapted
tale, that might get better with viewings, but I don’t think we need any more features
involving the titular wooden puppet. 12/12/2022
Bonus review:
Let the Right One In (Season
One) OK
I’m a fan of the 2008 Swedish film of the same name; I
didn’t love it at first; I had to watch it more than once to eventually love
it. The 2010 remake, Let Me In, felt too fast-paced (as American
remakes of non-American films often are) and was released much too soon after
the original. This new Showtime series
is predominantly a drama; well, the original film was ultimately an indie
coming-of-age film that contained vampires; this series contains vampires, and
there is violence like the film, but it’s primarily a drama. The story generally remains intact---a young
vampire girl is protected by an older man (her father here) and befriends a
young boy living in the same apartment building; the setting trades Sweden for
New York. Whereas the film generally
focused on the young boy and his vamp friend while occasionally featuring
ancillary characters, bullying being the central theme, this series focuses on
more than just those two, such as both their single parents and people looking
for a cure; the bullying here is just a minor subplot. Being that it’s ten episodes roughly
50-minutes each (give or take), it does feel drawn out, even with all the other
characters. Perhaps I was instinctively
comparing to the movie? Or perhaps if I
never saw the movie, or remake even, would I have appreciated this more? Like always, questions I’ll never have
answered, and this series would’ve never existed without the film, which itself
wouldn’t have existed without the book it was based on by John Ajvide Lindqvist
(I’m a fan of that book too). This
series was just okay, as my rating indicates.
As of now, there are no talks of a season two, but it’s definitely not
over based on the ending of the last episode. If they do continue, I won’t be in a rush to
watch it, nor do I think I’ll really care, but I say that now…12/9/2022
Other movies I've seen and their ratings (see above):
Dig (2022) >>>EH
Emily the Criminal >>>OK
Everything
Everywhere All at Once >>>OK
(In Chinese with
subtitles, and English)
Mistletoe Time
Machine >>>EH
(Tubi)
What We Found >>>EH/OK
---Sean O.12/13/2022
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