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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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True Detective: Night Country OK
The first season of this anthology series is one of my
favorite shows; I’ve watched it at least three times and I’ll probably revisit
it again in the future. The second
season sucked, and many agreed with me; I didn’t care about any of the
characters (a “homophobic” character ends up being gay---how original!) or the
entire season as a whole. The third
season wasn’t bad (you can read my haiku review for it in here---https://vampireclown82.blogspot.com/2019/02/overlord.html),
but still wasn’t nearly as good as the first; basically just a once-and-done
affair. That’s pretty much how I felt
about this fourth season containing only six episodes, as opposed to eight the
other three, all roughly an hour (the last one an extra 15-minutes), all
directed by Issa Lopez (Tigers Are Not
Afraid). The setting this time is
the fictional town of Ennis, Alaska (filmed in Iceland) around Christmastime
when it’s dark for 24 hours. The mystery
here is what happened to a group of scientists (all men) that disappeared from
a facility and are all eventually found dead in the snow, naked. The episodes are fine, for the most part;
there are some supernatural elements belonging in a clichéd horror flick, and
Jodie Foster’s character is sort of unlikeable (they succeeded if that was
intended). The first part of the big
reveal was lame and made me almost dislike the entire season, but the second
part was a bit more compelling. All in
all, I’d say it’s a fairly decent watch, but, like I said, just once-and-done. 7/24/2024
Bonus review:
Abigail OK
A group of people are hired to kidnap a young ballerina and
babysit her for 24 hours in a secluded mansion in hopes of obtaining money from
her wealthy father. If you’ve seen any
previews or read about it I don’t think it’s a spoiler to say the little girl
is actually a vampire and the “hunters become the hunted.” [If you somehow didn’t know it was a vampire
movie, sorry for ruining it for you]. We
do get to know all the characters quite well, and it is violent, there’s no
doubt about that (the same duo also directed Ready or Not, plus Scream
5 and 6; respectively, you can read my reviews for those in here---https://vampireclown82.blogspot.com/2019/12/ready-or-not.html,
here---https://vampireclown82.blogspot.com/2022/01/last-night-in-sohoscream-2022.html,
and here---https://vampireclown82.blogspot.com/2023/04/scream-vi.html). The violence is ultimately what it has going
for it. It did get silly at times, more
so than I thought it would be, and isn’t without its clichés (i.e. the
inevitable jump scare, the overall motives); sometimes it’s predictable too. It’s far from being terrible, but I don’t
think it belongs alongside the fanged cinema greats. R.I.P. Angus Cloud. 7/20/2024
Other movies I've seen and their ratings (see above):
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire >>>EH/OK
The Mean One >>>EH/OK
Silent Night (2023) >>>EH
---Sean O.
7/25/2024
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