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Started last night because it's finally on Hulu. One of the problems with these movies is anything like it now just feels like it's trying to be Silence of the Lambs and nothing ever can be. I want to call it the greatest movie ever made but I'll stop at it being just one of the best books ever written. If a movie is basically retells a book beat for beat and wins every Academy Award (back when that was a real thing) that's all you need to know. Also, didn't need to rely on literary bs fluff.
The early scene where they knock on the guy's door is legit though.
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I personally liked Longlegs a lot better than SotL because the 90's Oregon serial killer noir is just a lot more attractive than the national manhunt shit that SotL and even Red Dragon/manhunt had.
I even liked The Snowman and Insomnia better than SotL for similar reasons.
Nobody will reward horror/serial killer movies nowadays and I'm not sure that SotL was even considered that back then. I give it credit for being kind of a template, but that is moreso for the little Netflix miniseries or even True Detective.
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I've never been prepared to defend Silence of the Lambs, so will leave it at that. Finished Longlegs last night. Liked it enough. Working in The Hollywood world I get ultra bitter trying to watch movies though where stuff kind of just happens and magical type stuff and Satan/devil worshippers are engines because if someone like me goes those routes you're noted to death with that doesn't work logistically or it's been done too many times.
The awards are a graveyard because they refuse to just award movies the way regular people do, including recognizing stuff like horror and comedy more, which is much harder to pull off well than drama, which is overly awarded and the easiest thing to make for awards bait.
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Yeah I knew and understood that a lot of people are going to feel a bit deceived by how the movie starts and then delves down into something else that isn't explained much. That was a similar issue with Heretic.
I knew I was forgetting a movie and I will say that Prisoners is truly a movie in the "Silence of the Lambs" space that doesn't get near enough credit. It's criminal that that's a movie you just kind of stumble into on Netflix/Max hoping it can just fill a couple of hours, when it's a near perfect film in the genre.
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I kind of agree on SOTL. It's a great movie because the material is strong and they threw a bunch of premium actors at it and they killed it. It could've been written better though. Like a lot of Hollywood horror it starts out as a nice, slow burn but eventually they realize they have to step on the gas and speed through to an ending.
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Twins with Arnold and DeVito. Saw it in the 80s and not since then. Couldn’t remember if it was good or not. Much better than I thought it’d be
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Legend.
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The new/remake video game that is only 5 or so months old is the best game in 20 years rather easily and the movie could suck but I think it's looking pretty faithful besides the casting of James looking like an early 2000's emo kid
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Watched 2 movies on my flights yesterday, both starting #myLancer Jim Cavaziel:
Sound of Freedom & Thin Red Line.
Hollywood has this thing where studios produce 2 movies of the same type in the same year where 1 is a blockbuster and the other is meh. Armageddon and Deep Impact are 1 example. Saving Private Ryan and Thin Red Line are another.
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Is someone dare referring to Deep Impact as "meh?" There was also Dante's Peak and Volcano LA.
