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Does this re-adaptation really need to exist?
Yes. Yes, it does.
Here, Spielberg pulls off the seemingly impossible: his West Side Story stands on its own, side by side with the original adaptation, and in some ways actually improves on it. The film surprised the hell out of me because, trust me, I did NOT expect to be giving it a 9 out of 10.
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A really depressing Thanksgiving movie, anyone?
In case that's what you were missing in your life...
A lot better than I remembered it to be! Scream 4 has its flaws, but compared to Scream 3 - this is night and day. We're back to the mystery and reveal being interesting, the characters making sense, the tone being consistent, and the opening scene being awesome. The franchise has recovered, and so has Gale Weathers' hair.
This one actually felt very exploitative to me. If you're looking for something to put the events of this case in a timeline - I guess, this documentary does a decent job. But that's all it does. It takes existing footage and arranges it in a specific order. It doesn't attempt to explore the reasoning. It doesn't attempt to uncover something you can't already learn from a simple Google search. It doesn't give it any kind of perspective. All it…
OK, so first of all, Willem Dafoe is great in this.
Second, the color palette and the way Sean Baker makes the ugliness of the world look almost whimsical is also great from the aesthetic perspective.
But...
Did I watch the same movie everyone else did? Because, apparently, everyone watched some magical, wonderful, best movie of the year about "real people" and "real childhood". I watched a movie about some the most obnoxious kids and adults/parents I've ever seen on…
