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The Crow (2024)
Not as bad as people left me to believe.
To get it out of the way, I feel that if they had just presented the movie as the original screenplay by Dorfman, ya know, a story of A crow instead of twisting it to be a remake of the original, people would have less to complain about.
That said, the dialog was very... generic. I feel like that's the best way to describe it. And the story feels very by the numbers, and also takes entirely too long to crow properly.
Why a 7 of 10?
That's down to the cast, the direction and cinematography's strength. This is a very movie (visually) with some pretty intense violence near the end, that seems to actually have been thought through, this Crow has no combat training so it's very... Messy once the bullets start flying and the knives start stabbing.
And plot wise I like the representation of the metaphysical aspect of the Crow's creation and the veil between worlds
In all boring but pretty movie that, if made it's own thing probably would have been better off.
Evil (2019)
If I had to review it in one sentence...
It's the X-files with Roman Catholicism.
It is as good as that implies. Monster of the week with a larger overarching conflict more of less happening just out of the public eye.
The chemistry between the main three protagonists is wonderful. Everyone has a weird bend in their personality that makes for some funny moments with out becoming annoying.
Also the writing runs on a spectrum from darkly funny, to scary, to weirdly wholesome.
My only nitpick is it feels like some asides and b stories just drop without a resolution... Which hey that's life sometimes you'll never find out why or how or what happened.
Also a shame I only found this series right before the last season. The last season left a satisfying end while not ruling out the possibility of being picked back up again. However I do worry that it will be hard to get the jinn back in the lamp so to speak.
In short good fun that possibly is one of the best uses of the monster of the week formula.
Also in regards to the kids... Clearly those complaining has multiple sisters.
Urban Myths (2017)
Well, they made a movie.
Good for them. Kinda a number of random ideas. Incoherent and boring. And possibly the worst music I've heard in a movie.
Characters are cookie cutter, and unless I was looking at the screen I couldn't tell one from another.
My mostly blind cat liked watching the shapes move around on screen. So points there I suppose.
I joked with my partner that nepotism made this movie once she told me about the cast list and who they're related to. I hope there's another universe where this was all played for laughs, but in ours?
Skip it. Unless you have a mostly blind pet that like to watch shapes on TV, then it's fine.