If you have a specific phobia of hammy acting and lame killing sequences, then Halloween will scare the shit out of you.
But, yeah, it doesn't hold up at all through 2018 eyes. In fact, I can't help but wonder how this actually scared people way back when. The Exorcist came out 5 years earlier and is legitimately still upsetting. This? Total cheese-fest.
Blows my mind that anyone would find this the least bit unsettling. Whatever.
Grade: 5/10
If cancer is ever definitively cured, that person will have become the only person to ever be better at their job than Aaron Sorkin is at his.
Grade: 9/10
May be setting myself up for a major disappointment with Spider's Web, but there's nothing that movie can do to lessen this in my eyes.
Fincher's Dragon Tattoo is sublime. There is no director that can raise source material quite like he can. In the hands of a lesser talent, movies like Seven, Dragon Tattoo and Gone Girl could be trashy or pulpy (which can be awesome) but his presence behind the camera adds an extra layer of something that…
In a better world, Bradley Cooper would currently be an obvious front runner for his 2nd Oscar, and this movie would have cleaned house at 2013’s Academy Awards.
And Trump would currently be in the middle of 20+ year jail sentence, while Trump Jr. is fired from his job at Men’s Warehouse for sniffing the jeans.
But that’s beside the point. This is easily the best Goodfellas knockoff and parts of the two are even on par with each other.…
I have ice in my glass.
The perfect michrocosm for this story. Simple on the surface, yet profound for what we take for granted about the human experience.
Someone should be in jail over this being the last time Hanks was nominated for an Oscar. My my count, he’s had 5 Oscar worthy performances since then. They are as follows:
Road to Perdition
Catch Me if You Can
Captain Phillips
Saving Mr. Banks
The Post
Hoping A Beautiful Day in…
A weird way to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, I know.
John Kennedy represents the last great hope of a country that was killed by the military industrial complex and the greed of men. At least that’s Stone’s view, and for the most part it’s mine as well.
I think the Kennedy assassination was obviously a conspiracy, and the most important question regarding it isn’t who or what. It’s why.
Since 11/22/1963, those gunshots have echoed through the halls of justice…
By sleeping on this, y’all are missing out on one of the best movies of the decade and (in all seriousness) the most intellectually and emotionally compelling mystery ever put to film.
The snarkiness that’s been directed at this over the last few years is completely undeserved. Listen up nerds, this isn’t as loud of a statement as Pulp Fiction was but I think it goes toe-to-toe with Shawshank on a dramatic level.
The unending charm and sweetness that eminates from Forrest Gump is just irresistable to me. Hanks, Roth and Zemeckis really delivered something really special here, and I think it’s legacy as a quintessential American movie will stand the test of time. Shawshank and Pulp’s will too. There’s enough room at the table for everyone.