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The Unholy (2021)
Waste of a good premise and good cast
Watching this movie made me long for the days when movie making was a creative art. Horror film like the Exorcist or The Omen were made by real filmmakers who knew how to take the audience on a journey. The Unholy, and countless other modern horror films have no subtlety, or sensitivity. This film signposts everything with cliché creepy music, uses unnecessary and obvious jump scares far too often and completely wastes an excellent cast. There is no point in the story because it tells you everything in the prologue, rather than gradually revealing itself over the course of the movie. I really loved the book this was based on, and it could have been a great movie. This is far from being even a good movie. Such a shame.
R.F.D. 10,000 B.C. (1917)
Early Animation
This is a charming little short using stop motion animation. Amazingly good for 1917. It has a dinosaur in it, so what more could you ask for?
Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)
Awful
Bad script, bad direction, bad acting. I was rooting for the monsters. The human characters are all moronic imbeciles and deserved to be made extinct. Just too much nonsense that didn't make sense as they tried to pack as much action in as possible, which left characters and 'story' that were underdeveloped, and overwhelmed by the compulsion to over CGI everything. When will filmmakers learn that if you don't develop characters then no-one will care if they live or die, and so you have no tension when they are under threat.
Marie Antoinette (2006)
Visually stunning, but misleading film
Marie Antoinette's story would make great movie. Unfortunately this isn't it. It fails to tell her story, glazing over her political interference and underplaying the decadence that enveloped Versailles prior to the French Revolution. But then I suppose realism wasn't high on the list of priorities judging by the scene in the palais Garnier (not built for another hundred years) and the dancing to Hong Kong Garden by Siouxsie and the Banshees. I'm not really sure what the point actually was though, which is the problem. It does look fantastic though and I don't regret watching it.
Haunt (2019)
A film of two halves
The first half of this film is decent enough. It builds well and gets you wondering how it will play out. The second half is utter drivel.