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VierasTalo rated Brigsby Bear

 Brigsby Bear 6/10

7 years, 1 month ago

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I would love it if Brigsby Bear did more. As it stands it's very solid and has a lot of heart but doesn't really aspire to too much. Give this thing a more thoughtful story and you'd have a classic.

7 years, 1 month ago

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It's still very good.

7 years, 1 month ago

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I had completely forgotten how great this movie is. By abandoning the traditional pacing of a three act story it becomes dynamite. The first act lasts like 80 minutes, the second act is a hot fifteen consisting of nothing but action setpieces, then the last is like 30, again consisting of little but setpieces. By spending over half of the runtime on not-actiony stuff it not only build characters but also allows for an absolutely riveting latter half when crazy visuals are on-screen non-stop.

7 years, 1 month ago

VierasTalo rated xXx: Return of Xander Cage

 xXx: Return of Xander Cage 4/10

7 years, 1 month ago

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I... I can't take this much of Vin Diesel masturbating to himself on camera. Never thought this point could come. It is incredible.

7 years, 1 month ago

VierasTalo rated Good Time

 Good Time 8/10

7 years, 1 month ago

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Those wacky criminals!

7 years, 1 month ago

VierasTalo rated Jungle

 Jungle 4/10

7 years, 1 month ago

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A white dude goes to the jungle to clamor in the fun of killing animals. In the end he realizes it's much more fun to feel a sense of kinship with the animals. Two stars.

7 years, 1 month ago

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The 4K restoration of this was dope on the big screen, but the bigger thing I got out of it was that I was able to hear the score crystal-clear for the first time. Even that ending worked and didn't feel like a jumble of previously heard sounds! Now I just wish they give this treatment to Inferno some day so I get to see that on the big screen too, seeing as how it's the better film of the two. Suspiria, while much more apt in creating an alien, hostile environment without using dialogue, far too often falls apart the second someone speaks audibly.

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VierasTalo rated Thor: Ragnarok

 Thor: Ragnarok 6/10

7 years, 1 month ago

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It has terrific music and a terrific Jeff Goldblum. It's also a very cohesive whole which can't be said of most Marvel-movies. Shave off 15 minutes from the whole and you've got it.

7 years, 1 month ago

VierasTalo rated Ingrid Goes West

 Ingrid Goes West 8/10

7 years, 1 month ago

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She sure does!

7 years, 1 month ago

VierasTalo added Coto de caza to wanted list

 Coto de caza 

7 years, 1 month ago

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Elokuvapäiväkirja 2017 (315 movies items)

"Vittu Final Girlin valaistus! Onneksi julisteeseen on saatu elokuvan tähti, spottivalo."

7 years, 1 month ago

VierasTalo rated The Babysitter

 The Babysitter 8/10

7 years, 2 months ago

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McG has made the most McG-movie of all time and it is brilliant. It's Charlie's Angels -level silly removed from any attempts at being early 00s extreme and with a pretty good comedy script. I never expected to say this of McG of all people but I am truly, deeply happy that he has found a flamboyant, loud and distinct audiovisual voice in his storytelling.

7 years, 2 months ago

VierasTalo rated Annabelle: Creation

 Annabelle: Creation 6/10

7 years, 2 months ago

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Well, this ain't no Conjuring, but for the first hour it gets fairly close and it also ain't no Annabelle or Lights Out so it's all good. The biggest detracting factor is that it's a prequel to one of the crappiest studio horrors of the decade, and it inherits some of it's problems, primarily having to bow down to the concept of this doll being possessed by a real 90s-ass horror comic -looking demon. I guess you have to show that thing, and David F. Sandberg, bless his soul, tries so hard to sell it as spooky, but it looks like the fucking Wishmaster dipped in black paint so I ain't buying. Lulu Wilson turns up the ham sandwich real good during the last half and redeems some of the aforementioned crap by doing it very well, in that way kid actors can be terrible in tense horror movies so long as their terribleness is child-like and here it sure is. That girl has eyes as big as platters when she's surprised and it's wonderfully vaudeville.

7 years, 2 months ago

VierasTalo rated Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 6/10

7 years, 2 months ago

VierasTalo rated Wind River

 Wind River 8/10

7 years, 2 months ago

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Fucking great as this hyper-American pastoral about reservation life and the state of the modern native american and it realizes it and treats itself as such as opposed to focusing on the crime mystery which is solved in a way that's almost a joke. Like the cop in the movie says, "this case is solving itself."

7 years, 2 months ago

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Watched 2017 (34 movies items)

7 years, 2 months ago

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This teeters frustratingly close to being great so many times it's a shame they went this route with the last third. The asshole killer getting away has to aid a theme or have some purpose, and when it doesn't, and the movie has made him an actual asshole, not one you can enjoy watching the antics of (because this kid's desire to rape a lady is the start of this movie), you just feel like you wasted 90 minutes on this garbage afterwards no matter how good some moments were. There is the hint of comeuppance at the end but it doesn't cut the mustard because the assholery is of such a magnitude where you'd basically need to see him get his ding dong ripped off by a Castle Freak to make up for it.

7 years, 2 months ago

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October 2017 Horrorfest (45 movies items)

"I honestly don't know how one could watch the opening to TCM2 and be left wondering whether it's a straight-up comedy or not. I would advise not going further into the sequels though, the first two ha"

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