Tagged: i do movies badly
Did Mark L. Lester, the man behind Commando, intend us to take Class of 1984 to be a satire of the overblown panic about violence in schools or a gravely serious warning about what he deemed an apathetic, dangerous next generation? Either way, it’s...
Here are the top five things that went down at Battleship Pretension this week: Ask No Questions: Fighting Fire with Fire, by Tyler Smith Episode 696: Atom Egoyan Is Our Guest of Honor I Do Movies Badly: Black Christmas The...
There does seem at first to be something clever and subversive about setting a slasher film on Valentine’s Day…until you remember that Valentine’s Day is a Hallmark holiday and My Bloody Valentine bungles the execution of what could have been an interesting...
Here are the top five things that went down at Battleship Pretension this week: Episode 695: Old Movies, New Technology with Jim Rohner The Painted Bird: An Eastern European Film, by David Bax Criterion Prediction #250: Fellini’s Casanova, by Alexander...
Black Christmas has earned its reputation as a seminal horror film, with Bob Clark’s directorial choices and effective subversion of the Christmas holiday season establishing its influence for decades to come (especially in 2020, when this reviewer will be heavily inspired...
David Bax remains the only I Do Movies Badly guest to actively pitch me topics and thus, he returns for the second time in three months to discuss some Canuxploitation films, less fun, “tax shelter films”–in which our neighbors in the Great White North...
Benson and Moorhead revisit the world that they established in Resolution with The Endless allowing them to explore more of the “what” of the entity controlling peoples’ fates, but still neglecting to answer the “why” or “how.”
Who’d have thought that it was a review from IMDb cluing me into how Resolution, a film that I initially wrote off as “two guys who did the best they could with what they had,” was actually a meta parody of tired...
Here are the top five things that went down at Battleship Pretension this week: 7500: Mayday, by Tyler Smith You Should Have Left: Not Just the House Settling, by David Bax Episode 691: Hudson and Gaines Reunion I Do Movies...
Benson and Moorhead’s Spring is a marvelous exploration of suspense over surprise, focusing on two closed off characters whose world views of objectification stem from their vulnerabilities and fears of loss (even if its female lead is far more interesting than its...