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LoganCrews (2861 KP) rated Saw II (2005) in Movies

Jul 4, 2021

Saw II (2005)

2005 | Horror, Mystery

6.7

(23 Ratings)

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Guttural. Few other horror franchises loathe their characters as deeply and as passionately as 𝘚𝘢𝘸 - not even two minutes into the movie and it already proceeds to chuck these people down the garbage disposal without remorse. Has the worst outlook possible on life as a whole, revels in such an instantaneous breakdown of the human body and mind. Trades out the 'knucklehead Shakespeare' vibes of the original to double down on its endlessly creative gore, which is a fair tradeoff if we can't get both I guess. Can't believe this is the same Darren Lynn who directed 𝘚𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘢𝘭 - which I not only am beginning to dislike more and more with each revisit to the originals, but which also gets next to no points for being pro-ACAB when this one did it first *and* better 16 years prior. Filled with a multitude of anxious cuts and cool-as-hell camera trickeries (plus such a tantalizing MTV filth aesthetic), often unfairly shunned for being amateurish I'd actually argue the opposite - quick flashes of people in agony, everyone turning against each other and scrambling for answers with each passing second, visually emulating the final stages of a person's fight-or-flight mode like no other horror series before or after. The hypodermic needle pit still remains an all-time skin-crawler. In an age filled with such intolerably self-conscious bleakness in cinema, it's refreshing to see it done so sincerely with these.

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LoganCrews (2861 KP) rated Foodfight! (2012) in Movies

Sep 21, 2020

Foodfight! (2012)

2012 | Action, Animation, Comedy

8.0

(2 Ratings)

Movie Rating

"𝘈𝘨𝘰𝘯𝘺, 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘮𝘺 𝘭𝘰𝘺𝘢𝘭 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘥... 𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶."

Anti-cinema. Furry propaganda that bastardizes random corporate logos into hideous background characters for a crude mixture of ripoff film noir, shit-looking 𝘛𝘰𝘺 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 and... the Nazi Party? Sort of genius. But also the most compact measurable example of going through the Kübler-Ross five stages of grief. The best thing you can do with butt-ugly, endlessly questionable, ultra-filtered garbaggio like this is not to futilely attempt to reject its offerings into the minds of twisted, twisted individuals - but to fully embrace and accept it as a tonic, to make you feel better about yourself. One big hilariously bad sexual thrust of a children's film that isn't - in any capacity - suitable for children; at one point there's an extended 'steamy' dance routine where Dex Dogtective and Lady X strongly attempt to both fuck *and* kill each other at the same time. Horrible, half-finished food puns like "Let's strawberry jam outta here" and "Frankly my dear, I don't give a Spam" spin back into some kind of stupid subversion. Cold, lifeless, perturbing eyes staring back at you with an ominous silence that makes one want to crawl out of their own skin (pretty sure this triggered my fight-or-flight response multiple times over). Also the last 30 minutes is a sustained barrage of disgustingly rendered CGI puss. A closer experience to 𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘎𝘰 𝘵𝘰 𝘋𝘪𝘦 than it thinks.