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MarkS's avatar

Freddie's tastes in art are just so different than mine ...

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> I say that because this movie is utterly without postmodernism, meta-theatrics, or knowingness. It was legitimately very refreshing to find myself watching a slasher movie where the characters did not know that they were in a movie.

I watched the new Halloween movie the other night. It wasn't very good but I had the same reaction - it's actually novel and interesting at this point to see a slasher movie without the incredibly tired jokey Whedonspeak. The dialogue is bad but the characters say what they mean and deliver it straightforwardly. There's even a rousing speech that riles up a mob played totally straight. I'm so tired of incessant viewer self-insert dialogue (even in stuff like Star Wars that's supposed to be operatic and heightened) that I give them credit for just making a straightforward bad movie.

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