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Quick Take: Godzilla King of the Monsters (2019)

No spoilers. First of all, it’s quite good. Don’t pay attention to the pro* reviewers, or the film’s weirdly low 40% pro score. Pay more attention to the 87% audience score. Even weirder, the film in no way reflected what had seemed the chief criticism of the critics. To wit, that the film went…
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Monster of the Day #1936
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Monster of the Day #1936

I'm not sure about these numbers. The production costs for Rob Zombie's Halloween must have been very low. It made $80 million worldwide and got a sequel. Meanwhile, the 2009 Friday the 13th, with a modest $19 budget, made $91 million and killed the reboot franchise. I get the numbers there, actually. Roughly $20…
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Monster of the Day #1935
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Monster of the Day #1935

So I kind of get them screwing up Nightmare on Elm Street, because that was a very good film and thus easier to fail with. However, how the heck do you mess up a Friday the 13th movie? I won't say it's because people are just tired of them, because there were two Rob…
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Monster of the Day #1934
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Monster of the Day #1934

Admittedly, the producers of this remake gave themselves a harder task than, say, the Friday the 13th remake, because the actual Craven Nightmares are really good, even great. Even so, you'd think they could have done better than a film with a 15% Rotten Tomatoes score. But hey, I'm sure it had a lot…
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Vox Populi: The Doom Patrol

The first episode for the DC/Warner’s streaming service program Doom Patrol was posted officially to YouTube. I meant to check it out because I heard it was relatively good. However, the pilot was only posted for a brief looksee time, apparently, so I missed my chance. Fair enough. However, I saw a scene posted…
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Monster of the Day #1933
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Monster of the Day #1933

Wow, the original wasn't made until 1993? Anyway, let's look at the brilliant redoes of the classic horror movies of the 70s on!
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Monster of the Day #1930
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Monster of the Day #1930

Ah, killer plants. Now that I think about it, when did movies stop featuring random killer plants. Cinema sucks now. (Except for The Avenger and John Wick and Godzilla.)
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