{"id":57254,"date":"2023-12-06T15:56:52","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T15:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wrongeverytime.com\/?p=38697"},"modified":"2023-12-06T15:56:52","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T15:56:52","slug":"fall-2023-week-10-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamefootballmobileanimeiphone.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/06\/fall-2023-week-10-in-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall 2023 \u2013 Week 10 in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. This week I\u2019ve been continuing my efforts to catch up on all of the year\u2019s outstanding, er, outstanding anime, following up on Vinland Saga and The Witch From Mercury with the recently released adaptation of Pluto. I\u2019ve been quite enjoying the production, and will likely have full thoughts on that one for next week, which will hopefully leave me with enough time to sneak in Scott Pilgrim before the year\u2019s end. Anything else I\u2019m missing? I\u2019m already mostly through MyGO, and happily munching through Skip and Loafer whenever a new episode is funded, so I suppose the last question is whether Freiren is worth a viewing. But recent anime aside, my house has also been storming through a variable hodgepodge of feature films, ranging from \u201870s thrillers to horror hot off the press, and they\u2019ve all left me with some urgent thoughts to share. Let\u2019s burn down a fresh collection of films in the Week in Review!<\/span><\/p>\n

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First up this week was <\/span>Killer Book Club<\/b>, a recent Spanish feature about a group of university students who are all aspiring novelists. After the writer\u2019s block-stricken \u00c1ngela is assaulted by her teacher during a private conference, the group craft a scheme to get revenge on their teacher by spooking him while concealed in clown masks. Of course, the prank goes fatally wrong, the group swear never to speak of it again, and secrets are unsurprisingly revealed as the pranksters are then picked off one by one.<\/span><\/p>\n

So yeah, it\u2019s I Know What You Did Last Summer, or Scream, or Prom Night, or The Burning, or any of the other multitudinous slashers built on this simple revenge premise. \u201cPrank gone wrong\u201d is simply an easy way to not just establish motive while retaining a sense of innocence among the victims, but also to tease at the inherent tensions and emotional weaknesses of a given cast, forcing them to reckon with whether that mistake was a moment of weakness or a rite of ascension. And Killer Book Club knows it\u2019s not reinventing the wheel; it introduces each of its key players alongside their slasher victim title, and includes class discussions debating the merits of both horror stories and derivative sequels.<\/span><\/p>\n

Unfortunately, self-awareness does not inherently elevate familiar genre staples; as the Scream franchise well knows, you have to <\/span>do<\/span><\/i> something with that awareness of genre, or else you\u2019re simply reproducing clich\u00e9 from a further emotional distance. So it sadly goes for Killer Book Club, which does absolutely nothing with its aspiring horror writers twist on convention, and proceeds so predictably that the true killer was obvious to my viewing party from the moment the full cast had been revealed. What\u2019s more, the kills are largely perfunctory, and the thrills are entirely absent; I certainly didn\u2019t care enough about this cast to feel afraid for them, and the cinematography did little to convey a sense of horror through staging and atmosphere. An entirely obvious and eminently skippable feature.<\/span><\/p>\n

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We then watched <\/span>The Parallax View<\/b>, a \u201870s thriller by Alan J. Pakula, starring Warren Beaty as investigative reporter Joe Frady. Three years after the assassination of a presidential candidate, Frady is visited by an ex-girlfriend who witnessed the murder, and is terrified that she\u2019ll be the next target. Frady initially thinks nothing of it, but after his informant dies of an alleged drug overdose, he begins to uncover a vast conspiracy related to the ominous \u201cParallax Corporation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Like Pakula\u2019s later All The President\u2019s Men, The Parallax View reflects on an America haunted by a superior class of conspirators, before folks like Trump realized they could just outright declare their intent to Do A Treason before doing precisely that. Closely following the Kennedy assassinations, I imagine The Parallax View initially struck with a great sense of urgency, its proposal of a veiled league of psychopaths seeming little more ominous than the truth of political violence in America.<\/span><\/p>\n

Unfortunately, absent that ripped-from-the-headlines electricity, I can\u2019t really say it\u2019s a superior thriller. The Parallax View is fundamentally unfocused, with too little connecting its component sequences beyond \u201cand then Frady met with another guy.\u201d It feels less like a spiraling towards an inevitable collision than a leisurely walk through a park with conspirators lurking in every bush, its momentum further blunted by Beaty and his employer\u2019s lackadaisical indifference to the gravity of their situation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

When Grady is outmaneuvered, I feel less \u201coh no, they outsmarted him\u201d and more \u201cyeah, of course he\u2019d get caught doing that\u201d – he\u2019s too witless for a battle of wits, which has the secondary effect of making it hard to care or feel frightened for him. The film possesses a scattering of exceptional sequences, the most significant being his Ludovico technique-reminiscent induction into the Parallax Corporation, but they are distributed in such a way as to create little sense of momentum or inevitability. With a story so unfocused and conclusion so abrupt, one is left to wonder if the bookending framing device was added after test screenings, to inform the audience that yes, the movie is over.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Having affirmed my housemates\u2019 general stomach for body horror, we next checked out James Gunn\u2019s directorial debut, the horror-comedy <\/span>Slither<\/b>. The film centers on a town that comes under attack by a mysterious alien presence, when a meteor-borne parasite infects and takes over local resident Grant (Michael Rooker). Driven by his twin needs to consume meat and propagate, Grant proceeds to make one of his neighbors into a grotesquely bloated larva container, which eventually leads to slug-like monsters infecting the entire town with the consciousness that is Neo-Grant.<\/span><\/p>\n

Slither definitely leans more towards comedy than horror, though its practical effects conveying distorted human bodies are commendably discomforting. As a sendup of both \u201850s scifi features and \u201880s Carpenter\/Cronenberg movies, the film is saved from the realm of pure pastiche through its strong lead performances and the genuinely unsettling course of Grant\u2019s infection – Nathan Fillion and Elizabeth Banks turn in solid performances, while the image of every infected human collectively speaking in Grant\u2019s accusatory voice runs a well-earned shiver up the spine. Nothing essential, but altogether a perfectly recommendable horror-comedy.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Last up for the week was <\/span>Colombiana<\/b>, a revenge thriller about a young Colombian woman named Cataleya (Zoe Salda\u00f1a), whose parents are killed in front of her by the enforcers of her father\u2019s drug baron employer Don Luis (Beto Benites). Fleeing to Chicago, she is taken in by her uncle Emilio (Cliff Curtis), who raises her into a professional assassin. Years later, she begins to supplement her hired killings with murders intended to attract the attention of Don Luis, precipitating a maelstrom of violence that ultimately leads all the way to the CIA.<\/span><\/p>\n

The best way I could describe Colombiana is that it is a product of the House of Besson, the quasi-collective that French director Luc Besson established across the \u201800s. Besson has a habit of collecting action unit directors and furnishing them with scripts and budgets, often for films that bear a striking resemblance to his own L\u00e9on: The Professional. Both Louis Letterier\u2019s Unleashed and Olivier Megaton\u2019s Columbiana fall squarely into this tradition, and if you\u2019ve seen L\u00e9on, you more or less know what to expect from Columbiana: lots of slick assassination sequences, handsomely soulful ruminations on attempting to leave the killer\u2019s life, and a climactic battle involving a killer unleashed on as many goons and ne\u2019er-do-wells as the budget can stand for.<\/span><\/p>\n

Columbiana runs through all these standbys with confidence, though it is unfortunately hampered by the editing proclivities of its director. Megaton\u2019s other films include both of the Taken sequels (also products of the House of Besson), which are perhaps best-known for this <\/span>preposterously cut articulation<\/span><\/a> of Liam Neeson climbing exactly one (1) chain-link fence. Columbiana isn\u2019t <\/span>that<\/span><\/i> bad, but it\u2019s certainly in the same ballpark; most of its physical action scenes are cut to ribbons, greatly diminishing the impact of Salda\u00f1a and her costars\u2019 committed stunt work. I don\u2019t know why Megaton believes keeping the energy high via rapid cuts is more important than just Showing A Cool Stunt, with, you know, a single camera setup that actually illustrates the coolness of that stunt, but Columbiana nonetheless suffers greatly as a result. Still a perfectly watchable action-thriller, but simply worse than it could have been for no defensible reason.<\/span><\/p>\n

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