{"id":716,"date":"2023-09-13T15:37:43","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T14:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wrongeverytime.com\/?p=37842"},"modified":"2023-09-13T15:37:43","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T14:37:43","slug":"summer-2023-week-11-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamefootballmobileanimeiphone.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/13\/summer-2023-week-11-in-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer 2023 \u2013 Week 11 in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello folks, and welcome on back to Wrong Every Time. This has been a hectic week on my end, with a family wedding consuming my general film-screening time, but I\u2019m fortunately sitting on a massive buffer of reviews to ensure you all receive your regularly scheduled ramblings. And frankly, I really can\u2019t blame the wedding for my negligence – the genuine fact of it is that I\u2019ve been splitting my evenings between thrilling Armored Core battles and binge watches of Dragon Ball Super, which has risen from a rough start to prove itself altogether superior to Z. Super has fully revived the mix of comedy, character drama, and action that made the original Dragon Ball so engaging, and I\u2019ll be sure to have a full report for you all as soon as we munch through its pan-universal martial arts tournament. But in the meantime, lemme just rummage around in my sack of movie reviews for a moment, so we can break down a fresh collection of films!<\/span><\/p>\n

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First up this week (or well, <\/span>some<\/span><\/i> week) was <\/span>Valley of the Dead<\/b>, a zombie feature set during the Spanish Civil War. Zombie and nazis (or fascists more generally) are just natural bedfellows, and when some fascists get up to their usual zombie-creating business in a Spanish town, a scattering of Republican and Francoist soldiers will have to join forces to survive the apocalypse.<\/span><\/p>\n

Valley of the Dead probably contains more variations on the phrase \u201cshut up you fucking fascist\u201d than any film I\u2019ve seen, a line that is categorically incapable of growing old. Along with that, it\u2019s also just an excellent action-adventure film by any metric, taking care to provide its whole cast with engaging personalities and satisfyingly epic deaths. The one adult Francoist in the party is a native Spaniard whose whole deal is reducing harm (to the extent that his constant releasing of prisoners has destroyed his military career), so the film\u2019s moral calculus is never so complicated as to undercut the \u201cfuck yeah\u201d satisfaction of beating on zombies and\/or fascists. Altogether, it\u2019s simply an excellent genre exercise in a novel setting, demonstrating the enduring appealing of good clean zombie killing fun.<\/span><\/p>\n

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We then checked out the live-action <\/span>Fullmetal Alchemist<\/b> movies, perhaps against my better judgment. One Piece aside, I don\u2019t generally expect much from these live action anime adaptations; just some light afternoon action entertainment, spiced with the slight thrill of \u201chey, I remember that scene.\u201d Sadly, the Fullmetal Alchemist movies failed to vault even that low bar, disappointing as either genuine drama or mindless spectacle.<\/span><\/p>\n

The obvious, immediate problem with these films is their terrible CG, coupled with a total inability to choreograph a compelling action sequence. Alphonse, the homunculi, and every other non-human character looks absolutely awful, squandering the quite reasonable casting and costuming of the films\u2019 human characters. A Japanese live action anime adaptation basically lives or dies by how much it can avoid leaning on CG, and with Fullmetal Alchemist\u2019s generous portioning of magical monsters and powers, basically every other shot provokes some variety of wincing. And it\u2019s not like this reliance on CG actually facilitates any ambitious action or cinematography; the film\u2019s fights generally resolve in two people trading a punch, and then the battle is over.<\/span><\/p>\n

Beyond their obvious visual failings, these films also utterly fail to condense Fullmetal Alchemist\u2019 narrative into any sort of coherent trilogy. The first two films dither around showcasing famous scenes and connecting them with film-original narrative tissue, leaving the last film responsible for adapting perhaps sixty percent of the overall narrative. This is, of course, impossible, and so the film frequently resorts to waving characters off-screen and then simply flinging them back into the narrative some scenes hence, with no cause or effect guiding the characters\u2019 movements and behavior. It\u2019s just a mess on the whole, with only the strong casting to recommend it. Only the staunchest of Fullmetal diehards need check these out.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Our next feature was <\/span>Piranha 3D<\/b>, a 2010 remake of Joe Dante\u2019s \u201878 horror comedy. Though \u201chorror comedy remake\u201d and \u201c3D sequel\u201d tend to serve as inarguable marks of anti-quality, Piranha 3D turned out to be a surprisingly good time, owing to both its oddly generous casting and its unflinching brutality of kill scenes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Seriously, this movie\u2019s violence is <\/span>goddamn violent<\/span><\/i>. Director Alexandre Aja rose to fame with High Tension, one of the key properties in the French Extreme horror movement, and an absolutely stomach-churning example of horror taken to its dismemberment-centric limits. In Aja\u2019s hands, whatever comedy element this script might once have possessed is reduced to the impish intrusions of Jerry O\u2019Connell, in a film that\u2019s otherwise dead set on demonstrating what ten thousand tiny teeth can do to a human body. I generally don\u2019t preoccupy myself with the threat of deadly piranhas on a day-to-day basis, but this film\u2019s horrible visions had me side-eying bodies of water for a few days afterwards, attempting to gauge just how many seconds it would take for their denizens to strip me to ribbons.<\/span><\/p>\n

Along with its brutal and well-executed creature attacks, Piranha 3D benefits greatly from the star power assigned to what are often perfunctory castings in creature features. O\u2019Connell is joined by Elisabeth Shue, Adam Scott, Ving Rhames, Richard Dreyfuss, and even the ever-reliable Christopher Lloyd, who really Lloyds it up as the team\u2019s resident piranha expert. Between Aja\u2019s savage sensibilities and the strong supporting performances, Piranha 3D ends up punching far above its weight class, proving itself a genuinely superior creature feature.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Last up for the week was Adam Wingard\u2019s 2014 film <\/span>The Guest<\/b>. Wingard\u2019s previous film You\u2019re Next stands tall among my favorite horror films, which should say a lot given how many goddamn horror movies I watch. You\u2019re Next transitions gracefully from terrifying home invasion drama to cathartic final girl counterattack, demonstrating Wingard\u2019s keen understanding of both genre splicing and visceral visual entertainment. Those strengths would eventually get him scooped up for the ongoing and increasingly tiresome Monsterverse franchise, but before Wingard was resigned to franchise hell, he left us with The Guest\u2019s delightfully twisted spectacle.<\/span><\/p>\n

Like You\u2019re Next, The Guest juggles various strains of B-movie excess with remarkable grace. The film starts as an uncomfortable thriller, as a family is visited by a man who claims he was in their dead son\u2019s combat unit. Dan Stevens plays the part of \u201cDavid\u201d masterfully, manipulating the sympathies of his new family with tremendous cunning, while still offering the occasional nefarious smile or Kubrick stare to keep the pot boiling. Wingard has a talent for tonal flourishes that add a dash of tongue-in-cheek levity to his productions, and Stevens manages to echo that effect in his performance, making this ostensibly somber premise a lot more fun than you\u2019d expect.<\/span><\/p>\n

Soon enough, the family\u2019s daughter discovers that David is not quite what he seems, and The Guest undergoes a gleeful series of transformations. We first swerve into full-on action, then traditional horror, with the final act appropriately taking place inside the local high school\u2019s Halloween house. These shifts are abrupt, but not unwelcome – the film\u2019s ever-so-slightly irreverent tone makes it easy to roll with the punches, and enjoy the combination of Wingard\u2019s expertise and Stevens\u2019 intimidating presence. I get the feeling that in another era, Wingard would have wound up directing a Carpenter-tier string of deliciously pulpy horror productions. For now, I can only hope he gets to make another original soon.<\/span><\/p>\n

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