{"id":9931,"date":"2023-10-04T16:50:34","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T15:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wrongeverytime.com\/?p=38011"},"modified":"2023-10-04T16:50:34","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T15:50:34","slug":"fall-2023-week-1-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamefootballmobileanimeiphone.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/04\/fall-2023-week-1-in-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall 2023 \u2013 Week 1 in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello folks, and welcome the heck back to Wrong Every Time. With my viewing party\u2019s ambitious project to watch our adolescent Big Three now successfully topped off with a viewing of the OG Dragon Ball saga, our schedules have been dramatically freed up, leaving me inclined to finally catch up on all of the year\u2019s outstanding key anime. I\u2019m already watching MyGO and Skip and Loafer with you folks, so our next group projects will likely be Vinland Saga and Witch from Mercury, and perhaps finally getting around to Cyberpunk. After burning down a series of three hundred plus-episode series in eight to twelve episode chunks, screening a one or two-season show just doesn\u2019t seem quite so imposing as it once did. Plus the movies are flowing freely! We watched quite the varied assembly this week, so let\u2019s not waste more time nattering about future plans, and break down the films of the week.<\/span><\/p>\n

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First up this week was <\/span>Rituals<\/b>, a \u201877 Canadian horror film about five doctors who embark on a six-day fishing trip deep in the woods of Northern Ontario. When their boots are stolen after the first night, the group suspect some sort of prank, but the increasingly malicious acts that follow prove some creature in the woodlands genuinely wants them dead. As tensions mount and injuries accumulate, the five will be stripped down to whatever core of humanity they cannot surrender, as they are forced to repay a blood debt decades in the making.<\/span><\/p>\n

In terms of setting and structure, Rituals closely resembles the \u201872 classic Deliverance, though without that film\u2019s most iconic and infamous sequences. However, while Deliverance was thematically centered on how modern society divorces us from some theoretical ideal of masculine cohabitation with the wild, Rituals has no such flattering pretensions regarding mankind\u2019s true nature, and no smirking Burt Reynolds figure to extoll them. These men are not getting closer to the truth, only closer to death – and as the specter of darkness approaches, they are each winnowed down to their most fundamental beliefs and regrets, learning more about each other than they perhaps wish to know.<\/span><\/p>\n

A film that dances between folk horror tropes while ultimately proving itself more character study than exploitation flick is obviously catnip to me, and I indeed found Rituals both harrowing and delightful. Actual attacks from their mysterious oppressor are infrequent: a bee hive here, a bear trap there, and a general sense of being hunted at every vulnerable moment. Instead, it is the imposing woods and bleak flats of Ontario that serve as the film\u2019s principal antagonist, offering a sense of insurmountable challenge even as they dazzle in their beauty and desolation. Layer by layer, professional ambitions and questions of doctoral ethics are stripped from our proud protagonists, replaced by ruminations on how their relationships fell out just so, how they might measure the sum of their accomplishments, and what dignity they refuse to surrender even when facing the end. A gripping and refreshingly thoughtful watch, and an easy recommendation to any fans of backwoods horror.<\/span><\/p>\n

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We then checked out <\/span>Nimona<\/b>, a recent animated feature that was miraculously rescued from the unfortunate demise of Blue Sky Studios. The film follows Ballister Boldheart, a would-be knight from unusually humble origins in a distinctive quasi-futuristic world where crossbows fire laser beams and knights joust atop hover-horses. Though Ballister has dedicated his life to upholding the values of this society, he is framed for the queen\u2019s murder in his moment of ascension, and is thus forced to flee as a wanted man. Soon, he attracts the company of Nimona, a shapeshifter with a profound violent streak who is determined to become his villainous sidekick. With the two soon aligned in their opposition to the kingdom\u2019s injustices, a chaotic insurrection swiftly ensues.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nimona\u2019s passionate fan community and troubled production history had me quite curious as to how it all shook out, and I\u2019m pleased to report that the film is for the most part a charming, persistently inventive fantasy caper. Though the film\u2019s art design lacks the detail and composition-unifying texture of contemporaries like Spiderverse or The Mitchells versus The Machines, it nonetheless follows effectively in their aesthetic footsteps, embracing a somewhat cel-shaded look to evoke the textural appeal of traditional animation. And the clear chemistry shared by Ballister and Nimona sells their wandering capers with ease; Chlo\u00eb Grace Moretz and Riz Ahmed both turn in terrific vocal performances, ensuring the film always has an engaging emotional core.<\/span><\/p>\n

The pair\u2019s quest to reveal their country\u2019s dark secrets feels a touch underwritten, as does Nimona\u2019s predictable backstory; you can basically call every beat of this story from the first moment you see any of its characters, which somewhat undercuts the sense of novelty and possibility offered by the film\u2019s intriguingly unique world. Additionally, its sense of humor is both inconsistent and achingly of the moment; there\u2019s a dabbing joke, a pineapple on pizza joke, and a significant plot beat that hinges on Youtube\u2019s ability to reveal injustice and spark revolution. I suppose I\u2019m just an old man yelling at clouds at this point, but I feel there must be ways to attract a Gen Z audience without so aggressively dating your film; that said, the film is also centered around a biracial gay couple and a clear metaphor for LGBT persecution, so if dabbing characters is the price to pay for such unabashedly progressive drama, I\u2019ll pay it gladly.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Next up was <\/span>Devil\u2019s Due<\/b>, a found footage horror film that falls roughly between Rosemary\u2019s Baby and Paranormal Activity. Allison Miller and Zach Gilford star as Sam and Zach, a pair of newlyweds who return from their honeymoon in the Dominican Republic to discover Sam is unexpectedly pregnant. As her pregnancy develops, increasingly abnormal and ominous happenings indicate something is seriously wrong with her baby, all captured through Zach\u2019s preposterously diligent array of home videos.<\/span><\/p>\n

There are scattered effective scenes in Devil\u2019s Due, but the film absolutely cannot escape the shadow of Rosemary\u2019s Baby, and moreover will simply fail to surprise or impress anyone who\u2019s watched the barest sampling of either evil baby or found footage features. The best found footage films evoke through their framing choices a sense of unmediated vulnerability, or use the specific constraints of their technological conceit to facilitate unique structural or visual effects. Devil\u2019s Due does neither; you get the sense it\u2019s found footage simply because found footage doesn\u2019t require laborious camera setups or intelligent lighting choices, never mind how preposterous it might be that an in-universe character would have a camera present at any particular moment.<\/span><\/p>\n

Additionally, while the film runs through the expected spookums of a mother carrying an evil fetus (\u201cshe\u2019s a vegetarian\u2026 but she\u2019s hungry for <\/span>meat!?<\/span><\/i>\u201d), it simply has nothing to say about anything, either regarding the expectations placed on new mothers or the tensions this situation might foster between its just-married leads. Sam and Zach barely have personalities outside of their need to immediately react to one scene or another\u2019s emergent problems, which makes the slow, obvious burn towards actual supernatural phenomena simply tedious. Comparing any film to Rosemary\u2019s Baby\u2019s taut paranoia and rich reflections on gender and community is probably unfair, but Devil\u2019s Due clearly invites such a contrast, and is all the more underwhelming for it. An easy skip.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Last up for the week was <\/span>Supercell<\/b>, a recent disaster drama about a young man named William (Daniel Diemer), whose father was killed while investigating massive tornado-spawning superstorms. Years later, William lives quietly with his mother (Anne Heche), until the unexpected arrival of his father\u2019s old notebook sends him on a storm-chasing quest of his own.<\/span><\/p>\n

Supercell rides a dangerous line on the border of clich\u00e9 and iconic, trusting in its talented cast to sell familiar characters and a fairly obvious script. Fortunately, it has a secret weapon: Andrew Jeric\u2019s appropriately operatic, frequently stunning photography, which captures both the stark grandeur of the midwest and the overwhelming majesty of superstorms with a palpable sense of adoration and awe. In Jeric\u2019s hands, the characters\u2019 paeans to the ineffable glory of their pursuit are largely unnecessary; you can see why they chase tornadoes in every sprawling vista and towering stormfront. Eschewing humor or over-the-top action theatrics, Supercell rides entirely on the glory of nature\u2019s fury; scenes with its human characters can occasionally drag, but there\u2019s always another beautiful storm on the horizon. A visually engaging, narratively modest film that understands its own strengths precisely.<\/span><\/p>\n

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