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Cinematic Venom (2009)
Just an edgier English nostalgia critic
No, I'm serious! That's about it! Doug and rob so much in common. Bare surface-level criticism, cringey attempts at humour about as funny as plane crashes, toxic political views and virtue signalling (polar opposites though), awful singing that makes crying babies sound like QUEEN, long histories of questionable behaviour especially with women, unable make actual movies outside of LARPer home videos even if they had a gun pointed at their heads, and, last but not least, even sticking their ugly mugs in every thumbnail instead of hiring an artist like phelous and cinema snob.
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019)
A extremely mixed bag that could've been better but could've been worse
Now the way I see it, there are two pitfalls that can befall a movie about a real life serial killer; you could either make a sleazy and absolutely tasteless exploitation piece with zero regard for the victims OR you can have a boring sterile drama that completly fails to add anything new with the subject. Such is the case with Ted bundy. While there's the exceptional Deliberate Stranger, there's also slimy horror like Mathew brights movie or, in this case, the incredibly unextraordinary joe Berliners extremly wicked. While I think zac Afron & the cast all did fine jobs and did NOT romanticize Ted, the script does nothing beyond showing the basic events we all know and dosen't add anything new (like how Elizabeth knew some of the victims or that Ted abused her daughter) becoming nothing more than a boring courtroom drama with a couple of brief escapes thrown in. What I would've done is prolong the run time & also include the pov of investigators, ted's colleagues, his family, & defense to help add more life to the story. I would've also included the testimony of witnesses and survivors and show ted's facade begin to crack as time goes on and reveal the beast within. But then again, that's just my view and I'm sure someone else will say differently but I stand by my opinion. And that's that it was extremly mixed, shockingly banal, and boring.