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Hunting Season looks a bit like a generic revenge actioner but it's got Mel Gibson and he's really good at revenge actioners. Alas, it's not directed by Mel Gibson, but maybe some of his over-the-top ideas for cinematic violence were used.

The final moment of the clip is good.

This is an odd duck. It's one of those Scary Movie type lowbrow parody movies, but it's a lowbrow parody of Downton Abbey and Gosford Park, which is weird, because what is the cross-over audience for that? What Gosford Park or Downton Abbey fan also likes Scary Movie?

It's also almost all-british, including that dummy Damien Lewis as the murder victim.

I don't know what to make of this. It looks dumb, but maybe it's funny?

You tell me.

Oh, the title: Fackham Hall is meant to sound like fuck'em all.

Just so you know what you're dealing with, here.

As Troy said on Community: There is a time for subtlety, and that time was before Scary Movie.

Here's one I don't give a thought about: From the director and star of Poor Things, which I also had no interest in, Emma Stone is abducted by people who believe she's an alien. Kind of like a less-serious take on Bill Paxton's underrated Frailty. (Which you should check out if you haven't seen it and don't let anyone tell you anything about it.)

I doubt many of you will be into one but here's the Michael Jackson biopic. As Ethan Van Sciver remarked, they seem to have hired an actor with Michael Jackson's post plastic surgery nose, but had him wear a way-oversized prosthetic nose before the surgery.

It's distracting. Michael Jackson's nose was never big nor really noticeable. It was a normal African nose. That's why people were weirded out when he turned it into a little elfin white woman's nose. It was like, dude, there was nothing wrong with your nose. No one noticed your nose until now.

I think it's like when they keep taking away Superman's red briefs. They say they remove them because it "seems silly," but we've all gotten used to the red briefs on the outside. It's only when you take them away that we notice them, and then we notice the entire suit, and think: Well now it all looks silly, doesn't it?

And I mention that because Space Ice has a video reviewing Superman, calling it the Superman movie for people who don't like Superman.

Is that true? I thought the Henry Cavill movie was the Superman movie for people who think Superman is silly and who therefore don't like Superman.

I know I have a very minority opinion on this, but I didn't love The Dark Knight because it was sooooo self-serious. I kept wondering, "How seriously do they intend for me to take a Batman movie? How seriously do think I'm capable of taking it?" I liked the first Nolan movie more because, while a more "realistic, grounded" take on Batman, it was still, you know, mostly a Batman movie. The sequel was like... I dunno, a meditation on the 2000s War on Terrorism mixed with Batman mixed with Saw.

Don't get me wrong, I liked it. But I only liked it.

The Cavill Superman was more of that but with a character even more inappropriate for the "dark and gritty" treatment.

I bought the new Superman movie when Amazon reduced the price to like $8. But here's the thing: I turned it off after six or seven minutes. It was just not doing it for me.

But I didn't mind seeing the Silver Age silliness in the ads -- Krypto or a giant kaiju monster. Superman is -- all superheroes are -- fundamentally silly. That's part of the charm. You can reduce that a bit but I don't want to see it removed completely.

But even though I didn't mind seeing Silver Age silliness in the trailer, the first six minutes of this movie were already dragging for me and I just turned it off. I suppose I'll watch it one day, but I don't know when.

I got whiplash from going from the too-serious Cavil/Snyder movie to this too-silly/too-cartooney version. Maybe something in the middle? Like, I dunno, the very well loved Christopher Reeve Superman movies? (I and II, natch.)

BTW, Space Ice says the best Superman is Christopher Reeves. There is no Christopher Reeves. There is Christopher Reeve, and then there is George Reeves who played Superman in the 50s. Just something I always notice.

posted by Ace at 04:35 PM

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