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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
Last Night in Soho was a huge disappointment. So thoroughly underwhelming. It meandered, the resolution wasn’t satisfying, the supernatural elements weren’t explored or explained, the mystery fell flat and it didn’t really explore any of the characters.
I can’t think of another writer or director who I think is less talented, makes more mediocre movies and yet continues to have a cult following than Edgar Wright. It’s bewildering to me that he’s popular. Most writers or directors I’m not a fan of who are popular, I tend to respect their skill and recognize that maybe their movies just aren’t for me. But not Wright. I think he just isn’t very talented. It’s been all downhill since Shawn of the Dead.
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Well, that's one opinion I disagree with heavily.
I do agree Wright hasn't had a really good movie out since Scott Pilgrim, but his run of Shaun-Hot Fuzz-Scott Pilgrim is more great stuff than most directors ever put out in their career, and you don't hit that kind of streak without a ton of talent. Unfortunately his strength is in comedy, and that doesn't seem to interest him anymore.
I do agree that Last Night in Soho was really mediocre and not worth seeing unless you're a huge Anya Taylor-Joy fan.
On a completely unrelated note,
Chip n' Dale Rescue Rangers (2022) on Disney+ was surprisingly good.
It's a very Roger Rabbit -style movie, with cartoon characters living among real people. There's tons of metahumour as expected, things at times get pretty weird and kind of dark, and there's a lot of good jokes. It's not high art or particularly deep, but I was very thoroughly entertained, and it's an easy movie to recommend. If "a Roger Rabbit -style Chip n' Dale metamovie where Chip and Dale are aging cartoon actors who reunite after many years to play detectives in the real world" sounds like a movie you might enjoy, you probably won't be disappointed.
Oh, and I also watched
"Titane", the 2021 Palm d'Or winner at Cannes film festival that was also France's entry into the Oscars. It's... not bad
If you go in expecting a very French arthouse film with weird horror elements and vague social commentary that's rather impossible to "get" exactly, you'll get what you're expecting. It's unusual, it's very deliberately shocking in multiple ways, it's mostly fairly entertaining if you're into dark topics and arthouse films, it takes odd turns, it has little in the way of a traditional story structure, it's kind of funny at some moments... and that's about what I can say about it.
It's the kind of movie that doesn't really try to be "good". It does what it wants to do, what it does is fairly interesting most of the time, it'll make a great conversation piece if you have artsy friends who like to decipher incomprehensible art films, and watching it will certainly give you +2 artsyfartsycredibility points for the next year or so. You might hate it, but you're unlikely to be bored.