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The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020)
Wow!
Absolutely loved the Haunting of Hill House which was branded as a horror and had clear and consistent elements of horror. This one was branded as a horror as well from the same team, but it's definitely not. It's a romance with dark scenery and the occasional cameo of a ghost. There may be additional content coming in this series or otherwise with this cast, but I cannot watch it now. This was really bad, everything was really drawn out and the dialogue in it was incredibly predictable throughout. A lot of the pieces in this were inorganic, forced and nothing worked well. I'm going to propose an idea to this team of a new Star Trek series, we'll call it Mike Flanagan's Star Trek. It will take place in a small town grocery store in Mexico where Miguel seeks to woo a cashier named Isabelle. It will feature no lasers or space ships but about midway through a Klingon visits the grocery store and buys some fruit. 1/10
Look Who's Talking (1989)
Almost perfect but misses the mark
Amy Heckerling teeters on developing a true cinematic master piece. Alley and Travolta deliver an inspiring performance all of which is supplemented with the quirky and always funny voice-overs from Bruce Willis as Mikey. The film is almost perfect to me, but it was lacking in one element. The lack of presence of any werewolves, whatsoever, in this film is truly disheartening in what would otherwise be a timeless classic. Eager in anticipation watching this film, I was long awaiting the Travolta, werewolf transformation scene. This scene would never come. There were clear opportunities for this during night time scenes where Heckerling had a golden opportunity to write in a full moon sequence but this was unfortunately lost in translation. Given the comical voice-overs from Willis as Mikey, it would have been exponentially superior if we would have had a voice over from Travolta as the Werewolf. The potential gold mine of the introspection of a werewolf would have been a truly novel experience. To truly understand the full character arc of the werewolf transformation was my life's dream and it was crushed by Heckerling. My general understanding is I watched the theatrical version of the film but it dawned on me that there may have been an extended/unrated version, one which may have contained considerably more werewolves, by considerably more, I would quantify this as no less than two werewolves in totality, one of which would be the protagonist werewolf and another werewolf which would have been the arch-nemesis werewolf who is physically superior in every way to the protagonist werewolf but would inevitably be defeated by the protagonist werewolf (Travolta?) in probably the finale of 4th or 5th sequel to the film. Ultimately, I have to give this film a 7 out of 10 due to a lack of werewolves, the only saving grace is the talking baby which borderline nearly as terrifying as the presence of a werewolf to be fair.