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10 - Defines Film (...for me...): One of the very few, very reliable, definitely greatest films ever made - these films stand up to analysis and repeat views, and become better every time I see them
9 - Amazing: a potential film of the decade, and definitely one of the best films ever made
8 - Great: a probable film of the year at the least
7 - Very Good: a contender for film of the year
6 - Good: likely worth revisiting in a few years time
5 - Fine: achieved what the director and crew wanted, and well worth seeing
4 - Disappointing: not 'bad', just disappointing for some reason
3 - Bad: not 'awful', but not worth the time spent watching it
2 - Awful: an absolute waste of time
1 - Impossibly Terrible: these are the films where something is grotesquely wasteful about them, or worse
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My Friend Dahmer (2017)
A surprisingly brilliant film
Like Napoleon Dynamite but good.
Beyond that, an incredibly well made approach to a near mystified figure in terms of crimes committed, without the overly Christian moral angles to stigmatised the acts of a human, because painting every heinous act as being born of a monster is too commonly seen in art, media, and popular academia.
Hunt for the Skinwalker (2018)
The Archive Footage Makes It Worth Seeing
Skinwalker Ranch is an incredibly interesting topic worthy of a feature documentary. Unfortunately Hunt For The Skinwalker is a very disappointing, disjointed, and flawed attempt.
The archive footage and interviews with George Knapp are, for the most part, excellent. Anyone familiar with Knapp's work should know what to expect, and it is incredibly disappointing that relatively little of this film is made up of the video footage.
Outside of this? The director has a fascination with the most mundane aspects of the area surrounding Skinwalker Ranch: UFOs. And while UFOs may be of interest to a lot of people, the fact there are much more interesting and strange recorded aspects entirely ignored in the newer footage really lets it down.
Another thing that lets the film down is the direction and editing. The simple lack of awareness to even consider a better mic on his camera is the least of his problems. He is overstated in wanting to present himself as more than he is when he could have shown himself as a better director if he simply constructed an 80 minute film from the aforementioned archive footage. Reiterating the points made by Knapp and the archive footage repeatedly after every scene made an already badly paced and poorly edited documentary into an outright slog.
Also, Robbie Williams turns up. So there's that for anyone who wants to change some lyrics to reflect the sinister occurences, because seeing Stoke's own Robbie as a possible skinwalker is...great. 'It's time to move cows' bodies' etc.