Official WTFDetroit Movie Review Thread

[Uncle Mxy]

I'd like the $1.50 I spent watching that Baywatch movie back.

The whole point of dollar theaters is if you don't like it, you go to another screen and see something else.

[Timone]

Nothing else playing that I really cared to go see, but I also think I stayed for Kelly Rohrbach.

[Vinny]

Nothing else playing that I really cared to go see, but I also think I stayed for Kelly Rohrbach.

Holy shitballs:

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[Mr. Oobir]

Here's another old movie review of a Blu-Ray that's been sitting on my shelf for over a year: The Babdook!

I liked it, it was creepy; it had a surprisingly sweet exorcism scene near the end. One of the stronger statements against untreated psychological trauma among caregivers I've seen.

I'm going to try to watch more of these older films I keep getting for birthdays/Christmases and give them reviews. Gotta get to 1000 posts somehow.

[Mr. Oobir]

Next on the list: The Pawnbroker

Sol Nazerman runs a pawnbroker shop in Harlem, he's a concentration camp survivor and, much like in Elie Wiesel's famous ending to Night, left the experience as a walking corpse. He is incapable of emotion or empathy; his customers are desperately attached to the present, but he cannot escape his past. He casually and inadvertently hurts anyone attempting to connect with him, from the woman heading the local community center to his eager young Hispanic assistant Ortiz (who is trying to make something of himself and get away from bad influences, so three guesses what happens to him by the end of the film).

Rod Steiger won an Oscar for his portrayal of Nazerman, and his contrast with everyone around him is certainly intriguing. There is life and hope swirling all around him, but he is an unmoving void, going through the motions of life but deliberately shunting all attempts to involve him in something beyond his embittered memories. The B&W cinematography is quite nice. It's not full of dramatic light-and-shadow contrast like you'd find in In Cold Blood, say, but it does its job in setting a claustrophobic mood at the pawn shop.

This post is already too long so I'll conclude by saying that it was a good film, worth a watch.

[Mr. Oobir]

It (that is, It) was pretty good. I never read the book or saw the Tim Curry miniseries, but It certainly felt like a Stephen King work. Also, It had good character work (though It was a bit silly). Check It out!

[Glenn]

'It' also has Love Removal Machine

[Timone]

Couldn't make it through The Little Hours.

[Vinny]

Couldn't make it through The Little Hours.

Hadn't heard of it but looks awful.

[Glenn]

^

Reviewed.