Is it ok if I admit that I sort of liked this? It had style, and echoed the original cartoon really well. I think that most people who saw it weren’t overly familiar with the source material though, and a lot of the movie was lost on them. My only complaint was that it could have been “darker”. They could have taken the source material, and just gotten wicked with it: blood, sex, violence, etc. But, I know that’s not a realistic expectation. The thing is that I think it’d have worked a lot better that way. All the fans of the original are adults now, so why make this into a kids movie? Perhaps that’s where the movie fell short – it was too “grown-up” for kids, and to childish for grown-ups.
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Sleepy Hollow
Really stylish. I liked the one-dimensional Hessian bad guy. He doesn’t dick around, just “off with their heads” and that’s about it. As for the “whodunnit” plot…? It was good enough, but not spectacular or anything.
Pecker
John Waters does…. a John Waters movie. I don’t know whether these movies are good or just a bunch of crap. I suppose they’re their own genre, so what can I say? This one is a little more “normal” than most John Waters movies, but it has the same elements: a straightforward although wacko story, overblown (intentionally?) characters, homosexual overtones… My favorite scene in the movie was the “teabag incident” at the very end. The one character gets his teabag, everyone stops for just an instant… looking for a reaction, then they all start dancing/partying again all at once. A brilliant 5 seconds of film.