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It’s rare to see a person walk out of a free film screening, yet the one I went to this week featured a fair number of people opting to do just about anything else than watch the rest of “The Neon Demon.” One woman directed a fair amount of vitriol toward the images on screen, muttering something along the lines that the film writer must be a sick person. On that end, she's absolutely correct in her assessment of director and co-writer Nicolas Winding Refn, a filmmaker whose unabashed love of retro visual artistry, violence and the peculiar make him a divisive figure in cinema...
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Adapting a property like Warcraft to a film successfully requires appealing to the millions of people who have spent hours engaged in the online game while avoiding alienating a general audience that has a passing familiarity with it. Essentially, the filmmakers have to decide whether it’s worth serving those two masters or deciding to focus more heavily on one to maximize profits. Warcraft doesn’t have that problem; the filmmakers created a third decision to appeal to neither the fans nor the general audience, following in the footsteps of just about every video game adaptation...
Evaluating a film like, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, requires the use of a rather generous bell curve to result in a passing grade. In every conceivable way excluding its tone – perhaps the one saving grace – Out of the Shadows falls short. This film is a tremendous compilation of failure, something that isn't quite bad enough to be memorable, but still several steps below passably mediocre. This film wishes it were risible; at least it would evoke a positive reaction unrelated to the frustration and annoyance it leaves viewers feeling after just shy of two hours of crap.
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