MrMandolino

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Game slash narrative designer, sometimes I make music but I need to be in a really good mood for that to happen

I had a really funny joke here but it broke the website on mobile


MrMandolino
@MrMandolino

watching the texas chainsaw massacre for the first time

just the first ten minutes have an aesthetic and directing strength that reaches the brutal. there's a confidence in everything, from the acting to the cinematography to the credit sequence, that just sledgehammers you in the face and never stops


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it's always fascinating to see if you can figure out why something became a classic and doubly so when the answer is "because it's just so fucking good"


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was curious to see if this movie's fame was due to its absolute nastiness and gore (and by jove this is one nasty movie), but damn there's some immense artistic confidence at work here


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i feel this movie loses a lot of energy at the start of the second half. the editing that stretches stuff far beyond comfort comes across as a little silly when it's 20 nigh identiical shots of a girl running through the woods for several minutes

you start to wonder if they were trying to stretch the runtime, since it's already a very short movie at around 80 minutes. cinematography remains fantastic all throughout, but the tricks that make the first half skin-crawling don't land as well when it feels like action should speeding up instead

also that whole broom scene just looked so silly it dissipated the beautiful tension that was building up <.<

but dammit if it doesn't pick up afterwards


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