ChristianVさんのイラストまとめ

Chronicles of Riddick, aka fuck it, why not: The Movie. That shiv-loving outlaw is now a Space-Conan super-badass tasked by Wind Sage Judi Dench to defeat an empire of planet-killing zombie cultists. A Heavy-Metal Space-Opera Prison-Break Blockbuster. A pleasure, no guilt

Wow. I don’t like being negative about films, but this was bad. Let’s put aside Del Toro’s films because Hellboy 2019 is terrible (AF) all on its own. A jumbled collage of ugly scenes, loosely forming a plot that’s 5% about stopping the evil Blood Queen & 95% about exposition

Patlabor 2 (Mamoru Oshii, 1993) sculpts the franchise into a pensive, nuanced political thriller. A precursor to Ghost In The Shell in tone and texture, the film simmers with conspiratorial suspense. Its climactic Labor battle is a claustrophobic tactical affair

While The Endless remains my favorite film from the duo, Moorhead & Benson's Synchronic is so vividly ambitious, smart, human, weird, and unpredictable. I strongly recommend not watching the trailer and going into it knowing as little as possible.

#31DaysofHorror 2020 #4:
This Night I’ll Possess Your Corpse (1967)

The black-hatted devil returns in a bolder, more lurid film infused with Gothic Hammer horror; one unforgettably arresting sequence drags the movie into a wailing Grand Guignol of Jigoku’s hell and Bava’s colors

So, uh...The Prodigal Son (Sammo Hung, 1981) was pretty damn awesome

#Watched The Mask of Zorro (Martin Campbell, 1998)

Pulp superhero-swashbuckling western-adventure flick fun

Blade came out the same year but this feels like a precursor to the superhero wave: a character-first approach, earnest respect for the source, light humor & set-pieces