PatriceLeGraisseux Reviews

Spin Me Round (2022)

pointless and poorly executed at that

[1/10 · 21 August 2022]

There's got to be another reason why this movie got made. Aubrey plaza and molly shannon have both been talking, bragging almost, about how they filmed in italy and took their families with them and whatnot. 70% is filmed inside a bleak poorly lit office space. This isn't a movie - it's a tax cut. Also wtf is pino donaggio doing here?

Scream (I) (2022)

I've had enough

[4/10 · 17 April 2022]

It ruined the original trilogy for me for once and for all. Actors looked tired to even run from gunshots. Awful.

Young audiences deserve better than to have filmmakers recycle the movies they enjoyed as kids.

Scream 2 (1997)

ScreamS

[10/10 · 13 January 2022]

Like Aliens before it, Scream plays the sequel game by doubling the quantity and sophistication of the first film.

However sexy, funny and thrilling Scream 2 is, it's value as a sequel lies in the way it confronts it's characters, throwing and increasing the tensions between them and amping the suspense and the doubt. It's in the dialogue, it's in the horror film cliches but it's most prominently on the performances and the direction of Wes Craven who keeps you guessing not only who the killer might be but what all these characters are after.

I love this movie because I grew up with it and always saw it as a template of sophistication in popular cinema and actors. I'm impartial to it but I also firmly believe it changed the way sequels were thought of and made it possible for Scream to become the third true trilogy of the 20th century. I wished it had stayed that way.

Scream 4 (2011)

dull.

[5/10 · 13 January 2022]

You do NOT introduce Gale Weathers in bed, sleeping. Gale, doesn't sleep but whatever, this movie has much worse problems, little to no character development and very to lazy writing.

If you made a silent cut of this film you'd see people hanging around doing useless sht like taking off their shirt, walking aimlessly and drunk around the yard at night with a serial killer on the loose, or the most insulting of all, to have your final girl and heroine arranging other people groceries or a 5 minute scene to tale down a wind chime. A silent cut of Fiona 1,2,3 would amount to very different and very satisfying results. So no. Just No.

This is not a Scream movie, it's a bad effort to cash in on a franchise that had a natural and very satisfying conclusion. This movie broke cannon when they changed the iconic closing credits, didn't use the moody and signature song Red Right Hand, recycled a 10 year old fan fiction artwork for the official posters and didn't even bother to have a cast photo shoot. The rest is irrelevant.

Being the Ricardos (2021)

Kidman steals the show and that's bad.

[6/10 · 29 December 2021]

A tremendous script and a hurried production that suffers fatally from star power. Nicole Kidman is a good enough actress to skip prosthetics and here she lives in a different film altogether, isolated from every actor and seemingly every storyline as she sulks and flinches seeking the comedy in every scene, meanwhile she's tired, sad and calculating and makes it impossible to find the slightest trace of the familiar face and energy of Lucille Ball. Bardem and every other actor involved are perfect and yet the weight of a plastic superstar sinks the whole thing to the bottom of the ocean of irrelevance and trite biopics.

Yellowjackets (2021– )

mid season lags

[8/10 · 29 December 2021]

It's an exciting show. Entirely unique and fresh with just the right amount of nostalgia but 7 episodes in there's a lot that HASN'T happened and this is unforgivable for a weekly show that thrives on mystery in two separate timelines. I've my hopes on it and I'm hoping for a second season but they'll need to step up the game.

Only Murders in the Building (2021– )

Meh. Nothing mind blowing.

[5/10 · 10 September 2021]

In the golden age of television, this should have aimed higher, with laughs for starters, since this is supposed to be a comedy. The dialogues are good and the mystery unfolds nicely, my biggest problem was with Selena Gomez who I'm sure was brought to balance the old timers, which they didn't need and brings absolutely NOTHING to the table. She emotes NOTHING, communicates nothing and gives no clues as to what Mabel is thinking, feeling or even saying, since her deadpan delivery is just dead.

I was drawn to this because it felt retro and fun but it's just uninmaginative and takes no risks.

White Noise (II) (2020)

Noise

[7/10 · 9 February 2021]

I don't think the documentary tries to expose the AltRigt or its rhetoric as much as to expose the airheads behind it, all egomaniacs who at one point or another were given enough attention to pursue it indefinitely as a lucrative business. The documentary shows the political culture of our time in painful poignancy, empty, void of any real substance or ethical argument and charged with individual motives and always tied to personal financial gain.

White noise is infuriating and annoying but if you don't turn it off you may very well stop hearing it and learn to live with it.

A Rainy Day in New York (2019)

Pretentious and over the top with literally no plot

[3/10 · 8 December 2019]

The lighting is infuriating. The pretentiousness of the script, which the actors embody masterfully, has been a constant of Allen for a while now. Difference is, decades ago it was a window into a world and there might have been something universal and empathetic about the characters, now he's so out of the social narrative still showing a culture that exists only in the echelons of Manhattan upper class and who gives a rats really.

Margarita se llama mi amor (1961)

charming and witty, love this movie!

[10/10 · 17 March 2007]

yes it's based on a military march, so what? they made it funny. Margarita is awesome, wish there were more girls like her today! great charismatic bunch of actors and a funny story line with clever dialogs. terrible, terrible Italian actor playing the teacher though, hate him, but his dead so I wont get crazy with him. truth is, every student should at one point see this movie, and every Spaniard should be able to quote margarita once in a while! 'stop! this man is for me!'

OK, so I need to write at least 10 lines of test for this to be shown in here so I'll mention what IMO is the best scene in the movie when Margarita and a bunch of other guys they go out one night and end up in the same bar as the teacher, who is also hanging out with an American teacher who's visiting Madrid. margarita get's really drunk and ends up singing on stage, this is genius, I think I might just go see the movie this minute. love this, totally, great great film! how fun