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There was a period of time from the mid-nineties through 2013, where Ralph Bakshi had completely given up on making movies. He did some television and a few shorts here and there, but the big studio experience of Cool World, had really soured him on film of any length, type or story.
That is until the announcement of a Kickstart on February 1st, 2013 to fund “Last Days of Coney Island…”
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An In-depth Report by Agent TBD.
How do you make a feature length film about an event that only lasted for three and a half minutes? The short answer is that you show the event twice and you don’t start the first time until about a third of the way into the film.
The better answer is that you don’t make the movie about those three and a half minutes. You make it a character study of the man who lived through that event.
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A Special Report by Agent TBD.
Seth Rogan and a host of Apatow comedy regulars dip their toes in the CG animated movie world with Sausage Party, an R-rated comedy that does for groceries what Toy Story did for Toys with much more disturbing results.
As expected, the film is infused with raunchy humor and double entendre that often pushes the line between funny and awkward. Throughout this film I often had to remind myself of the comforting fact that it was not a documentary.
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It’s hard for someone who enjoys comic book movies and isn’t completely immersed in the source material or the comic books themselves, to not draw parallels from Suicide Squad to Guardians of the Galaxy.
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The movie was barely in theaters when the negative tweets and reviews started to come across my radar. But it didn’t deter me. I still went to see Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. And there are no spoilers in this post as I don’t want to deter any of you from watching it either.
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