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MetalmindStats posted...

Maybe I'm completely off the mark here, who knows. I'm just saying we should respect each others' opinions more, and give them a bit of slack for the difficulty of interpreting tone in this context.

Appreciated, and great post. The issue here is that unless I REALLY go to town with goofiness, there are a couple people who spoil for fights and will seek them out. There's some weird open wound about Shaun of the Dead winning a list that seems to just sour the taste of these horror rankings for a lot of people. So, because I didn't want to go full Animated TV list again, I just tried to keep it short and breezy. Didn't work; I'm not a Jacques Cousteau with a pen, which is bad because Jacques Cousteau wasn't a great writer.

Here's roughly what I originally had for this write-up:

It's better to be bad throughout an entire film than to be good at the beginning and devolve into schlock. That's what happens in Candyman, which presents a dark imagining of something I would expect out of the Peele playbook before crushing me with the sort of ballpeen hammer simplicity that makes the whole affair a bigger waste of time. When I actually invest myself and you blow it up worse than a bridge placed over a river named Kwai, hey! Go fuck yourself! You've done to me what J&J did to Daenerys Targaryfans. You've baited me and switched it all off. All of it. You've presented promise and offered offal in its place. And you KNOW you did it because that much of a gorefest and that much of a tacked-on ending is too insulting to be missed on a rewrite. The difference between this movie and You Know What You Did Last Summer is in the knowing of the lane in which to stay.

That's not verbatim, I don't remember the exact write-up.

As for KBM, I'm not more thoughtful/respectful than that. I try not to begrudge people their opinions, although sometimes I feel the need to step in and defend the defenseless and I inadvertently make a mess of things. I think you should give up on my write-ups because you won't agree, and unless I include "in my opinion" on all of them, other people will also snipe at me because it's clear that I'm less-than. My lack of joy when it comes specifically to this era of horror is a blight upon this list to some. So why not lean into it at this point so I don't have to deal with constant reminders that I ruined a list once because I liked a movie and ranked it highly?

I know post count has been a little light for this list; glad to help, Snake.
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