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The Babysitter: Killer Queen (2020)
DO NOT WATCH IF YOU LIKE THE ORIGINAL
Don't get me wrong, the babysitter is one of my favorite movies of all time. but this was... incredibly hard to watch. it just sucked so bad. from the incessant 2019-2020 pop culture throwaway lines to the horrendous expansion in world, i truly disliked this film. about 20 minutes in, i knew that a tiger king reference was bound to happen at some point. still, my soul was incredibly crushed when it happened. all of the first movie's wit is replaced with cheap and honestly confusing lines like "he's the channing tatum of killing people". wtf does that mean? everything that made the babysitter great is now done in excess, making a sad parody of what was a really great film. funny bits from the original are played out and the overall reliance on such callbacks is tiring and cringeworthy to watch. all of the new characters are uninteresting and under-developed and all of the original interesting side characters (cole's parents, melanie's dad, etc) have an unwarranted amount of screen-time in which they fail to become more likeable or funny. the unnessesary amount of new characters is alienating to fans and the decision to move cole outside of his life/microcosm and into the "real world" is unnerving. it's so clear that without bee, the story falls apart. her charm is completely absent and the lack of a complex and lovable central relationship (bee and cole) is painstakingly apparent. even the font change (a very bold choice), is completely wrong for the film. the 80s slasher aesthetic of the first movie is symbolically reduced to that of a cheap 2000s remake. i honestly really wish i hadn't watched this movie. if you like the original babysitter, please BEWARE!!! truly disappointing. +1 star for cool deaths
My Friend Dahmer (2017)
Disgustingly Sympathetic Portrait of a Monster
It's plain to see that this movie and the graphic novel of its origin serve to do nothing but evoke sympathy for serial rapist and killer, cannibal, and necrophiliac Jeffery Dahmer. Singlehandedly one of the most upsetting movies I have ever seen, "My Friend Dahmer" frames its lead as a high school outcast struggling to find a good group of friends amid dysfunction at home. I've seen multiple reviews comparing Dahmer to a "Napoleon Dynamite" which both concerns me and furthers my contempt for this film. Napoleon is supposed to be a loveable dork or an unlikely hero, either way, someone the audience roots for. Theoretically, nobody should be leaving "My Friend Dahmer" feeling the same about its principle, however it's what the film seems to encourage. The film attempts to provide reason for Dahmer's crimes and even suggests that he was a misunderstood nice guy who just needed a push in the right direction. I, personally, have never seen a more poorly done "killer movie" than this. One of the only good things about it is Ross Lynch's acting and his ability to completely transform into the budding killer, but even the hiring of such a teen heartthrob to play the psychopath in the first place cannot go unnoticed. This attempt to nearly ROMANTICIZE Dahmer for the adolescent, female fan base that follows Lynch is completely disgusting. The movie ultimately left such a bad taste in my mouth that I could never give it more than two stars (one for the acting ability displayed by Lynch and Wolff, and one for the undeniably good cinematography). Still though, sorry Ross; maybe stick to movies that won't make your young fans relate to, sympathize with, and lust over a criminally-insane monster. This is one indie crime movie I wouldn't recommend to anyone.