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The week of Tim Curry continues. There are a bunch of fun songs in here. I liked Tim's the best. The kid was very annoying to me but I'm not sure why. He's not the only 90's movie kid who irrationally gets on my nerves, though.

RIP Tim Curry. He was the best part of this movie. He plays a version of the devil that is so over the top it's only rivaled by Dave Grohl in The Pick of Destiny. Also, Tom Cruise's middle tooth is in peak form. The sound is godawful. So bad I looked it up. Most of the movie was shot on a huge soundstage that was full of smoke machines and industrial fans to blow around the asbestos-or-whatever that was floating around in nearly every scene. Tons of ADR. A lot of production audio was unusable or replaced, and boy can you tell.

I saw this when it came out and it still hits. I had no clue Steve Oedekerk also wrote Ace Ventura 2, The Nutty Professor, and Bruce Almighty. Funny dude.

There is not a single person who is normal in this film. This is the purest and most insane form of lightning in a bottle that I can ever recall seeing. Everything is so real, and so weird, and so fucked up. Everyone had to be exactly how they were for their entire lives — and all be in the same town — so that this unfettered chaos could come together into something just cohesive enough that you can't believe what you're watching is real life. It's a perfect documentary.

I'm a sucker for a Bryan Fuller project and I'm a fan of Mads Mikkelsen. I knew this was going to be a good time and I wasn't disappointed. The cinematography stood out, of course, but the score was also very fun. The pacing was a little slow but I kind of want everything to be 90 minutes without much wiggle room.

It was better than I thought it would be. The video game style animation made it feel like a very long cutscene and when I'm playing games, I instinctually skip every cutscene that I encounter. The gunshots were distractingly loud, so if you're into protecting your hearing, be sure to lower the volume during the action scenes.