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Fantastically fun, epic and suspenseful with top-drawer actors, solid performances, serviceable effects and a genuine sense of foreboding till the 11th hour calamities! If you can't manage to step out of your own couch-bound entitlement to cherish a quality, cheesy yet stoically serious disaster flick like Meteor then rest assured you're sunk and should just pack it in. Despite its faults, Meteor TOWERS over most of the newer, would-be disaster flicks drowning in buckets full of crap CGI any day of the week. Why? Because Meteor boasts HANDS-ON movie-making and special effects which is how movies were meant to be made friends. CGI will never compete, and before you let your visual senses become so utterly poisoned thinking 'CGI is the norm'.... do yourself a favor and snap out of it! Movie going and especially movie making needs a major wake up call, and movies like Meteor, Earthquake, Dino's '76 King Kong, Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno are the real inspirations here.

A HUGE standing ovation here! 👏👏👏 This new 4th 'City of Angels' series has not only transcended & elevated the 'Penny Dreadful' legacy, it has pushed it to even greater heights, where it's actually got people THINKING, (a trait clearly lost on a great many Americans at the moment including a substantial number of morons on this very page!) Just as in days gone by, the spirits of 'Empathy' and 'Chaos' are constantly at work, here the parallels to today are startling, disturbing, and will hit you directly in the heart. (provided you still have one, and your soul hasn't been fried beyond repair.) The writing, the characters, the cinematography, the pitch perfect orchestral score, the ethereal/supernatural quality... EVERY component of this gripping, exquisitely produced series is as epic as anything DeMille, Zanuck, Hawks, Welles or Wilder could have dreamed up! (not to mention is edgier and more boundary pushing than any of them probably thought they could get away with.) Rest assured they're ALL watching it from the other side and loving every minute of it. Can't wait to see how it all unfolds, of course now it's been announced it's done after 1 Season. A genuine travesty, and even more pathetic affirmation that many American viewers wouldn't know a high quality show if it bit them in the culo!

Given Dario Argento's abysmal track record to produce anything of merit in the last 25 years or more, it's sad he seems so willing to go to the mat against director Luca Guadagnino's EPIC retelling of Suspiria. If that's actually how Argento feels I'll wager he may be insecure now because someone took his films threadbare plot, and visually opulent gore-fest and put some REAL meat on its bones. It's laughable how the word 'pretentious' keeps getting thrown around here. Is it because the remake sports a phenomenally gifted arsenal of female Thespians, admirably elevating an intelligent, meticulously crafted script that actually EXPLORES the world of dance, as well as other cultural/societal/oppressive ills in a way the other never attempted to do? Then SO BE IT. Well written scripts are not by definition pretentious. They can however challenge AN INTELLIGENT viewer to stretch their mental boundaries a bit. Argento didn't need to do that because that's not where his passions were, the fact someone now has is a credit to the subject matter, and the legacy of the original - even if they appeal to a markedly different type of audience. (another PLUS, if you ask me)