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I finally got around to watching John Dies at the End. It was a fun movie with a lot of great scenes. It was in my Netflix queue, but I hadn't been real keen to see it because it really bugs me when things try hard to be quirky, and John Dies At the End does look like it has that weirdness-for-the-sake-of-weirdness thing going on, but the movie did win me over. What worked was the humor, yeah it was a deliberately strange movie, but most of the weirdness was a setup for comic gags. That would have been a disaster if the gags weren't funny, but the movie had a lot of great inventive jokes and a good sense of comic timing. It slightly reminds me of Southland Tales, but Southland Tales had the critical flaw of taking its own strangeness seriously, so the oddness felt forced and the movie ended up coming off as pretentious.
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