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Wimpo 🎃 @wimpocolumbus.bsky.social · 12h

In general very nice to only see blue checks on accounts that actually need verification

Wimpo 🎃 @wimpocolumbus.bsky.social · 12h

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Hooptober #17/31

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Wimpo 🎃 @wimpocolumbus.bsky.social · 15h

Didn't know this was an Orlac film

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Wimpo 🎃 @wimpocolumbus.bsky.social · 17h

Near the end. Overall this doesn't match up to the 1931 version, but I still think it's a competent and often effective iteration.

Wimpo 🎃 @wimpocolumbus.bsky.social · 18h

I suppose Lana Turner isn't doing one either, but it feels like it still has an English affectation. Ingrid Bergman doesn't either but it works for the character

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Wimpo 🎃 @wimpocolumbus.bsky.social · 19h

Little odd that this takes place in London and everyone has an English accent except Spencer Tracey, though I suppose I prefer his natural accent to any attempt at an English one

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Wimpo 🎃 @wimpocolumbus.bsky.social · 19h

Ingrid Bergman!

a man in a yellow shirt is sitting in a chair holding a cup and pointing

ALT: a man in a yellow shirt is sitting in a chair holding a cup and pointing

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Wimpo 🎃 @wimpocolumbus.bsky.social · 19h

Insane cast in this

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Wimpo 🎃 @wimpocolumbus.bsky.social · 20h

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941) dir. Victor Fleming

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Wimpo 🎃 @wimpocolumbus.bsky.social · 21h

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A ★★ review of Phantom of the Opera (1943)

Claude Rains is one of my all-time favorite actors and so the prospect of seeing him portray the Phantom was an exciting one. Unfortunately the film surrounding his performance is not up to the task a...

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Wimpo 🎃 @wimpocolumbus.bsky.social · 21h

winnie the pooh is sleeping in a chair

ALT: winnie the pooh is sleeping in a chair

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Wimpo 🎃 @wimpocolumbus.bsky.social · 22h

A third in, Claude Rains delivering a tour-de-force as per usual, unfortunately not too much else going on

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Wimpo 🎃 @wimpocolumbus.bsky.social · 22h

Did not know this was in Technicolor, to my recollection it might be the only Universal Monsters movie in color?

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Wimpo 🎃 @wimpocolumbus.bsky.social · 23h

I have the Universal Classic Monsters Essential Collection on Blu-ray, this is the only one I haven't seen before so I figured I would correct that

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Wimpo 🎃 @wimpocolumbus.bsky.social · 23h

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Phantom of the Opera (1943) dir. Arthur Lubin

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Wimpo 🎃 @wimpocolumbus.bsky.social · 1d

Finally wrote my review for it

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Wimpo 🎃 @wimpocolumbus.bsky.social · 1d

Unfortunately my first thought was "wait so who's the Duke of York now"

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Wimpo 🎃 @wimpocolumbus.bsky.social · 2d

What's even better is that it works

Wimpo 🎃 @wimpocolumbus.bsky.social · 2d

It's so awesome that the Wizard goes "I'm not a very bad man I'm a very good man" and then immediately starts huckstering again

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Wimpo 🎃 @wimpocolumbus.bsky.social · 2d

The Scarecrow's makeup looks incredible

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Wimpo 🎃 @wimpocolumbus.bsky.social · 2d

Feeling like that kid in A Christmas Story who says "I like the Wizard of Oz" as a non-sequitur

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Wimpo 🎃 @wimpocolumbus.bsky.social · 2d

I was going to heat up dinner later during the movie but I regret not doing so before because I'm already hooked

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Wimpo 🎃 @wimpocolumbus.bsky.social · 2d

I lived in Kansas for a few years as a kid. I remember in class the teacher asked us what Kansas was known for, and the only things the class could come up with were it's where Dorothy and Superman were from

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Wimpo 🎃 @wimpocolumbus.bsky.social · 2d

One of those primordial movies for most people, I personally haven't sat down and watched it from start to finish in years but I probably have every second burnt in my brain

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