a review of 变形黑侠

I can't tell you how many times I rented this movie growing up. I loved it. The frenetic energy, the kind of silliness to it, the comic-book-iness of it (even though I wasn't into comic books). Watching it now and piecing together things that wouldn't or couldn't have dawned on me back then - like how of course that's how it's edited, because that's Raimi's style; or how of course the score gives me Batman vibes, because Batman came out the year before and both scores were done by Danny Elfman; or how much this feels like a mix of classic horror/sci-fi and pulpy noir; or how of course Raimi would end up directing my favorite (and the best) Spider-Man - and seeing how much I both remembered and forgot...was kind of a trip. What a fun little trip.