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Revelatory Rest Stop and a couple of solid classics: Early January rewatches

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I watched 13 films in the first 14 days of January 2025. Five of those were movies I had seen at least once before. Here is my ranking of those five. 5. V/H/S/2, 2013, multiple directors, streamed on Prime Video, 2.5 stars. I dove into this the night after I saw V/H/S, which I'll discuss in a later post. A couple minutes in, I realized that I had seen this one a year or so ago. It's a found-footage anthology, consisting of a wraparound story that leads us into four separate self-contained short stories. Two of the segments aren't very good, the wraparound is just OK, one segment is entertaining and one segment is tremendously batshit crazy. Unfortunately, the batshit-crazy segment, titled "Safe Haven," lands in the middle of the movie, and is followed by the anthology's worst segment and the inconsequential conclusion of the wraparound. So instead of going out with my head spinning round, I was left pissed off that I had to sit through 20 minutes of anticlimac...