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The [Movie] Thread where we STAY ALIVE
Raijin Quickfoot
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I’m watching the 2006 horror masterpiece, Stay Alive so I’m making that the theme of the movie thread.
Starring Samaire Armstrong, Frankie Muniz, Adam Goldberg, Milo Ventimiglio, and Liam McPoyle, Stay Alive is about a horror video game and if you die in the game you die in REAL LIFE!
Critics said the following
“ Never has a title been more horribly at odds with the way you're actually going to feel while watching the movie.”
“...if the filmmakers could have dispensed with the actors and plot altogether, they might have had a better movie.”
“Implausibly tedious, Stay Alive has none of the vicarious thrills of, say, Konami's Silent Hill 2. It's barely even Pong unplugged.”
If you see only one movie that got a 10% on Rotten Tomatoes, you should make it Stay Alive.
Starring Samaire Armstrong, Frankie Muniz, Adam Goldberg, Milo Ventimiglio, and Liam McPoyle, Stay Alive is about a horror video game and if you die in the game you die in REAL LIFE!
Critics said the following
“ Never has a title been more horribly at odds with the way you're actually going to feel while watching the movie.”
“...if the filmmakers could have dispensed with the actors and plot altogether, they might have had a better movie.”
“Implausibly tedious, Stay Alive has none of the vicarious thrills of, say, Konami's Silent Hill 2. It's barely even Pong unplugged.”
If you see only one movie that got a 10% on Rotten Tomatoes, you should make it Stay Alive.
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Ugandan action movie, made by a group of people that make these micromicromicromicro budget action flicks in the Ugandan ghetto. There's such joy and spirit and love of movie making in this thing. It's got effects about as good as any shitty SyFy/vod crappy monster movie but 100x the heart.
The whole thing is narrated/commented on by a VJ or video joker. When Western movies come to Uganda, they usually don't have subtitles, so there's someone who is designated the storyteller, which turned into the VJ. They comment on the action, are a hype man for the characters, talk shit, give additional dialogue...what a blast. There are so many movies I'd love to watch with this guy's commentary track.
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I still hold that that sentence is a crime of some sort
Ah yes, classic Alien
I bang this drum a lot. But both it and Prometheus work very well as loveletters to different kinds of horror and sci-fi that inspired the original Alien and the Alien Clones that subsequently ripped it off. I don't know if that makes them effective in the narrative sense as prequels to Alien. But if fuckin rules as thematic arc.
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Honestly I think the big misstep of Alien Covenant is that it does pivot to xenomorph murder as the final act.
Why not make it about love, just for a minute
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Or 4
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Clue rules
The commander dude does a boot polish trick that I employed until my very last polished boot
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I like that dude and that character. I like that the whole op is run by a buffoon. That movie has such a weird vibe
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That is better than Alien Covenant and takes significantly less time
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the alien hybrid begging for death was extremely on brand for that movie
I love me some body horror. The Alien "child" could have worked, too, if they hadn't but that stupid wriggly nose on it imo. It still is kinda creepy
Sigourney Weaver is a legend.
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just terrible all around
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