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Action-Adventure is also just like one word. It's not Action and Adventure. It's just a genre title of vague accuracy to the actual thing it's describing.
Like most genres it's kinda fuzzy and hard to describe and trying to find a strict technical definition that neatly divides everything onto one side of the line or the other is not really that useful or possible. But it's definitely a "I know it when I see it" situation.
If I had to make a stab at describing the distinction of Action and Action-Adventure it would be that Action films are far more concerned with the specific depiction of their action scenes as being the goal in and of itself. Like you think about what people talk about with a John Wick action scene vs an Indiana Jones action scene. There are different goals at work here on some level imo. Both from the filmmaker and from the audience.
Holy shit, that movie The Guilty that just starting streaming on Netflix might be one of the dumbest/most tone deaf movies I've seen in some time. I know it's a remake and all but...
trying to generate some semblance of pathos for a shithead cop that is on desk duty for straight up murdering a 19 yo boy for no reason was....a choice...
I've only seen the original, not the remake, but I don't see the big deal.
There's nothing wrong with generating pathos for horrible characters. It's not like we're only allowed to tell emotional stories about good people. Some of the greatest works of art of all time, like Macbeth, are mostly about pathos for horrible people.
Overall I fully understand and even agree, but it's not quite the same thing, especially when taken out of the Danish context and put in an American one. The police has come under justified attack because of decades of members of the police force acting with impunity, and there've been several high-profile cases where police officers got away scot-free after shooting and killing people, especially (but not only) African Americans. Under such circumstances,
making a police man accused of wrongfully killing someone the tragic figure deserving of our sympathy
is quite different from doing the same for the Macbeths, since I don't remember there being many comparable cases involving murderous Scottish nobility in recent years. I don't think it's automatically wrong to tell such a story (I haven't seen the remake and therefore won't comment on it), but I can see how it would come across as tone deaf.
Thirith on
"Nothing is gonna save us forever but a lot of things can save us today." - Night in the Woods
I know I'm late to the party on this but Three Billboards Outside Ebbings Missouri is a hell of a movie. I don't really know how I feel about it thematically, but goddamn what a movie.
Quite soon after they come across a downed drug smugglers plane and get real fuckin high by piling kilos of draw on a bonfire to keep warm.
For a moment, I thought this was about Cliffhanger.
Cliffhanger absolutely slaps.
I have to deduct a few points because we never got to see that cake that thief lady bragged about making.
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It is finally cool season, so it is time for horror movies. I can recommend I am not a Serial Killer, Summer of 84 (extreme, intentional genre loyalty and teenage boy creepiness aside) and We Need to Do Something (a ludicrously simple and smart premise/setting with filming in a single room packed with atmosphere, albeit with lacking payoff). I am planning on watching The Furies, The Den and Ghost Stories next.
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MonwynApathy's a tragedy, and boredom is a crime.A little bit of everything, all of the time.Registered Userregular
I've only seen the first John Wick, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. I thought the plot was silly, but not too silly for the kind of movie it is, and I loved the fight scenes. I know it's mentioned frequently, but the night club battle was a top-tier action movie scene. Haven't gotten around to watching the sequels yet.
Anyone have any good recommendations for other well choreographed action or martial arts films released over the past decade (aside from The Raid and its sequel which I've seen and are great)?
I'm super late but if you haven't seen Dredd you are missing out
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I've only seen the first John Wick, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. I thought the plot was silly, but not too silly for the kind of movie it is, and I loved the fight scenes. I know it's mentioned frequently, but the night club battle was a top-tier action movie scene. Haven't gotten around to watching the sequels yet.
Anyone have any good recommendations for other well choreographed action or martial arts films released over the past decade (aside from The Raid and its sequel which I've seen and are great)?
I'm super late but if you haven't seen Dredd you are missing out
.....yeah
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AtomikaLive fast and get fucked or whateverRegistered Userregular
I know I'm late to the party on this but Three Billboards Outside Ebbings Missouri is a hell of a movie. I don't really know how I feel about it thematically, but goddamn what a movie.
I know I'm late to the party on this but Three Billboards Outside Ebbings Missouri is a hell of a movie. I don't really know how I feel about it thematically, but goddamn what a movie.
Personally I hated it
Yeah I could easily see leaning in that direction. I'm not even sure I liked it, but it was really well shot and well acted. My problem is that it's kind of shaggy and mean and I don't quite get it.
There is some top tier pitch black comedy sprinkled in though. Not to the level of A Serious Man but pretty close.
I know I'm late to the party on this but Three Billboards Outside Ebbings Missouri is a hell of a movie. I don't really know how I feel about it thematically, but goddamn what a movie.
Personally I hated it
Yeah I could easily see leaning in that direction. I'm not even sure I liked it, but it was really well shot and well acted. My problem is that it's kind of shaggy and mean and I don't quite get it.
There is some top tier pitch black comedy sprinkled in though. Not to the level of A Serious Man but pretty close.
It’s been a while since I’ve seen it, but off the top of my head:
- The shagginess indeed, the story starts as one thing and just kinda rambles and shifts POV and then kinda just ends, with characters coming and going somewhat randomly
- Rockwell’s character is a complete piece of shit and in no way deserves a redemption arc
- For a movie predicated on racial tensions and police malfeasance, it never has anything to actually say about it
- It feels condescending and vapid for a foreign writer/director to make a movie about how shitty rural America is that doesn’t do much more than say, “Look how shitty rural America is”
Holy shit, that movie The Guilty that just starting streaming on Netflix might be one of the dumbest/most tone deaf movies I've seen in some time. I know it's a remake and all but...
trying to generate some semblance of pathos for a shithead cop that is on desk duty for straight up murdering a 19 yo boy for no reason was....a choice...
I've only seen the original, not the remake, but I don't see the big deal.
There's nothing wrong with generating pathos for horrible characters. It's not like we're only allowed to tell emotional stories about good people. Some of the greatest works of art of all time, like Macbeth, are mostly about pathos for horrible people.
Overall I fully understand and even agree, but it's not quite the same thing, especially when taken out of the Danish context and put in an American one. The police has come under justified attack because of decades of members of the police force acting with impunity, and there've been several high-profile cases where police officers got away scot-free after shooting and killing people, especially (but not only) African Americans. Under such circumstances,
making a police man accused of wrongfully killing someone the tragic figure deserving of our sympathy
is quite different from doing the same for the Macbeths, since I don't remember there being many comparable cases involving murderous Scottish nobility in recent years. I don't think it's automatically wrong to tell such a story (I haven't seen the remake and therefore won't comment on it), but I can see how it would come across as tone deaf.
Yar that was a big part of it and the reason I said it was tone deaf.
That said, even outside of our current NA political climate I just found that
Gyllenhal's actual character had no growth whatsoever. There's no reason for the audience to feel pathos towards him. He shot a kid because he has anger issues and 'wanted to punish him'. He never gets over those issues, in fact you see him be a dick to multiple victims calling in as well as his partner, etc. There's no growth for him and, as such, no reason for the audience to think he deserves any degree of pathos.
I know I'm late to the party on this but Three Billboards Outside Ebbings Missouri is a hell of a movie. I don't really know how I feel about it thematically, but goddamn what a movie.
Personally I hated it
Yeah I could easily see leaning in that direction. I'm not even sure I liked it, but it was really well shot and well acted. My problem is that it's kind of shaggy and mean and I don't quite get it.
There is some top tier pitch black comedy sprinkled in though. Not to the level of A Serious Man but pretty close.
It’s been a while since I’ve seen it, but off the top of my head:
- The shagginess indeed, the story starts as one thing and just kinda rambles and shifts POV and then kinda just ends, with characters coming and going somewhat randomly
- Rockwell’s character is a complete piece of shit and in no way deserves a redemption arc
- For a movie predicated on racial tensions and police malfeasance, it never has anything to actually say about it
- It feels condescending and vapid for a foreign writer/director to make a movie about how shitty rural America is that doesn’t do much more than say, “Look how shitty rural America is”
I mean, on the plus side, I felt that the principal actors acted the hell out of it, and I think despite the short jokes, Peter Dinklage shines in this one. But it's great performances in a dark and troubling movie, and I don't think it really balances out.
Holy shit, that movie The Guilty that just starting streaming on Netflix might be one of the dumbest/most tone deaf movies I've seen in some time. I know it's a remake and all but...
trying to generate some semblance of pathos for a shithead cop that is on desk duty for straight up murdering a 19 yo boy for no reason was....a choice...
I've only seen the original, not the remake, but I don't see the big deal.
There's nothing wrong with generating pathos for horrible characters. It's not like we're only allowed to tell emotional stories about good people. Some of the greatest works of art of all time, like Macbeth, are mostly about pathos for horrible people.
Overall I fully understand and even agree, but it's not quite the same thing, especially when taken out of the Danish context and put in an American one. The police has come under justified attack because of decades of members of the police force acting with impunity, and there've been several high-profile cases where police officers got away scot-free after shooting and killing people, especially (but not only) African Americans. Under such circumstances,
making a police man accused of wrongfully killing someone the tragic figure deserving of our sympathy
is quite different from doing the same for the Macbeths, since I don't remember there being many comparable cases involving murderous Scottish nobility in recent years. I don't think it's automatically wrong to tell such a story (I haven't seen the remake and therefore won't comment on it), but I can see how it would come across as tone deaf.
Yar that was a big part of it and the reason I said it was tone deaf.
That said, even outside of our current NA political climate I just found that
Gyllenhal's actual character had no growth whatsoever. There's no reason for the audience to feel pathos towards him. He shot a kid because he has anger issues and 'wanted to punish him'. He never gets over those issues, in fact you see him be a dick to multiple victims calling in as well as his partner, etc. There's no growth for him and, as such, no reason for the audience to think he deserves any degree of pathos.
Maybe we're supposed to feel bad for Jake Gyllenhaal that they keep making him play these characters
I know I'm late to the party on this but Three Billboards Outside Ebbings Missouri is a hell of a movie. I don't really know how I feel about it thematically, but goddamn what a movie.
Personally I hated it
Yeah I could easily see leaning in that direction. I'm not even sure I liked it, but it was really well shot and well acted. My problem is that it's kind of shaggy and mean and I don't quite get it.
There is some top tier pitch black comedy sprinkled in though. Not to the level of A Serious Man but pretty close.
It’s been a while since I’ve seen it, but off the top of my head:
- The shagginess indeed, the story starts as one thing and just kinda rambles and shifts POV and then kinda just ends, with characters coming and going somewhat randomly
- Rockwell’s character is a complete piece of shit and in no way deserves a redemption arc
- For a movie predicated on racial tensions and police malfeasance, it never has anything to actually say about it
- It feels condescending and vapid for a foreign writer/director to make a movie about how shitty rural America is that doesn’t do much more than say, “Look how shitty rural America is”
To your last point, I don't even think it really successfully digs into how shitty rural america is, the place of the story is not important except its a small town that had a murder. It could have been in the south west, in ireland or southern italy for all it's actually saying about the location.
I know I'm late to the party on this but Three Billboards Outside Ebbings Missouri is a hell of a movie. I don't really know how I feel about it thematically, but goddamn what a movie.
Personally I hated it
Yeah I could easily see leaning in that direction. I'm not even sure I liked it, but it was really well shot and well acted. My problem is that it's kind of shaggy and mean and I don't quite get it.
There is some top tier pitch black comedy sprinkled in though. Not to the level of A Serious Man but pretty close.
It’s been a while since I’ve seen it, but off the top of my head:
- The shagginess indeed, the story starts as one thing and just kinda rambles and shifts POV and then kinda just ends, with characters coming and going somewhat randomly
- Rockwell’s character is a complete piece of shit and in no way deserves a redemption arc
- For a movie predicated on racial tensions and police malfeasance, it never has anything to actually say about it
- It feels condescending and vapid for a foreign writer/director to make a movie about how shitty rural America is that doesn’t do much more than say, “Look how shitty rural America is”
To your last point, I don't even think it really successfully digs into how shitty rural america is, the place of the story is not important except its a small town that had a murder. It could have been in the south west, in ireland or southern italy for all it's actually saying about the location.
Yeah the throughline really seems to be, “People are often shitty,” which, just, . . . meh? So what?
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In case anyone was wondering, The Thing holds up on 4K Blu-ray. Those practical effects are positively grody.
Can you smell the whiskey Kurt Russell kills the chess computer with?
As for 3 Billboards, I liked it but have no desire to see it again. But with family all over Southern Missouri, I'll give Sam Rockwell credit for completely nailing the north Ozark accent.
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Officially kicked off October spooky marathon season with Halloweentown and The Sixth Sense. Not going to comment on Halloweentown, it's a movie obviously aimed at children, if I grew up with it and had some nostalgia for it I might appreciate it more, as an adult watching it for the first time there's just really not much to say. The Sixth Sense on the other hand, is an actual horror movie, and it holds up quite well! I haven't seen it since I was 13, when it was one of the first horror movies I ever watched and it scared the bejesus out of me. It's not very scary in retrospect, but I did appreciate that the jump scares are not very "jumpy" i.e. there's not a loud musical sting whenever something scary appears, sometimes dead people just quietly but suddenly appear in the frame, which is far more effective. It's a weird movie to watch again because the twist seems very obvious in retrospect, all of the scenes with Bruce Willis' wife where she doesn't acknowledge his presence at all should've been a dead giveaway (pun intended lololol). I forgot how good Haley Joel Osment was in this, I feel like his performance got reduced to a meme, but he really pulls off the awkward sensitive kid just fully terrified of the world around him.
I love Romancing the Stone and its sequel, Jewel of the Nile and neither seem all that readily available on DVD or Blu-ray right now
Like if I search for them on Amazon all I can find are either way overpriced or copies that look like the seller may have pirated and burned them onto a CD.
“I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
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I love Romancing the Stone and its sequel, Jewel of the Nile and neither seem all that readily available on DVD or Blu-ray right now
Like if I search for them on Amazon all I can find are either way overpriced or copies that look like the seller may have pirated and burned them onto a CD.
Probably not the point and you probably know this already but they’re both on HBO Max and Hulu.
Officially kicked off October spooky marathon season with Halloweentown and The Sixth Sense. Not going to comment on Halloweentown, it's a movie obviously aimed at children, if I grew up with it and had some nostalgia for it I might appreciate it more, as an adult watching it for the first time there's just really not much to say. The Sixth Sense on the other hand, is an actual horror movie, and it holds up quite well! I haven't seen it since I was 13, when it was one of the first horror movies I ever watched and it scared the bejesus out of me. It's not very scary in retrospect, but I did appreciate that the jump scares are not very "jumpy" i.e. there's not a loud musical sting whenever something scary appears, sometimes dead people just quietly but suddenly appear in the frame, which is far more effective. It's a weird movie to watch again because the twist seems very obvious in retrospect, all of the scenes with Bruce Willis' wife where she doesn't acknowledge his presence at all should've been a dead giveaway (pun intended lololol). I forgot how good Haley Joel Osment was in this, I feel like his performance got reduced to a meme, but he really pulls off the awkward sensitive kid just fully terrified of the world around him.
He’s a pretty great actor.
Also what is Halloweentown? People keep talking about it on social media and I dunno wtf it is.
Yeah those movies were a part of my childhood. Plus Michael Douglas is living his best life in both.
Me too. I should watch them again. They’re both on HBO Max and Hulu.
Yeah I found them on Hulu but apparently Hulu has some shit you can only watch if you have both Hulu and HBO Max.
And I have a rule that I only pay for 2 streaming services at a time
I hear you. I only have Hulu+, HBO Max, Netflix, Apple TV, Disney+, Peacock, Paramount+, EPIX, Amazon Prime, YouTube Premium, and Crunchyroll. They keep trying to get me to subscribe to Showtime but I’m drawing the line.
Wait, the new season of Dexter comes out soon. Fuck. Nevermind.
I've only seen the first John Wick, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. I thought the plot was silly, but not too silly for the kind of movie it is, and I loved the fight scenes. I know it's mentioned frequently, but the night club battle was a top-tier action movie scene. Haven't gotten around to watching the sequels yet.
Anyone have any good recommendations for other well choreographed action or martial arts films released over the past decade (aside from The Raid and its sequel which I've seen and are great)?
I'm super late but if you haven't seen Dredd you are missing out
.....yeah
Perps were... uncooperative.
(Iso cubes for all the Hollywood execs who denied us a sequel)
I watched Veronica tonight, a Spanish possession horror movie. I remember seeing an article about it on buzzfeed about how it was THE SCARIEST MOVIE EVER out something.
Spoiler: it's not.
It's not a bad little film. A girl and her friends inadvertently perform a Mayan blood sacrifice during a total eclipse - as one does - and the title character Brings Something BaaAAAaaAAAAck.
It's pretty paint by numbers, and I was legit not even vaguely creeped out the entire film, but the characters are watchable and it's filmed well enough. It seemed the sort of movie that would typically give me the willies at least a bit, but this one just bounced right off me.
But like I said, it's not terrible. There's your poster blurb.
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Re: the talk of Romancing The Stone and having not seen it on the previous page.
Does anyone else have this weird thing where they keep a mental shelf of movies that you have heard are canon classics of film, that you are pretty sure you'll enjoy, but never gotten around to, and you're just kind of saving them for a rainy day when you need a Really Good Movie?
Like I finally sat down and watched Goodfellas last year. The Usual Suspects a year or two before that. Still never seen Romancing the Stone, it's on the list. Same with Chinatown, Lost in Translation, and Taxi Driver just off the top of my head.
I enjoyed Free Guy well enough when we watched it over a pizza at the end of a draining day, but it's one of those films that I'm souring on in hindsight. My main problem with it is that it's the most fun and most charming in its first third or so, as it's introducing the main character, the world and its rules, but the longer it goes on, the less there is of the stuff that I enjoyed best. The cast is largely enjoyable (excluding Waititi - I hated his performance, though that's also because the character was written pretty badly), but the more the plot takes over, the less the film focuses on its strengths. There are a couple of good jokes in the final third of the film, but there are far fewer of them, which means that most of the goodwill the film generates is front loaded. Also:
That indie game that's hidden in Free City? It looks like absolute shit... and unlike any indie darling I can think of. It doesn't look clever or charming, it looks tacky.
"Nothing is gonna save us forever but a lot of things can save us today." - Night in the Woods
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Kong vs. Godzilla actually had one moment that triggered some real excitement and interest in me.
When they were following Kong through the hollow earth to his ancestral home, the whole thing was just weird enough that I was actually invested in the weirdness and wanted to see what other strange stuff might be living down there. So good job on that.
Otherwise it was an enjoyable enough monster rampage movie. The human sections were generally pointless, but at least they weren't the center of the story.
Shut up, Mr. Burton! You were not brought upon this world to get it!
I found that the human characters dragged down Godzilla vs Kong as well as King of the Monsters for me. I didn't feel the same with the 2014 Godzilla, where I felt more strongly that the irrelevance of humanity was a feature. I liked Kong: Skull Island well enough, but with the two films that followed I would've preferred human-free edits.
"Nothing is gonna save us forever but a lot of things can save us today." - Night in the Woods
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daveNYCWhy universe hate Waspinator?Registered Userregular
I found that the human characters dragged down Godzilla vs Kong as well as King of the Monsters for me. I didn't feel the same with the 2014 Godzilla, where I felt more strongly that the irrelevance of humanity was a feature. I liked Kong: Skull Island well enough, but with the two films that followed I would've preferred human-free edits.
I didn't like the 2014 Godzilla, but I did get what they were trying to do with it. It wasn't what I was wanting from a Godzilla movie and I didn't really think it worked, but they were definitely going for a certain type of monster movie. The human plot in King of the Monsters was just the worst though.
Shut up, Mr. Burton! You were not brought upon this world to get it!
In the spirit of Halloween I'm going to recommend people here check out No One Gets Out Alive.
It's not an amazing movie - a pretty basic by the numbers horror thriller. Until the end. Then things get...interesting in a way I think people here might be into.
I know I'm late to the party on this but Three Billboards Outside Ebbings Missouri is a hell of a movie. I don't really know how I feel about it thematically, but goddamn what a movie.
Personally I hated it
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I found that the human characters dragged down Godzilla vs Kong as well as King of the Monsters for me. I didn't feel the same with the 2014 Godzilla, where I felt more strongly that the irrelevance of humanity was a feature. I liked Kong: Skull Island well enough, but with the two films that followed I would've preferred human-free edits.
I didn't like the 2014 Godzilla, but I did get what they were trying to do with it. It wasn't what I was wanting from a Godzilla movie and I didn't really think it worked, but they were definitely going for a certain type of monster movie. The human plot in King of the Monsters was just the worst though.
I thought it improved on 2014's in two key ways:
-The characters involved are more directly entwined with the plot
-and we stay with the same one for the whole film. They knew better than to pull another Bryan Cranston.
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As someone who enjoys climbing, my favorite thing about Cliffhanger is how much its opening sequence annoys climbers.
Like most genres it's kinda fuzzy and hard to describe and trying to find a strict technical definition that neatly divides everything onto one side of the line or the other is not really that useful or possible. But it's definitely a "I know it when I see it" situation.
If I had to make a stab at describing the distinction of Action and Action-Adventure it would be that Action films are far more concerned with the specific depiction of their action scenes as being the goal in and of itself. Like you think about what people talk about with a John Wick action scene vs an Indiana Jones action scene. There are different goals at work here on some level imo. Both from the filmmaker and from the audience.
"Nothing is gonna save us forever but a lot of things can save us today." - Night in the Woods
Huh. *adds to "to watch" list; underlines*
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I have to deduct a few points because we never got to see that cake that thief lady bragged about making.
I'm super late but if you haven't seen Dredd you are missing out
.....yeah
Personally I hated it
Yeah I could easily see leaning in that direction. I'm not even sure I liked it, but it was really well shot and well acted. My problem is that it's kind of shaggy and mean and I don't quite get it.
There is some top tier pitch black comedy sprinkled in though. Not to the level of A Serious Man but pretty close.
It’s been a while since I’ve seen it, but off the top of my head:
- The shagginess indeed, the story starts as one thing and just kinda rambles and shifts POV and then kinda just ends, with characters coming and going somewhat randomly
- Rockwell’s character is a complete piece of shit and in no way deserves a redemption arc
- For a movie predicated on racial tensions and police malfeasance, it never has anything to actually say about it
- It feels condescending and vapid for a foreign writer/director to make a movie about how shitty rural America is that doesn’t do much more than say, “Look how shitty rural America is”
Yar that was a big part of it and the reason I said it was tone deaf.
That said, even outside of our current NA political climate I just found that
I mean, on the plus side, I felt that the principal actors acted the hell out of it, and I think despite the short jokes, Peter Dinklage shines in this one. But it's great performances in a dark and troubling movie, and I don't think it really balances out.
Maybe we're supposed to feel bad for Jake Gyllenhaal that they keep making him play these characters
To your last point, I don't even think it really successfully digs into how shitty rural america is, the place of the story is not important except its a small town that had a murder. It could have been in the south west, in ireland or southern italy for all it's actually saying about the location.
Yeah the throughline really seems to be, “People are often shitty,” which, just, . . . meh? So what?
Can you smell the whiskey Kurt Russell kills the chess computer with?
As for 3 Billboards, I liked it but have no desire to see it again. But with family all over Southern Missouri, I'll give Sam Rockwell credit for completely nailing the north Ozark accent.
~ Buckaroo Banzai
Like if I search for them on Amazon all I can find are either way overpriced or copies that look like the seller may have pirated and burned them onto a CD.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
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Me too. I should watch them again. They’re both on HBO Max and Hulu.
Probably not the point and you probably know this already but they’re both on HBO Max and Hulu.
He’s a pretty great actor.
Also what is Halloweentown? People keep talking about it on social media and I dunno wtf it is.
Yeah I found them on Hulu but apparently Hulu has some shit you can only watch if you have both Hulu and HBO Max.
And I have a rule that I only pay for 2 streaming services at a time
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
I hear you. I only have Hulu+, HBO Max, Netflix, Apple TV, Disney+, Peacock, Paramount+, EPIX, Amazon Prime, YouTube Premium, and Crunchyroll. They keep trying to get me to subscribe to Showtime but I’m drawing the line.
Wait, the new season of Dexter comes out soon. Fuck. Nevermind.
Perps were... uncooperative.
(Iso cubes for all the Hollywood execs who denied us a sequel)
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Spoiler: it's not.
It's not a bad little film. A girl and her friends inadvertently perform a Mayan blood sacrifice during a total eclipse - as one does - and the title character Brings Something BaaAAAaaAAAAck.
It's pretty paint by numbers, and I was legit not even vaguely creeped out the entire film, but the characters are watchable and it's filmed well enough. It seemed the sort of movie that would typically give me the willies at least a bit, but this one just bounced right off me.
But like I said, it's not terrible. There's your poster blurb.
Does anyone else have this weird thing where they keep a mental shelf of movies that you have heard are canon classics of film, that you are pretty sure you'll enjoy, but never gotten around to, and you're just kind of saving them for a rainy day when you need a Really Good Movie?
Like I finally sat down and watched Goodfellas last year. The Usual Suspects a year or two before that. Still never seen Romancing the Stone, it's on the list. Same with Chinatown, Lost in Translation, and Taxi Driver just off the top of my head.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
"Nothing is gonna save us forever but a lot of things can save us today." - Night in the Woods
"Nothing is gonna save us forever but a lot of things can save us today." - Night in the Woods
I didn't like the 2014 Godzilla, but I did get what they were trying to do with it. It wasn't what I was wanting from a Godzilla movie and I didn't really think it worked, but they were definitely going for a certain type of monster movie. The human plot in King of the Monsters was just the worst though.
It's not an amazing movie - a pretty basic by the numbers horror thriller. Until the end. Then things get...interesting in a way I think people here might be into.
The lead is also a dead-ringer for Aubrey Plaza.
It's because you are a cersei lannister fan through and through
I thought it improved on 2014's in two key ways:
-The characters involved are more directly entwined with the plot
-and we stay with the same one for the whole film. They knew better than to pull another Bryan Cranston.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades