Movie opinions thread (what have you seen, what did you think?)
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They’re both pretty enjoyable but one of them was definitely better than the other. Can’t remember if it was the prequel or sequel though. I was surprised at how many people they were able to get to come back and that if they weren’t available they got other random people to replace them. It’s not often you see things these days that feel like everyone involved is excited to be there and having a lot of fun.
I especially liked that in the prequel Coop is 20 years older and 100 lbs heavier even though he’s supposed to be like 15.
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Yeah that's brutal.
I took one of my younger cousins to his first club several years ago for his 21st b-day. Told him ahead of time "I'm giving you $100... get a couple of lap dances, spread the remainder around to a few of the dancers in singles. Do NOT let them take you to the VIP. You don't have the money for that". We were there 10 minutes and some little tart breathed in his ear and I had to physically pull him out of the elevator up to the VIP room before the door closed. He had a girlfriend and wasn't some sad little virgin kid... those girls are just very good at their jobs.
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Eightyties? Ey titties? Whatever. Good luck finding many less typical '80s movies than Repo Man. You must have been on your phone while you were watching.
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Elijah Wood and Sarah Michelle Gellar have been cast in Ready or Not 2.
Should be good, I liked the first one and SMG is one of the all time scream queens.
Should be good, I liked the first one and SMG is one of the all time scream queens.
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Black Box - I am a big fan of Haywire and was expecting more of that but instead got more of a murder mystery dinner with spy elements thrown in. It was kind of low budget in a sense as well. I enjoyed it but not as much as some of Soderberg’s other films. I saw it on Saturday at one of the arthouses Bryn Mawr on literally the last showing in the area.
Companion - Was not expecting to like this as much as I did. I knew nothing about this, I was expecting a Chucky doll murder movie, but it felt more like Blade Runner in the sense of androids, West/Futureworld, with an Evil Krusty Doll thrown in. It had some comedic elements as well (dance numbers and evil on off switches). Some of it was preposterous but it was fun, and it was a nice spin with the humans as the bad guys.
Companion - Was not expecting to like this as much as I did. I knew nothing about this, I was expecting a Chucky doll murder movie, but it felt more like Blade Runner in the sense of androids, West/Futureworld, with an Evil Krusty Doll thrown in. It had some comedic elements as well (dance numbers and evil on off switches). Some of it was preposterous but it was fun, and it was a nice spin with the humans as the bad guys.
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Watched Maximum Overdrive for the first time since the 1980s. lol what a chunk of shit.
Looking at it now, it plays like a dry run for Tremors. The key missing ingredient from the Maximum Overdrive version? Charm.
Stephen King famously hated the movie adaptations of his work up to that point, so he somehow convinced a studio to let him direct this one himself. From a technical standpoint, it's very solid for a first (and only?) time director. But aside from giving him a gold star for that, the movie is dogshit. He contrasts poorly with Kubrick.
King also gives himself a cameo in the beginning of the movie. He even gives himself a couple of speaking lines, which qualifies him for a SAG card. No dummy, this guy.
Looking at it now, it plays like a dry run for Tremors. The key missing ingredient from the Maximum Overdrive version? Charm.
Stephen King famously hated the movie adaptations of his work up to that point, so he somehow convinced a studio to let him direct this one himself. From a technical standpoint, it's very solid for a first (and only?) time director. But aside from giving him a gold star for that, the movie is dogshit. He contrasts poorly with Kubrick.
King also gives himself a cameo in the beginning of the movie. He even gives himself a couple of speaking lines, which qualifies him for a SAG card. No dummy, this guy.
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A Minecraft Movie - I guess ultimately not as horrible as I dreaded after I took my two kids (10 and 7) and friends' two kids (8 and 5) to a second weekend show solo. Fortunately no in theater shenanigans by us, just a few kids yelling at the right parts. I felt like the casting of this was awful with maaaaaaybe the exception of Momoa. A nearly identical 'fish out of water' setup that they used in the Mario movie (also with poor to mediocre results in my opinion) mixed with a bit of Jumanji. The Napoleon Dynamite director's style of humor comes through a few times with minimal results, the triumphs feel pretty unearned, and ultimately I have forgotten pretty much the entire thing a week and a half later.
Godzilla Minus One - Kids had fun watching the 2019 Godzilla King of the Monsters (dumb) and 2021 Godzilla v Kong (pretty good) so I grabbed this at the library and watched it with them. They both prefer GvK of course for big loud monster fights, but I really liked this one. Was interesting to see it was a little more mixed reception in Japan but widely praised everywhere else. The twist in the final act was telegraphed but worked. Godzilla looked a little goofy at times but also very traditional I think on purpose so that might have been the goofiness, otherwise well deserved of the SFX praise especially on the reported budget.
Godzilla Minus One - Kids had fun watching the 2019 Godzilla King of the Monsters (dumb) and 2021 Godzilla v Kong (pretty good) so I grabbed this at the library and watched it with them. They both prefer GvK of course for big loud monster fights, but I really liked this one. Was interesting to see it was a little more mixed reception in Japan but widely praised everywhere else. The twist in the final act was telegraphed but worked. Godzilla looked a little goofy at times but also very traditional I think on purpose so that might have been the goofiness, otherwise well deserved of the SFX praise especially on the reported budget.
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Yup. That’s the one.
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To be fair to King he says he was doing so much coke at the time he doesn’t even remember making the movie. I’m sure that’s BS but you can definitely tell it’s a cocaine fueled mess.
The Three Amigos- Hadn’t seen this in years and was surprised at how much of the dialogue I remembered, super quotable. As good as Martin, Short and Chase are I don’t think El Guapo and Jefe get enough credit, they nail their parts and the movie wouldn’t be what it is with other people in those roles. I will say it’s a little sillier than I remember with the musical numbers and the stuff with the singing bush. Still definitely a classic.
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Sinners - Michael B. Jordan plays a set of twins who cash in their mob blood money to open a "juke joint" (illegal music/dance hall) in the Mississippi delta and hire all the locals for opening night. Their cousin is a supremely talented blues artist... so talented that he summons the spirits of the past and the future duing his big musical number. Then vampires show up and a good old-fashioned Dusk til Dawn bloodletting commences.
It's always fun when a director cashes in their "I made the studio a shitload of money" chips to make something weird and interesting that would never get made at that kind of budget otherwise. In this case, Ryan Coogler of Black Panther and Creed fame cashed in his Marvel bucks to make a $90 million dollar vampire movie set in the Prohibition deep south. It's a little on-the-nose in spots and meanders a little too long before getting to the point but the music is terrific, Michael B. Jordan does the twin thing believably and the movie captures the setting and the time really well. Fits in well in the "vampires as unsexy animals" genre along with stuff like Dusk til Dawn and 30 Days of Night.
Critters 2: The Main Course - On the complete opposite side of the spectrum, the 1988 cornball sequel to Critters. The bounty hunters and the little kid from the first movie have to come back to the town of Grovers Bend to eliminate the remaining "Crites" two years later. How did people ignore a bunch of weird eggs sitting in the barn of the house that blew up in the first movie? Beats me. The crites hatch and wreak havoc on the small town yet again.
Easily the best of the 80s Gremlins knockoffs, Critters had a twisted sense of humor and some solid creature fx from the Chiodo brothers who went on to do Killer Klowns from Outer Space afterwards. The sequel is a step down and is 80s as all fuck but is largely more of the same. Definitely weird to see it was Mick Garris's first movie as a director and David Twohy's first as a writer (he went on to big budget Hollywood stuff like The Fugitive and the Riddick movies). It feels like a direct-to-video movie from that era and the characters are as stock as they come but I remember watching it a lot on basic cable back in the day and have a fondness for the first two Critters movies even if they're not particularly good. The later sequels are awful though and can be skipped (even with Leonardo DiCaprio, Angela Bassett and Brad Dourif showing up in them).
It's always fun when a director cashes in their "I made the studio a shitload of money" chips to make something weird and interesting that would never get made at that kind of budget otherwise. In this case, Ryan Coogler of Black Panther and Creed fame cashed in his Marvel bucks to make a $90 million dollar vampire movie set in the Prohibition deep south. It's a little on-the-nose in spots and meanders a little too long before getting to the point but the music is terrific, Michael B. Jordan does the twin thing believably and the movie captures the setting and the time really well. Fits in well in the "vampires as unsexy animals" genre along with stuff like Dusk til Dawn and 30 Days of Night.
Critters 2: The Main Course - On the complete opposite side of the spectrum, the 1988 cornball sequel to Critters. The bounty hunters and the little kid from the first movie have to come back to the town of Grovers Bend to eliminate the remaining "Crites" two years later. How did people ignore a bunch of weird eggs sitting in the barn of the house that blew up in the first movie? Beats me. The crites hatch and wreak havoc on the small town yet again.
Easily the best of the 80s Gremlins knockoffs, Critters had a twisted sense of humor and some solid creature fx from the Chiodo brothers who went on to do Killer Klowns from Outer Space afterwards. The sequel is a step down and is 80s as all fuck but is largely more of the same. Definitely weird to see it was Mick Garris's first movie as a director and David Twohy's first as a writer (he went on to big budget Hollywood stuff like The Fugitive and the Riddick movies). It feels like a direct-to-video movie from that era and the characters are as stock as they come but I remember watching it a lot on basic cable back in the day and have a fondness for the first two Critters movies even if they're not particularly good. The later sequels are awful though and can be skipped (even with Leonardo DiCaprio, Angela Bassett and Brad Dourif showing up in them).
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Two scenes stick with me after all these years:
1. When the other bounty hunter decides on a form and its the playboy gal and she has a huge rack - and a huge staple on her gut from the centerfold.
2. The fast food joint scene where all the Crites die in funny ways.
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Edge of Tomorrow - Groundhog Day but with guns and aliens.
Tom Cruise gets trapped in a time loop during a war against an invading alien species, and it's up to him and Emily Blunt to eventually use the loop to their advantage and defeat the offending creatures.
Great special effects, and Bill Paxton steals all the scenes he's in. Pretty decent piece of entertainment overall - and nice to see Cruise playing (initially, at least) against type.
Tom Cruise gets trapped in a time loop during a war against an invading alien species, and it's up to him and Emily Blunt to eventually use the loop to their advantage and defeat the offending creatures.
Great special effects, and Bill Paxton steals all the scenes he's in. Pretty decent piece of entertainment overall - and nice to see Cruise playing (initially, at least) against type.
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Made me think about what happened to the truck after the movie was done shooting. Looked it up.
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What an odd thing to do, damage the item in order to raise money to restore it
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Trick or Treat- A bullied high school metal head receives a copy of recently deceased metal icon Sammi Curr’s unreleased final album and by playing it backwards unleashes Curr’s demonic spirit to exact revenge on his tormentors with some unexpected consequences.
The quintessential 80’s heavy metal horror. This one is a step above the others with pretty decent production values, cameos from Ozzy and Gene Simmons and a soundtrack by Fastway. Taking aim at the “satanic panic” of the era the movie has a lot going for it with some fun effects, boobs, a little bit of humor and Halloween atmosphere.
It does run out of steam towards the end but avoids most of the problems other metal horror movies fall victim to. It’s not overly weird like Hack o Lantern or too goofy like Black Roses or outright embarrassing like Rock & Roll Nightmare. This is about as good as it gets.
The quintessential 80’s heavy metal horror. This one is a step above the others with pretty decent production values, cameos from Ozzy and Gene Simmons and a soundtrack by Fastway. Taking aim at the “satanic panic” of the era the movie has a lot going for it with some fun effects, boobs, a little bit of humor and Halloween atmosphere.
It does run out of steam towards the end but avoids most of the problems other metal horror movies fall victim to. It’s not overly weird like Hack o Lantern or too goofy like Black Roses or outright embarrassing like Rock & Roll Nightmare. This is about as good as it gets.
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