Slaughter Jews Wholesale?
Damn that library! You mean we were this close to never knowing you?
Yeah, a mental home. Or in my case, nursing home.
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I disagree.
Is Phil Collins ever not singing like a turd?

Mike and I can do this scene note for note. We take turns being Holliday.

Tragedy Girls

If Howard Hughes made a slasher film about two chicks who BRUTALLY murder other teenagers, then it would be this flick. Loses some steam towards the third act but it had me entertained pretty much throughout. Craig Robinson's scene in the gym was one of the craziest kills I've witnessed since the last Final Destination.

Annihilation
Annihilation (2018) - IMDb

It was actually quite good. Not "The Arrival" level good, but almost there. Quite similar in many areas.
Supposedly it also took a huge dump on the source material, so if you read the book (I haven't) you'll find a ton of differences, including some of the big answers.
The visuals were great, acting was ok, the premise .. well, I'm not sure, not yet. It's something about really good science fiction, it doesn't give you the answers straight, or it might not even give you any at all. This movie is like that, I have more questions now than I had before I started watching it.
Anyway, as always I'm rambling. See it and tell me what you think.
7.5/10 in my book, where The Arrival got a solid 9.

Went to see The Shape of Water with a friend yesterday.



I didn't really like it.

Woody Allen's The Purple Rose of Cairo. Before I started recognizing actors I would have sworn the movie was made in the 40s or 50s instead of 1985.

Not surprised tbh.

Probably still better than Black Panther, which was the other option.

A love story between a black panther and a fishman sounds pretty cool though.

Finally got around to Gerald's Game.

King was once asked early on my he wrote such creepy and disturbing stories. He replied, "What makes you think I have a choice?"

A couple that I watched recently

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A Perfect Day

Aid workers in Yugoslavia try to get a body out of a well but get wrangled in UN red tape. It was just alright. Well shot with some interesting and funny parts, but it was also full of moments that were more annoying and forced than funny. The movie is engaging enough to watch to overlook that though. What was distractingly bad was the soundtrack. It was like they had just tossed on a satellite radio station that the director or producer dug during moments that necessitated a song change. If that aspect of the movie wasn't so goddamn ****ty, then it would have another star, but until this film gets a remix it's a 3/5.

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Nocturama

Existentialist thriller about French domestic terrorists committing an attack and hiding out in a shopping mall. Potential moral qualms of sympathizing terrorists through dramatization aside, this was one of the most suspenseful and tense films that I've ever seen. Great acting and well shot.



I don't have a clear outcome on what this movie is trying to say and I kind of like that since it gives me something to think about. Interested on your thoughts on this. Gonna go with a 4.20/5

I saw this one back when it ran in theaters. I don't remember anything about the soundtrack, but I do remember feeling like especially a lot of the attempts at humor and quirkiness missed the mark. I still liked it. It's uneven, but has some strong bits.

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Tarde para la ira (The Fury of a Patient Man)

Genre-bending, gritty, great cinematography. The ending could have used some work since it definitely felt underdeveloped, but it was still a really great watch regardless. 4/5

Yeah...
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If you're a fan of Spinal Tap-ish humor, or a drummer, or an aspiring drummer, or possibly you just love playing air drums or anything else, or maybe you're just bored, or all of the above, this is a great way to spend 90 minutes:

I last watched BLUE STREAK (1999) on VHS :)

The Copy I have is a preview of the movie.... It was recorded IN A MOVIE THEATHER and to be honest is the nicest copy of this movie I have ever seen! (Its a little dark but thats cause of how they had the camera pointed towards the screen)

Roller Boogie.

(where's my gun......... )

The Prisoner of Second Avenue (Jack Lemmon/Anne Bancroft) (1975)

Frankly, not as funny or enjoyable as I remember. Another Neil Simon play, does well on the big screen but there's something lacking about it. It's almost like a less clever version of The Odd Couple, though not really. Worth watching, but ultimately I was disappointed this time around.

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You're Next

The characters in this reminded me of the family in A Good Man Is Hard to Find, so of course I thought this was hysterical. Good watch. 4/5

Edward Scissorhands
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Not the Tim Burton movie that I'm most familiar with. I've only watched it once before and that was years ago. Rewatched it again this evening and... my impression (as I remember it) from back then, remains basically unchanged.
It takes forever to get going, no real conflict happening until over an hour into the movie, and when things do start happening, it's precious little. Surely the movie spends all that time on character development, then? Well... in theory, but absolutely every character stays a one note stereotype and there aren't really any interesting exchanges between characters - only a bunch of mildly amusing "fish out of water" scenes where Edward gets accustomed to life in a curiously 50's looking 80's suburban neighbourhood.

Numerous things about the movie just feel kinda underdeveloped and half baked. The daughter falls in love with the "monster". We know this, because at one point she tells him "I love you". It feels unearned, as the two have barely interacted with each other at this point ("this point" being the end of the movie, almost) and when we see her dreaming of those times with Edward as an elderly woman at the very end of the movie, it feels hollow. A key plot point where she knows that Edward was tricked into assisting burglary never goes anywhere. Never does she go to the police or her parents and confess, despite how it would fit into every single character relationship and plot arc in the film. Instead Edward retreats to his hiding place for seemingly the rest of his life and everyone stops visiting him - even the people who cared for him. It just feels oddly simplistic and contrived in so many ways.

I'm not even going to comment on all of the secondary and tertiary characters. Think a collection of over-the-top suburban housewife stereotypes, and you've got all the movie would give you.

I know it's supposed to be a simple little gothic, suburban fairy tale, but even movies as simple as Harry Potter or Star Wars or Sucker Punch have characters with more motivations, more character traits - as well as more developed conflicts happening in the story. Edward Scissorhands feels strangely hollow as a movie and I just can't figure out why it's such a beloved film. It's some of the thinnest, most underdeveloped material Tim Burton has given us and that's saying something. Big Eyes was a surprisingly good movie, but I guess Tim Burton isn't really my cup of tea. Most of his movies are kind of flat, I think. This one is the worst.

lmao @ Sucker Punch. Did you have your first kiss when you watched that or something? A strong, significant emotional bond is the only explanation that I can think of for your appreciation of that crap.

Edward Scissorhands isn't Burton's worst movie. His worst films are when he takes that ham-fisted, self-conscious quirkiness and turns it into a formula without the little compelling content that was there to begin with. See: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Sweeney Todd, Corpse Bride, etc.

Have you seen Big Fish? Personally I think that it's mad overrated, but it does stand out in his filmography as a better, less contrived film.

I'm not saying Sucker Punch is great*, but it does have more going on as far as the characters go - even if it's precious little. At least they feel vaguely like humans. I picked that movie as an example on purpose, since I want to express just how badly I think Edward Scissorhands handles its characters. I really do think Edward Scissorhands is superficial to a very unusual degree.

I think Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is way more fun to watch, even though a few scenes are cloying and sentimental in the extreme. And I really like Corpse Bride. Sweeney Todd was pretty awful. A musical with no good tunes.

I have seen Big Fish a few times and I used to like it, then kind of didn't anymore. It's got some good ideas, but it feels so tedious to get through.

EDIT: I'd also like to mention Dark Shadows. That one was really, really bad. Only good thing in the movie, literally: Eva Green was sooo hot in that movie... What a waste.

* Last time I watched it, which was a couple years ago, I still liked it. I've always considered it pretty flawed but also appealing in some ways. No idea what will happen when I get around to re-watching it. For some reason, I tend to be pretty forgiving with Zack Snyder's movies. I like Batman v Superman...

To be fair, it is a Tim Burton musical. It's not like he set a standard for good music in his films that we should expect him to return to. And yes, that includes Nightmare Before Christmas's hokey ass songs.

Eh, I like the songs in that movie. The one where Jack has been shot down and landed in the arms of a statue is pretty weak and sounds too much like an earlier song, but otherwise I think they're pretty good songs. The one I really like is "Sally's Song".

Danny Elfman is hokey no matter what he does. Have you ever heard Oingo Boingo?

I mean, they're not dysfunctionally written songs, but they're still dull and annoying.

Sucker Punch has hella fun action scenes. Everything in-between is like whatever, but those action scenes are highly memorable.

Don't pretend you wouldn't like them better if they were dysfunctional and sounded like nails on chalkboard.

The final one with the dragons drags a bit and the ending makes me roll my eyes, but otherwise I like it allright. Plus it's sexy. I'm not pretending that's not part of the appeal. I wish more action movies were sexy. It's a good combo.

Even unconventional music is still functional. If the score didn't bank on cliched concepts of musicals and spookiness, then yes I do think it would be a lot better.

In all fairness, I do think Elfman has a very predictable approach to writing whimsical, spooky music. I do think the score does well at something key to a musical: The characters are allowed to express their personality while singing the songs. Far from all musicals do this well, I think. Not the genre I'm most familiar with, tbh. Maybe the movie would seem weaker to me if I watched 20-50 more musicals I haven't seen.

I suppose that's true. Maybe I just find every character dull and annoying.

Musicals have a lot of value, they can provide serious insight on philosophical quandaries and explore rich and innovative musical concepts in a very poignant way that you'll be hard pressed to find on albums or in a concert. I'm pretty sure you can see where I'm going with this so I'll just come out and ask: have you seen Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny?

Lol no. But I did watch School of Rock. Which I guess wasn't a musical, but just a movie about music now that I think about it. I think Jack Black and Tenacious D are generally best enjoyed in very small doses.

Very different movies. Ja The Pick of Destiny isn't very good except for the shrooms scene, you're better off watching their shorts or listening to their albums. Actually, listening to the soundtrack is probably more rewarding than watching the movie tbh. I was way into it in high school though.

I've watched "Lee" and "Tribute" several times. I'm ok with Tenacious D on that level. They're not even bad songs without the funny lyrics.

Watched The Ritual on netflix yesterday. Loved the monster design (definitely monster boyfriend material)

Watched Clown (2014) yesterday. I don't know why I do this to myself. (Maybe it was just sleep deprivation, but I found it hilarious, especially when they'd get into the finer details of clown biology/ancient secret Clown Lore.)

On an early Tarantino binge. His first 5 films are ****ing flawless.

Had lunch a table over from Robert Forster a few years back and raved to him about Jackie Brown and Breaking Bad. Dude could not have been cooler. Just an awesome celebrity encounter.

fify m8.

Hard to argue M8.