He's also going to voice Venom in the next Spider-Man game, so... get that lotion ready, I guess.
Discuss and Rate the Last Film You Watched
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Next up in my October watchathon was Saw. It's actually kind of interesting seeing the series that (rightfully) got a reputation for being overly focused on elaborate traps and gore start with a movie that's more of a slightly bloodier and gorier thriller. What really made this experience fun, though? I was watching it with my brother. He didn't know anything about the ending. Yeah, his reaction was golden.
My yearly re-watch of The Crow. Still an enjoyable movie. None of the characters really feel like characters. They all feel like real people, even the ones we only see for a brief moment like the bartender and the hotdog vendor. The music is kick-ass and the whole thing just drips with atmosphere and emotion.
I always get a bit of a chuckle at how much Skank comes off as a dimwitted, annoying little brother tagging along rather than an actual member of T-Bird's gang.
And speaking of T-Bird, I always feel almost sympathetic towards him when he tries to tell Eric he can't be back.
I always get a bit of a chuckle at how much Skank comes off as a dimwitted, annoying little brother tagging along rather than an actual member of T-Bird's gang.
And speaking of T-Bird, I always feel almost sympathetic towards him when he tries to tell Eric he can't be back.
Since it's October, I will likely re-watch next week. The Crow is still one of the best comic adaptions ever made. The movie makes most comic adaptions, be they superhero or not, look like shit.
The same actor who played Luther from The Warriors did a fantastic job.
While Skank's freakout after T-Bird's death is hilarious. Up until the biatch slap and the movie gets back to serious in that scene.
Videodrome (Prime, purchase)
Ah flesh. Ahhh bonks. Fleshbonks, Succulent, enticing fleshbonks! Though, perhaps unsurprisingly, this feels a little restrained and dare I say "quaint" in our day and age of instant access to as extreme content as your desensitised 'schizo-posting' brains can pretend to handle. Even Eurotrash (a very late night 90s, umm, "variety" show full of all sorts of weird and cheeky oddities) seems more hardcore than whatever was going on in James Woods' mystery snuff telly. Still, it's an interesting curiosity, and I'll never get the image of Woods' giant vagina belly being used like Mary Poppins magic handbag out of my head. Those practical effects retain their icky emotional responses to this day too. Ah well, back to waiting for Crimes of the Future to get its bumbling arse onto streaming once again I suppose.
Freehold (Prime, Freevee)
A cocky London estate agent living in their flat, unaware there's a very unhygienic extremely malnutritioned dude living, hiding in there with him, sneakily making his life a misery too. This guy has Christian Bale from The Machinist levels of uncomfortable weight loss going on, so am wondering if he is always like that or he went on a special diet just for this extremely low-budget comedy horror nobody's ever heard of. The "horror" is a bit of a different take though, based more on fears of gross out unhygienic dust goblins living in your walls, cleaning their asshole with your brand new electric toothbrush every morning when you're at work. The "comedy" is also quite dry and likely missable for most viewers. Then it ends on some spoken poetry by the cocky London estate agent just for another weird curveball. Is well shot and holds a particular atmosphere, not a bad watch aside from the gross moments which may be easier for some to stomach than others.
Werewolf by Night (Disney plus)
Is that...is that Anna Hathaway? I forgot to check the credits damnit, am gonna check IMDb right now...
Oh, ok, no it's Laura Donnelly. Well alright. But is this even a film? What topic does this go in?? Under an hour runtime is just playing silly buggers! Hench Barnicle Groot was adorable. The score, maybe dependably precise. Simple bit of fun really, can't complain. Orrrrrrr can I??? Nope, sorry, just can't muster the misery this early yet.
Bullet Train (Prime, purchase)
You're hoping to be a comedy, you say? An action comedy? An action comedy with aspirations of being Guy Ritchie/Tarantino stylised flick, you say too, no less?? Well then. Alright. Please allow me to put my comedy face on for this bonanza extravaganza of funsies.
Ok, it's fun with a bit of THC. That doesn't mean my expression deviated from that though. It was a solid "lol I guess?" throughout.
Ah flesh. Ahhh bonks. Fleshbonks, Succulent, enticing fleshbonks! Though, perhaps unsurprisingly, this feels a little restrained and dare I say "quaint" in our day and age of instant access to as extreme content as your desensitised 'schizo-posting' brains can pretend to handle. Even Eurotrash (a very late night 90s, umm, "variety" show full of all sorts of weird and cheeky oddities) seems more hardcore than whatever was going on in James Woods' mystery snuff telly. Still, it's an interesting curiosity, and I'll never get the image of Woods' giant vagina belly being used like Mary Poppins magic handbag out of my head. Those practical effects retain their icky emotional responses to this day too. Ah well, back to waiting for Crimes of the Future to get its bumbling arse onto streaming once again I suppose.
Freehold (Prime, Freevee)
A cocky London estate agent living in their flat, unaware there's a very unhygienic extremely malnutritioned dude living, hiding in there with him, sneakily making his life a misery too. This guy has Christian Bale from The Machinist levels of uncomfortable weight loss going on, so am wondering if he is always like that or he went on a special diet just for this extremely low-budget comedy horror nobody's ever heard of. The "horror" is a bit of a different take though, based more on fears of gross out unhygienic dust goblins living in your walls, cleaning their asshole with your brand new electric toothbrush every morning when you're at work. The "comedy" is also quite dry and likely missable for most viewers. Then it ends on some spoken poetry by the cocky London estate agent just for another weird curveball. Is well shot and holds a particular atmosphere, not a bad watch aside from the gross moments which may be easier for some to stomach than others.
Werewolf by Night (Disney plus)
Is that...is that Anna Hathaway? I forgot to check the credits damnit, am gonna check IMDb right now...
Oh, ok, no it's Laura Donnelly. Well alright. But is this even a film? What topic does this go in?? Under an hour runtime is just playing silly buggers! Hench Barnicle Groot was adorable. The score, maybe dependably precise. Simple bit of fun really, can't complain. Orrrrrrr can I??? Nope, sorry, just can't muster the misery this early yet.
Bullet Train (Prime, purchase)
You're hoping to be a comedy, you say? An action comedy? An action comedy with aspirations of being Guy Ritchie/Tarantino stylised flick, you say too, no less?? Well then. Alright. Please allow me to put my comedy face on for this bonanza extravaganza of funsies.
Ok, it's fun with a bit of THC. That doesn't mean my expression deviated from that though. It was a solid "lol I guess?" throughout.
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I consider Werewolf by Night a television special, so I covered it in the other topic, but I definitely see the argument for calling it a short film and can't really disagree with it.
Even discounting Skank’s, well deserved and understandable, freak out he still comes across as if T-Bird is his older brother and was forced to have him around by their mother.
I watched the Hellraiser remake. It's good, it's not the best thing I've ever seen but definitely better than all the Hellraiser sequels after 2 (and I'm being generous to 2).
So, looking back it's really obvious that Hellraiser and the book it's based on was Clive Barker processing his feelings about sexuality back when you couldn't really openly talk about being gay and into BDSM. It's about self-destructive people who are drawn to things that hurt them, but because he couldn't really say what it's about everything has to be very veiled and abstract.
The remake makes what I feel is the very good decision to shift that metaphor towards addiction and make it more explicit. Having been put in that position of living with and trying to help an addict, I found it very real. I think your experience will depend heavily on whether you hate or pity the main character, because it will probably be one of the two. But I feel like the film is kind of with you whichever side you end up on.
Visually, the cenobites are great. It reminded me of the xenomorphs from Alien: Isolation, in that it took the original concept that had to be expressed purely by a person in a costume and freed it from the limitations of what would have been possible at the time. Jamie Clayton is an incredible pinhead while also being distinct from Doug Bradley's portrayal. It strikes a nice balance between all out torture porn and more restrained tension building.
The only thing I would say is that tonally it's less fun. Maybe it's because the subject matter resonated with me, but I would never have expected to come away from a Hellraiser film feeling a bit sad and bleak. It's not a bad thing, but it is different.
So, looking back it's really obvious that Hellraiser and the book it's based on was Clive Barker processing his feelings about sexuality back when you couldn't really openly talk about being gay and into BDSM. It's about self-destructive people who are drawn to things that hurt them, but because he couldn't really say what it's about everything has to be very veiled and abstract.
The remake makes what I feel is the very good decision to shift that metaphor towards addiction and make it more explicit. Having been put in that position of living with and trying to help an addict, I found it very real. I think your experience will depend heavily on whether you hate or pity the main character, because it will probably be one of the two. But I feel like the film is kind of with you whichever side you end up on.
Visually, the cenobites are great. It reminded me of the xenomorphs from Alien: Isolation, in that it took the original concept that had to be expressed purely by a person in a costume and freed it from the limitations of what would have been possible at the time. Jamie Clayton is an incredible pinhead while also being distinct from Doug Bradley's portrayal. It strikes a nice balance between all out torture porn and more restrained tension building.
The only thing I would say is that tonally it's less fun. Maybe it's because the subject matter resonated with me, but I would never have expected to come away from a Hellraiser film feeling a bit sad and bleak. It's not a bad thing, but it is different.
Due to missing last night after other plans got in the way, watched two horror movies to make up for it tonight.
The first was Saw II. To me, it not only holds up, but surpasses the original. It's much more violent and bloodier compared to the original, but it never really feels gratuitous about it, with the hardest trap to watch arguably being the least violent in the series, and the multiple twists hold up. The dual plots also work well, with the characters feeling like real people and not stereotypes.
The second was originally going to be Saw 3, but my brother wanted to watch something lighter after Saw II hit him, so we watched Friday the 13th Part 3 instead. It's not a very good movie, with thin characters that don't exclude the final girl, and a heavy reliance on "Whoa" level 3D effects, but it's cheesy, and the kills are entertaining, so it fulfilled the bare minimum for a fun time at Slasher Camp. Not the best in the series, nowhere near the worst.
The first was Saw II. To me, it not only holds up, but surpasses the original. It's much more violent and bloodier compared to the original, but it never really feels gratuitous about it, with the hardest trap to watch arguably being the least violent in the series, and the multiple twists hold up. The dual plots also work well, with the characters feeling like real people and not stereotypes.
The second was originally going to be Saw 3, but my brother wanted to watch something lighter after Saw II hit him, so we watched Friday the 13th Part 3 instead. It's not a very good movie, with thin characters that don't exclude the final girl, and a heavy reliance on "Whoa" level 3D effects, but it's cheesy, and the kills are entertaining, so it fulfilled the bare minimum for a fun time at Slasher Camp. Not the best in the series, nowhere near the worst.
Fun fact, a couple of weeks ago, the gf and I decided to go to the movies to wee Bullet Train. I bought D-Box seats ($50,) a bottle of wine ($50) and finally took the bait for a yearly membership that provides discounts and one free ticket each month ($100.) Well, the wine did it's job as I'd gone through half the bottle before the previews ended, and I passed out 10 minutes into the film. Most expensive movie I ever paid to see that I didn't actually see.Bullet Train (Prime, purchase)
You're hoping to be a comedy, you say? An action comedy? An action comedy with aspirations of being Guy Ritchie/Tarantino stylised flick, you say too, no less?? Well then. Alright. Please allow me to put my comedy face on for this bonanza extravaganza of funsies.
Ok, it's fun with a bit of THC. That doesn't mean my expression deviated from that though. It was a solid "lol I guess?" throughout.
Bullet Train
(paid for my own copy)
Rating: 8/10
Premise: A wet work operative (hitmen, thieves, heavies for the mob etc) coming back to work after having had therapy due to a series and unfortunate events happing when he's on the job ends up boarding a Japanese Bullet train for one simple job, steal a briefcase and get out. This is made more complicated by a series of other wet work operatives all being on the train all with their own missions, agendas and reasons to be there leading to Ladybug (Brad pitt) ending caught up in the middle of other schemes going on. All the while a father tries to get revenge on the person who put his son in a coma.
Thoughts: This is a kind of film I don't think Hollywood makes much anymore and is especially rare in this genre. It's an ensemble cast road trip film the likes of which you see with Cannonball Run or Rat Race with Brad Pitts character acting more and a main through point connecting to all the other stories which themselves overlap with various other different ones. It's one of the few films I've seen that uses flashback sequences well to tell backstories and relevant parts of the history without said things feeling like thing that the story should have told in order as in this case many of the flashbacks are short segments in varying locations and times or just fill in how the operative in question came to get on the bullet train. If I had one criticism it's that one of the operatives didn't feel fleshed out at all compared to the others with little backstory or personality when compared to the quite impressive range of fleshed out distinct characters on show even if one or two do slip slightly into being some slightly stock / trope characters.
Hell if you need me to give you a weird "Hook" reason to see it, one reason to see it is so you can watch a hired killer give a socio-political analysis about the why modern Thomas the Tank Engine as a franchise is far worse than it was in the past and offers far less to modern children than the older iterations (no really this happens).
(paid for my own copy)
Rating: 8/10
Premise: A wet work operative (hitmen, thieves, heavies for the mob etc) coming back to work after having had therapy due to a series and unfortunate events happing when he's on the job ends up boarding a Japanese Bullet train for one simple job, steal a briefcase and get out. This is made more complicated by a series of other wet work operatives all being on the train all with their own missions, agendas and reasons to be there leading to Ladybug (Brad pitt) ending caught up in the middle of other schemes going on. All the while a father tries to get revenge on the person who put his son in a coma.
Thoughts: This is a kind of film I don't think Hollywood makes much anymore and is especially rare in this genre. It's an ensemble cast road trip film the likes of which you see with Cannonball Run or Rat Race with Brad Pitts character acting more and a main through point connecting to all the other stories which themselves overlap with various other different ones. It's one of the few films I've seen that uses flashback sequences well to tell backstories and relevant parts of the history without said things feeling like thing that the story should have told in order as in this case many of the flashbacks are short segments in varying locations and times or just fill in how the operative in question came to get on the bullet train. If I had one criticism it's that one of the operatives didn't feel fleshed out at all compared to the others with little backstory or personality when compared to the quite impressive range of fleshed out distinct characters on show even if one or two do slip slightly into being some slightly stock / trope characters.
Hell if you need me to give you a weird "Hook" reason to see it, one reason to see it is so you can watch a hired killer give a socio-political analysis about the why modern Thomas the Tank Engine as a franchise is far worse than it was in the past and offers far less to modern children than the older iterations (no really this happens).
I felt like rewatching Ready or Not for whatever reason so I did and that made me think of The Hunt so I also rewatched thattoo.
Ready or Not - 7.5/10
Nice little thriller/horror movie where the concept is if you marry into this family you have to play a game and if you "draw" the wrong card, then the person marrying into the family has to be hunted and killed before dawn because the family thinks they will all die. Really solid movie with a really great ending. There's just something missing from it to make into that special 8+ territory for me, maybe slightly more entertaining characters, maybe one more interesting scene.
The Hunt - 7/10
The premise is a bunch of elites hunt down deplorables basically. Dennis from It's Always Sunny plays an elite and you can tell the type of movie it's gonna be from probably that alone. Betty Gilpin gives one heck of a performance here and she's damn entertaining. There's some decent social commentary going on in this with the elites being liberals and the hunted being conservatives. The commentary is actually smarter than Don't Look Up (which was so surface level and snarky). There's some interesting and entertaining scenes throughout, probably needed one more really good scene though. The ending fight is pretty awesome and ends on a pretty high note like Ready or Not.
Ready or Not - 7.5/10
Nice little thriller/horror movie where the concept is if you marry into this family you have to play a game and if you "draw" the wrong card, then the person marrying into the family has to be hunted and killed before dawn because the family thinks they will all die. Really solid movie with a really great ending. There's just something missing from it to make into that special 8+ territory for me, maybe slightly more entertaining characters, maybe one more interesting scene.
The Hunt - 7/10
The premise is a bunch of elites hunt down deplorables basically. Dennis from It's Always Sunny plays an elite and you can tell the type of movie it's gonna be from probably that alone. Betty Gilpin gives one heck of a performance here and she's damn entertaining. There's some decent social commentary going on in this with the elites being liberals and the hunted being conservatives. The commentary is actually smarter than Don't Look Up (which was so surface level and snarky). There's some interesting and entertaining scenes throughout, probably needed one more really good scene though. The ending fight is pretty awesome and ends on a pretty high note like Ready or Not.
Crimes of the Future - (Rental)
It's the future! We feel no pain? We don't experience infection?? We cut ourselves up just for our new kicks??? Sign me tf u...oh wait, everything's awful, parents are killing their kids and some people are living off plastic for their 5 a day. Curse you, Cronenberg! But then again...that's a rather aesthetically appealing autopsy machine for the horror-minded. So maybe it isn't all downhill for us fleshy meat lumps if our society can embrace such gruesome heights for their professional tools. I am deeply curious as to what the rest of the functioning humanity who would build these unsettling delights actually looks like. The limited budget does an efficient job of shadowing out this world to focus on the few fuck-ups getting by in it. Tis a memorable experience, though left me wanting a little, just to see all of what else was going on in this fascinating future of perpetually numb sado-masochists
It's the future! We feel no pain? We don't experience infection?? We cut ourselves up just for our new kicks??? Sign me tf u...oh wait, everything's awful, parents are killing their kids and some people are living off plastic for their 5 a day. Curse you, Cronenberg! But then again...that's a rather aesthetically appealing autopsy machine for the horror-minded. So maybe it isn't all downhill for us fleshy meat lumps if our society can embrace such gruesome heights for their professional tools. I am deeply curious as to what the rest of the functioning humanity who would build these unsettling delights actually looks like. The limited budget does an efficient job of shadowing out this world to focus on the few fuck-ups getting by in it. Tis a memorable experience, though left me wanting a little, just to see all of what else was going on in this fascinating future of perpetually numb sado-masochists
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Entergalactic on Netflix.
The animation is basically Baby's First Spider-verse, which is not at all an insult. Gorgeous movie with a great soundtrack. I kinda dismissed Timothee Chalamet (or whatever his name is) as the new teenage girl thirst trap, but the dude killed it as one of the main character's crackhead friends.
That said, in classic Netflix fashion, all tension and conflict in the movie relies on miscommunication. I fucking hate that really, everything could be avoided with a single sentence. Maybe that's realistic, heaven knows people in real life hate having hard talks, but here it made all the drama feel cheap.
Still worth a watch though. This is the kind of shit I want to see Netflix putting out.
The animation is basically Baby's First Spider-verse, which is not at all an insult. Gorgeous movie with a great soundtrack. I kinda dismissed Timothee Chalamet (or whatever his name is) as the new teenage girl thirst trap, but the dude killed it as one of the main character's crackhead friends.
That said, in classic Netflix fashion, all tension and conflict in the movie relies on miscommunication. I fucking hate that really, everything could be avoided with a single sentence. Maybe that's realistic, heaven knows people in real life hate having hard talks, but here it made all the drama feel cheap.
Still worth a watch though. This is the kind of shit I want to see Netflix putting out.
Watched Saw 3 with my brother for our October watchathon. Overall, it's the weakest of the trilogy, mostly because the main character kind of sucks as a person, but the ultimate conclusion was satisfying, with a pretty neat twist, and the movie overall serves as a flawed but more than decent finale. And that's how I treat the Saw movies: a trilogy. Maybe I'll allow Jigsaw.
Aside from the first two movies, I can't stomach the sequels anymore. Way too depressing and the plot twist it really stupid. I stopped caring after the fifth movie.
Mortal Kombat Legends: Snow Blind
Decent enough movie, better than Battle for the Realm but not quite as good as Scorpion’s Revenge.
The fight scenes were pretty cool without delving too deep into cartoonishly exaggerated gore and blood, though they were bloody and gory.
I did have one issue with the ending though.
Decent enough movie, better than Battle for the Realm but not quite as good as Scorpion’s Revenge.
The fight scenes were pretty cool without delving too deep into cartoonishly exaggerated gore and blood, though they were bloody and gory.
I did have one issue with the ending though.
In the movie Kano has gotten a hold of Kronika’s hourglass and has rewritten history to cause a global apocalypse and make himself a power cyborg king. After he is killed, the heroes (Kenshin, Scorpion, and old man Sub-Zero) destroy the hourglass without erasing tge apocalypse that Kano created. They just leave Earth utterly fucked up with countless innocent people tortured, mutilated and murdered. They didn’t even try to fix things.
Teen Titans Go! See Space Jam (5/10)
I'm...really not sure how to evaluate this.
Basically, the Titans and Nerdlucks give Space Jam the Mystery Science Theatre 3000 treatment as some kind of tie-in to the recent Space Jam movie that, from what I've heard, no-one liked. So am I evaluating the TTG stuff, or the Space Jam stuff?
Well, whatever. It doesn't particuarly work in either case. The roasting fades away towards the end, but you're still not getting the full movie. On the other hand, the TTG stuff isn't that compelling, though there's some humorous bits, such as when they access the old Space Jam website. TBH, I quitte liked Teen Titans Go! to the Movies, which worked as a parody, but this was just meh.
I'm...really not sure how to evaluate this.
Basically, the Titans and Nerdlucks give Space Jam the Mystery Science Theatre 3000 treatment as some kind of tie-in to the recent Space Jam movie that, from what I've heard, no-one liked. So am I evaluating the TTG stuff, or the Space Jam stuff?
Well, whatever. It doesn't particuarly work in either case. The roasting fades away towards the end, but you're still not getting the full movie. On the other hand, the TTG stuff isn't that compelling, though there's some humorous bits, such as when they access the old Space Jam website. TBH, I quitte liked Teen Titans Go! to the Movies, which worked as a parody, but this was just meh.