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Medullah posted:There were others that were okay, and all had some good moments, but overall they were very predictable and generic horror stories. My best description is that they're good for when you have other things to do, because you don't have to pay *that much* attention and can duck in and out and not miss much.
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Oh hell yes! I think I know what I'm doing tonight instead of playing Stellaris on my Playstation again.
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I thought Hold the Dark was alright, but I haven't felt the need to revisit it like Green Room or Blue Ruin.
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I have not watched it, but I don't really want to either. The problem with Nurse Ratched is that she was more of a symptom and not the disease itself. The trailer just turned me off because it makes her out to be sinister right off the bat.
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punk rebel ecks posted:Not to mention that she just seems like a straight up comic book villain. In the film she was an employee who was every bit as institutionalized as the people she cared for. Right, I mean there could technically be a story there. A young idealistic nurse with a head full of dreams of doing good getting slowly ground down to become the villain we know. The problem with that is that it would difficult for it to not become misery porn by that part.
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Desperado Bones posted:Has someone watched Books of Blood? Lots of the reviews I looked around are saying it isn't good. Watched it last night, it was OK. Felt more like a TV pilot that got expanded into a movie. The first story was the most fleshed out, and you can basically cut two blink and you miss it, scenes from it and it's completely standalone. The second story was probably the best one, but it was just too out of place IMHO. Also, the title indicates that there are more than one Book of Blood, which is blatantly false advertising 
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Oct 8, 2020 18:08
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Why do they jump over the shoe to get to the end?
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Oct 22, 2020 19:18
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Maxwell Lord posted:Yeah Midnight Sky didn’t work for me. For something based on a book it felt very weirdly padded. There are a lot of scenes of the spaceship crew just chatting unaware that home’s gone and all their loved ones are dead. Yeah we get the irony. And the film seems to forestall the revelation artificially, first the asteroid storm, then the long spacewalk scene which takes a long time to get to the inevitable tragedy (and of course the black woman buys it), and eventually they just see it out the window which takes some of the urgency out of Clooney’s rush to get to warn them. To be honest, it just didn't work as a movie for me either. It just felt like they had two scripts laying around that were half finished, and then they put them together, and it was still half a movie with no satisfying conclusion. I never read the book, so maybe it just worked better as a book, but either half would have worked better as a movie if they were separated and had a happy ending.
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Escape from New York is definitely better, but I have a huge soft spot for Escape from LA, mostly because I saw it first, in a theater, and thought it was awesome
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Jolo posted:Uncle Ben makes for a pretty good villain as the forever President who has banned smoking, drinking, drugs, and premarital sex. The future that Mike Pence dreams of
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Feb 19, 2021 21:54
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feedmyleg posted:I feel like that's true for pretty much everyone who was big in the 90s these days. Looking through any former action star's last decade or two is pretty sad. The big stars of the 70's were probably going straight to video by the 90's, it's just the way things work.
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Mar 1, 2021 20:02
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Shageletic posted:That movie loving vacated my head. I remember enjoying Palm Springs at the time, but  Boss Level was at least a fun punchy/stabby/shooty movie.
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Mar 10, 2021 14:25
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feedmyleg posted:It's the scope and scale. The original run of MST3K was great because it felt like (/was) a public access show with limited resources which had to make up for it with a lot of creativity. The Comedy Central version was able to mostly maintain that scrappy/DIY feel. The more polished it gets the less interesting it gets. The Netflix version has very much felt like a manufactured product in comparison to either previous run. A few years back I tried watching some of the older episodes of MST3K when they started showing up on YouTube, and they really didn't hold my interest the way they did when I was 13. I tried watching the Netflix run and it was a big "nope" for me. I will say that I really do miss the outsider art that was public access television.
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Nihonniboku posted:I haven't seen it in well over 20 years, but it came out around the same time as the Tommy Lee Jones film Volcano about a volcano erupting in downtown LA. I remember liking Volcano better than Dante's Peak as a kid. I'm sure neither one wholds up very well. To be honest, I only remember that Volcano's Tagline was "The Coast is Toast." And that's only because one of my friends back in High School used to add "bitch" to every sentence, so it will forever be "The Coast is Toast, bitch" to me
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