I was intrigued by this and but had no time so I only caught the first 5mins of it last night. Plan to watch the whole movie this weekend. Fuck, there’s some messed up “British 70’s B horror trash trying to pass itself off as an European arthouse flick” kind of shit going on right there lol. Good shit. The soundtrack alone is amazing. Fucking amazing.
Ease up, I love that movie - there can be only one.
Disclaimer: I haven’t seen it since I was a young teen, I’ve seen it one time and there may have been a girl involved. My judgement may have been clouded
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I had to watch it twice to understand the plot. Once I understood the plot I got really mad at myself for watching it twice.
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Understand… The first Highlander was/is on my all times list.
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I watched Train to Busan 2 and I hated every minute of it. 1.5/10
The House That Jack Built
Wanted to watch Tenet but couldn’t get tickets so I watched The House That Jack Built at home. I wanted to complete Possum but my wife wouldn’t watch it with me because the music freaked her out.
Movie about a serial killer recounting his kills to Virgil while he’s being escorted to hell. What could go wrong?
Then I saw Lar Von Trier’s name in the opening credits and thought, “Oh fuck nooooo…” but I couldn’t turn it off since my wife was watching it too. The only movie he’s made that I could sit through without wanting to rip my teeth out was that one with Bjork and the dude that played the Russian guy in Bad Boys 2. And that’s only because I was high.
A movie about a serial killer replaying his kills in graphic detail is fine, but weird ass 70’s exploitation movie music freaks her out. Women…
So we watch The House That Jack Built. It looks promising. No silly, self-indulgant arthouse pretension going on. Matt Dillion picks up an irritating chick by the side of the road asking for help because her car broke down and she starts passive aggressively demeaning his manhood for no reason, which is probably because he’s doing the narration so we’ve seeing all this from his own twisted POV.
Then he smashes her face in with a car jack. Cut to a scene of a young Glen Gould playing Bach(Glen Gould rocks. Literally.) as Matt Dillion proclaims himself as both an artist and an architect, like the pianist and the composer whose work is being played.
Alright. This is going well so far.
Then a chick gets her tits cut off and my wife wants me to turn it off. LOLOLOLOLOL.
Women… I tried to tell her about the clit removal scene in Von Trier’s Anti-Christ but no they don’t listen…
So I didn’t get to finish this movie. Nor did I get to watch Possum. But I was entertained. My apologies to Mr Von Trier. I’ll catch his future movies plus this one when I can.
The Mothman Prophecies
I didn’t infer from the title that this was literally about a “Mothman” delivering “prophecies” about impending disasters, and to Richard Gere of all people because I’m dumb as fuck. It’s like Batman with a sense of humor jumping out of the shadows in front of a moping Gary Oldman and going “BOO!” half the time. Turned it off after 30mins because I already watched Knowing.
Knowing was directed by the dude that directed The Crow and Dark City and NICHOLAS CAGE was in it. The whole world blew up while his kids were taken away by a bunch of Paul Bettany lookalikes on an extra-terrestrial Ark to another planet to become the new Adam and Eve.
Can’t see this coming anywhere close to that because it’s a fucking Richard Gere movie. If you’re going to have a ludicrous premise, at least be prepared to go all the way. Knowing rocks.
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Every time I’ve wandered into a late night showing of The Mothman Prophecies, I have watched until the end…
Also, I have become a South Korean drama series addict -I see a pretty face, I watch it.
Hmmm, this is probably more of a flame free confession post…
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My kids wanted to watch G-Force, so I indulged them. Was the worst movie I’ve ever seen. I’m not expecting to really enjoy a movie about Guinea Pig FBI Agents, but I thought Zack Galifiniakis, Nicholas Cage, Sam Rockwell, Will Arnett, and a hundred other unnecessary stars could give me one single laugh. Just one. I didn’t get it. Laziest writing ever.
0/10
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My wife and I just finished Guns Akimbo. I liked it. Totally ridiculous, but it was exactly what I imagined, and it did what it was supposed to do. 7/10.
My wife watches them all day. I guess there aren’t many alternatives. HK dramas suck these days. I can’t believe the last great HK series was 16 YEARS AGO(The Conqueror’s Story. Mindblowing.). China dramas are rubbish. Japanese dramas are just weird. I think they’re having some sort of existential crisis within an existential crisis.
Then she laughs at me for watching Japanese cartoons.
You know what? I may just start rewatching this.
This was essentially a greek tragedy on uber steroids executed with so much black humor I can’t imagine how it ever got made.
The OPENING SCENE shows Adam Cheng(The Romantic Swordsman. My childhood hero) throwing his 3 grown sons one by off a building as they scream and beg while the protagonist is sitting in an office in the same building watching them fall in succession right in the window in front of him as he raises a glass of champagne to several photos of relatives on his desk, each with a glass of champagne in front of them, and nonchalantly says something like, “2 down. 2 to go.” Then it cuts to the past.
HK dramas and cinema don’t get better than this.
You know you’re in for a fucked up ride when it comes to Lars von Trier. I’ve seen all his films, and Antichrist was by far my favorite - and not just cus he got his balls bashed by a 2x4 and she jerks him off to ejaculate blood. Gotta be in the right fucked up mood for his movies though.
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You Should Have Left (2020)
There are certain types of horror movies that bore me to tears with twist endings that make me go, “I sat through all that crap for THIS?”, but everyone else seems to like.
This movie is one of them. I wanted to turn it off. My wife was hooked to the screen. Some previous examples include Dark Waters(the Japanese version. I’ve not see the US remake) and The Others(that Nicole Kidman movie). The latter is far more well made than this movie, though, and I would probably have enjoyed it more if they hadn’t advertised it as a “horror movie” and beefed up the plot a bit with less focus on setting up the final twist. I tried to sit through the Japanese version of The Ring twice but I fell asleep both times. At least the US version had a couple of JUMP SCARES!
So, if you like boring horror movies with twist endings that you can probably see coming 10mins in, this movie is for you. It’s a 2/10 for me.
Other could have done so much more with this movie. I wasn’t riveted but I enjoyed the premise.
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Yeah I just get pissed off thinking we have much excellent stuff that was made for TV stuff like American Horror Story and The Haunting of Hill House and this is what they expect us to pay money to watch on the big screen( I mean, it was definitely made for a cinematic release but the COVID thing put a stop to that).
Haunting of Hill House was just…so fucking good.
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Watched the new Child’s Play, aka IT lite, eh, okay, I got some laughs and enjoyed some of the gore. 5/10.
Creed II - I enjoyed Creed, thought it was great. The second one was not nearly as good, but still enjoyable. I guess now is as good of a time as any to try to rekindle the anti-Russian propaganda of the '80s, but it doesn’t pack the same punch, the plot didn’t change at all from the old one, not enough steroid needles were fired off in the middle of the screen. 6/10.
I watched it and I thought it was made from a shitty script that Black Mirror rejected. Come on. Some genius in a sweat shop in Vietnam manages to reprogram an AI making it more advanced than the T-1000, and he’s working in a sweatshop? They’ve obviously never contracted any tech freelancers from there.
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Watched The Exorcism of Molly Hartley. I’m the kind of person who will watch any exorcism movie you throw at me. Shit, I even sat through the entirety of that awful one starring Timothy Dalton. But this movie was dumb enough for it to be a little entertaining.
This is supposed to be a sequel to The Haunting of Molly Hartley. I don’t remember anything from the first movie but I thought it probably didn’t suck too hard since there’s a sequel. I WAS WRONG.
There’s full frontal nudity and a threesome involving Molly and 2 other participants after a pretty lame intro scene featuring an exorcism gone wrong. Which would normally be a good sign. Then Molly gets possessed and kills them.
This is part of the dialogue in the police interrogation scene:
“So, did YOU kill them?”
Molly retorts with a growl using her both her upper and lower vocal chords or whatever they’re called
“Well, if YOU didn’t, WHO DID?”
Genius. Fucking genius.
Then she gets thrown in a mental asylum where she’s treated by the dumbest psychiatrist in horror movie history. Despite having her notes thrown forcefully out of her hands and pushed around by some unseen force, and having green pee soup puked all over her in an amount not even remotely humanly possible(which was even funnier than a similar scene in Scary Movie 2), she’s still trying to convince Molly that this possession thing is something her mind made up to account for her guilt for her father’s death or something.
At this point I had to consult wiki because I couldn’t remember what happened in the first movie, Molly had apparently died in a miscarriage. Then her parents made a pact with the Devil which stated that he would bring her back to life but they could only have her until she reached 18, then her soul would belong to him.
Well, now she’s 26 and there’s some silly crap about the coming of the 6th day of the 6 minute of the 6th Rocky sequel when she’s going to be fully possessed or something and it’s up to the dumbass psychiatrist and the ex-priest who fucked up the exorcism in the intro to stop it from happening.
I’m gonna give this a 3.5/10 only because of all the unintentionally funny scenes. Shit, there’s even a scene of a woman jumping off a building ripped right out of The Omen without any context. They show the full jump from a single wide shot with her landing with a “splat!” and you can clearly see in middle of the scene the exact point when the she was substituted with a dummy in post production.
For those interested… they just dropped the 2nd season of the Boys on Amazon. Just 3 episodes for clarification… it appears that several of the streaming services are getting away from dumping full seasons of their orgional programming.
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