Last night I watched Dead Poets Society. I thought it was too heavy handed. Also, Kurtwood Smith has looked the same since the 80s (he is in this one and Rambo 2). I know this movie gets overall good reviews, but I just couldn’t get into it. I’ll give it a 6.3/10.
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I gotta admit he did half ass his last scene.
Seriously, they did the same thing in a movie called Terrifier. And it was FUNNY. Shows the difference between great direction and not that good direction(the overall movie wasn’t too bad).
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If you guys haven’t watched the movie and want to know what we’re joking about, search for “bone tomahawk scene split” on youtube. It’s VERY graphic and gory so I don’t know if I’m breaking any site rules by posting it here. Regardless, I don’t wanna post it on this site even if it’s ok.
I watched the Wrong Turn remake. It was kinda lacklustre. They lost the camp factor and decided to go even more serious than the original movie(the franchise only started the silliness after the first one). But since there’s a little better filmmaking here, there’s no unintended camp that was in the original. There’s no hot screaming chick in a tight singlet either.
The problem here is we’ve all seen this movie before and it’s not well made enough to elevate it much over the older stuff. And they lack the skill to pull off the stuff they decided to add in to make the movie look like it had something more to offer than the run of the mill slasher flick.
Dumb upper middle class city kids drive into a hick town, make fun of the “dumb” locals, decide to go on a hike through the woods despite the locals telling them not to and get killed.
Here, they decide to put a spin on the usual story by replacing the normal crazed killers with a crazy cult that has lived out there since before the American Civil War because their forefathers anticipated the falling of society. So the traps they run into are actually meant for animals the cult hunts for food.
But, hey, this ain’t Midsommar. It’s the same old standard genre shit all over again once they get captured when one idiot kills a cult member who was actually trying to help him when he gets caught in a trap, just that they tried to combine 2 different plots from the same genre using the same old tropes and failed.
But I do give them props for trying to do something new and commit to it resorting to the usual self-aware nonsense and I think the director may have potential. But in this one, I was bored out of my mind even with some graphic gore that was pretty well done.
5/10
OMG…
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It’s rated R!
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Bad dialogue:
“It’s a birthmark.”
“What do you mean?”
“He was born with it.”
HAHAHAHAHA
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Joe Taslim (The Night Comes for Us) is in it.
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The Japanese dude Hollywood always uses when they need a Japanese dude who’s not the one from Godzilla is in it.
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Sonya Blade is still hot and has tits. They didn’t pull a fucking Tomb Raider on her.
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It’s rated R!
I take it you haven’t watched Robocop.
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It’s gonna suck for sure yet I’ll have to watch it.
Same with Snyder’s cut of Justice League, it just came out. I’m sure it’ll be a 4h shitstorm but what choices do I have here? Not watch it? How?
I’ve seen it. Didn’t remember him being in it.
I watched around 1/3 of it last night. I gotta admit it’s pretty good so far. It’s nothing like the last one. I know that defies logic but I guess Zack Snyder can do some good things with a proper script. He’s great at visuals.
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I’m pretty excited to see it. Joe Taslim is a badass.
The other guy is the guy from Wu Warriors and The Raid:
Joe Taslim was in The Raid 1 but they didn’t give him much of a role.
Just catched “Color Out of Space” on the telly. Description said it was a sci fi movie based based on a H. P. Lovecraft short stoy.
Seemed like your typical run of the mill bullshit, meteorite crashes near this family’s front yard living out in the sticks, strange things start happening…meh…right?
Wrong! It gets good, scary good. Don’t wanna spoil anything but typical this movie wasn’t. I give it a 7/10.
Tommy Chong plays an off the grid hippie. This might surprise you, but he pulls it off masterfully.
Nicolas Cage didn’t reach his full potential until he dealt with the alpacas, from then on he was in top Nic Cage form.
I hate not watching a movie in one sitting, kind of ruins it for me. I’ll have to find 4 hours so I’m happy to hear it’s good (better).
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Yeah, I watched it too expecting something silly. It really wasn’t bad. Definitely not for a mainstream audience, though.
I don’t know how the rest is going to be like. At this time, all I can say is the fucking movie could have been reduced to 3 hours without the redundant slow mo shit and I can see why they wanted to add some humor into it. Ben Affleck plays Sad Batman. Not Brooding Batman. Not Angry Batman. Fucking Sad Batman. There’s also too much background music going on and it gets irritating after a while.
But it’s still a lot better than the first one.
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He’s one of those directors that chooses style over substance. The Batman vs Superman flick was crap, but the warehouse scene was the best batman scene ever on film.
I did like his Dawn of the Dead remake, but I never watched the original.
Oh, and 300 was alright.
But yeah, I agree with you, he is able to deliver if he is handed a good script.
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He’s like Robert Rodriguez without the constant need to depict a sense of grandeur.
Agreed. I liked THAT Batman. And at the expense of pissing fanboys off, I didn’t like Christian Bale’s Batman though I liked The Dark Knight a lot. I didn’t like the other 2 movies in the trilogy. The Dark Knight Rises was a bloody 2 hr joke. Dude got his back fixed because some mystical dude punched him in the spine at the right place? He survived a nuclear explosion that was supposed to be almost as powerful as the one dropped on Hiroshima with a couple of seconds lead time to bail? Even detonating the bomb in the water didn’t send a fucking bigass tsunami at Gotham even at that distance? Really? People took that shit seriously?
It’s like that silly “drop the payload” in zero gravity scene in The Last Jedi
#canceldt79
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I’ve watched the raid, but unfortunately I’m not really familiar with any of those guys. Other than guys who have been in mainstream movies like Chow Yun Fat, the only Asian actor I’m familiar with is Tony Jaa from Ong-Bak (but I guess that is mainstream enough).
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I think those guys are only popular in Indonesia. Just showing you guys how badass Joe Taslim is cos I watched The Night Comes for Us. Maybe you’ll enjoy Mortal Kombat more. Even most people in other countries in Asia don’t know who they are. I can’t even remember the name of the guy from Wu Warriors, which was a US TV series.
Shit, I can’t even remember the name of that Japanese dude I mentioned and he’s been in Hollywood movies from The Last Samurai to Sunshine to The Wolverine. That’s almost 20 years of acting in big budget Hollywood movies and I don’t even know his name lol. I know Ken Watanabe’s(Godzilla) name cos he was pretty big in Japan for a period of time.
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Afleck was the best Batman so far. I’m kind of pissed they didn’t make at least one solo Batman movie with him in the lead.
Keaton was second best for me.
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He got to use Frank Miller’s best Batman’s style and story, though. If they ever really take a shot at The Dark Knight Returns, hopefully they use Mickey Rourke as old Batman. He was the best Marv I coulda asked for in Sin City.
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Batman’s getting so boring. I wanna see Denzel play an old, angry Batman yelling at the people living in Gotham like his character in Training Day:
“You disloyal fool-ass bitch made punks! I run shit around here! You just live here! I’m gonna burn this motherfucker down!”
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Now that’s one guy who could pull off older Batman AND the Joker. In the same movie.
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