I’ve started S2, far more graphic than the already risque and infrequently graphically violent season 1.
I’ve noted the British guy has the mouth of an Australian. He uses very crude terminology.
Karl Urban is an Aussie, I believe.
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Watched 30 days of night.
Nothing special, decent for a horror film. Mainstream horror flicks generally aren’t quite as grotesque as the older slasher flicks, vampire flicks and torture porn flicks pre 2010.
Movies like the conjuring appear to be the new standard/precedent which is unfortunate. I prefer my horror films NOT being even remotely appropriate for children.
The first Conjuring movie was great IMO. The rest were rubbish although The Nun was so hilariously bad it was kinda good.
My brother and I watched Nobody a few weeks ago and loved it. Concur with your rating. The bus fight scene was chef’s kiss
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The Wicked
Sucks. Big time.
Even bad horror movies have some kind of rules and more or less stick to them when it comes to whatever evil entity is involved. This one sets them up, then completely disregards everything. Which is why nothing in it is scary since you just end up confused or irritated when you’re supposed to be scared.
1/10.
As you seem to be a big horror movie fan, but constantly seem to ridicule and roll your eyes at them, what are 3 horror movies that legitimately made you shit your pants and get cold sweats at every shadow thereafter?
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Last night I watched Rope (1948). This movie is based on the Leopold and Loeb thrill murder from the 20s. I was surprised this one was in color given the production year. The whole movie was shot in one room. It relies on the story and characters. One critique on this film is that the actual story might actually be more interesting than the film. The acting by the two murderers was a bit heavy handed IMO. James Stewart was pretty good though.
I kinda wish they would have had a portion of this film go towards a trial scene as in the actual case, the trial was epic (probably the second most famous Clarence Darrow defense, the first being the Scopes trial). I’ll give this one a 7/10.
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My favorite Hitchcock movie.
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I just saw a couple Hitchcock movies.
Grace Kelly makes “Rear Window” really watchable.
“Vertigo” does a great job capturing the character and feel of '50s San Francisco. It’s pretty OK too.
I like this one too. Some good looking ladies in the Hitchcock movies. I think this one is on par with Rope. I like Psycho a bit more than these two though. I have Vertigo, North by North West on my watch list.
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Hamlet starring Mel Gibson.
Seriously, I’ve never really gotten scared watching horror movies after 12 years old other than ones with religious content. I normally watch them for the lolz because I don’t like most comedies. I lmao-ed at Texas Chainsaw Massacre when I watched it at 12. Shit, I started rooting for the bad guys like Freddy and Pinhead by that age.
Nowadays horror movies just aren’t fun anymore. All they do is try to pull off jump scares.
The last horror movie that I really liked was The Conjuring. It’s a modern day classic IMO. Train to Busan (South Korea) was pretty good.
The only one that really scared me when I was an adult was the original Dawn of the Dead. And it wasn’t the horror element. It was it’s depiction of the human condition.
The ones that scared me when I was a kid:
- Haunted Cop Shop (HK)
- Mr Vampire 4 (HK)
- The Evil Dead
- A Nightmare on Elm Street 4
The first 2 ARE intentional horror comedies but I watched them when I was 8 IIRC. I loved the old HK ones. Lam Ching Ying was one of my favorite actors at the time.
For Western movies, I like both good and bad ones and even the shitty ones from The Exorcist to Demons (Italy) to Warlock 2. The first 3 Hellraisers were cool.
Good short film:
We watched this a few weeks ago. I loved it and hope there are more with his character. I can’t comment on the script because I generally don’t pay much attention. This is the type of movie I was in the mood for and it definitely delivered.
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I think I’ll just compare it to John Wick since it’s essentially the same plot.
John Wick is a retired assassin. Some kid who’s the son of a Russian mobster kills his dog, which brings him out of retirement and a killing spree ensues. Things consistently escalate.
Simple story.
Escalation occurs organically and each plot point advances the plot while gradually giving us more information about him and showing us an interesting underground world of assassins.
It all flows naturally despite it’s simplicity.
Compare it with this movie and you’ll get why I think the script needed work. Nothing really flows.
The instigating factor was a random burglary. The additional info about the burglars was pointless and unnecessary since we never see them again. If they had showed up at the end to help him out or give him information or something, then it would have been justified.
He could have disabled them without seriously injuring them even if the point was to establish that he didn’t want to hit the chick with the golf club because he saw the gun was unloaded. I get that the intent was to show that he has a very special set of skills acquired over a very long career but the fact that he didn’t do anything was unconvincing since his son was involved, which diluted the ramifications of his inaction with regards to his relationship with this son after that.
Saul Goodman’s brush with the Russian mob was a chance encounter because a bunch of idiots crashed their car and boarded a bus he just happened to be on AFTER he decided to get back into action and let off the original people who made him do so in the first place.
This was also after we still had so many questions about why he had such a bad relationship with his family, which isn’t really explored. Maybe if they’d cast Mr White instead I’d have kinda gone along with it lol.
You see? Nothing flows. It’s all just one random encounter followed by another one. And then his relationship with his family is somehow fixed because they find out he’s actually a badass even though they have to go into hiding and get their house and all their possessions blown up.
The worst part was when they just killed off the Black Russian mobster while Saul Goodman was delivering exposition about his past, which was also delivered at the wrong time in the movie. Why even introduce him at the start as if he was going to play a pivotal role if they were going to kill him off like it was a joke?
They didn’t explore it, but it seemed fairly obvious. The wife knew about him, by the way - it was that he had had too many bad experiences being a badass, and after having his kids, he settled into being a quiet, non-confrontational person, taking shit at work, taking shit from strangers, and he was so removed from the life that once he figured out that the gun the robber was holding was empty, he didn’t even want to hurt the robber, so that turned him from a boring dad into a total pussy, and his son wanted nothing to do with him. His daughter loved him, and still felt safe with him the whole time. His wife and him had obviously long ago stopped having sex because he wasn’t the guy she married. The relationship was fixed because he went from provider to protector. All seemed pretty straightforward.
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I just think it wasn’t fleshed out enough. I did give it a 7/10.
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Haha, I also may have read too much into it. No worries, I live for your movie reviews dude.
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Much appreciated.
IMO they shouldn’t even have made their relationship that way in the first place. Just depict a normal family but show him bored with this kind of life. It took time away from developing the other characters like his father and brother.
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So, the relationship with the kids - the son being kind of bored with his dad and then pissed at him, that made sense. The daughter still looking up to her daddy as her protector - that made sense too. But the wife, who KNEW about his past (patching him up without much of a question, etc.), being a barren wasteland of indifference and shitting on him, when she knows he’s a badass and is obviously trying to just be a dad without murdering people in front of his children - that made absolutely no sense. I guess it was just contributing to his boiling point.
Also, yeah - how the fuck do you not develop Christopher Lloyd as a murderous grandpa?
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