It’s PG-13 saw… The saw films (aside from the first two) were crap, but the gore/torture scenes brought people back as humans tend to have a macabre interest in all that is evil
Why on earth would anyone ever watch a PG version of saw?
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The last chucky film ‘cult of Chucky’ was exceedingly dark… I don’t know why they did that.
Glad to hear the series has revived some of the humour.
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Just saw a Mashable headline exclaiming Ghostbusters: Afterlife as a “soulless ode to nepotism” … that shit just makes me want to see it more
I’ve started watching Seinfeld and I’m re-watching how I met your mother.
That is all
Orphan Black. This series is phenomenal, and I’m surprised no one’s mentioned it here. It was filmed in Toronto and produced by BBC America, which is possibly why I didn’t hear about it til four years after it ended.
It has five seasons, each with ten, 45-minute episodes. While the last two felt a little rushed, the series as a whole was gripping. While visiting with family, I overheard parts of the first three episodes playing in the background. I was hooked. All I’ll relate here is the opening scene.
A young woman rushes out to catch her train, barely missing it. While waiting for the next one, she notices another woman standing near the tracks. The other woman takes off her shoes and sets down her purse, then turns to face the first lady. They look identical. The second woman’s face is filled with despair. She purposefully steps in front of an oncoming train.
The first woman runs to the scene, picks up the purse, and is swept up in her life.
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I watched this 2018 version this past weekend. I don’t really know what to make of it other than there were some plot holes. the part where the doctor becomes a murderer didn’t really add anything to the film.
Maybe because I haven’t actually seen the original this one was lost on me.
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I watched this when it originally came out. I thought Tatiana Mazlany was amazing.
I eventually lost interest though because I find it increasingly difficult to follow extended and convoluted plot lines. I’d start to forget what was happening. I think it devolved for me when they ended up on that secret island.
My favourite iteration of Leda was her as soccer mom.
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She was! Her acting skills are superb.
Makes sense. There are lots of subplots that I would’ve forgotten if I were watching one episode a week. I binged the show on weekends for a month, watching a season a weekend, so I was able to stick with the plot. Seasons four and five felt rushed a little, but the directions they took some characters were really good.
She was hilarious! They later introduced one who was a stylist; she rivaled the soccer mom’s amusing personality. I call her Malibu Barbie 
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I watched the original but I’ve forgotten most of it. The doctor in that movie was aiding the cops and hellbent on killing Michael because he was the “embodiment of evil” or something. I don’t know why he was stalking Laurie but in part 2 they established he was his sister or cousin or something and in later sequels he was going about killing all his family members.
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It’s getting even funnier. I’m hooked.
If anyone has kids, watch the “Maya and the Three” miniseries on Netflix. It’s rocking 100% on Rotten Tomatoes at the moment, and I can see why.
Animation, voice acting, story - all on point and divided into 9 ~30min episodes.
9/10.
Rewatched the original Halloween from ‘78. Love it. Cinematography on point.
8/10.
Continuing through watching all the purge movies. The third one, Election Year, was just…awful. I started out typing a description of it and realized it wasn’t worth the wear and tear on my thumbs.
0.5/10
Sweet Girl (netflix) - great twist in the plot. Worth a viewing.
I didn’t like any of the purge films.
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Watched Children of the Corn for the first time the other night. Man that was hilarious.
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Watched Invisible Man (the new one with Elizabeth Moss) last night. Better than many of the movies in the genre I have watched lately with a good build up of tension. Movie was scoring quite high until the last 5 minutes. The ending was predictable and lacked the strength of the rest of the film.
8/10 mostly due to the ending.
I don’t know if I ever mentioned that the wife and I watched the new Dune. Not half bad, and obviously more doable as a two-part movie.
6.5/10
Rewatched Kill Bill (vol. 1) on a whim last night. Just as awesome as the first time I saw it.
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How the fuck did they manage to make Venom 2 SUCK MUCH MORE THAN PART 1??? The bar was already so low Uwe Boll could have made a better movie. Yeah, I dug Return of the King. Sue me.
I can’t believe it was written by the star of this movie. Usually, when this happens, it results in a movie that’s more character driven like what Ed Norton tried to do with The Incredible Hulk. That would have been a lot more interesting and Tom Hardy would have the chance to display his FUCKING AWESOME ACTING SKILLS. Why would you employ a fucking thespian like him and not use him for this? The first Iron Man worked not just because it was a competent action flick. They also knew how to make use of Robert Downey Jr’s talents.
This movie has double the CGI than the first and it sucked balls, a stupid fucking theme that was on the verge of doing something clever like exploring the symbiotic relationship of someone living with an extra-terrestrial parasite that does not completely understand human morality with a hint that a similar duality MAY exist between him and the main villain until said villain gets a parasite of his own but it went absolutely nowhere, shitty CGI and then even more shitty CGI.
And I’m very fucking sure there was no part of the movie that tried to explore the aforementioned theme that was filmed and left on the the cutting room floor to focus on the crappy CGI shit because, unlike The Incredible Hulk, the writing just isn’t smart enough.
-1/10 = Don’t watch it unless you’re getting paid to do so
And I’ll even give away the fucking pre-credits ending that was the only interesting thing that happens so you don’t waste your time:
Tom Hardy is whining that despite their “relationship”, he knows balls about Venom’s past life. As an extra-terrestrial being who’s lived for several millennia and seen and been through lots of interstellar shit, Venom tells him it would be so incomprehensible to his primitive mind that his head would explode if he showed him what he’s seen throughout his lifetime.
But he does it any way.
When this happens, they somehow end up being transported into the Marvel Universe right at the time of the news report featuring J.K Simmons on the TV at the end of the last Spiderman movie.
Do you need to know anything about the book or the original movie to follow the plot? I know nothing about either.
The book is worth reading. It’s one of the great science fiction novels, IMO. I can’t in good conscience say “don’t read it”, but no, you don’t have to to read the book to understand the movie.
The '84 adaptation is 100% not necessary to see, and was a disaster. Mostly because Dune is like 800 pages and trying to condense that into a movie is stupid. Dennis Villeneuve stated his intention to make it into 2 movies from the get-go, which is why this works well. That, and CGI being what it is these days.
I do think you can watch it and read the book and have them as separate entities, but if you’re going to read the book, do it first - I find that images from the movie invade my imagination when I’m trying to read a book after seeing it’s film adaptation.
If you’re not going to read the book, watch away - the races and storyline can be a teeny bit convoluted at times but it’s easy enough to follow.
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Thanks! I only watched people play the game when I was working in a LAN shop for a short period of time but I never played it. All I really remember is there are 3 Houses fighting for spice and the Ordos are “insidious” since I had to look up the word in the dictionary at the time and there are lots of sandworms or something like that LMAO.
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