Recently Watched Movies

[Jigsaw]

Watched The Entity (1982) earlier.

Been many years since I last saw it, and I think it's still pretty decent, though possibly a bit longer than necessary.

[Slaughterhouserock]

Willy's Wonderland. Fuck me that was hilarious. Cage doesn't speak at all through the whole thing. Just gives looks of pure annoyance. The only thing he gives a shit about is a pinball machine he keeps playing. I can't state just how good this is, fucking watch it.

[Slaughterhouserock]

Lapsis. Weird, but interesting film essentially about corporate greed. Nothing is resolved in the end, and I'm not sure what the point of alot of the subplots were, but it kept me interested.

[Slaughterhouserock]

Wrong Turn remake. Besides the setup of kids go in the woods, kids find the locals, it's a completely different film. Worth a watch, though I'm not thrilled with the ending.

[Monster]

Wrong Turn remake. Besides the setup of kids go in the woods, kids find the locals, it's a completely different film. Worth a watch, though I'm not thrilled with the ending.

So it doesn't beat you over the head with social commentary? The trailer had me worried. I don't care which side it's coming from, I don't need that shit.

[Slaughterhouserock]

So it doesn't beat you over the head with social commentary? The trailer had me worried. I don't care which side it's coming from, I don't need that shit.

It's there, but it's not preachy. I mean, it's a gay couple, a bi-racial couple, and the white couple(who are annoying). There's shit talking between local rednecks and the kids, but that's pretty standard. Honestly, everyone dies fast enough that none of it really matters. There is a speech at one point, but it's short, and more about how society is shit than anything. Mostly it's just kids go in the woods, kids get dead, with a side plot of the dad looking for his daughter.

Keep in mind, I ignore any sort of commentary if at all possible, so it might be more noticeable to you.

[Monster]

So it doesn't beat you over the head with social commentary? The trailer had me worried. I don't care which side it's coming from, I don't need that shit.

It's there, but it's not preachy. I mean, it's a gay couple, a bi-racial couple, and the white couple(who are annoying). There's shit talking between local rednecks and the kids, but that's pretty standard. Honestly, everyone dies fast enough that none of it really matters. There is a speech at one point, but it's short, and more about how society is shit than anything. Mostly it's just kids go in the woods, kids get dead, with a side plot of the dad looking for his daughter.

Keep in mind, I ignore any sort of commentary if at all possible, so it might be more noticeable to you.

That sounds tolerable. The trailer's probably just trying to capitalize on current events. "Kids get dead" works for me.

[Slaughterhouserock]

School's Out Forever. A pandemic wipes out most of mankind, and the survivors turn out to be a bunch of assholes. Decent film showing how fucked up things can get, and how easy it is for people to go mental. Similar setup to the Governor attacking the prison in The Walking Dead, but it's essentially rednecks vs. kids.

[Dream]

Supervized.

I think I can say it's the Bubba Ho-tep of superhero movies (though not nearly as good.) I kind of love it.

[Reign in Blood]

Supervized.

I think I can say it's the Bubba Ho-tep of superhero movies (though not nearly as good.) I kind of love it.

Make me hard as a submarine. Want to hunt for red october?

Bout pissed myself harder than the fucker in the colonoscopy bag.

[Slaughterhouserock]

The Phantom Empire. Fred Olen Ray adventure/comedy that's basically Land of the Lost, Journey to the Center of the Earth, and all those types of films. There's human eating trogs, scantily clad women, an alien lady, dinosaurs, a robot, and Jeffrey Combs. They even try to make it relevant to the Cthulu mythos by calling the place R'lyeh, and Combs is from Miskatonic University. Fun film. At the end, there's a title card for a sequel called The Phantom Empire II: The Land Where Time Said Fuck It! Too bad they never made it.

[Slaughterhouserock]

Twice Dead. 80's ghost film that's actually pretty good. No jump scares or other typical ghost nonsense, just a ghost killing people. Also, it has the girl from Night of the Creeps in it, so that's cool.

[Slaughterhouserock]

Swiss Army Man. Seen it when it came out, but it's been awhile. You know within the first five minutes if you'll like it or not. Hilarious nonsense mixed with deeply depressing characters. I wish I could ride off on a farting Daniel Radcliffe to live in the woods, but life just doesn't work that way.

[Slaughterhouserock]

Coming to America 2. The plot is kinda meh and very cliched, but the humor is there. They crammed as much from the first film into this one as possible, so expect tons of throwbacks.

[Dream]

Coming to America 2. The plot is kinda meh and very cliched, but the humor is there. They crammed as much from the first film into this one as possible, so expect tons of throwbacks.

The plot was basically just a rehash of the first wasn't it? I mean, there were minor differences but it basically boiled down to royal arranged marriage to an heir that goes awry and falls for the commoner instead. The arranged marriage even fell apart for the same reason (lack of personality/individuality).

John Amos was underused and Wesley Snipes was a great addition. Could've used way less Leslie Jones and Tracy Morgan. But overall the jokes held up and the callbacks were pretty great without being overdone or seeming like pandering to the fans. I enjoyed it a lot even with the rehashed plot.

[Slaughterhouserock]

The plot was basically just a rehash of the first wasn't it? I mean, there were minor differences but it basically boiled down to royal arranged marriage to an heir that goes awry and falls for the commoner instead. The arranged marriage even fell apart for the same reason (lack of personality/individuality).

John Amos was underused and Wesley Snipes was a great addition. Could've used way less Leslie Jones and Tracy Morgan. But overall the jokes held up and the callbacks were pretty great without being overdone or seeming like pandering to the fans. I enjoyed it a lot even with the rehashed plot.

It's similar enough, which is why I said it's "meh". Considering the first one came out over thirty years ago, it's all cliched to death now.

And I agree about all of that. I've never been a fan of Jones, and she turned the annoying knob to eleven here, which didn't help. Morgan was alright, but yeah, both characters were one-dimensional.

[Reign in Blood]

The Little Things (HBO Max)

It’s pretty okay. We’re not breaking new ground here, older cop and younger cop chasing down a creepy killer. There’s a lot of Se7en going on here. It’s slow to start and never really gets going until the third act, which was pretty good. The three stars carry the film and they’re all good.

So I finally watched, jazzed about the Seven comparisons. Leto is the standout but he's been doing these weird roles, Denzel is fine, and I still don't know what to make of Rami's goofy ass. As you said, it doesn't really do jack until the third act and with it, the only thing the movie did well was the whole "Did he or didn't he do it?". And what did they do? We all know I like a good bleak, or even ambiguous ending. Ordinarily, this end wouldn't bother me, except that whole question was the only fucking thing you had going here, and they tell us it just doesn't fucking matter? Great, so much for the little things that matter, or was that the irony?... This red barrette is gonna kick your big ass, fucknuts.

[DancesWithWerewolves]

Zack Snyder's Justice League

Massive improvement over the Josstice League, a movie I found mediocre but enjoyable in spite of its glaring flaws. This, version, gone are all the Joss Whedon reshoots for a "lighter/funner' Justice League that compressed the plot down for a compact 2 hours, with TV movie CGi, and back are all the footage that Zack shot, with mostly finished VFX work and a few new pickup shots to tie everything together. The FX in this version still aren't great, but are massively improved. Details are better, while some are clunky and reeks of video-game environment. Even though a massive budget was granted for Zack to finish these shots, I'm guessing some were just unfixable.

And the VFX shots are the only bit I have to complain about. The plot is stronger, the performances breath (especially Cyborg, it's heartbreaking knowing how much of him was on the cutting room floor with the theatrical cut), Steppenwolf is a real villain with a purpose, the action sequences are excellent, motives and exposition make sense. Yeah, it's 4 hours, but I don't feel any of it was wasted. I didn't see it as being much different than binging a limited series, and I'll be watching it again this weekend.

This is definitely the best of the DCEU movies, right up there with Aquaman and Wonderwoman, imo, but I don't really know a grade yet. I will be watching it again this weekend and perhaps I could have a grade by then.

Considering most of this was shot before Joss took over, it's mindboggling that they cut so much good stuff to insert so much Hackyness. They kept claiming Zack's was "unwatchable" but clearly that wasn't the case. I think they wanted to hit their release date deadline and new Zack still had a ton of post-production work ahead of him, so they got nervous.

Oh...and yes...Leto's Joker this time around is pretty damn great, proving nothing was wrong with his casting, but David Ayer's interpretation in Suicide Squad.

Note: the level of improvement on this version far exceeds just how much better the Ultimate Cut of Batman V Superman was. I'm just trying to figure out just how much. The theatrcial Josstice League I put at about a C/C+, and I'm leaning towards A-/A with Zack's cut. (whereas theatrical BvS was a B- and the Ultimate Cut was a B+, imo)

[zombie]

the difference between bvs and justice league, is that all they did with the ultimate edition was stuff more scenes in without editing anything or moving anything around. the snyder cut seems to be much more than that. i don't think you can really compare them, so yeah.

and i actually prefer the original cut of bvs

[DancesWithWerewolves]

The Ultimate Cut is Zack's full version, and to most the complained about plot incoherences, those were cured with those scenes back in. Yes, I find it comparable that letting Zack's work breath yields better results.

Plus, BvS wasn't mangled like Justice League was by a completely different director hired to basically do a hackjob to get the movie out in 2017 so one of the producers could get that bonus, so of course BvS didn't require scenes to be moved around, just the deleted scenes back into place.