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A Rastafarian Skeleton said:
Recently for bad movie night my friends and I watched Ax Em
https://youtube.com/watch?v=1P7JRDMwyF4I can't remember the last time I laughed that hard at anything. We had to pause it when the opening credit dance/stomp sequence started because we couldn't breathe from laughing so much.

Fun fact: the director of this film got out of a rape charge because his father was the president of the NAACP at the time
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Ok, now I'm very curious about this
 
A Rastafarian Skeleton said:
Recently for bad movie night my friends and I watched Ax Em
https://youtube.com/watch?v=1P7JRDMwyF4I can't remember the last time I laughed that hard at anything. We had to pause it when the opening credit dance/stomp sequence started because we couldn't breathe from laughing so much.

Fun fact: the director of this film got out of a rape charge because his father was the president of the NAACP at the time
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I totally forgot about Ax Em, back in the good old days when Something Awful was actually funny, it was a featured movie review.

This part still got a laugh out of me

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Edit: this is one hell of an intro text

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BrunoMattei said:
Evil Dead Rise.

I liked it. Let's face it: nothing is going to be as amazing as the OT. That's just the way it is. No one can replace Bruce. Bruce is an immortal legend. But, if you look at this as a side-story I think it works fine. I liked it more than remake. Great gore, camerawork, it took some turns that I won't spoil. Only things I didn't care for: some lines from the OT are re-used to varying effect. Our lead chick does say "Come get some." And she just can't deliver the line. Actors were great. Prologue was great but how it ties into everything else is a little weak. How the book is discovered is pure TV Trope plot convenience.

8.5/10 from me. I'd recommend this one.

Incel/anti-SJW/anti-woke shit: the oldest daughter has a feminism poster on the wall in one shot and makes mention of going to an unnamed protest. Some fags might be upset that it's a female lead again but it's honestly the best route to take because if you get a guy as the lead everyone and their mother will compare him to Bruce. And that's unfair to any guy for reasons cited above.
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Happy to hear it wasn't a bad film and all, but I lost a lot of interest when they cast a tranny actress to play the oldest daughter and figured they'd mix in some faggotry in the film. As much as I enjoy supporting Evil Dead stuff, I cant bring myself to watch one that has any of that shit in there. Its nice to hear there isn't much, but politics of any kind in an Evil Dead film, which is more about demons exploring the insides of the human body, feels stupid as fuck.

Never cared that the leads of the last 2 films are women, lets face it no one can be Bruce but Bruce, but I didn't think the last film they made really explored anything about what made Mia special as a character. She was pretty damn flat and it was only through Jane Levy's performance that something special happened. I keep hoping that one day they'll give us a character that really has something special about them that the actress(lets face it, new ED films will prolly all be female led) can use to their advantage instead of so-so/ok characters getting boosts from solid performances.

If you can't have Bruce as Ash anymore, then you gotta make the protagonists of these films unique as hell to compensate for that, which means better writing and characters. Thats also kind of foreign in Evil Dead films, but hey after 40 years of existence Evil Dead films can be more than just comic book films too. Just my thoughts on this. Hopefully the next ED film they make will be faggotless and they can play more with better characters and settings.

Still waiting to see like an Evil Dead film set at a petting zoo or something batshit like that. Who doesn't want to see a deadite rabbit or snake?
 
Articles and Nudes said:
Nicholas Cage was REALLY out of place, but it worked well because of that, strangely. His actual performance is...well...Nicolas Cage
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The only reason why I would want to watch the movie is to see Nicolas Cage being a Lugosi-esque Dracula.

And oddly enough the SECOND time he plays a vampire

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BrunoMattei said:
Some fags might be upset that it's a female lead again but it's honestly the best route to take because if you get a guy as the lead everyone and their mother will compare him to Bruce.
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I dont discriminate on gender, I will still compare her to Bruce.
beef lo mein said:
Skinamarink made me feel panicky at some points.
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God, Skinamarink is so fucking overrated its not even funny. And this is coming from someone who watched it twice.

"Hey people, you remember the most boring parts of paranormal activity where we just stare at the darkness at corridors, corners and you think to yourself 'something may be there' but there likely there isnt? We made a whole movie out of it!"

Some people say it reminds them of their childhoods or something and it makes me wonder what kind of childhoods they had.

Im not saying you cant enjoy it, I just personally never saw the appeal it had. Its a very experimental movie and I guess I cant fault ot for that aspect.
BrunoMattei said:
I have nothing more to add but that was a legitimate Thunk rate and not a post-ironic kind of Thunk rate.

Just recently I had a thought that James Cameron must have been aware of the famous cocoon scene in Alien. The cocoon scene, while amazing, contradicts the whole idea of a Queen and an insect hierarchy in Aliens BUT, key thing to keep in mind: the cocoon scene is the first time someone say's "Kill me!" in an Alien movie. It's a recurring line through all 4 movies including sadly Resurrection. I need to re-watch Prometheus and Covenant to spot the line but I think it's there.

Why is this important? Because the line is said in Aliens when the marines enter the hive "Look out we got a live one!" So, either during pre-production or during production Cameron was made aware of the cocoon scene and reincorporated the line as either an homage or maybe he just thought it sounded good? Who knows if he actually watched the scene that had yet to be played anywhere outside the studio or he just read the script.
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I legit think it was just your averaged "doomed character asks to be put down" sort of scene instead of any sort of nod to that deleted scene.

Oddly enough it keeps being brought back in discussion, right even to Alien Isolation where people thought the lack of appearance of the queen implied that the deleted scene was "canon" to it.

Then the producer or director had to step in and confirm the queen DOES exist, we just happen to not see her at any point this time.
Aib Ld said:
Quotes are busted on my end too, but I thought I didn't spoil anything on Beau is Afraid unless the inline spoiler broke from the site's wonkiness from time to time? Still going to put it in a spoiler just in case, when I can edit because the site broke edit functions on my end at this post.

topic tax: Watched Scream VI because of a bet. I understimated the value of a $50. It was not worth watching the entire movie. It was an okay turn-your-brain-off popcorn flick, but it really falls apart on thinking about it.
Seriously, nobody dies except random unrelated people? Somehow I'm supposed to believe the dude who had been gangbanged by two Ghostfaces survived that? The "cult" plot at the intro was such a good idea that I can't believe that it was just dropped after dangling it in my front of my nose.
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The real mistake is assuming there are any other Scream movies not made by Wes Craven.

Anything after 4 is just fanfiction to me. Even if one has mixed feelings over the sequels, they were still his movies, his series, his vision.
 
Vampire's Kiss is a great film. I don't want to give away too much, but it reminds me a bit of Romero's Martin, albeit with a bit more comedy. Worth a watch whether or not you're one of these semi-ironic Cage fans.
 
A Rastafarian Skeleton said:
Recently for bad movie night my friends and I watched Ax Em
https://youtube.com/watch?v=1P7JRDMwyF4I can't remember the last time I laughed that hard at anything. We had to pause it when the opening credit dance/stomp sequence started because we couldn't breathe from laughing so much.

Fun fact: the director of this film got out of a rape charge because his father was the president of the NAACP at the time
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If Ax Em isn't the worst movie I've ever seen, it's certainly in the top 5.

Everything about it is completely inept.
 
BrunoMattei said:
I have nothing more to add but that was a legitimate Thunk rate and not a post-ironic kind of Thunk rate.

Just recently I had a thought that James Cameron must have been aware of the famous cocoon scene in Alien. The cocoon scene, while amazing, contradicts the whole idea of a Queen and an insect hierarchy in Aliens BUT, key thing to keep in mind: the cocoon scene is the first time someone say's "Kill me!" in an Alien movie. It's a recurring line through all 4 movies including sadly Resurrection. I need to re-watch Prometheus and Covenant to spot the line but I think it's there.

Why is this important? Because the line is said in Aliens when the marines enter the hive "Look out we got a live one!" So, either during pre-production or during production Cameron was made aware of the cocoon scene and reincorporated the line as either an homage or maybe he just thought it sounded good? Who knows if he actually watched the scene that had yet to be played anywhere outside the studio or he just read the script.
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I figured individual xenos born outside of a hive environment can slowly cocoon randos into eggs, but you'll never get a spiny facehugger out of it, and it's way more slow and doesn't just crap them out like a Queen
 
Just watched They Look Like People. I don't recommend it - no spooks, bad twist, annoying characters. There was good tension in the movie, but that's all that it has going for it.
Here's the trailer for those who haven't heard of it:

Gonna watch The Witch: Subversion next. Hopefully it's good.
 
Among other freaky rewatches, Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis, which was a live-action abridged adaption of the first third of the Teito Monogatari series of historical fantasy/horror novels by Hiroshi Aramata, which depict the secret occult history of Toyko. In this version of history, about 1,000 years ago the real-life Taira no Masakado, Heian-era provincial magnate of eastern Japan ended up cursing the Imperial Court (which has been part of the superstitions of Toyko for awhile). Centuries later, the evil sorcerer Yasunori Kato is out for revenge against the Japanese Imperial Court for conquering and killing his indigenous ancestors 2,000 years ago. Kato is described as an oni, a demon born from his ancestors' grudges, He intends to unleash Maskado's supposed curse in order to destroy the city of Tokyo,

Anyways, this adaption is special effects heavy and freaky, and Kato's "look" with his uniform, cape and gloves inspired at lot of imitators and homages and parodies.

Kato was also the villain of Miike's The Great Yokai War, in a sort of crossover.


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