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Hell of a Summer was hell of a bummer amirite, fellas? Nah, it was alright. Shitty killer, and a cast that the writers didn't really seem to care about outside a few characters, but it was inoffensive overall. This didn't scratch the slasher itch that I've been bitching and moaning about, but it tried.
 

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Calandrino said:
Note that two of the characters were played by the writers
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I felt like mentioning that, but they honestly weren't even the characters they focused on the most. Finn Wolfharts' character didn't get as much screen time as you would think, and he was by leaps and bounds the biggest star of the movie.
 
The Street Trash remake loosely connects to the original with its melting hobos and the toxic Viper, including a direct homage of a bum drinking Tenafly Viperand melting into goo along a reworked version of the infamous schlong scene. They mention the original film by referring to the "New York incident" and change the Viper poison into something you can inject, spray or digest. It takes place in the year 2050 in Cape Town, South Africa. There is no more middle class, only the rich and poor. Towards the end, the movie shifts to action-packed scenes that are decent but don’t quite reach John Woo levels, and the South African accents might take some getting used to. This version tones down the original's shock value, aside from jokes about Peter Pan being a pedophile with Hook as the hero trying to stop him, and Geppetto wanting Pinocchio as a real-life boy sex toy. It features a character resembling Stanley Kubrick with a Yiddish accent and the actor from "Fried Barry" as a burnout junkie who talks to a puppet that only he can see. While it tries to make the homeless more sympathetic by including a cartoonishly evil Mayor planning to turn them into neon slime gore as a reelection promise, the social commentary falls flat. The plot attempts to add more exposition than the original, but it’s minimal at best. Despite its flaws and lack of real bite, it has the feel of an early Troma film and looks great since it was shot on film, avoiding any fake grindhouse effects like digitally added grain or scratches. It’s like a mix of Hobo with a Shotgun and The Greasy Strangler. It's worth watching, but don't go in expecting a remake—it's more of a reimagining.

P.S. It turns out that Roy Frumkes, who wrote and produced the original along with this version, was fired from his college job in 2018 due to sexual misconduct allegations.
 
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The Token Ethnic said:
P.S. It turns out that Roy Frumkes, who wrote and produced the original along with this version, was fired from his college job in 2018 due to sexual misconduct allegations.
https://archive.is/fX06a
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LOL. In the docu for Street Trash he managed to get an interview with a young production assistant by the name of... Bryan Singer.
 
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trent said:
Black directors are shit at horror. Get Out was fucking terrible despite being hailed as a reinvention of the genre and Peele's Twilight Zone reboot was shit as well.
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Bones (2001, with Snoop) was good in the effects department. The plot knows to not take itself too seriously, so it was a "badass and manipulative revenant that happens to be black" kind of movie. I swear, Peele is a disaster for black movies ever since he made Get Out, and I hope he isn't the final nail in the coffin for why blacksploitation movies suddenly died. His reboot of Candyman is an insult to the original, and he had the gall to make his version a sequel to it too.


BrunoMattei said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=oFkbsEKaoSE
A white chick teams up with the Predator. Has Predator gone fully woke? That all said, I welcome something radically different that isn't retarded like Predator 4 aka The Autism One.
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That Predator looks so awful. I dread that the rampant resurface of Alien and Predator media would lead to a shitty Alien Vs Predator in the future.
 
BrunoMattei said:
It's not good but it's worth looking at for the killer tree sequence which feels very Sam Raimi.
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Yeah that was pretty damn cool. I actually remembering watching that scene as a kid a lot because it was on a horror compilation dvd I had so I wanted to watch the movie for a while.
There's also a nice scene where a dude is chased into a house by a bunch of coyotes.
They movie decides to be good every 30 minutes or so. I just felt the cast/characters were so flat that I was just rooting for the nanny the whole time.
 
Soseki said:
I’ve heard mixed things about Nosferatu (2024), might watch that later.
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Eggers is in a weird place for me, where I appreciate what he's trying to do, and his instincts are Kubrikesque, but his movies just feel so bloodless. Ever since the VVwvitch I've been waiting for him to be able to combine his sense of craft with a movie that has real feeling, and it still hasn't happened. I was so excited for Nosferatu that I had the first released image as my phone background for a year before the trailer even came out. I thought that since he's been obsessing over this movie for so long it might finally be the one where he proves he's not just pretentious but can actually make something great. But I actually think it's his worst so far. It's like he's so far up his own ass that he's not even huffing farts. He's just up there for no reason, an empty ouroboros. His movies are visually striking and well-crafted and all the rest, but you just feel like there's nothing to it. Just a technical exercise.
 
Anonymous8330 said:
Eggers is in a weird place for me, where I appreciate what he's trying to do, and his instincts are Kubrikesque, but his movies just feel so bloodless. Ever since the VVwvitch I've been waiting for him to be able to combine his sense of craft with a movie that has real feeling, and it still hasn't happened. I was so excited for Nosferatu that I had the first released image as my phone background for a year before the trailer even came out. I thought that since he's been obsessing over this movie for so long it might finally be the one where he proves he's not just pretentious but can actually make something great. But I actually think it's his worst so far. It's like he's so far up his own ass that he's not even huffing farts. He's just up there for no reason, an empty ouroboros. His movies are visually striking and well-crafted and all the rest, but you just feel like there's nothing to it. Just a technical exercise.
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This. Except I liked The Northman. The Northman is the closest anyone has gotten to making something on par with Conan the Barbarian. Funnily enough, Eggers complained that the movie was cut down by about an hour by the studio. And while I respect his work I have to side with the studio on this one. Ideally, every movie has a director's cut and a theatrical cut release so the public can make up it's own mind.
 
William Teller said:
I know I should have known better, but I watched The angry black girl and her monster yesterday. I really wonder if black "artists" can only write about racism and produce low level anti white/race baiting shit.
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The sad thing is that black artists can produce great shows/movies if they don't make it all about race.

Atlanta is a great TV show because Donald Glover wrote the characters to just be people. There's little to no reference to race even though the show is about black culture. He isn't preaching, he isn't trying to teach us all a lesson.

I rate him much higher than most other black directors/writers. I don't like rap/hip hop/whatever they call it now but This Is America is a great song because it turns the mirror back on the shitty thug culture that has developed in the US and says that perhaps the people engaging in it might be the ones to blame for the state of things rather than the "system".
 
I heard the Until Dawn movie was even worse than you thought it would be, but I'm a broke bitch. Can anyone confirm?
 
It's from the writing/directing team that brought you Annabell: Creation (with an assist from a chick who worked on Attack of the Show), and is chock full of Hulu-original acting talent. Also it's 'based' on a video game.

If you need any more information than that to make a judgment, you're probably retarded.
 
From what I've seen of the trailer the movie is about an accurate of a depiction of the game as the 80's Mario Bros movie was. Mario Bros might be more accurate. I know it's bad, I'm just wondering how bad.
 
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