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Gog & Magog said:
I watched Memories of Murder expecting a horror/thriller based on the title and cover. Turns out the movie's a comedy too. Pretty good. 7/10.
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It's pretty good? It's great! It's so great I almost wish the murderer hadn't been caught because that might make less people watch the movie.
 
Avocado Kin said:
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Jordan Peele fired his managers after his production company lost the bidding war for Weapons, I think this movie is going to be something special
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There's people on Twitter who are upset this movie is supposedly anti-transgender. One person described it as Libs of Tik-Tok: The Movie. Not sure how accurate this is, but the discourse is going to be glorious if it's true.
 
Flaming Carrot said:
There's people on Twitter who are upset this movie is supposedly anti-transgender. One person described it as Libs of Tik-Tok: The Movie. Not sure how accurate this is, but the discourse is going to be glorious if it's true.
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Things I heard about people telling the script and test screenings was
there was a witch and he/she was wearing whiteface makeup. He was the one that lured the kids, and when everything was going against his plans, unleashed the kids in the final act or something. Seeing how theres a guy in drag wearing all white in the trailer, might be him.
This is assuming all this is true and there weren't any reshoots.
 
Tor Lugosi said:
Abigail - Felt like two franchise movies combined into one. The first half is the original movie that kicks off the franchise that people actually like, being an interesting movie about a kidnapped girl turning out to be a vampire that then massacres her kidnappers. But then you have the second half of the film, which feels like a later franchise sequel where they've clearly ran out of ideas, so the plot is that there's an even eviler vampire and now Abigail and the protagonist have to team up to killer the eviler vampire. Overall it's entertaining at least. The girl that plays Abagail is decent and clearly having fun with the role, and Dan Stevens is always good. Reminded me of Malignant with its constant genre and tone shifting.
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I also thought this was "entertaining at least". A better killer ballerina movie than M3gan. Not as good of a Tarantino crime flick that turns into a vampire movie as From Dusk Till Dawn.
 
The trailer for The Long Walk dropped yesterday.


That is my favorite King book, and I am excited for it. I was a little hesitant about Mark Hamill as the major, he's a lot softer than I have always pictured that character, but he looks alright.

Reddit is mad that the trailer gave away too much of the plot, but I don't know how you would make a trailer for something called The Long Walk without showing what they did. It's more of a character study than anything, so giving away the plot doesn't matter, IMO.
 
The Nothingness said:
Was the only reason this director was chosen is because he did The Hunger Game franchise and this movie is also about a totalitarian America that has young people take part in an annual event where they die for the viewing pleasure of others?
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Well, he has a real streak of turning mid-tier source material into sub-mediocre shit going back 20 years to Constantine (TBF, I'm only guessing on the Hunger Games sequels, my kids say the books are waaaay better, but I haven't seen them or read them). So maybe that's what they're going for? I mean the guy's "Unrealized Projects" page on wikipedia is a real horror show, with so many near misses on projects that he could've ruined (Logan's Run, Bioshock, Chuck Palahniuk's Survivor, and Sgt. Rock to name a few).

Seriously, anyone who ever said "Hey, let's get the 'I Am Legend' guy to adapt our project!" deserves exactly what they get.
 
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Alligator is a movie about a 40-foot alligator sneaking around Chicago. That's the scary thing about 40-foot alligators: they can easily slip around undetected and strike without warning. There could be one in the room with you right now, and you'd never know it until it was too late.

I liked how they had a life-sized alligator prop that goes NOM NOM NOM on the people getting eaten.
 
downloads said:
The trailer for The Long Walk dropped yesterday.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=vAtUHeMQ1F8
That is my favorite King book, and I am excited for it. I was a little hesitant about Mark Hamill as the major, he's a lot softer than I have always pictured that character, but he looks alright.

Reddit is mad that the trailer gave away too much of the plot, but I don't know how you would make a trailer for something called The Long Walk without showing what they did. It's more of a character study than anything, so giving away the plot doesn't matter, IMO.
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My concern is why Hamill agreed to do it. I assume this is going to be turned, with King's blessing, into a toothless Drumphler allegory. Because I love this book too, and I've learned we can't have anything nice.

The kids in the movie are too old, by the way. I guess you can't have 13 year olds getting shot on screen even now.
 
Calandrino said:
There could be one in the room with you right now, and you'd never know it until it was too late.
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You know one time at a shitty carnival in the 80s I once actually won a baby alligator, but my dad stopped me before I could take him home. So, I COULD have had and alligator in the room with me right now IF my dad wasn't a pussy and let my have that gator. Some part of me is still a little mad about that even if I know it's a bad idea.

On topic, I do remember seeing that cover at the video store a lot and always wanted to check it out, but there are so many killer gator movies I had forgotten the name when I got older.
 
Calandrino said:
Who sucks worse: Rob Zombie, or Eli Roth?

Usually I'd say Rob Zombie, but I watched Roth's Knock Knock recently and haven't recovered yet. How do you make a scene-for-scene remake with 1,000 times the budget and manage to make every single part of it worse?
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Rob zombie has a passion and that very much shows. House of 1000 corpses is one of my favorite movies because it's unapologetically garbage. These people are vile, cruel, vicious and it works. The scene of the officer slowly waiting for death as the music slowly fades out, camera zooming is legit kino. Bill and Sid are a fucking powerhouse and I don't have his wife as much as I should, and the violence is great. Rob has this sort of "this is trashy and I know it but fuck yeah" vibe where Eli Roth has this sort of "I'm too smart" vibe. I'm reminded of the scene where in hostel the victim is begging for mercy and says he has money only to be told "I'm paying to do this. " Has always rubbed me as kind of pretentious.
 
Vampirella said:
You know one time at a shitty carnival in the 80s I once actually won a baby alligator, but my dad stopped me before I could take him home. So, I COULD have had and alligator in the room with me right now IF my dad wasn't a pussy and let my have that gator. Some part of me is still a little mad about that even if I know it's a bad idea.

On topic, I do remember seeing that cover at the video store a lot and always wanted to check it out, but there are so many killer gator movies I had forgotten the name when I got older.
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Maybe your dad watched Alligator and took its message to heart. It does warn about exactly that kind of scenario.
 
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