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A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, might not be for everyone but I really enjoyed it.


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Finally got to see Dangerous Animals.

Absolutely fantastic, with sublime moments of total terror. Jai Courtney is a villain for the ages. Truly menacing, compelling stuff. The whole cast is fantastic.
 
I've been on a recent horror movie streak now that things are feeling nice and autumnal.

The Dead Zone - A fun concept and some quality performances from Christopher Walken and Martin Sheen, but it has a lot of flat spots in which nothing much happens.
The Mummy (1932) - After the success of the Dracula and Frankenstein movies they'd produced the year before, Universal intended The Mummy to be an all-ages re-working of the Dracula script and it shows. Everything about it feels less compelling than the first two films.
Dawn of the Dead (1978) - Still one of the best zombie films and the social commentary is a big reason why. Gotta love the Goblin score.
Maximum Overdrive - What a stinker! An already goofy premise weighed down by bad actors, tin-eared dialog, and preposterous character choices. Yeardley Smith is extra shrill the whole movie.
Scanners - David Cronenberg gets so much mileage out of some simple acting choices and the sound design, but the lead actor has all the charisma of a wet blanket and like The Dead Zone, it has a lot of flat spots with unnecessary amounts of exposition.
Black Sunday (1960) - It lacks the bold technicolor and sexy horror that would become Mario Bava's signature, but it still had some fun visual effects and thoughtful cinematography.
Christine (1983) - I liked this more than I thought I would. It had some predictably silly character development, but that scene of the burning Plymouth Fury driving through the night makes it worth watching.
Chinese Ghost Story - An 80s wuxia ghost romance story (yes, you read that right) packed with really fun practical effects and some Evil Dead-style stop-motion zombies. Tsui Hark was only the producer on this one, but it has all of his signature style.
Shadow of the Vampire - Another fun premise with decent performances from some great actors, but it fails to bring anything new to the table and ultimately never escapes the shadow of either the original 1922 Nosferatu or Werner Herzog's 1979 Nosferatu, which might be one of the best vampire movies ever.
 
Finally got around to seeing the new Superman. Minor quibbles aside, Gunn seems to have the same basic view of Superman (and his overall supporting cast) that I do. Clark's powers come from Krypton, but his heart comes from Kansas.

I like little things like Lois being a former punk rock kid (of course). I like sex-machine Jimmy Olsen. I really *really* loved the Kents. Oh man, I could not get over how awful the Kents seemed in the Snyder movies and I'm just happy to have any take on them that isn't trying to give Clark a push to stop being a Superhero. I like Lex being just the pettiest little shit. Eve is great. I was not expecting The Engineer to show up and I have to keep reminding myself that Wildstorm has been DC for a long time now since that move never made any sense to me narratively.

It was fun. I'd probably watch a sequel.
 
So I saw Van Helsing was leaving Netflix on the 30th and realized I never actually saw it start to finish. I honestly cannot tell if it was supposed to be a comedy or if it devolved into a comedy or if something happened to the script in translation. I mean it was fun, but it felt like a movie confused by ITSELF.
 
Caught Superman, the Burrowers, and the Necromancer this weekend; liked them all to enough degree. The Burrowers has that 51yo-marries-a-16yo ephebo-creep Percy Wetmore from the Green Mile in it; being a shitty bastard to Natives; if that's an issue. I probably wouldn't have watched it if I'd known beforehand; simply because I tire of having 'oh, he's a shitty person' thoughts all the damned time.

Necromancer was fun just for seeing Redcoats getting ganked with glee, lol.

Why do these SuperRobots wear capes? What's happened to all the Earth's kryptonite in Kal's 3y career? I'm hoping they use Byrne's birthing matrix instead of the traditional sent-as-a-born-baby just to further seal how he's a legitimate American.
 
AceofKnaves said:
Oof. That Van Helsing movie hurt my feelings. That should have been my favorite movie of all time, but it’s really only notable for having one of thee absolutely worst Draculas of all time.
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Almost every other role felt like a waste of talent and then Dracula is like "did the director cast his cousin?" How did they cast someone with so little charisma as the sexiest monster in literary history?
 
docsilence said:
Almost every other role felt like a waste of talent and then Dracula is like "did the director cast his cousin?" How did they cast someone with so little charisma as the sexiest monster in literary history?
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It’s weird because it’s Richard Roxburgh, who is great in Moulin Rouge, but who is just a mystifying choice for this and is NOT helped by the incredibly goofy costume/hair/aesthetics. It’s like he’s a bad, unintentional parody of 90s “Anne Rice”-style vampires. Everything about his corner of the film, from the Brides to the vampire eggs (VAMPIRE EGGS?!?! WHAT THE FUCK?!?) is just . . . awful.
 
AceofKnaves said:
It’s weird because it’s Richard Roxburgh, who is great in Moulin Rouge, but who is just a mystifying choice for this and is NOT helped by the incredibly goofy costume/hair/aesthetics. It’s like he’s a bad, unintentional parody of 90s “Anne Rice”-style vampires. Everything about his corner of the film, from the Brides to the vampire eggs (VAMPIRE EGGS?!?! WHAT THE FUCK?!?) is just . . . awful.
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I was watching thinking this is a terrible film and it has all the stuff I LOVE and should be the best movie ever, but I guess if I were a few drinks in and not really caring it was probably an okay way to kill two hours. The fact that Dracula is wearing what appears to be a banana hair clip in one scene...
 
DarthDre758 said:
I watched The Fifth Element with my youngest son last night. I realized while watching it, the bulk of the beginning is kinda boring (at least for a 14 year old), but overall he enjoyed it.
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Different time, but I watched it in theaters at 14 and was hooked right away.

Unfortunately it's a bit harder to watch now because I know too much about Luc, Milla, and Maïwenn. Sort of wish I could unlearn all that.
adrienveidt said:
Why do these SuperRobots wear capes?
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Capes are cool. Everyone looks cool in a good cape.
 
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