Films

Following on from my last post, Cop Car was fucking great!

Malignant.

Dull, lazy uninspired dogturd of a movie.

No one's ever seen James Wan and Zack Snyder in the same room together.

The House That Jack Built - absolutely not what I was expecting but in a great way. Really unsettling stuff.

Well, I thoroughly enjoyed NTTD. Plenty of plot holes etc, not the greatest villain - but, hey it's James Bond. Gadgets, car chases, explosions, amazing locations. A fun couple of hours.

The green knight, what a breeze of cockroach droppings. So sad to see Sean Harris so down.

Gadgets, car chases, explosions, amazing locations

ffs spoilers!

also, this place generally, what’s with all the ‘bike’ chat? &c &c

For reasons we will not be covering, I had an urge to watch some shit early 2000s horrors (after a recent Scream 1-4 viewing)

Cursed - Wes Craven directed werewolf movie (written by Scream writer Kevin Williamson too), what could possibly go wrong? Basically everything.
Hot pile of (were)dog shit. Confusing plot twists, gaping plot holes, weird b-character progressions.

Dracula 2001 (or 2000) - "modern" update to the old vamp tale, with Christopher Plummer as Van Helsing, Gerard Butler as old pointy teeth, Jonny Lee Miller with an odd mockney accent.
Slow and dull, for a film that is barely an hour and half long, fuck all happens, and you will regret seeking this one out.

Any recommendations for shonky 90/00's horror films?
Bonus points for monster squad graduates

Night of the Living Dead 1990 version is good/obscure
bad taste / braindead o course

Army Of The Dead.

anything by / involving Stuart Gordon RIP.

The first 3 Final Destination films are stupid and fun as fuck.

I think Final destination deserves recognition for giving an entire generation a genuine phobia of being behind lorries with long pole shaped loads after the log truck scene in the sequel.

I honestly shit my pants every time I see one of those fuckers.

It's the only final destination I've seen and I saw it in the cinema and freak out behind trucks still

Actually, that's a lie, I've just combined 1 & 2 in my head.

genuine phobia of being behind lorries with long pole shaped loads

I physically cannot ride the motorbike behind flatbeds.

The Descent did that to me

@HatBeard It's the bus obliteration for me, although that was more of a soothing prospect.

The Many Saints of Newark - Very average.

Yeah, saw it last week and I agree. It's nice and fun seeing the old characters as youngsters, some are done really well but Sil was like a kid cosplaying. I enjoyed seeing the fairground scene from the series as well. But I guess what I enjoyed was spotting the references. The story was rubbish, David Chase's thing of showing lots of vignettes doesn't add up to a movie. Not enough of Tony's thoughts to make it about how he became the gangster he did- would have expected more of Jackie Aprile or even Ritchey.

Just watched the remake of The Guilty... Well worth watching.

No time to die? Fucking thing is like 2.5 hours long, pretty sure they could have found time.

Initial reaction soured from ‘meh’ to ‘a bit rubbish’ and has since been downgraded further to ‘a bit shot’ after 24 hours of reflection. Distinctly lacking in fun - bar the good action sequence with Ana de Armas - and too concerned with its own legacy / all the meta-textual stuff it attempts to wrangle with. Shit villain, total waste of Rami Malek. Total waste of Christopher Waltz also.

Still, was nice to go back to an actual cinema after all this time. Picked an 11am showing so it was pretty sparsely attended but I’ve probs still got covid anyway.

10 seconds into this and I'm already thoroughly enjoying myself. Great poster too.

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Watched Halloween III Season of the Witch last night. Had forgotten all about this one. Nothing to do with Michael Myers storyline at all. Its not as bad as people will tell you, I quite enjoyed it. Great OST. Pretty dumb but good to spend some time in 1983.

Also watched 2004 re-make of Dawn of the Dead. Not a patch on the original obvs, but has a certain dumb charm and very watchable.