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joey con carne wrote:What is elevated horror?

Also, how fucking old does Ghostface sound now? He's Grandpa Ghostface. Soooo scary!

UltimateMarvel wrote:lol that's where it's from, forgot about that line. Did a google search and The Witch, Get Out, and Hereditary came up. Haven't seen The Witch but I liked the other 2 movies.

UltimateMarvel wrote:I also don't know what elevated horror is. Is that what Get Out was? Now that was a good movie. Nope didn't make any damn sense.

joey con carne wrote:Watched the video and I understand now. It's one of those terms for a movie where if you don't like it then you "didn't get" the message behind the horror film. You didn't understand the underlying themes and analogies or allegory.

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Tyger wrote:Nope made more sense than Us, it’s my favorite of Peele's films so far.

UltimateMarvel wrote:The Invitation was not what I expected, I agree. Trailer made it seem otherwise but it was very predictable. The only thing good about it were the beautiful ladies, including Stephanie Corneliussen who haven't seen since Mr. Robot. Damn! She can bite me any day!

Didn't know House of Darkness was out, sucks to hear it wasn't good. I'd still like to see it though.

UltimateMarvel wrote:The Whale: Amazing performance by Fraser in this movie and it was a great story too. I'd be lying if I said I didn't cry in this movie by the end, it definitely got to me. I learned that this was based on a play after watching it and the movie felt like it too, it all takes place in his apartment with characters coming and going and I loved that.

WyldeMan wrote:I caught a bunch of old Steven Seagal movies from '88-'97 scattered across various streaming services that I decided to give a viewing to for the first time since the 90s. What a rough trip that was...

My favorite thing is that in every one of his movies, his character usually a "lowly" beat cop, short order cook, small town doctor, they all have a "mysterious past" which is always revealed to have been CIA. His characters are always demoted to these lowly position by being better and smarter than everybody else at said previous job.

In every fight scene, all the bad guys circle up around him and attack one by one as he uses a variation of the exact same move where he takes a guy's wrist and breaks it and then kick him over and over while typically talking shit to the bad guys, as he emasculates them and lets them know that he's the only real man in the room and they are nothing. Bullying seems to be his thing on screen and off.

Seagal never looks weak, never gets knocked down or to his back, never gets shot or stabbed, he's basically invulnerable to everything. I don't remember Arnold, Stallone or JCVD having an aversion to bleeding or being knocked down...

I'm kind of fascinated by the fact that every single role seems crafted solely to feed the guy's ego and all of his characters are so needlessly destructive, when Seagal fights his way into a room, he utterly destroys it. If he fights into your bedroom, he'll destroy everything in it and then move on to your living room and your kitchen on his way out, I know because I literally watched this exact thing happen in "Out For Justice" while I laughed about how ridiculously and needlessly destructive he is.

In the early days he was surrounded by some incredible co-stars who were all much bigger names than him and most are still working today, by comparison you can really see why his career had such a short run and why he hasn't managed to secure a theatrical release in over 20 years. He was gifted far far too many superior talents to work opposite of and he really gave them nothing to work with, Under Siege and The Fire Down Below are  perfect examples of this.

Steven Seagal, seventh degree black belt, Buddhist and Environmentalist is a really just a creature of pure ego. 

I understand why it's been twenty-five years since I revisited his works and I'm now cured of any further curiosity.

WyldeMan wrote:I just watched Indy and the Dial and Destiny and what an abomination that was. I like how all four of the writers committed to creating one of the most unlikable female leads in movie history with the hopes of handing off Indy's franchise to her and her own Short Round in a future installment. Good luck with that shit! 

Boyd Holbrook was totally wasted here but he goes where Mangold goes and unfortuantely this one a bad one for them both. However I'm fully expecting Holbrook to be cast as Alec Holland in Mangold's Swamp Thing adaptation, so it might take five more years but I'm hoping they can redeem themselves after this disaster.

The only part I enjoyed was the final three minutes with the return of Marion Ravenwood. Karen Allen has aged naturally and gracefully and is still instantly recognizable after all these years at 71 years old. It's a nice change of pace from her many peers who destroyed their faces with unnecessary surgeries and in the process destroyed their careers and their faces.

The fact that they killed Indy's son Mutt off in a line of dialogue in a barely heard news report was even more bullshit. I did not enjoy this movie for a moment, it was the same old Indy bullshit where everybody continuously survives by the skin of their nuts and the bad guys ALWAYS hang back in the shadows until Indy finds the McGuffin and then they pop up to steal them, every god damned time. What a tired ass unoriginal formula.

Anyways, Dial of Destiny did not need to exist, it was all around bad. Indy meeting Archimedes in Ancient Rome bad.....

Rusty wrote:Watching the previous Indy was all I needed to know I'll never watch another one again. Not a chance I'll hit "Play" when this pops up in my feed.

UltimateMarvel wrote:Salute to Wylde for taking one for the team to watch Dial of Destiny.

Tyger wrote:I watched the newer Halloween movies last weekend across three different streaming platforms. That really set the tone for the fucking mess they are. I thought I had heard good things, but only the first was at all decent.

WyldeMan wrote:
And because he's apparently only doing horror remakes/sequels now, as soon as David Gordon Green was done with Halloween he immediately jumped over to The Exorcist.

Rusty wrote:

WyldeMan wrote:
And because he's apparently only doing horror remakes/sequels now, as soon as David Gordon Green was done with Halloween he immediately jumped over to The Exorcist.

... and he's making 3 of them. Damn!

Good trailer though. Might check the first one out.

Rusty wrote:You'll love this.

Rusty wrote:Finally got around to watching Prey last night.

Really enjoyed the idea, but the English language really threw me in and out of immersion. Especially the final kill scene where she says "this is as far as you go. This is it". It felt so unnatural.

Thankfully the 4K Bluray release has the full Comanche audio track, so that will be a buy for me.

Everything else worked for me though. Loved the bear fight scene too. Even with it being CGI it still looked fucking cool. Don't fuck with Grizzlies.

WyldeMan wrote:Blue Beetle didn't totally suck. It felt like the kind of comic book movie that families could enjoy together. 

It was pretty light-hearted fare and felt more in line with early MCU than anything currently in DC. My only real exposure to Jaime Reyes was from the Young Justice animated series several years back but the character felt a lot like how I remembered him being and the suit looked exactly like it should have. Xolo was the right casting choice for the character and I don't really have any casting complaints, his family had a shitload of personality and the grandmother was the best character in the movie.

Blue Beetle seems like a faithful adaptation to the character which feels rare these days. As long as you don't go in expecting this bug movie to be super serious like Joker or The Batman and something more along the lines of say early Thor or Ant-Man and you'll probably enjoy it for what it is.

Rusty wrote:I just watched The Revenant for the first time.

I avoided this for the longest time because I hated the press it got leading in to its release. It was mostly positive, but how I read it made me think it was some obnoxious filmmakers attempt to get Oscars with it's close lenses, and drawn out unpleasantness ... especially for DiCaprio. They made his acting sound like a fucking over-the-top insult to acting.

So not the case. I fucking loved this. Loved how it was shot. Looked fucking amazing. Leo and Hardy were fucking flawless. Multi-lingual is always a plus. An absolute solid film.

I was reading the films Wiki page about the changes made and "inaccuracies" from the original accounts, but I have to say, as a film adaption, the right decisions were made.

Rusty wrote:Haven't seen Man in the Wilderness. I'd never heard of it until your post.

Had a quick check and it's only available to me via purchase, so that won't be happening.

Rusty wrote:Watched a few movies recently. I noticed that for the past couple of years my movie watching dropped drastically and spent most my viewing on TV shows. Which also explains why most of my 'continue watching' lists are filled with unfinished shows, as most aren't good enough to hold my attention. Back to movies for a while me thinks.

On Saturday night I watched an odd Slasher flick: X. It stars Mia Goth, Martin Henderson, and Jenna Ortega.  It's set in the 70's and revolves around a group renting a place on farmland to film a porno, and once the sex starts, the slashing begins.

It now has a prequel released named Pearl, and a yet to be released sequel titled MaXXXine.

Rusty wrote:After seeing the teaser for the new 'Apes' move, last night I watched Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011), and tonight I just finished Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014). Will watch the third film in the next day or two.

Mad late to the party on these, but they were really good. The only 'Apes' films I had seen was the Charlton Heston original, and the Marky Mark version. I started Rise a while back but only got 30 minutes in. Solid films all around.

UltimateMarvel wrote:I need to watch Pearl soon because I'm curious to see David Corenswet, have not seen him in anything before. I did watch X and it was pretty good. It was almost near the end of the movie that I noticed Mia played both characters. I don't understand why they decided to release them backwards if they were shot back to back.

Rusty wrote:I think it was just because X was originally a stand-alone film and was filmed first. It was in theatres whilst Pearl was still being edited.

From what I understand the filmmaker got the idea for a Pearl movie whilst filming X. He and Mia Goth were talking about creating backstory for the older Pearl character, they thought that they could even possibly make a movie out of it, and it went from there. Once they finished X, the studio greenlit Pearl, and because of Covid, they just stayed and used the same set in New Zealand, with a crew that just wrapped filming something else, since they had all already cleared isolation protocols and were nowhere near anyone else.

UltimateMarvel wrote:

Rusty wrote:I think it was just because X was originally a stand-alone film and was filmed first. It was in theatres whilst Pearl was still being edited.

From what I understand the filmmaker got the idea for a Pearl movie whilst filming X. He and Mia Goth were talking about creating backstory for the older Pearl character, they thought that they could even possibly make a movie out of it, and it went from there. Once they finished X, the studio greenlit Pearl, and because of Covid, they just stayed and used the same set in New Zealand, with a crew that just wrapped filming something else, since they had all already cleared isolation protocols and were nowhere near anyone else.

Interesting, yeah, X did feel like a stand-alone. I didn't know that they were even making a third.

WyldeMan wrote:MaXXXine "follows Maxine (Goth), after the events of X, as the sole survivor who continues her journey towards fame setting out to make it as an actress in 1980's Los Angeles." AKA Maxxine does more Porn.