I love slasher movies so I really enjoy the Terrifier movies. #2 definitely needed better editing to cut back the run time and keep it moving but I actually liked it better on subsequent viewings.
But his practical effects are great
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But his practical effects are great
I watched that on tv last year. Not sure what to think of it. The writer had to have been high.
This; what's unfortunate is that they get blamed for the badness of it and women are, once again, relegated to the back seat and the myth that "women aren't funny."
Maybe the writing and director could be held accountable?
All 4 in that movie are funny with the right stuff.
I saw a clip once comparing the OG and that one.
Basically the 2016 version showed us everything and told us what's supposed to funny instead of letting the audience think about it.
The example was the elevator scene in the original: they all realize they never actually tested the packs just as they fire them up. Now we laugh anticipating what's about to happen.
In the 2016 one they show the testing and it's this very forced cartoonish sequence in an alley.
It was too bad because I'd put Wiig and McCarthy as two of the better ones at physical comedic timing especially at that time.
The Village or The Others.
Pick either one, but both sucks so bad. #1 People loved too much at a Renaissance fairs and made to make it IRL or #2 a woman goes into a house and just walks around the halls and close the curtains over and over and over and over and over and over and over....
Pick either one, but both sucks so bad. #1 People loved too much at a Renaissance fairs and made to make it IRL or #2 a woman goes into a house and just walks around the halls and close the curtains over and over and over and over and over and over and over....
Well, with that criteria in mind then, I have absolutely no f*cking idea why "Lost in Translation" was as popular with critics the way it was. It was boring and had the thinnest of plots; if I wanted to watch people have semi-awkward conversations in public I could just go down to the closest local bar and hang out there for a couple of hours instead of paying money to watch a movie about it. Yet critics made it sound like the Single Greatest Movie Ever Made when it came out.
Hollywood LOVES weird movies like that.... that's why those types of movies get all the acclaim. How else can you explain "The Shape of Water" got best picture?
It doesn't portray the South as inhuman barbarians say the way an Allied propaganda film from the 1940s might portray the Germans or the Japanese with no subtlety and zero humanity.
Rhett tells the secessionists very early in the film they're going to get their teeth kicked in by the Yankees and... they're going to deserve it. They go on and on about states' rights and wanting to keep their slaves and Rhett lets them know in no uncertain terms where their political arrogance and the racial caste system that underlies their backwards economy and society is going to lead. It's going to be a disaster.
Heck, it even acknowledges the South was the one to escalate a political crisis into a civil war.
The film told 'em. They didn't listen. The film (rightfully) trashes the hubris of the planter class. Ashley tries to be diplomatic about it, but Rhett goes in hard and doesn't care how much the truth offends.
This scene is probably my favorite one in the film. Clark Gable kills it. Rhett's look of horrified disbelief in the idiotic display in front of him before sighing into resignation at 0:33 is how one acts.
It's still a problematic film, but it doesn't let the South off the hook.
There should be only one
I sometimes leave my TV on when I'm gone for the noise just came home to Eraser. My God is this an absolute turd wrapped in an even smellier turd. James Caan's worst work and Vanessa Williams is awful.
Considering when it was made, it is a pretty darn good representation of the classic novel on which it is based. Though it has been over 40 years since I read it. The arrogance and delusion are pretty well portrayed.
I read the book as a teenager, but that was 20+ years ago. I don't want to comment on its treatment of such sensitive subjects as slavery and racism without a fresher look at the text.
I remember the film well, though, and it certainly gets a few licks in on the South and the planter class. It has some "cringe" moments relative to modern sensibilities, especially when dealing with some of the black characters, but Rhett strongly makes the case there's nothing noble about a cause so doomed and (implicitly, the reason the South doesn't have cannon factories is because its slave agriculture economy is missing the train on the industrialization sweeping the North) they deserved to get the whole thing literally burnt to the ground.
