Liked Prince Avalanche for what it was: two guys working a highway project in the middle of nowhere, talking, talking, talking. Paul Rudd, Emile Hirsch, recommended if you're a fan of theirs, or low-key films of guys working towards adulthood and responsibility.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Friday, 12 July 2019 19:08 (four years ago) link
Watching Halloween II (original).
I love how Ben Treamor gets flambeed and then they just leave him there still on fire and drive off
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Friday, 8 October 2021 05:13 (two years ago) link
What's up with comedians/comic actors making horror movies?
Danny McBrideJordan PeeleChris Rock
― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 9 October 2021 06:18 (two years ago) link
I actually wish Myers hadn't worn that shitty mask in Halloween 4, a bandaged Michael killing people woulda ruled. as did his first three murders.
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 October 2021 03:16 (two years ago) link
I will admit to not loving 4 but outside of the first three, 2018, and maybe H20, it's one of the few i'll watch.
they ruined the ending by revealing that Jamie didn't actually kill her foster mother at the end of 4 though. it's like what if in the original Halloween, Michael had only punctured his sister's lung
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 October 2021 03:18 (two years ago) link
also what the fuck problem does he have with mom and pop restaurants and auto body stores is Michael anti-small business? is this what drives him? is he trying to make his stock go up a few points?
then he destroys Loomis's car. someone was making payments on that still!
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 October 2021 03:20 (two years ago) link
every time I watch an 80s slasher I'm convinced that only 4 facial shapes existed in the 80s
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 October 2021 03:24 (two years ago) link
also did Michael actually stop in a Halloween store to get his new mask
did he pay for it or did he just kill the owners like usual
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 October 2021 03:25 (two years ago) link
lol i forgot they show him grabbing it. duh.
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 October 2021 03:27 (two years ago) link
the image Jamie has of young Michael in his mask is actually very good
halloween 4 is dope especially when they cut the power, it’s not og halloween but what is. i prefer it to 2
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 14 October 2021 03:29 (two years ago) link
something is unsettling about seeing houses in 80s slasher films. houses were so boring back then.
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 October 2021 03:31 (two years ago) link
just realizing that if somehow Laurie dies in Halloween Kills or Halloween Ends, this will be the third fucking time she died in the series.
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 October 2021 03:33 (two years ago) link
the reversal of jamie as killer in 5 is the worst thing about it, though 5 is also kind of like watching the mounting psychic damage of attempting to write and shoot a fifth halloween sequel, so i let it get away with a lot
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 14 October 2021 03:33 (two years ago) link
i think the h20 continuity presses on the ambiguity of laurie having “died” in 4, as she basically assumed a completely different life
her only true death is in resurrection and it’s the worst 10 minutes of the entire franchise
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 14 October 2021 03:36 (two years ago) link
let me have this third death plz
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 October 2021 03:37 (two years ago) link
I have a weird fascination with horror franchsies, like, good or bad, if your series goes like 7 or 8 movies, I'll have an interest in watching them all.
except Saw. fuck Saw.
actually, i stand corrected, as laurie technically dies at the end of the director’s cut of rob zombie’s halloween 2
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 14 October 2021 03:38 (two years ago) link
which i remembered but rob zombie’s halloween movies belong to like an alternate dimension version of this franchise and i have trouble associating them
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 14 October 2021 03:39 (two years ago) link
holy fuck, she's like Groundkeeper Willie on that Treehouse of Horrors
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 October 2021 03:40 (two years ago) link
Cops Do It By the Book
always amazed how people in movies can fucking HEAR news reports in a crowded bar.
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 October 2021 03:43 (two years ago) link
Sometimes they tell everyone to shush and ask the bartender to turn it up, and everyone respectfully quiets down so they can focus on what's happening.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 14 October 2021 12:52 (two years ago) link
I only saw the first Saw but I was extremely shocked by how much I liked it
not enough to watch the sequels, mind you
― talkin' about his flat tire (DJP), Thursday, 14 October 2021 13:24 (two years ago) link
first saw is a good movie. i haven’t watched any of the sequels either lol
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 14 October 2021 14:20 (two years ago) link
First one has bad acting but a great twist and fresh premise. Sequels veer hard into torture porn and a pointlessly tangled mythology. Well, not pointless. The point is to prolong the franchise.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 14 October 2021 15:12 (two years ago) link
First Saw is good.
Second one is decent but eyerolly
Third one is hilarious
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 October 2021 15:51 (two years ago) link
Not in a good way, mind
I've lost track of the number of stories and reviews that have cited the bodycount and brutality of this installment as a series high, but I find it really hard to believe this one is more "brutal" than the Zombie one(s).
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 15 October 2021 15:17 (two years ago) link
some reviews make this movie sound like it's "what if Funny Games was a Halloween movie" which um, no thank you
― talkin' about his flat tire (DJP), Friday, 15 October 2021 15:46 (two years ago) link
It's very brutal but not like.... anything that will shock genre aficionados
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Friday, 15 October 2021 16:24 (two years ago) link
Reviews on this are generally scathing
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Friday, 15 October 2021 16:26 (two years ago) link
I just don't get it. I skimmed a couple of reviews and ... sigh. All they have to do is make it scary and not stupid and it will work. Like, the Freddy movies, after the first one or maybe two, they're just FX camp, so the focus is on that. Jason, they're just dumb and mechanical, so the focus is on that. The first Halloween perfected the moody, slow and steady wins the race template, which is what made it an iconic masterpiece. Who needs more bullshit larded on? This one sounds like its predecessor, with a bunch of half-assed psychology and pointlessly convoluted plot gymnastics. But when the fulcrum of your franchise is an unstoppable, unkillable, faceless murder-machine that doesn't even speak, that ultimate blank canvas shouldn't be license to fill every corner with bullshit. Michael Myers is enough! The first Halloween was like Jaws. The sequels have pretty much all been Jaws 4. "Oh shit, the shark has followed me down to the Caribbean from New England because it has a mythical vendetta against me and my family!" Or whatever. That doesn't make the shark scarier, that makes the movie silly.
Like the twist from the last one? That was such a groaner just to get to a point where for sure these clever filmmakers could have found some other way to get. How hard can it be to just make a scary movie about a scary man doing scary things?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 15 October 2021 17:15 (two years ago) link
BTW, how many times now has Anthony Michael Hall been brought in as a beefed up bully? "Edward Scissorhands," "Community," "Hysteria - The Def Leppard Story" ...
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 15 October 2021 17:22 (two years ago) link
Fwiw I enjoyed it. It's messy and has a meandering attempt at social commentary that is pathetically on the nose and pointless, and it lasts 15 minutes. Some of the editing is also weird.
But it's also hella scuzzy like Halloween II (1981), which endeared it to me a bit. And lots of cool home invasions and practical gore.
As far as a Halloween sequel goes, I'll take it. It definitely feels like the second in a trilogy though.
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Friday, 15 October 2021 17:33 (two years ago) link
Also the "personal vendetta" thing is kind of hacked apart in this one, Last Jedi style
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Friday, 15 October 2021 17:34 (two years ago) link
Michael is a hologram force projection?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 15 October 2021 17:35 (two years ago) link
I forgot this was also on Peacock, which it looks like we have, so I started giving it a shot, and ... I don't know, the early scene with the firemen? That's some ridiculous shit, which indicates this movie could really go either way.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 15 October 2021 18:08 (two years ago) link
Some of the editing is also weird.
hated this about the previous one
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Friday, 15 October 2021 18:10 (two years ago) link
I'm at the next set piece. Michael is definitely more Jason in this.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 15 October 2021 18:12 (two years ago) link
josh save it for a long spoiler tagged post when you’re done please and thank you
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Friday, 15 October 2021 18:16 (two years ago) link
no prob! thank you for stopping me, because otherwise I might have just kept going.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 15 October 2021 18:21 (two years ago) link
he is a little more Jason, though he hasn't really done the 'quiet stalking, heavy breathing, strangling' thing since the OG. he 'peek a boos' a little, and gets bored and then just kills u and moves to next house.
(or at least that's what he did in Halloween II before he went to the hospital. fitting they called it Memorial Hospital ("remember when this was a hospital, and there were doctors and stuff?")
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Friday, 15 October 2021 18:24 (two years ago) link
Spoilers, I guess.
I couldn't do it. I made it to the 40 minute mark. It was all so dull and poorly paced. I fast-forwarded a bit and it looked like it kept shifting from boring to stupid and back again. It was bad enough when he single-handedly took out the entire squad of firefighters. But then when he takes out the entire armed posse? Yeah, this is some lazy bullshit from people that should know better.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 15 October 2021 18:39 (two years ago) link
Cureently watching this and finding it awesome. Ok, just got to to the scene that people are presumably complaining about and yes, ugh, but I don't find it too prurient
― The Speak Of The Mearns (Jonathan Hellion Mumble), Friday, 15 October 2021 21:36 (two years ago) link
it eventually leaves and then back to the butchery
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Friday, 15 October 2021 21:51 (two years ago) link
the entire armed posse was kind of a bit like Gomer's Pyle, tbf
I loved the fireman scene. it was ridiculous trash, plus those firemen were idiots. and Michael actually does like hand to hand combat, blocking punches, it was hilarious
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Friday, 15 October 2021 21:52 (two years ago) link
in other words this film is much trashier than the previous and I guess that's why I liked it? lean into the grime, I guess.
that won't work for the finale obv.
this film isn’t dumber than the previous imo
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Friday, 15 October 2021 22:18 (two years ago) link