Exorcist: Believer was pretty good. Nothing will ever stand up to the OG but there was definitely something there in this one. You could tell they really wanted to push this one as far as the OG went but they couldn't. There could have been some serious depth cut into this script, it wanted it, called for it.
.all in all it was good by today's standards but it just feels like they had to leave so much on the table that maybe an A24 movie company may have given them license to explore.
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And still need to track down / wait for a few of the other top rated ones. I'm especially looking forward to that Korean one, Sleep.
I feel this film is getting pretty overrated amongst critics. I think there is a good film idea there but the implementation wasn't good enough. It's not a bad film in this genre (most are pretty terrible) but I didn't find it overly scary or memorable. It could have been better with tighter writing.
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What's the point of having rules to follow if everyone is going to ignore them to doom themselves and their family? Things really fell apart at the end in the school house when the woman is putting together her rig to kill the possesses dude only for the guy to go rogue at the last minute (he finally decided to listen to the girl he was slapping around minutes prior?) to doom everyone in his family circle. Sudden stupid character syndrome is a horror movie killer for me.
I love Bill Burr standup, but movies like this give me pause, just because of the absolutely wild swings between critical and audience reviews.
Also...depending on where it lands on the spectrum, I really dont like 'stupid comedy.'
For what it's worth this film was always going to be reviewed poorly. It pushes back pretty hard on political correctness and that never plays well with reviewers.
I can't imagine Burr's comedy is popular with that demographic in the first place.
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Finished my watchthrough of the Halloween movies. Here's my ranking:
1. Halloween (1978)
2. Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)
3. Halloween (2018)
4. Halloween II (1980)
5. Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998)
6. Halloween (2007)
7. Halloween II (2009)
8. Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)
9. Halloween Ends (2022)
10. Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989)
11. Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995)
12. Halloween Kills (2021)
13. Halloween: Resurrection (2002)
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Finished my watchthrough of the Halloween movies. Here's my ranking:
1. Halloween (1978)
2. Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)
3. Halloween (2018)
4. Halloween II (1980)
5. Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998)
6. Halloween (2007)
7. Halloween II (2009)
8. Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)
9. Halloween Ends (2022)
10. Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989)
11. Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995)
12. Halloween Kills (2021)
13. Halloween: Resurrection (2002)
Great list! Loving seeing Halloween 3 so high up and the Rob Zombie ones not at the very bottom
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Great list! Loving seeing Halloween 3 so high up and the Rob Zombie ones not at the very bottom
Season of the Witch was the first Halloween movie that I saw as a kid so my enjoyment wasn’t affected by it not being a sequel. If it didn’t have Halloween in the title a lot more people who enjoy it for what it is.
The RZ movies were pretty enjoyable. I agree with Carpenter that humanizing Michael was a big mistake.
Overall I’m glad I watched them all even though the bottom four on my list were pretty terrible, and Resurrection in particular is ####ing awful.
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Watched Big Trouble in Little China for the first time in about 30 years.
god what a piece of crap movie.
I think it was great at the time, and man has it aged horribly.
It's not even so bad it's good. Just a bad, bad, movie.
Watched Big Trouble in Little China for the first time in about 30 years.
god what a piece of crap movie.
I think it was great at the time, and man has it aged horribly.
It's not even so bad it's good. Just a bad, bad, movie.
Yeah I watched it once for the first time maybe 15 or so years ago because I'd heard so much about it, also didn't think it was very good. I think it was one of those ones where you had to be there at the time.
Lawrence of Arabia is perhaps the greatest accomplishment put to film ever. The cinematography alone is so captivating that for a almost 4hr movie you are never bored. No one today is even coming close to the craftsmanship of this masterpiece. So glad I waited until getting my hands on a 4K disk to watch it, it's probably the best 4K disk as well.
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David Lean was an epic filmmaker who was of an entirely different era of filmmaking, and Lawrence of Arabia is his magnum opus, but check out Bridge on the River Kwai or Dr. Zhivago as well.
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