Coincidentally, I tried watching Bad Boys II last weekend. I couldn't make it to the end - running over dead people *could* be funny, but only if the film had already established a dark tone. I wouldn't say you'd have to be a moron to like it, but the demographic likely skews that way.
If you enjoy watching two grown men with anger issues constantly arguing like children as the centerpiece of a typical Michael Bay action over substance movie, you will probably consider it an all-time classic.
Silenced was absolutely devastating, an extremely difficult watch. Serious trigger warnings for this one.
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based on events that took place at Gwangju Inhwa School for the hearing-impaired, where young deaf students were the victims of repeated sexual assaults by faculty members over a period of five years in the early 2000s
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Gang In-ho uncovers sexual and physical abuse at a school for hearing impaired children. With the help of a human rights activist, Gang fights against the community to expose the abuse and put a stop to it.
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Bad Boys 2 is ridiculous schlock fest from the very start and running over dead bodies as a joke is well within the tone of pretty much any Michael Bay movie (that tone being: escapist fun for teenage boys, he'll bluntly tell you that himself). I know it's trendy to poop on all things Michael Bay and he's made more movies I dislike than like, so I'm at my limit defending him here, but sometimes the formula works: The Rock, Pain & Gain and Bad Boys II are all great movies imo.
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Bad Boys 2 is ridiculous schlock fest from the very start and running over dead bodies as a joke is well within the tone of pretty much any Michael Bay movie (that tone being: escapist fun for teenage boys, he'll bluntly tell you that himself). I know it's trendy to poop on all things Michael Bay and he's made more movies I dislike than like, so I'm at my limit defending him here, but sometimes the formula works: The Rock, Pain & Gain and Bad Boys II are all great movies imo.
Loved Pain and Gain. Didn't seem like a typical Bay movie though imo.
Invisible Man was very solid. Good at building up suspense. Wouldn’t expect too much in jump scares, it’s not that kind of movie. One or two gory moments. Scary? Not really. Entertaining? Very. Good story. Thumbs up from me and I’d watch it again for sure.
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I've been a bit let down by some of the acclaimed movies of 2019. Knives Out was not bad but disappointing. Started out with such promise with a great cast in a Clue like setting with the potential of a clever who done it only halfway through the movie it just bails on all of that focussing on a couple of characters while underutilizing the rest of the cast. The ingredients for a great film were there and they just underbaked it.
Parasite was better but far from the best South Korean film ever made. It's like a bunch of movie critics and Oscar voters had never seen or heard of South Korea cinema before and realised "Wow this highly entertaining, violent, quirky, dark, depressing, revenge storytelling with twists is pretty cool." Good movie but I was expecting a masterpiece seeing this was finally the South Korean film that broke through to mainstream west moviegoers and it's just a good film by the standards set decades ago by South Korean cinema.
I used to think Rob Zombie had potential in the horror genre especially after his Halloween remake but it seems now he just uses movies as a vessel to cast his wife and actor buddies in films. I liked Captain Spaulding but others can fade away now.
I used to think Rob Zombie had potential in the horror genre especially after his Halloween remake but it seems now he just uses movies as a vessel to cast his wife and actor buddies in films. I liked Captain Spaulding but others can fade away now.
Sadly Sid Haig passed away so he was barely in the new one and the scenes he was in he looked so old and frail. I agree, he had potential and House of 1000 Corpses was great and I liked Devils Rejects and Lords of Salem but wasn't a big fan of his Halloween films or 3 From Hell.
Whatever you do, don't watch 31. It's bad even by bad Rob Zombie standards, and not bad enough to be 'good bad'.
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Whatever you do, don't watch 31. It's bad even by bad Rob Zombie standards, and not bad enough to be 'good bad'.
31 is Casablanca and Citizen Kane rolled into one compared to 3 from hell. I wasn’t kidding when I said earlier in this thread that it might be the worst film I’ve ever watched.
Silenced was absolutely devastating, an extremely difficult watch. Serious trigger warnings for this one.
Only 5 years? compared to the Deaf school in Vancouver that's a walk in the park, Jericho Hill had a regime of rampant and endemic abuse going back into the 50's
Only 5 years? compared to the Deaf school in Vancouver that's a walk in the park, Jericho Hill had a regime of rampant and endemic abuse going back into the 50's
Yeah, I know. It was just a weird comment. "Only five years". Like that matters to the victim in this case.
Sorry, didn't mean to be flippant, Jericho Hill has been all but forgotten in BC but the stuff that went on there was so grim.
They swept it under the rug when it was happening and it seems like its been quietly forgotten since.
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