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Watched the sopranos in under a month. Fantastic show.
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A Dark Path

This movie sucks! Its a monster movie that runs 74minutes and the monster only shows up at the hour mark! You have to try to fail that hard. Just avoid this boring waste of time.
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Watching Titanic for the first time in over two decades on Blu-Ray, now I know why this film won so many awards and is the 3rd highest-grossing movie of all time adjusted for inflation. Such a wonderfully-directed, written and paced film from start to finish even if it is over 3 hours long. I loved watching the development of Dawson and his relationship with Rose, and that ending, powerful stuff, and by that, I mean very sad, I almost cried when I saw this in the theater. And who can forget that iconic score?
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Into The Spiderverse, finally. Man, what a ride. I like the MCU Spider-Films, but this thing just stomps all over them. It's worth watching a few times for the visuals alone.
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Cats (2019).





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SoggyNoodles2016 wrote: Mon Dec 21, 2020 10:43 pm Cats (2019).


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xZzUJuyXpOQ


4/10
Honestly, I salute you for sitting all through that...thing
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SoggyNoodles2016 wrote: Mon Dec 21, 2020 10:43 pm Cats (2019).


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xZzUJuyXpOQ


4/10
Dude...How in the skreeonk did you even manage to survive watching that?

Also 4/10? That's not even just being generous.
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Got around to watching the Scream trilogy on Blu-Ray. I'll try to keep my thoughts on all 3 as short and sweet as possible.

Scream is, without question, a slasher classic, one of the few genuinely good slasher films, not just fun popcorn entertainment like many/most slashers, but actually good with one of the most memorable openings ever seen in a slasher. It's pacing is top notch and never dulls down for a second and it not only handles comedy, which is in itself a unique feat for a horror-slasher, but it does so in the ballsiest of ways that you can't help but get a good laugh. Sidney is also one of the best horror protagonists you'll ever see, she delivers a killer performance (no pun intended) from start to finish. My only real gripes are Dewey was kind of annoying in this film and Gale wasn't given the attention her character deserved here. All in all, it's near-perfect, which is a rare feat for a slasher.

Scream 2 has Sidney at her best, showing the most personality out of any of the Scream films, which is really saying a lot. It also follows Gale more closely, giving her more depth and screentime from the first movie. She felt more like a reporter trying to make a name for herself and not a background piece like in the first movie. I love that they explored her and Dewey's budding relationship and even Dewey himself is more likable in this. It also does things no other slasher sequel had the balls to do: make a movie reenactment of the first film (which Austin Powers later stole from this movie with Goldmember) and the commentary during film class about how horror sequels are always inferior to the original is comedic gold, though it does have some flaws, mainly how "convenient" some of the kill are, especially at the beginning in the theater. I also hated how, even though I understand and even dig the why:
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the Ghost Face killer conveniently didn't have the wherewithall to make sure Dewey was dead after stabbing him in the school.


Despite these minor gripes, though, it's a good fun time and one of the better horror sequels and slasher sequels especially, which isn't saying much, but still.

3 has the most jaded plot of all the Scream films (albeit for lack of trying, I mean that literally), but it has just enough new ideas to at least hold your attention while sticking with the tongue-in-cheek, movie-within-a-movie approach of Scream 2. Unfortunately, it's bogged down by a myriad of flaws. It starts out promising enough with an early kill/invasion, but then it goes South by killing off a beloved character early on (a la Alien 3 and Terminator Dark Fate), not to mention there's already a bit of a plot hole beforehand with:
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Christine "seeing" the Ghost Face in Cotton's place despite having no PTSD, at least not that I'm aware of (she was never involved in any of the previous Ghost Face kill sprees for that to work).


It does have some things going for it, though. It uses the Stab concept in a unique way by
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not actually having the latest Stab movie begin production, but Sidney, Gale, and Dewey instead find a screenplay which starts a whole new investigation and spree of murders
and the returning cast (Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox and David Arquette) is great, as usual. They even revealed a bunch of new info about Maureen (more than either of the previous films) that I thought was kinda cool. Unfortunately, there's so many plot holes and contrivances (convenient kills) you have to turn your brain off to have any kind of fun with this one. It doesn't help that the kills (the main draw of a slasher film) are a lot more dialed down in this one, mostly offscreen affairs.

PS, prime Courteney Cox gives me the ________ vibes.
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Great Pretender broke me last night
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Cryptid_Liker wrote: Wed Dec 23, 2020 12:45 pm Great Pretender broke me last night
Honestly looks pretty good. Is it seriously that bad?
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Cryptid_Liker wrote: Wed Dec 23, 2020 12:45 pm Great Pretender broke me last night
Dare ya to watch The Amazing Bulk. :lol:

Yes that's actually a movie.
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Gigantis wrote: Wed Dec 23, 2020 2:22 pm
Cryptid_Liker wrote: Wed Dec 23, 2020 12:45 pm Great Pretender broke me last night
Honestly looks pretty good. Is it seriously that bad?
It's not bad. What broke me was the events of Season 2, not the quality of the show. Just watch the entire show and you'll know what I mean.

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Cryptid_Liker wrote: Wed Dec 23, 2020 12:45 pm Great Pretender broke me last night
Dare ya to watch The Amazing Bulk. :lol:

Yes that's actually a movie.
Trust me, that's on my bucketlist.
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Cryptid_Liker wrote: Wed Dec 23, 2020 2:56 pmTrust me, that's on my bucketlist.
Wish you luck surviving. :lol:
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I just watched ''Wonder Woman 1984'' on HBO Max, it was extremely predictable but I enjoyed it more then the first Wonder Woman. You just knew what she was going to have do and how the film was going to end before the half-way point.

CGI for the Cheetah during the final battle was a little spotty but Kristen Wiig did a fine job playing the character.

That said, if you liked the first you'll probably enjoy this. Oh an btw.....
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She fly's like Superman now. I was honestly waiting for the laser-beam eyes during the final fight
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XxComablack1937xX wrote: Fri Dec 25, 2020 11:53 pm I just watched ''Wonder Woman 1984'' on HBO Max, it was extremely predictable but I enjoyed it more then the first Wonder Woman. You just knew what she was going to have do and how the film was going to end before the half-way point.

CGI for the Cheetah during the final battle was a little spotty but Kristen Wiig did a fine job playing the character.

That said, if you liked the first you'll probably enjoy this. Oh an btw.....
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She fly's like Superman now. I was honestly waiting for the laser-beam eyes during the final fight
I just watched it and thought it sucked. Way too long with plot holes and bad dialog galore. It did itself no favors by:
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Having Wonder Woman rape a man.
No way is it as good as the first.
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Dracula's Daughter, the direct sequel to 1931's Dracula. I've been wanting to see this movie since the early 2010s and now that I finally watched it, after purchasing the Universal Classic Monsters Complete 30-film Collection, I can say that it's a pretty good movie and a worthy sequel to a horror classic.
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Finally got around to watching True Blood on HBO Max, really enjoying it so far. This show really has a unique spin on vampires compared to other vampire shows/movies that I've seen. They have "unique" personalities for sure, and I love it.
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Finished watching season 1 of Love, Death + Robots. Kickass anthology about animated adaptations of sci fi short stories. Almost all of the episodes were solid, with 'The Dump' being the only one I actively disliked, and I few that I were 'meh' on.

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I finally got my Howl Beyond the Fog BD in earlier this week so I got around to watching that. I thought it was a really great movie a must watch.
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I just got done watching all of the Ringu films for the first time since I bought the Ringu Collection by Arrow Video recently. I watched the first movie some time after Christmas with my mom and sister, but I watched the three other films during the past three days. Spiral wasn't has bad as other say it is, but I do think Ring 2 was better. Ring 0 is my second favorite and that was the one I just watched today.

Also, I watched Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo and it's sequel, Sanjuro for the first time. Yojimbo is the best, obviously, and I could easily see where Sergio Leone got the inspiration for A Fistful of Dollars. Speaking of Kurosawa, I also watched Throne of Blood, Seven Samurai and, watching for the first time ever, the film that inspired George Lucas' Star Wars, The Hidden Fortress recently.

In the last post I made, I said I watched Dracula's Daughter. Well, I also watched The Mummy with Boris Karloff recently and I'm going to watch more of Universal's classic monster movies for the rest of the month.
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