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Dana Jean

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Also in It Chapter 2 I loved the homage to John Carpenter's The Thing, they even used the same dialogue, it was really cool :yes_pig:
Yes,
that head sprouting spider legs was a nice nod

I also loved how Bill is seen
at the end of the movie at his writing desk just like
Gordie Lachance
is seen at his writing desk at the end of Stand By Me.
 
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Wayoftheredpanda

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Scanners (1981): This movie was like They Live to me, a great concept with loads of potential from a great director that has a massive cult following, only for it to be an underwhelming boring mess of a movie imo. I had seen the head blowing up and suck your brain dry scenes and expected stuff like that to be all across the movie, only for those two scenes to be the only times the great practical effects were utilized. In a movie about a legion of psychic people, you'd think they actually show the whole 200 something evil Scanners instead of just a few. And 95% of the deaths were just from gunfire, you'd think they'd actually use the psychic stuff more often in the kills, especially when they have the amazing practical effects to do so. That's not to say the lack of interesting deaths isn't what made this movie bad, just the underutilization of it's concept, didn't need to be deaths for the powers to be used, you just have to show someone being slammed against a wall or something (for example of a good utilization of concept with lack of cool kills, Nightmare on Elm street only had 3, but they still showed a bunch of dream scenes with great effects to boot, and the few kills there were are all memorable), anyways that's a little off topic. This movie was so boring and dragged on forever, and I couldn't even tell what was going on half the time, it was just "oh we're here, and now we're here now, for some reason". And the worst part of this movie the characters, all the characters in this film didn't seem like real people, just robots, everyone spoke in this monotone voice as they just talked expeditionary conversation like they were just given a script and reading off it with no personality. It felt like they were trying to have a relationship between the protagonist and that one girl that I forget her name, but they just felt emotionless, they had no depth and were merely there to move the plot forward. Adding this movie to my list of popular/cult movies I hate. I guess you could say this movie... sucked my brain dry.

3/10, not enough psychic shenanigans

sorry Blake
 

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Haven't seen many theatrical releases this year, partially due to lack of time, partially due to lack of screenings (really wanted to see Climax, Midsommar & Dragged Across Concrete, but none came anywhere near locally). Here's my thoughts on a few of the ones I did see.

John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum

Just complete crap. Badly written, badly acted, way too much CGI, none of the simplicity that made the first film work. The constant never-ending scenes of weightless video-game became so repetitive and alienating to me it was almost surreal.

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

I think this is Tarantino's weakest film by a fairly wide margin. Overall more good than bad, with some highlights (mostly the Manson related stuff, which was scant), but honestly a lot of it is really dull. People driving around listening to old tunes and baring their nasty-ass feet aren't as interesting as you think they are, Quentin. I respect the obvious effort and passion, but it was ill-disciplined in a way I thought was tiresome rather than absorbing (unlike the next film).

The House That Jack Built

After anticipating it for nearly a year, this has ended up being my favourite film of 2019. Ugly, mean-spirited, self-reflexive, pernicious, over-long, and also completely brilliant. Jack Dillion is fantastic, there's some quality dark humour, and the final section is the boldest filmmaking I've had the pleasure of seeing on the big screen.
 

FlakeNoir

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Haven't seen many theatrical releases this year, partially due to lack of time, partially due to lack of screenings (really wanted to see Climax, Midsommar & Dragged Across Concrete, but none came anywhere near locally). Here's my thoughts on a few of the ones I did see.

John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum

Just complete crap. Badly written, badly acted, way too much CGI, none of the simplicity that made the first film work. The constant never-ending scenes of weightless video-game became so repetitive and alienating to me it was almost surreal.

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

I think this is Tarantino's weakest film by a fairly wide margin. Overall more good than bad, with some highlights (mostly the Manson related stuff, which was scant), but honestly a lot of it is really dull. People driving around listening to old tunes and baring their nasty-ass feet aren't as interesting as you think they are, Quentin. I respect the obvious effort and passion, but it was ill-disciplined in a way I thought was tiresome rather than absorbing (unlike the next film).

The House That Jack Built

After anticipating it for nearly a year, this has ended up being my favourite film of 2019. Ugly, mean-spirited, self-reflexive, pernicious, over-long, and also completely brilliant. Jack Dillion is fantastic, there's some quality dark humour, and the final section is the boldest filmmaking I've had the pleasure of seeing on the big screen.
Hello Brat! Great seeing you drop by! :smile:
 

Neesy

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Also in It Chapter 2 I loved the homage to John Carpenter's The Thing, they even used the same dialogue, it was really cool :yes_pig:
I took that as a complete rip-off of the movie at the time I saw it, but now after reading what you wrote I suppose it could be considered an 'homage' - thanks for helping me to look at it in a new way.

I might have to go see the movie again. It had a different feel than the first movie

Her cleft chin kind of got to me when I was watching - I know that sounds insignificant but the younger version of Bevvy did not have one
 

Notaro

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I took that as a complete rip-off of the movie at the time I saw it, but now after reading what you wrote I suppose it could be considered an 'homage' - thanks for helping me to look at it in a new way.

I might have to go see the movie again. It had a different feel than the first movie

Her cleft chin kind of got to me when I was watching - I know that sounds insignificant but the younger version of Bevvy did not have one
I think the director is a huge fan of Carpenter's The Thing and just wanted to acknowledge it's influence on him and his work. Re; Jessica Chastain, yeah little things like that do tend to get under my skin as well :D
 

Neesy

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I think the director is a huge fan of Carpenter's The Thing and just wanted to acknowledge it's influence on him and his work. Re; Jessica Chastain, yeah little things like that do tend to get under my skin as well :D
Hope I did not spoil it for others by saying that

I watched some recent episode of Bones and they talked about how cleft chins are hereditary etc. Wish they had put some sort of prosthesis on her chin to block it out :facepalm_smiley: