This is a two and a half hour joke that basically summarises the first three films in one lacklustre fan remake. Act 1 feels like a parody skit you'd see during the Oscars awards show. There is so much less here compared to the previous Matrix films; less adventure, less captivating action, less music, less locations, less characters, less expansiveness, less wonder, less lore, less threat, less grit. So much is either missing or undone from what was already established and they chose to bring back all the wrong parts and tainted them. It feels like playing through a video game again on New Game+, with a new goofy costume unlocked for each character, and only doing the main story missions as fast as possible. I was obsessed with the original Matrix trilogy, this is extremely disappointing.
5 episodes in and I'm finding it hard to stay engaged. The movies were pretty amazing, even the bad ones, due to embracing their outlandish cheesiness... but this show is feeling far too sanitised and formulaic to the point of extreme boredom.
It's not nearly as creative as the movies and the single kill per episode is so "normal" and repetitive that it's underwhelming. We know they can do more. The story is akin to watching paint dry and the characters are completely wooden. Impossible situations start to happen around episode 3, requiring too much suspension of disbelief that I'm yet to recover from by episode 5.
With this show's bland tone, 'Chucky' has basically turned into another 'Stranger Things' but with a smidge more violence and less promise. I don't know how I can remain interested in another 5 episodes if this is the best they can do... maybe the fanservice and throwbacks will help some.
An origin story about a female serial killer, whose trauma is NOT based on being raped this time, hooray! There's not many of these.
I thought there was going to be another 10-15 minutes at the point where the movie ends. You can only watch 'Barbarian' the first time so be careful about how much you know going in. Anyone who unironically calls this "woke" is a dumbass.
The first 'Thankskilling' had a nice low budget charm about it and was a decent slasher parody. This sequel is absolutely fetid dogshit. Bigger budget doesn't mean better.
Best horror movie of 2020 for me. Amazing visuals and a genuine sense of pain explored.
Best post-credits scene ever made.
Help, I need an adult.
The first 25 minutes and last 25 minutes were excellent. The rest was just alright. Left too ambiguous with too many plot holes when you start thinking about it.
It's impossible to justify this movie's existence. My god, is it terrible.
It appears that 'Last Night in Soho' is too far out of Edgar Wright's comfort zone. I really quite enjoyed the story up until the stabbing and, while I thought the entire movie was shot and edited really well and was fun to watch, the horror elements really felt like they were straight out of an episode of 'Doctor Who'...
This is another movie that appears to romanticise mental illness to the point where it can be used as a "super power", and it caused me some confusion in terms of narrative, in how the supernatural elements seem to be confirmed as really happening but that she's still unwell. So which is it? Is the dark energy of the home manifesting itself and reaching out to her or is she really just seeing things caused by some super sharp intuition, why do the male spirits follow her outside of the boundaries of supernatural logic (because she's actually really hallucinating?), why does she see her mother (is her energy following her or is it part of the inherited mental illness which was explained as causing her mother's death), why does she continue to see the other young woman at the end if it's only supernatural. It's disappointing that she never sought help for her mental state by the end. It's all very inconsistent and left too unexplained for my liking. I also would have liked to see ANY "ghosts" of the women forced into sex work who were killed during those times (the older cop mentions that it makes sense the main character's mother is dead, implying that it was "normal" for women to be killed there too, so why not also show them as her "visions"?)
Anyway, 'Last Night in Soho' is fine. It doesn't push any boundaries and is probably the most underwhelming Edgar Wright film yet. If you want some recommendations of horror films that pretend to romanticise mental illness but then remind you that no, it's a terrible thing to have that can so easily destroy you, then check out 'Saint Maude' and 'Censor'.
This show has become a chore to get through ever since they went from a 60-minute episode split between two homes, to a 90-minute (or more) episode for a single home. The first dozen seasons were great and therapeutic/motivational to watch but there's no need for every recent episode to be feature film length with the exact same structure and outcomes.
Did Tommy Wiseau accidentally write and direct this movie? The dialogue and acting is so unnatural and incoherent in its flow, it reminds me of that scene in 'The Room' where Johnny picks up a dozen red roses. Sometimes the camera angles are so bizarre that only a portion of someone's face will be on-screen as they deliver dialogue and will be constantly moving around. Was this intentional? Even 'The Room' wasn't this incompetent.
'Old' is one of the strangest, dumbest, unlikeable, and most terrible movies I've ever experienced, which is just baffling considering the expertise of someone like M. Night Shyamalan. I'd expect something like this from a filmmaking graduate's first big budget project with unknown actors. But everyone here has proven themselves competent in other films/television shows, so how did this happen and why did it happen this way?
This movie is certainly a 1998 type movie. Not 1997. Not 1999. Only 1998.
Note: the home version is incredibly different to the theatrical release. Because of this intentional deception by the studio, to split audiences and confuse us, this is the first movie I'm rating a 1 on this website. I wish I could rate it 0.
Not as "dumb but fun" as the original. The weird tertiary subplot with the family dynamic is really ham-fisted and unnecessary. Some of the logic here is far too preposterous and contrived, even for a wacky horror/sci-fi movie like this. For example, at the end where the dad is locked in the daughter's room, why doesn't he just use the code that he himself implemented to escape... did I miss a part where the daughter was faking her imprisonment the whole time or something? And if the friend survived the quicksand, what about the priest guy who fell through the sand too?
The movie often doesn't trust the audience, flashing back to scenes that literally happened 5 minutes ago, as if we're too dumb to remember and even then these revelations don't pay off, like what's the point in the character who can't feel pain, she doesn't do anything with this "superpower" to help anyone and just dies randomly. The story here is not well thought out or plotted at all. These "contestants" die for little to no reason and we don't even get to see their fears realised, which was a big part of their character backstory and dialogue during their introduction.
The whole plane simulation in the first act never came to fruition and should have been cut... what, was it meant to "subvert expectations" because they took a car and a train instead or some bullshit? Then show us that they avoided the plane crashing, 'Final Destination' style or don't bother including it at all. (Edit: I just found out the theatrical version is completely different to the version I watched at home, which includes a different ending where they're trapped in this plane sim, Amanda from the original movie is involved with the Minos corporation thing, and there's a subplot with Zoey's therapist that foreshadows the events of this movie... why was all of this cut for the home release? I've never been gaslighted so bad, I'm so fucking mad lmao).
This movie is filled with Chekhov's gun moments and doesn't follow up on ANY of them. Not to mention half of the puzzles are solved in the characters' heads without including the audience (they just yell the answers to each other). It is incredibly frustrating and unsatisfying. Then the movie suddenly wraps up and ends with an allusion to a sequel. Please don't.
This is the weirdest horror movie I've ever seen. It's like if David Lynch teamed up with Danny Elfman to make the worst fever dream with the shallowest song lyrics possible. The baby would terrify even Chucky.
After a night of thinking about 'Annette' I realise I hate this movie? Not because it's really bad (it is) but because it has such wasted potential. It's like being served the foam scum that floats on top of a really nice soup, inside a very intricately decorated bowl, while a bunch of strangers sing 'Happy Birthday to You' in the style of Wesley Willis. They didn't bother collecting any of the depth or flavour that obviously laid within their grasp when we know it wouldn't have taken much more effort to do so.
I don't want to live on this planet anymore :pensive:
I was under the impression that this would be an anthology series, maybe that's for season 2, but season 1 focuses on a single person "cat and mouse game" type situation that already overstayed its welcome by the second half of the first episode. The impact of the movies are lost in translation to this television series, where there's less grit and gore, more comedy and cartoonish escapades. It's essentially a very boring 5 hour movie that forgets all that was interesting with the 'Wolf Creek' films: Mick Taylor's imposing presence and frightening antics.
This is very boring and annoying to watch. What part of this justifies the "Origins" label? We were already told the origins of the Leprechaun in previous films and this doesn't match up at all. I have to assume they completely changed the character of the Leprechaun so they didn't have to credit or pay royalties to Mark Jones.
Man, what the fuck is this shit? What a weird movie. There's hardly any gore, most deaths are off-screen, the majority of shots are out of focus, many shots linger too long, things just happens as if there's missing scenes, the acting is disgustingly terrible, and the leprechaun is just doing the same stuff that's already been done in the previous films. Would have been better if there was no leprechaun at all, or if the leprechaun was the one who joined a gang and became a hip-hop legend with his "sick" rhyming skills. Why does it always have to be the same fucking story with this franchise.
More like 'John and the Hole Lotta Nothing'...
I don't think I've seen a psychological horror with a vibe as deliberately goofy as this one (especially considering the subject matter), and the soundtrack really heightens the goofiness, but it pulls it off much better than James Wan's 'Malignant' did. I appreciated the fake TV shows inserted throughout, based on 'Doctor Who' and the other wacky sitcoms (as this movie is inspired by that 'Max Headroom' signal highjacking incident).
The main issue I have is the sloppy editing - sometimes cutting between locations or skipping ahead in time, without establishing that we've jumped forward a few hours or switched to a new character - it's mildly disorienting. Meanwhile the sound design was great, a lot of subtle and gradual changes that made me question the film's reality. The main character, James, is also either a bad actor or acting bad, I can't tell which but it's off-putting how emotionless his emotions come through. 'Broadcast Signal Intrusion' is a fun, quaint, little mystery to follow as it unravels.
If anyone was gonna adapt 'Dark Souls' to film, this would be the team to do it.
A pretty harrowing yet interesting take on toxic masculinity and its perpetual cycle of abuse (that is portrayed quite realistically here, probably the most realistic element of the whole movie). The film is shot really well and the sound design is great. Some of the characters aren't exactly dumb but extremely naive. The ending is fairly satisfying, if a bit outlandish. Still, if you like a good comeuppance in your revenge flicks then give 'The Woman' a try, although don't expect a relatively happy ending.
After watching I found out this is part of a loose trilogy, the first is called 'Offspring' from 2009 and the last is 'Darlin'' from 2019. Keen to watch these to further explain wtf is going on with the extremely vague backstory here.
Wow, this is absolutely garbage and the only highlight is how much people scream "ARRRGHHHHHHH" during the final battle.
There's more camera cuts than Liam Neeson jumping a fence. It feels like they filmed most of this with stand-ins with how tight the cameras stay on the actors' faces, even during fight scenes, you barely see JCVD fight anyone in a wider shot. JCVD sounds like he's learning English as he goes along and is being told to "just say it like this" he's worse than Tommy Wiseau lmao.
The story makes no sense, JCVD and friends can catch up to the baddies by teleporting across the world, despite only walking, where the bad guys take boats across the ocean. There's flashbacks with flashforward and more flashbacks within itself. Nothing flows coherently. Some shots are extremely long, probably because they needed to fill in 30 minutes for it to be considered a full-feature movie. There's also a severe lack of gore, almost all kills happen off-camera.
There's almost no focus on the "cyborg" aspect too, I guess it was just a cool title. It's more like 'Predator' but without the actual alien Predator and with infinite knives. The story basically ends with "the cure was the friends we found along the way" hahahaha.
Extremely. Disappointing.
Wow, what a step down, almost feels like they slapped the 'Fast and Furious' name onto a completely unrelated movie that was written by Joss Whedon. Falls into the racist "white saviour complex" where some dumb white guy with a Forrest Gump accent is sent to Tokyo for no good reason, gets a non-Asian girlfriend, joins a group of car enthusiasts who never speak Japanese (even when the white guy isn't present), and saves Tokyo from the Yakuza. It's such dumb garbage... sexist, racist garbage. Even the soundtrack sucks, other than that one song with the chimes.
I can't believe a movie with Nicolas Cage made me cry wtf
Honestly better, and more fun, than John Wick 2 or 3.
20 minutes in and this feels like military propaganda. Too slow paced and all the marines are incredibly dorky, like they all came from failed sitcoms. I'll probably fall asleep by the middle of it :sleeping:...
Now I have that image in my head forever haha thanks very cool :sunglasses:
