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cult of chucky 3
insidious chapter 3 - 3 i think all the insidious films are pretty good, & while i'd say this one is probably the weakest of the bunch, i still think it's well made & perfectly enjoyable.
my week:
human desire (1954) 3.5 not to be that guy, but boy, they really made sure they showed off that girl's boobs at the 9m mark.
pretty cool little noir thriller. very bleak in its portrayal of human failings & lapses in judgment and decency.
though i did spend the entire running time yelling mentally at the main character 'there's a much nicer, cooler, and more attractive woman who clearly digs you who does not want you to kill anyone. why aren't you going after her?'
the milky way (1969) 2.5 "Two drifters go on a pilgrimage from France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. Along the way, they hitchhike, beg for food, and face the Christian dogmas and heresies from different Ages."
i didn't understand this movie and i didn't get whatever it was telling me.
i found a few parts of it somewhat amusing & clever, but most of it passed me by with no impact, and large stretches of it bored me.
insidious (2010) 3 if you wanna say the insidious films contain a lot of what's wrong with mainstream horror, i probably wouldn't disagree with you, at least not hotly. but i will still maintain that they're all pretty good.
none of them really stay in my head in any meaningful way. they genuinely lack the kinds of scenes and emotions that give something like raw or kill list the staying power they have with me.
but they're all competently made and fun and pacy and i have a reliably good time every time i watch one of them.
the dirties (2010) 4 feels all too real.
i hate schools.
bonjour tristesse (1958) 2.5 it's pleasant and breezy enough, i suppose. and the girl from breathless is as cute as a bug.
but i just didn't care. i spent all ninety minutes staring through the screen, not amused and mostly bored. i didn't care about these people and their feelings and what they did. they didn't make me laugh, they didn't make me feel anything.
braid (2018) 4 very visually neat, trippy, stylish and enormously enjoyable, or at least enjoyable to me. if you're not completely burnt out on mind-bending 'is it all in her head?' story-telling, you might like it as much as i did. given that this must have been a low budget affair, there were a lot of really interesting sets and scenes and visual flourishes.
i'm not sure i completely grokked everything that was in here, but i was engaged and interested all the way through and walked away feeling like i'd seen something quite different and a bit daring, and you have to appreciate that.
predator (1987) 3.5 i swear, i had no idea that armwrestling/handshake meme came from this movie. i was so happy when i saw that.
i am pretty sure this is the first time i've watched this since the 80s. not sure why...the other popular arnolds (ie your terminators, total recalls, commandos) certainly have been watched many, many times. this one never quite stuck with me.
and honestly, even though it has some classic moments and really quite good effects...i didn't quite love it tonight. it's fine. perfectly entertaining. but i'd rather watch any one of those other films first before this one.
deathstalker 2 (1987) 3.5 this movie is silly, goofy fun. always a good thing to not take yourself too seriously.
buffalo 66 (1998) 5 fat chance, but i'd be very happy if i met a girl with eye makeup like christina ricci in this movie.
i think this is one of the funniest movies ever made.
'it's the name of his name.'
i can't tell you how hard that made me laugh.
if i had any talent or ambition, this is the kind of thing i'd like to make.
honestly, every five minutes when i'm watching this, all my happiness & pleasure neurons are firing. this is what i want movies and life in general to be like.
a woman i used to work with told me that my personality was a combination of billy brown and crispin glover. that remains both the greatest compliment and insult i've ever received.
siren (2013) 3 pretty good. gets a little close at times to feeling a bit like a hallmark romance, but mostly i dug it as a fairly cool twilight zone-ish sci-fi story.
the burning (1981) 3.5 its reputation as being among the best 80s slashers is completely deserved. it's properly paced and has sexy teens and some fun gore.
it's not quite silly & fun enough to invoke pieces-level devotion from me, but every time i watch it, i have a reliably good time.
sleepaway camp 2 (1988) 3 honestly, i feel like they deserve credit for not trying to give us another shock ending, like giving us a pic of angela's (spoiler i guess?) reconstructed vagaina or something.
this is a perfectly good 80s slasher. mostly moves along well enough, has some gore, has some cute girls, has a touch of nudity. it's fine.
spring breakers (2012) 4.5 as stupid as these people are, i am deeply deeply jealous of them.
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5 years ago
the song of solomon (2017) 3.5 i was pretty bored and indifferent to this for the first spell, even toyed with turning it off and trying to find something else, but starting around the 40m mark my patience was rewarded. hats off the to the actress for her go for broke, hold nothing back attitude. i feel kinda bad that she probably didn't make much for this. if she has a venmo or patreon or anything, i'd gladly send her a little money.
gets a bit talky at times, but just browse twitter or play a game through those scenes. there are things worth seeing here if you enjoy gore effects.
sleepaway camp 3 (1989) 3 not as fun as part 2, and a bit tame, but it still has its pleasures.
spider-man 3 (2007) 3.5 yes, there's a lot wrong with it. people have enumerated all of them over the years. nobody needs me to lay out all that stuff again.
but there's a lot that's good in it. exciting action sequences. the sandman origin scene is one of the cooler effect shots to appear in a cbm or any movie really.
it all still mostly looks great 13 years later, really. that venom death scene in particular looks really cool.
it's not a disaster, but it's still a bit of a drag to see the pieces of the great movie it could have been if it wasn't so cluttered and needlessly filled with new characters.
frazier park recut (2017) 3 pretty cool found footage horror. i have to ding it just a little bit because, when it shows you what is happening and who's doing what, it's not really a surprise. but it's fun and really well executed.
totally f*cked up (1993) 3 i'm open to watching crude, angry gay movies from the early 90s. not my preferred thing, but i'm open to it.
and there were elements i really dug. industrial music. front 242 posters. cluttered, aimless, shambolic plotting. all good.
i just didn't really care about any of these people, tbh, and was glad to have them out of my life by the end of the movie.
ryuichi sakamoto: coda (2017) 4 sakamoto says a few things throughout the film that really set off my hippy bullshit detector, and i think he should be pushed on his environmental concern when he apparently doesn't support nuclear power.
and i should mention that if you're a ymo fan at all, you'll see very little of them presented here.
but this is a very neat portrait of an interesting, talented, if slightly dippy guy. and it's loaded with lots of great music.
between the lines (1977) 3.5 great! very minor key, no real story or major conflicts, but it mopes around in an incredibly fun, shambolic fashion. apparently there was a short-lived sitcom based on this film in the laste 70s, but i've never heard of it.
lake artifact (2019) 3 well, at least the film spells it out when one of the characters tells us this is some 'twilight zone/black mirror shit.' that's more or less exactly what it is, except they would have done it a lot better.
not to be too snippy, because this is pretty entertaining. it doesn't tie up a lot of things as far as i could tell, unless i missed something, but it chugs along, it's professional in its look and sound, and i was more or less entertained for 90 minutes. that's what i ask for.
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StoneKeeper (28408)
5 years ago
Hey, we both watched an insidious movie this week! Cheers!
Braid sounds interesting.
Buffalo 66 is on my list.
Predator: big Arnie fan but the first half is meh. 6/10
Spring breakers: “look at my shit” scene runs me the wrong way. 5/10
Spider-man 3: 6.5/10
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