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I'm a socialist, and also a big horror movie fan.
Also don't have a problem with the color orange or the letter 'Q'.
Cute list, though.
I can easily see why some would enjoy portions of the second part, given the flashbacks to when they were kids strewn throughout. I thought it was a somewhat clever idea, and while I thought most of the main performances of the adults were fine in Part Two, I definitely liked seeing the kids back, albeit in a limited fashion.
I'll definitely agree, though, that the finale almost entirely falls apart, and really did feel quite weak, at least in my eyes.
I find this a fascinating question.
In my opinion, the weirdest ones would include The Claws of Axos (Jon Pertwee), The Android Invasion (Tom Baker), Warriors' Gate (Tom Baker), The Ultimate Foe (Colin Baker - Final story in Trial of a Time Lord), and like you said, definitely Ghost Light.
It's personally not one of my favorites, but I enjoyed it well enough.
I suspect to the extent that it's lower-rated among Hartnell's stories, it may be because purely historical stories aren't as interesting to many as the ones with more science-fiction elements. Not only that, but this is heavily western influenced, which isn't always a favorite of people.
When it comes to Hartnell, I'd probably through The Gunfighters somewhere in the middle. I did love the recurring "Last Chance Saloon" song, because is cracked me up. Overall, though, there's other Hartnell stories that I think people gravitate toward.
That's one of the many things I liked about this one.
Like another poster (kicapp) said, the priest was a childhood friend of Leo. He only appeared prominently in a single scene (the funeral), where they showcased the handshake they do at the end.
A lot of movies might have done some kind of quick flashback to that scene, and arguably, maybe this film should have, but I appreciated that they expected us to get it. They did introduce both characters as 'Mario' at different times, which I didn't really catch, and I rather dug how they dovetailed the characters at the end.
So I'll say that there were a lot of horror films from 2010-2019 I thought were either weak or disappointing, and it might be one of the weaker decades for the genres, but there are a couple at least from each year I think were worth seeing.
2010: Black Rat, Rare Exports, Tucker and Dale vs Evil, YellowBrickRoad
2011: The Cabin in the Woods, The Day
2012: Barricade, Sinister, The Conspiracy, Truth or Dare
2013: Curse of Chucky, Dark Skies, Don’t Go to the Reunion, Vampire Ticks from Outer Space, Weaverfish, Wolf Creek 2
2014: As Above, So Below, It Follows, Kristy
2015: Hell House LLC, Most Likely to Die, The Devil's Candy, The VVitch: A New-England Folktale
2016: A Cure for Wellness, Hush, The Autopsy of Jane Doe, Train to Busan, 10 Cloverfield Lane
2017: Happy Death Day, It, Neverknock
2018: Apostle, Kill Game, Killer High, The Strangers: Prey at Night, You Might Be the Killer
2019: Midsommar, Recovery, Sea Fever, The Banana Splits Movie
Some of these are quite low budget (Don't Go to the Reunion and Vampire Ticks from Outer Space), but I thought all the above movies were at least enjoyable.
To this day, I've never seen The Fog remake, and I've never really gotten a huge urge to check out out. Heard almost exclusively negative things about it.
This one has always been pretty solid in my eyes. I like the themes here, the interesting creature designs, and intense finale. Good stuff.
Not counting Freddy vs. Jason?
I'd rank them somewhere like this:
8) A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)
7) The Dream Child
6) Freddy's Dead
5) New Nightmare
4) The Dream Master
3) Freddy's Revenge
2) Dream Warriors
1) A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
I should say that I really need to see New Nightmare again - it could move up in my rankings. It's just that each time I see it, I tend to move it down a bit, but I do need to see it with fresh eyes.
I saw this one about a year ago for the first time. I think it started out quite strong, but the last hour definitely didn't hit the right spots. I do think it had potential, but much of the finale is entirely flubbed.
That said, I do have some friends in the horror community who enjoy this one, but like you, I just don't see it as being that remarkable of a movie at all.
So I don't doubt that some may be unhappy with this choice, and I am hoping that there's not some convoluted story being written to write Rose back into the show, but I think it's for the best that Davies return.
I just hope it's not too late, if I'm being honest.
I caught this myself. Whether it was a mistake or not, I don't know, but I just choose to take it at face value.
Maybe after his daughter died, and with the overwhelming support of the community, he remained the sheriff for a couple more years, and perhaps it became to much, and thus retired.
Like you said, though, it easily could be a mistake, and unless someone says something, we'll likely never know for sure.
Yeah, it seems like a throwaway line, and an easy one to miss. I don't think I caught it until maybe a couple of years back.
I apologize for the delay in reply - just logged back on here for the first time in two years, and happened to see this comment.
I imagine that seeing this in theaters would have been a blast, as it does have that drive-in feeling you mentioned. As it is, I've not actually seen this since I started this thread, and since I have been meaning to check out Piranha 3DD, I might give this one another go beforehand.
Aja is a pretty solid director. I've not seen Crawl, but I did highly enjoy both the Hills Have Eyes remake along with High Tension.
I've actually never seen any of the Insidious movies. Heard great things about the first one, of course, but somewhat lukewarm reactions to the others.
Halloween had a lot to live up to, and I think it did a decent job, but a few things bothered me about it, so I didn't fully love it as much as I hoped I would.
I'll be honest, I didn't love Hereditary. I liked it, but it doesn't reach that "great movie" level I was hoping it would. I can see some similarities between The VVitch and Hereditary, but I enjoyed The VVitch a hell of a lot more.
There's a lot of things I like about the It re-adaptation, and I agree that it's better than the mini-series. As It was one of those movies/mini-series that I grew up on, and helped grow my love of the genre, it's a hard thing to look too critically on. As a giant fan of the original novel, the 1990 screws up and leaves out so much, but overall, I can't help but sort of enjoy it. I agree that the 2017 version is much better, though.
It really is a good film. Definitely a contender for best of the decade, and of movies of the found footage style.
Basically that some viewers may not be willing to look past the gore. They may see Hostel just as a gory movie and nothing more, without taking an interest in looking past that and seeing what else the movie could present to them.
I don't really see how Saw is distinctively different from Hostel. Personally, I think Saw's a better story, but obviously that's just my opinion.
Human Centipede was more a gross-out movie over 'torture porn' in my view. Really, when it comes to 'torture porn,' I think the genre has such a negative baggage to it that it makes it hard to subjectively decide what'd fit into it. The creators of Saw don't think the Saw films are torture porn, but I don't know how much that means.
The problem is that films like Hostel, Saw, Captivity, Human Centipede, A Serbian Film, and Turistas are, to me, just new-age slasher or splatter films. Given the highly negative baggage behind 'torture porn' as a subgenre, I generally don't use the term at all.
I mean, both of the primaries are on Super Tuesday, so it's moderately early on, but at the same time, with the massive amount of candidates, I sort of wonder how many will drop out before they even get close to Super Tuesday. O'Rourke would probably be on my list of top ten candidates most likely to drop out beforehand.
Therein lies the problem - Castro, along with such candidates as Hickenlooper, Klobuchar, Inslee, Delaney, and Gillibrand, aren't going to be able to appeal to that many people, and definitely don't have any enthusiasm behind them. Can you imagine someone being enthusiastic about Castro or Klobuchar? Because I sure can't.
And just in full disclosure, I'm not a Democrat, so there could be moves or trends within the Party toward more centrist candidates that I may be unaware of.