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Nice movie
Woke dragon
All the grossed out violence and nudity
Spider-Man: Across the Di-Verse
Aliens: "We don't understand the concept of lying and therefore you can't be trusted"
Would the First Order have tolerated homosexuality?
What could go wrong?
How does the finger clicking to make people disappear work exactly?
Old man death and the mallet
The kids
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Yes I get why they would do that, although plenty of films have done the same without that tie in. I'm talking more about actually having to say it, in which you'd say the number. It even sounds silly because each time it reminds you a sequel has been made to a film that shouldn't have had one.
Scott has always been rather inconsistent but if he ever had a prime, it's likely to have been when he made Alien and followed it up with Blade Runner. So that's over 40 years ago. That's a long time to finally come to the conclusion he isn't as good as he used to be.
It's because it wasn't planned to have a sequel and only out of creative and/or financial desperation one has been made. Even just saying Gladiator with a 2 on the end of it sounds silly to me. They could have at least ignored the number 2 and given it a subtitle.
I haven't seen the film but it sounds like it wasn't really worthy of being made either. I guess a sequel might have worked, since Top Gun: Maverick did, it just would have needed a really talented group of people working on it.
Having Scott at the helm does not mean much anymore. He's unreliable with a poor hit rate. The fact that he so desperately wants to revisit his beloved old films and add to them (in ways that sloppily undermine the originals) means he doesn't have particularly high standards these days. Gladiator was a film that didn't need a sequel but Scott thought differently. That should tell you everything.
I've just watched this film again and yeah it doesn't make much sense to me. She seemingly goes from hitting out at the deceased couple for the attack by Beetlejuice on her family, who are then seen to be ok afterwards, to writing a suicide note so she can be with the deceased couple in the afterlife? What?
It could have at least done with fleshing out Lydia's interaction with the couple cause it shows them only have two very brief scenes together. Doesn't seem enough time spent to warrant her wanting to commit suicide for to join them. And it didn't make her unhappy enough with her life and family to be of that disposition to want to do it either. If it was that attack that triggered it and she thought the deceased couple were to blame, then it makes even less sense.
Only the opponent wasn't desperately trying to knock him out. Jake Paul just let him be after the first few rounds once it was clear Mike was done and knackered. If Paul wanted to he could have ended the fight anywhere from about round 3 onwards.
But Tyson did win in the fact he got 20 million for pacing around a ring and barely throwing any punches for 16 minutes.
At least it's from a director with a good track record so that makes it more believable. But yes, it's always best to not get too carried away by the hype. That should apply to anything, let alone movies. In terms of horror movies that garner these sorts of reactions, well I've seen a fair few that have started promisingly and have been decent enough while very few, if any of them, have ever blown me away. It's so much harder to do that now because everything has been done to death already. Not that it's the best film but the last time the horror genre truly offered up something fresh and original was probably The Blair Witch Project.
The guy was shot at and injured, so fighting back seemed hopeless. So he was shot at, his buddy had been murdered, and the man who did all that was threatening him with the gun and barking orders to do what he said. I mean, easy to say what you would have done in hindsight, but if you're frightened for your life and think there is a slim chance you might not be killed if you do what he says....(maybe he thinks it's for intimidation, that he'll just be tortured or it will buy him some time?) you're probably going to do it, versus figuring he'll just point blank shoot you if you don't.
It's not the scariest film but it is entertaining and I think a fair bit of that is down to Spielberg. I quite like the Spielbergian elements anyway, it adds a nostalgic charm to the film. It still has some nice effective creepy moments though in among the sillier ones. The part where the video camera is set up and fixed on the staircase and starts recording as the door from upstairs slowly opens is one of the best examples.
Apart from the Henry Kane scene, the second Poltergeist is not nearly as good and is if anything, more cheesy.
He should have just said "See you at the party, Richter......unarmed".
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