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It's terrible. I think someone decided they were going to make a horror comedy one day, with the idea that there would be a twist that <spoiler>the good guys would turn out to be killers</spoiler>, saw Midsommar, and then kind of put the 2 together without much thought for anything else. Then let a school kid write a lot of the dialogue.
Absolutely sucked and like you say, does not reward as either a comedy or a horror. The basis for the comedy was pretty much characters using colourful language, like the kids and the elderly lady F'ing and blinding. That was it as far as the source of comedy, as if we're supposed to find it hilarious each time they say bad words. It's like it was written by a young immature teenager. I could have come up with something funnier.
The only positive you can say about it is that it's quite short so you don't have to endure the misery too long.
Oh I know cars and people have been picked up by lesser tornadoes and that there can be strange behaviour among them. I remember myself hearing about how a house was hit by a tornado and I think the kitchen area was damaged, yet there was a box of eggs on the kitchen table that were left completely untouched, not even cracked.
I still think the way it's portrayed in this is unrealistic. I mean the two of those characters are crouched almost right next to the truck which is seemingly lifted hundreds of feet in the air and dumped 50 or so yards from its position. Not just the truck either but the tractor or whatever else that heavy vehicle/object was. That to me suggests it must be pretty strong yet is leaving these much smaller and lighter humans completely untouched and unhurt. It just isn't believable to me. You yourself are asking how Jo and her mother weren't sucked up, I don't see why this occasion is any different.
<blockquote>The last thing that doesn't make sense is, that storm cellar was very shallow, and that tornado was almost on top of them when it sucked Jo's dad away. Why is it that she and her mom didn't get sucked away too? (And no, I'm not buying the whale mom jokes. Even fat people can get sucked up by a twister).</blockquote>
Well there are lots of inconsistencies throughout the movie like this regarding people not being sucked up. Just watching this film again, the first tornado they chase lifts very high into the air a truck and a tractor, which suggests it must be like a high end F4 at least, yet Paxman and Hunt are literally sheltering under a wooden bridge just a few feet away from where the truck is sucked up. It's simply ludicrous that they wouldn't be blown away too but they come out completely unscathed as soon as the tornado dies.
You hit on the 2 things I thought about most while watching this movie.
The aliens make a racket themselves when they're following the choppers around, how do they not get distracted by their own sounds?
Yep, I kept on thinking that you'd probably get out of most problems if you just had a pocketful of stones/projectiles, especially in a city environment where literally throwing anywhere metres around you would create a loud enough noise.
Unfortunately the more I see these movies the more I realise they keep throwing up flaws and ways for these aliens to be tricked.
I feel like the only way the invasion with this species might work is if there is some other intellectually superior alien species that are weaponising this intellectually inferior alien species that can't see, and using them to rid the human population on planet Earth, or at least experimenting with both species to see what happens, in the same way a person might orchestrate a fight between 2 animals to see who wins.
I assume it must be. It's already available on Prime to watch and surely if it were a success it'd be in the cinemas longer? I see on IMDB (though I'm unsure of how up to date it is) that it's barely made back half of its budget.
Seemed like the mother and the prince were ticking their own boxes in this film. There was the ghost of a black girl in the cave, Millie is white, the next girl lined up to be sacrificed was Asian. I'm pretty sure they would have found a trans female further down the line to marry the prince.
I saw it when I was about 9 years old with family. We were hoping to see Gremlins 2 originally but it was booked up or something. I remember liking it and being entertained by the different characters and their surreal, cartoonish faces. At that age I guess you're pretty easily pleased anyway. Wasn't as great when I saw it again much older under a more critical eye but didn't dislike it either. Probably due a rewatch as it still has that nostalgic value attached.
Or Titanic 2 as another example. Again it just sounds silly because you know it shouldn't have a sequel and you shouldn't be confirming it by saying it out loud.
Forget saying it, 300 would have just looked stupid with a 2 after it, since the title is a number already. A subtitle at least makes the sequel seem like, while a continuation, something a bit different from the original.
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".