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I'm not crying, you're crying
A nice sweet escape
I liked this
I like SNL, this was not great
This was chilling
Good follow-up to a great film
Any other R rated Xmas hallmark parody type movies?
Unrelenting unrestrained bloody vengeance
Entertaining
This was great
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I have not started the 4th season, glad to hear it sounds like the quality stayed consistent.
Found a web rip copy (good quality) with Korean subtitles only (movie is in Turkish)
I saw Summer of 84 a long time ago, don't remember it much but I think I had liked it.
I would recommend Snack Shack, takes place in 1991 but similar vibes. And also This is the Night, about some kids excited to see the premiere of Rocky III.
Yeah it wasn't too believable but I still got some nostalgic good feels from this one.
James McAvoy was excellent in the role, I agree. In fact all the performances were pretty good.
I get it that we are expected to want the parents to go into "mama bear" or "protective dad" roles and fight the danger like we saw at the end of this US version of the film, but in real life situations it can be possible that people freeze up or are resigned to give up. Even in this film there was a moment where Ben (dad) is in the attic room and says in a cowardly way "I don't know what to do, I'm sorry". We are conditioned to be angry at this, because surely we would fight to save our family.
The thing about the original that stuck with me was this. Why did they just give up and not fight? Of course if I put myself in their place I would fight, right?
All the other families that came before this one, did they fight? They all lost?
Anyway, I did enjoy watching this film, and if I had not seen the brutally dark ending of the original - I probably would have liked this one a little more. The way the Danish boy (Ant) unleashed his violence on his captor at the end was more violent than what we'd see from a child in American movies, so I'll give them that props.
This wasn't a bad movie, glad you enjoyed it too. I just wish American remakes of foreign movies didn't shy away from the darkness of the originals. (see also the Danish 2018 movie The Guilty, and the US remake)
I saw the original and it was brutal, so I knew what was coming, and watched and wondered what they are going to to with the ending. To be honest I thought the tone of the movie throughout was pretty faithful to the source, but I was completely not surprised to see what they did in the last part of the movie and the way they 180 flipped the ending. Very disappointing. I'll write my own rant about it.
Sounds a bit like a show that was on a few years ago called "Y: The Last Man"
Yes, I like this. I think if I rewatched this in a different mood I would enjoy it more. Thanks
Good talk
Yes, I agree about The Innocents - I saw it a couple of years ago and really liked it. That was more intense than this, similar tone and vibes. I just watched Handling the Undead - Håndtering av udøde (2024) - which I would add here.
Yes, I did not miss number 2 here, I don't think the film implied she is part of that group - although at first I thought, if she knows exactly what disk drive to get, maybe she is like on a mission for this group. Otherwise how does she know exactly what is needed to make the satellite comms functional? If she is not part of that group, she knew just where to go and they were expecting her.
About your point number 1, I guess I'm thinking that Mae could not just be part of some group of humans living in the wild if she has this level of sophisticated capability. Not like your mother can tell you tales of the collapsed human civilization well enough for you to just know what you're doing when you see a facility like that for the first time.
Anyway, just felt like too big of a plot hole, maybe a subsequent sequel can shed more light.
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