@Kermit1 Sounds fun, as someone who loves the Need for Speed games, I don't expect anything faithful to the games, but I do enjoy fun movies, maybe I'll keep an eye out if it shows up on streaming.
@Rambler Never heard of the show, so it's a given that I didn't know that.
The resident Trolls superfan! Saw Trolls Band Together via early access and absolutely loved it!
I thought the new Holoween. movie, honestly, I have mixed feeling about it, on one hand I wished they went all the way with the concept, but then if you weren’t going to do that, why not give people what they want? Myers’s last movie!
@Kermit1 Some of those angles remind me of a Need for Speed game. Making note to check this one out one day. I like the games, while I know it won't be exactly like the games, I think I'll still enjoy it.
The resident Trolls superfan! Saw Trolls Band Together via early access and absolutely loved it!
The Woman King is amazeballs, just a really good popcorn blockbuster. You like and care about the characters, the quips don't undercut the movie, you fist bump to the action, you're sad at the right moments, the baddies are bad without them twirling their moustaches etc and I can't find much fault with it. Plus Viola Davis is now an action star! From a historical viewpoint it's a typical Hollywood mess though, don't watch and think you have learned anything real about the African slave trade though. I give it an Oscar.
I also caught saw Smile. It's better than I expected but still formulaic, jump scare driven and the third act is messy. However the things it does well it does very well and just the idea of having a haunting smile is so creepy and effective. It's trying to have an underlying theme about trauma and mostly succeeds in telling that story thankfully due to Kevin Bacon's kid who is the leading lady doing such a great job. I give it an Oscar.
Watched a cool little movie today, called The Cursed. It is kinda of like a modern take on a Hammer Horror film (but it isn't camp or silly). It seems to be one-part Covid-19 metaphor, but it also makes use of a lot of classic werewolf mythology and a bunch of their own unique ideas to really make a werewolf movie quite unlike anything I've really seen before. And while the werewolf stuff does mostly deliver (albeit with some slightly unpolished effects work in places), the real standout sequence for me is the sort of trigger sequence where a static camera is positioned at a distance, and we watch in full, unbroken, real time as mercenaries slaughter a Roma camp and burn it to the ground. Like not good stuff in the conventional sense of the word, but truly powerful horror filmmaking.
Since we last spoke, I've read "Who Goes There?", both the original and expanded versions (published as Frozen Hell), and I've watched the original, The Thing From Another World. The novella, particularly as originally published, is super good. Highly recommend. This adaptation is less good, I think, but still quality film-making, plenty enjoyable, and educational from a film studies perspective.
I gasped when I saw them use the Geiger counter to track the alien. And, later, when they funneled the alien into a corridor to light it on fire. Even masterpieces have influences. In fact, masterpieces are likely the most likely to have inspiration from their predecessors.
The fire scene is freaking crazy. According to one unverified source on the grid, stuntmen ran in to replace the cast while rolling, and, this was the first time a stuntman had been set on fire for a film. But I don't know, isn't that the actual actress behind the pillow? There's no way some of them weren't burned. Regardless, super exciting scene and technically very impressive.
This movie has an staggering amount of cross-talk. Characters are constantly talking over, around, and past one another. I'd say it's pretty realistic, as a depiction of real life human dialogue. Everyone has their agenda and their piece to say and goes about doing so regardless of everyone else.
In the scene when they're preparing to alight the alien, they're discussing kerosene, jerry cans and buckets, stray cigarettes, guns, Gary Cooper, and strategy, and all the while the extremely charismatic Margaret Sheridan counting down the tension. The dialogue can definitely be hard to follow, and actually I found it easier with the subtitles off. If it's giving you trouble, try the same.
I really like all of the characters. The hero, Captain Hendry, has a perfect mixture of gravitas and humor; the reporter is brazenly self-centered and delivers innumerable hilarious lines; and the villain is cold and calculating, and with sufficient motivation and reason, as villains should be. The heroine, as mentioned earlier, could not be more charming. I love how the Captain's friends openly chide him about his crush, and he just says cut it outtttt and flicks them in the balls. It's adorable.
If you're into The Thing, and why wouldn't you be, you might enjoy seeing the original adaptation. Completely different, but good cinema too. And definitely read "Who Goes There?".
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