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BW 16
Oct 21, 2018 21:16:06 GMT -6
Post by BlackHillsHermit on Oct 21, 2018 21:16:06 GMT -6
I would like to offer an exact replica of that suggestion for the latest leprechaun movie called origins. It soon won't be the latest... (though Origins will still likely remain the absolute worst installment in the bunch) No Warwick Davis = one disappointed BHH.
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Post by BlackHillsHermit on Oct 15, 2018 17:45:47 GMT -6
Every fifty to sixty years is from Curse of the Blair Witch. So yes .. they obliterated that. Book of Shadows did the same, except that it's supposedly in the real world while The Blair Witch Project was supposedly only based upon the supposedly existing mythology surrounding that area. again .. supposedly. Thanks for the clarification. I remember that that was one of the reasons (again: one of, not the only) why people ripped on BoS after it first came out, because it was 'insulting to the mythology', yet mum's the word when Blair Witch did the exact same thing, and it is set in the same universe. . . . Okay, to be fair, maybe people ripped on BW2016 for the same thing. I didn't pay much attention to reviews and the like, wanting to watch the movie without having anything persuade me one way or the other aside from the quality of the film overall. After the disappointment it turned out to be, I then just didn't care to read reviews/lengthy opinions full stop.
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Post by BlackHillsHermit on Oct 11, 2018 21:34:13 GMT -6
In other news, you an emulate every single game ever made for it on a potato these days. Oh, trust me, I know. I recently upgraded my rig and can play PS3 and XBox 360 games quite smoothly now. That's why I said 'Nostalgia got the better of me,' in stead of 'I just wanna play all these old games again!' Besides, even if I no longer want it by the time I get it, I bet I can make a killing for it on Ebay or Craigslist during the holiday season. Getting back on topic, I just realized, after comparing trailers, that the new one lacks any kind of engrossing snippets from the score that were present in the original. The Zarathustra Boys Chorus was actually quite creepy with how it was used.
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Post by BlackHillsHermit on Oct 10, 2018 18:19:04 GMT -6
Nostalgia got the better of me and I had to pre-order a PlayStation classic...
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Post by BlackHillsHermit on Oct 10, 2018 17:04:09 GMT -6
The day of slow burns... Hereditary This was... different. I liked it, I'm just not sure I fully understand it with one viewing. But, I can't force myself to watch it again yet because, while it was good, the build-up was way too long to sit through again so soon. Surprisingly a really good horror flick for the lack of gore, monsters and other such staples of the genre. Psychological horror is always fun for a spin, though. I'll tell ya what - the trailer made me think this was going to be an entirely different movie. And I totally didn't expect... ...for Charlie to die so soon in the film. As a side note, when watching the trailer, I was sure that she was a little boy. Mandy (2018) I just... what?! I have heard such high praise for this from every source and yet... what?! Perhaps arthouse horror just isn't my thing, but I found this to be utterly boring, too long and completely miscategorized as horror (perhaps action revenge, but not horror at all). The acting didn't blow me away like it did for so many others, and the hallucinogenic take on the camerawork/visuals/color palette/cinematography/whatever really stalled out for me after a while because it was used for the entire duration of the movie pretty much, so it felt normal after the first half of the film. I can at least say I watched it... I guess.
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Post by BlackHillsHermit on Oct 10, 2018 13:08:10 GMT -6
What will you do if this one turns out to be better than the Ed Furlong version? Be happy with it.
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Post by BlackHillsHermit on Oct 10, 2018 13:03:35 GMT -6
As much as I love John Lithgow, no one can be a better Jud than Fred Gwynne. His voice just fit so perfectly.
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Post by BlackHillsHermit on Oct 10, 2018 12:56:13 GMT -6
*sigh* I dunno. Hard to really say this will be bad, and it looks fairly polished from the trailer, but there wasn't any kind of overwhelming need for this to be made and correct the mistakes of the original... because the original did a pretty good damn job. New Gage kinda looks like old Gage, at least.
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Post by BlackHillsHermit on Oct 9, 2018 15:41:29 GMT -6
Not an old school BWP fan, but I probably dislike it as much as any other detractor does. As I said in another thread, if you removed the family-relation part and simply replaced it with, say, these kids' fascination with a creepy video shot in the woods, BW16 would be a failed reboot of TBWP instead of just a failed 'sequel'. There really wasn't enough there to make it a worthwhile movie. While I liked that it expanded on the mythology when the focus was on that, that alone wasn't enough to give it a fighting chance of being an enjoyable flick. None of the characters felt like they had much depth or personality whatsoever aside from James, and the only thing that (barely) made him relatable was the want/need to find a lost sibling. One of the things I found quite funny about BW16 was that is pretty much obliterated the belief that the witch/evil/presence only stirs every 40 or so years (or was it supposed to be 50? or 60?) to wreck havoc in some way. Come to think of it, was that mythology originally from the film or did it come from one of the many offshoots that sprung up after it took the world by storm?
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Post by BlackHillsHermit on Oct 9, 2018 13:03:46 GMT -6
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Post by BlackHillsHermit on Oct 4, 2018 17:44:54 GMT -6
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Post by BlackHillsHermit on Oct 4, 2018 0:12:37 GMT -6
So I just had a new thought/theory pop into my head as I re-watched the original Blair Witch Project. I am wondering now if the witch 'warps' time, so there are actually multiple things going on at once. Or she simply traps the people in the woods. So that they cannot reach help, but still run into Rustin Parr's house. One reason I am thinking about this is because in the BWP movie, at 1:12:18, you can hear a man call out 'somebody'. Now this could be a trick or some other unfortunate soul...but to me it kinda sounds like Jeff Patterson (Jeff Donovan). Earlier in the movie Heather and Josh talk about hearing a screaming baby while they ran through the darkness. So this could also be snips of time when Jeff kidnapped the baby and was running through the woods with her to Coffin Rock. Why he yelled for 'somebody' I don't know, since he was trying to hide from the cops. But I thought this was interesting. Also I apologize for my rambling and grammar. It is super late and I am exhausted. Good theory, except instead of just warping time (as I believe BW16 clearly indicated it can with how Lane's character experienced time at a different level from everyone else), the evil would have to also warp space (or dimensions - your choice) since BoS treats TBWP as a movie more than an actual documentation of events from years before. The really interesting thing about that is that it seems to treat the Blair witch herself, and the subsequent events, as actually having happened. We have the Parr foundation, the Burkisville seven, so on and so forth, but it's clearly indicated that everyone knows the jig is up with Heather, Josh and Mike just being actors and TBWP just being a movie. The writer in me finds a lot of holes in this theory though, namely that Jeff's reason for being commited was never touched upon in the movie and the kidnapping only came to light with the release of the TV mocumentary and D.A. Stern's book, and the fact that nobody from TBWP had any real creative input in BoS, so they never would have thought of foreshadowing Jeff in the first movie at all.
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Post by BlackHillsHermit on Oct 3, 2018 17:03:28 GMT -6
Such a good freakin' cover!
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Post by BlackHillsHermit on Oct 2, 2018 18:38:57 GMT -6
Taking a bit of a different approach to my October viewing this year and trying to get in at least two things a day while I can, because I know when I work I won't be able to watch anything before or after my shifts. So, I decided to indulge in my long-list of missed Stephen King adaptations today.
Quicksilver Highway Quirky, bit not really as bad as I have heard others make it out to be. It was made for TV. In 1997. There isn't going to be a bucket of gore in every scene, nor fancy effects (oh man, those disembodied CGI hands aged badly), etc. The two stories covered (one by King and the other by Clive Barker) seem fairly well represented from how I remember them as a reader. While I always love 'Chattery Teeth' the on-screen version failed in comparison to King's writing. 'The Body Politic' was an interesting read, but anyone could have guessed it would not translate to the screen all that well without a much bigger budget (and perhaps waiting a decade or two for improved graphics). That being said, Politic seemed to get the bigger budget out of the two tales, sporting a slightly longer run time, better graphics (in comparison) and a few appearances by horror alumni (including Barker himself). While this was never meant to be a masterpiece, it was a fun rendition of two interesting tales, and Christopher Lloyd was delightfully camp and creepy in the wraparound.
Nightmares and Dreamscapes - Battleground I missed the original run of these 8 adaptations when they ran back in 2006, but the first one was pretty damn fantastic for a fan of the short story. I was fairly impressed with how the minds behind the project were able to stretch a (likely less than) 5,000 word story into an hour-long TV film... and with not a lick of dialogue at that! I liked it a lot and look forward to the other 7 later on (and I am already prepared to not like some of them. The End of the Whole Mess has me worried, because that is a story that feels like it needs more than 50-60 minutes of screen time to do it justice, but I will soon see).
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Post by BlackHillsHermit on Oct 1, 2018 21:16:57 GMT -6
Obligatory repost because Ray Parker Jr.
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Post by BlackHillsHermit on Oct 1, 2018 20:57:24 GMT -6
As someone commented, this is an eerie, but beautiful theme.
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Post by BlackHillsHermit on Oct 1, 2018 20:52:57 GMT -6
Like most have stated here, and I concur, the favorite moments of this movie are whenever Kim is present.
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Post by BlackHillsHermit on Oct 1, 2018 20:27:36 GMT -6
I'm starting off my October... wrong (goddammit)
Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich The idea of a reboot for this series intrigued me, mainly because I feel like it really started rolling downhill after part 3 and never righted itself. The reboot... didn't help matters at all. The story felt choppy in parts and very nonsensical in others. I did like the new theme song and the idea that there were multiple copies and variations of the puppets this time around (though his screen time was limited, Pinhead was pretty badass) and Markowitz ended up being a much more enjoyable character than I first gave him credit for, but there was a lot to be desired here to make this feel like a worthwhile reboot. And it kept missing the mark. Most of the gore felt like it was trying too hard for the shock value (like the scene where the pregnant lady bites the dust. it felt too comical to be taken seriously, but delivered too straightforward to stir any laughs. it was just awkward. a similar scene was done much better in Terror Firmer), and the whole Andre Toulon backstory twist felt gratuitous. (don't even get me started about the mess of an ending. ugh.)
Skeletons in the Closet (2018) I didn't realize how low-grade independent this was going to be from the trailer. It's pretty bad. I can take bits of bad writing, or bad actors hamming it up every now and then, or poor effects, or shoddy ideas... but not all of them in a single movie (the exception to this, as you may have guessed, are Troma films. they at least have an appeal to them that you can't quite define, but know that it is keeping you pulled in). Sadly, those are the kind of skeletons in this movie's closet. There are things to be admired here (the throwback to the 80s Elvira/Joe Bob shows, the wraparound story with the kid and her babysitter (not the best, but certainly better than the other wraparound... or the other segments for that matter), the amount of thought and effort put into the whole 'Channel 13' idea), but there's more going against this piece than going for it overall. Disappointing, because I love anthology horror.
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Post by BlackHillsHermit on Nov 21, 2017 17:30:48 GMT -6
"Bugsy's" not the best name for a pizza establishment. Could be worse...
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Post by BlackHillsHermit on Nov 21, 2017 15:03:47 GMT -6
Green RoomStellar movie, honestly. It kept the tension ramped up throughout the entirety of the movie once things were set in motion and made great use of a claustrophobia-inducing set that didn't make you feel bored with seeing similar rooms again and again. Also, great performances by the cast all around, especially Patrick Stewart and (the late) Anton Yelchin. Most appealingly, the film, the villains and the story just make you feel uncomfortable. Not in a “this is awkward' way, but more in the fact that you really connect with the characters and feel their pain, their fear, their anxiety and the overall creeping despair that unfolds in this.
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Post by BlackHillsHermit on Nov 21, 2017 14:52:16 GMT -6
McD has mobile curbside pickup now. Beats the drive thru. Definitely beats the inside. Always bum central in there. Speaking of bums, I don't mind if you enjoy being a bum. What I do mind is if you purposely try to look like you are a bum. They go out of their way to do so. And the one thing I cannot and will no longer abide is asking me for change. I just pretend I didn't see or hear them. It's about a twice a week thing When I do go to Mickey D's (rarely), I always make sure to go in because there is always something they mess up in my order. We currently have a growing homeless population in our town and it is becoming quite troublesome. Not that I look down on these people because of their current situation in life, but that things that they are doing because of it is not acceptable by any standards. Homes for sale have been broken into (some burned to the ground when the fires in them somehow grew out of control), mass bike thefts (like, seriously, I have no idea if there is some huge black market for bikes or bike parts, but if you leave your bike unattended for even a minute it could be gone), car thefts, stealing s--t from cars (like a chainsaw. no joke), starting fires in the woods when we were under a burn ban because of how dry the summer was around here, stealing s--t from the homeless shelter donation bin and chucking what they don't 'like' into the river, starting a tent city next to the river and polluting it on a daily basis with trash... the list could go on and on. Hell, I watched a guy spray paint a bike he had just stolen as I went to get my pizza... and that was after some nice lady gave him a slice of her own pizza!
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Post by BlackHillsHermit on Nov 21, 2017 14:15:59 GMT -6
Why'd you watch Valerian when I said not to? Probably because of stuff... thangs...
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Post by BlackHillsHermit on Nov 21, 2017 14:13:26 GMT -6
I have an age thing going. I think Tweek is 53. Anarchist is 42. Bhh is 23.And I'm .. Reverse those numbers and you're getting closer...
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Post by BlackHillsHermit on Nov 19, 2017 1:50:27 GMT -6
I saw that once and said blah!Which one? Belko Experiment or Battle Royale?
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Post by BlackHillsHermit on Nov 17, 2017 1:42:22 GMT -6
Holy hell! Nostalgia overload here. When I was a kid, I used to play Rampage on my Atari Lynx all the time. When my cousin came over (once in a blue moon), we used to hook up the cable and play 2-players. I don't think we ever beat the game, but it was a blast every time. So, from the looks of it, in the movie we'll see George and Ralph, but probably no Lizzie Also, a crocodile (apparently there was one in one of the later games as well). Cheesy or not, I'm seeing this!
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