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She is Sporty Spice.
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For me, Duneās visuals are worth the price of admission. Villenueve has a great sense for surreal sci-fi images. He kinda sorta went overboard in BR2049 but it works perfectly in an epic space opera with this kind of scale.
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Iām glad I saw it in IMAX. Looked and sounded amazing. Give him a billion dollars to make a dozen hours out of the first couple books
And where ffs
Jealous. You saw Spiceworld in IMAX?
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Iām continuing on with my exploration of classic slasher movies that I was too young/cowardly to watch when they first came out.
I donāt get the love for Scream at all. As a 90ās teen, I can appreciate the snarky eye-rolling energy of a horror film that laughs at horror movie tropes, but thatās a difficult kind of movie to execute well. Rian Johnson is the master of it; Brick and Knives Out both make us laugh at genre conventions while also being great genre movies themselves. Scream just wasnāt scary. Itās more of a cozy mystery than a slasher flick. Just watch The Cabin in The Woods for a self-aware horror movie that actually works as a horror movie.
A half hour into A Nightmare on Elm Street and this movie is completely rad. Operates on a more atmospheric and surreal level than I was expecting. Character design is objectively absurd but somehow it works brilliantly.
Premonitions Following An Evil Deed is choice. Ya boi David Lynch creates an atmospheric suspense thrill ride with a wild 2nd act sci-fi twist. If you only see one 58-second arthouse film this year, make it this one.
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I still like Scream but definitely donāt love it like I did as a 16 year old fan of the older slasher films seeing it in the theater in '96. Notice all the examples you mentioned came after Scream. I think it was really groundbreaking at the time but the novelty has worn off a bit.
And yeah I agree with your Nightmare on Elm St take. While not perfect, it still holds up exceptionally well. Could something like that even be made today and become such a big part of pop culture for years to come?
Gotta give Scream some credit for killing off Drew Barrymore in the first reel. Pyscho comes to mind as a precedent in this regard, but even Hitchcock didnāt go that far.
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I know I mentioned Dream Warriors as an elite horror movie song earlier, but itās absolutely bonkers to me that Donāt Close Your Eyes wasnāt used in one of the Nightmare films.
Man, so sad to see what heās become. Heās a good actor. Always had a soft spot in my heart for him because he was the star in the first movie in which I was an extra. I remember he just ate lunch at the same tables as the rest of us and was very unassuming.
Also, I really like Frequency.
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It would be incredible if he revealed one day this was all a deep acting dive.
He was in some decent movies till he went full nutter Jesus for Gibson. Since then he has been on the Hollywood black list and made all small budget junk.
They made the Fremen really badass in Dune. Them coming out of the sand was pretty dope
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Sucks. I really loved āPerson of Interestā back then.
He was really good in The Count of Monte Cristo.
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Non-book reader, watched on HBO Max as well. Iād probably give it 7/10 but basically agree with everything here, especially the last paragraph. I was able to shrug and be immersed until that, and assumed that I missed something because it seemed very odd.
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So, 2025
Why canāt more things be like LOTR and go back-to-back-to-back. I think they all filmed at the same time too?
People forget how incredibly bold it was to fund all the LoTR movies upfront. That could have ended disastrously for the studio if they sucked.