Movies (and occasionally face slaps) (Part 1)

Right. Both that and Expend4bles are incredibly stupid.

Put Se7en in the stupid category as well. I guess that’s there as a visual aid in case the audience hasn’t learned to count to seven.

Tangentially, does Fast Saga have the most schizophrenic naming schema for titles ever?

The Fast and the Furious
2 Fast 2 Furious
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
Fast and Furious
Fast 5
Fast & Furious 6 (ampersand time!)
Furious 7
The Fate of the Furious
Fast and Furious Presents: Hobbs and Shaw
F9
Fast X

The only consistency is that there is no consistency. Actually 1 and 3 stand out just for being too alike!

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Se7en was a terrible title, hands-down worst use of the gimmick.

Apparently Final Destination 5 was originally going to be titled “5nal Destination”, but then the producers noticed that it kinda looked like “Anal Destination”.

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I haven’t watched the video, but my reaction to the title is a painful eyeroll.

If there isnt a porn with this very title I am going to be soreley disappointed

Now I am hoping they make a God4ther

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LKJ just died a little inside.

As a Godfather Part III apologist (who obviously still sees it as a huge step down from the first two; I just think it’s merely good whereas the first two are untouchably elite), ~20 years ago I tried to argue at length with a friend who labeled it a “cash grab,” arguing how necessary it was to the full story, etc. Then I got the DVD of it and Francis Ford Coppola spends the whole commentary track going, “Yeah, I never really wanted to make this, but I fell on hard times financially, so…” Feels like he downright belabored that point just to fully ensure that there was no doubt I was wrong. And in fairness, I suspect I was arguing in bad faith anyway, so my comeuppance was deserved.

FFC also spends a lot of other time in the commentary track being defensive about the criticism of Sofia’s performance. On one hand, I obviously get why he feels the need to do that. On the other hand, c’mon man. It’s basically the only performance I can think of when thinking of the WOAT acting performances.

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Sorry to hear that. Hope you’ll give their discussion a shot.

Godfather 3 is another great Rewatchables episode. It really is a pretty good movie if you can avoid benchmarking it against the first two.

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Yeah I remember enjoying that one. I first discovered Rewatchables when YT pushed the Rewatchables ep on GF II into my recommendations, so their episodes on that trilogy were my first listens.

Admittedly I can’t remember a ton of specifics about the GF III podcast aside from CR repeatedly saying “Immobiliare” in some impression voice that not only didn’t resemble the bishop’s, but basically didn’t resemble any human voice ever.

To this day I cannot fathom that they just let Robert Duvall walk away from the project over money, particularly when his publicly stated ask was to get 50% of what Pacino was getting.

Commando turned out to be an awesome Rewatchables episode, as was Cocktail. It’s great when they mostly make fun of the movie.

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Cocktail is awesome though. Yeah, it’s absurd when the movie suddenly decides that it wants to take itself seriously at the end, but regardless the movie is great fun.

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Fede Alvarez, the director of Don’t Breathe and the Evil Dead reboot, is bringing us the first new Alien movie after the Disney acquisition.

I am of mixed feelings about this.

I loved the first Don’t Breathe, and Disney got my attention with their first swing at Predator.

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Having said that, Don’t Breathe 2 was a ghastly approach to bringing back the blind man, as were the director’s comments about why Jane Levy didn’t return for the sequel.

The real problem with Dont Breathe 2 is they made the Blind Man the protagonist. Who the hell thought that was a good idea?

You know who should be our lead in this new movie? The guy who kidnapped, artificially inseminated against her will, and then murdered a young woman in the first movie.

Then tried to do it a second time! Yeah! The perfect main character!

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Exactly!! There were a million different ways to bring him back that didn’t position him as an anti hero. The stuff he did as the villain in the first movie was unforgivable.

So it just makes me wonder what his story instincts will be for an Alien movie.

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Aw hell, leave the Alien franchise alone, Disney. Hasn’t it suffered enough?

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I really liked Prometheus.

It definitely has flaws but plenty of great parts.

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