Horror Candy is a collection of award winning short films that are sort of like miniature episodes of the Twilight Zone. They deliver sometimes predictable twists, but they’re all so short that I enjoyed them. They reminded me of Goosebumps books in that they’re all horror but also just a little goofy. Free on Tubi.
Hobbit movies seem to occupy a weird space in cinema. I’ve read the book, it’s quite short, I can’t get my mind around how they would have spawned three long movies from it, so I’ve skipped the movies out of skepticism. And I think it’s truly batting .000 when I ask people who’ve seen it whether it’s any good. But the rating aggregation sites always indicate a pretty positive rating, considering that it’s impossible to find someone who will actually defend them.
I guess maybe I’ll just try for myself one day, but it’s kind of impossible to find the will to do so.
Seriously don’t bother. If you’ve read the book you’ll get nothing from the movies but rage. Maybe with some bewilderment sprinkled in. Mostly rage though.
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No reason to see them no matter how much you like the book. They aren’t faithful to the book, all of the added filler is terrible, it’s 100% a shameless money grab.
The Rankin-Bass animated Hobbit from the 70s absolutely slaps, however.
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And that’s another good demonstration of my long-term confusion at it being a pretty well-rated film (at least the first one) on IMDb/Letterboxd/Rotten Tomatoes. This movie seems to have a fair number of at least soft fans and I simply can’t find them. It’s bizarre.
There needs to be one for music where one of the stages is: “Only into bands, not songs. There is no such thing as a good song by a bad band.”
Most of my friends are there.
Thinking about Kris Kristofferson yesterday I rewatched the John Sayles woke masterpiece Lone Star where he plays the racist sheriff. He was so memorable in that role I was surprised that he is only on screen for maybe 10 minutes. Anyway film holds up, free on Tubi, recommended.
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Its awful. Adds nothing to the canon and shouldnt be watched. Lindsy Ellis’ three parter about how bad it is is the most you should ever have to watch about that trilogy
Kristofferson was a pretty strong actor. He’s good in a lot of stuff.
Movies like Megalopolis make me really miss Roger Ebert. There is no way in hell I am going to watch a movie that sounds frankly stupid, but I would have LOVED to read a Roger Ebert review of Megalopolis. His take downs of bad movies were hilarious.
I have had more interesting conversations about the substance in the past couple weeks than any movie I can remember. It’s moving up in my estimation.
This is an inevitable part of getting safe distance from having it assault your eyes too recently. Basically the same effect that causes everyone’s brain to overstate how good some nostalgic period was.
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if you really enjoyed the lotr triology you’ll have fun, they’re fun movies. i stayed up til 3am on a weeknight just to watch smaug get desolated again. it’s a little side adventure, it’s a dwarf adventure don’t set your expectations higher than the centerpiece of the lore
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New Rewatchables for The Blair Witch Project just dropped. On one hand, seems like a good enough subject for an episode, since Blair Witch was very unique when it came out, definitely something of a cultural splash, etc. Will be happy to listen.
But out of curiosity, do people actually put in a bunch of rewatches of that movie? I don’t know; I saw it in the theater when it was new, and was blind outside of my brother telling me he heard it was the scariest movie ever. And I never bought for a second that it was real, so it didn’t make much of an impact on me and I couldn’t say I really liked it. Then it was so popular that I talked myself into a second theater trip to see it when it was still new. Still kind of shrugged at it. Haven’t seen it since.
Like, I respect it for sure. It’s well-crafted for what it is, it has clearly established that it actually did dupe a bunch of people into believing it was real, and it spawned many imitators to follow; that is enough to make the case that it attains some objective level of “good.” But it’s still even more of a gimmick than a random Shyamalan film, and I just can’t imagine gimmicks holding up to many rewatches in the same way that standard movies do.
Oooof, big fan of Joker, Jeremy Jahns, compares Joker 2 to Hangover 2.
Thats fucking rough. Hopefully this makes less than 100 mil
Calling it a Neil Breen-style movie has got me curious. Can a legend of Hollywood make outsider art?
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I mean I’m pretty sure you’re obligated to see this movie given your willingness to embrace cinema as some sort of anthropological experiment.
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I have some travel coming up, thinking I will watch on an airplane or alone in a random 2-star hotel room (my dad made the plans and he is all about the value). I feel like either of those settings will be perfect.