yep. i’ve watched them all i think, but mostly as background noise only looking up when somebody’s bout to die haha
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To be clear, I meant that I was shocked some of the posters here specifically haven’t seen The Fly. The folks around here have seen a ton of shit and that’s one that feels like it wouldn’t have been missed by you sick fucks
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I’d watch the first Saw. It’s pretty good and has some fun twists. Not really comparable to the rest of them which are of varying quality and increasingly about the kills instead of story.
The Outrun (2024)
As a card-carrying member of the “let’s get Saoirse Ronan an Oscar someday” club, I was excited at the initial festival buzz for this one, then tempered that enthusiasm a bit as the reviews rolled in. Sometimes positive-but-unspectacular reviews for a movie are fine, and sometimes I get worried when the reviews aren’t outright raves, because I kept reading in a subtext where I suspected people were being a bit generous even to say that it was pretty good.
Those reviews, as well as the knowledge that this was a movie without much of a narrative throughline, probably put me in the right headspace for this. Saoirse Ronan is quite good in the performance because of course she is. In less capable hands (read: most actors and actresses), this could be a pretty dull movie. Even in her hands, it occasionally was; it runs a full two hours and feels like it didn’t need to. But ultimately she makes it work.
Certainly this is not a movie for everyone. Not only does it have very little narrative throughline, but for much of it you are left more with a character study than a fully fleshed-out character arc. You jump around in time and watch her in different points of struggle with alcoholism, eventually triggering the thought, “is this going…anywhere at all?” But as I let that marinate, I come down firmly on the side that I want this type of film to exist in the cinematic landscape. Simply watching a great actress play out different forms of struggle is good art whether the story satisfies or not.
It’s not going to land as one of the best films of the year, and frankly my initial impulse was to give it a three-star rating, but as I sat down to write this I felt like the quality was just too high not to bump it up another half-star. Recommended for some, not all.
3.5/5
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Im sure it is good but torture just isn’t my thing. I know the twist ending too already.
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i was just about to rewatch Scarecrow (1973) because it’s october and it sounds like the kind of movie you watch in october. it’s not that kind of movie. it’s essentially the plot of Paris, Texas (1984) except the guy returning home after ghosting his family (al pacino) meets a really weird guy along the way (gene hackman, who has always been old. even in 1973 he was already old). it’s a 5-bagger but i was thinking about about gene hackman and how i’ve never seen Hoosiers (1986) and how my online friends who love movies (derogatory) would probably be like “oh you’ve never seen hoosiers it’s well known to be a great gene hackman movie” so okay it’s free on pluto i’ll give it a shot. it’s not going to be as good as Scarecrow
i like that a couple of the high schoolers look older than me. at one point one of the teachers dissed gene hackman saying he’s 50 and i thought well he’s not 50 but i did the math and he’s mid 50s in this movie, the guy is almost a hundred years old and he’s still smoking marlboro reds what a fucking king. he’s also kind of the original ted lasso, except much better because it’s over in an hour and a half.
it was good for a sports movie but i don’t care for sports movies or sports in general. 3 bags of popcorn, it was not as good as scarecrow
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I had…somehow never even heard of Scarecrow. Shameful stuff. Added to my watchlist.
crows are a lot smarter than people think. a scarecrow doesn’t function by frightening the crows away from an area, it’s actually the opposite. the crows see the scarecrow and it’s ridiculous to them, it’s absolutely clownlike, and they laugh at it. and the crows say to each other “okay we’ll leave that farmer’s plot alone because we like him, he made us laugh”
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The substance was pretty great imo, 4/5, much more intense than I was expecting, probably a bit long, only can watch it once obv
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My Old Ass
8/10
On it’s base I’d give it a 6 / 10. It’s a good solid movie. It’s not an indie film; no auteur filmmaking, Oscar bait, or breaking the walls of cinema. It’d be, back in the day, a small budget release that maybe did well but would have made it’s money back when going to the movies was all there was to do.
I’ll give a +1 for the location. It’s gorgeous. The country farm the girl can’t wait to get away from is a cranberry farm which I assume is in the Northeast, Northwest, maybe Canada, but man it’s got huge lakes with islands, rocky bluffs, pine trees, shiplap houses, everyone traveling by boat, cozy jackets and sweaters. Beautiful.
Another +1 to Maisy Stella in her film debut. She carries the movie. Audrey Plaza is in the movie, but only for about 5 minutes, and everyone else does a fine job as supporting actors, but this movie is centered around her and she does a great job.
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Blair Witch for me
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Didn’t we throw out having watch parties this month?
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haven’t seen any Friday the 13th movies
haven’t seen Evil dead (saw army of darkness somewhat recently, I enjoyed some of it but mostly it’s not really my thing, I’m guessing the first 2 are very different though).
Blair Witch is good, but probably more effective when it came out. Today there have been so many found footage movies that it loses some of its impact.
Friday the 13th is a classic but not a masterpiece. It plays all the tropes straight and is good for some laughs, especially if watched with a group.
I like Army of Darkness better than Evil Dead, but the latter is a purer horror movie and a bit of a gore fest. Also shows what you can do with no budget and a lot of creativity.
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Friday 13th developed or at least codifies many of the tropes of the group of teens in the woods genre?
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Friday the 13th did just strike me as a poor man’s Halloween, but I’m still planning to watch part two.
Part 2 was my first in theater horror movie. I’m not a big horror watcher but it left an impression.
Especially the scene where the spear gets run through the two lovers but what we see is the bloody point stick into the floor below the bed as opposed to the direct gore, or at least that’s what my memory says. It’s been a looooonnng time.
I’m an unapologetic Friday the 13th nut and welcome any F13 discussion itt.
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You’re correct. It’s a pretty good shot.