Wild Robot really good. Probably 4.5/5
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Did you see/will you see the legasequel? I liked how they confronted the claim that Laurie was his sister.
I think Iām probably good on just mentally decanonizing Part II and declaring to myself that the original is the only one that exists. I mean, Donald Pleasence is somehow in a future installment? WTF?
I try not to do the thing where a person likes one movie and then persistently just follows a franchise into the damn ground no matter what might actually follow. Halloween II somehow pulls a 3.2 average on LB, which is shockingly high for what it is. Every other installment appears to be graded lower. Iām not in the habit of declaring āneverā in most circumstances, but Iām a pretty tough sell on watching more. But I did see in the Wikipedia article that they tried to retcon the sibling thing later.
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I generally agree with you. Every sequel in the Halloween franchise somehow gets worse and worse.
I think youāll be quite pleased, however, if you give Halloween (2018) a shot. I rewatched it recently and man is that a good movie and a good sequel. It ignores every other sequel and treats the first movie as the only movie. Great scares, great direction, great characters, great ending.
I think everyone does. Halloween 3 is a bona fide classic that horror fans should watch
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Dont watch the legacy sequels though
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I liked Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, but I agree that there are too many story lines going all over the place.
Everything else about it was great - the performances, the sets, the effects, the overall vibe, the humor, all made it a successor decades later that didnāt feel like a cynical cash grab.
If they couldāve tightened up the script (the entire dad story was confusing), it would have been fantastic.
That said, it was still fun and am happy I saw it.
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I would still check out part III then as it has nothing to do with the Michael Myers story. Halloween was originally intended to be an anthology series. They left well enough alone with part 3 and did something original which of course bombed but itās actually good.
Also agree with Risky that Halloween 2018 is good and worth a watch. The rest of that trilogy should be skipped.
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I saw both in recent years for the first time and I like Halloween 2 better than 3, and maybe also better than 2018. Probably just that I like the original so much and itās the one thatās closest to it in style. Also I donāt really watch these for the plot, so my mind is perfectly happy to completely ignore the sister reveal and all the obvious plot holes (iām sure thereās some in the first one tooā¦) as long as the kill scenes are good.
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Not going to defend the movie, but this was one of my favorite kills in the whole franchise.
Kill scenes in this one were so basic, except I guess for the use of scalding water to kill that one woman. That at least felt inventive to me since I hadnāt seen that used before.
EDIT: Risky beat me to it.
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Iām still astonished how good the first one is vs the other two.
So that giant tank of water went up in temperature 10 degrees in a matter of seconds? Okay.
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Pretty interesting. Low rank is good btw.
I enjoyed Hidden Figures but not much else on the womenās list. I even gave the Notebook an honest try. But I got so annoyed with Ryan Gosling being a total dick, I turned it off. Most of them I havenāt seen.
A few of my favorites on the other list: Unforgiven, The Thing, Rocky.
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Where did you get that list?
Only seen 5 on the womenās side and a shameful 2 on the menās side, so canāt make too many judgments.
Rewatchables FB group.
Woman of the Hour (2024)
Stars Anna Kendrick and is her directorial debut. Itās the true crime story of Rodney Alcoa who killed a bunch of women and once stared in the dating game.
There are some really nice directorial flourishes here and an interesting structure. She does a great job creating a creepy atmosphere.
Overall, a pretty great effort.
Grade: B+
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Itās Whatās Inside (2024) - Netflix
This was a lot of fun. Donāt look up too much about it. VERRRRRRRRRRRRY basic synopsis: A group of college friends get together 6 years later to play a game prior to the wedding of one of the members.
Great for anyone who enjoys soft sci-fi or mystery movies like the Knives Out films. A bit of a mind fuck, and the ending lacks a bit of the craziness of the earlier portion, but my wife and I really enjoyed this. 4/5 - recommend.
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Wow joker is getting so destroyed it almost makes me feel bad.
Record 81% drop week over week is biggest drop for a wide release ever. Looking like about a $200m lose.
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Lol this is the chart you show someone when youāre trying to convince them to ban all women from the film production business
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