In a world where vampire blood is harvested as a drug, two desperate teenagers on the run from a vicious drug dealer break into an empty house and find a sleeping girl with a dark secret locked inside.
Is Bleeding a good movie? Well, that depends on what level of film you enjoy. If you only enjoy movies with big budgets, this is not for you. But if you enjoy movies on the other end of the spectrum, you should check this out. It’s not a student film. It’s like the first time a former student filmmaker is given a modest budget and executes well from those resources.
It’s free on Tubi. It has an 85% RT and 3.1/5 on Letterboxd, but yes it also has a 4.1/10 IMDB.
My wife is a big Stephen King book fan. We saw the movie tonight and she said both the movie and book were very good. Clearly deviates from the book a bit (I believe she said the ending was different, in fact), and obviously there is more character development in the book, but she said they did a fine job with the film. I also enjoyed it. I was filled with a feeling of dread from the first minute.
Apparently, it was King’s first novel - I heard he wrote it when he was 16, but Wikipedia says he started it during his freshman year in college.
I think somehow that book’s pub date got confused with Rage, another Bachman book. He wrote Rage in high school, then The Long Walk as a college freshman.
My son started Superman by randomly clicking buttons on our Apple TV remote and man, this movie is just utter dogshit. How does it have an 87% on Rotten Tomatoes?
This is maybe kind of a stupid question that’s been explored a lot inside the universe, but I can’t remember how much. Did young child Clark Kent have problems harnessing his superpowers and hurt people with them in his very young youth? If this did happen, I’d imagine it happened in Smallville, but I didn’t watch very much of that. Seems like a really fun place to explore if it hasn’t been properly done.
Man of Steel had a subplot where his father was having to keep talking him out of unrealistically wafflecrushing at sports as a kid. I think that’s the only example I’ve seen in the movies.
That’s pretty weak. I imagine things like him taking a paddle and breaking something, or accidental fist through a wall. Or breaking ribs when hugging. So many of the ‘he doesn’t know his own strength’ gags vs. him knowing he has the strength and then being forced not to use it to come across normal.
He started it around the time he was 16 but finished as a Freshman. Its a pretty straightforward Vietnam War/Draft allegory, but for someone that age its a very good one
Before Crisis on Infinite Earths, Superman was previously known as Superboy. He already had his powers as a baby and so felt compelled to use them as a teenager to help people in Smallville before moving to Metropolis and adopting the adult name of Superman.
For example, here’s a scene from the 1988 Superman cartoon. Each episode features a “Family Album” scene at the end featuring baby Clark Kent’s hijinx.
After Crisis, however, John Byrne (unfortunately a terrible bigot) rebooted the character’s history with Man of Steel #1 (1986). The cartoon had some catching up to do, but in the comics, Superman had a new backstory.
In this story, Superman received his powers from the yellow sun, and it took him lots of years until he was powerful enough to emerge as Superman. So the accidents as a child were never a concern. He didn’t manifest powers until he was a young adult.
That is the version of the story we see in Smallville. Clark doesn’t begin to display powers until he’s 16. He has discovered enhanced speed and strength, but he is taken completely by surprise when he’s hit by a car and survives. Other notable mishaps encounter, such as the first time he develops heat vision in the middle of class.
In Man of Steel, the story goes back to showing Clark developed his powers at a very young age.
In the latest Superman series called Superman and Lois, he had his powers as a kid and his parents had to be very careful.
For example, here’s the opening scene giving a brief history of his life till now.
Have I mentioned Dead Mail (2024) yet? I keep thinking about it, fantastic indie horror film with obsessive attention to period detail and some outstanding performances.
PSA: everyone within range of Regal Cinemas can make clovis very jealous by heading to your local Regal to take in a Before Sunrise/Before Sunset double feature tomorrow.
