Movie News, Reviews, and Discussion Super-Thread

[Tasty]

Attn Hellrsr Judgmnt is on Nflx.

Been waiting for this.

Apparently it's not as bad as the last few tho

[ToxicAdam]

Xmas eve I knocked off a couple "Christmas classics" I hadn't seen since I was a kid.

Christmas Vacation was wretched. Even by 80's comedy standards it was piss-poor. There wasn't a single laugh to be had. Usually in a good comedy there are rich supporting roles which elevate it, but they were all terrible, too.  Who is still watching this in 2018 and enjoying it? This is Post-Fletch Chevy Chase, too. No charm, no effort and only seems to come to life when it's physical comedy.

Miracle on 34th Street. Just dreadful. I'm guessing this got passed down because it's a postcard to NYC during the holidays and has some vaguely anti-commercialism theme? Which serves as a template for hundreds of other movies after it. But at it's bones, it's a romantic "comedy" where the uptight woman gets turned around by the (highly successful) handsome, brash man that comes into her life and wins her over. Proto-Hallmark movie. The trial of Santa Claus is a neat trick, but even the actor portraying him seems like a dick. Not a loveable Kris Kringle.

[TVC15]

You know it's a quality series when someone is bummed the newest movie isn't AS BAD as the last few

Quality is meaningless. I’d rather watch the worst Hellraiser movie than the best Marvel movie.

[TVC15]

You know it's a quality series when someone is bummed the newest movie isn't AS BAD as the last few

Quality is meaningless. I’d rather watch the worst Hellraiser movie than the best Marvel movie.

Where do you think the two collide in quality

Hellraiser in space is about as good as Marvel in space.

[Great Rumbler]

My personal theory is that they actually don’t bring them all back to life, and that what really happens is that this becomes the way to walk out actors at the end of their contracts.

Maybe, but I don't think so. The few that died through normal means are probably toast, but everybody that got turned into powder is coming back.

[TVC15]

Hellraiser Judgment was so good I’m watching it a second time today. Fifth time overall iirc.

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[benjipwns]

It was a very merry Christmas for “Aquaman.” Despite a competitive frame, the DC superhero dominated the domestic box office on the busy holiday.

Warner Bros.’ latest comic book adventure generated $22 million on Tuesday for a five-day bounty of $105 million. That’s one of the best Christmas Day hauls sans “Avatar” or a “Star Wars” entry. “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” still holds the distinction as best single-day showing for the holiday, racking up $49 million in 2015. Directed by James Wan and starring Jason Momoa, “Aquaman” has now grossed over $550 million worldwide.

“Aquaman” easily placed No. 1 for the holiday, though the trident-welding hero faced formidable competition from Disney’s “Mary Poppins Returns” and Paramount’s “Bumblebee.”

SNYDER DOES IT AGAIN

[Joe Molotov]

Release the Snyder Cut of Mary Poppins Returns!

[TVC15]

I'm going to watch the whole series tonight. Fuck all you Marvel cunt worshipping nazis. Fuck you all. Hail Clive and those things vaguely related to him.

[TVC15]

[TVC15]

Finished the original, moving on to Hellbound. While not as good as the original, it’s relatively great by horror sequel standards. Still far better than any Marvel movie. Not even in the same quality galaxy, really.

[Joe Molotov]

Hey, I found a Marvel/Hellraiser connection. Mark Goldblatt directed the original Punisher movie and also edited Nightbreed. Using six degrees of separation, we can assume that Punisher is best Marvel movie.

[TVC15]

Hey, I found a Marvel/Hellraiser connection. Mark Goldblatt directed the original Punisher movie and also edited Nightbreed. Using six degrees of separation, we can assume that Punisher is best Marvel movie.

The original Nightbreed? The butchered Nightbreed? Are you trying to make me have a tantrum?

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/NetflixUK/status/1078231083559383040

 

[D3RANG3D]

I like the first two Hellraiser movies, the rest are a guilty pleasure of mine.

[toku]

Hey, I found a Marvel/Hellraiser connection. Mark Goldblatt directed the original Punisher movie and also edited Nightbreed. Using six degrees of separation, we can assume that Punisher is best Marvel movie.

The original Nightbreed? The butchered Nightbreed? Are you trying to make me have a tantrum?

If it makes you feel any better he also edited the first two Terminator films. Dolph Lundgren punisher is goofy but I like it.

[TVC15]

I fell asleep during Bloodlines. Picking up there.

[Momo]

Agwermang was legit my favourite DC movie to date.

[TVC15]

On 5 now. Inferno. This is one of the ones that feels like a cut rate noiry tales from the crypt episode with Pinhead stapled in.

[agrajag]

I'm on a tour of bad 80's/90's movies.

Finished Highlander II: The Quickening, now I am watching Krull, and next on the list is Robot Jox.

I am taking suggestions.

[team filler]

the happening 2: box birds was upper tier netflix and middle tier cinema

[joeboy101]

I'm on a tour of bad 80's/90's movies.

Finished Highlander II: The Quickening, now I am watching Krull, and next on the list is Robot Jox.

I am taking suggestions.

Dafuq?! Krull is a bad 80’s movie?? Take that shit back right now before I have my Cyclops friend tell you what I’ll do to your asshole!



 

[TVC15]

Krull is at the very least better than any of the Iron Man movies.

[joeboy101]

Krull is at the very least better than any of the Iron Man movies.

It also had one hell of a body count for the main party. Fools were dropping all over the place.

[TVC15]

TVC can you confirm that Inferno is probably the best of the series?

Hmmm, ask me again after I rewatch the MMO one and the one with the european death cult.

[shosta]

[Joe Molotov]

I'm on a tour of bad 80's/90's movies.

Finished Highlander II: The Quickening, now I am watching Krull, and next on the list is Robot Jox.

I am taking suggestions.

[agrajag]

yes! Putting that on my list.

Should I also watch Pluto Nash?

[shosta]

buckaroo banzai

[agrajag]

I've heard about that one. Peter Weller is pretty good, so I'll give it a shot.

[Nintex]

Watched Monty Python: The Life of Brian because someone had never seen it 

Still a great film. Not sure how but there's not a single unfunny scene in the entire movie.
Surprisingly enough the subjects they referenced in 1970(religion, activism, feminism) are still as relevant today as they were back then.
Not sure if that's a compliment for the film or a failure on the part of humanity to move beyond those issues.

[agrajag]

Holy Grail is still my favorite, come at me boretendos

[joeboy101]

Holy Grail is still my favorite, come at me boretendos

Why choose?

But between the two, I agree with you. Holy Grail is a bit better than Brian.

[agrajag]

I like Meaning of Life more than Life of Brian also.

[Nintex]

Sicario: Day of the Solado (2018)

 

I guess I shouldn't be too surprised that a completely unnecessary sequel pumped out because the first movie was popular but without the guiding forces that made the first one good in the first place...isn't that good. More boring than bad, I guess. Sicario was a very basic movie that's been made 1000 times, but with the highest level of skill and craft. This one just isn't that. Lacks the tension, the focus, and the cinematography that set the first movie apart from what easily could have been a straight to Redbox movie in lesser hands. Day of the Solado feels like a straight to Redbox movie, or at least a random HBO Go movie.  :'(

It lost some steam for sure and it didn't reach the heights of Sicario 1 but there were still some great scenes in that movie.
They kinda throw you off with the first 15/20 minutes or so when you think it's just going to be Alejandro killing criminals and looking bad ass while doing it.
The whole thing just didn't came together as good as the first film and they kind of wrote themselves into a corner a couple of times during the movie.

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In the end stuff just happens and decisions are made that don't fit the characters very well. Alejandro had no problem gunning down the entire family of the cartel leader in the first movie. Yet, somehow feels he should save this girl.
Instead of Matt saying that killing Alejandro is fucking impossible and they should just let him be. He more or less agrees to their plan that he's suddenly 'expendable' with little protest.

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Word is that a third is being made though and Emily Blunt is set to return so I'm still game.

What was kinda weird plot wise is also that

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In the first film the goal is to end the competition between the two cartels (Sonora/Medilin) and have one back in control that they can influence and manage (the Medilin cartel).
Which is also why they need to cover up all the evidence of what happened during the operation. But that plot has seemingly vanished into thin air when the second movie starts.

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[Tasty]

Daily reminder that TVC is wrong for once and Hellraiser is gutter trash.

[agrajag]

I liked the one where the lady is making herself a skin suit.

[Mupepe]

They Shall Not Grow Old is damn good. The narrative is oddly compelling considering it’s told through various recordings of veterans over the footage. It feels really short, but the end is done really well and there is a surprising amount of humor. It does a really good job at helping you understand what life in the trenches was like through really clear videos, photos and stories.

[shosta]

Sicario: Day of the Solado (2018)

Soldado.

[TVC15]

OMG TVC I'm watching Hellraiser Judgement on free Vudu and lmaoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo at the mid 00s horror aesthetic and a fat fuck literally eating paper with, literally, the tears of children as salad dressing

Those first 15 minutes or so are amazing.

It -is- one of the better sequels.

[TVC15]

Hellraiser 7: Deader. This was the european death cult one. This one was also actuallynot so bad. If you found it while scrounging for cheapo horror on Netflix, you'd think you found a treasure. It is a little repetitive, and it does suffer from the "features 5 minutes of Pinhead" issue, but hey, it ain't bad.

Hellraiser 6: Hellseeker was really bad, though. Like 5, it feels like a noir-y Tales from the Crypt episode with Pinhead stapled in, but it's not nearly as well done, which is saying something because 5 was not well done. The music is notably bad. Kristy from the first two movies is in it. Warning: it bad.

Moving on to Hellworld, the MMO one. I remember this one being delightfully bad in a fun way.

[TVC15]

Hellraiser 8: Hellworld. The MMO one. Jesus this is a mess and Lance Henriksen will do anything for a dollar. This feels like the most slasher-esque of the Hellraiser movies and oddly enough, one of the few beholden to the mythology established in the second movie. It's not coherent at all, but it's a pretty great and cheesy good time. It's an entertaining flick, and some of the sets are nice.

On to Revelations, the one with Fat Pinhead. This is the worst of the movies iirc. It feels like it has the production values of a gay porn movie.

[TVC15]

Judgement relied a bit too much on pure gross out at times to me, but other than that it's pretty solid considering the extremely low bar the Hellraiser series sets. I feel like it's pretty much the same plot as Inferno, though, but it's been so long since I've seen that I really don't remember anything except some ghoul chewing on a finger or something. The ending was fucking trash and the last shot should have been excised entirely.

I'm wondering if the last shot was meant to put a quick close to the series? Remember, due to child rapist and murderer of Anthony Bourdain AND the #MeToo movement, the witch Asia Argento, the Weinsteins aren't going to be making more Hellraiser movies anytime soon,.

[Joe Molotov]

Judgement relied a bit too much on pure gross out at times to me, but other than that it's pretty solid considering the extremely low bar the Hellraiser series sets. I feel like it's pretty much the same plot as Inferno, though, but it's been so long since I've seen that I really don't remember anything except some ghoul chewing on a finger or something. The ending was fucking trash and the last shot should have been excised entirely.

I'm wondering if the last shot was meant to put a quick close to the series? Remember, due to child rapist and murderer of Anthony Bourdain AND the #MeToo movement, the witch Asia Argento, the Weinsteins aren't going to be making more Hellraiser movies anytime soon,.

Clive Barker needs to buy the rights back and direct that remake he wrote with a 90-year old Doug Bradley in it. 

[TVC15]

Ugh there’s nothing good in theaters now

[TVC15]

I'm too scared to watch a DC movie alone. The only one I've seen is Wonder Woman (with a friend).

[TVC15]

Huh, Total Recall is playing across the street from me at 10:30pm. Might see it. It's a far better movie than Blade Runner.

[agrajag]

Huh, Total Recall is playing across the street from me at 10:30pm. Might see it. It's a far better movie than Blade Runner.

there's a little boutique theater in Miami that's a vanity project od Gloria Estefan's son that plays old movies. I should go sometime.

[Joe Molotov]

Huh, Total Recall is playing across the street from me at 10:30pm. Might see it. It's a far better movie than Blade Runner.

there's a little boutique theater in Miami that's a vanity project od Gloria Estefan's son that plays old movies. I should go sometime.

Check the listings for Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth

[agrajag]

shit they showed Fire Walk With Me a couple of weeks ago

[shosta]

Total Recall might be Arnold's GOAT movie tbh. What a delightful film.

second only to true lies

[agrajag]

True Lies is overrated.

[toku]

Arnold's 90s run is underrated imo. They absolutely had a formula for this shit by then but some are amazing in just how goofy they are. I had totally forgot that 1996's "Eraser" exists until I saw it pop up on netflix and what a dumb movie:

[shosta]

True Lies is overrated.

I used to think that but the last time I saw it, Tom Arnold just completely ruined it for me. Idk why it took 20 years for that to happen, but it did.

I was joking!

[agrajag]

or your a spineless sycophant trying to appease your associates.

[shosta]

or your a spineless sycophant trying to appease your associates.

*you're

[kingv]

True Lies was meaningful to me.    I was 16 and it had been years since I’d jerked off to anything without inner labia or a Brazilian girl sucking off a horse or something.

Is this a reference to Jamie Lee Curtis being trans?

[agrajag]

or your a spineless sycophant trying to appease your associates.

*you're

that was not a denial

[Great Rumbler]