Movie News, Reviews, and Discussion Super-Thread

[Tasty]

Psycho Goreman

I was disappointed by The Void.

[nudemacusers]

the void was 90 minutes too long, could have been summed up by a poster tbh.

[Tasty]

[Joe Molotov]

Maybe you didn't notice that the name of the movie is Psycho Goreman.

[nudemacusers]

that title will look great on a limited edition mondo print hanging above my bachelor pad computer desk.

[Madrun Badrun]

Maybe you didn't notice that the name of the movie is Psycho Goreman.

I saw that and I'm now actually excited to watch it. 

[Bebpo]

https://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3647482/21-horror-movies-cant-wait-see-2021/

Looking forward to:

- Malignant (dir. James Wan)
- Halloween Kills
- Resident Evil
- Last Night in Soho (dir. Edgar Wright)

Will probably watch Candyman though it looks like trash.

Some cool stuff this year.

Really looking forward to The Green Knight.

[Stro]

The Halloween H40 trilogy is going to be so fucking dumb. Would expect it to be every bit as dumb as 5/6 by the third movie. Laurie and Michael are going to be pushing 70 by the time the 3rd movie is out

[Tasty]

I think Laurie's gonna die in this one and her daughter's gonna have to triumph in the last one.

Basically TLJ it.

[Joe Molotov]

If Rise of the Myerswalker doesn’t have Curse of Thorn and Stonehenge, then why are they even wasting our time?

[Philip Cardgage]

I think Laurie's gonna die in this one and her daughter's gonna have to triumph in the last one.

Basically TLJ it.

The script has been around for a few years.

Halloween 2018 was great. Second best Halloween that isn't Halloween 3.

Deep House could be interesting. I loved Inside, hated everything else they've done.

Goreman could be ok. I'm all for good practical effects.

Saint Maud looks amazing.

I like Wan so Malignant could be fun.

Candyman looks like a heaping pile of trash. I hope I'm wrong. Easily one of my all time favorite movies. I liked Yahya in The Get Down. Couldn't stand him in Watchmen. So Jury's out on him. First time director is also a huge gamble.

I'm always down for a new Purge movie. The show sucked and the last movie was terrible, but they're never boring.

[Stro]

Halloween 2018 isn't even the best 20 years later continuity erasing sequel in the series. It was cool to get Carpenter themes on movie theater audio system tho.

[Tasty]

https://deadline.com/2021/01/aaron-sorkin-nicole-kidman-javier-bardem-lucille-ball-desi-ricardo-being-the-ricardos-1234651297/

This sounds awesome, I'm definitely on board.

[Philip Cardgage]

Halloween 2018 isn't even the best 20 years later continuity erasing sequel in the series. It was cool to get Carpenter themes on movie theater audio system tho.

No... it was the best. Honestly, pretty much every Halloween sequel is horseshit. They never got his mask right, al of the thorn stuff was incredibly stupid, Laurie being his sister took so much away from the character. And then you have the Rob Zombie remakes which cemented his as one of the worst horror filmmakers of our time.

So yeah, 2018 is the second best Halloween movie.

[Tasty]

I forget, was 2018 the one with that weird dancer kid segment, the annoying podcast people, nonsensical doctor "twist," and the conversation about what is and is not a sandwich?

[Philip Cardgage]

I forget, was 2018 the one with that weird dancer kid segment, the annoying podcast people, nonsensical doctor "twist," and the conversation about what is and is not a sandwich?

Yes, and yet, its still the second best Halloween movie. The others are that abysmal.

[Great Rumbler]

[Philip Cardgage]

Yeah. Its great. The soundtrack kicks ass too.

[Bebpo]

Gaspar Noe art shit

Man, I want my 7 mins back from watching that. Yeah, Noe is not for me at all.

[Tasty]

I forget, was 2018 the one with that weird dancer kid segment, the annoying podcast people, nonsensical doctor "twist," and the conversation about what is and is not a sandwich?

Yes, and yet, its still the second best Halloween movie. The others are that abysmal.

Halloween > Halloween II > Halloween H20 > Halloween III = Halloween 2018 > Halloween 2007 > Halloween 2 (2009) > the rest lol > the one with Busta Rhymes

It is known.

[Tasty]

Man, I want my 7 mins back from watching that. Yeah, Noe is not for me at all.

It's a visual mood poem (and commercial lol.) Just feel the flow like you're on a club dance floor.

[Tasty]

The soundtrack was the best of all of them, agreed.

I use it as background music when I'm writing horror scripts.

[Stro]

Halloween 2018 isn't even the best 20 years later continuity erasing sequel in the series. It was cool to get Carpenter themes on movie theater audio system tho.

No... it was the best. Honestly, pretty much every Halloween sequel is horseshit. They never got his mask right, al of the thorn stuff was incredibly stupid, Laurie being his sister took so much away from the character. And then you have the Rob Zombie remakes which cemented his as one of the worst horror filmmakers of our time.

So yeah, 2018 is the second best Halloween movie.

It's solid middle of the pack.

Halloween 1978
Halloween 3
Halloween H20
Halloween 4
Halloween 2018
Halloween II
Halloween 6
Halloween Insurrection
Halloween 5
Halloween RZ
Halloween 2 RZ


There's a bunch of stupid shit that really sucks in it, it has that Blumhouse cheapness to it, and I'm super fuckin' annoyed they wanted to do a sequel that ignores all the sequels but then cherry picked shit from all the sequels for their own movie.

[Tasty]

Also, honestly, Terminator 60's Laurie is just less interesting than 40's Semi-Well-Adjusted Mom Laurie.

[Philip Cardgage]

Again, Halloween 3 doesn't count. But both of you put H20 above it?

Holy shit. That's a take. At least Resurrection had Busta in it.

I might even say H20 is Steve Miner's worst movie. I'd put Warlock on any day 10 times before watching H20 once.

[Philip Cardgage]

Soul Man > Halloween Water

[Philip Cardgage]

F13p2 > House > Warlock > Lake Placid > F13p3 > Soul Man > Forever Young > H20

[Stro]

I didn't put H20 above 3. This is a series that has FIVE different continuities including a 20 years later sequel that erases 60% of continuity, then another movie 20 years after THAT that erases 85% of continuity (including the first 20 years later sequel that erased continuity), and in between those two 20 years later sequels was a full blown remake and sequel to that.


Season of the Witch counts you fuck

[Madrun Badrun]

[Philip Cardgage]

I didn't put H20 above 3. This is a series that has FIVE different continuities including a 20 years later sequel that erases 60% of continuity, then another movie 20 years after THAT that erases 85% of continuity (including the first 20 years later sequel that erased continuity), and in between those two 20 years later sequels was a full blown remake and sequel to that.


Season of the Witch counts you fuck

It does? Did I miss the scene where Michael comes in and waves a kitchen knife around to say "HI I'M HERE! REMEMBER ME?"

Season of the Witch is its own thing.

[Stro]

It's a Halloween movie. Halloween is literally in the title. John Carpenter had more involvement in Season of the Witch than any sequel after 2 including 2018.


You fuck.

[Philip Cardgage]

It's a Halloween movie. Halloween is literally in the title. John Carpenter had more involvement in Season of the Witch than any sequel after 2 including 2018.


You fuck.

Its the Kill Bill to Pulp Fiction. Its the movie they watch in the Halloween Universe. Either way. You still put 4 over 2018. That tells me all I need to know.

[Joe Molotov]

Julian Sands in Warlock

[Philip Cardgage]

Julian Sands is S tier, no doubt.

[Stro]

It's a Halloween movie. Halloween is literally in the title. John Carpenter had more involvement in Season of the Witch than any sequel after 2 including 2018.


You fuck.

Its the Kill Bill to Pulp Fiction. Its the movie they watch in the Halloween Universe. Either way. You still put 4 over 2018. That tells me all I need to know.

4 has Donald Pleasance, probably the best child actor in any horror movie, is basically a remake of 1 but with a kid but still enough to do its own thing


2018 has....a good mask, good music, explicitly jettisons all continuity and then most of the movie is just scenes taken from the sequels they jettisoned. Some real have your cake and eat it too bullshit. And that's all the best stuff as all the actually original stuff (the true crime podcasters, the school party and fight with boyfriend, etc) sucks

[Philip Cardgage]

4 has Donald Pleasance in some of the worst special effects makeup I have ever seen. The mask was terrible. Danielle Harris was pretty fucking terrible in it. And that ending... oh man that ending.

2018 has Jibrail Nantambu, who in his 10 minutes of screen time shits all over Danielle Harris in 2 movies.

Halloween 2018 is bad because it "jettisoned" stuff from a bunch of Halloween movies () but 4 is great because its a shitty remake of the original.

Ok?

[Stro]

Yeah the mask does suck no argument there


No 2018 is middle of the pack because it jettisoned stuff from the Halloween movies and the whole PR around it was the sequels weren't good, too murky, too dumb, and they're going to get back to what made the original great and then....they just took shit from all the sequels for their own movie and made a movie that's story is every bit as dumb and implausible as the sequels anyway. But the music was great, probably best in the entire series, mask looked good, and it looked slick over all. But it is pretty hollow.

[Tasty]

https://deadline.com/video/netflix-2021-movie-slate/

70 Netflix original films in 2021. Jesus Christ.

[Potato]

70 movies to ignore then.

[Tasty]

70 movies to ignore then.

For every Kissing Booth there's at least one The Irishman

[Potato]

No film is worth 209 minutes of my time unfortunately.

[team filler]

4 has Donald Pleasance in some of the worst special effects makeup I have ever seen. The mask was terrible. Danielle Harris was pretty fucking terrible in it. And that ending... oh man that ending.

2018 has Jibrail Nantambu, who in his 10 minutes of screen time shits all over Danielle Harris in 2 movies.

Halloween 2018 is bad because it "jettisoned" stuff from a bunch of Halloween movies () but 4 is great because its a shitty remake of the original.

Ok?

forgot about the kid, he was great 

[EchoRin]

https://deadline.com/video/netflix-2021-movie-slate/

70 Netflix original films in 2021. Jesus Christ.

Hoo man. No surprise with Covid-19 still sticking around. Though skimming wikipedia, most of this is just distribution rights rather than Netflix funded projects.

Looking forward to Don't Look Up which is in February and being a Richard Linklater fan I'm curious about Apollo 10 1/2 (no release date beyond 2021).

edit:

Skimming some more and I came across something that I had, mmm, no real desire to see. I'm talking about The Guilty. You see it was an excellent little Danish film from 2018 that I felt didn't need a Hollywood remake. Essentially I had images of the Hollywood Oldboy flashing in my head. I heard that it was getting remake and thought "ah, give a try, but I don't think it will be as elegant and subdued in the right way the original was" (not that a remake is supposed to mimic the original work by rule. Shit it can go a completely different route).

However. I see that my boys Jake Gyllenhaal, Ethan Hawke and Paulo Dano are in this. Heh, even Bill Burr is in this. Most of the original movie plays out over a series of telephone calls. The acting was mainly our main character and a few other people in the office. Hard to imagine with all these actors attached to the project that it will be as stripped down, but who knows. My interest is piqued. Directed by the Training Day guy and written by the dude who worked on True Detective. Take that for what you will. I've gone from someone who winced at the idea of this remake to patiently looking forward to a trailer.

[Joe Molotov]

We're finally getting the Zack Snyder cut of Netflix.

[Tasty]

No film is worth 209 minutes of my time unfortunately.

[Don Rumata]

https://deadline.com/video/netflix-2021-movie-slate/

70 Netflix original films in 2021. Jesus Christ.

Hoo man. No surprise with Covid-19 still sticking around. Though skimming wikipedia, most of this is just distribution rights rather than Netflix funded projects.

Looking forward to Don't Look Up which is in February and being a Richard Linklater fan I'm curious about Apollo 10 1/2 (no release date beyond 2021).

edit:

Skimming some more and I came across something that I had, mmm, no real desire to see. I'm talking about The Guilty. You see it was an excellent little Danish film from 2018 that I felt didn't need a Hollywood remake. Essentially I had images of the Hollywood Oldboy flashing in my head. I heard that it was getting remake and thought "ah, give a try, but I don't think it will be as elegant and subdued in the right way the original was" (not that a remake is supposed to mimic the original work by rule. Shit it can go a completely different route).

However. I see that my boys Jake Gyllenhaal, Ethan Hawke and Paulo Dano are in this. Heh, even Bill Burr is in this. Most of the original movie plays out over a series of telephone calls. The acting was mainly our main character and a few other people in the office. Hard to imagine with all these actors attached to the project that it will be as stripped down, but who knows. My interest is piqued. Directed by the Training Day guy and written by the dude who worked on True Detective. Take that for what you will. I've gone from someone who winced at the idea of this remake to patiently looking forward to a trailer.

Yeah the Guilty was a fun little movie, it was quite tense and well put together, but i can see room for improvement, especially if they take it a bit more seriously (which i doubt) since some of the stuff in it came off as unintentionally funny, in my opinion.

[Tasty]

https://news.avclub.com/clerks-3-opens-with-my-chemical-romances-welcome-to-th-1846061086

Kevin Smith can write 101 pages in 18 days, need to step my game up.

[Tasty]

Finally watched Jay and Silent Bob Reboot tonight because of that news post. It was both better and much worse than I expected at the same time. Slightly better than Yoga Hosers due to the cameos.

The meta-ness wore out its cutesiness fast (thankfully they cut the worse offenders but still stuck them in the credits), and now it seems Clerks 3 is going meta too? Kevin Smith is doing his thing which is fine, but his best work was semi-grounded non-meta wankery BS.

I was rolling my eyes at the Stan Lee scene, when it should have been moving. Too much meta shit.

[Tuckers Law]

I remember seeing it in the theater and thinking “it’s really good that Kevin has other ways to make money,“ because his directing choices...oof.  More heartfelt stuff like the Holden monologue and less wacky-everything else.

I’m hoping that Reboot was simply a case of him trying to recapture Strike Back’s 90’s style of wacky comedy for Mewes as his leading man, and that Clerks 3 stays much more grounded and focused on character driven story where the better actors can sell it.

[Pissy F Benny]

I'm 99% sure Ive seen that film but can't remember a single thing about it

[Bebpo]

Well finally got to see Benson & Moorhead's Synchronic. I fucking love Resolution, Spring and The Endless and was looking forward to this.

It's good, maybe even great, but I think it's definitely the weakest of the four films so far. The story concept is interesting and the direction still has that great sci-fi film w/horror tension/ambiance that their other flicks tend to have. But some aspects of the story felt a little too simplistic and I thought it puttered out at a bit at the end. Also even with this being their biggest budget film with actual stars, it feels sooooo budget. I'm glad they're always punching above their weight pushing interesting sci-fi stuff with limited budget, but it'll be nice with Moon Knight to see what they can do with a real production budget.

That being said I sure hope they get included in the writer's room for Moon Knight. I'd argue their writing and creative stories are a bigger strength than their directing style. I know for the films, unless you're James Gunn, Marvel tends to be pretty studio control, but maybe for the TV stuff they'll be more open to creator input. I gotta imagine if Feige liked their catalogue to hire them and give them Oscar Issac & Ethan Hawke then Feige probably liked their stories and would see the strength of having them on as writers for Moon Knight.

Also I guess they'll have another film before Moon Knight? I saw an interview on Synchronic from a few months back and they said they were about 3 months into a shoot on their new "film" and were quarantining with the cast & crew. I guess Moon Knight is probably like 2022 thing. Looking forward to their next flick.

If you haven't seen their previous stuff, skip Synchronic and go watch those.

[Bebpo]

Also my slight woke rant is that Synchronic is a film that deals with a black man experiencing various major racial situations. That's fine, except that it's written by two middle age white guys. I like Benson & Moorhead a lot and they seem like good people with good intentions, but my personal take on creative writing whether it's videogames, tv, film, whatever in the modern era is that if you're a white dude and you are writing a script from the point of view of someone who is not white and the struggles they face as someone not white, then that is OK but you should get a good co-writer in the writer's room who does have the background of the character you are writing so they can have input on the script. I feel that makes it more legit and less cringy. But that's just my personal take.

[Potato]

It's not like these struggles haven't been documented first hand over and over and over with interviews and documentaries for decades. There's enough first hand accounts of the black American experience of racism that a talented writer can adapt those experiences authentically and with the right tone.

[Don Rumata]

I remember liking Spring quite a bit, maybe i'll give their other films a shot.

[Bebpo]

I remember liking Spring quite a bit, maybe i'll give their other films a shot.

Their best film that got them noticed the most is The Endless, but the movie is twice as enjoyable & satisfying if you've seen Resolution first since the movies are connected.

Resolution has really heavy Lynch feel, while still being pretty funny.

I'd rank them The Endless > Spring > Resolution > Synchronic, but they're all worth watching. If they had a little more polish & budget they could be the next Rian Johnson type modern era hq writer/director filmmaker, but they're not quite there yet.

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/getFANDOM/status/1350881488934367233

4 hours of Snyder

[Tasty]

Not drawing this BS out over multiple episodes

[Nintex]

I'm ready to blame WB for not releasing the intended 12 hour SNYDER SERIES if it sucks 

[Tasty]

I'm ready to blame WB for not releasing the intended 12 hour SNYDER SERIES if it sucks 

Oh god, another 2 year fan campaign

[team filler]

it's always fan campaign SZN