I agree. I really liked The Conjuring original, and I thought 2 was OK. I digged the events and story going on in England... I just didn't get, nor like, how they were trying to shoe-horn the Nun story into it. Seemed disjointed. It's not like Conjuring is the Avengers series. Should have just made them stand alone. We like the main characters, that's enough.

In the Tall Grass 4-5/10

A movie about people walking in tall grass.

Directed by the guy behind the Cube trilogy and I could see some similarities. Also, Patrick Wilson was in it, so.... THAT’s good.

The Art of Self-Defense (2019)

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A liked this movie quite a lot. Jesse Eisenberg was good in it, it was humorous, it had peculiar and interesting characters. A good film.
8/10

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Friday the 13th Part 2

If it had been a straight up comedy I believe I would have liked it a lot too. Instead it went very dark and at the same time totally unbelievable. That didn’t sit well with me.

6/10

Anyone watch "El Camino" yet?
For (if this is possible) anyone that doesn't know this, it's a netflix movie follow up to the "Breaking Bad" series and focusses on Jessie Pinkman after the events of the show.
Seems like just about everyone loves it.

I started watching it. Pretty good so far - with the returning actors/characters falling nicely back into their chemistry.
Sadly, we started watching very late so only got about a half way through...but what I've seen so far I've liked. Obviously coming out of the kind of tragic events of the end of BB, so there's not really much of the comedy aspect going on, and the character is practically crawling back from ruin.
Don't know what it's leading up to...don't know how it'll end or if we'll ever see more from the BB universe ever again - but thus far, it's worthy.
It's nice to visit again.

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

Maggie - A zombie film with very little zombies in it. Not to mention the slowest turning zombies ever.

The concept sounds interesting. Reserve 90 minutes for what has only 1 minute in a regular zombie flick.

It was nice to see Schwarzenegger about as far away from the Terminator as possible and his portrayal of a man dealing with the loss of a child and the feeling of powerlessness that comes in it was pretty good.

They avoid the trap of turning this into a cheap tearjerker and the moment with the kiss on the forehead was pretty tense. That said:

Does that mean the film lives up to it's full potential?

Could they make more out of it with a different cast or script?

Does the element of zombies keep it from getting more recognition? Or is it the presence of Schwarzenegger?

Not sure.

I only read the wiki as I thought Breaking Bad was a perfect show, one of the best TV shows ever and didn't need a movie sequel. I'm kind of curious about that lawyer show. But still I was relucant to watch Breaking Bad originally and was hooked. There aren't any bad episodes. But you just know watching that show that the end will be bad in the end. I think the saying is drug dealers always end of dead somewhere.

Looks like good stuff for a gore hound.