TUFTLAND 2017

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A young women accepts a summer job in a small village hidden deep in the forests of Finland.

Really enjoyed it.

Dead by dawn

You're not supposed to watch subtitled films... it makes you look like a nerdy bookworm.

Yes. And besides that it’s un-American.

The Crazies (2010) 8/10

How Texan is it?

Probably very Texan.

Coming 2 America 5/10

Reminded me of Crocodile Dundee 2. In the first movie Dundee goes to America, in the second it's the other way around. Except, Coming 2 America is as good as Crocodile Dundee 3, which was bad.

Why the hell couldn't the movie have been about Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall again? And why the hell couldn't they find an actor to play the son who didn't look and acted like an annoying fuck? Would have liked to see Anthony Mackie playing that part. I don't care if he's 10 years too old, damn it!!

Oh well, at least the costumes looked nice. 1 point for that. ::roll eyes::

I've heard a lot of people say it's a shit movie. I think I'll pass on watching it.

Boss Level 6-7/10

Yet another Groundhog Day/Happy Death Day attempt. This time made as an action flick. I don't really know what to think of this one. Not really a big action movie fan, so I guess I found the story a little lackluster. But I can easilly see how other people might like it a lot. Got a solid cast.

I've seen a lot worse comedies, but.... it took the writers 30 years to come up with THIS shit?? Why the hell bother.

I mean, sadly...it's just Edie Murphy...it's like, I didn't even hate Pluto Nash that much, and didn't think Bowfinger was great but they were tolerable...everything since has been a waste.
I think with the exception of "Metro" and "Life" his career has been a pile of garbage since (but not including) Vampire in Brooklyn.

Why?

You start fucking around with family comedies and kids movies...kills every single comedy/movie career.

True.

Dolemite Is My Name was alright tho.

An animal? You don't know who that was? That was the surprise. Did you read my review?

http://horror.com/forum/showpost.php...ostcount=11702

I liked the movie. Yeah it does feel like Alien at times and other movies. But I find it funny how critics will find similarities with smaller or normal movies. But when companies make remakes and homages for big movies, critics do their best to help companies sell tickets.

I don't think Eddie Murphy will make those rough comedies anymore. I can't remember much of the original Coming to America. Only this bar scene.



It's strange how a lot of that I didn't get when I was young. There is that pretty gold digger that might actually be playing herself if you check her wiki. And the inside jokes. Back in the day, Eddie Murphy did a bunch of gay jokes. But he was the guy who got caught picking up a trans prostitute. A term I didn't get back then. That would be a strange coincidence when considering that final scene in the bar.

The Visit, damn i really enjoyed this

I believe it was almost an opening "joke" on Delirious or one of those.
Explaining that one of his rules is that "faggots can't look at his ass" when he's on the stage.
Also said specifically he was "scared of gay people" or some such.

Personally...don't care...it was the 80's. He was forever trying to be edgy. Things change and I doubt he'd say it now.
Though to be honest it astounds me that this isn't something people have went after him for and brought back from the past...why'd they miss him?

Just saw it with some family. I liked it. I thought it was fun. The opening dialogue -- kind of arrogant macho stuff from the '80s -- had me worried, but it really softened up. It's mainly an action-comedy. It just needed a touch of heart, and I think it had it. I'd probably give it an 8/10, as the film just tried to be a little fun romp and was successful at it.

I read your review before and after the section labeled "spoilers", because I hadn't seen it yet. ::big grin::

OK, so big creature was C. Well, in this movie, whatever it was, it didn't really do or say anything that a giant fish/squid/animal wouldn't do. I didn't get the smaller creatures were worshiping C, I just read that they were. I am no expert on C, or L***c***t for that matter. The brief appearance of C at the end did nothing for me. In a way, that only makes it more of a fan film of references. The only way I made it through the film, with one jump ahead, is the mild humor of T.J. Miller. That, and general curiosity of the end, which I didn't dig either. But again, I'm glad you liked it. RT 60% fresh audience score isn't too bad.

Hmm... I don't know... one might say a 'remake' using the same title (as the original film) is being honest about the source material. And the audience knows ahead of time they are going to get something close to the original, or hopefully (to me) a re-imagining that is sufficiently original, but therefore that would be considered a pleasant surprise. I've seen the majority of critics both bash and praise some remake film titles, usually bash.

Whereas a film that presents itself as an original film has more responsibility to be original. There may be 'nothing new under the sun', but if you're doing a genre film like Underwater -- let's say a claustrophobic sci-fi horror -- if you piece together sections from other claustrophobic sci-fi horror films, the likelihood is it's going to seem hack. It struck me as very hack.

Only one film comes to mind that was a crosshatch of other sci-fi TV eps and films, that was well-received at HDC, and a lot of people I know, was Event Horizon (EH) (but the film still irked me). Coincidentally, EH was trashed by critics (RT Critic 28%) and has the same audience score as Underwater (60%). I thought EH was much better than Underwater (though I'm still not a fan of EH) because I thought the combination of story elements had a 'sort of originality', it was fairly unpredictable, had some creative creatures, etc. I don't think I'd say any of those things about Underwater.

MA (2019). Odd film as very obnoxious teenagers are befriended by an older woman who, most importantly, acquires booze and a place for them to party. But it turns out there is a past history with many of the kids parents and not all that great either...

Lots of potential here, but script lags and although it gets frantic towards the end, You won't care hat much. Octavia Spencer, as the titular character, is very good and she makes the film worth seeing. **1/2

Stay Out of the Fucking Attic. 2021. 8/10


Director: Jerren Lauder


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South of Hell. Meh.

Showgirls-1995.

Hmmm

This is the one I remember.



I have to admit I was laughing when he joked about the police car siren.

And when I watched this originally, I didn't get that he was supposed to be a gay character and talking about an STD.



I don't know enough about how people group to decide to stop supporting people when they do something wrong. It seems to be a Twitter thing and I'm not on that. And Eddie Murphy probably isn't going to have a Bill Cosby reveal seeing that according to wiki he has 10 children spread between more than 3 women.

I guess I thought a really big creature on the ocean floor with those iconic traits would be kind of obvious. That reveal shot with the flare could have been a bit better if it wasn't so dark. But still, if you are a small human on the ocean floor and see that, I would probably lose my mind. But underwater statues freak me out.

With those big movies, I'm pretty much talking movies like the recent Star Wars and Star Trek. A few others too but I can't remember them as they were so bad. Movies that basically remake or use the plot structure of those original movies. It's the sort of thing that I find lazy coming from movies with massive budgets.

When I see a movie like Underwater, I do see a movie that was made by a fan. Sure since the referenced movies are fairly recent it's obvious in some ways. Perhaps older people who saw the original Star Wars picked up on the references. But I just see a difference between the fan director movie and the big studio movie that shouldn't be a remake or same plot point story. The whole point of the alternate time line Star Trek was to make new stories. Yet they made three revenge movies. One of which was a bad remake of the best Star Trek movie. And they had the nerve to attempt to try to sell it as something else.

I just find movies like Underwater and Doomsday far more honest and fun. Both are small movies that few liked. Yet were made by fans of many popular movies.

I'm mixed on Event Horizon. I believe we talked about it here. I know I was talking about it on the HorrorDVDs forum. I never saw Hellraiser before Event Horizon. I thought Event Horizon was kind of ok. I didn't like the ending. The scenes with Laurence Fishburne & Sam Neill are the best parts of the movie. I was going to watch it one more time to see if I would own it. Probably around the time I play the Dead Space trilogy since that was influenced by the movie. I pick Underwater over Event Horizon even though both could be a lot better.

I only remember his Richard Pryor parody. Hilarious.

Yes, I found it hard to make out the creature at the end of Underwater. I don't think the water needed to be that dirty. ::big grin::

I hear ya. How one takes the 'similarities' of a movie to a few other films is very subjective. When I watched Event Horizon (EH), my mind immediately went to each sci-fi TV ep and film as the scene happened. It was distracting. Partly because those 'ripped off concepts' ::big grin:: were rather hodge-podge even for EH's own plot story. (At least everything in Underwater was self-consistent.) I was literally shaking my head. I even accused one EH fan of probably not knowing sci-fi very well... not a friendly attitude on my part.

I agree with you, EH had a nice cast, which helped the film along.

I mildly enjoyed the new Star Treks, as I agree with you, they didn't bother trying to be very original. What are the best 3-4 Star Trek films?

Got around finally and saw Avatar.

Why is it so big?

You were supposed to see it on the big screen with 3D glasses 10 years ago! ::big grin::

The film's concept of inhabiting those native bodies was new, though the overall allegory is very old... kind of Dances With Wolves, or whatever, corporations using state military to exploit 'native lands' and find a reason to exterminate the 'native peoples' is an old concept, but still a powerful and ongoing event in this world.

So that, and the special effects were it's big kick. But it's popularity immediately dropped after a year. It sold tickets, but it isn't a classic.

LOL it was Pocohontas in Blue.
Nice looking but honestly, given it was Cameron I expected a little more.
Thing was like a kids film.
Best 3D I've ever seen, given.
IMO the "good" scifi that year was District 9.

THALE 2012

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Two crime-scene cleaners discover a strange woman hidden in an underground room.

Re-watch. Still love it.

Damn, did they come out the same year? I thought District 9 was newer and Avatar waaay older. How time flies by...

Yep, not only that, but District 9 in fact came out some 4 months before Avatar.

Cheers ::big grin::

Actually, at that time (and still now), the story wasn't my cup of tea, so I ignored it a lot, but just read it became again the movie with the highest income so I decided to give it a go.

Exactly Pocahontas in blue with a touch of Ferngully.

The Orphanage (2007)

I just found a comedy slasher parody on Friday the 13th called "Bloody Bloody Bible Camp," that is about a serial killer dressed up as a nun with a devil mask on, slashing everybody at the camp. Ron Jeremy also appears near the end playing Jesus Christ. This is overall well done, and a lot better than expected. There are actually both plenty of funny and scary scenes in there with plenty of good old school done right 1980s style slasher fun. There is also plenty of good humorous and catchy dialogue, real similar to a lot of the 1980s horror films, and it also has the smooth editing a lot of the 1980s movies have. It has even been considered a masterpiece by many. The killer even uses a cinderblock as the weapon of choice in one scene that is overall awesome looking, and that is the first time since the serial killer named Herman in the serial killer fil of goodm, "Violence Gives Him Hope," where I have seen a cinderblock being used as a weapon. I have found a lot of good underrated horror films on Netflix, Prime, and Tubi within recent years, and this one has got to be one of the better ones. ::danger::

I also found another comedy slasher parody called "Pool Party Massacre." This one parodys the spoiled, rich, arrogant, and delusional kids who have it too good and too easy because their parents just give them whatever they want whenever they want to get them out of their hair. It is overall funny in an over the top sort of way, based on how a lot of them actually are with a lot of good humorous and catchy dialogue. The kill scenes are also overall well done in parody sorts of ways. There are even a few good twists and turns near the end, where it finally reveals who the killer is, and the motives for the killings, along with another twist after that. Of all the comedy slashers from recent years, this is probably one of the funnier ones out there. ::devil::

You should check out:
Tucker & Dale
Detention (2011)
Psycho Beach Party.

I saw Tucker and Dale! They are funny! You should probably check out Bloody Bloody Bible Camp! If you like parodies on the Friday the 13th series, you might get a kick of the Camp Blood and Bloody Murder series as well.

Babysitter wanted