The Dante’s Peak and Volcano of suicidal news anchor movies
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i saw dante’s peak but not volcano
I just had a good time in the dark without my phone on my couch. I even got up and used the bathroom.
I saw Tenet!
It was good and fun. How was that confusing? Really strange what was and was not spelled out.
It was an overblown james bond with all the locals and time shit that didn’t matter. I want to watch it again just to read all the clothing language. So mang costume changes. Our protagonist wears so many bad polos! The brook brothers suit was honestly the best thing he wore.
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I had to follow up a 2.5 hour film with a 2.5 hour film of Where Eagles Dare (1969). It was so boring and dull. It is apparently Steven Speilberg’s favorite war film for the “boys own” factor?
Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood are in nazi uniforms the entire film? It is so languid in pace that the reveal scene is just come on already.
It is apparently “extremely” violent but I did not even notice that until reading about it. Again please address upwards where I talk about a 50s film being upsetting.
Unless there is a more direct ancedant I’d say this is where Wolfenstein 3D comes from. There is a german castle and they kill a lot of nazis.
Also you see a B-47 Helicopter and you’re like what the hell is Chopper 6 for Channel 4 doing here?
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Try the Eagle Has Landed if you can rud13
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I’m watching every war movie my local rental store has and I am down to Hacksaw Ridge (lol no) or American Sniper (also no) or like a film made with a budget of 2 million from 2012 that no one has heard of and is sold next to Sperm Shark: They Eat You From The Inside.
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I ain’t got no beef against no Wraith.
Every other movie in the 80s had this shot.
Hey, this Arizona Desert Town looks like Southern California.
Hey, these teenagers look 40.
Clint Howard!
Girls love this kind of thing.
The natural beauty of Arizona.
They were ‘Adios!’ by the kid in the Turbo!
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who the hell would put a turbo on a 'vette V8?
desert tweaker road pirates hopped up on antifreeze with nothing better to do except try to see how fast you can make a Gremlin go.
I do not like Black Christmas at all. I don’t get the appeal or why it’s so well-regarded. It’s so goofy and everybody is performing their roles as if they’re in completely different movies from the one they’re in right now and it gets really jarring. Olivia Hussey sounds like she still thinks she’s in Romeo and Juliette, and Margot Kidder is at max proto-Greta Gerwig. I’m really glad that John Carpenter decided to go with a silent killer for Halloween, because some guy trying to sound like Pazuzu from the Exorcist talking about female genitals and making goofy noises doesn’t do much for me or the atmosphere. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised at the quality since it’s from the same guy that brought you absolute gems like Baby Geniuses, Baby Geniuses 2, and Porky’s (and somehow, A Christmas Story).
Olivia Hussey is wearing possibly the ugliest sweater I’ve ever seen. Those are definitely supposed to be two hands grabbing at her chest, but I suppose if you have an astigmatism and you don’t have your glasses on they could look like reindeer antler and it could be a commendable very ugly Christmas sweater.
Margot Kidder in a partially-unbuttoned collared shirt and a choker is just about all that’s good here.
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ah, The Wraith is pretty darn goofy
it took me a long time to realize that was Sherilyn Fenn with a California tan
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Yeah, I didn’t realize it was her until I watched the MonsterVision airing of it last night and the host mentioned it was her. I watched The Wraith a lot as a kid – I assume it was on SciFi or something – though in hindsight, some of the subject matter is a bit heavy for a kid, but I suppose cut up for TV it’s not really too bad.
I always hated the ending, though. The Ghost leaves the Car with the Brother, but I’m pretty sure the police know the Car was involved in multiple deaths and it kind of stands out, so all he has to do is get caught by the cops driving this thing or they just have to see it parked in his driveway and he’s fucked.
And where the hell are everyone’s parents?
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it feels like a movie adaptation of this gimmick song I always liked
this guy!
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I love how this has become the one line from UCB that’s really had legs.
Today I watched the film adaptation of Detention. It’s a pretty decent story about a period that’s rarely explored in media, but not a particularly effective horror movie. There’s a surprisingly small amount of time spent dealing with the ghosts / monsters in the school and instead it mostly focuses on the backstory that lead to the nightmare scenario. The CG isn’t really all that convincing and the constant dramatic music kinda undercuts the creepy atmosphere.
It’s a pretty faithful adaptation of the source, following pretty much the entire story of the game and even has a few nods to some of the puzzles (although it feels like it’s mostly showing more literally what the game hinting at in regard to what the puzzles were supposed to represent), while still managing to not feel like a video game adaptation.
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I haven’t had Snackwells Devil’s Food cookies in a long time.
Aw shucks, but San Francisco told me to go to New York…
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I finally got around to seeing First Love, and it was entertaining. I’m partial to movies that take place (mostly) over a single night with events continuing to escalate (things like After Hours and Miracle Mile), and this is one of those.
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I noticed that Tom Cruise uses the same taxi like, three times in Eyes Wide Shut. This has to be intentional, right? Like, I don’t know a lot about Stanard Kubrick nor have I seen his movies much (I think Barry Lyndon about a decade ago was the last time I watched Kubrick?), but everything I’ve heard about him sounds like he wouldn’t be the sort of person to re-use the same very distinct, beat-up looking taxi cab for three different scenes because it would break the fiction of the reality for somebody to get the same exact cab on three different occasions in a big city like New York, right? Maybe they’re buds.
But, before anyone says, “Well, maybe he asked for him to wait!”:
- Tom Cruise takes the cab to the costume shop the first time, he gets out, pays and tips, and then we hear the cab drive off a few seconds later.
- Tom Cruise then goes to the party. It’s really hard to make out any distinguishing details, but I do believe it’s the same cab because there’s a dark scuff on the bumper that you can sort of make out when the taxi is parked out front of the party if you zoom in (it also lacks those rear bars that I assume are for bikes that the other taxis in the movie have)
- Tom Cruise then visits the costume shop again the following day (hours later) in the same exact same taxi cab he was in the first time!
I only bring this up because it’s really distinct, almost like it was intentional, and I skimmed over wikipedia and saw it said that it took over a year to film this and Kubrick was so obsessive that he even chose who wore what mask at the party.
I don’t really have any strong opinion about the movie and I’m not sure what implication the re-used cab would have. 
Maybe they just had this one cab to work with and they figured nobody would notice or care.
Maybe most of this movie is through the lens of somebody who just smoked weed for the first time in a few months, and chunks of it are just dreams. Like, immediately after toking up and getting into an argument with his wife where he feels betrayed and rejected he’s called about a patient who has died, and that patient’s daughter just out of the blue admits her love for Tom Cruise, even though they barely know each other. Like… Are we sure that’s reality?
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I mean, the movie is based on a book called Dream Story, so.
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