Ad astra is going for that big Solaris / MOON mood but can’t help but have a ton of action sequences with, like, space pirates and space baboons that are barely connected to the overall story, feel like going through the motions (we need to investigate a ship sending a mayday signal) and seem like a concession
I watched Spider-Man: Far From Home. It was pretty solid, actually. I liked it better than the first one. The first movie spent a lot of time trying to keep it tied to The Avengers and it ended up feeling like a big waste of screen time. For what could otherwise be a real solid take on a younger spidey.
Well, homecoming spends very little time on Avengers stuff and its much better, for it. They also did a pretty cool job overall, with a modern screen version of Mysterio.
And they shed most of the A.I. asisted, powered up, iron-man-lite suite, from the first movie. which is for the better. That was my other big complaint with that one.
I think my only real problem with Far From Home, is that Nick Fury and S.H.I.E.L.D. should be super elite and experienced, by this point. Yet, they spend most of the movie acting like this was their first week on the job.
watch the credits
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I did…?
then your problem was explicitly addressed in The Text right before your very eyeballs?
I think my comment still stands, despite the revelations of that scene.
I just watched Inception for the first time ever. And I thought it was…kinda thin?
Some neat ideas. But, it felt a little too contrived and relied too much on outright explaining things. And then also I just didn’t really care much about what was going on, at any level. And then it relied on a non-ending.
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inception to me feels like half the movie is a video game manual and the rest of the movie is the tutorial level
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I liked Inception, but I wished that the people whose dreams they entered didn’t have such boring dreams.
Speaking of dreams, a friend invited me to go see the new It movie the other night and so I did. I thought the writing was bad but there was some fun surreal imagery in places (and a generous amount of said imagery). It reminded me of the Nightmare on Elm Street series, though not at its best.
The third Elm Street title was the first horror movie I ever saw as a kid (unless you count The Fly and Son of Blob, but those are pretty tame). I saw Dream Warriors while sleeping over at a friend’s house. I never would have been allowed to see something like that had my parents known, and it made quite an impression on me. I just re-watched it for the first time in ages, and I still like it. I wish there were more things like it.
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Inception vs. Freddy is the movie Christopher Nolan owes us
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I just saw It 2 too, and I agree. Some lame writing at times but I dug the abstract expressionist, metaphysical spooks. I thought of Nightmare on Elm Street too. Pennywise is really pretty similar to Freddy as a horror monster, and I’ve heard that the later Elm Street movies get VERY cartoony and visually weird in their death scenes. Like, teens getting turned into cockroaches and killed in roach motels and shit like that. I think there’s a good reason why It 2 featured a loving camera pan over a theater marquee for Nightmare on Elm Street 5.
One thing that annoyed me right away though was when they opened the movie with that Adrian scene. I was like “is that fucking Adrian? Did they really have to include Adrian? Are they just going to… god damnit.” They cut so much, but they just had to keep that.
this exact scene traumatized me when i saw it while randomly flipping channels in a motel on a road trip as a kid
but i love freddy now, NOES is the only good horror series
friday the 13th has greater peaks and valleys and in total is probably the more interesting franchise. nightmare on elm street starts strong and takes a huge dive after dream warriors.
We all agree Freddy vs Jason is a great film yes? That completely 90sified weed scene
Remember in Jason X where they use a holodeck to create boob-jubbling coeds at a lake as a decoy to distract Space Jason
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Wow I really disagree. I find all of the Freddy movies interesting in some way, although some of them are bad. I tried watching all the Jason movies after getting hype about Freddy, and found them just tedious after a certain point. To be fair, I think I got bored halfway through and never made it to Jason Takes Manhattan or Jason Goes to Hell, which I think are supposed to be like the more campy ones?
I have seen Jason X, which fucking rules.
And yea F V J is great
nightmare on elm street stays strong til the second half of wes cravens new nightmare
freddy vs jason had great lines and the fight scene at the end made all the nothing worth it
here is a summary of every freddy movie
freddy 1: actual horror movie
freddy 2: freddy is analogy for being gay
freddy 3: the kids are alright, and together they can do anything
freddy 4: when your friends die you get their superpowers
freddy 5: what if freddy had a mommy
freddy 6: what if freddy had a baby
they all have AMAZING deaths. like five is by far the weakest but the BON APPETIT BITCH scene and the motorcycle tf are fangoria magazine all stars
six kinda falls apart but it also brought the YOU FORGOT THE POWER GLOOOOOVE scene and tapped into my absent father daddy issues as a 10 year old afab so i love it
i have probably seen nightmare on elm street movies more than any other movie
jason movies are fun but i get it. titty girl fall down and die.
the first and jason x are my favorite, maybe a side of jason takes manhattan haha
i have to go to the grocery store now im sorry i couldnt put more thought into this post I LOVE FREDDY I HAD ALL HIS POSTERS someone made a twine game for my birthday once about hanging out with freddy
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I kind of feel like Freddy is kind of like my Joker. I am really into the way he channels and focuses Verbally Abusive Asshole Energy into an entity of pure evil. That kind of horror enemy is more compelling to me than like a silent killing machine. I think getting murdered by someone who says “BON APPETIT BITCH” activates terror centers in my brain that somehow feel more “real” than getting killed by a guy in a hockey mask or whatever. Like, real evil is not a golem lurching through the darkness, real evil is someone who fucking hates you so much that they enjoy killing you. I dunno.
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nightmare 4-6 have little to offer beyond the death scenes and englund’s increasingly quippy performances, whereas 2-3 feel like they have a purpose beyond continuing a franchise. i will say that i was a longtime hater of the jason franchise until i watched the entire series again a couple of years and discovered that 1-4 are generally successful serious slashers (4 being the best, though 2 has the most brutal kills), a new beginning is an insane mess, jason lives is a genuinely funny, well-directed self-parody, the new blood has telekinesis and daddy issues, takes Manhattan more like takes a “cruise” ship for seventy minutes, hell is irredeemably awful and jason x rules.
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Oh yeah the NOES remake is notable only for bringing the fact that Freddy is like, a zombie pedophile child murderer into the foreground of the story. I personally think it kind of works better as like… surrealistic subtext but it would make sense that the filmmakers would try to focus more on this aspect of the story in the era of torture porn.
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