Just crushing the Clive Barker huh? I love seeing references/homages to classic horror in newer movies like Cabin in the Woods or The Night House but my favourite Hellraiser-adjacent movie is Event Horizon.Just watched
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Just crushing the Clive Barker huh? I love seeing references/homages to classic horror in newer movies like Cabin in the Woods or The Night House but my favourite Hellraiser-adjacent movie is Event Horizon.Just watched
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My opinion was the entire opposite: I thought Malik was great in The Amateur (but not so great as the villain in No Time to Die - seemed miscast). In general, he's a very good actor though (I'm a huge Mr. Robot fan).Okay, I watched The Amateur recently, I liked the plot line, the action, mystery and Lawrence Fishburne, but I found it hard to relate with Rami Malek as Charles Heller playing a wanna be James bond. Okay I know he's not supposed to be a spy, but an analyst, and still, I wished they would of gotten almost anyone else for this role, I would of been happier with Garfield then Malek. I did like Malek in the last Bond movie as the villain and maybe even as Freddie mercury but he's just not an action guy.
Its really in the middle for me.Basically everyone I have talked to also said it was the best Superman movie ever or total waste of money shit. I am not sure what the explanation is for the polarization.
No its not needed for Superman or Batman, but if you gonna put some C-list characters in there like Mr Terrific, give them some original story... If it wasn't for watching Arrow, i would had no idea who was this guy and why he look so goofyI guess some people want a full ground-up reboot, where everyone is introduced and explained, but that's what I liked about this one. We don't need to see baby Superman land in Kansas or show Bruce Wayne's parents getting killed again, it's been done and we've seen it so many times. There are so many better storylines so this one just gets right into it.
I seen this comparison done a few times and i so disagree. You could say this was done in Black Adam as well where a nation needed a hero because they had no mean to defense. Its just an old cliché. You could say its Russia and Ukraine too or whatever. Barovia or whatever its call is clearly not Israel, even if you want it to be. The only small portion it may share is that its "aligned" with the USA. But the rest... it has all the look of a country like Syria, Bellarus or North Korea.while another drops the embodiment of zionist Israel out of the sky and kills him dead. If that doesn't make you want to see it on a big screen, then I don't know what you're going to the movies for. It doesn't try and make Superman fit in OUR world, it brings YOU into THEIR world so you can watch how insane that would be.
It actually ignore the third movie or at the very least do not aknowledge its existance, thanksfully. It was a cheap DTV terrible movie with a bunch of unknowns. Personally i enjoyed this 2025 sequel but it has its issues. Overall its a fun decent slasher but the kills could had been gorier/bloodier, the chase sequences more nerve racking etc. Its best asset imo was the guessing game on who was the killer, but at the same time its not gonna please everyone... Overall a sequel that didn't really needed to exist but is fine... I mentioned in my review if they make another ill watch, but if they don't ...oh well.View attachment 101822
I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025)
Although it’s the same title as the original this is actually a sequel to the first three movies of that franchise. It’s a fairly good (but not great) slasher movie using the same formula as its counterparts where a group of prickly/bitchy young adults are terrorized by an unknown murdering psychopath after an incident that happened a year earlier causes the serial killer to avenge their innaction to save a young person involved in a car accident caused by members of the group. Nice seeing the likes of Jennifer Love-Hewitt, Freddie Prinze Jr & Sarah Michelle-Gellar make a brief return to the franchise they once appeared in. I’d recommend it to lovers of this movie franchise but be on alert that it’s basically the same old same old formula used in these types of movies. It will not win an Oscar.
The movie was "fine" but it had terrible pacing in my opinion. Its like it was a 3h script they shortened up. At first it moves rather slowly but then it jump from scenes to scenes and i was like "wait what he already found this guy?". I also wish there was more creative ways to take out the bad guy and so on. Basically its a movie that the trailer made look like a lot better than it was. Still not a bad movie tough. Entertaining enough but could had been so much more. That said i liked Malek as the main character.My opinion was the entire opposite: I thought Malik was great in The Amateur (but not so great as the villain in No Time to Die - seemed miscast). In general, he's a very good actor though (I'm a huge Mr. Robot fan).
As far as the movie goes, I liked it. It showed how his revenge comes at a cost (i.e. casualties caught in the crossfire, etc.). But I also remember the ending as a little far fetched.
I'd probably give it a 8/10.
Unpopular opinion but its my favorite one. Yes 2 is a better movie and probably the best Hellraiser overall, objectively (some would say 1 tough) but personally i love Pinhead unleashed creating a carnage in LA. And its not like there is no story element to justify it (as he basically break all his rule from #2, but its explained why).
Sounds like you didn't enjoy it, which is surprising. I found it pretty original, and I like how the story was told in a disjointed fashion, while coming together in the final act. Acting is pretty good too (Brolin, in particular).Weapons: Well, with a title like this, you would expect some things to be blowing up. But no, it is about some voodoo mumbo jumbo type of criteria that at times you may want to say, WTF. James Brolin is part of the cast, as the movie is broken up into different stories per character and they all become merged and in the final stages of the film brings everything into a clear and disturbing end, but not necessarily a happy one.
I will not watch this movie again.
I also really enjoyed Weapons. I agree with your statement that it was more creepy than scary. I wasn’t aware that the director was the same one as in Barbarian. By the way another one i enjoyed recently was Together.Sounds like you didn't enjoy it, which is surprising. I found it pretty original, and I like how the story was told in a disjointed fashion, while coming together in the final act. Acting is pretty good too (Brolin, in particular).
My only complaint is it wasn't really scary, more like creepy. There's a lot of humour in it too (which I dont mind...if the scares are there as well.)
I'd give it like a 8.5/10 myself. Was better than Barbarian, imho (which is the from the same director).
Yes, I agree, it was creepy and I did like the way the storyline was broken up and explained to guide you, so you get the storyline. Its not that I didn't like it, its not a movie I would watch again, is all.Sounds like you didn't enjoy it, which is surprising. I found it pretty original, and I like how the story was told in a disjointed fashion, while coming together in the final act. Acting is pretty good too (Brolin, in particular).
My only complaint is it wasn't really scary, more like creepy. There's a lot of humour in it too (which I dont mind...if the scares are there as well.)
I'd give it like a 8.5/10 myself. Was better than Barbarian, imho (which is the from the same director).
Funny, that one is at the top of my Want to Watch list.My opinion was the entire opposite: I thought Malik was great in The Amateur (but not so great as the villain in No Time to Die - seemed miscast). In general, he's a very good actor though (I'm a huge Mr. Robot fan).
As far as the movie goes, I liked it. It showed how his revenge comes at a cost (i.e. casualties caught in the crossfire, etc.). But I also remember the ending as a little far fetched.
I'd probably give it a 8/10.