Yeah, that’s the drawback to the sequel obsession that I personally blame on the Friday the 13th series for cementing. These days, movies aren’t made so much as franchises born. Thank goodness the Cinematic Universe concept only has one genuine success, or that would blow the whole thing open, with no standalone stories of any sort anymore since every universe would be interconnected.
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It’s funny but at first the studio didn’t want to make Godfather part II bc “people won’t go see a sequel.”
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I mean it seems to be, at the very least, a decent film aimed for box office crowds and is based on a well-known series that has hyperfans. I am going to say it is more likely that it will be greenlit than not.
You mean Alejandro Jodorowsky’s 14 hour long exercise in artistic delusions and seeing how much you can inflate a hypothetical budget before it is canned and David Lynch’s enjoyable incomprehensible clusterfuck?
This film has made ~32mil (US Domestic as per *Deadline, combined from preview tickets and opening sales) which isn’t bad (not optimal if you are a Warner Exec. though but they are idiots), in fact it is double its next major rival Halloween Kills. If you are beating out a Halloween film in the Halloween season you aren’t failing as bad as Lynch did. Plus HBO Max factors into it a lot, so engagement might beat out cash when it comes to signalling a sequel.
All of this is moot however because the book (or books I should say) still exist and have the ending.
I mean it was fourteen hours long, they had a cast list of random celebrities they picked from a hat, he wanted his own 12 year old son to play Paul and the concept art pieces would have been brought to life with the fortune that could feed everyone in Africa. He compared it to Proust’s body of work and he was right, it would have lead an audience to a pursuit of lost time!
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but great art is a delusion, maaaan
- jodorowsky (probably)
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All art is delusion good and bad but to AJ’s credit his version of Dune isn’t the most misguided sci-fi film ever. I personally give that honour to ET 2: Nocturnal Fears, the name alone is a red flag.
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that sounds like softcore porn, so i’m in.
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From what I remember reading about it, Elliott is abducted by evil aliens and he has to call ET so ET and his ET friends can come and save him from the evil alien or something stupid like that. Spielberg was smart enough to realise that would have been a terrible idea and scrapped it.
is it wrong that i want to see et’s combat capabilities?
It can turn guns into flashlights, we know that much already.
Also I fucking hate Attack for ruining Yoda like that. That needed to be more about using the force than flipping around with lightsabres.
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Sorry, @Accidental_Kills98, but I loved that scene. We already know Yoda is top-tier with the Force, and he already schooled Dooku in it just from defense. There would have been no battle. The battle we got was George Lucas’s fuck you to people who watched ESB, listened to Yoda ask if Luke judged him by his size, and asked what the short, old gremlin could do besides use the Force. Nobody saw Yoda’s moves coming in that fight, nobody knew he was capable of it because of his age. That was the point, and I was totally for it. My only gripe would be that it should have been saved for the fight with Palpatine.
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Just watched Legally Blonde, still decent and holds up better than I expected.
Only problematic things are a couple ableist words, one of which isn’t even a slur in the USA.
It had dogs and they were friendly. Liked the characters quite a lot. But the dogs were even better.
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F9.
I can’t imagine something more stupid. But we still have 2 movies in store where they can tell us.
It’s a shame that in real life you can’t make up a background story explaining that Paul Walker is alive and well, just was out for a holiday for a few years
Sunday movieday! Forrest gump, Scarface and John Wick.
Seen all of them before but my Gf hadn’t seen scarface yet!
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So I went to see Halloween Kills in theatres yesterday and I gotta say… It was way different than I hoped it would be.
SPOILERS AHEAD:
So we have Michael Myers surviving the ending of Halloween 2018 (to no one’s surprise) by hiding in a fireproof locker in the flaming basement, followed by him murdering 10 or some firemen who each wait their turn to be brutally slaughtered. They could’ve ganged up on Mike, but this is a horror movie so the people are all braindead.
Following this event, there are a couple of uninteresting characters from the 1978 original who survived the attacks and came together to talk about that. One guy in particular, Tommy Doyle, positions himself in the role of the tough guy and yells all these generic lines like “Evil’s gonna die tonight” and shiz. Once they realised Mike is back on the streets, they decide to gang up and form a resistance.
So far we’re about 20 mins into the movie and nothing interesting has happened yet. Cut to Laurie being transported to the hospital and not doing shit, along with her daughter and granddaughter. So is officer Hawkins who apparantly survived a stab to the throat. Worst of all: they (the main characters) stay in the hospital for the entirty of the movie and do litterly nothing. At the same time the towns folk are spread out through town to hunt Mikey. As expected, they are all killed.
Mike then returns to his old crib where currently two guys live. Both are very cringy and totally uninteresting, so they die. Allison (Laurie’s granddaughter) then rolls up with her ex bf and his dad and get ambushed by Mike. Dad dies, boyfriend dies, Allison is thrown down the stairs. Yada yada ya… Karen (her mom) is there and stabs Mike in the back and rips his mask off. She lures him onto the street and who would’ve thought: all the towns folk are there with Tommy Doyle at the front. They beat the living shit out of Mike and shoot him in the chest. Then, the most nonsensical thing happens:
Everyone lets their guard down and Michael slashes every loser one by one. Same as with the firemen, they each wait their turn to get killed. At the same time Allison is taken care of by bystanders like the whole thing isn’t happening in front of her eyes. The movie ends by Karen going upstairs and being murdered by Michael while Laurie is rambling some poethic nonsense to Hawkins.
My thoughts:
This movie was a letdown. It put the main characters in the shadow and gave the main stage to totally uninteresting and badly written side characters which no one will ever give a shit about. Every single character apart from the 2018 cast is desperately overacting and total cringe to look at. Therefor, the movie is also full of unnecessary moments. For ex, one other escapee from the mental facility is mistaken for Mike and hunted down by an entire mob inside the hospital (doctors included) and is scared into commiting suicide. The only character in this movie who wasn’t a letdown was Michael Myers himself. He was as brutal as I hoped him to be and I had a giggle or two from his robotic character. Although he was fun to watch, it didn’t save the movie.
The story was pointless and this was a typical in-between movie of a trilogy. It started from 2018s ending and it went nowhere. Making the towns folk gang up against the shape also took away the tension and the fear of something so strong it shouldn’t be human. Mike against the entire town just makes him look small and a little pathetic. I enjoyed the movie nontheless because of how meme worthy it all was. I’d rate it a 6/10 cause I enjoyed Mike, but god the script was total shit and every annoying braindead victim deserved to die.
I would like to end my rant with the most meme worthy kill in horror movie history. This one made me LOL:
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So, apparently Laurie went through all that trouble rigging her house and forgot about the one thing that could screw up her entire plan to kill him?
That said, why does Laurie and her family stay in the hospital the entire movie with minor injuries, while Michael Myers is just free to walk around with far more extensive ones?
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Plot armor. Someone speculated that he has some kind of disease which makes him not feel pain, but that doesn’t explain how he’s still walking after 5 shots to the chest and multiple stab wounds.
It’s a big mistake to keep Laurie in the hospital for the entire flick and not utilize her character more. She is the goddamn main character ffs 
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Technically, Michael is the main character.
Anyway, I always felt that if Michael’s resilience was not supernatural but physiological, I figured it was a few things. I think he’s got probably a few tumors in his body, likely his brain, pressing on glands in places that interfere with his body chemistry. I think it’s suppressed his ability to feel pain, and is sending out huge jolts of adrenaline and testosterone and cortisol and things like that, amping up his aggression, his strength, and combined with his inability to feel most instances of pain, would allow him to take such sever bearings and just keep going, not really knowing how badly he’s been injured. And as for his surviving so many gunshots, I chalk that up to his healing being amped up higher than a normal person’s, combined with really shitty aim on behalf of the shooters; they just never happen to hit anything vital. Notice how every time something that could happen to destroy his head, or his entire body, is always narrowly avoided?
And this could apply to any version of Michael in any of the continuities. Think of it like he’s one of the “mutant” people in M. Night Shamalan’s Unbreakable trilogy; he’s got “super powers” due to medical conditions affecting him in ways that are normally never detected and appear to be supernatural if viewed outside the context of being medical in nature. But in Michael’s case, it’s screwed up his mental state as well, making him violent beyond all reason. Imagine if that hadn’t happened? If he had never gotten it in his head to kill his sister and then keep going from there, would he have ever even known anything was different about him?
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