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Slender Man
Sighs. Just, sighs.

Oddly, I hope this idea gets a second chance from someone else in the future? I think the idea of Slender Man movie could be great, but this wasn't it. It's got nearly every trope under the sun and I'm sorry but the amount of times no one turned the lights on was ridiculous and noticeable. The effects were cheap, and the tension was pretty non-existent, even the jump scares weren't that..scary.

I feel like this is going to be a teen starter scary movie - like 10-12 year olds will watch this as their first horror movie and think it's great.

The 'Burbs
So, because Slender Man was a bust, my date and I went back to his place and watched The Burbs instead because I had never seen it (a travesty!). And it was hilarious! It was funny and silly, but in the best way. Young Tom Hanks is a gem. If you're in the mood for some slapstick comedy, 80's/90's movie making, would recommend! It's got some great one-liners, and the plot was more interesting than Slender Man, 1000%. Would recommend.
 
Young Guns popped up on my recommended movies from Netflix - probably because I've rated it 4 stars and thumbed it up in the past. It uh... it makes no damn sense anymore.
 
An old friend of mine who doesn't watch anything calls The Burbs her favourite movie of all time. She says she watches it twice a month.
 

Dave

Staff member
I saw The 'Burbs with a couple of friends in the theater when it first came out. The place was sparsely populated but there were still places when we were rolling but the rest of the crowd just didn't get it. Like when they knock on the door of the house and the last digit on the "669" falls upside down to be "666". We laughed out loud and the rest of the crowd there was nothing but cricket noises.

The movie didn't do well in theaters and I have no idea why.
 
I saw The 'Burbs with a couple of friends in the theater when it first came out. The place was sparsely populated but there were still places when we were rolling but the rest of the crowd just didn't get it. Like when they knock on the door of the house and the last digit on the "669" falls upside down to be "666". We laughed out loud and the rest of the crowd there was nothing but cricket noises.

The movie didn't do well in theaters and I have no idea why.
My biggest complaint was the lack of Princess Leia. I think that was my first post-SW movie that I saw her in.

Bruce Dern's character was fantastic.
 
Hey, at least it didn't lose to bloody Shakespeare in Love...
Hey, SiL was great in an "I hung out with a lot of English majors and so got a lot of the references" kind of way.
My biggest complaint was the lack of Princess Leia. I think that was my first post-SW movie that I saw her in.
It wasn't until rewatching Blues Brothers a decade or so later that I said to myself, "Hey, waitaminnit..."

--Patrick
 
Dark City is one of 3 blurays I own.

The other two are Transformers the Movie (1986) and Kingdom of Heaven which was a gift.

Oops. just looked at my shelf, I also own The Thing.

I own 4 blurays.
 
Dark City is one of 3 blurays I own.

The other two are Transformers the Movie (1986) and Kingdom of Heaven which was a gift.

Oops. just looked at my shelf, I also own The Thing.

I own 4 blurays.
We are very different, I have an app to help me keep up with my movie collection... it says there are 433 entries in the list.
 
I used to have a similarly large DVD collection then decided that physical media was dumb.
I'm not always in areas that have reliable internet, and nobody can just randomly decide that I can't have access to my movies. I don't really trust the "altruism" of the people that run the streaming services, or have decision power over digital libraries.
 
I have zero Blu-Rays! And zero Blu-Ray players!

Do I win the luddite prize? :cool:

The real reason:
I keep saying that I will upgrade my $30 DVD player when it dies, but it's still going strong. It's easily 10 yrs old. I do secretly wish it would die so I can have an excuse to buy one. :zoid:
 
We have one Blu-Ray; The Lego Movie. We inherited it when the local library got rid of all their extra copies.
Still no Blu-Ray player, though. The plan is to upgrade from PS2 to a PS4 Pro at some point, which will fill the B-R player niche while simultaneously filling the "newer console" niche.

--Patrick
 

Dave

Staff member
Watched "Lucky Number Slevin" last night. Good movie. You could see the twist a mile away, but it was still a good ride.
 
I have zero Blu-Rays! And zero Blu-Ray players!

Do I win the luddite prize? :cool:

The real reason:
I keep saying that I will upgrade my $30 DVD player when it dies, but it's still going strong. It's easily 10 yrs old. I do secretly wish it would die so I can have an excuse to buy one. :zoid:
Blu-ray players play dvds, and upscale the video as an added bonus.
 
Mission Impossible: Fallout

Twists! Turns! Deceptions and betrayals! Nifty tricks that you can see coming a mile away, yet still surprise and delight! Unexpected reveals that seem rather too convenient and contrived, yet still keep you on the edge of your seat! Tom Cruise running! Tom Cruise riding a motorbike! Tom Cruise getting hurt! Fistfights! Shootouts! Chases! Masks! Voice alteration chips! Tracker chips! Macguffins!

This is a Mission Impossible movie all right, and it does everything deliciously well.
 
Batman Begins(First watch) & Dark Knight (Rewatch)

Been told for years I didn't need to see the first one to enjoy the second and... I can finally see why. And while the second is a vastly superior film, the Nolan trilogy as a whole UTTERLY underutilized the Scarecrow. First film, legit threat, second punk ass drug dealer,third...I forget.
 
Batman Begins(First watch) & Dark Knight (Rewatch)

Been told for years I didn't need to see the first one to enjoy the second and... I can finally see why. And while the second is a vastly superior film, the Nolan trilogy as a whole UTTERLY underutilized the Scarecrow. First film, legit threat, second punk ass drug dealer,third...I forget.
A courtroom judge?
 

Dave

Staff member
I'm not a huge fan of exposition in movies. And the movie started with nothing but unnecessary exposition. They could have shown the world as it was instead of the voice-over.

It's one of the reasons I can't STAND the "Hateful 8". It's going along pretty decent and then they have fucking Tarantino do a voiceover about poisoning the coffee. Instantly the movie went from interesting to "aw fuck this".
 
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