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Iambaytor

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  1. That reviewer can fuck right off there have been innumerable great horror series including the ones they discounted (not American Horror Story, though) The AV Club gave it a pretty great score and said it did fucked up family drama bettet than Hereditary. Also it's being done by Mike Flannigan, who directed Hush and Gerald's Game which are both great.
  2. I wanna see a Razorback movie starring Danny McBride directed by Jody Hill. Make it happen, Sony!
  3. I mean, they're very different film-makers stylistically but Stone's got a much better understanding of how to make a movie than Zombie does, and especially more than he did at the time.
  4. Skybound Games will finish The Walking Dead season 4. Hopefully they'll give some of the games previous workers some jobs.
  5. Let me couch this statement in the fact that I agree the sequel should be R-rated buuuuut, The Dark Knight was PG-13 and they still managed to make it upsettingly violent.
  6. Natural Born Killers is a movie I love in hate with almost equal passion. You take a young Quentin Tarantino's script, give it to Oliver Stone at the height of his ego trip, throw Juliette Lewis and Woody Harrelson at the peak of the 90s and you've got a movie that's both clever and obnoxious as fuck. Still, Stone is a better film-maker than Rob Zombie is even if he clearly had a hand down his pants throughout the entire filming of Natural Born Killers, Tarantino disowned the movie (it was originally written as a bridge between True Romance and Reservoir Dogs where Alabama and Mr. White go on a killing spree, that information will only make you like the film less when you see it). I think you'll notice obvious plot and style parallels between the movie and Devil's Rejects when you watch it, though especially between the William Forsyth and Tom Sizemore.
  7. Ah, well I see the shape of why it's appealing then. I just can't stand the execution: Sheri Moon is a bad actor, the dialogue is nails on a chalkboard (Rob Zombie found out how many times you can say fuck before it becomes unbearable), and the characters are not appealing in the least (that we're apparently meant to sympathize with them later in the film makes no sense). The things you stated are good but that's really just the skeleton of the movie, all the meat on those bones. It's as pretentious as Natural Born Killers but not nearly as well made. That said, with what you enjoyed about this movie I woukd reccomend The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (a good chunk of Devil's Rejects is ripped off from this whole cloth and it's arguably what got Bill Moseley the role of Otis Driftwood.), the original When a Stranger Calls, Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon, and Psycho 2.
  8. It's pretty clear that a bunch of stuff was cut, editing is occasionally weird, the humor is C+ at best, and aside from Eddie and Anne (Michelle Williams' character) there's not much in the way of character to cling to. You didn't like Suicide Squad, I don't see you liking this.
  9. This specifically I've never gotten. The movie's a mash-up of Natural Born Killers and Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 and the dialogue is baaaaaad. I've never gotten the hype or the appeal.
  10. I think the only Rob Zombie movies I would give the nod to would be Lords of Salem and (bizarrely enough) Halloween 2, (I have never understood the appeal of The Devil's Rejects and the further we get from 2004 the more confusing it becomes) but they probably weren't the best horror films of their respective years.
  11. I think the only Rob Zombie movies I would give the nod to would be Lords of Salem and (bizarrely enough) Halloween 2, (I have never understood the appeal of The Devil's Rejects and the further we get from 2004 the more confusing it becomes) but they probably weren't the best horror films of their respective years.
  12. You probably won't be. The movie does what I want Venom to do from a character standpoint. Eddie Brock isn't a bad person, he has a good heart but severely off-kilter moral compass so he just sort of pounds the round peg until it fits in the square hole, add a kinship with a carnivorous space alien with a child's understanding of Earth and its society and you got yourself a stew. It's also maybe the first superhero movie where the female lead has her own agenda and life that she doesn't throw away for the hero and she is at no point ever damseled in any way shape or form.
  13. I was surprised by how much I like this but there's no way it's going to appeal to about 97% of people.
  14. I don't really have a counterpoint against Hereditary but I have issues with the last 15 minutes that I feel kind of ruin the movie.
  15. Yeah but the regular robots seem to have their own kryptonite in the form of hydraulic presses, vats of molten steel, and large explosions. We know what they're weak against, you can't just put that back in the box.
  16. All's I know is that the A.V. Club gave it a C and they are notoriously hard on movies so it can't be that awful.
  17. Yeah Joe Golem, Baltimore, and Jenny Finn are all their own things not connected. But Pickens (I mis-remembered, but I was close) County Horror was a B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth arc and Vampire was tied into the 1940s flashbacks that eventually spun off it.
  18. From the people I've heard from that I trust, it's fine. It's kind of a mess and it doesn't really work but it's fun. Reminiscent of the 2000s era non-spider-man superhero movies.
  19. There's thousands of them buried underground waiting for their opportunity to rise and take over the world. I believe Pickman County Horror was the event that revealed this and the Vampire mini alluded to it as well. I had assumed that would be the story arc after Hell on Earth.
  20. So they're just not gonna pay off all that vampire shit, huh?
  21. Okay before I proceed I need to understand, do you want scary atmospheric music or music in the Halloween vein. Cause I can give you a ton of horror movie music that is on theme but not terribly spooky.
  22. Yeah, some of those puzzles are hard as shit to figure out without a guide and it's necessary if you wanna be thorough and get all the endings. Was it not great, though? And way ahead of its time?
  23. "Reggie: TAKE FUCKING NOTES. I just saved your ass with Monopoly!"
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