RIPPA Posted October 28, 2021 Author Share Posted October 28, 2021 Imagine my delight to learn that JT couldn't spell Steven Kostanski's name correctly 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted October 28, 2021 Share Posted October 28, 2021 (edited) 8 minutes ago, RIPPA said: Imagine my delight to learn that JT couldn't spell Steven Kostanski's name correctly. I figured you'd edit it for me. Kostanski's last name always has a red line underneath it whether you spell it correctly or not. Edited October 28, 2021 by J.T. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted October 28, 2021 Author Share Posted October 28, 2021 I don't edit my own stuff - I ain't bothering with yours I only deal with making sure the formatting doesn't break the board Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted October 28, 2021 Share Posted October 28, 2021 (edited) I think we all should just be thankful that I made the deadline. Edited October 28, 2021 by J.T. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted October 28, 2021 Author Share Posted October 28, 2021 Speaking of which.... I am missing two reviews not counting my own but I am doing that and two bonus reviews at the same time (this wasn't the smartest strategy). I am in New York for the weekend so most likely I will post tomorrow and then finish up early next week. I want to be done before heading back to work on Wednesday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawful Metal Posted October 28, 2021 Share Posted October 28, 2021 I still haven't watched mine but I have a new baby and this petition for certiorari is killing me and my daughter just showed up cause her husband is getting deployed and my son is really trying to get me to help him on his next TWO novels that he apparently wants to write both at the same time and the Astros are in the motherfucking World Series and we just had covid for a month so I'm working on it Lawful Jr. wrote his review! Does that count for anything? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawful Metal Posted October 28, 2021 Share Posted October 28, 2021 Great review J.T. One of the things that I really loved about this is how almost every single character is solidly an irredeemable bad person. And their choices reflect that. Like how Mimi never bothered to ask PG to change Alistair back. Or ask that PG not destroy the world. Even Pandora, the angel sent to stop PG kills a random human. I'm gonna go play crazy ball with the kids. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(BP) Posted October 28, 2021 Share Posted October 28, 2021 Adam Brooks in Psycho Goreman is one of the great loser dad characters in movies. It’s worth seeing for him and the practical effects alone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawful Metal Posted October 28, 2021 Share Posted October 28, 2021 3 minutes ago, (BP) said: Adam Brooks in Psycho Goreman is one of the great loser dad characters in movies. It’s worth seeing for him and the practical effects alone. The bathroom scene alone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted October 28, 2021 Share Posted October 28, 2021 (edited) 27 minutes ago, Lawful Metal said: Great review J.T. One of the things that I really loved about this is how almost every single character is solidly an irredeemable bad person. And their choices reflect that. Like how Mimi never bothered to ask PG to change Alistair back. Or ask that PG not destroy the world. Even Pandora, the angel sent to stop PG kills a random human. It is awesome that PG is still a violently psychotic world ender even after learning the value of friendship from Mimi... which totally makes sense given that Mimi is an adorable child but a horrible human being. But is Mimi really that bad? If I had PG at my beck and call when I was a kid, there probably would've been just as many exploded kids in my neighborhood. The punishment doled out by child who feels wronged is never proportionate to the offense. Mimi's abuse of power is one of the most human things that happens in this movie. Edited October 28, 2021 by J.T. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawful Metal Posted October 28, 2021 Share Posted October 28, 2021 I mean, Mimi treated Luke pretty badly. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted October 28, 2021 Share Posted October 28, 2021 11 minutes ago, Lawful Metal said: I mean, Mimi treated Luke pretty badly. If I judged Mimi harshly, I'd be a hypocrite. I loved my brother and sister dearly when I was a kid, but I also attempted to kill them at least three times a week. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Dave Posted October 29, 2021 Share Posted October 29, 2021 SCREAM is on. The OG. I can't tell you how much I love this movie. Earnestly, unironically. It has everything I love about 90's teen movies; Pretty people in their late 20's pretending to be high schoolers. Slick, tight, well written script from the Tennessee Williams of the WB Network Kevin Williamson. Wes Craven at the helm. One of the great killer reveals of all time. It also features one of the great opening scenes of all time, turning the genre on it's ear almost immediately. And it has Neve Campbell. 90's Drew LOVED Neve Campbell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Travis Sheldon Posted October 29, 2021 Share Posted October 29, 2021 8 hours ago, just drew said: SCREAM is on. The OG. I can't tell you how much I love this movie. Earnestly, unironically. It has everything I love about 90's teen movies; Pretty people in their late 20's pretending to be high schoolers. Slick, tight, well written script from the Tennessee Williams of the WB Network Kevin Williamson. Wes Craven at the helm. One of the great killer reveals of all time. It also features one of the great opening scenes of all time, turning the genre on it's ear almost immediately. And it has Neve Campbell. 90's Drew LOVED Neve Campbell. My wife had never seen this one, so I decided to sign up for the trial of AMC+ and we watched it a couple of days ago. The film was better than I remembered and my wife liked it also. The only gripe I have is with the AMC+ service. The film had the commercial break fadeouts like they would have on AMC. It was jarring at times to have something happen onscreen and then a fadeout where the commercial would have been. The print of the film didn't seem cut. (I can't truly remember as I haven't seen it in 25 years.) Probably going to delve into the sequels to get caught up before the new one. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted October 29, 2021 Share Posted October 29, 2021 Which is a shame, as o remember AMC being the one non-premium channel that showed movies without commercial interruptions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawful Metal Posted October 29, 2021 Share Posted October 29, 2021 I watched my movie. I'll write it up as soon as I get a chance. Hopefully the Astros are rained out or something. I hated it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted October 29, 2021 Author Share Posted October 29, 2021 Well I got all the time in the world now as due to a sick kid - I am not going to my Mom's this weekend Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twiztor Posted October 30, 2021 Share Posted October 30, 2021 i missed the signup this year (y'all can thank me later), so i am watching one of my guilty pleasures: Night of the Lepus. so bad and yet so good. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted October 30, 2021 Share Posted October 30, 2021 Fuck it, review it! We take extras. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twiztor Posted October 31, 2021 Share Posted October 31, 2021 17 hours ago, Curt McGirt said: Fuck it, review it! We take extras. i passed out 5 minutes after making that post. from memory: if you think of it as not a horror movie, but as a western, it is much easier to appreciate. the plot is ridiculous. the special effects are atrocious. the giant bunnies look like the least threatening thing known to mankind. the acting is acceptable, but nothing resembling what i would call "great". i have no recollection of the music, which leads to be believe that it's virtually non-existent. All of that being said, this movie holds a special place in my heart and i love it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No Point Stance Posted October 31, 2021 Share Posted October 31, 2021 Literally just finished mine and sending it now. Really sorry for the 11th hour deal. I get some work as an actor and this month I suddenly found myself reading for a very influential casting agent. Cue everything else going on the back burner while I alternated between preparing my lines and shitting myself in terror. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No Point Stance Posted October 31, 2021 Share Posted October 31, 2021 On 10/21/2021 at 5:14 PM, RIPPA said: SLEEPAWAY CAMP (Robert Hiltzik, 1983) Absolutely the funniest movie a filmmaker can make and then dedicate to their mother. Yes! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted October 31, 2021 Author Share Posted October 31, 2021 BERBERIAN SOUND STUDIO (Peter Strickland, 2012) SELECTED BY RIPPA Berberian Sound Studio made the Best of the 2010s list and I remembered folks talking about then when I stumbled across it via Prime. It was different enough from the stuff folks were picking. Plus, Toby Jones. REVIEWED BY LAWFUL JR. “Listen to the sounds.” -The Fireman, Twin Peaks: The Return (2017) Berberian Sound Studio is a 2012 film set in the 1970s directed by Peter Strickland starring Toby Jones. It’s about a British sound technician brought to work on a gruesome horror Satini film. His nightmarish task slowly takes over his psyche, driving him to confront his own past. First and foremost Berberian Sound Studio’s sound design is incredible and it’s first 30 minutes are perfect. Building an indescribable atmosphere with just sound design alone, but then the film continued. I was very excited for how they were going to use this atmosphere they built for the last 30 minutes, or even build upon the atmosphere even more but, neither of those things happened. They spent another 30 minutes doing exactly what the first 30 minutes did, and in doing so not only did it lose my investment but even the sound design lost it’s magic. The first 30 minutes built the groundwork for a perfect atmosphere but then, the next 30 minutes just built more groundwork. The last 30 minutes are more of the same with some semblance of an incredible plot twist in there somewhere, it keeps on showing these scenes that would make the film truly great if it lingered on them instead of just immediately going back to more of what we’ve seen this film already do, or if they felt like they mattered, or if I was INVESTED, but by already having my investment lost I just didn’t care that Spoiler the film he was doing the sound for was all of his regrets in life. And that’s not even my main problem with this film, my main problem is that it relies too heavily on atmosphere. Now don’t get me wrong I love me a film that is all style and no substance but, because I do not care about Gilderoy at all AND I no longer was interested in the atmosphere because of reasons I have already discussed, the [spoiler] plot twist and the ending doesn't matter to me for those reasons. Overall Berberian Sound Studio is a film with incredible sound design and an masterpiece of a first 30 minutes but, ultimately fails to use these to make the film great in its entirety. I’d give a 5/10 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted October 31, 2021 Author Share Posted October 31, 2021 And the symmetry THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2017) SELECTED BY LAWFUL JR Note from Rippa - I should explain here for the folks who haven't figure it out yet, Lawful Jr is @Lawful Metal's 15 year old son. REVIEWED BY RIPPA What defines Horror is also a topic of conversation. For some (many?) – Horror needs to have some over the top Bogey Man like a Freddy or a Jason or thing that goes bump in the night. Maybe it is rivers of blood flowing down a hotel hallway. Or a shower. Or a staircase… a god damn set of stairs that I walked down FAR too often, sometimes in the snow. Yeah… that last one is Horror. Fuck those stairs. However, if you narrow your definition that much you end up ignoring the things that really are Horror. The things that stick in your brain long after you finish watching the movie. The things you can’t unsee. @Ultimo Necrosomewhat assigned a decent way to describe these things. The things that make you “wince”. This is my long-winded roundabout way of saying that concept of The Killing of a Sacred Deer (directed by Yorgos Lanthimos) falls deeply into this “second” definition. It isn’t a happy movie. I mean a Teenage Damien wannabe seeking revenge on a family because drunkey Husband/Dad Steven (Colin Farrell) kills Nise Damien’s – okay fine, his name is Martin – Dad during a botched surgery should have a lot of room to work with. Okay – I guess I should hop in here to explain that movie’s title “The Killing of a Sacred Deer” comes from Greek mythology (naturally since we are talking a movie written and directed by Lanthimos) where depending on what version you stumble across Agamemnon killed a sacred deer and infuriated Artemis said, well the only way you are getting home is if you sacrifice your daughter Iphigenia. (There are some versions that say Artemis accepted the killing of a sacred deer instead of Iphigenia but for what this movie goes for – that doesn’t work.) So yes – it is one of those things that no one knows about without Googling and the three people who do get the reference act all smug about it. Oh sorry… started ranting. Again, the concept really kinda works. So much should have made me "winch" but, for me, the performances really let things down. There are no fucking likeable people in this movie and I tend to really dislike movies where I don’t want to back someone, anyone. This is why I was totally fine with the Witch doing her thing in Blair Witch Project. Barry Keoghan as Martin has such a punchable face. God I was totally fine with Steven beating his ass. I am glad his Dad died. And TWO different Murphy family members wanted to bang him. I mean I understand it from Nicole Kidman but dammit I thought Raffey Cassidy had more sense. I mean it’s like you took Miles Teller and gave him a fat lip and stupider haircut. Stupid everything. If you had just told about the character of Anna – someone who apparently wants to bone anything that moves while trying to always distance herself from the actions of her family – I would have definitely said Nicole Kidman was playing her. And what do you know. This is where I state the biggest reason I didn’t like this movie and how the board basically ruined it for me before it began. KoaSD snuck on the back end of the Best Movies of 2010s poll. In doing my post for it – I discovered a lot of people mocking Kidman’s attempt at an accent. So that was already perculating in my brain. Then I found this from @Contentious C Quote “Or maybe Nicole Kidman just kinda sucks. In The Killing of a Sacred Deer, she flubs a scientific term *SO BADLY*. Any enzyme often ends in -ase, pronounced "aze". She said "transaminases" (trans-am-in-azes) like 'trans-a-men-a-seas', because it was apparently too difficult to look it the fuck up first. I didn't even recognize it, except for the subtitling that made it quite obvious what the intent was.” I COULDN’T FUCKING UNHEAR THIS. I know I am probably in the minority, but I was too irritated to be disturbed when watching this. Maybe this should have had a Freddy or Jason in it. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contentious C Posted October 31, 2021 Share Posted October 31, 2021 I am SO SO SO HAPPY that my 14+ years of scientific training and job time has meant that someone, somewhere, has learned infinitesimally more about science than they might have otherwise, even if totally by accident and totally outside the realm of the work I do, because Flying Spaghetti Monster knows everyone (besides my committee) who read my Ph.D. work did not understand a fucking thing I was saying to them. How's that for a horror movie idea: spend your whole life - or even 4.5 years - working on something and people interpret it the wrong way, forever? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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