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2025/03/30 16:41:23
Subject: Re:Mini-Movie Reviews- What You Are Watching.... in Miniature
Ahtman wrote: Heretic (2024) A man traps two two young female Mormon missionaries in his house and engages them a discussion on the nature of religion and faith. A very tense and engaging film with a great performance from Hugh Grant. The trailers kind of make it seem like it is more of a trapped house or Saw type of movie but really it is a dialogue heavy battle of wits. The kind of film where none of the characters are made stupid or do anything that would make you facepalm. It isn't really a "twist" film but definitely better knowing less about it going in makes for a more enjoyable experience. Definitely worth a watch if you like smart horror films.
Does it have anything inappropriate for a young teenager?
1988 horror thriller starring Richard Lynch as a possibly-back-from-the-dead cult leader tormenting the sole survivor of his madness.
It’s pretty good! Also, credits role to Sweet Child O’Mine, which is pretty rad.
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A Troma Studios release, but not a Troma Movie. And it’s only Jeffrey Combs’ horror movie debut!
Bunch of film students decide it would be a great wheeze to steal the body of a legendary Horror Actor from his tomb. They set off a black magic curse, and nonsense ensues.
If you’re a horror fan, the presence of Jeffrey Combs and being a Troma release should tell you all you need to know. Like you’re in a for a great, if silly, time.
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I do hope this is the last of them as they seem to have gone a bit off the rails.
Carriers
A Chris Pine work about some kids trying to stay ahead of the plague. It is fine for what it is. Seeing how they decorated their face masks was a highlight, as my family did that during COVID as well. However, it also gave me some PTSD to those days that, we as a society; like to pretend never happened and have stricken from our collective memories.
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2025/03/31 18:40:37
Subject: Mini-Movie Reviews- What You Are Watching.... in Miniature
Continuing my rewatch of the Transformers movies.. Just worked through from Revenge of the Fallen through to The Last Knight.
The pros - as the series went on, Bay took on the feedback from people complaining about not being able to see what was going on, slowing down transformations and adding more slowmo sequences in fights.
The cons - complete disregard for any sort of continuity, nonsensical plot, oh look - Cybertron's coming again!, it's almost impossible to tell any of the Decepticons apart, they introduced fighter craft for Transformers to drive in robot form instead of taking the opportunity to add in the rest of the Seekers, and by the end they've largely dumped G1 characters in favour of new bots made up for the movies.
I also realised on this rewatch that a large part of what feels 'off' with these movies is that the transformer voices largely feel dubbed over the top. I mean, they obviously are, but there is no effort made to integrate the voice into the action.... It doesn't feel like the robots are actually talking, it feels like a voiceover, and that's continually jarring.
On the plus side, after Last Knight comes Bumblebee, which I'm looking forward to rewatching.
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2025/04/01 14:44:55
Subject: Mini-Movie Reviews- What You Are Watching.... in Miniature
Easy E wrote: One other quick point about John Wick 4. They shamelessly rip-off The Warriors in the second half.
Huh. I thought you were going to bring up the 3 Stooges - because the endless rolling down the stairs felt like it would be perfect in one of their pictures.
BorderCountess wrote: Just because you're doing something right doesn't necessarily mean you know what you're doing...
A slasher movie, number 39 in this collection, and one I’ve wanted to see ever since I was proper ickle, as its poster and cover art left an impression in the Video Rental Store*
I mean, look at this poster!
And it’s a horror movie about a possessed movie! Starring someone who very much looks like Lydia Deetz.
Happy to say whilst nothing groundbreaking, my patience has paid off, as it’s thoroughly enjoyable.
*Eh, eh, d’you remember Video Rental Stores? D’you? You’d spend ages picking out the tapes you wanted, buy some over priced invariably stale popcorn, and by the time you got home, the electromagnetics of yer Brass Hand had wiped the tapes? D’you remember? Eh?
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Ahtman wrote: There are a lot of VHS covers, almost entirely horror, burned into my mind from around that time period when rental stores reigned supreme.
Same here! They used to be rather inventive about those too, but standing in front of a whole wall of the things made them also look kinda samey again. But then you'd pick one and it's a big demon over an old house with a skeletal hand coming out of it or something. Then when you'd watch the film it's some dude in a bad 'creepy grandma' mask, chasing the director's friends around in an abandoned building.
Just watching 21 Jump Street season 5 for completeness sake. S05E17, Under the Influence ("Die Hexe". No, no, it's German, it means The Witch! Somebody who speaks German can't be a bad person). The titular witch has her satanist underlings stand in a circle around her. One by one, they each tell a bad fact about the state of the world or bad news which happened to others to her, which in turns makes the witch happy or something. It's a great scene (also a bit icky, but mostly funny). She basically invented doomscrolling.
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George Baker stars as a heroic cavelry horseman who beats off the roundheads...while smuggling the country's aristocracy to France. Patrick Troughton and Sylvia Sims also stars.
Casual gaming, mostly solo-coop these days.
2025/04/03 13:09:56
Subject: Re:Mini-Movie Reviews- What You Are Watching.... in Miniature
George Baker stars as a heroic cavelry horseman who beats off the roundheads...while smuggling the country's aristocracy to France. Patrick Troughton and Sylvia Sims also stars.
Where does Roger Moore fit in?
You Pays Your Money, and You Takes Your Chances.
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2025/04/03 13:20:39
Subject: Re:Mini-Movie Reviews- What You Are Watching.... in Miniature
SamusDrake wrote: Bond in Space needs to happen more often. As kids we always went bananas if Moonraker was on telly.
Space marines, space station and Bond. And "Jaws". Both with hot girlfriends in tow. Greatest innuendo line ever delivered on screen. Best movie ever!
I remember watching that movie so often I killed our VHS tape... that and kid-me being terribly disappointed at NASA for failing to deliver on anything in that film...
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2025/04/03 14:36:27
Subject: Mini-Movie Reviews- What You Are Watching.... in Miniature
George Baker stars as a heroic cavelry horseman who beats off the roundheads...while smuggling the country's aristocracy to France. Patrick Troughton and Sylvia Sims also stars.
Hmmm, that doesn't sound too bad. Bit of swashbuckling in buff coats...
Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote: Will seek that out once I’ve seen the what I’m assuming is the cinematic release.
I like how the Quickening is now like Dodgeball, where if you do the right move, you can bring a team mate off the bench.
If you haven't seen Highlander II: Renegade Version yet, it's due to be streaming on Tubi come May 1st.
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2025/04/04 09:17:12
Subject: Re:Mini-Movie Reviews- What You Are Watching.... in Miniature
Managed about 15 minutes of (Extremely) shaky cam footage of a bunch of Dude Bros being obnoxious scumbags, before deciding to see if there was something better to watch. Probably should've waited until the film actually reached the haunted video tape/horror anthology main bit, but I just couldn't be bothered.
Considering how many movies are in this franchise it must be fairly popular, it just wasn't for me.
2025/04/04 11:32:21
Subject: Mini-Movie Reviews- What You Are Watching.... in Miniature
I've never managed to get into the whole "shaky video camera recording" style films. I can tolerate it in small, short films that are almost more arty/you know they are tiny budgets. But anything long it just becomes insanely annoying.
It's like how video game designers like to shove things like lensflare into your view in video games. Unless I'm looking through a camera at the time as the character I should not be seeing lens-flare! I should only get one or two if I'm in a cabin or looking through a single panel of glass, I can tolerate that for realism. But if it looks like I'm looking through a high end lens with multiple optical elements all flaring badly - just URG!
