yay! check out the sting next; same creative team.
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I think I saw The Sting once or twice when I was a teenager, but yeah, I’ll have to see it again. 
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glad you enjoyed butch, though. it’s such a fun film. their relationship and how the dynamic switches around toward the end is really well done.
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On the topic of old movies, I saw Jaws last weekend.
What a great film! Had some serious tension, great POV camera work for the spooky shark scenes, and a nail-biting climax that releases tension in a great way!
I feel like most of the heavy lifting in the scares was done by John Williams, but that’s just a testament to what good music can bring to a scene.
Such a great movie, and it’s awesome how it skyrocketed Spielberg’s career after that.
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I don’t know if I posted when I saw Lost City but we are watching it again and it’s so funny.
Channing Tatum, Sandra Bullock, Daniel Radcliffe, and a small part by Brad Pitt. Super fun.
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It has been like 6 years since I last watched an horror movie, I thought I wasn’t going to get scared that much, I thought this would be just fine, nah bruh, hell fucking nah bruh, my heart was going so fast I felt like I was after a run.
The movie in question is Smile, that shit is fucking terrifying.
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Phone takes over this dudes life. It’s so funny. Phone tells his boss in a meeting he’s a dip shit, and then makes up fake appointment alerts for things like butt waxing and alerts everyone around him. It’s got terrible reviews but it’s hilarious.
Also Michael Peña is in it as the main guys boss.
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A Brief Halloween Ends Review -
So as a fan of Horror and Slashers in general, Halloween as a series has been an integral element for my love of the genre. Halloween Ends provided a definitive end to a Timeline in a series with no resolutions, but reboots when it’s narratively written into a corner. Ends breaks traditions of the franchise while harkening back to its past specifically the films helmed under John Carpenter, this is evident with the Opening Title being reminiscent to Halloween 3: Season of the Witch. That being said as a concluding chapter 44 years in the making it has the unfortunate trait that plenty of Horror movies have where it’s predictable. One big take away is how divisive the ending will be. Laurie Enthusiasts might love this movie while Michael Myers Enthusiasts might hate it, but what I can say is the final act of the movie was polarizing and violent.
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That’s fine, I’d prefer a conclusive end where Halloween is concerned. I personally prefer the original continuity (and unlike most, I consider H20 and Resurrection as a continuation of that continuity, not a new continuity themselves), but even there, Michael was never explicitly supernatural like most of his contemporaries, Jason for example. He was always just really tough to the borderline of supernatural, and mysterious enough that his motivations are unknown to the point that they also slide up against the supernatural, without actually crossing over. He’s just never been hit with anything truly, definitively lethal, although there’s been plenty of things that should have been lethal, but theoretically, a really tough, really lucky person could survive. If Michael had been subject to the abuse Jason had endured by the fourth movie, he’d have been absolutely dead. So if that’s what’s being hinted at in this film, that Michael finally buys the farm himself (Rob Zombie’s films notwithstanding), then I’d welcome that argument of Michael actually being immortal finally put to rest with him.
Smile was wonderful. After seeing the trailer, my brother and I agreed with the comments, “please be half as good as you look”. Safe to say, it wildly exceeded our expectations!
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As someone who only knows of the Halloween franchise, this statement is a bit funny to me. I would of thought all Halloween fans would of been Michael Myers fans, I thought the appeal of these franchises was to route for Michael/Freddy/Jason etc whilst they hunted down their prey. But at the same time it does make sense, I’ve seen fandoms where the main character or main draw is seen as more like a nuisance of fans of other characters in the franchise.
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I’m really not one for horror movies, but if it’s actually good as you say, I’m interested now!
The premise from the trailers seems silly and similar to another horror film that didn’t do well – Truth Or Dare, I think it was. People all act normal until someone makes a creepy smile and either kills themselves or murders someone else.
I’ve been inundated with ads about the film in every corner of the internet, so some part of me thinks the marketing is overcompensating for a lackluster film.
But… maybe not?
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Not talking about this movie anymore, I already forgot about it and it was too scary
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I’m not usually the biggest horror guy either but something about it caught my eye.
Speaking of…
No, the marketing team was just crazy; they even paid people to just smile at the camera at things like sporting events.
Anyway, I thought it was pretty good, especially by modern horror standards. Its premise could definitely be stretched into an increasingly shitty franchise, however, in the vein of the quote unquote classics (and its box office is more and more likely to justify it to the studio). I’d recommend this one, just be wary of the potential sequels.
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I was gonna watch Delta Force with Chuck Norris. It’s not available but I found the first 5 min and last 3 min. That’s really all you need anyway.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UyFrFMSm9ks
It’s so bad it’s good and the two planes are easily the best actors.
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Back in from a screening of Park Chan-wook’s Decision To Leave, and it was phenomenal. Oldboy has been an ever-present in my favourite films of all time list ever since I first saw it in 2008, but none of Park’s other work (I’ve made a point to watch all of his feature films) has hit me in quite the same way as the tale of Oh Dae-su, Mido and Lee Woo-jin.
But Decision To Leave gets close. A darkly funny mashup between a detective mystery and a romance story, with a Hitchcock-ian ending that is going to stay with me for months on end. And the chemistry between the two lead actors positively fizzes through the screen.
Beg, borrow or steal a ticket to see this if you get the chance.
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Hmmm, Halloween Ends seems to be the Jason Goes To Hell of the Halloween series, both in terms of its overall story, and in how people are responding to it.
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I really enjoyed Clerks III.
It’s crude, funny, surprisingly dramatic and very meta, reflecting both Kevin Smith’s real life (you probably haven’t heard, but he had a heart attack 
) and the original movie (as they film the movie within the movie). It’s not perfect–Silent Bob (still) mugs a bit too much, a few jokes try a bit too hard and a couple of the movie-making montages go on too long–but it’s Smith’s most personal and heartfelt movie since at least Chasing Amy and he obviously made it as a love letter to making movies, to his fans, to the View Askew-niverse.
It’s definitely a movie that won’t appeal to everyone, but as someone who enjoys Smith’s movies–as imperfect as they often are–it ticked all the boxes.
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The original Halloween.
(Shameless plug) I go into more detail here but, long story short, I love the atmosphere and camerawork, Laurie is great, the doctor narrowly avoids being completely useless, and Michael is kind of a chump by the end. Even though this didn’t live up to the hype and I haven’t heard great things about the sequels, I’m oddly down for more.
I guess… 5(?)/10 
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The original Friday the 13th.
More detailed review here (another shameless plug).
While being clearly inferior to Halloween from a technical and production standpoint, this was a fair bit more fun. It didn’t really take itself too seriously and knew it was mainly a shameless cash grab but something about it just worked. I think they handled their killer better (and I loved that twist) but the characters were mostly just forgettable and Annie should have been the final girl. I’m not really sure how they progress the story from here though but I’m interested in seeing them try.
Let’s go with, uh… 5.75/10
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