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Movie Time 2.0: TT mini reviews

Oh, I do know who Han was, I was just very unclearly in retrospect saying I didn’t know who Voncaster was asking about.

Been a Michelle Rodriguez fan since Resident Evil and the Resident Evil DVD commentary track with Michelle Rodriguez, Milla Jovovich, Paul W.S. Anderson and probably Jeremy Bolt…
 

Rascally Badger

El Capitan de la outro espacio
(He/Him)
In the last few weeks, I too powered through all of the F&F movies. I loved pretty much all of them? If I'm ranking them against each other, I would go:

3 = 5 > 1 > 7 > 2 > 6 = 8 > 4 > H&S

My rankings go 5 > 6 > 1 > 7 > H&S >2 > 8 > 3 > 4.

That is admittedly way too harsh on Tokyo Drift (and arguably way too kind to the original), but I've always kind of found it to be the odd one out. It might be that I just don't really care about the racing. Han is cool, but I don't give a crap about Lucas Black or Bow Wow. Still, the only one of the movies I don't much like is 4.

I love Han, but one thing that stood out to me rewatching 5 & 6 is that he really doesn't do anything. Which is part of what makes him great; he's essentially playing the Brad Pitt role in the Ocean's 11 movies; he just needs to stand around eating chips and looking cool.
 
Another thing I really like about Tokyo Drift is that, while it's a totally preposterous scenario based more on a fake manga than on any reality, it gives a voice to Army Brats and their experience. Which is just kind of a thing media/society in general doesn't really do, so that was cool.

Also it has the best theme song of any of the movies, and when it turns on it makes every scene hype.


It will also never not be hilarious that everyone very seriously calls one character "DK" over and over.

My rankings go 5 > 6 > 1 > 7 > H&S >2 > 8 > 3 > 4.
Solid ranking. Can't really begrudge anyone for their rankings either. Totally get why people would put 3 low, don't think anyone has to apologize or explain that one; it just hit really well for me.
 
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Purple

(She/Her)
I love Han, but one thing that stood out to me rewatching 5 & 6 is that he really doesn't do anything. Which is part of what makes him great; he's essentially playing the Brad Pitt role in the Ocean's 11 movies; he just needs to stand around eating chips and looking cool.
I love the tradition for a stretch in there of him totally breaking the 4th wall and apparently being aware of how he's fated to die and going "eh, I don't think I'm going back to Japan yet. Gonna hang out for at least another movie, make it also have to be a prequel."
 
In F6 where he’s like “Yeah, we always talk about going to Japan, so let’s go,” with Gal was the single most heart sinking moment in the franchise.
 

Octopus Prime

Mysterious Contraption
(He/Him)
Fear Street: 1994 ain’t bad. Ain’t great, but it ain’t bad. It’s an adaptation from R.L. Stines other YA horror series (the one that skews older, is generally considered to be better written, and is vastly less popular). And, as the title suggests, it’s set in the 90s, and as such its mainly a homage to a bunch of 90s horror movies; Scream and It in particular, but there’s also some Faculty and Flatliners in there too. It also borrows from 90s movies in some less fortunate ways (nice to have a lesbian couple as the leads, less nice to need to kill them to stop the murder-witch).

Its okay, they have to survive to act as a sequel hook for the next two movies

Also, a less common horror trope that also bugs me; I guess burning witches was a good practice because Witches are Real and Also They Are Assholes. On the other hand; executing witches just makes them stronger and madder, so I guess the real lesson of movies like this is to learn to just live with witches, and their comparatively minor evil.
 

Pajaro Pete

(He/Himbo)
Fear Street: 1994 i hadn't watched any trailers or really heard anything about it besides the fact that it exists, and as a fan of anthology horror aimed at, like, children, i dived right in and was a little surprised to see it was rated R. the violence itself wasn't particularly worse than what you can see in The CW shows (except for one death, which was pretty rough. it reminded me of the Scream tv series, where the violence was pretty mild, except for one incredibly graphic sequence), but i can see why your friend taking a bunch of pills to induce an overdose is the cool and heroic thing for them to do would get them an R.

it was good for them to establish early on that living in shadyside is basically a countdown until you get murdered or become a murderer, and at this point most people are pretty unphased by death, it really helps with the standard horror movie problem of having characters seeing someone get violently murdered in front of them and then just, be fine three minutes later.

The first half hour of the movie goes really hard on Classic Early 90s Music (and even some later 90s tunes thrown in there), in a way that's incredibly distracting.
 
Fear Street 1 was a classic book in my childhood... iirc... the yellow skeleton... was the boy (? there is a boy)

Films presumably unrelated? Will watch, I guess. Zeitgeist.

e: just did some research... that skeleton book was some other book. probably not from the RL Stine 4 (Young) Adults line?
 

Johnny Unusual

(He/Him)
Saludos, Amigos

I was feeling a little under the weather on Canada Day so I needed something short before I went to bed. I managed to stay awake through this. Aside from some cool musical numbers and the first appearance of José Carioca, I wasn't super into it. Historically, though, it is really important, as an attempt to appeal to Latin America during the war to counteract Nazi ties through making a cartoon talking about how cool various Latin American countries are. So the backstory might be more interesting than the film as a whole. This includes Donald as kind of an ugly American tourist, Pedro the little airplane, Goofy as a gaucho and Donald meeting Carioca. Laying it all out, I will say the structure means that the films get better as they go on with the last act being a visual feast. I'll also say that as Latin American depictions from 1942, this isn't as problematic as I expected (intended or otherwise) but there are a few eyebrow raising moments AND I'll totally admit that there's probably some stuff that I missed and that's my failing.
 

Octopus Prime

Mysterious Contraption
(He/Him)
I think it was a Netflix series, but yeah, that happened.

My favourite line in the movie is definitely “Officer Goode? More like Officer Evil!”

Later it’s revealed he’s actually Officer Neutral; as he’s willing to blame rowdy teens for a bunch of murders for the sake of easier paperwork, but he’s much rather arrest a witches ghost
 
It was MTV. Might've went straight to Netflix in Canada. Not sure I finished the first season; didn't watch further. Bad, probably.

Watched Fear Street. Fine. I guess I'll watch the rest of them...
 

Pajaro Pete

(He/Himbo)

A Long Long Time Ago, Long Enough Ago That HarvWein's Name Was Still Plastered On It, MTV released a two season Scream television series (and a movie that amounted to an OAV). And then recently, VH1 released a quote-unquote season 3 that had nothing to do with the original two seasons.
 

Rascally Badger

El Capitan de la outro espacio
(He/Him)
As dumb as The Tomorrow War is, it should be a lot more fun. I guess it is technically an "original" big budget science fiction movie, but it does have strong influences. At least JK Simmons knows what movie he is in, and treats it with the appropriate seriousness.

Boss Baby 2. Don't. Just don't. Jesus Christ.
 

Adrenaline

Post Reader
(He/Him)
For those who have seen it and bothered to watch the extra credit sequence, who was the character who Jason Statham was talking to? It happened too fast for me to recognize his face.
Nobody. It was just showing the idea that Shaw is still up to his kind of business.

I liked the movie. I think it was the best in the series since 6. It's getting increasingly difficult for them to dance around the fact that Paul Walker is dead.
 
I've watched films...

Oxygen - Not for me. She's not gonna run out of oxygen before the movie's up; that's for sure.

Saint Maud - Ads underplayed how funny this would be. Excellent.

Girlfriends - I've got such good taste that I can watch one 90 minute movie on the Criterion Channel every four months. Anyway, yes, good.

Bug - I think I got a copy of this from Blockbuster or Hollywood video like 13 years ago and I never watched until I saw it on Hulu just now. Really good.

Young Adult - Perfect movie.

Dangerous Liaisons - Had no idea Uma Thurman and Keanu Reeves were in this.

The Purge: Election Year - the only movie in this franchise I hadn't seen yet. Pretty good like all of them after the first one. The politician character is truly infuriating and no wonder the purge came back... forever!!! Favorite part is of course when she's having like a high school debate with her opponent about the Purge. That's always the best part of these movies; just characters kind of dispassionately noting that the Purge is actually kind of bad, OR they like it.

Cruel Intentions - the trailer was a VHS classic. I think I saw the ending of this later in high school and thought "wow, what a serious drama..." (it is certainly not) Anyway, this was fantastic. Tawdry and regressive. Glad I watched it right after Dangerous Liaisons bc it answered the question of why these teens are doing all this silly bullshit. (bc it was in the 18th century French novel)

Notes on a Scandal - 90 minutes!!! Never would've suspected. Great. Finished the novel first. Also great....

Tully - Didn't do much for me at this time. Maybe I'll change my mind in a few years...

The Forever Purge - Great American cinema. 6/10. This franchise is surprisingly nicecore, but why did so many characters survive?

Fright Night Part 2 - Probably haven't seen this in more than 20 years but I put it on my horror list from a few months back anyway and it belonged there! Great film. Every vampire has a gimmick and I wish them the best. 3 of them are the hottest people of all time? Anyway, less gay than the first one in terms of Charlie but pretty much as queer. Belle is a truly iconic character. Julie Carmen is wonderful as Regine as well. Disappointed there's going to be a sequel that ignores this. I'd rather they just remake it again, but obviously this time more gay. (2011 was the exact perfect time for the filmmakers to make it Not Gay At All)
 

Johnny Unusual

(He/Him)
Bug - I think I got a copy of this from Blockbuster or Hollywood video like 13 years ago and I never watched until I saw it on Hulu just now. Really good.
I assume that this is the William Friedkin one and not the 70s creature feature? I remember liking the former but its been a while.

I actually watched two unofficial Django movies recently. The first was A Pistol of Django and I can't remember a thing about it. It does have a much better alternate grindhouse-y title "Django's Cut Price Corpses". Then I watched Viva! Django, which is pretty fun actually, with Django teaming with a thief to find his wife's killer. Its a stupid Leone riff but its actually trying and is quite watchable, so a soft recommendation if you see it on Prime as I did. I will say, the twist should be obvious in retrospect but I admit it never occurred to me so good on your movie.
 

Octopus Prime

Mysterious Contraption
(He/Him)
Honestly, don’t care for Beetlejuice, I should, it’s got all kinds of things I love (massive cartoonish performances, friendly weird ghosts, Danny Elfman music, absolutely wild set designs, Catherine O’Hara) but I’m just not a fan.

I think it’s because the title character really sucks as a person and I’m glad he’s dead?
 

Purple

(She/Her)
I'm curious if you had experience with the cartoon before the movie (I know I did and it took me a while to shake it).

Like, you're not supposed to like Beetlejuice. He's the villain. He has this weird plan to double-kill the protagonists and force a 15 year old to marry him. But then we've got this wacky little cartoon, where he's the protagonist and that young girl is his best friend and they have wacky adventures together and the actual main freaking characters from the movie just do not even exist, and for nerds of a certain age, you're gonna see that well before anyone is going to let you watch this weird movie where ghosts are pulling their faces off and beheading themselves and such. So then you do see it and hey what the hell, who are these two and why is Lydia's wacky BFF this creepy murderous pervert? And that's just not at all pleasant.
 

Johnny Unusual

(He/Him)
When you're a kid, its like "haha, he's gross" As an adult "Oh, this guy is gross." Despite the fact that Michael Keaton is awesome and having the most fun and Alec Baldwin kind of sucks in real life, I'm more invested in the Maitlands and find the title character a little exhausting. But I like it for similar reasons I like a lot of early Burton: visually impressiveness.

So then you do see it and hey what the hell, who are these two and why is Lydia's wacky BFF this creepy murderous pervert? And that's just not at all pleasant.
I wasn't a BIG fan of the cartoon but yeah, weird.

The cartoon was a Nelvana production. I rag on Canadian animation a lot but Nelvana used to be quite interesting.

Did you know they almost did a Doctor Who cartoon.

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Johnny Unusual

(He/Him)
Its a bit of a look from their Star Wars Droids cartoon, which I kind of want to rewatch. I only remember that it had serialized stories and an aesthetic I liked. I think.
 
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