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[Eschar]

I watched The Prestige.

There isn't really anybody to root for in that movie, is there... so it makes sense nobody won.

[Vector]

Recently watched The Last Emperor. Much better than expected.

Can also recommend Queen and Slim.

[TamerVirus]

Joel Schumacher has just died!
I shall watch the wacky 90s Batman movies in your honor.

[Cthulhu]

Watch 8mm, it got a bad rap but it's great.

[Kagus]

Watch 8mm, it got a bad rap but it's great.

I remember quite liking this for being actually scary back when I first watched it, but that was a great many years ago. Not sure how much the moments of ham ruin the overall commentary now.

[Cthulhu]

Just watched Underwater, the Kristen Stewart movie set on a drilling rig.

It sucked.  There's some cliche, unearned character stuff but aside from that the movie just kind of sprints along through horror movie setpieces without any kind of backbone to really support it.  It's already slipping from my memory aside from the biggest moments.

Also Cthulhu shows up at the end and they blow him up.

[Il Palazzo]

Serves him right for liking 8mm.

[Cthulhu]

To that I say go to heck.

[Il Palazzo]

Ok, that Mandy film. Not what I was expecting.
I thought it would be a mostly conventional revenge slasher, inflected with moody weirdness.
But it's pretty much start to finish a constant drug-infused hallucination going from good trip, to bad trip, to descent into madness.

[Yoink]

The other night I watched that new Will Ferrell movie, Eurovision: the Story of Fire Saga, or whatever it's called.   
Despite having basically zero interest in Eurovision or the trashy music that it tends to feature, I actually really enjoyed it.   

Another surprise was that Jumanji reboot, which I watched last night and always expected to be pretty bad, being a remake (sequel?) of a classic and all (even if I barely remember said classic). In actual fact, it was pretty sweet. Like, bookended with fairly standard feel-good, coming-of-age nonsense, but what's in between is great. Especially Jack Black's role, but no spoilers.   



Aaaaand finally, just now I watched Bottom of the World, a psychological thriller that's been floating around on my Netflix watch list for years now.   
At first it seemed really low-budget and lame, but stay with it. The movie comes into its own later on, das all I'm saying. Probably not like, an all-time-favourite, life-changing film or anything, but it had style and kept me guessing.   

[Kagus]

Ok, that Mandy film. Not what I was expecting.
I thought it would be a mostly conventional revenge slasher, inflected with moody weirdness.
But it's pretty much start to finish a constant drug-infused hallucination going from good trip, to bad trip, to descent into madness.

Ain't it just swell? : D

Another surprise was that Jumanji reboot, which I watched last night and always expected to be pretty bad, being a remake (sequel?) of a classic and all (even if I barely remember said classic). In actual fact, it was pretty sweet. Like, bookended with fairly standard feel-good, coming-of-age nonsense, but what's in between is great. Especially Jack Black's role, but no spoilers.   

Now watch the reboot sequel and enjoy Danny DeVito: The cute Asian catburglar chick!


As for Eurovision movie, the trashy music and absurdly cheesy accoutrements are exactly why I would be interested in seeing a movie about it! ...however, Will Ferrell tends to make me somewhat nauseous whenever he's on-screen, so I'm conflicted.

Always had a bit of a crush on Rachel McAdams though...

[Yoink]

Another surprise was that Jumanji reboot, which I watched last night and always expected to be pretty bad, being a remake (sequel?) of a classic and all (even if I barely remember said classic). In actual fact, it was pretty sweet. Like, bookended with fairly standard feel-good, coming-of-age nonsense, but what's in between is great. Especially Jack Black's role, but no spoilers.   

Now watch the reboot sequel and enjoy Danny DeVito: The cute Asian catburglar chick!

Ahahaha, jesus.   
Though I don't think anyone could pull off that sort of thing as well as Jack Black did.   


As for Eurovision, well, it's a Will Ferrell movie where he isn't just being Will Ferrell, ya know? I definitely reckon you could fight down your nausea well enough to enjoy the film. Also I'm not sure what I've thought of Rachel McAdams in the past but I really liked her in this.   

[McTraveller]

Recently watched The Last Emperor. Much better than expected.

The one from the ... 80s?  I remember watching that quite often as a kid.  Even though I did't really understand the politics of it.

[IronyOwl]

Deep Shock (2003) is a thing featuring horrible CGI and electric sea eels. Which are actually magic wish-granting dragons, long story. It follows the "evil corporation/government does the most incompetent thing possible dealing with scary things while a brave scientist actually fixes the problem by studying it" model. Accordingly the good guys are eel collaborators, which is actually pretty weird in this case because spoilers. Have I mentioned the planet is going to start flooding soon?

It's not a good movie, but it's definitely a funny movie.

[Kagus]

It's not a good movie, but it's definitely a funny movie.

My favorite kind! Oooh, a solid 2.9 on IMDb... Going to have to check that out.

Ahahaha, jesus.   
Though I don't think anyone could pull off that sort of thing as well as Jack Black did.   

Yep, that's what my friends said too!

...then we went to the theater with some travel mugs of wine, and saw the sequel.