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Burns said:

The horror part of The Thing is, by far, the least interesting thing about the movie. The part of The Thing that sets it apart from any lesser "horror" movie, that I have ever seen, is that it is about a bunch of guys faced with a real threat that can imitate them and the suspense through paranoia; looking up those other two movies doesn't lead me to think they are anything alike.

I think I even tried to watch The Mouth of Madness and quit after 30 minutes, I guess I'm not a big fan of the decent into insanity Lovecraftian shit when it isn't in space, like Event Horizon. Plus for my Event Horizon first watch, I knew nothing about Lovecraft, other than hearing his name in passing, so there was no Deep Ones or Cosmic Horror references to influence my watching.

I can't really say I like a single movie that Carpenter wrote himself that I would watch more than once (of the 3 that I have seen). That said, Prince of Darkness kinda looks interesting, as I did like Warlock 1 & 2, even though they aren't masterpieces that can be watched over and over again, like the 3 movies I listed about.

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Assault on Precinct 13 was pretty good back in the day. Haven't seen it in a while to see how it holds up. Its a low budget film so now amazing CGI 9or any CGI for that matter) but it was pretty tight on suspense iirc. PS.. not that shitty remake.

Burns said:

The horror part of The Thing is, by far, the least interesting thing about the movie. The part of The Thing that sets it apart from any lesser "horror" movie, that I have ever seen, is that it is about a bunch of guys faced with a real threat that can imitate them and the suspense through paranoia; looking up those other two movies doesn't lead me to think they are anything alike.

I think I even tried to watch The Mouth of Madness and quit after 30 minutes, I guess I'm not a big fan of the decent into insanity Lovecraftian shit when it isn't in space, like Event Horizon. Plus for my Event Horizon first watch, I knew nothing about Lovecraft, other than hearing his name in passing, so there was no Deep Ones or Cosmic Horror references to influence my watching.

I can't really say I like a single movie that Carpenter wrote himself that I would watch more than once (of the 3 that I have seen). That said, Prince of Darkness kinda looks interesting, as I did like Warlock 1 & 2, even though they aren't masterpieces that can be watched over and over again, like the 3 movies I listed about.

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Uh Assault on Preceint 13, Halloween, They Live, The Fog, Escape from New York, Halloween 3. Dudes one of the all time greats.

Chanur said:

Uh Assault on Preceint 13, Halloween, They Live, The Fog, Escape from New York, Halloween 3. Dudes one of the all time greats.

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I forgot "They Live". God that move is great. The alley fight scene with Rowdy Roddy and David Keith is A+ entertainment.

Burns said:

Same deal with looking over Assault on Precinct 13, which I'm probably wrong about, but the stills of the movie on IMDB look like max cheese on a movie formula I have seen in 10 other movies.

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Probably so, the truth is though he invented the formula and this is the original version of it.

Burns said:

Invented the formula (holding a jail/police station/sheriffs office from bad guys) seen in two John Wayne movies, at the least?

Rio Bravo (1959) ⭐ 8.0 | Western

2h 21m | PG

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El Dorado (1966) ⭐ 7.5 | Drama, Romance, Western

2h 6m | G

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I have watched many westerns including those. The jail scenes are just that, scenes. It's the entire movie in Precinct 13.

Either way, you don't want to watch it, don't watch it. All good in the hood.

Watched the two new Ghostbuster movies on our flight back to the U.S.

I really enjoyed Afterlife as a fun kids kind of movie, passing of the torch or whatever you want to call it. Looked like everyone had a good time and it had an adventure feel to it.

Frozen Empire though not so much. It was the worst or anything but when viewed immediately after the other film there’s a pretty drastic shift in tone along with the setting. Everyone isn’t smiling as much, all the depression stuff with Phoebe, Rudd felt sidelined, create this pseudo lesbian whatever relationship b/w two 15 year olds? Lucky barely did anything. Just wasn’t as “fun” as Afterlife in that kids mindless adventure sort of movie.

Stranger to me though was looking around the plane to see what everyone else was watching. Three other people watched The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Which was real bizarre to me. One guy in front of me was watching the latest Matrix movie, felt bad for him. He followed that up with The Color Purple. Wife watched Yesterday and Asteroid City, she liked both. One guy couple rows over and ahead was watching In the Land of Saints and Sinners. It looked interesting, had not heard anything about that.

Oh yeah I watched 65 on the flight over. It was dumb but made for an easy 2 hour kill on a 10 hour flight. If I had to guess about the Jesse James thing, maybe they just picked the longest movie on the list and went with it. Pretty sure it was the upper end length wise out of all the options.

Rewatched Troy last night. Still enjoyable. Could cut 15 or 20 minutes and make it better but that's almost all movies it seems.

Eric Bana might be in his best role. Almost all the cast are solid. 8.5/10

Sanrith Descartes said:

Rewatched Troy last night. Still enjoyable. Could cut 15 or 20 minutes and make it better but that's almost all movies it seems.

Eric Bana might be in his best role. Almost all the cast are solid. 8.5/10

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I still think Bana was the best parts of that movie.

Wicker Man

holy shit I can’t believe I never watched it

great movie and Christopher Lee was awesome.

8.5/10