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Post by Neverending on Aug 20, 2019 21:23:04 GMT -5
 Samara Weaving and Jessica Rothe are my two favorite horror movie blondes right now. If Doomsday & SnoBorderZero could put them in a movie together, that’d be great. Ready or Not, I had high hopes for, it being released by Disney & all, but it’s largely middle-of-the-road. The casting department, the production designers and the good folks at wardrobe and hair & make-up all earned their paychecks. Good work, guys. See you all at the SpikeTV Movie Awards (what do you mean that don’t exist). But the script & direction is lacking. I think it was too... self-aware. This could have been a really good campy/gothic horror comedy but they went the lite-gore mainstream horror route. I didn’t dislike it. Just don’t waste Samara Weaving’s talents on this nonsense. You know it’s sad when McG’s The Babysitter is the gold standard. Did Hollywood forget to make horror movies that aren’t Blumhouse or A24 or Jordan Peele. SnoBorderZero, you have Coming 2 America money now. I’m counting on you to make things right. |
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Post by Pbar on Aug 21, 2019 20:04:45 GMT -5
It's a 7 that should be a 9.
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Post by Neverending on Aug 21, 2019 21:12:07 GMT -5
It's a 7 that should be a 9. Would have been a 10 if SnoBorderZero had worked on it. |
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Post by Deexan on Aug 21, 2019 22:13:49 GMT -5
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Post by SnoBorderZero on Aug 22, 2019 9:57:20 GMT -5
It's a 7 that should be a 9. Would have been a 10 if SnoBorderZero had worked on it. Damn right. |
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Post by Nilade on Aug 22, 2019 10:59:29 GMT -5
A surprisingly large amount of people on my Facebook feed seem to be seeing this this weekend.
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Post by frankyt on Aug 22, 2019 12:25:32 GMT -5
It's wedding season and this is a decent twist both sexes can get behind, I think this outperforms this weekend at least.
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Post by PhantomKnight on Aug 22, 2019 12:46:05 GMT -5
Gonna try and squeeze in both this and Peanut Butter Falcon this weekend if I can.
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Post by Neverending on Aug 22, 2019 13:06:22 GMT -5
A surprisingly large amount of people on my Facebook feed seem to be seeing this this weekend. A lot of Samara Weaving fans out there. |
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Post by Neverending on Aug 23, 2019 13:08:47 GMT -5
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Post by Dracula on Aug 23, 2019 13:30:10 GMT -5
Was the Hide and Seek song composed for the film or did they find it somewhere?
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Post by Neverending on Aug 23, 2019 15:20:39 GMT -5
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Post by daniel on Aug 24, 2019 10:43:47 GMT -5
What do Doomsday and SnoBoarder do for a living?
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Post by Neverending on Aug 24, 2019 12:12:20 GMT -5
What do Doomsday and SnoBoarder do for a living? Ghost writers for Eddie Murphy |
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Post by PhantomKnight on Aug 26, 2019 10:56:30 GMT -5
Enjoyed it. I thought the tone was balanced well. All of the dark humor landed as did the more serious moments. The cast all delivered, performance-wise and Samara Weaving definitely shows potential. I hope she gets more work. It's a pretty straightforward horror-comedy that only brushes up against some interesting commentary regarding the wealthy, but it's at least executed well. It's not quite on the level of some of the more interesting horror movies as of late apart from the premise, but it's still a fun-enough watch to pass the time with.
**1/2 /****
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Post by frankyt on Sept 18, 2019 20:48:37 GMT -5
Above average genre flick. Glad I saw it. Prob won't revisit.
7.5/10
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Post by Dracula on Nov 3, 2019 23:22:23 GMT -5
Ready or Not(8/26/2019)
When I first saw the trailer for Ready or Not one thought entered my head: “man, this looks like a total ripoff of You’re Next.” That 2011 film is a bit of an odd movie to try to replicate given that it didn’t exactly set the box office on fire and isn’t that widely remembered, but both movies were about killers stalking a woman in a mansion and getting the tides turned against them by her. Seeing the actual movie there are a bit more in the way of differences than I had initially granted but it’s still a bit odd. The film is a bit of a horror satire about class struggle with a woman marrying into a family of one percenters only to learn that they have literally made a pact with the devil which forces them to force everyone who maries into the family to pick a card at random and if it’s the wrong card they are then hunted down in the house and killed by the rest of the family. Surprise surprise she picks the wrong card and finds herself fighting for her life the rest of the night. The movie had a bit of an uphill battle when it came to impressing me as I generally like my horror to be pretty serious. I’m not completely opposed to moments of levity in the genre but when you mix horror and comedy too much I generally find it kind of kills that sense of dread and evil you look for from these movies and if they’re going to do that I’d almost rather they go all the way and make a full on comedy out of it which is what this movie comes close to doing. It certainly isn’t scary, in part because it views its villains as incompetent spoiled assholes rather than real threats, but it also doesn’t really go for full on laughs as much as I’d maybe like. The movie does entertain in the moment however and certain scenes are well staged and given that it ends well there’s enough there to recommend but I don’t see it as being anything terribly memorable for long.
*** out of Five
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Post by daniel on May 24, 2020 22:22:05 GMT -5
Seriously! I can't tell them apart anymore and I can't recall their move libraries off hand in conversation lol. |
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