I think this is a popular opinion: Dexter should’ve ended after the John Lithgow season. Perfect ending to the series.
I think this is a popular opinion: Dexter should’ve ended after the John Lithgow season. Perfect ending to the series.
“What we are dealing with here is a perfect engine, er... an eating machine. It's really a miracle of evolution. All this machine does is swim and eat and make little sharks and that's all.”
That guy has 12 million followers. Unreal.
It's an eye-popper until someone in the comments (ahem) points out that the vast majority of those followers are 9 years old.Quoting Ezee E (view post)
Cf: Logan Paul, Pew Die Pie, Ninja, Dr. Disrespect.
Basically, these dudes survive by doing a two-bit version of "MTV's Jackass" and demonstrating less talent than Johnny Knoxville.
I get that it's the young demographic, but still, ten years from now, that guy may be a representation of the generation, lol.Quoting Irish (view post)
LOL, right?? That's so fucked up I don't even wanna think about it.Quoting Ezee E (view post)
Pretty sure Pewds and Ninja are millionaires many times over but occasionally I wonder what the rest of these guys will do when they hit their 40s.
Meanwhile the YouTube channel I put up detailing all the weird discharge I’ve been experiencing can’t even break into the double digits for followers.
America is truly broken.
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOL
OMFG MEG
I would like a link to this youtube. This is my people.
Too many shows have recaps, but with streaming and physical media that bit is pointless.Quoting Skitch (view post)
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Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines is by far the worst Terminator sequel.
I think Genesys fought pretty well for that title.Quoting Skitch (view post)
I liked the ending of Terminator 3 tho.
(And not just because it was over hyuk-hyuk-hyuk.)
"How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home wine-making course and forgot how to drive?"
--Homer
I like Terminator 3.
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(90+ = canonical, 80-89 = brilliant, 70-79 = strongly recommended, 60-69 = good, 50-59 = mixed, 40-49 = below average with some good points, 30-39 = poor, 20-29 = bad, 10-19 = terrible, 0-9 = soul-crushingly inept in every way)
Run (2020) 64
The Whistlers (2019) 55
Pawn (2020) 62
Matilda (1996) 37
The Town that Dreaded Sundown (1976) 61
Moby Dick (2011) 50
Soul (2020) 64
Heroic Duo (2003) 55
A Moment of Romance (1990) 61
As Tears Go By (1988) 65
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So do I, as I saw it in theaters. I haven't bothered with the rest of the franchise since then.Quoting transmogrifier (view post)
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LOTRs edition:
Gollum is the most interesting character in the series.
Orlando Bloom rocks and got way too much hate-he was perfectly cast, as was everyone else.
Aragorn is my favorite character now and has the best arc.
Gandalf the White is better than Gandalf the Gray in terms of well, everything. The White is more likable.
I am glad they cut out certain parts of the books. ROTK was long enough.
I almost like The Two Towers as much as Fellowship. I still go with ROTK being the best one.
The Hobbits rule and I am so glad Aragorn gave them credit in the end.
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Friday the 13th time:
3 is overrated. 8 is underrated.
Jason X is garbage-I have no idea why people like that one. It's not even funny.
4 and 6 are equally awesome. 2 however is the best pure entry in the series in terms of scares and baghead Jason is the best Jason.
7 and 5 get way too much hate. 5 is trashy fun and 7 has Tina, one of the best Final Girls.
FVJ is the best entry in the entire series. If it counts.
F13th 1980 is supposed to be a Halloween knockoff, but it has more in common with giallos and stuff like The Old Dark House. Same goes for Part 2.
Jason Goes To Hell would have been one of the most fun sequels if they had just dumped the stupid body hopping nonsense.
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Me too. It's got good action and a killer ending. Ive defended it for years. But its sooooo damn jokey it drags it to the bottom of the Terminator pile for me.Quoting transmogrifier (view post)
As a scifi guy who craves heap loads of the genre, even a not good Terminator sequel is generally leaps and bounds above other scifi dreck.
It may just be me and you, sir, but I feel this was your only unpopular opinion in this post!Quoting MadMan (view post)
I thought people hated that one?Quoting MadMan (view post)
I dont know if it counts, but I'm with ya on the statement. It's a damn fun film.
I had a blast with Jason X in theaters, but these days you just need to YouTube the liquid nitrogen scene, and maybe the camp scene.
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Camp scene makes me LOL every time.Quoting Scar (view post)
Lessee...
- The "Friday the 13th" movies are all hands down awful and --- their biggest sin --- boring as shit.
- But then only if you watch them alone. Put another person in the room and the switch is flipped; they become sorta morbidly fascinating. One of the best theatrical experiences I had was seeing "Friday the 13th: Part III" with a full audience at a local rep house. (Also, to contradict myself: Part VI works for solo viewing because it's subversively funny next to the other entries in this bullshit series.)
- In that vein, I really do not understand horror fans who have been anxiously awaiting Jason's return since 2009. To watch him do what, exactly?
- People like Wes Craven for the wrong reasons. "Nightmare" is a great movie but a consciously commercial one. Once Craven went down that road, he lost his mojo, although there are flutters of his old groove in "New Nightmare." Meanwhile, "The Hills Have Eyes" is like one of the best punks albums of the 70s and nobody talks about it.
- I really despised that trend (from maybe 2000-2010?) where major and minor studios remade old exploitation movies. Most of em were overproduced and, frankly, had no balls. I mean, ffs, if you wanna do this shit then own it. Don't make exploitation that's tamer than routine tumblr porn and package it for nationwide audiences, because when you do that you've missed the point entirely.
- The 2010s so-called horror movie renaissance is ... lame. I know there are die hard fans out there eating it up and loving every minute of it, but mostly I've been bored (IT: Chapter 2 can go fuck itself). The more money and the wider the audience, the duller this genre becomes.
- My monkey's paw wish is that Batman and James Bond disappear from the culture forever. (Fine, keep whatever is already out there but no new material, please, ffs. Whatever was said, explored, or done around these characters was fully said, explored, and done like 50+ years ago. We don't need, as a culture, to be lashed to this wheel for-fucking-ever.)
- This week I saw 2 new network tv shows that introduced their Strong Female Character by dressing her in a leather jacket and a Ramones tee shirt, which is characterization by way of Hot Topic. I dunno what depresses me more: The absolute laziness of this technique or that it's just another example of mainstream media companies co-opting counter cultures in the lamest way possible. (This isn't really an unpopular opinion. I just wanted to complain about it.)
- I was looking up old DaMU posts for some reason and just re-read most of this thread. Pound for conversational pound, I think it's one of the best, if not the best, on the forum.
I find the Jason films thoroughly entertaining.
While no single movie in the Friday franchise reaches the heights of the original Elm Street, the series as a whole is significantly better.
From the grassroots old school American horror of the first two, to the campy 3, and the full embrace of silliness that was 4 and 6. And I can’t even say it’s nostalgia for me, because I didn’t see any of the Friday movies until I was well into my 20s, whereas I grew up with the Nightmare series.
Halloween has the best single film of all of them (Carpenter’s original, which is firmly in my top 10 movies of all time), but has by far the weakest sequels.
And if we want to throw Hellraiser into the mix, I used to consider the second a huge upgrade over the first, but a rewatch a couple of years ago was...not kind. For my money the best Hellraiser sequel is Scott Derrickson’s DTV Hellraiser: Inferno.
Almost agree with everything that Irish says here.
-Friday the 13th... never understood the series except that the Jason mask is awesome. The design alone is what I think holds onto the series. I just don't see anything interesting about what you can do with him. And with that...
-Similar deal for Halloween. Even the Carpenter movies and the established, "incoming dread" has always bored me. I don't think I saw past Halloween 2, except for the Zombie and rebirth, which aren't anything special.
-The ones that scared me are Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Hills Have Eyes. The remakes, at least Hills Have Eyes, tread that line, but you obviously know the beats by that point unless you never saw the original. I'll maintain that Texas Chain Saw Massacre is one of the best/scariest horror movies of all time.
Haven't seen Hellraiser, lol.
I adore Texas Chainsaw, but as a general rule I get very little out of the “psycho hillbilly” sub genre, which is why I’ve never bothered wth The Hills Have Eyes (though I fully intend on seeing it someday...it’s just far, far from the top of my list).
I also find this sub genre tends more towards gore porn, rather than genuine tension or scares (original TCM being an exception).