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He isn't. Come to think of it, I don't think any MCU movies have been nominated (stuff like "Morbius" doesn't count because they aren't owned by Disney)
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The Razzies Withdrew An “Insensitive” Worst Actress Nomination For A 12-Year-Old
Going forward, no performer or filmmaker under the age of 18 will be eligible for a nomination for a Razzie Award, which recognizes the worst movies in Hollywood.
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Gary
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Sandra Bullock did for "All About Steve". Tom Green did for "Freddy Got Fingered", but he just decided "fuck it" and played a long harmonica solo to troll them.
I'm not surprised "Blonde" got nominated-a lot of people hate it (I can understand why), but it does have it's defenders (I'm among them) and I wouldn't be surprised if it gains reappraisal over time. Disney's "Pinocchio" however, is the worst movie I saw last year and deserves the scorn.
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This movie sounds good. @Incandenza , WTH?
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It was the payoff to a scene that flagrantly rips off the Alfred Molina scene in Boogie Nights.
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Instead of firecrackers it was Ethan Suplee hocking loogies. So dumb.
Gary
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Outside of "Infinity Pool" (which my theater unfortunately didn't get), this is a very "it's a dump month" week, with the following coming out
-Fear
-Maybe I Do
-Life Upside Down
-Left Behind: Rise of the Antichrist (it's one of those Fathom Events movies, but still)
-Fear
-Maybe I Do
-Life Upside Down
-Left Behind: Rise of the Antichrist (it's one of those Fathom Events movies, but still)
RedJed
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Talked about it briefly in the horror thread, but FEAR is one of the worst of the year for sure so far. Really had no right even having a theatrical release.
haven't seen the numbers but apparently 80 for Brady is worse than imagined. They had to put a bunch of filler/outtakes in to make it to an hour thirty.
and apparently there is a scene where:
the four women sneak into the Patriots coaching box and start calling plays over the headset to the players
and apparently there is a scene where:
the four women sneak into the Patriots coaching box and start calling plays over the headset to the players
RedJed
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And how ironic this shit movie comes out literally the day after Brady retires? Coincidence or does Tom have financial stake in this piece of garbage and thinks the news of him "retiring" may boost interest for the film? *takes off tilfoil hat*
The trailer is fucking atrocious so I can just imagine how awful this will be. I dont know if I can force myself to even go to it for free.
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Berlin: Mike Colter to Star in ‘Plane’ Sequel ‘Ship’
The high-octane followup to the Gerard Butler genre pic, this time be set on a cargo ship, will be shopped at the European Film Market.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
There's a sequence in Plane that I would say was one of the best ever in those kinds of silly disaster movies. I don't know how SHIP could replicate that.
Gary
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I'm just happy there's still a wide theatrical market for goofy action trash.
Gary
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Did you know that there is a new "Children of the Corn" movie out this week and it's getting horrible reviews? Now you know! Also, is it just me, or has this always been a lame franchise? (I like the third one as a guilty pleasure, so even then I'd tell you it's a bad movie)
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Only saw (and care about seeing) the original. Children of the Damned was scarier.
RedJed
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I'm planning on seeing this one over the weekend. Word is that this was filmed over four years ago, and its taken this long to finally get released, never a good thing. It sounds spectacularly terrible.
And will this be a full remake of the original or some reimagining of the entire franchise?
I tried watching the original last night and it doesnt hold up very good at all. I actually have never seen any of the sequels (there apparently is NINE?!!) so that's on my docket coming up here, probably after seeing this latest trash in the theater first.
And will this be a full remake of the original or some reimagining of the entire franchise?
I tried watching the original last night and it doesnt hold up very good at all. I actually have never seen any of the sequels (there apparently is NINE?!!) so that's on my docket coming up here, probably after seeing this latest trash in the theater first.
Gary
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The Amityville franchise is like that, where the second one is actually a good horror movie IMO, and the sixth one ("It's About Time") is goofy enough to gain some entertainment. The rest are mediocre to terrible. Also, there's now a bunch of shitty no-budget horror movies with Amityville in the title even though they almost never have anything to do with the franchise.
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RedJed
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So no shock, the Children of the Corn remake was indeed fucking brutal.
The filmmaker (Kurt Wimmer, who also did such legendary messes like Equilibrium and Ultraviolet) completely shit on the source material of the original film and novel to the max. Little to no connection to the original other than it taking place in a small Nebraska community like the original. Otherwise, little to no referencing to the original. There was no wandering travelers, instead the story turned into this mess about
This was a fuckin complete waste of time and the tone deafness of it all was deep. I guess this holds the "award" for one of the first films being produced as covid started to become a thing. They kicked off production literally days into the pandemic hitting hard in March 2020. So that's probably what it will be known for more than anything, as time goes on.
The filmmaker (Kurt Wimmer, who also did such legendary messes like Equilibrium and Ultraviolet) completely shit on the source material of the original film and novel to the max. Little to no connection to the original other than it taking place in a small Nebraska community like the original. Otherwise, little to no referencing to the original. There was no wandering travelers, instead the story turned into this mess about
a small town having been torn apart regarding to still be a community of corn-dependancy or not. They get a bit into a Monsanto-like issue of chemicals in the corn affecting things but it's really just a plot point that goes nowhere. Another confusing plot point that falls flat is in the beginning, the parents of the community decide to fumigate a childrens day care center in order to get a child murderer out of the building (the murderer presumably was possessed by the corn). The chemical kills all of the kids, so there is a sort of tragedy hanging in this town from that event.
The main crux is that without reasoning, the kids start getting possessed once they go into the corn, they move into this stuff very quickly. I guess this is kinda how the original film hits too but in a tonally way different way than here. There isn't notable characters with the kids other than the main girl, who is kinda the only survivor of the initial fumigation death of an entire child care center since she was outside during those events. Somehow that trauma bridged her into walking into the corn and getting literally pulled in by a CORN MONSTER so they went deep in a different direction with the "he who walks" concept here. The GCI of the corn monster was absolutely atrocious and similar to the bad look of the creeper in Jeepers Creepers Reborn.
The third act is where shit just completely falls apart with the reveal of the monster, and the story just turns into this effects-heavy mess that's incoherant as fuck. Also, the main protagonist in the story has inctedibly confusing intentions in what she wants to do to help the situations that occur....most of the time she's written like a complete idiot, almost impossible to draw any compassion or empathy from. On top of it, the actress absolutely sells every scene in a fully overacting manner. It's sooooo bad.
The main crux is that without reasoning, the kids start getting possessed once they go into the corn, they move into this stuff very quickly. I guess this is kinda how the original film hits too but in a tonally way different way than here. There isn't notable characters with the kids other than the main girl, who is kinda the only survivor of the initial fumigation death of an entire child care center since she was outside during those events. Somehow that trauma bridged her into walking into the corn and getting literally pulled in by a CORN MONSTER so they went deep in a different direction with the "he who walks" concept here. The GCI of the corn monster was absolutely atrocious and similar to the bad look of the creeper in Jeepers Creepers Reborn.
The third act is where shit just completely falls apart with the reveal of the monster, and the story just turns into this effects-heavy mess that's incoherant as fuck. Also, the main protagonist in the story has inctedibly confusing intentions in what she wants to do to help the situations that occur....most of the time she's written like a complete idiot, almost impossible to draw any compassion or empathy from. On top of it, the actress absolutely sells every scene in a fully overacting manner. It's sooooo bad.
This was a fuckin complete waste of time and the tone deafness of it all was deep. I guess this holds the "award" for one of the first films being produced as covid started to become a thing. They kicked off production literally days into the pandemic hitting hard in March 2020. So that's probably what it will be known for more than anything, as time goes on.
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Equilibrium was one of my favorite movies for so long. I fucking loved that movie in my 20s. Ultraviolent was a huge piece of shit though. Wimmer also wrote the Point Break remake from a few years ago so take that as another L for him.
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I remember 4 being surprisingly watchable. Outside of that one, and the first half of the original I think it’s a total trash series.
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@BruiserBrody headslap over No Holds Barred and Little Monsters making a WORST movie list.
RedJed
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I really should have put Nefarious in this thread. I posted on it in the general movies/tv spot, but that film was not only incredibly mis-marketed and decieved as a horror (when it was a conservative hot button topic film) but it was just plain fuckin BAD. Avoid it at all costs.
Beau is Afraid: I've already seen TONS of polarizing viewpoints of this online. One thing is clear, this is a film that is full of metaphoric what the fuck am I watching moments that can easily be taken as confusing narrative choices that make little to no sense and in the very least, completely devoid of logic. I'd say the first hour doesn't appear to have a ton of that weird stuff, in fact in many parts the performances are actually quite engaging but as the film moves onward, it gets more and more fucking bizzare. I think the idea here was Aster was trying to showcase the mental state of the Beau character and perhaps illustrate what panic attacks, paranoia, guilt, shame, codependancy etc actually looks like existentially. At a runtime of 3 hours as well, the film chews away at you in not a good way about halfway through to where it gets so narratively out of control and bloated as fuck that I personally really started to lose interest when it was clear that very little connecting the dots would occur. Some material comes together near the end, but then just as much there is more additional "what does this mean and why is this happening" type of shit. The last hour particularly is a challenge to determine what exactly is all going on here. I would hardly call this any sort of horror, but there are horror-like elements, and actually this is mostly some real deep moments of cynical humor that I felt weird even laughing at because it was so self-depricating. Some in the theater picked up on it, others did not. A bold choice for a third feature film by Aster, but I can't say this hit any successful tones that Hereditary or Midsommar did. It's such an absurdely different film than either of those.
If this was maybe around the 1:45-2 hour mark, taking out some of the shit that really didn't mean shit by the end of it, I probably would have been more into this. But the way it was, it kinda felt like a complete fucking mess in multiple ways, with all of the actors trying their best to make use of what little they were given. Parker Posey's performance, while short and brief, was surely the highlight.
Beau is Afraid: I've already seen TONS of polarizing viewpoints of this online. One thing is clear, this is a film that is full of metaphoric what the fuck am I watching moments that can easily be taken as confusing narrative choices that make little to no sense and in the very least, completely devoid of logic. I'd say the first hour doesn't appear to have a ton of that weird stuff, in fact in many parts the performances are actually quite engaging but as the film moves onward, it gets more and more fucking bizzare. I think the idea here was Aster was trying to showcase the mental state of the Beau character and perhaps illustrate what panic attacks, paranoia, guilt, shame, codependancy etc actually looks like existentially. At a runtime of 3 hours as well, the film chews away at you in not a good way about halfway through to where it gets so narratively out of control and bloated as fuck that I personally really started to lose interest when it was clear that very little connecting the dots would occur. Some material comes together near the end, but then just as much there is more additional "what does this mean and why is this happening" type of shit. The last hour particularly is a challenge to determine what exactly is all going on here. I would hardly call this any sort of horror, but there are horror-like elements, and actually this is mostly some real deep moments of cynical humor that I felt weird even laughing at because it was so self-depricating. Some in the theater picked up on it, others did not. A bold choice for a third feature film by Aster, but I can't say this hit any successful tones that Hereditary or Midsommar did. It's such an absurdely different film than either of those.
If this was maybe around the 1:45-2 hour mark, taking out some of the shit that really didn't mean shit by the end of it, I probably would have been more into this. But the way it was, it kinda felt like a complete fucking mess in multiple ways, with all of the actors trying their best to make use of what little they were given. Parker Posey's performance, while short and brief, was surely the highlight.
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Joaquin Doesn’t Want You to Take Mushrooms Before Watching ‘Beau Is Afraid’
But if anyone is foolish enough to do so, he’d like them to film themselves.
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RedJed
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Oh yah, def obstain the psychadelics for this one. There is imagery that would make people freak out a bit on shrooms probably....first thing that comes to mind is......
On a side note, the last time I did shrooms was the night of KOTR 98 with the HIAC madness with Foley......that certainly was memorable and at the same time, totally wild that I witnessed that madness trippin!
a scene in which Beau runs into his "father" in an attic, which ends up being a cock monster. Yes, a cock monster.
Also on the positive side, as I said Parker Posey's performance.....90 percent of it was a sex scene which was quite more graphic than expected and on the same level, completely fucking bonkers.
Also on the positive side, as I said Parker Posey's performance.....90 percent of it was a sex scene which was quite more graphic than expected and on the same level, completely fucking bonkers.
On a side note, the last time I did shrooms was the night of KOTR 98 with the HIAC madness with Foley......that certainly was memorable and at the same time, totally wild that I witnessed that madness trippin!
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Do we need a Bad TV Shows thread? Why are edgelords so intent on tarnishing my memories of Winnie the Pooh!!?