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L. A. Z.
Like I said, I think Wrath is the better of the two, but they're both fun b-movie revenge flicks. Lulu Wilson should have a solid career ahead of her, even if she's mostly in genre fare.
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Good Luck Have Fun Don’t Die is a delightful and fun time at the motion pictures. In the wrong hands this could have gone poorly but it’s a great satire and hilariously acted by Sam Rockwell and many others.
They managed to make topics like school shootings and AI very entertaining.
They managed to make topics like school shootings and AI very entertaining.
Most of the way through "Southland" S1 since it got added to Netflix here. Seems pretty good so far.
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Watched The Curve (aka Dead Man's Curve) from 1998 starring Matthew Lillard, Keri Russell, Michael Vartan, and Randall Batinkoff.
It's solid albeit more of a very black comedy (Lillard's a standout and Batinkoff is memorable as a prick). I think Vartan's the weakest as he's the straight man but has too much of a vanilla, wooden "teen" actor vibe to not hold himself up well opposite Lillard and Batinkoff. He actually was giving me 3rd rate Guy Pearce in Memento vibes just without the acting ability. I think if the acting was a little stronger and the plot had more going on, it'd have done better but there's a reason it's largely forgotten.
The plot is solid (2 roommates try to get their 3rd member to commit suicide so they can get 4.0 grade point averages) and it's very.... late 90s dark teen movie in an era when you had stuff like Cruel Intentions, The Rules of Attraction, etc. It's better than Dead Man on Campus (which also released in 1998 whereas this went straight-to-video) but is far less memorable in terms of characters.
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It's solid albeit more of a very black comedy (Lillard's a standout and Batinkoff is memorable as a prick). I think Vartan's the weakest as he's the straight man but has too much of a vanilla, wooden "teen" actor vibe to not hold himself up well opposite Lillard and Batinkoff. He actually was giving me 3rd rate Guy Pearce in Memento vibes just without the acting ability. I think if the acting was a little stronger and the plot had more going on, it'd have done better but there's a reason it's largely forgotten.
The plot is solid (2 roommates try to get their 3rd member to commit suicide so they can get 4.0 grade point averages) and it's very.... late 90s dark teen movie in an era when you had stuff like Cruel Intentions, The Rules of Attraction, etc. It's better than Dead Man on Campus (which also released in 1998 whereas this went straight-to-video) but is far less memorable in terms of characters.
5/10
Finished this and really liked it. I wish it had got a proper ending as it felt like it ended on sort of a cliffhanger.
I decided to finally watch "NYPD Blue" and I'm most of the way through S1 now. I think it's pretty good but I'm not getting all-time great cop show from it like a lot of people say. "Hill Street Blues", "The Wire", and "Homicide" are all better just to name a few.