Rate Movies You've Recently Watched.

Deus - 5/10 (?). It could have been a promising and interesting Sci Fi movie but instead became lazy and generic. This is the most recent example of "How not to assemble a crew to explore space stuff." It was never going to be a Sunshine or an EH. Hard to recommend but if you have to see it just to know at least it is only an hour and a half.

Bonus review: Stick around for the hilariously out of place "rock" song over the credits, "Breaking the Past." Have no idea why this song was chosen. It does not fit the film. Checking the performers site (About Me – Steve Wallace) it shows taht this was from a Feature Film of the same name but I can't find a record of that. It is then credited as being a part of the Deus score. In a vacuum I could probably jam to it. At the end of this movie though it was a big question mark.

Monster House - 4/10 as an adult and 1/10 for a 5 year old. I thought this was terrible. The mocap didn’t age well, none of the characters were good, it was overly loud, and the story was abysmal. A dude meets a fat special ed carnival freak, steals her, she dies and turns in to a house? As far as kids movies go that is really bad. We’ve been trying to go through kids Halloween stuff.

Hocus Pocus 1 - 7.5/10. 6/10 for kiddo; Thought this was just as good 25 years later and all the times I’ve seen it in between. Has a lot of charm that movies from that era have.

Hocus Pocus 2 - 2/10, 4/10; Complete shit. Misses the point of the whole thing and turns it in to a Mary Sue fest with all the great things you can imagine from an unnecessary sequel made in 2022.

Hotel Transylvania - 6.5/10, 6/10; Not the best but not the worst. Miles ahead of Monster House but not up to classic Pixar. But it was a fun cute story that had some music, nice variety and use of classic monsters, and adult humor that parents could laugh at without it being crude. No idea about 2 or 3 or if we’ll bother.

We’ll see what we’ll pick tomorrow. We also did A Nightmare Before Christmas because it is obviously a Halloween AND a Christmas movie. And obviously a 10/10.

Szlia said:

A weird one: I saw The Timekeepers of Eternity. I guess it's technically an animated film as it's the two part TV movie The Langoliers with each image printed in black and white on paper and then re-edited down to one hour from the original three with a number of thorn or crumpled paper effects.

Looks like this :


There is a clever virtuosity to it at times, but there is a problem. In similar movies like The Green Fog (a weird retelling of Vertigo using a collage of clips from a number of movies and TV shows set in San Francisco) or Martin Arnold experimental shorts (film clips being manipulated in order to make visible their subliminal essence), the source material is transcended. Here the end result is still at its core very much The Langoliers and... well... it's not great.

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That's something I didn't know existed and is kind of intriguing...

Scream (1996) - Wife had never seen this and to me it is an iconic piece of film. Maybe that has more to do with coming out right around the time we (our social group) were all 15, 16, 17; but it feels like a big piece movie history. I could be overstating that but whatever.

25 years later and I still appreciated it. There’s so many people in it that we’re early in their career, full of Halloween references, making fun of itself, and still some blood and gore (?).

Still think it is a 9/10. The soundtrack was a good flashback also. Man Matthew Lillard was just strange and for a minute there played the same character in every movie of that time.