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I saw RIP Ben Affleck and my heart sank for a second.The Rip with Ben Affleck and Maaatt Daaamon was pretty good. 7/10
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I saw RIP Ben Affleck and my heart sank for a second.The Rip with Ben Affleck and Maaatt Daaamon was pretty good. 7/10

The Terminator > T2.View attachment 631063
Re watched Terminator 1. One of the best movies of all time made on a shoestring budget. Cost $1M, looks like it cost $20M, made $100M (and a billion more later).
The Terminator itself is like a serpent. Arnold disappears completely. The Tech Noir scene in particular might be one of the best scenes in movie history. Look at how his head is framed like Frankenstein's Monster in that shot. Almost every second of the Tech Noir scene does some sort of visual storytelling like that.
It's absurd how good this scene is and how much it tells a first-time viewer. It's comparable to the Dog Scene from The Thing in terms of being a scene where the world as we know it is completely shattered in the span of a minute. It's a through the looking glass moment where the illusion of safety falls away. A little later is the police station scene, which is where any remaining "yeah but he can be stopped right?" gets crushed.
The deleted scenes are powerful. We find out that Lt Traxler was the one person who believed Reese, and he tells them how to escape the station (and also tells Reese to protect Sarah) while he lay dying. We also see Reese breaking down in the woods because he's never seen a green forest before. I get why they cut these scenes, they're pretty goddamn sad.
10/10 movie, obviously. After all the modern garbage I watched the past month, this was just unbelievably good.

Huh, I didn't know about the deleted scenes, but they sound great. Was it from a bonus feature on a Blu-ray or is there an assembly cut available?View attachment 631063
Re watched Terminator 1. One of the best movies of all time made on a shoestring budget. Cost $1M, looks like it cost $20M, made $100M (and a billion more later).
The Terminator itself is like a serpent. Arnold disappears completely. The Tech Noir scene in particular might be one of the best scenes in movie history. Look at how his head is framed like Frankenstein's Monster in that shot. Almost every second of the Tech Noir scene does some sort of visual storytelling like that.
It's absurd how good this scene is and how much it tells a first-time viewer. It's comparable to the Dog Scene from The Thing in terms of being a scene where the world as we know it is completely shattered in the span of a minute. It's a through the looking glass moment where the illusion of safety falls away. A little later is the police station scene, which is where any remaining "yeah but he can be stopped right?" gets crushed.
The deleted scenes are powerful. We find out that Lt Traxler was the one person who believed Reese, and he tells them how to escape the station (and also tells Reese to protect Sarah) while he lay dying. We also see Reese breaking down in the woods because he's never seen a green forest before. I get why they cut these scenes, they're pretty goddamn sad.
10/10 movie, obviously. After all the modern garbage I watched the past month, this was just unbelievably good.
This is currently in rotation on twitch.tv/rifftraxView attachment 632132
Just watched this again. Loved it as a teen. "Future" is almost 20 years ago..... wtf.
Old classic to me. We need to get bigger guns. Big fucking guns!
8/10
Hell yeah, I rewatched it earlier this year. One of my best favorite movies when I was younger, and still is.View attachment 632132
Just watched this again. Loved it as a teen. "Future" is almost 20 years ago..... wtf.
Old classic to me. We need to get bigger guns. Big fucking guns!
8/10
Enola Holmes 3. 1st movie was good, 2 was barely meh. In this, Sherlock and Watson are gay. Watson is a street shidder. Moriarty is a black woman. Enola constantly goes on about how clever she is.
0/10.
Were there lots of the Aztec ghost people?The Whistle
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Dafne Keen (from Logan and the newest Deadpool movie) plays a recovering drug addict moving in with some relatives in a rust belt city. She discovers a strange whistle in the locker of a student that had recently died under unusual circumstances. After one of her new acquaintances blows it they discover that anyone that hears it will be hunted by their own death. However you would have died at the end of your life you will die from now.
The opening death is kind of odd as you don't understand why it took the shape it did until later but the early stuff with Chrys (our lead) is alright. I like how it's shot with the "dying steel mill town around Halloween" setting. Unfortunately it's got some annoying tropes where our Christian youth pastor is selling drugs and one of our antagonists, black jock dude paired with the blonde girl who is being pined for by the weirdo dork white kid (lines include "maybe I'll let you watch" from the jock as he makes humping motions) along with a lesbian romance. The current year messaging isn't too egregious but I can't not see it. Some of the deaths are visually interesting but we're really just kind of ripping off Final Destination to then rip off Flatliners for the climax. Overall it's a watchable 3/10. Compared to Obsession, Backrooms or Hokum it's like a one.
Were there lots of the Aztec ghost people?

Zero. The ghosts we did get were corrupted versions of the characters that each visually represented how they would die. Some of the effects were really good and some were not.