"If this happened to me, I'd put a bullet inside my head infront of my friends..." is what I was thinking when I was watching All My Friends Hate Me. Imagine, you're about to hang out with a group of friends, but that group of friends invite a stranger that you do not "vibe" with. Then when you finally open up and make a joke that no one laughs at, the stranger takes out a notepad, writes something down, and hides the notepad.
Now that both triggers me but also makes me find it funny for Pete (the main character), for how absurdly creepy and stupid it is. Something so small can both play with your anxiety and your trust. If that isn't a perfect representation of a mixture in both COMEDY and HORROR, I do not know what is. Do not be fooled by people complaining it wasn't either both funny nor scary, because it doesn't try to do those in the story appart, but rather mixes them up in the events of the scenes. All My Friends Hate Me wants to play with your anxiety and your solace in the same scenarios.
I absolutily had no idea that the show was going to be different than the original graphic novels. Which is exactly why I loved it. Immediately in the first episode, when it begins to become something else, I just had to sit there and laugh. It's a new Scott experience with more of Ramona too. More of everybody. It's was a fun ride in it's whole.
You know what every Anime/Animated Action Show has? A group of young characters on a dangerous journey to fight evil. You know what every Anime/Animated like that never has? Someone's mother tagging along with the kids.
First of all, Castlevania: Nocturne really shows what the creators prioritize making it. Insane choreographed animated fight scenes, evil Vampire lady's (the creators fetish?) who all look like they were straight out of ripped from Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust and generic Americanized dialogue with a ton of quips and swearing.
This show tries to do so much in just 8 episodes, which really is frustrating to the point that I started not caring at all. Every character has 2 Subplots, conflicts and backstory. I wished they would slow it down and take their time, but this show really gives off the feeling of "we don't know if there is a second season coming or not" vibes, "so let's put everything in it."
The biggest problem this show has is it's main characters, with all the subplots they have added, they still didn't give them any character at all. Which was present in the first Castlevania. In Nocturne, the maincharacter, Belmond, is dull.
Don't expect much outside of the flashy animated fight scenes. I'm not sure if there is a Soundtrack, nothing sticked in that category. The voice acting is terrible. It's one of those shows where they just casted Actors instead of Voice Actors. I hate that specific thing, because I know there are very good voice actors, but Netflix and higher budget films don't cast them just for marketing reasons.
After many years of praising the works of the master "mangaka" Naoki Urasawa, here comes Pluto (on Netflix). The story was first written and illustrated as Manga series and then left untouched for many years. However, the popularity of Naoki's Monster series, fans were hyping Pluto up since maybe 2017?..
It's finally here and it's gorgeous, even for Netflix quality. Netflix has released the whole series season one already, so we can binge it. I think I'll take my time with this one.
From Hell is an adaptation of Alam Moore's story based on the grim murders of the classic Jack the Ripper.
Alan Moore notoriously hates all film adaptations of his work, and I tend to disagree with him. I personally love V for Vendetta and I like The Watchmen eventho it has it's flaws. But from Hell? Compared to his novel, this one feels flat. I can understand him why...
It isn't terrible or anything, but it can be boring in the second half. It does take the setting serious with the dark nightmarish slums of London filth and skies as red as a pool of blood. It looks great. But the flow of the story is slow.
Very promising from the start onwards. Jumps into interesting events that kept me liking it untill the third act. Everything fell flat after. All that was build up went down the drain. The final reveal of what the horns stand for was not imaginative. The conclusion wasn't pleasant or satisfying. I'm also blaming most of these criticisms on Max Minghella's character.
Speculative astrobiology at its finest.. It tells a story of a group of survivors crashlanding on a alien planet filled with lifeforms that have it's own biology. I think the biology if the wildlife is the best part of this show. I haven't seen this concept used in animation like this before, or not on this scale. The movement of some of the creatures are so detailed and fluent, that it kind of makes sense a imaginary bug would protect itself like that from predators.
On this planet you're as equally suprised by it's lifeform than any of the characters really. It's incredible how this is how you're connected to these characters, really makes the story so immersive.
The show is aside from all it's colorful creatures, very tense. You're eventually not just surviving the elements or the wildlife, but there is something more sinister and dark. I could recommend this to anyone who loves Science Fiction. I hope there will be more.
First of all, let's get this straight, this film is made in 1999. In that year, the illegal media industry was different than nowdays. Nowdays, you can find dark weird stuff on facebook. All you have to do is click "yes, I'd like to see" before watching them. Well done Mark Zuckerberg. Anyways, back then, this specific part of the underworld where snuff films were produced throughout the states, a woman finds her husbands secret plastic reel of film after his death in a save. After watching it, it's becoming clear that it's a snuff film. A private detective is then hired to find out what happened to the girl, if it was just a sick p*rno or if it's really a murder.
"You can't prepare for where the truth will take you."
I like Joel Schumacher as a filmmaker, however, this is nothing like him. In fact, I bet you that after watching 8MM, you thought of rather David Fincher instead. That's because this film was originally written for him instead. 8MM is written by Andrew Kevin Walker, who was responsible as well for Se7en (1995). In the hands of Joel Schumacher, it really did not make a big difference. The world in 8MM really does capture that gritty filth of the street you daily ignore.
I can and will recommend this film for those who are into thrillers and crime stories but have not seen much of that related to film media of the underworld. Or if you like David Fincher / Andrew Kevin Walker's work and you'd like to see more.
This is one of those Spoof where the genre of these movies started to turn from original sketches in the parody, to just parody "is the joke". Instead of being clever, use the comedy to your advantage by changing scenes, doing creative things, all this movie does is put something famous and popular from the 2000s and laugh at it. A.k.a Britney Spears being bald was somehow funny then. What do they do with it? Just have her sit there and get pushed in the famous 300 pit. Same with everything else in the movie.
From example take a look at Top Secret! (1984) which genuinly makes you laugh at times by using the camera as a joke or joking about how the film is made. Or even the first two Scary Movies, where you almost forget it's a parody of The Scream, and I can't even remember what the second one was a parody of. And then this random mess where the joke is the content it's parodying. "Haha so funny look, it's Idols parody."
The 2000s killed this Gerne.
Had dropped this show when it was airing around the Negan part, picked it up when I heard Negan part was over. Then had to drop again during the long and boring whisperer part. Now, picked it back up to finish the last seasons because I heard the show was over. I didn't even know it was over. The show really went downhill in the later seasons, that is what we can all agree on.
We can all see the show really peaked in multiple parts in it's full. First season, the third season, the beginning of the 7th season and also in the 9th season. But this last season? Eventho it was it's last, it didn't peak at all. There was a massive drop in viewers and it was expected.
The season itself, in my opinion, is not that remarkable. It doesn't do anything new. It's the same formula. It doesn't end the show horribly either. It wasn't a bad season. It's just, the same as always. New enemy community of people.
Now the main show is over, the AMC studio is bringing out side shows left and right, so the story isn't really over. Haven't seen any of those.
Very good, kind-off, retelling story of the Frankensteins monster. Edward Scissorhands is a fairy-tale like story made my Tim Burton about a man made by a scientist, except with scissors as hands. Damn, no shit. This also feels like one of the Tim Burton self insert using Depp movies. It has charming moments with some comedy about the issues Edward is having. But there is more to this story than just cute comedy. It felt to me that it was trying to tell a story about being disabled or being an out-cast, weird or misunderstood, but with so much potential being so different.
Without spoiling anything, I just want to note that the ending was what stick with me the most.
Around this films release, people were asking Guillermo Del Toro for a horror film. He released short video's of haunting visuall effects of puppetry. What people began to expect was a typical horror film, but what Del Toro eventually made, was a Ghotic Romance thriller with rather horror in the back seat. These aren't your typical boring evil ghosts. There are legit some terrifying scenes in the film, but these shots are more haunting than anything jumping. It shocks you more visually and emotion, rather than slapstick jumpscary stuff you get usually.
Suprisingly there are some horrific violent confrontations between characters that gets too bloody, which makes all the red stand out in snow or the house. The house looks beautifull, you know Del Toro took care of it's look like it's a character on ot's own. All the furniture, the dust, cobwebs, the colours of the walls, all look like they come from a fantasy film. Which is expected in a Del Toro film.
Last thing to mention is how gorgeous the costumes in this film is. There is no way they could wear these dresses once every day back then, but whatever.
The second Hellboy film, the sequel and the final work of Guillermo del Toro and Hellboy together on the big screen. It's a fun and quick ride. Everything present in the first movie is back here in this one. The charm of all the actors playing their characters, Mike Mignola's style and the small details to the mythical world of what makes Hellboy so unique.
The sequel Hellboy II The Golden Army picks up everything that made the first movie so special and doubles down on it. All of the set design, which is very fun detailed, tell a story. Each demon is built like a real existing being. Not much will be explained, which is a positive thing with these movies, but rather it's for the audience to picture the lore in their own imagination. You can also find more of Guillermo's ideas in Behind The Scene footage, where he brings up small details he put in the movie. It's very interesting.
Next to all that, Hellboy II also fixes a ton of problems the first one had. Like the lack of personality from the human characters and Hellboy not getting all the room to develop further outside of having to follow orders of the organization, his father or his girlfriend Liz. Here, he finally get's to do whatever he wants to do. With blowback or not. Also, replacing "John" with "Johan" (voiced by Seth McFarlane from Family Guy) was a good idea, laughable, but good.
p.s, what a "villain"..., if you can call him that.
Tim Burton's imaginative vision of the classic tale of Sleepy Hollow is easily one of my favorites. A timeless halloween fun with your typical over the top Burton's Gothic atmosphere. They succeeded to capture that October feeling with how the setting is designed. The trees in the dark are shaped in such a caroonish way. The amount of nightly mist surrounds the entire town and how shadows are pitchblack and uninviting.
This tale both tells a mystic Gothic story and a horror murder-mystery detective drama. It's definitely one of Johnny Depps better Tim Burton characters, but Christopher Walken as the Headless Horseman is such a good pick. He wont speak a word, but when he charges on a horse whealing a sword around, you know he's telling you that your head is now his.
Guillermo del Toro picks up Dark Horse comic book Mike Mignola and adapts it with his own vision but still respects the source material like he's a fan. He is a fan and it shows. There can be much said about where this film comes from, but for me it's save to say that it's a love letter to the Hellboy intellectual property. This film both introduced me to the Hellboy Franchise/Comics and Guillermo del Toro. For the comics, I do get biassed, because it's my favorite comic series together with the B.P.R.D. Comics.
Guillermo del Toro's artistic vision is something to be noticed here. The colors that's presented in his films always take part of the story in a way. Here, the most, with characters nicknaming eachother with "Blue" or "Red". Visually intresting locations and set designs. Unique way to mix hero-ism with Lovecraftian horror. Taking a jabs at Nazi'sm and Rasputing. It has everything you seek in a Gothic setting, with creatures from beyond and religion. All these points come from both the comics but also Guillermo's personal past. Maybe thats why he is a fan of the Hellboy series.
Last to mention the cast. Ron Perlman and Doug Jones steal the show. I always get very impressed by how their personality is shown with motion rather than emotion, yet, can show emotion by smaller things like Doug Jones crawling around as a fishman and tilting his head when he's listening to other cast members. Nothing besides praises for both Selma Blair and the Legend John Hurt. As for Rupert as John Myers?.. Nothing. It's a very normal John character. You'd expect he'd add much to the plot personally, but he was more of a "dude thats ona ride with the audience" type of character. They left him out of the sequel. LOL.
I can't remember how many times I've rewatched this. Each time I love it more. There wont be a superhero film like this one anymore.
This isn't even that bad as people say it is. It has a lot of gay undertones and idiotic overacting but, I still felt it was a fun ride. It isn't the best Frankensteins story there is. It is the most unique one I've seen so far for sure. Also to mention, both James McAvoy and Daniel Radcliffe work so well with eachother.
