Hahaha. I concur on The Last Stand by the way. Lost a bit of steam towards the end, but I was surprised at how crazy it was. Convinced me to finally see The Good, The Bad and the Weird, which I almost loved.
Almost? TGTBTW is fantastic. Storm Shadow himself Byung-hun Lee and Kang-ho Song stole cinema that year for me.. but I love gunplay heavy Westerns. Last Stand was entertaining but definitely lesser Arnie
Finally watched the Evil Dead reboot. Mehhh. Pretty graphic, but the lack of personality in the deadites show why the originals work so much better (among many other things). Apart from Mia they were pretty much zombies with weapons. And I don't understand the ending,
Spoiler: spoils?
the book summons evil spirit, which posesses people, and when enough people die the sky rains blood and THE DESTRUCTOR appears who is basically just another posessed person who dies as easily as anyone else?
when you put it like that, fuck. I never really thought about the ending as I was too happy with the stupid amounts of blood happening. The only thing I hated was Mumford and Sons reading the book that specifically said don't read the book.
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when you put it like that, fuck. I never really thought about the ending as I was too happy with the stupid amounts of blood happening. The only thing I hated was Muford and Sons reading the book that specifically said don't read the book.
That was the point at which I switched it off. With characters that wilfully dumb, I'll always root for the antagonist. I hear You're Next bucks the trend - anyone?
I experienced an invasion of my mind by a transcendentally rational mind, as if I had been insane all my life and suddenly I had become sane.
The lead young lady is awesome, and has a backstory that explains why she can hold her own against a bunch of crazies. The "twist" did it zero favors though.
I think The Strangers is MUCH MORE effective, because the twist is ridiculously obvious in You're Next...but then they're like OH HERE'S ANOTHER and you already guessed it. It's a good movie, it just lessens the fear.
The Strangers and You're Next run down similar paths. However, You're Next was way more focused. Even with the "twist", the material was far more grounded and I appreciated the indie nature a helluva lot more.
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