What Emmanuelle Movie Did You Just Watch?

[Abraham Smashington]

#4 of 31 days of Halloween - Talk to Me

It's perfectly fine. Some decent gore that comes off pretty realistic which makes it worse to look at, but the hype for this was a bit too much. Ending saved it from being a waste of time. Also, that group of friends are all a bunch of dummies.

outta 5.

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I would be killing that cunt and her brother in a heartbeat. The main girl being selfish as fuck and fucking over the little bro was shitty. Their relationship was fucking weird. But the ending of her jumping into traffic, to her nightmare, to being the one let in was nice.

Too bad most of the stuff before made me yell at the tv "WHY?" and again based on the hype, had me bummed.

Oh well, they can't all be winners.

[Abraham Smashington]

#3 of 31 days of Halloween - Cobweb
A tense fairytale-esque movie with some really good shots and some incredibly creepy imagery. Would have been 4/5 but 2 decisions brought it down to 3 out of 5. Still solid as hell and again, going in blind to all of these so far has been the best way to do so. Lizzie Caplan and Antony Starr were fantastic. If they would have decided NOT to

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show the cgi face thing AND the Evil Dead stop motion near the end

it would have easily been a 4/5 and I still liked it but I can see people being turned off in that last act. Recommend it, and recommend just going in blind. No trailer.

But thus far I'm 3 for 3 with new movies with no background behind them. Good stuff.

[Matt]

I've done 4 for Halloween so far:
PSYCHO
PSYCHO II
FRANKENSTEIN
BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN

[Abraham Smashington]

#2 of 31 days of Halloween: The Hole in the Ground

Never saw a trailer, read a synopsis, saw a poster on MAX and took a gamble (gotta hit 20 unseen horror movies somehow!) and was pleasantly surprised. Tense throughout and if I have any sort of gripe with it

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the cgi "creatures"

were not needed imo and the last shot in the car/scene in the movie worked so much better overall.

Nothing groundbreaking, but so far we're 2 for 2 for new flicks.

[Abraham Smashington]

We started out 31 days of Halloween movie marathon last night. This year we're going to try for 20 movies we haven't seen, 5 each of our personal favorites, and 1 final movie to be determined still.

Last night was Night 1. No One Will Save You. Dug this movie a whole bunch. Trying to remember how long it's been since I've watched an entire movie that has only like a line or two of dialogue the entire movie.... And it sooooooo worked and mostly stuck the ending. The reveals not being reveals was a nice touch.

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"Hey remember how in Signs you waited the entire movie, it had that one scene that will still be on the of the best shots of an alien in any movie, and then just kind of ended?" Fuck that, first 10 mins BOOM here you go, now you know this isn't Signs, don't compare it to Signs, just have fun with the main girl being played amazingly real, not a Ripley-esque turn, and just play it straight for the most part.

Dug it,.

Night 2 is being decided.

[Matt]

oh I'd say it's for anyone 25+. Someone needs to have been out in the real world in order for BARBIE to really hit home, thematically.

When we saw it, kids younger than 18 were bored stiff. Women who'd seen real life were fucking amped as hell.

[Abraham Smashington]

Also, someone smarter than me, the market for this is people 35/40+ yeah? As a kid this would have bored me (unless I was still playing with Barbie dolls I guess?). I'm not taking anything away from it, (again, I dug it much more than I thought I would have), but I spent a chunk of the movie just wondering who this was made for.

[Abraham Smashington]

Barbie. I liked it. It was fun. Best movie of the year? Not seeing it but Margot, Ryan, and Ronnie Chieng were pretty fun in it. Wish there was a He-Man cameo. That being said, when the "Creator" talked about her past, that's the movie I want to see.

[Abraham Smashington]

The new TMNT cartoon flick was pretty fun. The animation style is awesome and lots of dumb jokes about the og series. Fun stuff. The character designs are great and I'd be down for the sequel they set up post credits. I can see "purists" lol, bitch about changing everything about the characters but it was a nice change. Also, Scumbug is the best.

Speed Racer - hadn't watched this in ages as I lost my bluray. Got another copy and watched it last night, fuck man, in a just world we'd have a triology of these from the Wachowski Sisters. Still look fucking amazing and car-fu is still a ton of fun.

[BillyG]

Really liked Spiderverse 2, except it ends with a cliffhanger. Which yeah, of course it's the second of a trilogy, but it really felt like half of a story.

[Abraham Smashington]

Body Parts is great from what I remember but it's been soooo long.

SpideyVerse 2 - Dug it a bunch. The animation was more polished and visually interesting throughout this one. Dug the story, loved the stuff with the

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real live action actors showing up

especially making

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Donald Glover the live action Prowler

which was a neat touch. Needed more Peter and Mayday because I'm dumb.

That opening with the Renaissance Vulture was so fucking cool in an animation sense. Dug it but also totally forgot it pulls a fucking BttF2 and we gotta wait for the ending which was a bit of a slap to the dick.

[Matt]

HEART OF STONE on Netflix.

Surprisingly watchable. Don't set your bar really high and just go with it. The premise is actually pretty solid overall and I can see a franchise coming from this.

[BillyG]

Whiplash

Never seen it before. it got selected for our work movie club. Really well made movie with some awesome performances that I absolutely hated. Everyone sucked. I hate the "greatness is forged from abuse" trope more than any other trope. I'd have strangled JK Simmons way before he ever had a chance to throw a fucking cymbal at my head. Miles Teller is an actor I just don't get. I don't think he's particularly good, charismatic or handsome, so I don't know why he has fans. And in this movie he was a massive piece of shit to his family and the girl he asked out. This movie ruined my high.

[Captain Russ]

Definitely, it really made a lot work where other high concepts that had a similar design just fell flat. I really appreciate how much it went for it in the last act.

[Matt]

BODY PARTS is great, one of those 'much better than it should have been 'movies.