New movies undeserving of their own thread 2: The Night It Came Home

[Abraham Smashington]

You have any that are worth loot? Asking for a friend. Totally not planning an Oceans Eleven type heist and swinging out to NJ. Promise.

[Timothy225]

The love is because they're a touchstone to my parents and grandparents, who used to buy us those figures for various reasons (birthdays, holidays, good report cards, etc.). My brother and I were little kids in the '70s, hip deep in DC and Marvel Superheroes, as well as outlier characters from Charlton and Atlas/Seaboard comics. My dad taught us to read by reading comic books to us as bedtime stories (Mother Goose can't compete against vintage Jack Kirby Galactus and Silver Surfer), and my grandparents had a great wooded area for my brother and I to play with our figures in wgen we visited, which was pretty often as they lived around the block from us.

Plus, the range of characters was vast, and all were in scale with each other. Spidey would team up with Mr. Spock and the Fonz to rescue the Justice League from the Planet of the Apes, for example. The figures cost, at most, between $2 to $3 bucks and were designed to be played with, not sit in a box.

Megos = best memories I had as a kid.

[Abraham Smashington]

Oh I see you on those Mego groups Tim. I know of your love of them.

[Matt]

holy cow, that's awesome!

[Timothy225]

Thanks muchly, Rob, but Jen will tell you of my geekiness for all things Spidey. Especially for the stuff I had/still have from when I was a kid. Like this guy.

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[Abraham Smashington]

cause you're awesome? that's gotta be the reason Tim

[Timothy225]

I've had a few of them over the years. The one I still have somewhere is this lil' guy, for obvious reasons...

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[Abraham Smashington]

The Pez Outlaw

I used to collect these things in the 80s/90s. I have a few hundred of these in a box somewhere. This looks fun

[Abraham Smashington]

Knock at the Cabin

I'm in. I dug his last few flicks and this trailer is aces. Plus he didn't write it and it's based on a book so I'm hopeful. Great trailer at the very least.

[Matt]

That HELLRAISER trailer is pretty great but it's kinda too slick. A lot of the 'charm' of the first couple of HELLRAISER films comes from the visceral fleshiness of everything. They're not slick...they're gooey.

Regardless, I'm in. I appreciate the new take and I'm curious about what the full body look of the new Pinhead is.

[Abraham Smashington]

Yeah, I mean, I'm not married to the source material at all. I dig the second one, thought the first one aged poorly, and the rest (except for CD FACE lolololol) are lame.

Plus it's on Hulu so I'm not wasting any money. Bring it on. Gimme something to add to my 31 days of Horror movie watching coming up.

Still trying to come up with this year's theme. Last years theme of "Every movie has to tie in to the previous one somehow without watching sequels back to back - actors/director/writer/etc" was pretty fun and at times kind of hard but we did it. Need to figure out a good one this go around.

[Timothy225]

Nice. Nothing will ever replace the first couple of Hellraiser films for me, but this is nice. Vey nice. I'm onboard.

[Abraham Smashington]

Cool, excited to see Barbarian. Know nothing about it but that first trailer.

Hellraiser.

[BillyG]

Barbarian

Hell. Fucking. Yeah. Don't read anything. Don't get spoiled. Just go have a good fucking time at the first proper movie for Halloween season. I will only give a hint as to like...the tone this movie goes to.

  Spoiler: Tonal Spoilers 

This is totally what if Malignant was good. It's bat shit insane. It swings around and jumps from tone to tone nonstop. But it is so much fucking fun. If anyone likes Malignant then they're probably LOVE this, as I didn't really care for Malignant but had an amazing time with Barbarian.

[Matt]

We watched it last night.

It's better than the trailer would indicate but it's not great by any means. Hamm actually is pretty solid in the role once you finally accept that he's not going to copy Chevy Chase. He does his own thing and, if you roll with how he's playing the part, he's actually pretty good. The main problem is that he's got other supporting actors trying too hard to be funny and have their own moments. The strength of the two Chevy films is that everyone else is being played relatively straight (with some quirks) allowing Chevy's Fletch to be the one smart ass. Here, it's like everyone is trying to capture that Chevy magic and it often does not work at all.

Regardless, it's a fairly harmless and brisk 98 minute romp with a lot of moments to keep you smiling and several genuine laughs to be had. If they make more with Jon Hamm, I'll watch 'em.