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Cruel Summer (2021)
Padded Ratings
You know a film is horrible when the actors in it rate it a 10 and write a stellar review, comparing it to Devil's Rejects. How pathetic. So embarrassing, actually. Do not trust these 10 star reviews. Look at the history of the people reviewing it. That says a lot when this is the only thing they've ever reviewed. This thing stinks and you will do well to stay clear of it.
Halloween (2018)
TERRIBLE!
***SPOILERS***I, like others, was EXTREMELY let down with this movie. All the hype around its release, with the "final showdown" talk, led you to think this would be the final Halloween. Wrong. And this movie was all over the place, wanting to be so many different things. So many questions with this movie. We're ignoring the sequels...but we're going to literally steal/remake scenes from them? I can count several off the top of my head. Mrs Elrod making the sandwich from part 2, the ambulance crash (now bus) from part 4, the woman in the restroom from H20, even the violent smackdown in the restroom from Rob Zombie's remake. Now, Laurie...she's agoraphobic but you can't keep her in her house on the very day that traumatized her. Standing in the exact same spot she first saw Michael...hanging out in the schoolyard with her grand daughter...going to a restaurant...going to the gas station to see the carnage that the very guy that caused her all this pain has left a path of death...on & on. If we're ignoring the sequels, why all the fascination from everyone with Michael, and why Laurie's over the top trauma? If we're ignoring the sequels, then he basically was just a man that killed a couple of people...happens every day but we don't see this kind of reaction. And the reporter trying to work him up at the beginning with the mask..."It's a part of you..you feel it"...no, it was a random mask he took from a hardware store 40 years ago and wore it, like, five hours one night. Then Laurie's house...it's never mentioned she has a job, yet she has her house rigged up like something from a Saw movie. Where did she get all this stuff, and who installed it? Home Depot? Geek Squad? Did Laurie go to tech school to learn this stuff, even running natural gas lines? That contraption at the top of the basement stairs had my eyes rolling so hard they almost fell out of my head. Awful, awful, awful movie and a wasted opportunity.
Victor Crowley (2017)
OK movie ruined by a jerk director
Saw a premier of this movie during a road show tour, where some of the cast and the director were present for the screening. Overall it was a fun experience with the crowd participation (though it did start to wear on my nerves after a while, with all the whooping and high-fives from the cast in attendance whenever they appeared on screen). It was an ok addition to the franchise, but I have gotten now to where I cannot stand the director. He gave what I thought to be a very personal, thoughtful, and humble speech at the screening. I got the blu ray recently, and there's an interview with him where he gives the same speech, almost verbatim, and I came to realize how "scripted" it all sounded, not heartfelt at all. I also spoke with some people at the convention that was going on in town, where Adam Green was also present, and heard some discussions of how he can treat some of his fans in a very arrogant, phony, non-interested way. I hear this about a lot of celebrities, so I usually take it with a grain of salt, but one of these people showed some very rude, condescending and ugly info that made me see him in a different light. Anyway, most fans of the series of films will probably like it; some won't. For me, it was just "meh" until learning of the director's attitude, so now I don't even like it.
Nightblade (2016)
i was at the premier
I took my friend with me to the premier of this movie recently and her comments keep getting deleted by, apparently, the makers of the film who are flagging her comments to be deleted by IMDb.
She's being bullied because they don't agree with her feelings about the movie. This is not a fan board, it is a discussion board for people's thoughts about the movie.
I will give mine as well.
I agree that this movie was not very good. It had potential in some ways to be a decent movie, but overall the acting and dialogue killed it. We both agreed that Betsy Rue was the best actor in the bunch, and some people were terribly underused. Robert Lasardo was promoted as being a headliner and he was barely in it, the same with Todd Bridges (though he was very poor in his role.) We did make some jokes about some of the cast being, shall we say, not camera friendly but that was forgivable in light of this being an independent movie. The one part we really did bust out laughing at was when a major character gets some news that causes him to faint. That part was so poorly acted that it was hysterical.
one of my main problems with the movie was that it was so inconsistent in tone and one major character was just all over the place in personality. One minute he's supposed to be a tough guy with a foul mouth and a major jerk attitude, then suddenly he's supposed to be this tender romantic guy with one of the female leads. Some of his dialogue with a backstory caused us to roll our eyes with a "here goes one of these kind of stories again" groan...heard it all before in better movies.
Another laughing point was with the Pleasure Dome strip club. Surely they could have gotten a few more extras to be in this to make it look at least halfway realistic. The patrons consisted of about 5 or so people.
I've seen far worse movies on NetFlix but that's really not saying a whole lot. This is just not a good movie in my opinion and I couldn't recommend it to anyone. We did like some of the camera-work except for the overused drone and some really obvious footage that was pulled from other sources, and a couple of the unknown actors were OK. But on the whole, it wasn't something we liked.