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Doctor of Autism said:
Weren't both the killers in Scream 5 redditors
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I think so, they definitely mentioned reddit and 4chan which always makes me cringe a bit when movies or tv series mention reddit or 4chan. Scream 2 just saying the killers met "online" was better because it was kept vague.

The killers motivation in general was another aspect that just didn't work, in previous scream movies usually you had one killer with a tactile standard motivation like Billy Loomis blaming Sidney's family for breaking up his family or Billy's mother wanting revenge for the death of her son, etc. and then one killer is just all "movies bro" but in Scream 5 they were both just "movies bro" or worse their motive was "movies and reddit bro".

Overall very lame dull movie with boring lead, I still have some interest in Scream 6 as the New York setting will hopefully mean we get some original scenes that aren't just redos of stuff from previous scream movies, and I'm also hoping they flesh out / fix the annoying characters or kill them off quickly. They have a perfect potential lead in Ortega but they kept her benched for half of 5.
 
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Another franchise in which the first one is the only good one.
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I think only the first 5-10 minutes of the first film is genuinely good. It's a well-made picture with fun characters and spin on the killer reveal but it's still very hackney'ed and has this Joss Whedon-style eminence from it: in that it thinks it's more clever than the genre that it belongs to.
 
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Wes was the only reason that script ended up getting made. It was out there for a while and kept getting passed. There was revisionist history surrounding it as soon as it became a hit, but the first few go rounds, no one wanted it.
 
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Wes was the only reason that script ended up getting made. It was out there for a while and kept getting passed. There was revisionist history surrounding it as soon as it became a hit, but the first few go rounds, no one wanted it.
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I heard it was because Drew Barrymore was attached to it and that's what brought Wes into it and then everyone else.
 
Watched Hell House LLC tonight. It sucked.

Most of the actors are awful, the found footage schtick isn't used in any sort of creative or interesting way but instead goes into the whole "why the fuck are they still filming" area, and the escalation of the 'spookiness' is terrible -- it goes from strange things happening for 99% of the movie to a sudden massacre. I'm surprised it has above a 6.0 on IMDB... and even more surprised that it spawned a franchise.
 
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I finally watched Malignant (2021) last night. It is an insane trainwreck that is very entertaining in a schlock/so bad it's good kind of way. It's difficult NOT to see it as a comedy or self-aware parody and so far I have found no interviews or anything with anyone involved confirming whether or not it was intended to be funny.

The gore was fun but nothing makes any sense.

It reminded me a lot of Pieces but far less sleazy and way too much money was burned on screen. But I think Pieces was definitely self-aware.

 
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I tried watching Christmas Bloody Christmas on Shudder, but barely made it to the half hour mark. It had what might be the single most unlikeable protagonist I've ever seen, one of those where the writers think having a woman swearing constantly and talking about sex is a substitute for character. Not that I've got anything against sweating, but when you are doing it non-stop (just looked on IMDB and apparently it's an average of 5.6 times a minute) it becomes obnoxious and distracting. Then the first kill happened and you couldn't even see what was going on, so I turned it off.
 
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The Penultimate Warrior said:
I tried watching Christmas Bloody Christmas on Shudder, but barely made it to the half hour mark. It had what might be the single most unlikeable protagonist I've ever seen, one of those where the writers think having a woman swearing constantly and talking about sex is a substitute for character. Not that I've got anything against sweating, but when you are doing it non-stop (just looked on IMDB and apparently it's an average of 5.6 times a minute) it becomes obnoxious and distracting. Then the first kill happened and you couldn't even see what was going on, so I turned it off.
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The dialogue was so bad I actually fell asleep during the movie. The only thing worthwhile about this piece of shit was the trailer. Weakest "sex" scene ever had no tits. I can't even recall that any of the kills were memorable.
 
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The Penultimate Warrior said:
I tried watching Christmas Bloody Christmas on Shudder, but barely made it to the half hour mark. It had what might be the single most unlikeable protagonist I've ever seen, one of those where the writers think having a woman swearing constantly and talking about sex is a substitute for character. Not that I've got anything against sweating, but when you are doing it non-stop (just looked on IMDB and apparently it's an average of 5.6 times a minute) it becomes obnoxious and distracting. Then the first kill happened and you couldn't even see what was going on, so I turned it off.
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White Devil said:
The dialogue was so bad I actually fell asleep during the movie. The only thing worthwhile about this piece of shit was the trailer. Weakest "sex" scene ever had no tits. I can't even recall that any of the kills were memorable.
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I watched it (technically a 2nd time) with @Pop-Tart and @The Cunting Death and that was the only way I could get through it because the characters are so insufferable and it doesn't even have shocking or really inventive gore to go along with it. Most of the gore is kind of bad too like just above Halloween Store level.

So, in your face @Cistern Rumbler You hipster-loving cuck.
 
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BrunoMattei said:
I watched it (technically a 2nd time) with @Pop-Tart and @The Cunting Death and that was the only way I could get through it because the characters are so insufferable and it doesn't even have shocking or really inventive gore to go along with it. Most of the gore is kind of bad too like just above Halloween Store level.

So, in your face @Cistern Rumbler You hipster-loving cuck.
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@Cistern Rumbler Was right and redpilled cope, n sneed,
 
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Christmas Bloody Christmas is a total Reddit Millennial/Gen Z neckbeard soyface epic bacon kind of "horror" film, made by the sort of people who think depicting Santa Clauses not being very Santa-like AT ALL is boldly subversive. That ball really got rolling years ago with Gen X "creatives" who thought Santa Clauses behaving badly (which sometimes involved in EPIC scenes of hard drinking) was a stunning choice to make: it's all fake man, like, it's like, you know, commercialism, you know, man.

The main character is one of the most irritating ever conceived for any sort of film in general, much less a "horror" film. She owns a store that sells VHS and records, has "witty" pop culture conversations about Van Halen that are Gilmore Girls levels of intolerable, hates Christmas, and loves drinking whiskey.

I had similar feelings with Violent Night, except that was an epic reddit gold "many updoots to this movie" kind of action film, except I'm torn because I will grudgingly acknowledge I found the action courtesy of director Tommy Wirkola and the 87North crew actually pretty frenetic and well-done and David Harbour was game as "bad ass Santa" but it still reeks of Reddit "OMG what if Santa were not just a drunk but he used to be an epic awesomesauce Viking warrior?!?!!!!!!!!!!!! :insert gape-mouthed soyjack image here: That and I got tired of John Leguizamo a long time ago. Seeing him get killed onscreen helps, a bit.
 
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The Penultimate Warrior said:
I tried watching Christmas Bloody Christmas on Shudder, but barely made it to the half hour mark. It had what might be the single most unlikeable protagonist I've ever seen, one of those where the writers think having a woman swearing constantly and talking about sex is a substitute for character. Not that I've got anything against sweating, but when you are doing it non-stop (just looked on IMDB and apparently it's an average of 5.6 times a minute) it becomes obnoxious and distracting. Then the first kill happened and you couldn't even see what was going on, so I turned it off.
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God Damn it, I was hoping it would at least be bad in the entertaining way.
 
Commander X said:
Christmas Bloody Christmas is a total Reddit Millennial/Gen Z neckbeard soyface epic bacon kind of "horror" film, made by the sort of people who think depicting Santa Clauses not being very Santa-like AT ALL is boldly subversive. That ball really got rolling years ago with Gen X "creatives" who thought Santa Clauses behaving badly (which sometimes involved in EPIC scenes of hard drinking) was a stunning choice to make: it's all fake man, like, it's like, you know, commercialism, you know, man.

The main character is one of the most irritating ever conceived for any sort of film in general, much less a "horror" film. She owns a store that sells VHS and records, has "witty" pop culture conversations about Van Halen that are Gilmore Girls levels of intolerable, hates Christmas, and loves drinking whiskey.

I had similar feelings with Violent Night, except that was an epic reddit gold "many updoots to this movie" kind of action film, except I'm torn because I will grudgingly acknowledge I found the action courtesy of director Tommy Wirkola and the 87North crew actually pretty frenetic and well-done and David Harbour was game as "bad ass Santa" but it still reeks of Reddit "OMG what if Santa were not just a drunk but he used to be an epic awesomesauce Viking warrior?!?!!!!!!!!!!!! :insert gape-mouthed soyjack image here: That and I got tired of John Leguizamo a long time ago. Seeing him get killed onscreen helps, a bit.
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Jesus you sound like a killjoy faggot.
 
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