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I saw The Strangers Chapter 3 and my god it was shit

Like Chapter 2, it pretty much takes away any mystery as they go into the backstory of the killers. The young girl is just some girl who killed her boyfriend who hit on the pin-up girl without her mask.

Baghead is a soylennial chud who has corny dialogue like "she is the light to my darkness" and doing a whole "you're not so different" to the final girl and she responds with a maybe as though a girl killing to survive is the equivalent of killing people for fun.

Speaking of, the killers get away with killing because the sheriff is the dad of one of them, none of these killers have any supernatural properties so someone could have used their second amendment rights to dome these killers

There's also so many new characters who exist to die and the main girl keeps making the dumbest decisions possible.
 
Doctor of Autism said:
I saw The Strangers Chapter 3 and my god it was shit

Like Chapter 2, it pretty much takes away any mystery as they go into the backstory of the killers. The young girl is just some girl who killed her boyfriend who hit on the pin-up girl without her mask.

Baghead is a soylennial chud who has corny dialogue like "she is the light to my darkness" and doing a whole "you're not so different" to the final girl and she responds with a maybe as though a girl killing to survive is the equivalent of killing people for fun.

Speaking of, the killers get away with killing because the sheriff is the dad of one of them, none of these killers have any supernatural properties so someone could have used their second amendment rights to dome these killers

There's also so many new characters who exist to die and the main girl keeps making the dumbest decisions possible.
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From what I understand after the first one came out, and people hated it, Lionsgate ordered reshoots, which added backstory to the killers. Funny thing is first one of the movies did make profit, but other two flopped hard and even with the reshoots have reviewed worse.
 
Product Placement said:
From what I understand after the first one came out, and people hated it, Lionsgate ordered reshoots, which added backstory to the killers. Funny thing is first one of the movies did make profit, but other two flopped hard and even with the reshoots have reviewed worse.
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They really tried to capture everything of Prey At Night again? It wasn't even a lighting in a bottle kind of movie. All they need to capture is how fun it is, the bright lights of the setting despite it was taking place at nights, and both sides whittling each other down in constant action. No backstory needed, just put some breaks between the action for cooldowns and showing how much of a family both sides are. Simple.
 
I watched Everyone is Going to Die and it's pretty man-hating but a part of me likes the story more than most other films of that genre. I still think Go Away is my favorite home invasion movie but still a little bit of wasted potential.

A dad and his daughter Imogen have two masked wearing killers break into their mansion and torture them with games led by Comedy and Tragedy with Comedy taking the lead and Tragedy being quiet, subservient, and keeping her mask on for most of the film. The dad somewhat frequently gets the better of the intruders and is willing to die for his daughter but gets fucked over by plot. The twist is that Tragedy is Comedy's mother, Tragedy was raped by the father as teenagers and Comedy is also his daughter. The film ends with the dad killing Tragedy, about to kill Comedy but his daughter stands between them.

There's this large group of home invaders led by this guy in a Red Devil mask who want to play games, there's a ton of them and they seem fairly competent. They invade this home of this dysfunctional family who is meeting because the elderly mother has remarried a long time friend (Chuck) who saved her from a supernatural Jason Vorhees-esque killer the "Blueridge Butcher" when they were teenagers. Despite having a ton of characters the movie showcases a lot of them fairly well.
 
Doctor of Autism said:
I saw The Strangers Chapter 3 and my god it was shit

Like Chapter 2, it pretty much takes away any mystery as they go into the backstory of the killers. The young girl is just some girl who killed her boyfriend who hit on the pin-up girl without her mask.

Baghead is a soylennial chud who has corny dialogue like "she is the light to my darkness" and doing a whole "you're not so different" to the final girl and she responds with a maybe as though a girl killing to survive is the equivalent of killing people for fun.

Speaking of, the killers get away with killing because the sheriff is the dad of one of them, none of these killers have any supernatural properties so someone could have used their second amendment rights to dome these killers

There's also so many new characters who exist to die and the main girl keeps making the dumbest decisions possible.
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Who the fuck writes this, films this, and stamps their approval without once stopping to think my god this is embarrassing shit? How talentless of a hack do you have to be? Did the first one confuse execs and audiences so much that it simultaneously is beloved but also requires you fuck up everything that made it unique and interesting?
 
Brain Problems said:
Who the fuck writes this, films this, and stamps their approval without once stopping to think my god this is embarrassing shit? How talentless of a hack do you have to be? Did the first one confuse execs and audiences so much that it simultaneously is beloved but also requires you fuck up everything that made it unique and interesting?
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Out of touch, gay, Gen X, jewish men whose nephews just recently showed them how to use the google Gemini
 
Saw Speak No Evil and really liked it, well as much as you can like a movie like that.
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It's essentially just an exercise in boiling frogs and is either one of the most or least realistic horror movies ever. It feels specifically designed to invoke a "if I was in that situation I'd totally..." before you reflect on if you could actully stand up for yourself in that situation. The vast majority have more of a spine and survival instinct then those danes, I hope at least, but I do imagine this is pretty indicative of how people in real life get murdered, but that's just going off my gut. It does overplays it's hand to much at times like the shed of evidence and sleeping with the daughter but I guess Europeans are just that much of pansies.
It's doesn't reach near the heights of something like funny games but it definitely has something to say and says it well.
 
Watched It Ends the other night. It’s a pretty solid little movie that’s more of an allegorical/coming of age joint than a straight horror movie but I was pleasantly surprised by it over all.

I also tried watching Return to Silent Hill three separate times and couldn’t slog past the first 20 minutes or so, even once while drinking. It’s not bad enough to be entertaining and the changes made to the source material are so seemingly arbitrary and nonsensical it makes me think they made this thing to be a deliberate middle finger to fans of the game. It’s like a shitty movie you’d stumble upon FX in the middle of the day while laying on the couch sick with a fever.
 
You know, thinking back to The Shining by Kubrick, I don't think Stephen King's comments about why he hates it would really be all that noteworthy to me were it not for the fact that he tried to stick it to Kubrick via making that mini-series. Like, he decided to be like "I'll show everyone how awful Kubrick's version is and why I'm so right to hate it by writing the definitive take on my book that follows it to the letter! Then I'll get people to turn on the film and come to my side as intended!"

Given how awful it turned out, all he ended up doing was proving Kubrick right in terms of the changes he made.
 
LightDragonman1 said:
Given how awful it turned out, all he ended up doing was proving Kubrick right in terms of the changes he made.
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It's one of the few cases where the movie adaptation was much better than the original written work. Funny that another Stephen King adaptation is also like that: The Shawshank Redemption. Oh shit, Stand By Me too, come to think of it. And Misery. Hell, come to think of it, nearly every King movie adaptation is better than the original. I suppose The Stand is an exception.
 
AnOminous said:
It's one of the few cases where the movie adaptation was much better than the original written work. Funny that another Stephen King adaptation is also like that: The Shawshank Redemption. Oh shit, Stand By Me too, come to think of it. And Misery. Hell, come to think of it, nearly every King movie adaptation is better than the original. I suppose The Stand is an exception.
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I recently got around to watching The Mist, having managed to avoid spoilers all this time. Thought the ending was easily the best part, very unusual for Stephen King. Turns out it's not in the story and King didn't come up with it, so there you have it.

It did occur to me it would've ended exactly the same way if it were an episode of South Park or something. I can picture Stan/Randy going "awww godDAMMIT", then cut to end credits/theme
 
The Langoliers, The Dark Tower, and The Long Walk would disagree.

The list of King Novels vs Movies is so long a debate could go on for pages. Carrie, Cujo, Christine, Salem's Lot, Pet Cemetery, The Stand, The Mist, The Running Man, The Shining, IT, The Green Mile, Shawshank Redemption, Misery, Thinner, The Dead Zone, Needful Things, Dreamcatcher, Night Shift, Children of the Corn, and I'm tired of typing.
 
GrammaNazi said:
Cujo, Christine,
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Actually I'd agree on these. The original was better. And this is even though Christine was a really, really good movie. The novel was actually better.
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Salem's Lot
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The mini-series by Tobe Hooper was much better. That shit traumatized the fuck out of me when I was a kid to the point I always closed my curtains before I went to sleep because I was afraid of a vampire looking in at me on the second floor.
 
I'm late as fuck but I just saw 28 Years Later and holy shit it was trash. Boots, boots, boots. How bout I shove my boot up your ass Danny Boyle for making this shit. End rant.
 
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