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XYZpdq Jr. said:
so what the hell was the deal with the end of Him?
I mean I think I mostly get the events leading up to it and the ending, but suddenly letting The Asylum guest-direct the CG for the big end thing was an odd stylistic decision which confuses me
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IMO the ending is meant to be mostly taken at face value. He confronts and kills the people exploiting him and other players, and turns his back on pursuing football. I thought the scene was really ugly though. Honestly I think the visuals as a whole were really uneven.
 
Big Miss Steak said:
IMO the ending is meant to be mostly taken at face value. He confronts and kills the people exploiting him and other players, and turns his back on pursuing football. I thought the scene was really ugly though. Honestly I think the visuals as a whole were really uneven.
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yeah I meant more the whole "yeah we _did_ have a good cinematographer, pretty much only competent guy on the crew, but he didn't like going out in the sun so we got some crackhead to handle the last scene. Seamless. Huh?"
 
XYZpdq Jr. said:
yeah I meant more the whole "yeah we _did_ have a good cinematographer, pretty much only competent guy on the crew, but he didn't like going out in the sun so we got some crackhead to handle the last scene. Seamless. Huh?"
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Oh yeah it's meant to contrast the bright sunny fanfare we expect with football and the evil things the team owners are doing but it just looks like dogshit
 
"Oh No! The portrait of God is real! It's trying to say something!" "nnnnniiiiiIIIIGGGGGGGGEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRR"
 

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The Cunting Death said:
Hot Take: Raimi is a great director but the movies he produces have mostly been shit.
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That said but I will forgive him any crimes against cinema for the original Evil Dead, an amazingly low budget film with laughable special/practical effects that somehow still managed to bring the horror. That movie somehow managed to scare the shit out of me while looking almost as bad as a rural haunted house.
 
AnOminous said:
That said but I will forgive him any crimes against cinema for the original Evil Dead, an amazingly low budget film with laughable special/practical effects that somehow still managed to bring the horror. That movie somehow managed to scare the shit out of me while looking almost as bad as a rural haunted house.
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And yet, the tree scene was Bruno’s first boner.
 
Internet War Criminal said:
I wasn’t trying to making a joke just spit out facts
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por que no los dos
when I correct people about the Pulse killer being just another murderous muzzie instead of somebody who got jilted/pozzed by a beaner, I make sure to point out how they scouted Disney World and recycle the "fucking Goofy" punchline from the Minnie and Mickey at the marriage counselor joke
 
2026 ‧ Horror/Comedy


Moments after surviving an all-out attack from the Le Domas family, Grace (Samara Weaving) discovers she’s reached the next level of the nightmarish game — and this time with her estranged sister Faith (Kathryn Newton) at her side. Grace has one chance to survive, keep her sister alive, and claim the High Seat of the Council that controls the world. Four rival families are hunting her for the throne, and whoever wins rules it all.

Directed by: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett

Written & Directed by: Guy Busick & R. Christopher Murphy

Produced by: Tripp Vinson, James Vanderbilt, William Sherak, Bradley J. Fischer

Cast: Samara Weaving, Kathryn Newton, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Shawn Hatosy, Néstor Carbonell, David Cronenberg, Elijah Wood, Kevin Durand, Olivia Cheng, Varun Saranga, Daniel Beirne
 
ihaveelbows said:
I'm actually enjoying the liberties theyre taking with IT in Derry. They've done Skarsgard's reveal as Pennywise. I still enjoy how they play off everyday 'horror' but attribute it to IT i.e. The atomic bomb, manufacturer preindustrial laws, racism etc.
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I was surprised to learn that there are only 2 episodes left. It feels like the plot has gone nowhere. The show has just sort of meandered along and it feels like it completely gave up on the military angle. Not like they could do much anyway considering it is still alive and well in the 80s.

At this point just go full bad ending and kill all the kids but Hanlon since he has to survivemto beget Mike.
 
Dragged Into Sunlight said:
Seeing this shit on the shelf at Blockbuster freaked me out as a little kid

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Now on to IT: Welcome to Derry

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"Danny, let me tell you about the time I helped the government try to take down an evil, child devouring interdemensional evil clown with my shine."

Oh my fucking god, I'm cracking up at the native women warrior bullshit. How fucking retarded. The elders and all the warriors are women. I need to go back and see if they had all of the men watching the children and sewing and cooking. What utter nonsense. This fucking show. All the white people are evil and all the blacks and natives are perfect and good.

The black suspect is of course fucking the white woman with the horrible evil slob white man who tells her to make him a steak please.

Oh, Matty showed up and was just Pennywise in disguise? No way, totally didn't see that coming immediately. Then Pennywise chases the kids in the sewers and he just stops so they can have an emotional scene with the black dad shooting the white guy that jumped in front of his gun instead of just pushing the barrel to the side.

And now we're dragging The Shining and Doctor Sleep directly into it with the mental box.

You know, there's a good show in here somewhere but it's just the constant deluge of CURRENT YEAR shoved into the show ruins it. Millennial writers that can't help but shoving their neurotic virtue signaling into it.
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I knew as soon as I saw this what to expect:

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Didn't even bother starting the series. Not sure a prime Michael Jordan could have handled this much fatigue.
 
I feel like Welcome to Derry blew its load too early. The show starts off with three characters we barely know getting killed off. After that it feels like nothing really happens. The show is already hamstrung by being a prequel, we know that most of this shit isn't going to matter. They could atleast try to make the horror series actually fucking scary. I like some of the scares as a concept, but the cgi is just terrible.
 
Welcome To Derry is one of those shows I can't say is good but not hating it and happy to spend an hour watching it every week. But never going rewatch.

Biggest issue I have is most of the scares is pennywise in what ever form running towards the screen, really lazy. Also would have been nice if they played more with the cold war fear with the kids, yet outside the first episode they never do.
 
I haven't even watched welcome to derry and don't intend to because if your pitch is " it's IT but it's a TV show" I'm immediately disinterested, you had nearly enough material from the book itself to make it some type of short TV specials but no you just had to write over existing material to try and extend the story. Kill yourself.
 
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