I saw a few movies recently. Notably, We Bury Our Dead starring Daisy Ridley. (Yeah, THAT Daisy Ridley) Overall, it's an okay movie that has a pretty unique premise but it's relatively harmless. Daisy can be stiff at times but she manages to hit the notes she really has to and overall is passable. It'd probably be a better movie with any other actress, but that's neither here nor there. However, the plot does have a lot in common 28 Years Later and is structured similarly, or at least the movie is written in a way that reminds me of it. You know what I realized after seeing this movie? I actually like the Daisy Ridley movie better.
28 Years Later kind of fucking sucks outside of the first 15 minutes. I think 28 YL is an objectively bad movie. It's an unfocused mess that's riddled with mind bogglingly stupid plot holes and baffling choices. It does so many things that make me ask "Why did you even put this on screen?!" and characters have the survival instincts of lemmings. Come the final few minutes it also becomes incredibly self-indulgent and preachy to a point of parody. Momento mori my fucking ass.
So, what did I think of Boner Temple? This wins and it's not even a contest. I wasn't even going to see this movie because I hated 28YL so much, however reviewers said it was better and I'm a glutton for punishment. The movie is a lot more shrunken down in terms of scale. The script is also a lot simpler and thus more focused. Characters are everything and this is a character driven movie so it clears 28YL as the superior movie by such a wide margin it's not even funny. The bad part, without any spoilers, is that the movie is almost too far removed from the premise of 28 Days Later. I found myself wondering afterwards about what the point of this franchise even is anymore. It feels like we're spinning wheels and just pumping out content that really should've just been left the hell alone. There's almost no point to it at all and since there is no real cliffhanger, it's hard to care about a third entry. It's slowly morphing into the Walking Dead where the zombies become less and less of a conflict to the point they get reduced to background noise. It also doesn't help that the parts of the plot that do talk about the zombies are also trying to slowly move away from them. It's a decent flick, but it ultimately does feel like we're hitting the point of Flanderization and a 3rd entry will have the uphill battle of somehow combating this.
I also saw Primate. Dumb deaf ass hole decides to have a pet chimp. Consequences of owning a chimp ensue. If you want to see a monkey do monkey stuff and people act retarded, it's a thing that exists.
Watching JLongbone's
video on the original and latest remake of Silent Night Deadly Night shows just how far slashers have fallen.
I also saw this trash. Fuck this movie. I'm not spoilering anything. You've been warned.
This movie was made by a bunch of leftist shills who tried to recreate the magic of "GARBAGE DAY!" by doing their wish fulfilment fantasy of killing Nazis. No, I am not joking. This small town actually harbors a large population of Neo Nazis who are heckin' Hail Hitlering for no damn reason and the directors coom themselves over them getting hacked apart with an axe. They shoot it as if it's the most epic thing ever with a big "KILL. NAZIS." text that gets slapped on screen. The real bad guy though was a huwhite cop trafficking children all along. Then they kill our protagonist at the end and put a chick in it and probably make her gay if this made enough for a sequel.
Fuck this movie. If it weren't for the fact I Know What You Did Last Summer 2025 exists, this would be the worst remake of the year.
The only way not to have these responses is to ignore everything made after 2016. It's surprisingly easy to do. You might miss 5 masterpieces in the muck but discover 50 others in return.
