Last Seen Contemporary Movie

[Ferox13]

Originally Posted by FryeDwight

BRIDE OF CHUCKY (1998). Pretty silly, but quite fun . Brad Dourif was dead on as usual and thought Jennifer Tilly quite good and quite hot. ***1/2

This is my favourite of the series.

[Sculpt]

Willard (2003)
4/10

A young man with an unusual connection to rats uses them at his own sociopathic will.

Where to begin? Let's start with the good: Crispin Glover was born to play Willard. In fact, when anyone said, "remake of Willard staring Crispin Glover", thousands of palms struck foreheads with the gleeful chorus of, "Yes, of course!" And Crispin did a fine job (for which he was nominated for Best Actor at the 2004 Saturn Awards), in spite of a woeful script, that was a horrible disservice to the mysterious perfect meeting of actor and role.

Also very good was the near exclusive use of live rats, that were seamlessly integrated with CGI rat effects where necessary. The film was well funded (20 million), with effective cinematography and all-around production value.

Unfortunately, the script was aimless, heartless, confusing, horrorless and humorless, and lacking in suspense. The film was written and directed by Glen Morgan.

The film should have been written and directed by Rob Reiner (Misery) or David Cronenberg (The Fly). Brian De Palma (Carrie) would be an excellent choice for a suspense director, but would have written something much too perverted for an appropriate PG-13 Willard.

The beginning of Willard almost seemed to be in the graphic novel genre, a genre that can be lofty, where it paints with rich symbolism, and lets smart viewers fill in the inferences. But I quickly realized Willard was lofty in the sense that it didn't want to present anything in a definitive or strong manner. I don't think the script was set with any clear goals of what kind of film it was trying to be.

I couldn't tell if Willard understood the morals that he would break, or if he was ever insane or not. I couldn't tell if Willard's boss, Frank (R. Lee Ermey), loved or hated him. We see Frank meet with Willard's lawyer, concerning the plot-line of Willard selling his house to Frank, but I couldn't tell if there was evil collusion or not. I couldn't tell if co-worker Cathryn (Laura Elena Harring) had a bizarre pity obsession with Willard, or whether Cathryn or Willard had any love interest what-so-ever.

I don't know why Willard did many of the things he did. I'd have to go into spoilers to specify. For those who've already seen Willard, I'll ask you one spoiler question here below in white text. I'd love a reply if you know the answer: Why did Willard kill most of his rats?

[Amalthea_unicorn]

Fargo

[darkdetective]

Jason Bourne
Pretty good movie. Great sequel. Not as good as Matt Damon's other Bourne movies but still good. Loved the addition of the beautiful Alicia Vikander who was in Ex Machina. 4/5

Ghostbusters
It was OK. I laughed a few times but felt like the movie was just average. Nowhere near as bad or as good as certain groups of people claim. I thought Kate McKinnon was great in it. 3/5

[favabeans]

Final Destination 3

It's hard to decide between Scream and Final Destination as being my favourite horror series/franchise - the first Scream is much better than any Final Destination movie, but I enjoy the FD sequels to the Scream sequels. Anyhow, I love this film. I think the whole FD series is underrated, you just gotta learn not to take it too seriously. 10/10.

[TheBossInTheWall]

Zero Theorem. 8/10

[Sculpt]

Originally Posted by favabeans

Final Destination 3

It's hard to decide between Scream and Final Destination as being my favourite horror series/franchise - the first Scream is much better than any Final Destination movie, but I enjoy the FD sequels to the Scream sequels. Anyhow, I love this film. I think the whole FD series is underrated, you just gotta learn not to take it too seriously. 10/10.

Ya, Scream relayed horror movie tropes as an integral part of the film. A sequel is counter-intuitive. It's like wanting to watch alternate takes of the same film, as a whole 90 min film, after you saw the first.

Speaking of Glen Morgan... Final Destination 3 = 10/10? I'm going to have to check it out. I was impressed with the direction and production value of the first. Which Final Destination had a semi speeding toward someone in the middle of the highway crawling out their car? I saw that in a preview.

[Baron Von Marlon]

The Nice Guys (2016)
A/B
This was fun. Bit like a less serious Lethal Weapon set in the 70's.
My kinda humour.

Perrier's Bounty (2009)
B+
Irish crime/comedy starring Cillian Murphy, Brendan Gleeson and 3 actors from Game Of Thrones: Stannis, Bolton and a Night's Watch fella. And other familiar faces.
Good stuff...

Adam And Paul (2004)
B
Drama/comedy about a day in the life of two Dublin junkies.

Originally Posted by Sculpt

Speaking of Glen Morgan... Final Destination 3 = 10/10? I'm going to have to check it out. I was impressed with the direction and production value of the first. Which Final Destination had a semi speeding toward someone in the middle of the highway crawling out their car? I saw that in a preview.

Just watch 'em all. Some are to be taken less serious but there all good entertainment. And the kills make it all worth.
I wouldn't mind more sequels as long as they switch up the locations.

[RadicalThrasher]

Werewolf: The Beast Among Us (2012) - 4/10

[Angra]

Originally Posted by Baron Von Marlon

Just watch 'em all. Some are to be taken less serious but there all good entertainment. And the kills make it all worth.
I wouldn't mind more sequels as long as they switch up the locations.

Totally agree.