Quite recently my Google TV decided that I should watch the 2019 short film slaughterbots.
I wonder if the film has acquired a new reading after the Jan 6 riots at the capitol.
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I have a vivid memory from my childhood of the scene where she is attacked by the dolls. I have seen it as an adult, and it does not hold up to the horror that I remember. And yet, somehow that is still the first thing I think of when I think of that movie.
I had a similar experience with this movie:
I have not re-watched it as an adult, but I suspect it does not hold up.
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Heartbeeps is certainly a flawed movie, but also surprisingly serious and touching.
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The Caller (1987)
Two-handed thriller with Malcolm McDowell and Madolyn Smith from Empire Pictures. She plays The Girl, who briefly travels through a deserted town to her remote house in the woods and gets ready for a friendâs visit. That evening The Caller (McDowell) arrives. His car has broken down and he asks to use her phone. This leads to a cat and mouse game between the two as they (and the audience) try to figure out just what is (and has been) going on.
Itâs no Sleuth, but still good fun, with especially good work from McDowell. Try to avoid spoilers beforehand.
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That did not go where I expected.
But McDowell is always awesome.
As a side note, I so want to find a bunch of bathtowels like they have in the movies: big enough to wrap around you, reach past the knees on a tall person and soft and fluffy. Even hotel ones donât pull that off.
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Today is the day to watch superb owls.
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#Tex Avery Colection : Tex Avery : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Supposedly all of Averyâs MGM cartoons. Great stuff!
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I mainly remember the later episodes. Itâs a totally different show early on with better lighting and no laugh track.
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This is excitingâŚ
Should be fun⌠Iâm not a gamer, but I got to say, The Last of Us sounds interesting, so the series sounds like a cool idea.
Also, who doesnât love Lady MormontâŚ
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Terminator 2.
Looks really nice in 4K.
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The last Terminator is so good. We enjoyed it a lot.
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Which one is the last?
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I havenât watched Lost since it ended. But this might be of interest.
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This review presents the case for the movie I wanted to see, instead of the movie I did see.
My meandering, spoiler-filled thoughts are below.
The concept is fine, if a bit cliche. The acting is good, even if Owen Wilson is cast against type. My biggest problem is that the movie seems more interested in making the reality ambiguous for both the characters and the viewer than making it coherent or internally consistent. For example, before we are even presented with the premise that the ugly world is a simulation, we see Wilsonâs wallet flicker as though it is a digital construct. This isnât something he sees, but is only there for the audience. Thatâs probably where this falls apart the most for me is that the story is told from his point of view the vast majority of the time, but then deviates from it often enough that it fails the narrative. The above wallet shot and other moments strongly indicate that the ugly world is a simulation, but then we have scenes that are from the perspective of his children in that simulation, which strongly suggests that it is in fact the real world. There seems to be plenty of evidence in the text of the film that both worlds are real, and it would seem that the director wants it to be ambiguous, but for me that only makes the story worse, as it seems to present the air of saying something important when theyâre actually saying nothing at all. A couple of minor nit-picks: At one point, a character in the idyllic world trots out the Turtles all the way down idea as though it is an original and novel thought, which I find indicative of the movieâs general faux-intellectualism. Second, the explanation for the economy in the idyllic world is that some super capitalist started mining asteroids or something and ended up with so much money that he decided to give everyone UBI. I think thatâs strong evidence that the idyllic world is actually the fake one, but I donât think the movie intended it to be read that way.
In short, itâs better than Braven.
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I forgot just how weird the plot gets â really I only remembered the scene where the band is âredecoratedâ and brainwashed.
Our oldest dog really seemed to like it.
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Coincidentally, I started watching this:
Iâm only a few episodes in, but it is bleak.
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Thatâs the kind of review one wants to see on the box label.
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The first segment of three:
2nd:
3rd:
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