I think it was Season 4 when the original lead actress left and they pivoted to the side character being the lead. She wasn’t really as compelling and the story lines got a lot more formulaic. I stopped watching. But it had a good premise so I could see it getting back on track.
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You’re right, the ephemeral characters do vary in interest. The ones that have been in all the series are interesting enough for us – as well as the plots, and the change in society shown between 1958 and 1969.
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The movie is entirely forgettable. But it is interesting for one point — it gives us a glimpse inside Iran just before the revolution. Something apparently of which the Rifftrax people were unaware.
If you have a sharp eye you can see portraits of the Shah and Shahbanu in the background of one scene.
This is the penultimate film of prolific actress Pouri Banayi. After the revolution she just stopped working. You can see her hair in this movie.
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I watched this last night, lol.
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This may be the most gloriously stupid movie I’ve seen all year.
Highly recommended if you like schlock horror.
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I think I saw this as a kid, but I really didn’t remember any of it other than the opening scene. It was a pretty fun horror movie that might not always make sense. But if you think of it as running on nightmare logic, where the people have to do the things that they do, then it works well enough to make a decent Halloween season movie.
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LOVED that movie. especially loved the flying dagger sphere things! THOCK to your skull!
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I’m watching “X-Men: Apocalypse”, and after watching DoFP, I’ve developed a mom-crush on Evan Peters.
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Tonight I decided to take a break from Halloween season horror movies and throw on a comedy instead. I thought this would probably just be light casual lowbrow jokes strung together or whatever, and I wasn’t expecting much. But I underestimated.
It was both a good movie (in terms of plot and characters and stuff) that fit the buddy cop genre well while also being really funny. Made me actually laugh out loud.
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We’re getting ready to start Cobra Kai, so my daughter and I re-watched the Karate Kid trilogy. I had no memory of the 2nd movie and I’m pretty sure I didn’t make it to 3 before. But I gather Cobra Kai picks up on plot points and characters in all the movies.
There is a 4 with Hillary Swank but 3 was so bad that I couldn’t do another.
The first movie still snaps. The dialogue between Ralph Maccio and Pat Morita is so brilliant. They are a great comic pairing. And all the Japanese stuff - the bonsai, the gardens, the chopsticks, it just took me back to the 80s when everything Japan was new and exciting.
2nd was surprisingly good. They didn’t just rehash the old movie, but took the whole thing to a new location (Okinawa) and had some good back story stuff on Mr. Miyagi. The script was really good and they introduced some new fun elements that meshed with the OG story.
The 3rd was terrible. I read that Ralph Maccio was terrible on set because he didn’t feel the script was right. And he was so right. They didn’t even attempt to fit it into anything previously known about the characters. Apparently Mr. Miyagi had a life long dream of owning a bonsai shop - which literally never came up in the previous movies, but was the main, really dumb plot point. They had the right cast; I thought the actors and martial arts were all good, but you could tell that everyone was phoning it in. The dialogue didn’t have the snap and fun of the first 2. The villain is the only person worth watching and he did a good job of being over the top.
So now on to Cobra Kai! Hiya!
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Cobra Kai really ties all the main themes of the movies together. Clever plotting gets every old character back into it. I’m surprised at who they got to come back and how much scenery chewing goes on. It’s really fun.
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Just started watching it. It is so damn funny. I am excited to dig into it more.
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I recently binged all of The Blacklist. I love me that scenery-chewing and watching Ultron chew up bad guys is really fun. But 9 goddamned seasons of campy procedural always breaks my brain a little bit.
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I watched a horror double feature the last couple of nights.
The first movie, X, is set in the 1970s, with 70s music, 70s style filming and everything. Including a typical 70s slasher plot.
A half dozen 20-somethings rent a cabin out on a farm in the middle of nowhere to make their porno movie. The elderly people that live on the farm and rented them the cabin aren’t too happy about it. Or are they? Then the murders start.
Overall it’s a decent movie (well, it’s about porn and murder, but decent in the movie sense) that captures that classic late 70s feel.
The last scene has a couple of notable meta-twists. One of which I won’t even spoiler. As for the other, the elderly lady says “You’ll turn out the same way I did, you’re just like me!” and the girl says “I’ll never be like you! I’m nothing like you!” and then the credits roll and you see that the same actress played both parts.
Then comes the next one - the prequel. This is about the life of the little old lady from X, back when she was young in 1918. Played by the same actress, and on the same set. It’s a very different style, with orchestral music and oversaturated colors to give a sort of dreamy/memory/Wizard of Oz feel.
It’s more intense with the drama and character development, and I think does a really good job with that. The crazy seems really crazy, not arbitrary and not without foreshadowing. So when the murders start, they flow naturally from the character and circumstances.
It’s a better movie overall, but the way the two link together yet have such different styles makes it especially good if you can watch both as a double-feature.
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Agreed. Both of them are remarkable movies. Even if they aren’t doing anything particularly new, they’re doing with a craft and attention to detail that is worth seeing. Also, they’re making a third movie:
It’s set in the 80s, so it should get a different style which should be a lot of fun.
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I’ve more than a passing interest in films of the mid-to-late 1960s that try so hard to reconcile Golden-agers with Swinging-hipsters.
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How many people, in show-biz or not, have turned/do turn to alcohol and narcotics because they couldn’t/can’t fully express to the world who they really are? How many folks have/will kill themselves because they can’t be accepted for who they were/are? All because they don’t fit the regimented requirement to be heterosexual and to act heterosexual. I think Mr. Bowers was an angel on earth.
https://tubitv.com/movies/681616/scotty-and-the-secret-history-of-hollywood?start=true
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