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Archive 81. Holy mind-fuck / 10

This is a trippy multi-layered thriller type thing where you question whether or not the characters are tethered to reality or sailing some other plane of existence right up until the end. So you got multi-dimensional shit, god/demon creatures, time travel(???), and interaction through video of all these different elements. It frames itself with a dude that's good at restoring videos, hired to restore tapes found after a fire in an old building. The deeper he gets into these tapes, the weirder shit gets.

This is one of the better newer shows we've seen in quite some time. I won't say it's totally unique, but it felt fresh enough to keep us guessing almost the whole way through. Not many things you can say that about anymore.

nightflameauto wrote:Archive 81. Holy mind-fuck / 10

This is a trippy multi-layered thriller type thing where you question whether or not the characters are tethered to reality or sailing some other plane of existence right up until the end. So you got multi-dimensional shit, god/demon creatures, time travel(???), and interaction through video of all these different elements. It frames itself with a dude that's good at restoring videos, hired to restore tapes found after a fire in an old building. The deeper he gets into these tapes, the weirder shit gets.

This is one of the better newer shows we've seen in quite some time. I won't say it's totally unique, but it felt fresh enough to keep us guessing almost the whole way through. Not many things you can say that about anymore.

Does this get better? We watched like 4 episodes or something. I liked the premise but it seemed like that thing where they could have condensed it down into 4 episodes and been just right versus doing the 8 or whatever they did. It's sitting in our queue ready to be finished but haven't mustered up the desire to do so.

nightflameauto wrote:Archive 81. Holy mind-fuck / 10

This is a trippy multi-layered thriller type thing where you question whether or not the characters are tethered to reality or sailing some other plane of existence right up until the end. So you got multi-dimensional shit, god/demon creatures, time travel(???), and interaction through video of all these different elements. It frames itself with a dude that's good at restoring videos, hired to restore tapes found after a fire in an old building. The deeper he gets into these tapes, the weirder shit gets.

This is one of the better newer shows we've seen in quite some time. I won't say it's totally unique, but it felt fresh enough to keep us guessing almost the whole way through. Not many things you can say that about anymore.

I felt it was very cliche and predictable. I struggled through it. The main actress was either just not a good actress or her direction was shit. The main guy I liked, but his role was pretty annoying. The story was pretty lame IMO. Some of it was kinda cool, but I couldn't jive with most of it. then some technical stuff, especially on the very last episode really pissed me off, but that was because I was focusing on it and left the story a while back in my head, because I just didn't care and I predicted it all an episode ago.

JiveTurkey wrote:

nightflameauto wrote:Archive 81. Holy mind-fuck / 10

This is a trippy multi-layered thriller type thing where you question whether or not the characters are tethered to reality or sailing some other plane of existence right up until the end. So you got multi-dimensional shit, god/demon creatures, time travel(???), and interaction through video of all these different elements. It frames itself with a dude that's good at restoring videos, hired to restore tapes found after a fire in an old building. The deeper he gets into these tapes, the weirder shit gets.

This is one of the better newer shows we've seen in quite some time. I won't say it's totally unique, but it felt fresh enough to keep us guessing almost the whole way through. Not many things you can say that about anymore.

Does this get better? We watched like 4 episodes or something. I liked the premise but it seemed like that thing where they could have condensed it down into 4 episodes and been just right versus doing the 8 or whatever they did. It's sitting in our queue ready to be finished but haven't mustered up the desire to do so.

Apparently I'm not a good judge of that.

I enjoyed it from the word go, but got sucked into the story of it right away. I'd say if you didn't dig the wind-up, you'd hate the final destination.

nightflameauto wrote:

JiveTurkey wrote:

nightflameauto wrote:Archive 81. Holy mind-fuck / 10

This is a trippy multi-layered thriller type thing where you question whether or not the characters are tethered to reality or sailing some other plane of existence right up until the end. So you got multi-dimensional shit, god/demon creatures, time travel(???), and interaction through video of all these different elements. It frames itself with a dude that's good at restoring videos, hired to restore tapes found after a fire in an old building. The deeper he gets into these tapes, the weirder shit gets.

This is one of the better newer shows we've seen in quite some time. I won't say it's totally unique, but it felt fresh enough to keep us guessing almost the whole way through. Not many things you can say that about anymore.

Does this get better? We watched like 4 episodes or something. I liked the premise but it seemed like that thing where they could have condensed it down into 4 episodes and been just right versus doing the 8 or whatever they did. It's sitting in our queue ready to be finished but haven't mustered up the desire to do so.

Apparently I'm not a good judge of that.

I enjoyed it from the word go, but got sucked into the story of it right away. I'd say if you didn't dig the wind-up, you'd hate the final destination.

Truth. I liked the Lovecraft vibe of the whole thing and the male lead was really good.

Yarbicus wrote:

nightflameauto wrote:

JiveTurkey wrote:

nightflameauto wrote:Archive 81. Holy mind-fuck / 10

This is a trippy multi-layered thriller type thing where you question whether or not the characters are tethered to reality or sailing some other plane of existence right up until the end. So you got multi-dimensional shit, god/demon creatures, time travel(???), and interaction through video of all these different elements. It frames itself with a dude that's good at restoring videos, hired to restore tapes found after a fire in an old building. The deeper he gets into these tapes, the weirder shit gets.

This is one of the better newer shows we've seen in quite some time. I won't say it's totally unique, but it felt fresh enough to keep us guessing almost the whole way through. Not many things you can say that about anymore.

Does this get better? We watched like 4 episodes or something. I liked the premise but it seemed like that thing where they could have condensed it down into 4 episodes and been just right versus doing the 8 or whatever they did. It's sitting in our queue ready to be finished but haven't mustered up the desire to do so.

Apparently I'm not a good judge of that.

I enjoyed it from the word go, but got sucked into the story of it right away. I'd say if you didn't dig the wind-up, you'd hate the final destination.

Truth. I liked the Lovecraft vibe of the whole thing and the male lead was really good.

For crap sake I could have swore I started this in the shows you watch thread. I think I may be losing my mind.

Watched The Deep House over the weekend. YT'r and his GF go diving to see this underwater house that was flooded years ago. Premise is usual modern era "vapid influencer social media BS" that I actually LOATHE but they do it in a way that keeps that stuff to a minimum and sticks to the story. Atmosphere is great and visuals aren't shakicam crap that usually plagues this stuff. Was good for a watch on a service I already pay for

I'll repeat DUNE was awesome !

Finnnnnalllllllllly finished up Nightmare Alley last night. Wish I would have done it in a single go but oh well. Good bit of noir. Little long for my taste but was actually pretty pleased. Cooper is a little robo-actor and whatsherfaces plastic face is super weird to look at. But overall it was very good I'd say. Ending was completely obvious but still gave me a good chuckle.

KIMI 6.5/10 Starts out slow but gets much better

Copshop. Gerard Butler (who has generally been terrible in most everything he's been in for the past 20 years) and Frank Grillo (who is generally 100x better than anything he is ever in for whatever reason) as criminals locked up and out to get one another in an isolated jail house in the middle of the desert. Kind of an Assault on Precinct 13 Lone Wolf edition vibe. Great sense of humor and script and overall much better than expected. 7.5/10.

JiveTurkey wrote:Copshop. Gerard Butler (who has generally been terrible in most everything he's been in for the past 20 years) and Frank Grillo (who is generally 100x better than anything he is ever in for whatever reason) as criminals locked up and out to get one another in an isolated jail house in the middle of the desert. Kind of an Assault on Precinct 13 Lone Wolf edition vibe. Great sense of humor and script and overall much better than expected. 7.5/10.

I watched this over the weekend too.... solid 7/10

Gold 2/10

Watched the newest Texas Chainsaw. Um; expectations were zero. I hate the original. We get it. Grimy 70s. You go go grindhouse. Ugh. Part 2 and the early 00's remake are my faves. I have never seen part 3 or that last Leatherface thing.

This was dumb in every way. Super gory and a quick watch. Pretty much exactly what I would want out of TCM.

JiveTurkey wrote:Watched the newest Texas Chainsaw. Um; expectations were zero. I hate the original. We get it. Grimy 70s. You go go grindhouse. Ugh. Part 2 and the early 00's remake are my faves. I have never seen part 3 or that last Leatherface thing.

This was dumb in every way. Super gory and a quick watch. Pretty much exactly what I would want out of TCM.

I like the original and part 2. Part 3 was awful. The reboots were awful. This Netflix reboot was a slap in the face to everything about TCM. It is the worse of all of them. There was literally nothing redeeming about it.

Watched Dunkirk again last night. It's still brilliant.

wanna know how to piss off the ladies?.... Put Tom Hardy in a movie and have his face covered through 99% of it. Between this movie and that Batman movie with Bane, Christopher Nolan is a huge troll

atrox wrote:

JiveTurkey wrote:Watched the newest Texas Chainsaw. Um; expectations were zero. I hate the original. We get it. Grimy 70s. You go go grindhouse. Ugh. Part 2 and the early 00's remake are my faves. I have never seen part 3 or that last Leatherface thing.

This was dumb in every way. Super gory and a quick watch. Pretty much exactly what I would want out of TCM.

I like the original and part 2. Part 3 was awful. The reboots were awful. This Netflix reboot was a slap in the face to everything about TCM. It is the worse of all of them. There was literally nothing redeeming about it.

Who watches the Texas Chainsaw Massacre for anything remotely "redeeming"? Leatherface sawing shallow people in half. What's not to like? The Jessica Biehl remake was the best of the bunch imo I also like The Hills Have Eyes remake over the original so who knows I don't view the original as any sort of sacred text.

JiveTurkey wrote:

atrox wrote:

JiveTurkey wrote:Watched the newest Texas Chainsaw. Um; expectations were zero. I hate the original. We get it. Grimy 70s. You go go grindhouse. Ugh. Part 2 and the early 00's remake are my faves. I have never seen part 3 or that last Leatherface thing.

This was dumb in every way. Super gory and a quick watch. Pretty much exactly what I would want out of TCM.

I like the original and part 2. Part 3 was awful. The reboots were awful. This Netflix reboot was a slap in the face to everything about TCM. It is the worse of all of them. There was literally nothing redeeming about it.

Who watches the Texas Chainsaw Massacre for anything remotely "redeeming"? Leatherface sawing shallow people in half. What's not to like? The Jessica Biehl remake was the best of the bunch imo I also like The Hills Have Eyes remake over the original so who knows I don't view the original as any sort of sacred text.

That's your take. The original is by no means a cinematic marvel (it's a low budget horror film), but it does hold a place in my heart. I really enjoy that movie.

My point with the Netflix one is, beyond intro, the after-credits scene and the tacked-on terrible story with Sally, it literally has no feel of a TCM movie. It's just another old story brought back with a social message. I'm all for social messages, but c'mon... A dude literally told leatherface "If you try anything, you're cancelled). All I'm saying is it was very bad even if you have no idea what TCM is even about.

the other movies at least tried.


and yes. The Hills Have Eye's remake was better than the original.

^I will agree with the fact that it could pretty much be any generic maniac wearing a (literal) facemask. That's probably where my lack of caring for that particular franchise comes into play. It just gave a recognizable face to the proceedings really if anything. The ape Laurie Strode equivalent storyline was unnecessary but that could describe the whole movie if we're not careful.

The social message for me fell on deaf ears., The message beyond the message; where every new horror movie (if it isn't "elevated") is some riff on "Oh look I'm 23 and a social media mogul let's go to a rave I'm sure I'll never die!" aka every direct to Hulu horror film ever it kind of bucked against. Or did it in a way I found pleasing

The Hills Have Eyes remake is awesome! The sequels vary from "OK, I get it" to completely disturbingly shit. But that first remake is killer.

The original was fine at the time, but after the remake it seems a shallow joke in a lot of ways.

nightflameauto wrote:The Hills Have Eyes remake is awesome! The sequels vary from "OK, I get it" to completely disturbingly shit. But that first remake is killer.

The original was fine at the time, but after the remake it seems a shallow joke in a lot of ways.

Yeah I have watched the original, original sequel and remake sequels. IIRC? Nothing to be excited about.

Gasoline Alley CHEESE/10

Ghost in the shell. 2017 w/ Scarlett I blew this one off for years because I was expecting trash but it was pretty cool actually
5/10 to be conservative and not get anyones hopes up

fretless wrote:Ghost in the shell. 2017 w/ Scarlett I blew this one off for years because I was expecting trash but it was pretty cool actually
5/10 to be conservative and not get anyones hopes up

Honestly the movie wasn't amazing but some of the shots have stuck in my head since I first saw it. The scene where she's ripping the top of the spider mech off and destroying her arms is so visceral

Yeah that was cool. The cyberpunk city stuff was super cool too.