Mythopoeika
I am a meat popsicle
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Yeah. Sadly.Promises much, wastes 90 minutes of your life, delivers nothing.
Yeah. Sadly.Promises much, wastes 90 minutes of your life, delivers nothing.
Gallowwalkers
Oh my god. Wesley Snipes, western gun slinger, vampire like zombie things, looks good right?
Wow. Just awful. Director in his head had a number of scenes he wanted to film that looked stylish and had no idea how to write a plot that linked them together, the answer was of course, don't have a plot, people will think it's all arty and stuff.
Utter gash, stuff happens, more stuff happens, on two occasions characters stop and try and explain at length the whole of what has been happening for the last forty-five minutes to another character who wouldn't care, I knew the feeling I couldn't have given two shits by that point.
Snipes, if you weren't quite so hard I'd probably slap you for appearing in this tosh, as it is I'll just tut at you over the internet.
It is truly truly awful.Worth repeating my thoughts from last year on the matter....
The Mummy: Not as bad as the reviews suggest. A vein of humour runs through the film. This though results in the undead being funny rather than horrifying. There are Knights, lots of Knights Templar but they are all long dead, reanimated by the eponymous Mummy played by Sofia Boutella. Some really good scenes of skeletal Templars swimming underwater in pursuit of Tom Cruise the Tomb Raider soldier. Cruise has a dead sidekick who appears and gives him advice.
There is also Annabelle Wallis as an archaeologist and Russell Crowe as Dr Henry Jekyll (and Mr Hyde), Director of the Prodigium, a Fortean Institute which deals with the Paranormal/Supernatural but specialises in Monsters.
All of these elements don't quite gel together, hence I give it 6/10.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2345759/
I really like the one with Rachel weiiiiizzzzz and brendan what's his face
I prefer those too.I really like the one with Rachel weiiiiizzzzz and brendan what's his face
Well, he's going to open this years FrightFest, so that's ONE cinema showing!What does it take for a long running franchise character to get a cinema release these days? "Hi, I'm Chucky, wanna press play?"
Well, he's going to open this years FrightFest, so that's ONE cinema showing!
http://www.frightfest.co.uk/
http://www.itv.com/news/utv/update/...r-satanic-films-to-be-shown-in-former-church/Concerns have been raised over plans to screen horror films like The Exorcist and The Omen, branded “satanic” by a Belfast alderman, in a former church.
The Belfast Film Festival is set to show the chilling movies in the former Holy Rosary Catholic Church on the Ormeau Road in the south of the city.
The building has not been used as a church in almost 40 years, is no longer consecrated, and is to be turned into a restaurant in future.
Controversy over ‘satanic’ films showing in former church
I found the witchcraft business redundant in Jane Doe, but the theme of the slasher movie victim getting her revenge on a callous world literally post mortem was truly original and provocative. Well worth a look.
I thought it was like an American "Grudge", a normal person so horribly killed in the past that she was created into the very thing that those people feared.
I guess I had a different interpretation of that - I thought that she was a normal person accused of being a witch, and that the extremes used for the killing made her a demonic entity where there wasn't one before, perhaps as a subtext for today's world where international policies created out of a sense of fear or revenge in the recent past have made many of the profound problems of today. As a friend who is a Wiccan priest would say, the Burning Times can't be forgotten... but I didn't take Jane Doe in that way.Yes, that's a valid way of looking at it, but I'm not keen on the fictions that present the victims of the witch hunts as actual witches, because it deliberately or unintentionally justifies their murders (in a fictional context, but still...).