I recently saw “Rampage” from 2009. Its basically a movie where a spree shooter is portrayed as the good guy/anti-hero. Several parts gave me that pit in your stomach, teeth gritting uncomfortable moment. I really hated it. Although I’m not surprised there are sequals I am disappointed and will not be watching them.
Thanks for the recommendation for Fried Barry, looks like a lot of fun. Much Appreciated! I haven’t watched anything out of South Africa for years. Not since Oats Studios which feels like a million years ago now.
Ah yes. The ‘Backlog’. I keep seeing films come up on Kodi or Jellfin that I would quite like to watch but there’s always a ‘but’. I don’t know quite when I started obsessively paying attention to exactly how long a film runs but probably somewhere around the same time I started asking myself: “Am I going to fall asleep after an hour?” and “Will I bother picking it up again tomorrow if I do?” Lee Cronin’s The Mummy almost fell by the wayside, saved only by the young woman playing the titular being (I thought) rather good (also is he trying for a Clive Barker thing or is just to avoid confusion with Tom Cruise’s The Mummy?)
Sometimes I even start films I know for a fact I am not going to watch just so I can sit there grumbling for fifteen minutes or so. In much the same way you might speculate over the existence of an especially egregious turd - “The size! the smell! Who would lay such a thing!?” The Bone Keeper is the most recent one I can remember the name of. Though there seems to be a recent glut of Loosely Lovecraft films that seem to be made of old dried up bits of Shoggoth shit.
I am quite enjoying Widow’s Bay though. Thirty five minutes, a monster of the week and it’s funny.
cool, i know nothing else from seff effriceh except District 9 (good) and Chappie (shit) so will check Oats, they’ve got stuff on youtube it looks like
film length opinion is 90 minutes is ideal, i read John Waters saying that about comedy before but it applies just as well to horror as far as i’m concerned and i watch little else (with extra broad definition of horror). if i watch something at home after dinner there’s a decent chance i’ll fall asleep regardless of quality - in fact if i’m enjoying it the probability increases and i’ll happily restart after. home setups have their insurmountable limits but there’s no such luxury in the cinema
loosely lovecraft is a neat way to put it but i think i’ve avoided the brunt of that - what i can think of off the top is mainly tv series, brand new cherry flavour (good), lovecraft county (didn’t get far), that one with newspaper delivery kids? the shorthand for films i would guess is that the poster is in a pinky purply colour (out of space)
will dl Widow’s Bay, i don’t have much patience for long series tv but always interested in horror comedy and if individual episodes are fun by themselves it suits me fine, i liked Welcome to Derry well enough on this basis