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Toy Story 2 is literally the same film as 1 outside of a few instances. That's not a bad thing but 3 was leaps and bounds better than the first two in the series.

What made me maddest was the cast intro before the film where they thanked fans for their patience but said it took so long because the perfect story had to be found and the right people had to be put together. Yet after seeing the film, I was like, it took ten years to do that?! God, Craig T. Nelson coulda died in that period of time with out old he's looking, gotta strike when the iron is hot. I mean the only film I can remember having that kind of space was between Toy Story 2 and 3 but the animation was much more improved and the story was completely different. Hell Wreck it Ralph had a sequel in a shorter period of time and the animation looked completely overhauled from the first film.

I almost had Incredibles 2 on my honorable mention list but it is just a cookie cutter remake of the first with only a few changes here and there. That's not a bad thing but it's like Toy Story 2 in that it looks like they reused shots from the first film with just different characters put in place, and the fact that it took over a decade to get that just irked me a bit.

It depends on the movie for the remake for me. Many of the horror remakes for the big series like Friday the 13th, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, or The Hills Have Eyes have been enjoyable for me as they show reverence to the source films while also adding to the lore, but then you have those blatant crash grabs at lesser known films like My Bloody Valentine, When a Stranger Calls, Black Xmas, and others that either just replaced what made the original good with a gimmick like 3d or just over the top gore for the sake of it, though in a case like Black Xmas, it did try to add onto the the lore of the original to make it a meatier film. Then you have a case where they want to rush to a remake like when they were talking about doing an American Psycho remake less than a decade after the original, or remakes that completely lose the message of the original like Total Recall and Robocop.

So I just finished up my list for the DLM challenge with 601 films total (416 new) and unlike my 2016 list, I liked a lot of the new movies I saw this year, although the bad ones I saw were REALLY BAD, giving my overall movie rating 2.82 stars. So not only do I have a top 20, but also a short honorable mention and bottom 15. Top 20 (no order) Mom and Dad Who the Fuck is That Guy?: The Fabulous Journey of Michael Alago Game Night Ready Player One Avengers: Infinity War Deadpool 2 Hereditary Andre the Giant You Were Never Really Here Mission Impossible: Fallout Mandy Bad Times At the El Royale Halloween Widows Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Bandersnatch Slice You Might Be the Killer Mayhem Tragedy Girls Ralph Breaks the Internet Honorable Mentions 10 x 10 Hell House LLC 2 Ghost Stories Strad Style Sicario: Day of the Soldato Bottom 15 Josie Pacific Rim: Uprising The Happytime Murders The Square Goosebumps 2 Tales From the Hood 2 The Toybox Let's Not Meet Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind Tomb Raider All the Creatures Were Stirring Skyscraper Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle How It Ends Tau

I remember hearing about this earlier last year and it kinda makes sense from a logistical standpoint as the original had mediocre reviews and box office, only becoming a cult hit after being the inspiration for a bunch of other things in the horror genre. So to remake a film that had a genre impact, but wasn't a huge hit works for the horror fan in me than something like the countless remakes of big hits or recent hits that studios have been churning out.

Very much so, god can the Houser brothers write amazing epics. As for my western recommendations, here are just a few off the top of my head that are fantastic: Bone Tomahawk The Proposition I also consider Hell or High Water as a modern western.

This movie has had some off the wall analysis, there was an article I saw that I'm thinking was satire but the author isn't playing it like it is, that says it's about white people hiding their eyes from racism, but the examples he pulls are literally grasps at straws.

For sure. I did like this movie and what it was doing, and felt that it handled the idea of going through the world blind wasn't done wily nilly or in some hokey way. I wish the bit about the psychos was a bit more explained, though I guess that was the same for the book. I will say I was hooked with the opening societal breakdown scene, which if a movie can do that well I can usually stick through the rest of it, and that includes movies that turn to utter shit like The Happening and Cell.

The author wrote the rough draft of the book unfortunately the same year The Happening came out and was upset of the similar premise, feeling it would be seen as a copy, so it came out a few years later after some polishing, but the gist of it was written well before A Quiet Place. It seems like Netflix released it solely in an attempt to not come off as a copy since it's literally months apart, so it is just an unfortunate coincidence that similar premise films were filmed around the same time, sort of like when Dredd and The Raid were released around the same time. I feel it would have been worse for them to release it later next year as it would clearly look like an attempt at copying.

Just a quick FYI that has nothing to do with this shitty movie, Zouks is getting more shout outs in the comic book world, and not just for Heynong Man. The constant talk of Jacob's Ladder situations has been used as a call out in one of the newest issues of Batman.

Talk about a great Christmas surprise seeing this in my Youtube feed.

This was odd in that if I recall, the guy who already lived to excess was unaffected by the drug that took away your limitations and the ending was meant to be

Holiday In Handcuffs None

2 appearances: Ron Underwood - The Adventures of Pluto Nash, Holiday In Handcuffs

So is no one going to mention that this is kind of a gender swap of Buffalo '66 with Vincent Gallo and Christina Ricci? While it's not as dark as that film, you still have a person being made under duress to pose as the significant other of their captor in order to please that captor's family. Also in regards to St. Clair's declaration for either "none of the hair or all of the hair." I think I've found her ideal candidates: Noho Hank from Barry and Ron Jeremy

I was interested in seeing this as the books are pretty well regarded, and it's a somewhat interesting premise, but boy does this seem like another in an increasingly long line of YA film adaptations that missed the soul of piece being adapted. Yet I'm a glutton for punishment and I'm sure I can get a theater to myself if I see this before it's out of theaters in a week or two. Also, the estimated loss for this has now jumped to $150 million.

Most movies, with exceptions, will at least break even with all of the home viewing options there are now for movies, what's more shocking is a movie with two big names like Willis and Berry made that little amount. The rule of thumb with box office is basically to break even a movie needs to make double its budget at the box office, unless it's a major tentpole movie, in which case it needs to be 2.5-3 times the budget to break even, because the marketing is on a more massive scale. So while Batman Vs. Superman made almost $900 million at the box office against a $250 million dollar budget, it only barely broke even as the promotion for that movie was everywhere on a constant run, leading to a bigger need from the box office to get out of the red.

There really needs to be a site similar to the Kevin Bacon six degrees site that can search through the IMDBs of the HDTGM films to compare and see the various shared names.

So if Ribisi did this during Perfect Stranger, That it would have been a better movie?

Having finished this now, as it's taken a few runs I wholeheartedly feel this has to be covered, because not only does this movie begin and end with Travolta as Gotti breaking the fourth wall and preparing the viewer for him narrating his life story, this ends with a closing title card about how the government was basically railroading Gotti and his son by using criminals as their witnesses in exchange for lighter sentences, the movie leaving out that those guys were doing most, if not, all of that on the orders of Gotti. I can't remember for the life of me where a biopic acknowledges the subject is a criminal psycho, but also a misunderstood good guy.

Holy shit I've started watching this on Prime and it needs to be covered, if only for the fact that Gotti is portrayed as a kind, man of the people in the film. Surprisingly, the movie is actually pretty good with historical events, but it is bogged down in over the top acting and the fact that Travolta either has an uber thick Long Island accent or just his normal voice depending on his mood, then you have the actor playing his son, who has zero accent. There are also some odd historical things like during a block party in the 80s having a song from Pitbull playing and one of Gotti's longtime friends had a falling out with him due to him being caught on wiretap by the feds, but in the film it's shown as it was because of an unsanctioned and failed hit on a rival. It's weird that a movie that does so much to be historically accurate, can make such a blatant mistake.

So I know I might be a bit late since the movie has been out for three weeks, but I cannot recommend Ralph Breaks the Internet high enough, it is absolutely incredible. It actually surpasses the original in how it breaks down tropes and pop culture and the animation looks great and an improvement after 6 years, which was a shock considering most animated sequels these days seem to just stay at the same level with their look despite being many years apart *cough* Incredibles 2 *cough*. Yet what made this an utterly great movie was the surprise cameo that I would never have expected in a Disney film.

You would have to argue it down to manslaughter to even get to the statute of limitations, because if they had a witness and a body, you can bet a prosecutor is going for a full tilt murder charge. But it doesn't make sense that Halle was giving into the blackmail years after the deed was done, her mom was hospitalized, she knows a bit more about the world, why not just call Grace on her bluff?

Correction: It wasn't just because the gay lover of the Senator clammed up that the story was killed by Halle's editor, he was also a supporter of the senator and killed the story, and then has her take a forced vacation for the heat to die down on the story. Yet it's not like Halle couldn't just put that story in a blog post or anything, especially when this movie was one of the first films to use an interactive marketing campaign that featured fully running blog and Youtube pages for the characters of Rowena, Grace, Mrs. Hill, especially as Rowena was using a pen name for her work at the paper, which not only seem like she got a huge scoop as a unknown reporter. As for the alternate endings that were shot, I could find nothing as to who was revealed as the killers in them. I assume Hill was actually the killer in one and then Miles maybe as he was shown to have had a relationship with Grace, but there is no confirmation one way or another. One written ending that was confirmed was that had Miles apparently successful in blackmailing Rowena, though I have to assume that was just too much of a bummer ending. Also in reference to the phrase "Show me a hot woman and I'll show you a man who's tired of sleeping with her," is crasser version of "the grass is always greener" where you see something or someone and wish that was in your life, but for the person who already has that in it, it's old hat and they are maybe looking at you and want what you have.