What are we watching now?

[Spaced Out Ace]

I have been watching Svengoolie on the DVR this week.

(Edit)

Sunday - Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Monday - Kolchak: The Night Strangler
Tuesday - Trilogy of Terror
Wednesday - Killer Klowns From Outer Space
Thursday - 13 Ghosts (1960)
Friday - The Raven (since Joe Bob is hosting a Last Drive In honoring Roger Corman tomorrow)

 

[gearJunkie]

Thursday - 13 Ghosts (1960)

I didn't know that "Thir13 Ghosts" (2001) was a remake. Now I must see the original.

 

[unix-guy]

SoaceX Fakcon 9

Took me a few reads to figure out WTF you were trying to say there :)

SpaceX Falcon 9

 

[gearJunkie]

Took me a few reads to figure out WTF you were trying to say there :)

SpaceX Falcon 9

damn fat fingers!

 

[Jynx]

 

[Red Solo Cup]

Outlaws and Angels (2016) ⭐ 5.4 | Action, Thriller, Western

2h | R

www.imdb.com

 

[Spaced Out Ace]

I didn't know that "Thir13 Ghosts" (2001) was a remake. Now I must see the original.

It's from William Castle, whom I believe also did House on Haunted Hill.

 

[Spaced Out Ace]

Lmfao just fucking no. It was eyerollingly awful when Jason Momoa was tied to this shitfest. Whomever this doofus is makes this look worse than any of the straight to Sci Fi sequels they did. Yuck.

 

[JiveTurkey]

Hot take, I realize; but I think the original Crow sucked. So a remake (especially one looking like that) isn't going to change my mind in the slightest.

 

[Jynx]

Lmfao just fucking no. It was eyerollingly awful when Jason Momoa was tied to this shitfest. Whomever this doofus is makes this look worse than any of the straight to Sci Fi sequels they did. Yuck.

What is even going to be the soundtrack to this? Bullet for My Valentine, Imagine Dragons, and Sleep Token? The Crow is so of its time this remake is absurd.

 

[Spaced Out Ace]

What is even going to be the soundtrack to this? Bullet for My Valentine, Imagine Dragons, and Sleep Token? The Crow is so of its time this remake is absurd.

Watch they attempt to do 80s goth like Siouxsie, Cure, etc. Lmao

 

[JiveTurkey]

Watch they attempt to do 80s goth like Siouxsie, Cure, etc. Lmao

It will most definitely have an normally upbeat 80s song slowed down 4x and sang with some breathless junkie vocal.

 

[Spaced Out Ace]

It will most definitely have an normally upbeat 80s song slowed down 4x and sang with some breathless junkie vocal.

That faux neo jazz pop girl cover song wank that gets used these days is obnoxiously bad. Whoever started it should have to step on a room full of small Legos.

 

[laxu]

God damn this looks terrible.

It doesn't help that the trailer has that flegmatic autotune bullshit for a soundtrack. Only reggaeton is worse!

I have fond memories of the 1994 The Crow, but I haven't seen it in ages and was an edgy teen in the 1990s so it probably resonated more than it would today when I'm in my early 40s.

 

[Jynx]

More like Irish From Wish. Amiright?



Ok. I didn't actually watch this but it's getting absolutely ridiculed here in Ireland today by the media and on our socials.

 

[la szum]

You know Hollywood ran out of compelling movie ideas decades ago
when they are remaking movies from decades ago that were awful
decades ago.

 

[JiveTurkey]

You know Hollywood ran out of compelling movie ideas decades ago,
when they are remaking awful movies now from decades ago that were
awful back then.

 

[la szum]

About due for an entire remake of the Twilight Series, aren't we?

 

[spawnofthesith]

Yes please. I fuckin love the twilight zone and all the remakes. No shame

 

[laxu]

You know Hollywood ran out of compelling movie ideas decades ago
when they are remaking movies from decades ago that were awful
decades ago.

It's more like that the executives running the show are hedging on safe bets. Remaking a movie gen X and early millenials liked (even moderately) is a sure way to get some asses in seats, so is sequel X to a franchise.

What these execs don't seem to understand is that you don't get new lucrative franchises without taking risks. Then when they do pick something new, there seems to be incompetence all around:

• Super predictable plot lines any regular movie viewer can guess within the first 15 minutes. It's so by-the-numbers that it's annoying.
• Dialogue that sucks. Again super tropey stuff.
• If it's based on a book series, changes to the source material where none was needed. Altered Carbon and The Witcher are good examples. Especially AC is terrible because they just added extra drama that it never needed, then shoehorned two books together when they work perfectly well as standalone material.
• Spending all your money on an all star cast, then not having a script that makes good use of them. Kingsman: The Golden Circle is a great example, it's a terrible movie with a lot of big name actors basically there for a paycheck.
• The usual marketing that basically shows the whole movie in a trailer. I don't see much need to see The Crow after that trailer, I can fill in everything that happens between the cuts.
• Following stupid trends. Vomit inducing shakycam, nanosecond cuts to different camera angles, those slowed down cover songs.
• Studio meddling where changes are made to appease focus groups or producers thinking they know better.

It's frankly amazing that actually good movies/TV still get made. Now I'm not some moviegoer who only goes to see art films, I enjoy a good blockbuster movie just fine, but I'd still like the bar to be higher. Most of the actual good stuff is in TV series these days.