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Funny no one mentions the tweeter was Warren Ellis.
I don’t know who that is.
Funny no one mentions the tweeter was Warren Ellis.
He's a comic book writer known for Transmetropolitan.I don’t know who that is.
That's too bad. He's canceled now anyway.I don’t know who that is.
I generally can't remember the main storyline for Doomsday even though I've watched it repeatedly, but I sure as hell know the setpieces and I never get bored of it.He's a comic book writer known for Transmetropolitan.
Doomsday- A mess but a damn fun one. A mix between Escape from New York, Mad Max and Mission Impossible set in near future Scotland. A group of military specialists need to retrieve a vaccine in order stop a worldwide human extinction. The vaccine is in Scotland which is basically a walled off wasteland filled with murderous cannibalistic waring gangs. It's all pretty ridiculous and easily could have come off as total schlock on the level of the Resident Evil movies. Thankfully Neil Marshall makes it all work for the most part and even when it doesn't work it's so fast paced and crazy it really doesn't matter.
Another sad commentary. Kind of like how those first two Arkham games were the best representation of Batman and his world for a good long while.Honestly the PS4 game is the best Spiderman thing in years aside from Spiderverse.
It's also a testament to the quality of the game but I get what you're saying.Another sad commentary. Kind of like how those first two Arkham games were the best representation of Batman and his world for a good long while.
Do you know if this one ever came to Steam?Honestly the PS4 game is the best Spiderman thing in years aside from Spiderverse.
Do you know if this one ever came to Steam?
Agreed - this is a good one. Nice and short too.Prospect. This was really good. A super low budget science fiction movie, but every dollar is on the screen and used to great effect. First feature film by two guys out of film school who both wrote and both directed the movie, like the Coen brothers do. Super strong debut.
Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Mehness- Every time I watch one of these I'm reminded why I skipped the previous handful. I'm glad Sam Raimi got to put a bit of his flair on this but aside from that it's yet another forgettable assembly line Marvel movie that I'll likely never think about again. I didn't watch Wanda-vision so I didn't give two shits about her kids, America seems like she was created just for this movie and Rachel McAdams is beyond blah. Same problems as all these movies, by trying to please everyone they end up with just another piece of bland disposable junk in a long line of disposable junk. Even worse is that unless you've seen all the movies and shows you won't know half of what's going on. Disney is so adverse to risk that we'll never get lower budget smaller one offs where there's more room for taking chances, which is what the genre desperately needs.
Also all the magic has zero impact behind it, it's almost as bad as the dozen heroes vs. a faceless clone cgi army or world ending space laser nonsense. At least this had a lot of Raimi's patented camera work, dissolves and shot transitions. Even if they were toned down. People expecting Evil Dead 2 levels of wackiness were out of their minds if they thought Disney was gonna let that shit fly.
Yeah, we rewatched this again maybe a year ago, maybe two. And it does hold up very well. It holds up maybe a little better than Prince of Darkness, although I like that one better. And of course neither of them can touch The Thing. But all three are great and I like to revisit each of them every few years or so.I'm (sort of) going back through early 90's horror at the moment, last up was In the Mouth of Madness. It doesn't have that effortless ability to entertain like Demon Knight does, but I'd forgotten just how incredibly well it uses deliberate pacing to add to the movie and how it also generally respects the audience's intelligence more than a lot of movies in both that and in not ever over-explaining. Carpenter probably had a lot to do with that but it's also a really good script that I had forgotten he didn't actually write. Sam Neill is also really good in it IMO.
Definitely still worth watching, to me at least.
Read The Long Walk. It should be in the same collection of short stories as Running Man, and it's the only other truly good thing King ever wrote. Ironically, as you point out, under a pen name.I didn’t read this post ^ because I’m 600 pages into Salems Lot - my first official King book. (I read the Running Man which was under a pen name.)