I got sent this today, which I really enjoyed:
Looking forward to see this on a big screen
Just watched the new Sam Raimi film āSend Helpā.
Lotta fun. Very Evil Dead in places. Moreso than anything heās done in years.
I laughed a lot. Worth a watch.
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Yep, I said similar in here a few weeks back, and then I went back and watched it again because I liked it so much (and I never go to the cinema, I think the last time I went before this was for the last Star War)
So many great bits that stick in the mind and make you giggle to yourself at work so you seem like a lunatic
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Like I said āSend Helpā wasnāt for me. They two most prefect foes to get stranded on a dessert island together, at the most prefect time. Everything these two people had been doing with their lives was leading up to this point too perfectly.
Super meek character turns into a psycho unrealistically, given how the film had shown her.
If it needed the character to do or know something, letās just have a flash back to quickly explain it, or a book about it on shelving behind them in a flash back, that they must of read at some point. Lazy.
The plane going down was the funniest bit of it all.
Watched Project Hail Mary from the same guy that wrote The Martian. Itās a fun, enjoyable flick. Ticks all the boxes. I found the flash backs of him on Earth more interesting than what he was getting up to in space a lot of the time. Sandra HĆ¼ller is great. A lot of the science falls into the willing suspension of disbelief territory, unlike with The Martian, like making an alien translator so fast, when they could have just had the alien have this technology already and that would have made more sense (all this stuff is in the trailers so no spoilers here).
As I said, itās a fun film, everything is explained nicely and tied up neatly(ish).
I enjoyed Project Hail Mary too, just a fun kind of old-fashioned sci-fi flick. I did listen to the audiobook years ago and not surprisingly it all goes into a lot more detail when it comes to them communicating and all the rest of it. Seen a few of Adam Savages videos looking at all the behind the scenes stuff and was impressed by the amount of it that was practical effects too.
Probably need spoiler tags here
Not that I want to argue, as if you donāt like a film then thatās fair enough, butā¦ I canāt help but think that you missed the point entirely. Itās the opposite of lazy! Yes the meek girl becomes a psycho, yes itās unexpected given how they had shown her before, but thatās the point. There are little reveals all the way through that she was a psycho all along. She sits at home confiding in her only friend, a bird, like a lunatic. She killed her last boyfriend, and confesses to it! She lets the twat frat bro guy die on the plane, she even enjoys it when he pleads for his life. She stuffs a tuna sandwich in a drawer in the office, maybe the most psycho thing of them all.
And yeah, the perfect odd couple get stranded together, itās too perfect. Almost as perfectly implausible as finding a skin-bound book in the cellar of a cabin in the woods and then deciding to read a passage out loudā¦
Yeah it just wasnāt for me. Everything in the movie is shoehorned in to make the premise work, it could have shown her dark side bubbling up more and sooner.
Why was she so bothered about the promotion when she was trying to get on TV shows that would have taken her away from work for a month at a time? Probably getting her the sack at that place anyway, given how american companies hate āvacation timeā. The whole thing just didnāt work imho.
Haha I donāt think the ins and outs of US employment conditions should get in the way of a decent psycho adventure yarn
For a film all about her US employment conditions you mean?
Iām not sure thatās what the film was actually all about! Did you have similar concerns at the end of EVil Dead 3 when Ash went back to working at a supermarket after chopping up all his friends with an axe? 
So was it her arsehole new boss (that still treated her like an employee on the island) that turned her down for a promotion not the problem in a company where other people often took credit for her work? Maybe we watched two different films.
You liked it, I didnāt. Youāre allowed to like bands I donāt too. Itās the rich tapestry of life.
I scanned the Hail Mary stuff as I want to wait for cinema next weekā¦but on Send Help. - its Raimi making OG Raimi in his college style.
The characters were fairly 2D, much like Evil Dead characters were, but that was clearly intentional.
I think that is part of the humour - that he is playing into old tropes. I liked that and the over the top parts which came with it (Like the plane crash!)
Itās not like he canāt make a rounded character - Spiderman 2 is an example of classic execution in that sense. Itās just that he didnāt need rounded characters in this. And that made it funnier/More āRaimiā.
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Learned the other day there was a Playstation game developed of Taxi Driver, then binned for obvious reasons
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I love Evil Dead 2 so up for seeing this
Camera movements with their own sound effects are fun, ripped off well in Spaced too
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Just finished watching it. Incredible performance by Robert Aramayo. Fully did sad tears and happy tears during it. What a film!
Watched that Peaky Blinders film. Fuck me. All I can really say is that thank god there wonāt be any more. That show really lost its way huh
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Could be alright. Horror based on creepy liminal spaces
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lol that trailer was the last thing I watched before I went to sleep last night and I had some odd dreams.
One featuring Blondey, which might be one for the skate dreams thread
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