Wednesday, October 3, 2018

FTM 459 - TALES FROM THE HOOD 2

Patrick and Adam Riske go back 2 the hood.



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Also discussed this episode: Hell Fest (2018), Night of the Living Dead (1990), The Monster Club (1981), Phantom of the Opera (1989), An American Werewolf in Paris (1997), Creepshow 2 (1987), Cult of Chucky (2017), Gravy (2015), Hellraiser III (1992)

18 comments:

  1. Patrick, you have seen Grave. That's the original French title for Raw.

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  2. Really fun show guys! Can't say I'm likely to see this film, but I enjoyed hearing it discussed. ;)

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  3. Great show guys! I was on the fence about renting this one once I heard about it, but after listening to the show...I'm still not sure.

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  4. It's always a lovely surprise when all these extra shows appear over smm! Thanks for all this Patrick and crew👍

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  5. The #ScaryMovieMonth opening theme makes me happy.

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  6. I guess I'll change my name to Jon Hillman.

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    1. It's a good name. Served me well so far.

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    2. I need a new one. I've had 40 years with this bullshit name.

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  7. I am so glad I'm not the only one and you guys managed to articulate and expand on a lot of my thoughts about it. Reading some of the festival reviews and letterboxd reviews has made me think I'm going crazy!

    So much love for the first movie and that Scream Factory blu is astounding

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    1. Looking back, the festival reviews are even more confusing.

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    2. Maybe they think that it's just good that a movie is tackling these issues at all - but as you both point out, 2 of the segments aren't tackling these issues... At all! The first segment does but is incredibly hamfisted and frankly just confusing. I agree that the last is the closest resembling anything like the first movie, but I burst out laughing at your description of it as "Emmett Till wants to kill your baby". This movie is the poopity-pop.

      From a review:
      "I never saw Tales from the Hood, but if Tales from the Hood 2 is any indication, I must go back and watch it posthaste — though I wonder if the racial climate of 1995 could have inspired as much righteous anger and caustic satire in writer-directors Rusty Cundieff and Darin Scott as today’s does."

      I don't even know where to begin with that statement.

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    3. That's maybe the first time I've seen "posthaste" in the wild.

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  8. This movie was...not good. But I got an extra podcast for it! Great podcast as always.

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  9. Hey Adam Riske, you were 100% right about Hell Fest. Just saw it bc of your rec and it was kind of great. Only real complaint is not enough Tony Todd.

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  10. I did watch the movie before listening to any commentary/criticism about it, although the little that was coming out was not good - and while I can say that some of the criticism is legitimate (namely the reduced budget, which I think is really affecting the reception of it - it looks like cheap DTV fodder, and the way it's been distributed just reinforces that view), there's also much that's wrong-headed about it, such as bitching that it's 'not like the first one' - it's TOO different, rather than just being a carbon copy of the first movie. And some of the observations on the social commentary come off to me as completely tone-deaf, which is actually not very surprising. As far as the on-the-nose quality, that's just a fact that the times have far out-stripped anything that anyone could come up with - maybe in another 10-15 years when we're past this era, there can maybe be some solid examination. Actually, this probably would've been better if some cable network with money to spend had sprung for a TALES FROM THE HOOD series...

    When the first movie came out, there wasn't all this love that it now has; it built up over time, like THE THING and most stuff that ends up with a devoted audience. So it seems that history DOES repeat itself.

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