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Also discussed this episode: Fight or Flight (2025), The Surfer (2025), Thunderbolts* (2025), Batman Begins (2005), The Spy Who Loved Me (197?), License to Drive (1988), Muppets Most Wanted (2014), Three Wishes (1995), Heart Eyes (2025), Into the Pit (2009), 10 Items or Less (2006), Final Destination Bloodlines (2025)
Also discussed this episode: Fight or Flight (2025), The Surfer (2025), Thunderbolts* (2025), Batman Begins (2005), The Spy Who Loved Me (197?), License to Drive (1988), Muppets Most Wanted (2014), Three Wishes (1995), Heart Eyes (2025), Into the Pit (2009), 10 Items or Less (2006), Final Destination Bloodlines (2025)
I 100% agree about BB being pretty equal in quality to TDK after a recent rewatch. Katie Holmes rules just as much as Maggie Gylenhaal (speaking of have you seen the clip of Stephen A Smith and Skip Bayless talking about TDK, it’s surreal and wildly misogynistic) and to me Tom Wilkinson is super underrated in terms of Nolan villain performances. I think Eric Roberts is fine as well but I feel like they never get back to the same gotham gangster vibe that you get when Bruce first meets with him and Wilkinson monologues with the gun in his face.
ReplyDeleteIts funny because growing up one of the two snap cases we had was OG Batman and I used to just stare at the logo as a kid but the movie was too weird and scary for me (thank god i never tried Returns lol) so I stuck to the animated series and my batman toys.
Do you a link to the Skip Bayless thing? Is it a podcast?
DeleteYou can find it under “ESPN’s First Take Reviews the Dark Knight”. it’s just a few minute segment of the show. They disagree about most everything except that Maggie Gylenhaal isn’t attractive or talented enough to play the role.
DeleteI really appreciated the horror discussion. I swear something is in the air.
ReplyDeleteEarlier this year I decided to not renew my Shudder subscription, after having it for years.
And this may be the last time you guys see me and Cortney at Flashback Weekend.
Are you just feeling burned out on it? I'm curious.
DeleteOn Flashback? Lots of reasons. Main one is we’ve both found ourselves not as excited for it was we used to be. Pair that with trying to be more responsible with money, and EVERYTHING that weekend continues to get more and more expensive. After going to cons for years there’s not many people I’d be excited to go meet anymore. And we’ve only got so much wall space to display 8x10s and posters. We were just going to do Friday this year, but the two photo ops we want to do are Saturday so we’ll probably head home after those. And this totally sounds like the stupid punk rock reason, but the bigger and bigger that con gets, the less special it feels. It’s like when one of your favorite bands gets big and starts playing arenas and everyone knows them. You’re happy for them, but it’s not the same.
DeleteIf you’re talking horror movies, I’d say the last couple years I’ve been kinda disappointed in a lot of stuff I watched. More often than not “Shudder originals” didn’t click with me. I find myself getting more enjoyment out of other things lately. Since the beginning of 2022? I’ve gotten WAY back into WWE after being totally out of it since like 1998.
The discourse around Final Destination: Bloodlines also had me expecting something more than just another Final Destination movie. Also, similar to Patrick's feelings, it's just not my franchise.
DeleteAny attempts the series has made at building a mythology only ever seem to highlight that the premise of the series doesn't really make sense. I don't know why so many people have premonitions of horrifying accidents. If there was some force trying to counteract Death for instance, then maybe that could be a thing, but if so, it's really failing at what it's trying to accomplish. I don't know why Death has to come up with these elaborate ways to kill people rather than just giving people heart attacks or embolisms. That it would suggest that Death itself is some cruel, sadistic force rather than just a fundamental part of life, would be terrifying in its own way, but that's not something the movies have every really tackled.
The new Final Destination wasn't my favorite either, and it definitely IS one of my horror franchises. I never felt too invested in Stefani and the rest of the characters and thought maybe it was because the core massacre/tragedy didn't involve any of them. That big setup in each movie might be important to introduce our characters, not just to show how a bunch of people are going to die gruesomely?
DeleteI might be getting too old too because the jump scares in this one annoyed me, and also I couldn't make sense of Grandma's house being the "only safe place" when it seemed to be a stockpile of bodily hazards.
All in all, happy to have seen it and would rank it middle bottom.
I'd be curious to see your ranking of the whole series! Right now the only one I'd put below Bloodlines is 4.
DeleteI need to rewatch 5 but I think my ranking is 3, 1, 2, 5/6, 4
DeleteI might watch Fern Gully as well. I've been meaning to see it, and it comes in at a cool 76 minutes, which is perfect for Junesploitation. For a decade plus people have been saying "Avatar is just Fern Gully", but I love Avatar, so I have high hopes.
ReplyDeleteAlso, that's a great DVD collection in the title image! I just watched The Big Sleep this week.
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