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It’s just from a completely different movie. On its own it’s fine but that shyt doesn’t make any sense based on the movie we got. It begs too many damn questions of how, and fundamentally changes the movie. It’d be like if an episode of stranger things decided at the end it’s really an episode of the wire
I thought the ending worked.
While we were on our Stranger Things/Stand By Me steeze with them kids there was a dark undertone of a serial killer in that town and having the charming coming of age stuff run head long into the brick wall of a legit psychopath was a cool turn.
 

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Recently watched this in passing- "Bad Samaritan" because it came up on my recommendations (amazon prime), clicked on it bc I needed some background tv but it ended up an interesting watch as far as indie horror/thriller. The trailer doesn't do it justice. , slow build in the beginning they could have left out a few scenes but in the climax it but all made sense for the storyline. (One flaw is that two of the main characters kept changing between their irish and american accents during the tense moments:deadmanny:) It's an American movie- setting is Portland, Oregon, but the writer/producer is from the UK and hired a few Irish actors.

It wasn't bad and Tennant and Sheehan did go in and out of their American accents a lot but I wanted to like it more than I ended up liking it just because I am fans of the two main actors previous work.
 

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I thought the ending worked.
While we were on our Stranger Things/Stand By Me steeze with them kids there was a dark undertone of a serial killer in that town and having the charming coming of age stuff run head long into the brick wall of a legit psychopath was a cool turn.

But the movie isn’t doing that up to that point. Like it’s painting in broad ass strokes to get to the ending it didn’t earn
 

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I'm sorry but the OG Halloween was :snooze:

It's a good hour before the killings start, and that wouldn't be a problem if I didn't have to sit through mundane small-town high school coming of age tripe. Jamie Lee Curtis face long as a bytch too. :hhh:
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But even though I disagree I respect the opinion. I hate the OG Texas Chainsaw Massacre so I understand being alone on an island not getting something that everyone else considers a classic.
 

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But the movie isn’t doing that up to that point. Like it’s painting in broad ass strokes to get to the ending it didn’t earn
I can see how you would see that but I saw it as the movie playing on the viewers attachment to stuff like The Goonies/Stranger Things/Stand By Me and just handwaving away the fact that those fast ass kids were playing junior detective in a deadly adult situation they had no business being involved in and the ending basically brought the hammer down on them as a result.
 

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I can see how you would see that but I saw it as the movie playing on the viewers attachment to stuff like The Goonies/Stranger Things/Stand By Me and just handwaving away the fact that those fast ass kids were playing junior detective in a deadly adult situation they had no business being involved in and the ending basically brought the hammer down on them as a result.

Well see that doesn’t work for me
You can’t play on my attachment or sentiment for a thing rather than making me care about your thing. That feels like cheap filmmaking to me. It’s puffy doing we are the remix but just changing the beat instead of adding new verses
 

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Well see that doesn’t work for me
You can’t play on my attachment or sentiment for a thing rather than making me care about your thing. That feels like cheap filmmaking to me. It’s puffy doing we are the remix but just changing the beat instead of adding new verses
I used to have that opinion but so much of modern media is just shamelessly using nostalgia to influence people's interest that I don't even think about it all that much any more.
Honestly the only reason I really give a damn about Stranger Things is the 1980s nostalgia factor because most of them kids are annoying as hell and they could all be eaten by Demogorgons and I wouldn't bat an eye.
 

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I used to have that opinion but so much of modern media is just shamelessly using nostalgia to influence people's interest that I don't even think about it all that much any more.
Honestly the only reason I really give a damn about Stranger Things is the 1980s nostalgia factor because most of them kids are annoying as hell and they could all be eaten by Demogorgons and I wouldn't bat an eye.

Lol.

But with stranger things they give them characteristics. Not just character types. Summer of 84 had every character type but no actual character. It was a worse version of monster squad
 

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Lol.

But with stranger things they give them characteristics. Not just character types. Summer of 84 had every character type but no actual character. It was a worse version of monster squad
They fleshed out the lead kid and the fat kid's characters. The other two kids were definitely character archetypes though.
 

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They barely fleshed them out. But I can’t get into all that without spoiler territory. And it’s election night lol I can’t even muster the energy
This shyt is my distraction from the election stuff because otherwise I would be glued to cable news and my blood pressure would be rising to dangerous levels.
 
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