The names in the spoiler do not match the film you named. Did you see Sixteen Candles or Pretty in Pink?
I saw this when it first came out. I can’t believe that a different cut would be all that much of an improvement – there were too many places where Big-Name Movie Stars had ridiculous lines and did ridiculous things. (Damn, but I hope Peter O’Toole and John Gielgud and especially Malcolm MacDowell got well-paid for this. And Gore Vidal, whose script they rewrote). But if they have the guts to cut that out, along with the over-the-top scenes where Bob Guccione thought he was Fellini, and much of the porn, they might hve something decent.
Heads up, for Peacock releases
Disclosure Day Oct 9
Crystal Lake Oct 15 (season 1, all 8 episodes)
Minions & Monsters (2026) Oct 28
October has me very excited. I watched Disclosure Day early this morning after it became available to stream.
I did mean to say Pretty In Pink, sorry. I had also watched Sixteen Candles the other day, and I was thinking about both while I was typing.
Pretty in Pink … Sixteen Candles … What’s the difference? Amirite?
Children of the Corn (1984)
Mildly recommended.
All adults in a town have been killed by children, and yet no other adults show up to find out what is going gone. Our two adult protagonists come in and face a corn-based religious cult.
Mildly amusing. I mainly saw it because when I was a kid I saw it on TV and it was very scary to me then. Not anymore.
Children of the Corn 2: The Final Sacrifice
Not recommended.
Maybe mold on the corn is what makes the kids crazy? Oh, no, it’s still a supernatural thing. Anyway, passable, but not much to offer.
I mean, one has a sexual assault on an intoxicated teenager played for laughs, plus some racist jokes, but otherwise yeah, same movies.
Why do you think fundie Christianity is pushed so heavily in flyover country? If it weren’t for Christianity people might be worshipping corn gods.
Regarding the original cut, I’ll piggyback on Leonard Maltin’s assessment: It is only saved from zero stars by the inclusion of five minutes of high production value lesbian porn. That and just watching what great actors will do if offered enough money are the only reasons to watch this.
Just finishing this now. This is the biggest festering turd I have seen this year. I can’t believe this was made by Spielberg.
I’ll be a little less negative about Disclosure Day, which had some fun parts. But it also featured moviedom’s dumbest car chase and a plot with nonsensical elements. And maybe (probably?) it’s me but I don’t get Hollywood’s love for Colman Domingo and its need to place him in important roles.
Did you like Close Encounters of the Third Kind - 1977? Spielberg has a long history with aliens and UFO’s.
I need to rewatch the 1977 movie. It’s been decades since I’ve seen it. I’m curious how well it holds up.
Arrival - 2016 is another film that explores alien ships approaching earth. I don’t recall who directed it. I saw it once when it first came out.
Denis Villenueve, of Dune and other movies. Arrival might be my favorite sci-fi movie.
Arrival is brilliant and one of the best alien movies ever. Disclosure Day is forgettable. It had some cool scenes, but the story makes no sense, the ending is terrible and the whole thing felt like set-up for a movie that never happens.
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
They took a George Romero film, they took a Merchant-Ivory flick, they cut them both up into pieces, threw them up in the air, taped the pieces together and here’s the result. Acting is fine, sets are great, the girls are pretty, the guys are handsome, the story is bizarre. Still, worth a look if it catches you in the right frame of mind.
Another recent film worth checking out in that genre is Jordan Peele’s Nope, which draws considerably from Spielberg - both Close Encounters and Jaws.
Are you kidding? Half the fun of the movie is watching MacDowell chew the scenery. It’s one of the greatest examples of overacting in movie history.
I watched it less than two weeks ago and can barely remember anything about it.
I was very much looking forward to the big, secret “tentpole scifi film” Spielberg was working on the past year or two.
Wow, dull. Very dull. One of Spielberg’s true misses.