I tend not to care much for documentary films in general, and I absolutely despise “reality” TV. This film seems to be kind of a hybrid of the two, with the added bonus of giving a convicted fraudster an extension on her 15 minutes.
Yet I’ve seen only raves about it. Can you articulate what makes it so great?
Fright Night 2011 Anton Yelchin
Colin Farrell, Imogen Poots, David Tennant
Peacock
I hadn’t heard about this remake of the 1985 film. It’s very surprising David Tennant appears as the actor/vampire expert. He had just finished Doctor Who in 2010.
Colin Farrell is the next door neighbor/vampire.
This version is more serious and the story varies from the original film.
I think it’s better than the original.
8 out of 10
I don’t agree. I prefer the original Fright Night to that remake.
I love Ghost Ship. Hell of an opening scene.
Not without spoiling it.
Ghost Ship was one of the first R-rated movies I watched with my kids - when they were about ten years old. We were surfing the video store on Halloween weekend and they begged me to rent it. I okayed it with their grandmother (their legal guardian (long story)), though she was a little hesitant too.
That first scene … my kids laughed their goddamned little heads off. I have to admit - I did too.
The cable snapping scene?
That was really well done.
Ghost Ship is pretty good.
I’m not sure why Rotten Tomatoes critics didn’t rate it higher than 14%. The fans rated it 38%.
Laughed? Are you all batty? 
Haunt (2019)
Some young people go to a Halloween spook house attraction and bad stuff happens to them. It was fine, as slasher films go, but why would someone go to all the trouble and expense of building this elaborate murder trap out in the middle of nowhere to nab some random folks? The answer ruined the movie. Just too dumb. It held my interest up to that point, though.
I just read the plot, my curiosity piqued, and that ending explanation is really like something someone wrote high. Very, very high.
Backrooms, as described in its dedicated thread. Meh.
Some Kind of Heaven, a 2020 Lance Oppenheim documentary guerilla-shot in The Villages that follows four residents. I watched because of You Can See Everything, and you can definitely see traces of that - the close-ups, the natural lighting of scenes glimpsed through doorways, the willingness to hang on a scene until it becomes uncomfortable.
It’s not really about The Villages, though you learn quite a bit about them, but ultimately I wasn’t all that interested in most of the people he follows around. it was okay.
Hills Have Eyes 1977 and the 2006 remake
The remake is on Prime. I had to watch the original on blu ray.
It’s interesting to compare the two versions. The remake included many of the same scenes and dialog.
Unfortunately they added a lot of unnecessary new material. The remake is 106 mins. Original is 90.
The oddest change is making the cannibals almost mute. That made them less scary imho.
Hearing them discuss the baby as a plump Turkey meal and planning rhe attacks adds a lot to the original horror film.
Watch the original. Unfortunately I couldn’t find it streaming. Buy the blu ray.
Rewatched Top Gun 2, as I didn’t care for it the first time through. Liked it better the second time. Watched A Few Good Men with the wife last night. It holds up pretty well, but man am I old.
Is that streaming somewhere? I’ve had a weird hankering to re-watch it, but last I looked it was rental only, and I didn’t feel like shelling out (again).
A Few Good Men is on HBO Max
For a few more days
I need to rewatch before it’s gone.
We watched on Prime for about $4.
I’m glad this thread reminded to rewarch A Few Good Men before it left HBO Max.
Good movie. Ive always found Demi Moore’s character very hard to tolerate. She even says her unrelenting, take no prisoners attitude got her transfered from handling cases to an investigator in IA.
She badgers Tom Cruise to risk his career too. That indirectly results in the XO’s suicide.
Pretty sure Cruise’s future in the Navy is over. Taking down Jessup won’t be forgotten. Good luck earning a promotion in the Navy Tom. 
I think He will have a great career outside the military.
Excellent movie. I’ve seen it several times.
I rewatched the original 1932 The Mummy, with Boris Karloff as Im-ho-tep. I grew up with this one. Interesting movie with a bizarre history. It was originally going to be about Cagliostro, but John Balderston (who rewrote Hamilton Deane’s Dracula for the America stage and went on to write the screenplay, and also had a hand in Frankenstein, which had a similarly contorted script history), who had covered Howard Smith’s archaeological work in Egypt, turned it into a Mummy film. The plot is original, not based on any previous mummy story (although they existed).
Karloff only appears wrapped in bandages at the very beginning and on the poster. Afterwards he appears in a robe and fez and with collodion-drawn lines around his mouth, speaking pretty good English for a 3000 year old corpse.
There’s a plot about the Mummy’s re-incarnated love, something Balderston had visited in his 1927 play Berkeley Square (which he also contributed to the screenplay for, when that came to be filmed) and in the un-used screenplay he wrote for H. Rider Haggard’s She. The idea later showed up in a lot of movies, including several adaptations of Dracula.
There’s a surprisingly racist interlude involving black actor Noble Johnson as “The Nubian”. Johnson had a long history in cinema, appearing in numerous roles, not all of them black – he was anothe of those “all-purpose ethincs” who could appear as an Asian or American Indian character, as well. He played the chief of the islanders in King Kong and Son of Kong, where he arguably played a decent and serious character (I’d be pissed off if some Hollywood type was responsible for setting a giant gorilla loose in my village, too), but a lot of his roles showed the casual racism of the era. Johnson himself started up a studio that made black-oriented movies with roles that avoided this standard racism, but the films never had a large circulation with the majority-white film audience. I’d love to know more about him ad his Lincoln Motion Picture company.
When the second wave of Universal monster films hit in the 1940s, they shrewdly realized that people wanted to see a wrapped-in-rotting bandages mummy, so subsequent mummies stayed in that uncomfortable garb and didn’t speak (it was explained that this later mummy, named Kharis, had had his tongue torn out). Western actor Tom Tyler played him in the first film, but Lon Chaney, Jr. did in the subsequent films, and someone else played “Klaris” for the 1955 film Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy
When Stephen Sommers got around to remaking The Mummy in 1999, he kept a surprising amount of the 1931 film, but leavened it with a lot of humor and special effects, giving us a lot of Arnold Vosloo both as a wrapped corpse and as the slowly-regenerating Im-ho-tep, this time without collodion and fez.
Promotion to Lieutenant is automatic. As far as the XO… I don’t see how Demi had anything to do with that? And also… spoiler?