I'd hope its to convince the government of Israel to get rid of corrupt leader Netanyahu, and to work towards an equitable two state peace agreement with an independent Palestine in the West Bank and Gaza.
Or failing that, to convince people that unconditional support of the current Israeli government is bad, actually. Something many Israeli themselves believe (not to mention non-Israeli Jews).
I dunno, I credit Scream with getting me into horror, and it's hardly a genre known for being not-silly. Guess it's a little more thinky though.
Braindead is brilliant, as is Army of Darkness and What we Do in the Shadows, which is not horror, but is silly.
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I think my main issues with TdD Vs. E is that I didn't feel any chemistry between Dale and the girl, which seems like it is meant to be a core part of the film. And then, after a good set up the second half of the film feels very paint by numbers, what happens and where they go dictated by genre tropes rather than what their trope inversion story needs.
It's probably just a comment on the way that slasher film protagonists don't get PTSD and keeping the film light, but the girl really doesn't seem to care much about her friends dying. And never has her relationship with Dale challenged by anything.
Then the antagonist being revealled to be the son of a hill billy and that that's probably why he's really a slasher villain undermines what was more him being a prejudice burk leading to his maybe friends dying.
There was a lot of potential with it, but I feel the film decided to inverse a tropey premise and then rather than fully investing in that scenario - hillbillies surrounded by fatal accident prone horny teens - and taking letting its results grow organically, the rest of the script just reached for as many slasher tropes as possible to cram in to make sure the "satirical take" part wasn't subtle, so even a bat with a blindfold and earmuffs on would be sure to "get the joke".
Tudyk and the other guy had great chemistry and their relationship worked, I just found it the only thing to make me finish watching the rest of the film, and in the last 1/3 they get precious little screen time together.
Once the core conceit of the film is obvious, it doesn't do anything new, exciting, or interesting with it - just gore for its own sake. (Edit: this is probably exactly what you meant in your post by "too spoofy", so yes. You're right, it is and I am. Sorry it took me too long to clock your meaning. As Soccy himself told us "written words are hard".)
Now maybe I'm missing that the flat romance subplot or nature of the killer, along with gore without substance are high brow meta critiques on the state of horror at the height of the slasher era... And sure, I can dig that. But if you make a film that's deliberately weak in areas as a joke or comment on other films' weaknesses, you've still made a film that's not going to hold folks attention.
That said, clearly it's a very popular film amongst a lot of folks so it's probably me in the minority here. Thanks for giving me an excuse to organise my thoughts and present them. It feels better to get them out of my head in an organised way, and I'm glad you enjoy it as Alan Tudyk getting work that is a success is only a good thing.
So enjoy it, and don't care what I say. But for those of you who felt it was missing a little something... Well know you're not alone.
I'm glad you like it, as I think Mr Tudyk is grand I like to see him in things.
It's just not for me, and seeing a film I felt to not live up anything close to the hype always praised I felt compelled in this case to show a dissenting opinion.
You do you and enjoy it annually.
In no particular order (and yes some are more well known in film circles, maybe I should've ommited them, but you never know what the reader hasn't seen):
Jojo Rabbit, 2019 - a comedic coming of age in Nazi Germany. Jojo and his imaginary friend, Hitler, face a complicated and rapidly changing world.
The Mitchells versus the Machines, 2021 - animated family adventure for fun with the whole family.
Rise of Leslie Vernon, 2006 - mocumentary following slasher killer Leslie Vernon.
Bunny and the Bull, 2009 - an, in my opinion, gorgeously set film about two friends on a road trip in Spain.
Parallel Mothers (Madras Paralelas), 2021 - not a hidden gem if you know anything about Spanish cinema, but maybe you don't. Penolpe Cruz is a new mother whose life becomes intertwined with another women's when they give birth in the same hospital.
Hero (英雄), 2002 - again, if you know Wuxia film then this isn't a hidden gem. A pinnacle of the genre, a Chinese Rashomon with wire fights.
Blow Up, 1966 - British New Wave classic. A photographer used to a free and casual 60s life becomes certain he has accidentally photographed evidence of a murder.
Berberian Sound Studio, 2012 - exploration of sound and feeling. A mild mannered amateurish British sound technician gets a big job working on the sound effects for a giallo film in Italy.
Martyrs, 2008 - the pinnacle of French New Extreme movement. It made a big name for itself at the time for being the sort of torture porn film that really gave it a point beyond vouyerism. Not for the faint of heart.
Rye Lane, 2023 - a romcom love letter to London.
The Day Shall Come, 2019 - an eccentric black preacher gets caught up in a web of madness that runs deep.
As a horror fan, I disagree.
The premise gets old fairly fast and then the twist doesn't really add anything or accentuate the spoofiness, just makes the film more generic.
If you're a fan of a certain era of teen slashers, sure go for it.
《Little Monsters》 and 《The Rise of Leslie Vernon 》are recent takes on horror films I personally prefer.
Not enough (any) in client tracking of match results and what the match up was.
No way to really combo off. Let me demonstrate a loop and do it X times please.
I think that your last though is right on the money.
The client should show you match histories against what sorts of decks, so it's more overall and long term than just the one match.
Bo3 works well for this too and I find I enjoy playing it more. But don't always have the time during my commutes to bosh it out each time.
An acidic heat
I live in a town of 220,000 in the UK.
I'm a 5 minute walk from a small supermarket.
10 mins from a corner shop.
5 minute drive from a huge supermarket.
10 minute walk from a doctors' surgery.
20 minute walk from a dentist's.
20 minute walk from an opticians.
5 minute walk from a park.
15 minutes walk from primary and 10 minutes walk from a secondary school.
But we don't really do suburbs in quite the same way, and they're much more walkable than the pictures I've seen of US suburbia.
In the UK we have smaller "urban supermarkets" that sell everything you might need at home but there's not much choice in it, and there's a lot of ready to eat meal options. Kinda like a corner shop plus.
And then there are the fuck off huge supermarkets that are like THE Wallmart on the interstate on, usually, the edges of urban areas which have foreign food isles, clothes, toys, and more types of toothpaste than you could use in a lifetime of brushing three times a day.
3.3ft (and that's a decimal .3, not an imperial .3).
You're not wrong in that if the Palestinian death toll hasn't swayed someone already, they're probably not going to be swayed.