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Furious anything? No thanks.
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The Fate of the Furious (2017)
Did not like this one.
“First feel fear, then get angry. Then go with your life into the fight.” - Bill Mollison
Last movie seen — Page 474
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I’m trying to binge all the Halloween movies I haven’t seen this weekend (which is most of them!) So…
“Halloween 4 - The Return of Michael Myers” (1988)
Better than I’d thought it would be. Nice to see Donald Pleasance still staggering around shouting at everybody. Very good to see people deciding to just get the hell out of town rather than try to take on the killer too, that’s some rare common sense (for all the good it did them!)
The end was a total shock, quite bold. I didn’t see it coming and it genuinely unsettled me.
Pretty decent all round, I give it 3 clown costumes out of 5.
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Donald Pleasance is the only thing worth seeing after part 3. The mask gets worse with each entry.
I love the original and am very fond of Season of the Witch. Part 2 is tolerable on an October evening, but the rest of the franchise can rot for all I care.
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I’d like to see MST3K take on some of the lesser sequels. Especially the one with the goofy cult that’s controlling Michael for no adequately explored reason. It’s the midichlorian explanation for what was best left ambiguous.
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Furious anything? No thanks.
Not even doing your taxes?
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Doing your taxes is much more gratifying when your heart is filled with love, honestly.
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Taxation is theft!
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I love the original and am very fond of Season of the Witch. Part 2 is tolerable on an October evening, but the rest of the franchise can rot for all I care.
I haven’t watched any of them in years, but I remember when I was 10 or so and I first saw 1-3 I loved the first two and hated Season of the Witch. I thought it was stupid. Guess I need to go back and rewatch all three this fall because I don’t remember them all that well anymore.
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“Halloween 5 - The Revenge of Michael Myers” (1989)
The impact of the previous movie’s end was cruelly snatched away because the writer of this one couldn’t think of a way to continue it. So it was all in her head? Is that right, you talentless hack?
Danielle Harris’ performance alone gets this a 2 out of 5.
And despite some good ideas a young Paul Rudd’s enthusiastic use of a fire extinguisher to smash open a door is the only thing that gets 1995’s “Halloween 6 - The Curse of Michael Myers” up to 1 mark out of 5.
It’s utter shite.
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Season of the Witch would have been better received had it not been passed off as a sequel. I had the killer video pumpkin (ripped from an LD of the film) going on an old analog tv in my window last Halloween. 😃
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I seem to remember reading somewhere that the plan was to make the Halloween movies an anthology, but after the third one didn’t do much business they scrapped that idea and went back to Michael Myers (and apparently felt the need to remind people he was in it by including his name in every title!) It’s a shame really because Season of the Witch was fun and creepy.
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Yeah, Halloween 3 works much better if you just think of it as it’s own movie. That’s why I only refer to it as Season of the Witch.
It’s a goofy, campy, silly little thing, but it’s a seasonal must-watch for me.
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Mark’s Down On Your Syntax said:
I seem to remember reading somewhere that the plan was to make the Halloween movies an anthology, but after the third one didn’t do much business they scrapped that idea and went back to Michael Myers (and apparently felt the need to remind people he was in it by including his name in every title!) It’s a shame really because Season of the Witch was fun and creepy.
Perhaps if they hadn’t made Halloween 2 a direct sequel to the first film, the idea would’ve had a greater chance for success.
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Mark’s Down On Your Syntax said:
I seem to remember reading somewhere that the plan was to make the Halloween movies an anthology, but after the third one didn’t do much business they scrapped that idea and went back to Michael Myers (and apparently felt the need to remind people he was in it by including his name in every title!) It’s a shame really because Season of the Witch was fun and creepy.
This is all true, except that it wasn’t the same “They” that made 4 and on. After 3, John Carpenter scrapped all ideas and sold the franchise to… um… whatshisname and he’s made tons of crappy Myers movies since.
Also, Part 4 would have been a sequel to 3. It would have been an anthology of cliffhangers and resolutions. Awesome idea.
JEDIT: “whatshisname” is Moustapha Akkad.
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The late Mr. Akkad, (his son keeps the franchise going now) has always owned a piece of the Halloween pumpkin pie. The first film likely would never have happened without him putting up the money.
I know Carpenter has said at least once over the years he didn’t want to stand in the way of Akkad’s right to make more films. The story goes Carpenter was only able to crank out the Halloween 2 script by drinking a lot of beer.
Carpenter gets a cut of the sequels and the Rob Zombie remakes if only because the Halloween theme he composed is used.
It was announced this year Carpenter is returning to the franchise as executive producer on a new entry in 2018. I’d bet it’s going to ignore most of the sequels.
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Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014)
When I was a kid, I was somehow allowed to watch an R-rated ninja movie that was batshit crazy. A telephone linewoman who teaches aerobics classes is possessed by an evil spirit of a fallen ninja when coming to his aid. The spirit seeks revenge on those who killed him and uses the female instructor’s body to carry out his mission. The only way the spirit will leave the aerobic instructor’s body is through combat with another ninja.
I’m guessing it was on HBO or something, because I remember watching it over and over again. But through the years, I forgot the actual name of the movie. I halfheartedly tried to find it a few times (American Ninja? Nope.) but mostly just forgot about it.
And then a few weeks ago, I got to the We Hate Movies episode of Ninja 3: The Domination…holy shit, that’s the movie!
Still haven’t watched it again, as of yet, as it’s not on Netflix (not even via DVD). But during the WHM episode they mentioned the Cannon Films documentary, and I certainly was gonna watch that.
A lot of fun. Had no idea they were synonymous with Golan and Globus. A lot of great clips of terrible movies and fun stories of weird cousins and their weird film company.
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Dr. Forrester wasn’t kidding when he said he had been wanting to inflict Golan Globus movies on the Satellite of Love gang for quite some time.
Got my fingers crossed the new series gets their hands on more.
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Akkad was always a major player in the Halloween franchise.
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Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014)
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Saw this tonight because of your high rating. These films played non-stop in the video store that I worked at in the late 80’s. Great memories of truly bad films. Loved it!
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Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014)
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Saw this tonight because of your high ratting. These films played non-stop in the video store that I worked at in the late 80’s. Great memories of truly bad films. Loved it!
He didn’t rat anyone out.
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Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014)
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Saw this tonight because of your high ratting. These films played non-stop in the video store that I worked at in the late 80’s. Great memories of truly bad films. Loved it!
He didn’t rat anyone out.
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Public service announcement:
Don’t fix typos. Either they’re already frozen in time via quoting, or if not then you screw up the following conversation. Just let it bleed!
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Public service announcement:
Don’t fix typos. Either they’re already frozen in time via quoting, or if not then you screw up the following conversation. Just let it be!
Let It Bleed is a much better album. It’s one of the only times the Stones decisively kicked the Beatles’ asses.
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