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Entertainment / Re: What have you been listeni...
Last post by Allhallowsday - January 19, 2026, 09:38:23 PMAMY WINEHOUSE Back To Black
#22
Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by M.10rda - January 19, 2026, 07:44:14 PMBLACK PHONE 2 (2025):
The first movie surprised me as writer/director Scott Derrickson had made a few real stinkers previously. Yet I thought BLACK PHONE worked consistently well on all levels. The sequel also seemed to be going in a great direction for nearly the first hour. Particularly I appreciated that it focused on survivors from the first film who really appeared to be transformed and deeply challenged by their traumatic experiences. And like the original, the first half of this one is quite creepy.
Then, fairly abruptly at the midway point, BLACK PHONE 2 turns into NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2 through 6. The highly specific "rules" that were established in the first film are ignored and the violence becomes exaggerated and even cartoonish. There are also lots of more IRL details that make little or no sense. (I feel like the filmmakers have no idea how snow, ice water, or freezing weather work.) The quality of dialogue plummets. It's well-known that I dislike Ethan Hawke as an actor generally, but his greasy, unlikeable quality was very well-utilized in the first film. He's less well-utilized here, but in most Ethan Hawke movies my biggest issue is Ethan Hawke, yet in BLACK PHONE 2 he isn't even among the movie's Top 10 biggest problems!
2/5 Skip it.
The first movie surprised me as writer/director Scott Derrickson had made a few real stinkers previously. Yet I thought BLACK PHONE worked consistently well on all levels. The sequel also seemed to be going in a great direction for nearly the first hour. Particularly I appreciated that it focused on survivors from the first film who really appeared to be transformed and deeply challenged by their traumatic experiences. And like the original, the first half of this one is quite creepy.
Then, fairly abruptly at the midway point, BLACK PHONE 2 turns into NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2 through 6. The highly specific "rules" that were established in the first film are ignored and the violence becomes exaggerated and even cartoonish. There are also lots of more IRL details that make little or no sense. (I feel like the filmmakers have no idea how snow, ice water, or freezing weather work.) The quality of dialogue plummets. It's well-known that I dislike Ethan Hawke as an actor generally, but his greasy, unlikeable quality was very well-utilized in the first film. He's less well-utilized here, but in most Ethan Hawke movies my biggest issue is Ethan Hawke, yet in BLACK PHONE 2 he isn't even among the movie's Top 10 biggest problems!
2/5 Skip it.
#23
Off Topic Discussion / Re: ER?
Last post by Trevor - January 19, 2026, 07:26:35 PMQuote from: indianasmith on January 19, 2026, 06:15:56 PMShe's OK, just a lot going on in her life right now.
She'll be back at some point.
👍👍😊🐢
#24
Off Topic Discussion / Re: ER?
Last post by indianasmith - January 19, 2026, 06:15:56 PMShe's OK, just a lot going on in her life right now.
She'll be back at some point.
She'll be back at some point.
#25
Bad Movies / Re: Generate Movie Poster with...
Last post by bob - January 19, 2026, 04:19:53 PMcopilot
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#26
Off Topic Discussion / Re: Picture of the day, part I...
Last post by Rev. Powell - January 19, 2026, 03:17:17 PM
#27
Entertainment / Re: What have you been listeni...
Last post by lester1/2jr - January 19, 2026, 02:14:07 PMI might have done this one already, but I still am listening to it.
#28
Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by lester1/2jr - January 19, 2026, 02:05:05 PMThreads (1984) - Threads is definitely a vibe, as the kids say. The US and USSR come to nuclear blows over the US fomenting a coup in Iran. Not exactly a far fetched plot, which is what makes it so effective. The setting is industrial Sheffield, England, formerly the home of plants and pubs and now at the breaking point more or less immediately. The bombs were bad enough, but lingering radiation, destruction of supply chains, and the breakdown of social order gradually start to make everything look like Mad Max.
The whole thing feels like a medieval lament/ brutally depressing opera of some kind and yet, in a bizarre way it's actually sort of liberating: at least it finally happened so you can stop worrying about it. A clinical voice-over offers a tiny bit of separation from the events, but the magnitude (no pun intended) of what occurs is strong enough that it never feels like the (future?) government study it ostensibly is.
Would a nuclear war start the breakdown of western civilization? or did the breakdown begin beforehand with the introduction of such weapons?
5/5 I will likely revisit this one
The whole thing feels like a medieval lament/ brutally depressing opera of some kind and yet, in a bizarre way it's actually sort of liberating: at least it finally happened so you can stop worrying about it. A clinical voice-over offers a tiny bit of separation from the events, but the magnitude (no pun intended) of what occurs is strong enough that it never feels like the (future?) government study it ostensibly is.
Would a nuclear war start the breakdown of western civilization? or did the breakdown begin beforehand with the introduction of such weapons?
5/5 I will likely revisit this one
#29
Off Topic Discussion / Re: Memes n' stuff of the day
Last post by LilCerberus - January 19, 2026, 01:23:37 PM
#30
Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by Rev. Powell - January 19, 2026, 12:18:16 PMF1 (2025): An aging racer gets a chance to join a desperate Formula 1 team where he is teamed up with a hotheaded rookie driver. Watch this formula movie for the race scenes only. "F1" rhymes with "Top Gun" in more ways than one. A generous 2.5/5.