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Off Topic Discussion / Re: How's everyone doing?
Last post by Trevor - Today at 12:45:47 AMQuote from: Zapranoth on July 26, 2026, 11:03:31 PMBeen a while since I posted.
Who's still around? What's up in everyone's world?
Brother Zap, welcome.
I'm doing OK thanks, still trying to cope with my mentor and friends passing and my book is in final edit.
Doing OK.
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Good Movies / Re: Unofficial Horror Movie Un...
Last post by claws - Today at 12:38:31 AM^ The Initiation (1984)
#3
Off Topic Discussion / How's everyone doing?
Last post by Zapranoth - July 26, 2026, 11:03:31 PMBeen a while since I posted.
Who's still around? What's up in everyone's world?
Who's still around? What's up in everyone's world?
#4
Good Movies / Re: Great movies with bad sequ...
Last post by zombie no.one - July 26, 2026, 08:21:25 PMQuote from: M.10rda on July 26, 2026, 06:04:42 PMROBOCOP 2
totally. how to drop the ball. 3 is even worse, like a kids movie.
Quote from: FatFreddysCat on July 26, 2026, 06:06:43 PMThe JAWS sequels are the textbook example of the Law of Diminishing Returns.
Jaws 2 was passible, in a cheap B-Movie sort of way.
Jaws 3-D was terrible.
Jaws: The Revenge was an abomination.
The HALLOWEEN series is another example. I'll go as far as "4" in that franchise (and I'll admit that 1998's "H20" has its charms), but everything that came after has been either "meh" or "suck."
I have a lot of time for JAWS 2.
and hot take but I actually prefer HALLOWEEN 2 to the original, as a straight watch. obviously the original was more erm original.
EXCORCIST 2 gets dumped on by everyone but I prefer it to the first one. the first one is a clunky snoozefest, the 2nd is a mad trip albeit flawed
OMEN 2 is not a total failure but just seems kind of arbitrary and 'well I guess it has to go like this now because he's growing up, yeah?', to me... demonic baby scary, demonic schoolboy not so much.
#5
Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by LilCerberus - July 26, 2026, 08:21:18 PMTonight's Stinker
His Name Was King(1971)
https://youtu.be/e-W0QTHs_-c?si=mY7VBokVmVf-o6SZ
A group of wagons is rolling through the desert, when they come to an army checkpoint.... When one of the soldiers tries to investigate, he gets a pistol in the face, while another man offers him money... Smooth sailing, but the next checkpoint is a little more hard nosed with more men, but one of the wagons has a Gatlin gun....
Then roll opening credits, Where we're introduced to the protagonist, King.... King is a bounty hunter, who corners & dispatches four fugitives..... The brothers of one of the men swear vengeance, & start by killing King's brother & attacking his new wife.... So King swears revenge....
He rides off to the next town, where he gets in a gunfight with the brothers & their gang, then rides off to the next town, where an army officer gives him a heliograph, which he uses to report a stagecoach robbery to passing army patrols....
King gets captured while investigating, & learns the brothers are selling guns to Mexican bandits...
Meanwhile, back at the local army headquarters, King is being framed for stealing the guns & leading the patrol into an ambush.....
Drags most of the time, but the gunfights are okay.....
His Name Was King(1971)
https://youtu.be/e-W0QTHs_-c?si=mY7VBokVmVf-o6SZ
A group of wagons is rolling through the desert, when they come to an army checkpoint.... When one of the soldiers tries to investigate, he gets a pistol in the face, while another man offers him money... Smooth sailing, but the next checkpoint is a little more hard nosed with more men, but one of the wagons has a Gatlin gun....
Then roll opening credits, Where we're introduced to the protagonist, King.... King is a bounty hunter, who corners & dispatches four fugitives..... The brothers of one of the men swear vengeance, & start by killing King's brother & attacking his new wife.... So King swears revenge....
He rides off to the next town, where he gets in a gunfight with the brothers & their gang, then rides off to the next town, where an army officer gives him a heliograph, which he uses to report a stagecoach robbery to passing army patrols....
King gets captured while investigating, & learns the brothers are selling guns to Mexican bandits...
Meanwhile, back at the local army headquarters, King is being framed for stealing the guns & leading the patrol into an ambush.....
Drags most of the time, but the gunfights are okay.....
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Good Movies / Re: Great movies with bad sequ...
Last post by M.10rda - July 26, 2026, 07:43:10 PM
It's all subjective (though we can probably agree on "inferior to the original" statements). Again, from childhood, I saw JAWS 3-D before I saw the original - in the theater on opening weekend during a hot summer. We went directly from the movie theater to our local swimming pool and I refused to get in the pool. I was 6. So JAWS 3-D had the identical effect on six year old me that the original had on everyone else - and I distinctly remember thinking the ending (grenade stuck in the Jaws) was cool, too. Never revisited that one either. I saw JAWS a few years later and of course it's better. I didn't dislike JAWS 2 either though.Having rewatched HALLOWEENs 4 + 5 less than a decade ago - I do insist 5 is a more interesting thus better movie. In spite of a couple cool bits, Part 4 is a terribly stupid film. Neither of course are remotely as good as the first two.
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Good Movies / Re: Great movies with bad sequ...
Last post by FatFreddysCat - July 26, 2026, 06:06:43 PMThe JAWS sequels are the textbook example of the Law of Diminishing Returns.
Jaws 2 was passible, in a cheap B-Movie sort of way.
Jaws 3-D was terrible.
Jaws: The Revenge was an abomination.
The HALLOWEEN series is another example. I'll go as far as "4" in that franchise (and I'll admit that 1998's "H20" has its charms), but everything that came after has been either "meh" or "suck."
Jaws 2 was passible, in a cheap B-Movie sort of way.
Jaws 3-D was terrible.
Jaws: The Revenge was an abomination.
The HALLOWEEN series is another example. I'll go as far as "4" in that franchise (and I'll admit that 1998's "H20" has its charms), but everything that came after has been either "meh" or "suck."
#8
Good Movies / Re: Great movies with bad sequ...
Last post by M.10rda - July 26, 2026, 06:04:42 PMI like FORCE 10 FROM NAVARONE. Great cast, fun action, though I agree it is a lesser film than the original.
I mean - I don't think the drop-off in quality between NAVARONE 1 and NAVARONE 2 is significantly more steep than the drop-off in quality between GODFATHER 1 (perfect film) and GODFATHER 2 (not superior; overlong and anticlimactic; at least three legendary Great performances but Pacino doesn't give one of those and suddenly has nowhere to go from the end of the first movie). Of course maybe that hot take belongs in the "Unpopular Opinions" thread.
Some Part 2s that I absolutely abhorred in my 80s/early 90s childhood: GHOSTBUSTERS 2, POLTERGEIST 2, ROBOCOP 2, RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD 2, HOME ALONE 2, GREMLINS 2. I realize that last one has been critically reclaimed but I've never bothered to revisit it. Also I think TEMPLE OF DOOM ranks #4 out of 5 Indy movies.
Forest Whitaker deserved an unironic Oscar nomination for the first SPECIES. That is all.
Great cast, fun action, though I agree it is a lesser film than the original. I mean - I don't think the drop-off in quality between NAVARONE 1 and NAVARONE 2 is significantly more steep than the drop-off in quality between GODFATHER 1 (perfect film) and GODFATHER 2 (not superior; overlong and anticlimactic; at least three legendary Great performances but Pacino doesn't give one of those and suddenly has nowhere to go from the end of the first movie). Of course maybe that hot take belongs in the "Unpopular Opinions" thread.
Some Part 2s that I absolutely abhorred in my 80s/early 90s childhood: GHOSTBUSTERS 2, POLTERGEIST 2, ROBOCOP 2, RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD 2, HOME ALONE 2, GREMLINS 2. I realize that last one has been critically reclaimed but I've never bothered to revisit it. Also I think TEMPLE OF DOOM ranks #4 out of 5 Indy movies.
Forest Whitaker deserved an unironic Oscar nomination for the first SPECIES. That is all.
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Good Movies / Re: Jason Statham Stole My Bik...
Last post by M.10rda - July 26, 2026, 05:49:59 PMI hope this is one of the following:
A.) a long-delayed sequel to DUDE, WHERE'S MY CAR? in which Kutcher and Stiffler are middle-aged men who have lost their drivers' licenses and (like many aging heshers) must ride bicycles everywhere, until the eponymous antagonist strikes;
or B.) a long-delayed feature-length theatrical spinoff of the beloved "Kids In The Hall" sketch starring and written by Bruce McCullough, where the guy who stole his bicycle wheel (Jason Statham, apparently) returns after nearly four decades to finish the job.
A.) a long-delayed sequel to DUDE, WHERE'S MY CAR? in which Kutcher and Stiffler are middle-aged men who have lost their drivers' licenses and (like many aging heshers) must ride bicycles everywhere, until the eponymous antagonist strikes;
or B.) a long-delayed feature-length theatrical spinoff of the beloved "Kids In The Hall" sketch starring and written by Bruce McCullough, where the guy who stole his bicycle wheel (Jason Statham, apparently) returns after nearly four decades to finish the job.
#10
Bad Movies / Re: 100 Historical Movies in O...
Last post by M.10rda - July 26, 2026, 05:17:02 PMI'm glad we got COME AND SEE in there - thank you. We're at the point where we can afford to skip ahead in 2-year intervals - that's it. No more mega-jumps, please! I am stressed out enough @ work!