Recent Viewings, Part 2

[Alex]

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die.

I found this to be enjoyable, slightly more intelligent than normal sci-fi. It is aimed squarely at the dangers of AI, but I didn't find it overly preachy. You have time travel and reality jumping so its one that you need to pay some degree of attention to or you are not going to follow the plot. An easier, more accessible version of Everything, Everywhere, All At Once maybe?

[indianasmith]

Weekend Double Feature:
BOGIEVILLE - A down-on-his luck, recently fired auto mechanic and his also recently fired bartender girlfriend take off in his truck and get in a wreck near a threadbare, decrepit trailer park.  The caretaker offers them a job - which turns out to be guarding a nest of vampires that sleep in the trailers by day and wreak all kinds of havoc by night!  This one had plot holes a mile wide, but the vampire makeup was pretty cool and the kills were nice and gory. 2.5/5

THE GRAVE DANCERS:  This was an excellent horror film with some really spooky moments; all about three college friends who go to the cemetery at night to mourn an old friend.  They wind up getting drunk and dancing in the moonlight over some graves, which triggers a very angry haunting phenomenon.  Decent story, some good jump scares, and a surprisingly engaging plot.  4/5

[indianasmith]

NORTON CREEK MASSACRE (2026) - Half AI, half actual film, this rancid pile of cinematic garbage is, in my daughter's words, a "fever dream of stupid."   A lonely loser whose vocal cords were stolen from him as a kid becomes a woefully incompetent serial killer, but his sole friend, a hulking AI monster that looks half demon, half minotaur, picks up his slack and kills the ones that he lets get away.  Then the homicidal duo run into a nest of vampires who have come to a country house to turn a new victim into one of their coven, and bloody mayhem ensues.
   Honestly, this synopsis makes the film sound much more coherent than it actually is.  The screenwriting makes about as much sense as one of Dalmatian Bobby Samaritan's posts.  The only reason I might give it more than one star is that it was so unpredictable and random I found myself unable to turn it off until it was done - but then I realized that was the hook to get me to watch the entire, awful mess that was this movie.  So. . .  one star it is!

1/5

Please watch this, so I don't have to suffer alone!   It's on Prime.

[M.10rda]

"Have you heard about the lone-some lo-ser?"
Thanks to you, Indiana, now I have! I will probably take you up on your challenge. We often have opposite reactions to movies so maybe somehow I will love this one?

[Rev. Powell]

HER PRIVATE HELL (2026): More setting than story, the plot somehow involves an actress and her relationships with her distant father and a stepmother who's her own age, a mythical serial killer called the Leatherman, and flashbacks of a GI hunting the Leatherman, all occurring in a dreamlike hotel and city. The beautiful people lit in beautiful neon are beautiful, but with wispy incidents even more diffuse and opaque than the mist that infects the city, it's a struggle to care. 2.5/5.