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[frecklesandpoverty]

31 Nights of Halloween Horror: day 6

Oops this post is for real late lol. My choice for last night was the sixth installment in the V/H/S franchise: V/H/S85

I rated this 7/10 as a whole, but I'll breakdown my ratings for each segment too, cause why not lol. This was a great VHS movie, much better than some of the previous installments (here's looking at you, V/H/S Viral).

Like the previous films this one is made up of different segments, plus a main background story type thing going on too. The background story for this one was Total Copy, and I'm rating that 8/10. Good acting, creepy monster, made me laugh out loud at the part where it's replicating a guy named Gary, and the main doctor says "do you wanna watch that again?" the camera pans into Gary's unamused face and the narrator deadpan says "Gary did not want to watch it again." Poor Gary, they should have listened to the other scientist who was played by an uncredited Kelli Garner <3, and gotten the hell outta there cause "Rory" wasn't playing around.

The first segment ties into another one, both directed by the same person. No Wake and Ambrosia were my two favorites of the whole film. Great fun, good acting, good effects, good twist, good resolution. I want a whole film with this, or showing the aftermath or something cause I need moooooooore.

God of Death was the next segment, and it was good too. Nothing amazing, but good.

Next segment was TKNOGD, and I kiiiiind of liked it, but it's probably my least favorite from the whole movie. Kinda neat though.

The last one is Dreamkill, and it was good though I totally guessed who the killer was going to be. Good acting, and I loooooove James Ransone so that was fun to see him in this.

All around, this was a pretty good movie. If you've enjoyed the other V/H/S movies, you'll enjoy this one too. I still want a full movie for No Wake/Ambrosia though cause that was fantastic lol.

[llpodcast]

(Literary License Podcast)

Sinister (2012)

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Sinister is a 2012 American supernatural horror film directed by Scott Derrickson and written by C. Robert Cargill and Derrickson. It stars Ethan Hawke as a struggling true-crime writer whose discovery of videos depicting grisly murders in his new house puts his family in danger. Juliet Rylance, Fred Thompson, James Ransone, Clare Foley, and Michael Hall D'Addario appear in supporting roles.  Sinister was inspired by a nightmare Cargill had after watching the 2002 film The Ring.  Principal photography on Sinister began in Autumn of 2011 in Long Island, NY with a production budget of $3 million.[3] To add the authenticity of old home movies and snuff films, the Super 8 segments were shot on actual Super 8 cameras and film stock

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We Are Still Here (2015)

 We Are Still Here is a 2015 American horror film written and directed by Ted Geoghegan and starring Andrew Sensenig and Barbara Crampton as grieving parents who find themselves the focus of an attack by vengeful spirits. The film had its world premiere on 15 March 2015 at South by Southwest.

  Opening Credits; Introduction (1.04); Background History (10.02);Sinister  Film Trailer (12.00); The Original (14.29); Let's Rate (41.05); Introducing the Double Feature (44.43); We Are Still Here Film Trailer (45.33); The Attraction (47.08); How Many Stars (1:05.06); Overall End Credits (1:09.28); Closing Credits (1:10.56)

  Opening Credits– Epidemic Sound – copyright 2021. All rights reserved

 Closing Credits:  Haunted by the Pogues. Taken from the Sid and Nancy Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.  Copyright 1986 Epic Records

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Original Music copyrighted 2020 Dan Hughes Music and the Literary License Podcast. 

 All rights reserved.  Used with Kind Permission.

 All songs available through Amazon Music.

[mountaindewdrop]

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[exdeputysonso-archive]

Tangerine (2015) + Letterboxd Reviews

[matuk-art]

You are braver than you think (Fem Reddie)

[faestadurmiendo]

James -daddy- Ransone lockscreens 🍭💗

[jamesfinleyransone]

[exhausted-emily]

Sooooo uhhhhh. I did a thing.

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/NodiceEm92/e/5056

[taishaunas]

i love james ransone so much it’s unreal

everybody please listen to his episode on mentalpod

[ratmanrichie]

before show smooch

[septsaph]

R+E ...be still my heart

Benverly...FUCK YES

Mike Hanlon getting the FUCK out of Derry ...we love a king

Bill finally getting over his guilt about Georgie ...YES

“Ayo Silver, AWAY!!!!” Yes Big Bill ...man James McAvoy CHEFS KISS

Andrian Melon too ...just a perfect catalyst for this movies begining ...just like it was for Georgie in the first movie.

That soft touch of hands in the arcade ...my poor poor Richie ...I swear my heart was so fucking sad ...I cried

“I know your secret, your dirty little secret” my heart swole for Richie

Eddie and Richie’s banter was perfect so amazing ,..even the times when it slipped into the background and you could still hear it I loved it.

Eddie is braver than he thinks™️

Ben broke my heart this one ...I have to say he’s one of the characters I relate to the most other than Richie and it just hurt my heart so much man

Mike fucking Hanlon ...FUCK YES! The way that’s Isaiah Mustafa played Mike was so well done I mean seriously ...he stayed in Derry for all these years and so ready to defeat the clown that he was pleading with all the Losers to stay ...just a wonderful job

Mike + Bill ...yes just yess

Eddies death ...I knew ...I knew it was going to happen but still I cried ...James Ransone and Bill Hader did so fucking well ...the way that Eddie held onto Richie’s jacket all the way to the end my heart broke. The way that Richie held onto Eddie and had to be physically pulled away from him, the way he had to be held back from going back into this crumbling building to get Eddie, the way he broke down and started crying in the quarry....my heart was fucking SHATTERED.

I NEED THIS TRUTH OR DARE SCENE PERIODT ...WE ALL (KINDA) KNOW WHAT HAPPENED I STILL WANT TO SEE IT THOUGH

Jesica Chastain...CHEFS KISS x8000

Jay Ryan ...CHEFS KISS x8500

James McAvoy...CHEFS KISS x8000

Bill Hader...CHEFS FUCKING KISS x9000

James Ransone ...CHEFS FUCKING KISS x9000

Isaiah Mustafa...CHEFA FUCKING KISS x9000 AHH

I loved this movie and it was beautifully done ...even though it was a horror movie it was still absolutely fucking amazing. I will be going back to see it again.

[juststarksands]

Brad: So where are we headed exactly? Nate: This area right here. A Shia slum called Saddam City. Brad: Saddam City Wynn: Gotta rename that Bitch Ray: *singing in the background the whole time*

Brad: Ray Ray: Check it out. I wrote USA with my piss Brad: *smiles*

Generation Kill, episode 7, Bomb in the Garden

Cpl Josh Ray Person, as played by James Ransone Lt Nathaniel Fick, as played by Stark Sands Gny Sgt Mike Wynn, as played by Marc Menchaca Sgt Brad Colbert, as played by Alexander Skarsgard

for a friend

[ladyvean]

“Saint Spaghetti”

Please click image to enlarge because it looks much better.

Eddie Kaspbrak from IT as portrayed by James Ransone and Dennis Christopher; commission for @corpse-of-bandersnatch.

Fun fact - Dennis Christopher, much like Jeffrey Combs and his bitty nose, is really difficult to capture well.  I hope you enjoy the subtle burgundy overtone throughout the image, from the jacket to the background to the tie, which I was using to convey an anxiety dream like state.

[wrestlingatthemovies]

Empire State (2013)

Former WWE Champion Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson stars as a New York detective investigating the biggest cash heist in US history.

The People's Champion plays a pivotal but secondary character but isn't involved in any action sequences that would show off his wrestling background.

Featured Wrestler:

The Rock as Det. James Ransone

Wrestle Rating:

2 out of 5 bulletproof vests

An uninspiring interpretation of what appears to be an interesting true story. The Brahma Bull is one of the few highlights of the movie and comes across as cool and in control.

[rantshemlock]

It: Chapter 2

It: Chapter 2 is an almost three hour movie in which just about nothing of value happens

this review contains implied spoilers for the movie! if that bothers you, don’t read ahead.

It (2017) had some incredible setpieces with brilliant monster designs and fantastic practical effects, bolstered by a couple of excellent performances from the show-stealing Finn Wolfhard and Jack Dylan Grazer, along with an outstanding performance by Bill Skarsgard as Pennywise. this, and the simplicity of the plot, make up for the fact that the character writing was often shallow and the dialogue laden with exposition.

It: Chapter 2 has almost all of those qualities, but also one major flaw: it's a bad movie.

there’s a lot to unpack when it comes to why exactly It 2 is such an extreme drop in quality to the first movie; the biggest is the story, which is a mish-mash of new footage of the child actors and the characters as adults, and is probably the biggest pisstake in film history in terms how much of an extreme waste of time it is. for a film to so thoroughly enforce the idea that the characters’ actions are pointless and serve nothing is unbelievable. as a movie that should be a triumphant ending to the saga, we’re given what is explicitly told to us to be pointless.

It 2′s sin is that it doesn’t build up to anything. not storybeats, not relationships, often not even scares. things are laughably obviously telegraphed, even more so than It 2017′s often heavy-handed exposition. the movie wants us to care about the characters because of their past together, but rather than building off the first film’s two hours of story it instead patches in new settings and scenes that no viewer has any attachment to.

“remember the club house? you love the club house!” the film says, showing us to a set we’ve never seen before and have no reason to care about other than it dictates we have to now care about it. the first movie was incredibly well received and is now beloved, it has more than enough emotional moments to build off of, but the film rejects all that in favour of bringing up new ideas, new concepts that hardly get built upon. it demands you care, but doesn’t earn that compassion or attention.

unresolved issues is the name of the game in this movie; characters are constantly shown to have problems, huge, serious problems. Beverly is being abused by her husband, something we’re shown in overly graphic detail. Mike is suffering from untold trauma from standing vigil over Derry for years. Bill is fucking up his movie and his relationship with his wife. Richie is living a lie, deep within the closet. what’s most egregious is not just that these issues don’t get resolved, but that they never get addressed.

we are meant to believe that these characters care about each other, care deeply, have a connection that would drive them to die for each other, but no one notices that Bev is covered with bruises and is desperately avoiding home. no one questions Mike’s erratic, terrified behaviour. Bill forgets his wife exists. as i watched the movie i found myself asking, if Ben loves Beverly so much, why can’t he see her pain?

in the first movie, the characters’ issues were deeply entrenched in their psyche, were part of what Pennywise used to manipulate and attack them. in this movie, they haven’t moved on from their childhood issues and their adult issues are merely tacked on, lip service to the idea that they have grown up but a refusal to actually spend time examining what their issues as adults are. all the characters are suffering in some way, but they never share these things. for all their love and trust, they never developed past their childhood and they never learned how to be adults. their arcs from the first movie are reset completely; their development in that film never happened. for how little that film ties into this one and how much this one wants to retell history with new content, it might as well not have existed at all.

if It: Chapter 2 lacks anything, it’s tact. it’s carelessly violent and shallow, throwing around horrifying concepts and spending no time to flesh them out. while the idea in the book that Pennywise’s presence leads to more violence, abuse and bigotry deserves criticism, this film manages to do an even worse job. what in the book might be questionable and in need of updating becomes uncomfortable and thoughtless in the movie. the gay hate crime at the film is one of the most prominent examples; always a horrifying thing to read in the movie it serves even less purpose, exposes even less about the town, adds nothing, means nothing. goes nowhere.

let’s talk about being gay. let’s talk about Richie.

here’s a fun fact; discounting Nightmare on Elm Street 2 (as painful as it is for me to say this, as someone who fucking adores that movie) It: Chapter 2 is the first horror movie in a big franchise to have a gay hero, unless there’s some information i really badly need to be updated on. making Richie gay was a good move, and i think Richie was the perfect character to pick for it. he’s by far one of the two most likeable characters in the film, the most memorable, gets the best moments and the best lines.

but the conclusion the film gives him, combined with the hate crime earlier in the movie, after he spends the entire film in the closet letting no one know he is suffering, is that he will never be happy. he can’t open up to anyone about what he’s feeling; he never tells any of the others, even Eddie, the character strongly implied to be the love of his life. while Ben and Beverly are given one of the best and most visually striking setpieces of the film to reunite in, there is no such moment for Eddie and Richie. there is no catharsis for either of them.

while making Richie gay was an excellent idea, to try and throw a bone to us starving gays to have someone to cling to, but the ending of the movie left me feeling completely hollow. i did not want my takeaway from his character to be that he is traumatised beyond the point of any healing.

the politics of gay representation in this movie are bad, and so is race.

Stephen King is a writer with a dirty reputation for his habit of using “native americans” as shorthand for something magic and not understandable, and this film manages to not only dig up the few traces of this from the book but also make it worse, turning the ritual of chud (something that the book implied only worked because the characters believed in it and had no tie to native americans) into the act of ignorant, misinformed indigenous people who get not a single line to explain or defend themselves but are only allowed to be set dressing to later be ridiculed and demonised.

Mike, the sole black character of the movie, is served horribly in this film. while in  the novel he was one of the most important characters, a thoughtful librarian and historian carefully gathering the history of Derry to research the truth of It’s influence, he was given no screen time in the first movie and in this one is the detested outsider of the group. he is pushed into the position of mentor and guide, rather than friend, and comes across almost like the old stereotype of the magical black character, someone who is only there to provide guidance to the white leads through insight he mysteriously and magically possesses. the film stripped away his position as historian and researcher from the first movie and now scrambles to make up for that, leaving him without the history and characterisation to allow us to understand who and why he is.

on top of this, despite the enormity of his sacrifice to stay in Derry and the clear mental strain it’s put him through -- Isaiah Mustafa gives Mike more depth and thought than anyone else did and brings in his performance layers of subtlety this film doesn’t deserve -- the other characters are mocking and derisive of his attempts, don’t trust him and accuse him repeatedly of lying to and betraying them. these moments go nowhere, also. he is always immediately ‘forgiven’ without any thought as to his own suffering or the continual selflessness of his actions. he’s the thoughtless punchbag to a film in which the character continually martyrs himself for the comfort of others.

he isn’t even given the dignity of being called the leader of the group, despite doing everything for them and coming up with every idea. for some reason, the leader is nominated as Bill, despite James McAvoy’s performance being lackluster to the point of fading into the background entirely and the character of Bill doing next to nothing in the film at all.

but again -- the characters in It are not allowed to care about each other’s pain and suffering outside of a few moments. they come with their mental turmoil and they are either completely cured of it or allowed to remain in it, unmentioned again.

there’s not a bad actor in this -- James Ransone is astonishingly good, pitch-perfectly recreating Jack Dylan Grazer’s every mannerism, Bill Hader is both funny and heart-rendering when needed, Isaiah Mustafa moves mountains to make the script give him some depth, and Bill Skarsgard is again incredible as Pennywise -- but there’s also not an actor who isn’t horribly, horribly maligned by the script. Jessica Chastain, an actress of tremendous power and presence, is given next to nothing to do or say. more thought and care is given to Stephen King’s cameo as a shop owner than the role of Henry Bowers.

the film has its moments. Richie and Eddie are a delight, and the monster design and practical effects are again top of the line. it’s just a painful shame that so much talent and craft, the skills of the incredible artists and designers, the hard work of the enthusiastic and engaged cast and the intricacy of the sets are wasted on a movie that has no direction, no idea where it’s going and no point to make about anything.

also, it’s pretty fucking galling for a movie to continually make jokes about how despised a writer’s endings are only for it to take the far better ending of the book and discard it for something so ridiculous it was a strain not to laugh in the theatre.

It: Chapter 2 has no reason to be as bad as it is, but all the goodwill in the world can’t save a story this fragile, this pointless, and that refuses to engage with any of the subject it brings up to this degree. It wants us to take it very seriously indeed, but there’s nothing here to latch onto; this movie is someone screaming ‘oh the horror’ in a beautiful room filled with set dressings that crumble to ash.

[fuckmewithyourtoespj]

pov james ransone invites you to his minecraft server

It was a saturday. You just had a successful day of harassing James Ransone on Instagram, as you did every day. You had begged him to make a Minecraft server. You could feel it… today was the one. Today was the day James would finally call the police on you.

You changed into your James Ransone pyjamas and got into your James Ransone bed. You said good night to the picture of James Ransone on your bedside table and went to sleep. That’s when you saw him…

Minecraft Steve. He was saying something, but you couldn’t hear him. He was trying to pass on a message. Somehow, you knew what you had to do anyway. 

You woke up, feeling like a million cold slugs were sliding down your back, and heard it. That noise. You checked the notifications on your phone, which had a James Ransone background. You couldn’t beleieve your eyes

Discord

ihatejamesransone sent a friend request

You knew it, you could feel it in both your asscheeks, it was him. It was James Ransone.

What would he do?

You accapted, bceause you’rwe not an idiot, and instantly, a message popped up. 

James Ransone was inviting you to join his Minecraft server. You join nervously, sweating as you type out ‘hello mr. ransone’, your fingers shaking as you pressed send. The bones, they were rattling

‘Hello Y/N (because your discord username was actually your name, because you’re a boomer),’ he wrote back. You could see that he was typing

‘I see you have asked me to make a MineCraft server. I am not sure what MineCraft is, but I have made it’ 

He was typing.

‘I need your help Y/N. The government is watching me. They are looking for me, they’re getting closer, they-’