#movie reviews 2017

[mayorofloserville69]

The final saw movie with wife :(

[iamamymarch]

Teehee 🤭 another Jordan Peele film.

I enjoyed this even more than nope, the acting was insane and the soundtrack was beautiful

(All photos off of pinterest)

[yello-123]

IT 2017 Review

Unfortunately pretty mid. I had a few major complaints:

1. Stakes     - To be honest, I wasn’t scared once. I wasn’t expecting to be terrified or anything, but I expected to be more unsettled than just thinking “ew” when faced with gross looking cgi.      - More than not being “scary”, I was never really frightened for the characters (except that one scene with Bev and her dad). Of course I knew none were going to die, but a good movie doesn’t let knowing the outcome block all suspense. I really noticed what I felt was a lack of stakes when they all confronted It in the bottom of the well. It not putting up much of a fight against 7 barely armed twelve year olds made him feel pretty pathetic and non-threatening.  2. Explanations      - Because I’ve watched a few video essays and had several friends really enjoy this franchise over the years I’ve heard much of the lore and was excited to see how it played out in this movie. I was pretty disappointed because they would mention events I recognize and give absolutely no details. Because of this, sometimes the movie felt hollow and less eerie than it could’ve been.      - To be honest, this was a lesser complaint because I kind of get it. It is a massive book and somethings have to be cut to make it into a movie. 

Things I enjoyed: 1. Characters      - I really enjoyed Richie and Eddie’s dialogue. Richie’s comedic lines, Eddie’s snappy complaints, and Finn Wolfhard and Jack Dylan Grazer’s portrayals of the characters breathed a lot of life into the movie.      - I also rooted and felt bad for Bill more than I thought I would. I think Jaeden Martell did a good job with the role. 2. Georgie      - I knew exactly when and how Georgie was going to die and still found myself telling the tv, “Georgie, it’s not worth it! It didn’t look that hard to make the boat. BILL WILL MAKE YOU ANOTHER ONE!!”. That scene was one of the only times I felt the movie did a good job at establishing stakes and suspense.  3. Vibes     - It did make me wish I spent my summers riding a bike around a town and swimming with friends.     - I NEED Bill’s cut off jean shorts next summer 

[rye-views]

Leatherface (2017) dir. Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo. 7.4/10

I wouldn't recommend this movie to my friends. I wouldn't rewatch this movie.

Poor young Jed being peer pressured to slaughter.

That cathartic sawing of Hartman is crazy. Sawing off Elizabeth's head is crazy. Being able to mold someone like this is crazy. What is this weird necrophilia shit?

Jackson being Jed was fun to learn. Good prequel idea.

Damn, just the whole town is crazy.

Some AHS and Outlast.

[filmshady]

10 things I thought about while watching LOGAN

The retirement plan for mutants involves grumpy facial hair, a penchant for whiskey, and driving a limo. Hugh Jackman's way of saying, "I'm done, but not without some serious side-eye."

Charles Xavier's telepathic powers must be on the fritz. I've never heard so many f-bombs dropped by a man with a British accent. Someone get this guy a mental mute button.

Nothing says quality parenting like raising a mini-Wolverine with an attitude sharper than Logan's claws.

Mutants are going extinct faster than a hipster trend. Logan is like the lone wolf in a world that desperately needs a superhero stylist.

Caliban, the mutant with a cough louder than a metal concert. You'd think someone with enhanced senses would invest in some cough drops.

Logan's healing factor is like a magic eraser for inconvenient wounds. Lost a limb? Give it a minute. It's like Wolverine has Wolverine insurance.

In Logan's world, the X-Men are reduced to comic book characters. It's like Marvel-ception. "Hey, isn't that the guy playing Wolverine?" - Logan, probably.

The Weapon X program went from a high-tech military operation to a shady doctor in a dusty lab. Mutant experimentation on a budget – the struggle is real.

Logan's paternal instincts are as rusty as his claws. Watching him try to be a father figure is like seeing a bull in a china shop – destructive but oddly compelling.

Logan: Because nothing says superhero swan song like a road trip with a kid who's a literal killing machine. It's like Thelma and Louise, but with more adamantium.

[hannahwatcheshorror]

GERALD'S GAME (2017)

💁‍♀️Strong Female Lead

I won’t lie, this movie is a heavy one, the subject matter is tough, but if you are able to handle it this is a phenomenal film. I don’t know how Stephen King can write so well for women, but he slips into the role like Buffalo Bill into a suit made of women's skin. This movie is very true to the book, not making the mistakes of other King movies that deviate greatly from his writing and try for a new way of thinking. Gorgeous scenes of the eclipse that flood your senses as they would have Jessie’s. Really an excellent film.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

(Trigger Warning Sexual Abuse, Child Sexual Abuse)

To try and fix their marriage Jessie is handcuffed to the bed in their remote vacation home but the thing is, ladies, gentlemen, and otherwise, you gotta talk to your partners before employing crazy sex stuff because Gerald’s Game freaked Jessie right the fuck out and it wasn’t safe at all!  “We might die here today because of Gerald’s five inches!” Very quickly into Gerald's untimely death and Jessie’s subsequent imprisonment Prince the dog smells the blood and stops by for a bite. This drives Jessie into a madness where she envisions versions of Gerald and herself talking to her (and it is very well done).

Our first night is coming quickly and our best girl uses some quick thinking to get a drink of water before the lights go out. She wakes up to a spooky visitor and we cannot tell if he is real or in her imagination though and her imaginary husband posits that if the spooky visitor is imaginary then why did the real dog leave? This was very chilling. We also got to see what inspired Talk to Me’s foot sucking action, who knew demons loved toes? (We all did, that's why we never dangled our feet out of the covers)

We are brought back to Jessie’s past, the day of the total solar eclipse, the day her father sexually abused her. Then her horrible father tricks her into thinking that telling anyone would make her look bad so she promises him she won’t ever tell anyone. At this point she is convinced that the man she saw in her room last night is Death (or the Moon Man) and that he is coming back tonight to kill her so she has to act NOW. She remembers something else from the day of the eclipse, cutting her hand, which gives her an idea…

THE DEGLOVING SCENE IS SO BRUTAL. I have not been made physically ill by a horror movie in such a long time but here we are. My LANTA was that AWFUL. I had to pause it to take a break because I was thrown off by this scene, it was very well done but excruciating. (I don’t want to go back until the scary lady with the half hand is gone) I was trembling by the time she got the key to the cuffs and was getting a well earned drink from the tap.

She sees the Moon Man on her way out and gives him her wedding ring as a sort of payment, sort of like paying a coin to cross the River Styx only she gets to live. She drives her car, crashes it, but that leads people to find her. She recovers well but it is only months later that she discovers the spooky visitor she saw was a real man after all who was caught for robbing graves. She goes to his hearing and confronts him, telling him he looks small. She goes on to start a foundation to help anyone who has gone through sexual trauma like she did and tells her story everyday.

Um, this was incredibly true to the book and I loved that about it, they only did a few little things here or there to make the story flow a bit better but holy moly if they didn’t stick to the book! I am very pleased! The only thing that I would have LOVED is if she would have taken Prince the dog on as a pet but that wasn’t in the book and in fact they usually have to destroy dogs that have a taste for human flesh so… yeah… but I like to imagine it would be a very powerful move for Jessie to take the dog that terrorized her and have it become a companion cause the dog was just doing what it needed to to survive but maybe that is just me. Brilliant book, brilliant movie. Great job all around to everyone involved!

[the-masked-reviewer]

Transformers: The Last Knight (2017) Review

potential spoilers ahead...

As always with this franchise, the CGI is on another level. The amount of detail and realistic movements applied to these robot cars is truly astounding.

For starters, this movie's story uses a take on Arthurian Legend and adds a dragon on top, and I for one am easily bought by knights and dragons, making the overall story more interesting and fun. Of course the movie with knights, swords, and a dragon Transformer, also manages to show you more of all of the various dinosaur transformers than age of extinction, the dinosaur transformer movie.

This movie directly follows possibly the worst of the Transformers movies (cough extinction cough) which made me almost believe that the movies after would go back to what made the originals before them so much fun (I was wrong, but that's not this movie's fault, its their performance's fault).

[eff-ston3mblogs]

[figure83074]

Sooo, i have some thoughts....

I watched IT(2017) tonight, and have nobody to talk to about this movie, so tumblrs going to have to do. To preface this, this is the first time i watched the movie, I havent seen the second one yet, and i also never read the book.

I really liked the losers club. Their friendship was really sweet and i love the fact that beverly is written as a human, not as a romantic interest. I love how everyone has their own scares and personality, how they have problems together, and still end up as one of the strongest friend groups ive seen in cinema. I like that there are realistic subplots, and that henrys group isnt overly unrealistic. I can't complain about the main antagonist being unrealistic because that is a clown with a mouth thats like a cross of a venus flytrap and a puched lamprey.

But i still wish they would've dived deeper into each character. We saw a lot of bill, having just lost his brother, but richie literally said once that he was scared of clowns and thats that. Its not mentioned again and you can barely see it. Same with stanley. With Ben, mike and Eddie we got a bit more of their character but still not a lot.

Bev was really interesting. Her character arc was really well done, but for the sake of making it not to explicit, it was kinda confusing.

I also miss the horror. Its supposed to be a horror movie but because the foundation is lacking, the horror elements are mostly relying on the blood and fear of creepy children and masks.

In total: I definitely liked the movie, i will watch chapter two, and I definitely want to read the book, to see if Stephen king talks more about the characters.

It was really fun and i can see myself recommending IT.

[theflixdiaryproject]

"I think you're a selfish bowl of bitch sauce" - Meredith McNeil

Clare Shannon (Joey King) was gifted a music box by her hoarding father (Ryan Phillippe). she later discovers that it's a magical music box that grants seven wishes. as she makes wishes for personal gain, strange and deadly events begin to affect her loved ones. she realises the box harbours a sinister power that demands a deadly price for every wish.

read my review below (may contains spoilers):

watched June 16, 2022 on netflix

I honestly don’t know what to think of Wish Upon. I first decided to watch it because I saw a short clip on YouTube, and it seemed intriguing. the idea of a cursed music box granting wishes felt like a fresh take on the horror genre, so I gave it a shot. I love music boxes. they’ve always been fascinating to me. in fact, I have a big collection at home, though most of them are broken now. in Malaysia, we don’t really have a lot of variety in terms of tunes. most of the ones I own just play Für Elise because Malaysians don’t know much about classical music other than Für Elise and honestly, it’s overused. my mum always found my music boxes creepy, especially when I played late at silent night when everyone’s sleeping. watching this movie with her didn’t help at all, and I ended up feeling more unnerved by her than entertained. back to the movie, the music box is definitely creepy. it doesn’t matter what time it plays; there’s something inherently unsettling about it. the premise of the story is exciting, and I felt genuinely intrigued at the beginning. but as the movie progressed, I found it emotionally draining. it’s not terrifying in a traditional sense. it’s more about the unsettling atmosphere and the emotional toll of the events.

one thing that really struck me was the sheer number of deaths in the movie. I’m no stranger to gruesome visuals. I’ve seen my fair share of true crime documentaries, medical dramas, and slasher movies; but there’s something different about the deaths in Wish Upon. maybe it’s the way they happen or the fact that Clare’s wishes seem to trigger them indirectly, but it leaves a heavier impact. what frustrated me the most was Clare’s character development. her personality changes so much throughout the movie, and it’s clear that the more wishes she makes, the more she loses herself. it’s not easy to watch someone’s moral compass deteriorate, even if it’s fictional. this might be why the movie feels more exhausting than entertaining for me. in the end, Wish Upon isn’t a movie I would enthusiastically recommend. it’s an interesting concept, but the execution leaves a lot to be desired. it’s emotionally heavy and frustrating to watch, even though it isn’t particularly scary. If you’re into movies that explore the darker sides of human nature, it might be worth a try. for me, though, it’s not one I’d revisit.

final verdict: I think it was okay/watchable

maturity rating: 13+ genre: horror, fantasy duration: 1h 30m (90min) country: Canada, USA language: English screenplay: Barbara Marshall major cast: Joey King, Ryan Phillippe, Ki Hong Lee, Shannon Purser, Sydney Park

[moonytoast-x]

is it two thirty in the morning and im still 15 or did watching ladybird leave me incredibly unsatisfied? greta gerwig ily but what was the ending? no apology from her mom, no conversation at all, just her getting wasted and waking up in the hospital and having some epiphany about her toxic mother being right all along? she goes back to christine? I thought it was a deadname type of situation, I thought we were alluding to things. I thought her mother was a toxic, mean, and unsupportive meanie who wouldn't support her daughter or even tell her she liked her. she was awful! she didn't get out of the car to say goodbye at the airport!! what's going on i don't like it here at all!!!

[mantraamo]

Now watching; The Babysitter (2017)

[batty4horror]

[tinyreviews]

Tiny Review: The Florida Project 2017. Living in the shadows of Disney World.

It’s one of those experiential, thoughtprovoking movies. Not really a story imo. No character development or arc.

It’s an eyeopener on the lowest caste in the Disneyland hierarchy. A really good commentary on poverty and wealth disparity. Through the eyes of a child.

I wonder how they got permission to film though.

The Florida Project is a 2017 American drama film directed by Sean Baker and written by Baker and Chris Bergoch. Starring Bria Vinaite, Brooklynn Prince, and Willem Dafoe, with Valeria Cotto, Christopher Rivera, and Caleb Landry Jones in supporting roles, it was many of the cast members' first film appearance

[moviesandmania]

THE TERROR OF HALLOW'S EVE - reviews - free on Freevee, Plex, Roku

The Terror of Hallow’s Eve is a 2017 supernatural horror film directed and co-produced by Todd Tucker from a screenplay written by Zack Ward (Bethany; Circus Kane; Restoration), based on a story by Ronald L. Halvas and Todd Tucker. The Illusion Industries/Quixotic production stars Caleb Thomas, Sarah Lancaster, Annie Read, JT Neal, Mcabe Gregg, Niko Papastefanou, Doug Jones, Kent Kasper, Christie…

[antisociallilbrat]

I'm seeing the new D&D movie this weekend I'm so excited so I'm going to talk about the Loser's and how'd they play D&D.

Bill- He's definitely the DM. Comes up with all these insane homebrew campaigns that drive the Losers crazy. Also he is not afraid to kill their characters, he is ruthless and his monsters are genuinely scary. The few times he's actually played he plays a fuckin human wizard (derogatory)

Richie- He plays as a human bard, is anyone surprised? He tries to fuck monsters all the time and Bill kicks the table when he rolls. Richie has been successful twice and now his character has to go on quests to pay for child support. Also he actually sings when required to.

Bev- She plays an half-orc barbarian, you go girl! She charges into battle all the time and completely wrecks shit up. Bill always targets her character first because Bev has her character stacked up and is very efficient in weapons. She is out for blood when she plays. Sometimes she forgoes the party's plan and just charges in to fight.

Stan- He plays a high elf rogue, we all know he's that bitch. He'll sneak off during battle and pull sneak attacks. The party will be about to attack and they'll be like?? Where is Stan?? But Stan has already got into position behind the monster. Also Stan character acts the shit out of the roleplaying, fight me on this

Mike- He plays a wood elf druid, of course he's the nature guy. Honestly I don't know much about druids but it screams Mike. He's more a pacifist and is constantly trying to tame the animals they come across. He's the player to ask "But is this creature really evil?" It works sometimes, he's got himself a pet owl bear. Also Mike occasionally dms but he never kills their characters.

Eddie- He plays a dragonborn paladin. He likes to act like he's not as chaotic as some of Losers like Bev when it comes to fighting but the moment a villian hits him he goes crazy and fights them with a chaotic energy only he could muster. Also he notoriously rolls horrible and he gets so MAD, they can always count on Eddie to curse up a storm in a session.

Ben- He plays a gnome fighter, he wants to be small but powerful. Poor Ben is the one who actually comes up with plans to take down monsters and bad guys, it's just that no one listens to him. He's also a charming character and constantly has to apologize to the npc on behalf of the party's behavior.