Mitch Baker Movie Review Dump

[vanslater]

ok i'll play now.

[brain galacki]

It's been a whole week since I watched a movie Mitch... I will try hard to get back on track tonight.

[brain galacki]

Here-ee here! It's time for a late night Christmas time movie dump! Unfortunately I missed like a whole week of watching movies because I had to take a trip halfway across the country, but I'm back now and watching some really bad films. Here are some I watched before my trip:



DAISIES (1966): I’d look like a complete idiot if I gave this 1966 Czechoslovakian piece of art and important film about feminist rebellion a lower score than films I had previously watched and reviewed: Ghostbusters Afterlife or Captain America. Well, I watched it and I’m sure my grandmother would have hated this. Probably mostly because of those two girls wasting food. Squishing food, cutting food with knifes, eating it with their hands, stepping on food, throwing food. Honestly if I had to give a score 4/10, I am sorry. I forget why or how I even picked this movie to watch. Still an important film, I’m sure.

ROSEMARY’S BABY (1968): Whoa. For 1968, this movie had some nice twists. It had me sucked in and also big time made me realize where modern horror classics such as Hereditary and Get Out draw inspiration from. It made those modern classics that blew my mind feel less original. 9/10.

AIRHEADS (1994): Truly this movie is a shame because with it’s all star cast and dream team band it could have gone down in history like THIS IS SPINAL TAP or EMPIRE RECORDS or something, but instead it’s got a pretty lacking story, and got way less laughs out of me than it should have. I still had a great time watching at the same time with Mitch Baker, and the entire movie lead up to this dream team getting up on stage to cover a REAGAN YOUTH song?? Hahaha! 4/10 stars.

JACK FROST (1997): Apparently there are two movies called “Jack Frost” in 1997 and 1998 that came out back to back, the latter one is the Michael Keaton movie that we’ve all seen. This ’97 horror one I’ve seen the poster for many times and never really had a strong desire to watch. But apparently there’s a sequel and I really wanted to watch a Christmas horror and this was free on Shudder, so here we are. Boy, I’ve seen some low budget horror films (and have enjoyed a lot of them), but this one was not good. I refuse to believe that they spent $40-85 million on this movie like Google says they did. They couldn’t even make the snowman’s mouth move. Whenever they show him talking they have to show him from behind so you have to imagine the words coming out of his mouth. I was falling asleep towards the second half, and I was awake for the horrible snowman rape scene, but not awake enough to really fully process what the frick I was watching. I would not recommend this movie, for the most part it was bad bad. 2/10

YOUNG MR. LINCOLN (1939): Seth borrowed me this DVD so I gotta watch it. I didn’t realize from the cover that it was an old old movie from 1939 at first. It’s been a long time since I’ve watched a movie that old, and I had a hard time figuring out if the way people acted in this film was how it was in the 30’s, or how it was in the 1850’s that they were trying to portray. You know, the 2020’s version of the 1850’s and the 1930’s 1850’s are probably two completely different worlds. I’m not sure which one I would rather live in. Unfortunately this was overall a pretty boring time and I don’t have anything exciting to report back, even though the movie was supposed to take place in Springfield. I wonder if it was shot here. The worldwide premier was in town and there are pictures of that online, so that’s exciting. 3/10 stars.

[brain galacki]

yes, another movie dump for me the very day after the last one! A back-to-back! Now I'll be caught up!


PIG (2021): Here you go Mitch, my reiview that you've been waiting for. I liked it. Not gonna say “hands down the best film I’ve seen all year” like Mitch Baker just did, but you know what it was definitely good. You know this might be a very rare case where I’ll even say that this film coulda been longer. I wanna see Rob and the boy go on an even longer journey to get that pig. Seems like it was supposed to be a really long journey but they only really went like 3 places. Loved the scene when they were in the fancy restaurant with that one chef, and him cooking the meal for the bad guy dad tho. 7/10 stars.

BLOODSUCKING FREAKS (1976): I picked a random film off of Shudder to watch and this was it. Yikes, as Zack (who is the only other one I see has seen this) said, what can I say about this movie? The entire time I was watching this I felt the same way that I did when I would be watching something in the basement at my parents house I knew that I wasn't supposed to be watching. Maybe a little bit guilty, and the remote was always in my hand, finger on the 'channel up' button as soon as I saw feet coming down the stairs so I could pretend I was watching something else, and also the volume as low as it could possibly go with me still being able to hear. I guess nothing has made me feel that way in a long time, so I give it credit for that. Not recommended 2/10 stars

THE THING (1982): Forum user buffaaron420 mentioned watching this in October (I think posted a gif here) that made me realize i needed to re-visit this one - I had last seen this film ten years ago Thanksgiving break my junior year of college in 2011 in Cory VanMeter’s house basement with my little brother, former roomate Yang, and Ashlee Kinsel. I remember it being good then, and a re-visit has been long overdue. This movie is horrific, actually very scary, will give you nightmares. Ahead of its time. A classic. 10/10 for me! Sometimes with a movie like this it needs a revisit for you to realize it's a 10/10. I don't expect the 50's version or the 2010's version to be great, but I'm going to watch those at some point.

THE AVENGERS (2012): Here I am at the end of "phase 1" of my Marvel journey, and the first movie with all of the super heroes coming together. I already kinda forget what happened, but I liked it. Loki was the bad guy I guess. Again with these movies, you know what you are gonna get every time. I like it, but all of the letterboxd reviews saying "this is the star wars of my generation" need to shut up, no it's not. Just because they pooped out a movie with all of the super heroes in it does not make it that iconic and ground breaking of a film like the first Star Wars was. I'm liking all of the marvel movies in my movie-a-day watching days because I like the characters being connected. I feel like old lady watching soap operas every day. 6/10 stars.

IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE (1953): I came here for some classic 50’s alien horror sci-fi, and I guess I got it - just quickly finding out that these films are going to show the aliens as less as they possibly can, and also after seeing the 1950’s The Blob, I’m like… what are all these movies just about a guy who saw an alien and then the rest of the movie he’s just trying to convince the town sheriff that what he saw was real? Of course this one came out before The Blob, so this could have been the first. But blah. The theremin sounds though in the soundtrack were exactly what I wanted. 3/10 stars

[brain galacki]

Mitch, I'm going to post another movie dump in the new year. My movies have been piling up.




SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT PART 2 (1987): I think I talked about this one somewhere else in the forum (?), about how whatthaheck this movie is literally half just scenes from the first Silent Night, Deadly Night. Never have I felt ripped off from a movie in quite this way before. And apparently everyone l know loves this movie? essential 80's horror? OK, I admit, going back and watching the clip of the "GARBAGE DAY" scene on youtube is some hilarious sh**t. But when I saw this movie I was half asleep and p*ssed off at that point that I was not actually watching a new movie, that it went completely over my head. I am sorry Mitch, I am still giving this one the lowest possible score of 1/10.

THE MATRIX (1999): You know what, not bad! I watched The Matrix for the first time. I’ve seen a couple of late 90’s early 00’s films (DARK CITY, EQUILIBRIUM, heck now I’ll even say INCEPTION) that remind me of The Matrix without ever having seen the Matrix, and that comparison was pretty accurate now that I’ve seen it all. These movies about ooOOoo reality is just an illusion and fighting to break free from the all powerful and controlling society or robots or whatever, etc. etc, big dark city buildings, people wearing all black, and fight scenes. I am sure there are more of those movies out there. Is this “cyberpunk”? Was Matrix the first to do it and those other movies copying off the Matrix? I don’t know. But, I thought this was pretty good and I’m glad I was able to follow along for pretty much the whole film pretty well. 8/10

THE PRICE OF FEAR (1956): Had an itch to watch an older old film and picked one completely at random, which happened to be on youtube. Was a movie that made you go 'hmmm this is how things were in the 50's for real, this man is on trial for murder and he isn't even in jail or anything, he's just walking around in a suit and having a fun time the whole time?'. But old movies can be nice to watch. 4/10

INHERENT VICE (2014): I have a hard time telling if this, my first Paul Thomas Anderson film I have watched, was a film that was hard for me to follow along OR, I was actually following along the whole time and it’s a movie with a loosey goosey plot that goes all over the place. Either way I feel it’s a film that deserves a second watch, it’s just that it was two and a half hours long and took me two nights to finish as it is so I don’t think I’ll be watching anytime soon. But other than that I really liked, a really well done and well shot depiction of the late 60’s or 1970’s with a good soundtrack is up my alley. 7/10

BLACK CHRISTMAS (2019): I just wanted to watch a Christmas horror that was actually new material (even if it was a remake). My expectations for this one were real low, and it pretty much met expectations. Everything I don’t like in a horror movie was here: cell phones, ipads, apple products, frats and sororities, more cell phones, cell phones everywhere, and the bad guy bro frat guy with a haircut named Brian. 2/10

[brain galacki]

Im definitely due in for another movie dump:



HARD EIGHT (1996): After Inherent Vice, I went to Paul Thomas Anderson's debut 1996 film "Hard Eight." I gave it a 3.5/5 at first, but then after it sat on me, I changed my mind to a 8/10. Somewhat of a simple "crime / drama" movie, but you know what, it was good. Sydney Brown is a character you are rooting for and maybe there's a grandpa in a lot of our lives that he reminds us of. The one that will send you money when you need it most and you didn't even ask him for it, the one that is not afraid to let you know what you've done wrong and send you off in the right direction. That is Papa Galecki on my dad's side for me. When I died my hair into a red mohawk with my band Bastognes Best in 2007, he was there to sit me down and say "what are you doing, son?".  

MOTHRA VS. GODZILLA (1964): (not to be confused with Godzilla vs. Mothra, because apparently that is a completely different movie in the 90's). I was in the mood for another early Godzilla film that is free on youtube and lordy there are plenty of them. I wanted to see MOTHRA, especially after I had discovered the MOTHMAN in Point Pleasant WV on accident last month. To my surprise, Mothra was the good monster in this film and Godzilla was the bad one (I guess not that surprised because Mothra is probably the most lovable of all of the beasts, it was just a flip-flop from the previous one of these movies I had watched). And apparently Mothra has it's own movie as well?? I'll have to watch. I liked this, but I wasn't jaw-dropped loving it like I was with "Godzilla vs. Astro-Monster" and I can't really tell you why. It was good through, Mothra had a giant egg. 5/10 stars.

BLACK FRIDAY (2021): As I was thirsty for some more holiday horror I haven't seen, this felt like an appropriate pick. Glen Campbell (The Evil Dead man) stars in this 2021 direct to video film about Black Friday shopping retail and zombies or something. I expected it to be bad, and it was. Not worth the $7.99 or whatever I had to pay on Amazon, not recommended at all. However, I was very surprised at the giant lava turkey two headed monster that emerged at the end of this film. I'm not worried about giving out spoilers here because I don't expect anyone else to watch this. But the monster at the end... bravo. Everything else, bad. 3/10. 

THE THING (2011): The Thing's 2011 prequel got bad reviews all around and I knew it wouldn't be able to match up to the 80's classic, so I was not expecting much. However, for a prequel made in 2011 I thought that this movie was just about as good as it was going to get. Sure, the horrific creatures and parts were CGI, but I was expecting that and it was still scary. Thank goodness they made this a prequel too and it wasn't an attempted remake. But I thought the prequel story was fitting, and I kept asking the question of "how is this gonna turn into two Norweigen guys chasing a dog on a helicopter because that's how the original starts" and then it did. So good. 6/10.

NO TIME TO DIE (2021): Oh by the way, I should have mentioned that THE THING (2011) was my first movie watching on my new BIG TV the day after Christmas. I saw it during the day, and decided to go all out and see the new James Bond that is 2.5 hours long on the big new screen that night. So you know I loved it. I'll watch all of the James Bond movies, heck. I loved the last one even though it seems like a lot of people didn't. This one? I loved it, but at 2.5 hours long and the ending to me didn't seem as epic as the film wanted it to be. How do you put the spoiler thing in here? Spoiler***: wtf, he really does die at the end. And has a baby? that's not the James bond I am used to, and are we supposed to forget this 7 years from now when there's a new movie with a different guy? 8/10

[brain galacki]

It's time for me to another Mitch Baker movie dump:



HOME SWEET HOME ALONE (2021): Actually a fun time. I don’t know who would go into this expecting the same as the original 1990 classic, but for what it is this 2021 version is good family fun that I actually wish I had watched with my parents, they would have liked it. Anyone who didn’t like this must have not been having a good Christmas as it was (maybe the Grinch?) and took their frustration out on this film. (5/10) (of course it's not as good as Home Alone 1 and 2 but don't expect it to be!)

MESSIAH OF EVIL (1973): I picked a random movie off of shudder, not a bad pick! This 1973 vampire film in a small town in Nevada somewhere or something, it was very psychedelic from what I remember. It also wasn't the best, and the most exciting thing that happens is some of the people cry blood. Sorry I already forget a lot of it. 5/10. 

IRON MAN 3 (2013): I am still making my way down the Marvel list even though all of these movies are feeling the same and I pretty much give them all a 6/10. Iron Man 3 is a movie that is the one where Iron Man's house blows up and he goes to Tennessee and makes a friend that is a boy. The bad guys in this one are hot lava people that can make themselves really hot. He kills them and the main bad guy by blowing them up a bunch and he has a bunch of different suits that can fly around on their own. I gave it a 5/10, but I really think it was a 6/10 (gave it a 5 instead of 6 because i wanted to look cool)

FRENCH DISPATCH (2021): Wow, finally was able to watch this film thank you to renting it for $6.99 or something on Apple TV. Only my 3rd or 4th Wes Anderson film I have seen TBH so I don’t know what I’m talking about, but so far this is the most ‘Wes Anderson’ of Wes Anderson’s movies I have already seen and it was… 100% Wes Anderson the whole way through with attention to every single frame shot like an art piece, color schemes, and most of the time a narrator was guiding us through our journey. I’d say my biggest gripe is that the three different story line and breaks in between is preventing me from putting this up there as one of my favorite Andersons. It’s more of just a collection of short films glued together, you know? Not that there’s anything bad with that, just doesn’t compare as much to Royal Tannenbombs or Moonrise Kingdom in that sense to me. I guess I’ll still give it a 9/10 because I did enjoy ever minute of it.

NEW YEARS EVIL (1980): This seemed like the appropriate movie to watch for New Year’s / New Year’s Eve. It was your pretty typical 1980 slasher film with fake blood, a guy with a voice changer calling in to a radio station, and cuts to early punk / new wave bands complete with punks moshing to 80’s power pop type stuff. We here the theme song “New Years Evil” by the band SHADOW like three times throughout, and I gotta admit, it rocks. (Did that band only exist for this movie???) Then at the end the bad guy puts on a goofy mask for no reason, making it an all around good time! 6/10 stars.

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anyone else excited that Brian is watching PT Anderson flicks?

[jeffradon2000]

I'm a Wes Anderson fan but I haven't seen his earlier stuff prior to Life Aquatic. I finally watched Royal Tenenbaums last week and I agree that is definitely one of the best ones. I noticed they used 2 songs from Peanuts Christmas even tho there isn't anything Christmas related in the film? I also understand now a comment I heard about how there was a rediscovery of Nico in the early 2000s thanks to these films. I still need to go back and watch BottleRocket and Rushmore one of these days. Then I need to get to the more recent stuff like Isle of Dogs and now French Dispatch.

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Jan 11, 2022 11:39:17 GMT -6 jeffradon2000 said:

I'm a Wes Anderson fan but I haven't seen his earlier stuff prior to Life Aquatic. I finally watched Royal Tenenbaums last week and I agree that is definitely one of the best ones. I noticed they used 2 songs from Peanuts Christmas even tho there isn't anything Christmas related in the film? I also understand now a comment I heard about how there was a rediscovery of Nico in the early 2000s thanks to these films. I still need to go back and watch BottleRocket and Rushmore one of these days. Then I need to get to the more recent stuff like Isle of Dogs and now French Dispatch.

Its been awhile since I've seen it, but I loved Bottlerocket.

[brain galacki]

OK, time for another movie dump:



JACKIE BROWN (1997): An excellent pick for a first Mitch Baker movie club & movie watch meetup. Appropriate to go with a good tarantinto classic that we all haven't seen. From here we can explore more bad movies. Sure, it was long, but it was worth it. during my favorite parts we were all on the edges of our seats, biting our nails. I should have ordered a bigger Antonio's pizza, or two instead of one. I gave it a 9/10 at first but then I said you know what, 10/10.

ARTHUR (1981): Sure, I was in the mood for some mid to low-tier 70’s or 80’s comedy film and I picked something completely at random and this is what I got. Not bad for what it is I guess, but laughing at a drunk British guy for a whole movie is not really my thing! 3/10

DON'T LOOK UP (2021): You know what, I loved it. And I don't really get all of the hate for this movie. I am sure all of us who watched it (which seems to be half the people in the country and probably everybody that has netflax) at SOME point you GOTTA admit you were yelling at your TV screen during this movie. You were probably like "OH COME ON" a few times or "GIMME A BREAK!!" a couple of times? Or made this face: >_< a bunch of times? *hand over face emoji* ?? Don't tell me that you did not do this. That is a good movie if it made you do that. Don't try to tell me that if you did this you did not think it was a good movie. Also I don't understand people saying that the movie wasn't good because the message wasn't subtle or something. So what? It was a big fat in your face message, and literally everyone who has netflax watched this so good. Oh, you don't like this movie because it had too many celebrities in it? Or that it is dumb that all these multi billion dollar celebrities are trying to tell us this message? If one family in the middle of Tennesseee watched this movie because it had leonarbo decaprio in it and it had an impact on them to where they are going to listen to science and get vaccinated and it made any sort of impact on them now then good.

WINTERBEAST (1992): what an absolute gem we have here that recently popped up on Shudder. Basically looks like a homemade horror movie from 1992 that is more 80's and was shot over the course of at least 4 years and you can definitely tell. It is so bad in so many ways. And you know what, actually scary at times. Actually horrifying. Unexpected claymation gold popping up throughout the film. A very scary and creepy man in a mask (if you watch it, then you will know). The soundtrack is 10/10. (warning towards the beginning a guy in sungalsses says "Im not a homosexual!" or something like that, so you have to get past that). Still one of the best bad movies I have ever seen. 7/10 overall.

THE AMAZING SPIDER MAN (2011): I cared so little about Spider Man or these movies when this came out in 2011 that I don’t remember it coming out at all. I don’t really have much desire to watch it now either. I watched it and it wasn’t too bad! The Amazing Spider-Man is a movie where it’s a different guy that’s spider man and there is a new story of where he is bit by a robot spider and his uncle dies. Spider-Man makes friends with a scientist guy that used to know his dad, and he turns out to be a bad guy. Actually it’s a different bad guy that makes him take a magic potion to grow his arm back (his arm is cut off) - and he does that and then turns into a bad guy reptilian. Spider-Man also likes a girl at school and her dad is the head police officer who doesn’t like Spider-Man. The reptilian bad guy has a plan to put green gas all over the city that will make everybody reptilians. Spider-Man must stop him - but he can’t alone, he needs the help of his girlfriend’s dad that is the head police. They team up and beat the reptilian. Spider-Man never finds the guy that killed his uncle. Also you know what's dumb, I'm trying to watch all of these superhero marvel movies and this one isn't even a part of it I guess but I still gotta watch it. 5/10. 

[brain galacki]

OK, time for a movie dump and after this point I am pretty much caught up!!!



TIME RUNNER (1993): Cathode Cinema posted a list of movies from past decades that are supposed to take place in the year 2022, and I thought that is really cool. Like 4 or 5 movies that I want to try to watch. This includes this one I had never heard of before: "Time Runner" sci fi from 1993 featuring Mark Hamill. All of the reviews were bad, and surely this was going to be bad. It was. I didn't even give this one a fair shot though, I pretty much fell asleep 20-30 minutes in and woke up at the very end. Even bad movies I am usually fair to and if I fall asleep I make sure to watch what I slept through or finish them the next day. This one I could not do that for, because it was that bad. 2/10 stars.

SCREAM 2 (1997): Since this one came out just one year later than the original Scream and was also directed by Wes Craven, all of the actors (that lived on to the next one) look the exact same, and everything very much feels like a continuation of the Scream that we all know and love. It definitely wasn’t as good, but I was still very much into it just because I felt like I was watching a continuation of the first movie. The ending kinda fell apart IMO though, especially after characters are all stabbed or shot and they are popping back up alive like everything’s fine (Gale, Dewey, Mickey) and then awful music starts playing. still a 7/10 stars. 

THE WRAITH (1986): Yes Mitch Baker movie club, this IS my kinda junk and I had a GOOD TIME. Explosions, Clint Howard with a haircut and different shirts of people skiing, a pinball machine gets blown up, two cartoon punks named Skank and Gutterboy, Arizona in the 1980’s. Other than that though the whole story and the ending is kinda “huh?”

BILLIE HOLIDAY VS. THE UNITED STATES (2021): I wanted to get back on track with watching movies about music, or all these music biopics they are coming out with. The reviews on this one weren't too good, and overall it wasn't too good. I guess I learned about Billie Holiday, and that is what I came here to do, so success in that. The more I learn about an artist whose records I usually try to keep in stock, that is a good thing. As I said in my letterbox review though, I am not a fan of them making all of these new movies over two hours long. It was hard to stay awake the whole way through, but I guess I did. 4/10 stars.

WARLOCK (1989): Picked one of 3 VHS tapes that were down in the Mitch Baker movie dungeon last night after I dug out my old VCR/DVD combo player and got it up and rolling! My other choices were: "Calendar Girl Murders" and "Warlock 2". It felt good watching a movie on VHS for the first time in many years, but I admit I did not like how the video quality was not as good and I did fall asleep and had to finish it in the morning. I do not know if I will continue watching movies on VHS tape. Also what the heck - out of this list of five movies, 3 of them are late 80s/ early 90s movies about a guy who is transported from the future or past or another dimension into the 1980's, and they are all bad movies. Time Runner was the worst of those and The Wraith was the best of them. This one still gets 3/10 stars.

[brain galacki]

                   

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL POPCORN DAY, MOVIE FORUM

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Ooooo popcarn

[brain galacki]

time for another movie dump!!!!



THE FUNHOUSE (1981): Kicking off this latest run of horror films with this very bonkers film from 1981 that I wasn't exactly in the mood for watching on a cold winter night (more of a state fair summertime film). I gotta say if you see the opening credits with the goofy carnival dummies you know this film is 100% right up my alley. But then things kick off with a shower scene featuring a girl who very well could have been 14 years old (but also maybe 33 years old I can not tell) nipples and all, and then when they get to the scenes when they make it into the carnival you are taken into a sick and twisted freakshow tent where you are shown cows with deformed head and you get a sinking feeling "oh... these are real cows... oh... this is a real thing that happened..." and that feeling in your stomack after seeing a maybe 14 year olds nipples and deformed head cows sticks in your stomach the rest of the film and overall makes it a very unpleasant experience. The movie's main villain also makes you feel conflicted in how you are supposed to feel and how this movie is depicting those with physical deformities or mental disabilities (kind of the reason why I did not give the movie Basket Case a 10/10) this movie made me feel weird in the same way that Basket Case made me feel weird. It's legitimately scary, and also one very scary aspect of it - I got a comment on a penpal I did of this movie saying "love that movie, it remind me exactly of Happy Hollow at the state fair in the 70's and 80's" - and THAT is exactly why it is a scary thing to think about because carnivals were really mess'd up like this and full of creepy men and shady characters and putting cows with deformities on a freakshow display. I'm still giving this a 8/10. 

SCREAM 3 (2000): Okay, now I understand that the first three Screams are a trilogy and all kinda run together. I enjoyed them all, and they all felt similar! The second two didn't blow me away like the first one did, particularly the ending to both of those left me just saying "meh" and really not caring about the "twist" that they were trying to throw in about the characters that committed the crimes. I am giving this one a 6/10 - I still enjoyed it, and heck, I'm not going to go around saying "Oh Scream 3 is the worst one". After watching this I'm excited for 4 and 5 and a more modern version of Screams!

GHOSTHOUSE (1988): An Italian Horror film from the 80's, fun to put on. Nothing too exciting to report back here, it was a good time watching it, not the best acting all around, and my favorite parts weren't until the very end. As I said in my letterboxd review, there is a cloaked skeleton figure at the very end of this movie with maggots crawling all over its skull and it is maybe one of the scariest things I have ever seen in a horror movie so bravo to that! 4/10 stars.

SCREAM 4 (2011): You know what, I loved this Scream!! After watching 2 and 3, it was nice that they ran together with the first one but it also had me wanting or wondering what a more modern Scream would look like and with Scream 4 we got it. Starting off with the absurdity of “Stab 6” and then “Stab 7” movie within a movie within a movie “here we go again” type stuff - and then ending with twist after twist, but in a good way! Scream 2 and 3 had me saying “meh” at the end when they revealed the killer, this one felt more like the original and then it took it to the next level!! Also now I am seeing that that Christmas movie form 2017 “better watch out?” totally copied this movie the kid / teen killer that almost elaborately got away with a bunch of murders type thing at the end. Loved seeing it in a Scream movie, it might have been about two hours long but it was good the whole way through. Also loved seeing Rory McCulkin in this too as the horror movie high school nerd!SCREAM 4 (2011): You know what, I loved this Scream!! After watching 2 and 3, it was nice that they ran together with the first one but it also had me wanting or wondering what a more modern Scream would look like and with Scream 4 we got it. Starting off with the absurdity of “Stab 6” and then “Stab 7” movie within a movie within a movie “here we go again” type stuff - and then ending with twist after twist, but in a good way! Scream 2 and 3 had me saying “meh” at the end when they revealed the killer, this one felt more like the original and then it took it to the next level!! Also now I am seeing that that Christmas movie form 2017 “better watch out?” totally copied this movie the kid / teen killer that almost elaborately got away with a bunch of murders type thing at the end. Loved seeing it in a Scream movie, it might have been about two hours long but it was good the whole way through. Also loved seeing Rory McCulkin in this too as the horror movie high school nerd!

THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH (2021): Okay, this was a Mitch Baker movie club watch. You know what, I'm not going to beat around the bush here, I am going to go with everyone else in saying "shakespeare is not for me!" but you know what else, I am not going to give this movie a great review and try to make up things that I felt were good about it. Sure, the witches were unique and creepy in their own way and I liked it. But you know what, I don't think I'll ever try watching another Shakespeare movie ever again. I felt like I was in 11th grate literature class again and was reminded with how much that sh*t was my least favorite in high school, I'd rather be in math class. I needed to watch an easy to swallow superhero movie after this. Or 20 minutes of winterbeast. 2/10 stars.