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The Walking Dead (2010)
A sad downfall.
I will always remember the early days of this show. Still in school, I would eagerly await each episode week after week. The excitement I had felt when I heard a show took the zombie genre seriously and made a real effort to make something that would have a lasting effect in the viewer.
Now, I'm a cynacle viewer to a fault. But I will always remember being moved to tears at the first episode. The emotional struggle of Morgan Jones after the death of his wife, the understanding that at one point these living corpses were once living people with dreams and hopes. It was a shockingly effective show.
But over the years, it has degenerated. It no longer has any understanding of what made the original viewers of the show keep coming back. In fact it willfully and tasteless disregarded the brutality and strength of humanity. This show made action heroes where it should have had everyday people overcoming a world that dehumanised them.
And don't get me started on the writing. Season 2 onwards, displays a ctrl+alt c -ctrl +alt v display that no other show has used so consistantly. I swear there are at least fifteen segments per episode that directly reuses or paraphrases dialogue from other episodes. Every other episode contains a highly derivative emotionally driven speech regarding how far they have come...how strong they have become. It is increadably lazy writing.
With all this being said.
The only exception to quality is the character of Carol who somehow retained her original character purpose and surpassed her comic book fate in the best way possible. She has remained faithful to her character right from the beginning and her evolution is the truly unique. And I would go as far as to say there hasn't been a character arch like her's ever in this genre. Whic is quite a feat considering she's been at it for 12 years to date. Which I assume is the reason we are now getting a Carol/Daryl spin off. It is for Malissa McBride's performance, that this show has anything going for it at all.
The Walking Dead: Splinter (2021)
WHAT!?!
I am convinced the majority of the reviews here are from people who didn't start watching this show from the beginning. Either because they were born or were still children too young to stay up and watch this show on FX when it premiered in 2010.
Watching this episode strangely felt like a return to form focusing on character instead of pure carnage. Like the last 5 years of this show. I loved the pacing, the character and the overall brutality of this episode, even though I truly was expecting to hate it.
Get a grip kids, you may want to give this a second look.
Feast II: Sloppy Seconds (2008)
Well...this is SLOPPY!!!
What most would have expected from the first, came to fruition in this sequel. Where the first was a well constructed, charming and at times fun little romp. This film was just trashy, and not in that fun sort of way. It is every bit as nasty and blood drenched as it's predecessor, but for whatever reason it just isn't as well done. The characters are dramatically less thought out, and as a result we loose that depth we got from previous film. Which is saying something considering they were meat for the grinder.
What is interesting though - is why this film was shot this way. Loosing it's original DOP was a hard hit and it shows. The first film was shot by a man who knew how to shoot practical effects on a budget. Thomas Calloway did a very good job at selling those creatures in the first film and he did it with nothing. This film felt like it was on a budget and that is where the problems are. It was directed and partially shot by Gullagar. It was in all ways like a student filmmaker getting his first budget and not knowing where to put his money. We had just as much practical work done here as with the first, they just couldn't sell it and that is just sad.
Plus I wanted to see more or Tuffy/Heroine 2, hot wheels and Bozzo.
The Nun (2018)
This fails, even by Hollywood standards.
Seriously...for any film-makers out there. Watch this film, and do everything different. There was not one effective element to this film. It had atmosphere that wasn't fully realised or used. The performances were flat, because there wasn't anything in the script that made for engaging character development. The story...what story. It had a set up and nothing to follow it up. And as for the nun herself, Corin Hardy (director)didn't even know what made her frightening to begin with. And on another note I would love to know if the catholic church put any money towards the film because the only thing that this film does effectively, is mask the fact that this film is nothing more that propaganda in light of the more horrific, real life atrocities committed by members of the church.
Slender Man (2018)
Pathetic, but with decent cinematography...so thats good.
Honestly, what do we expect at this point. I don't think I have seen a horror film from a studio like Sony being anything other than a simple run- of- the- mill cash grab. Don't get me wrong, there was potential here. However this potential was squashed even it the Pre production phase. The script was mediocre or cringe inducing depending on either the character, or the scene. The acting for the most part was good, considering what they had to play with. But everything else about the project was predictable and outright trashy. There is nothing new or note worthy here. I felt nothing, for the characters or the story...if that said nothing I don't know what does. The best element of this film was the cinematography. The look of this film did 60% of the work. I felt genuinely unhinged, and it was the use and movement of the camera. Other than that the film had not a lot holding it up.