Despite its exploitative nature, Sleepaway Camp was rather progressive for its time.

Technically a novella, though by the standards of pre-1980s publishing it would definitely be a novel.

Uh, (not) sorry to be that guy but Cabal is actually a novel. A relatively short one by Barker’s standards, and one that IIRC was packaged with several short stories in some editions but still a novel.

It didn’t seem scary at the time, but that might have been because it was released six months after Little Monsters. No movie about an underground monster city could ever have held a candle to that hellish experience.

I feel like this will succeed of fail based on how much they decompress the original work vs moving forward.

I would love it if we have a Sleepaway Camp sequel where Angela turns out to be the hero, thus subverting all expectations.

I agree on the 10-20 minutes, and think most of that needed to be time spent with Ultron, fleshing him out more as a character.  It’s such a good performance but not enough of it.

I don’t know if this counts as vintage, anymore, given that they are still making Hellraiser movies. The 10th film, Hellraiser: Judgement, was just released this February! 10 movies deep and I haven’t watched any since the fourth, and haven’t enjoyed one since the second.

I like AoU much better now than when it first came out.

Age of Ultron gets better upon repeat viewings. It’s just too overstuffed. As you said, it just doesn’t have room to breathe.

Wholeheartedly agree on all counts. The hate people have for AoU is outsized and a little...eh, hyperbolic.

though Poltergeist II: The Other Side does have a hell of a villain

What about

No. Stop with the reboots. Don’t encourage Hollywood’s lazy dearth of new ideas. 

I’m with you entirely. I don’t get the hate for AoU at all. Yes, there were parts that could have been allowed to breathe a bit more (I’m looking at you, Thor in a pool), but overall it features a lot of good character beats and growth for the characters.

I think it fell short because they didn’t make Ultron feel like enough of a threat. They only had dialogue to talk about him trying to get the nuclear codes and an unknown force stopping him. Nothing visual to see there. If they had Ultron hacking the air traffic control system, shutting down the global stock…

AoU definitely works a LOT better now that it can be viewed in context with everything it was setting up (and I’m severely hoping that becomes the case likewise with Infinity War). I’d still only rank it around the middle of the pack as far as the series goes, I think, but it’s definitely a lot better watching it…

I thought Marvel’s take on the singularity with Ultron was refreshing. Rather than the near mindless skynet or the super intelligent, near omniscient computer of most sci-fi, we got a child mimicking the worst impulses of its creator. I loved it. I even loved the childishness of the idea of crashing too large rocks…

I bloody love Age of Ultron, which is a contentious opinion around here, but I don’t care. It’s not perfect, obviously, I’m not blind to its flaws, but it’s like a live-action Saturday morning cartoon, which is exactly what I wanted from it. Mega-Ultron would have just made it even more cartoony, and I’m now sad we…

Damn, if they did have Mega-Ultron, it would have been the most comic book thing to exist ever at that point. I would have loved it.