This is going to be our first movie since 2020, we’re pretty stoked, not seeing it this Friday, but next week for the wife’s birthday :D

We did a Friday the 13th-a-thon (last week, for obv. reasons), AMC+ had 1-10 (though they had the title card / description reversed for 4 and 5).

We just started last night, made it through 2 EPs, it’s pretty fantastic. What a cast, Jon Bernthal, Jamie Hector, Tray Chaney, and Wunmi Mosaku is just a delight, we fell in love with her in Lovecraft Country (she’s in the Netflix movie His House, very solid).

Yeah, it sounds like another character named Rose, as maybe just a fun callback to the other Rose. Here’s the quote from RTD about the casting:

We just queued it up for this weekend (before this news), we were doing a little Friday the 13th-a-thon and I mentioned watching from other Kevin Bacon movies (after the first one).

If I hadn’t seen what Taika Waititi did in the previous Thor movie, I’d be a lot more concerned, but I have a lot of faith in him getting the right feel for this one too. Like you, I recognize this is a bit trickier material, so I’m cautiously very optimistic :)

Yeah, the slight distraction of them looking “close enough” without makeup I think would be WAY less than the uncanny valley -like experience of what they did. It’s a pretty great movie overall, but I watched it again last year and I felt like it was a little more bizarre than I remember (probably just focusing on it…

A slap? Or ...

We just stay a bit behind the new gear, like it was just a few years ago we picked up a PS4Pro (so ~4 years after the original release), that had a 1TB SSD swapped out for the OEM HDD, it’s pretty quick, totally quiet, has decent improvements over the PS4, notably better than the PS3, and we got it for way less than…

We had a ++blast++ watching this show. I wasn’t familiar with the source material (though I’m an ol’ school comic nerd ...), I got into about eposide 4 or 5, stopped, told the wife we had to watch it together, and we couldn’t stop.

A few months ago we rewatched Manhunter, and then just a couple of weeks ago - prompted by the release of X - rewatched House of the Devil, and Tom Noonan is [always] terrific.

It had a total Get Out vibe (even a little Us, but only from the trailer), I think it was the general vibe, the isolation, but especially the music.

The casualness of Rory Kinnear being, umm, everyone, is super spooky (he was so good in the first Penny Dreadful series, and the other, supporting roles I’ve seen him in). Jessie Buckley, Alex Garland (working with a solid studio), really intriguing trailer, seems like his has great potential.

Clearly, one of the voices should’ve been meatball ...

Hahaha, right?  I can’t figure out what the hell is going on / what he’s doing, it’s such an odd, awkward movement.

I just recently rewatched this - it had been a while - and wow, it’s still as fantastic as I remembered (sometimes revisiting old favorites are disappointing). It’s so goddam intense and visceral, great acting, beautifully shot, and the TLJ/BdT are so good, include all the physical/combat stuff.

Just finished reading this and ...

He’s one of those artists where his presence just elevates the entire production.

Yeah, the model seems a little different, and I’d suspect what Disney wants, is deeper engagement in their content, i.e., less about selling more (like a comic) and more about long[er] term retention (if you’re thinking about services to keep/cancel, more you watch, the more you’re committed to a service).

Reminds me of Marvel comics, where they’d have a crossover story into other comics I didn’t read, so either you just dealt with the weird continuity break, or you picked up 2 extra titles one month.