Heh! I loved the sequel to death, but you’re right— you really can get by with just that chainsaw-shopping scene, and take the rest as granted. Sorta like Evil Dead II was really all about Ash suiting up with his chainsaw-arm.

There’s some implied backstory in the original- the family worked for a slaughterhouse/meat packing plant, it closed down, they turned to a different kind of slaughtering. In theory this could make a good story, but it’d take some effort.

Is this the week of the ‘D’s’? Seems like one bad film after another this week.

I knew this was worth skipping as soon as I found out there’s a young version of The Hitchhiker in this but not a young version of Chop Top.

the last shot of him in the original film standing alone in the road swinging around his chain saw cannot be topped or improved upon. why do filmmakers insist on ruining it all? this is why we can’t have nice things. (or nice, decapitated skin-mask things.) (also, i guess we want ants b/c that is how we get ants.)

What? No. Jeeesus wept, people, quit jumping that shark! It wasn’t a good idea to give fucking Willy Wonka a poignant childhood backstory, it wasn’t a good idea to give the same thing to Maleficent, and it ain’t a good idea to give one to Leatherface. Leave some corners dark.

I’m guessing Nic Cage and Bruce Willis.

And don’t try being the lead every time. Pick a character actor role and make it memorable.

It’s not that fun, is it? I mean, is the answer not always Russell Crowe?

He pics either ridiculous action movies or terrible rom coms. He should look for some straight-up drama or comedy and see how it shakes out. Sure couldn’t be any worse.

I think he was good in *flips through mental rolodex* Rock n’ Rolla? That can’t be spelled right.

And now they’re both in terrible movies on the same weekend!

Nic Cage started choosing his scripts for him....

Yeah, but you can name a few good or decent movies that Fassbender’s been in since 300. The same can’t be said about Butler...

Hot take: Michael Fassbender is the thinking person’s Gerard Butler. (And I say this as someone who likes Fassbender.) Both starred in 300 and have a propensity for picking terrible scripts.

It’s the classic “deal with the devil” scenario - a tale as old as time. “Oh, you’ll get the part in 300, alright.”

Every time you see a new Gerard Butler movie, its fun to guess who turned the script down first

I guess at the end of the day the man earns a decent paycheck and stays active.

The central paradox of my life is that I love sports-bar fried food, but don’t really care about sports.

A few years ago, I came across an old National Geographic from the early/mid sixties with an article on her in it, and the normal-for-then sexist language really jumped out at me, with its constant fixation on the novelty of a lady primate researcher, and the one that still sticks in my mind, referring to her camp in…