I have quite a few names to check off:
Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey-Yes, I finally got around to watching this out of morbid curiosity (online, you didn't think I'd pay to watch that shit, did you?) and let me just say: for everyone hoping it'd be one of those "so bad it's good" movies, I'm here to tell you... it's not, it's just bad, really, really, reeeeeeeeeally bad (to the shock of nobody). It's awful across the board. Everything about it is bad, and not in a "good" way. The characters are all flat, useless and stupid with no depth whatsoever (except for one via a stalker subplot that goes nowhere and that’s literally it for character development) with horrendous shaky cam and lighting that makes it impossible to see WTF is happening (it was so dark, I couldn’t see shit and the few kills that were visible had really bad CGI blood) and really bad editing that splices shots from other sets together at certain points (I wish I was making this up). And to top it all off, scenes literally dragged on longer than needed to get it to the required minimum runtime.
Way to go, you make an exploitation horror flick out of a beloved childhood character purely for shock value and you can't even get that right. Or maybe it was to hide the skin underneath those cheap Dollar Store Pooh and Piglet masks, unclear. And BTW: it's so clearly guys in masks who just happen to be plastic-faced anthropomorphic animals per the movie's story.
But then again, the director flat out admitted he was never interested in making a good or even entertaining-bad/so-bad-it's-good movie out of this in his Reddit AMA that they're strangely censoring hateful comments on, so there you go.
Scream VI-Saw this opening night and loved it. Easily the best of the sequels and it might even have a case for best Scream movie, period. The opening Ghostface call alone was more engaging than anything in V (not that V was bad, it was just pretty "meh") and it was a marked improvement in terms of characters, and as an added bonus, the kills were BRUTAL! Probably the best the series has had to offer up to this point, though I must say the killer reveals were rather predictable (you can easily guess 2 of them right off the bat) and it was approaching Fast and the Furious levels of ridiculous with how much guys were able to survive being gutted in this. That kinda took me out of it a little bit.
John Wick 1-3: rewatching the first 3 John Wick movies in preparation for John Wick: Chapter 4 tomorrow. Not much needs to be said about these movies: this is the best Keanu has looked (no, not in that way) in ages. This series has blessed me with some of the best gun and fight scenes of any franchise in action movie history and I don't doubt Chapter 4 will end the series with a bang.
But on a side note, go watch Keanu's freak out scene in Knock Knock if you want something that's truly so bad it's good. "IT WAS FREE PIZZA!" gets me every time. -:D
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