The Flowers of St. Francis (1950)
Movie
A series of vignettes depicting the lives of the original Franciscan monks, including their leader...
The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Lets Do the Time Warp Again (2016)
6.2
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Movie
A tribute/remake television film of the original cult classic.
Blazing Minds (92 KP) rated Van Helsing: The London Assignment (2004) in Movies
Nov 1, 2021 (Updated Nov 3, 2021)
Marvel's Spider-Man 2
8.0
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Video Game
Insomniac's sequel to both the 2018 game Spider-Man and to the 2020 Spider-Man: Miles Morales,...
The Real Tales of Hoffmann: Origin, History, and Restoration of an Operatic Masterpiece
Placido Domingo, Michael Kaye and Vincent Giroud
Book
Of all operas in the standard repertory, none has had a more complicated genesis and textual history...
Future Theatre Research: Origin, Medium, Performance-Text, Reception and Acting
Book
Eli Rozik explores the principles that generated the theatre medium, and its possible roots in the...
Sarah (7800 KP) rated The Descent Part 2 (2009) in Movies
Feb 2, 2019
For starters, it looks cheap. The entire thing from the cinematography, the visual effects (the blood looks like fruit juice), and the look of the monsters just looks so horrendous and as bad, if not worse, than a SyFy original film. Then there’s the plot itself, which is so ridiculously stupid it’s laughable. It completely ignores the ambiguous and very good ending from the original and uses a cliched overused trope (memory loss) to get Sarah back into the caves. The new characters are underdeveloped and cliched stereotypes (the brass moronic cop who can’t leave his gun behind). And then there’s the fact that it seems an identical copy of the original, using the same scenes, ideas (seeing through the video camera) that were used in the first film. This loses any of the suspense and atmosphere generated in the first film, and it doesn’t use the music to any good effect whatsoever. It’s not scary, it’s not interesting and it looks horrendous. Avoid at all costs.
Sarah (7800 KP) rated The Babysitter: Killer Queen (2020) in Movies
Sep 26, 2020
I feel like the success of the first film may have gone to the makers heads. They've tried to take what worked in the first film and take it to the extremes - the back stories of the original characters, in jokes and references - but the problem is that for the most part it just doesn't work. Seeing the original characters back is fun for a minute and then it (and they) just become irritating. This film really does suffer from the lack of Samara Weaving who doesn't have nearly enough screen time. Judah Lewis is fine but his relationship with Phoebe isn't at all interesting and watchable like his one with Bea.
The gore and deaths are quite fun, but the majority of this film just comes across as cringeworthy rather than cheesily good like the original. I really don't know what the ending was about and why they decided to go down this route. This almost spoils the original and I think is yet another case of a sequel that should never have been made.
