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Christophe Honore recommended Mystery Train (1989) in Movies (curated)

Mystery Train (1989)

1989 | International, Comedy, Drama

8.0

(2 Ratings)

Movie Favorite

"A film to live in. A film in which I can spend evenings and afternoons smoking, reading and sleeping. I’ve tried a hundred times to remake a Jarmusch tracking shot, I’ve never gotten close. They move at a speed that belongs only to him. Jarmusch is the metronome of a precious melancholy."

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Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated Black Christmas (2019) in Movies

Dec 31, 2020

Not Black Christmas (0 more)

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So the main question of this film is..."why does this movie exist"? Cause of $, thats why. "Who decided it was a good i idea to re-remake Black Christmas"? Blumhouse. I like Blumhouse, but not one asked for a Black Christmas remake. In the year of remakes of 2019, Black Christmas came out. And no one saw it, and no one liked it. This is not even a Black Christmas movie. The only reason its called Black Christmas because of $ and Blumhouse decided "lets remake Black Christmas", cause we can.

The plot: Hawthorne College is quieting down for the holidays as students travel home to spend time with their families. But as Riley and her sorority sisters prepare to deck the halls with seasonal parties, a mysterious cloaked figure starts to leave a bloody trail throughout the campus. Refusing to become hapless victims, Riley and her friends decide to band together and fight back against the psychotic Christmas killer.

Unlike the previous two version of Black Christmas, the remake was rated PG-13 by the MPAA, a rating Takal sought in hopes of making it accessible to new audiences, especially young women who were interested in horror, and opening up discussions on major issues like sexual assault, although she was ready to fully commit to utilizing the higher R rating if the ratings board would not grant it. However, she would not use the PG-13 rating to water down the film's violence to a large degree, making it only slightly less violent than the original film.

This film should of never been made or existed. Cause their was no reason to remake Black Christmas, and $$$$$ was the answer.

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TacoDave (3826 KP) Dec 31, 2020

I saw it in the theater and ended up walking out after about 20 minutes due to the fake wokeness of the characters. It was horrible.

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Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) Dec 31, 2020

I think the only time i walked out of the theater was Fate of the Furious. Than i walk back into the theater. I almost walked out of "Phantom Thread".

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Jason Kimbro (105 KP) rated Psycho (1998) in Movies

Dec 30, 2017

Psycho (1998)

1998 | Horror, Mystery

6.2

(13 Ratings)

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Gus Van Sant has made some of the most thought provoking films ever. Then he decided to make an exact shot for shot remake of sacred ground, but decided to miscast Anne Heche and Vince Vaughn in their iconic roles. It came off as a mockery.

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John Lithgow recommended Disgrace in Books (curated)

Disgrace

J.M. Coetzee | 2000 | Fiction & Poetry

9.0

(1 Ratings)

Book Favorite

"Warning: this is one of the most upsetting books I’ve ever read, but it’s a great one. Set in South Africa, a nation struggling to remake itself in the wake of Apartheid, it tracks a professor’s downfall as he suffers a career-ending scandal followed by a horrific episode in the life of his daughter. It’s a Booker-winning book by a Nobel-winning novelist."

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