Scooby-Doo (2002)

Yeah, I'm not even bothering with a picture/GIF. Fuck this.

A "stellar adaption that gets the source material" my friggin ass. Where exactly does a dated script with horrid depiction of everyone gets Scooby? Or do people pull that out of their behind because they think there was only the 60's show existing and ignores stuff like Zombie Island?

Also, the whole "it's a satire a la Brady Bunch Movie" doesn't work since said movie didn't butcher the characterization of everyone like this film does with making Fred a selfish chauvinist creep and Daphine a full-of-herself bieach (actually, 90% of the characters are unlikable jackanapes what the hell). Plus, the evil Scrappy jokes were never funny...................

It's honestly amazing how Matthew Lillard managed to come out of this dumpster fire with a good portrayal of Shaggy. I'm not using hyperbole when I say that is a feat unto itself.

Fuck this movie.

Monsters Inc on VHS with a blue colored tape. Still a great movie, much better than that Monsters University movie.

The Lost Boys (1987)

Liked it, didn't love it, though. The movie has a good concept. It's Peter Pan's lost boys, but with vampires. Closest to a horror Peter Pan movie, really. Having said that, this movie is filled with 80s coriness. Even more so than Fright Night. Don't get me wrong, I love how corney the 80s were. But if this was made today, you can probably elevate the dark humor a lot better. Shouldn't be remade, though. Vampire movies are already doing that today.

Terrifier 2 (2022)

Despite it's brutality, it is actually a genuinely a good movie. It is a movie where the director was able to do his vision, and you really appreciate
it after that fact. If the gore is too much for you, watch it with a group of friends. I think that's what you are suppose to do anyway. Seeing others react at the chaos makes it funnier.

Space Thunder Kids is a great many things, good isn't one of them. An ungodly, Frankenstein Monster of a film stitched together from Korean anime rip offs. Super Thunder Kids is a bewildering, mind mumming bombardment of non-stop action, explosions, giant robots, space battles, endless characters, animation loops, long periods of silence, cheap animation and the same three people doing all the voices. It's the sort of film where you can get up, make yourself a sandwich and drink, have a change of cloths and putt the washing machine on and not miss a God dam thing.

Most amazing of all it's entertaining and boring at the same time. It's Incredibly hard to put into words how thats possible, you'll have to try and endure this for yourself to understand. Highly recommended for masochists.

Pulse (2001). Another Japanese movie.

It's quite a weird movie. It offers up the idea that ghosts are real but the afterlife is simply bleak loneliness forever. I found the concept of what occurs to people over Japan a bit strange, but I think as I write this and think back, I sort of grasp it. It is theorized that ghosts exist in a different realm or dimension, but there's only so much room in that, and once enough ghosts fill it to maximum, where do the other ghosts go? They bleed into the realm/dimension of the real world through the internet, which in this movie is Windows 95, with a service called Uranus, lmao.

There's then this simulation shown with white dots.. and from what I can gather from it, the idea of this is that once a ghost makes contact with a living person via a forbidden room, a room in which I think probably the ghost originally died, the living person seems to emulate the feelings of the person who died before they died, and then also emulate the same way that they died too. I think that maybe the ghosts do this in the hopes that the living person also dies in the forbidden room so that they have someone to be with in the afterlife as it is always lonely.

At least, I am guessing most of this. I could be reading it all entirely wrong. Like I said, it's a weird movie that shows off concepts that are open to interpretation for the audience.

Having said that, it has 3 really well made scary scenes, and this is coming from someone who finds horror/scary movies as comedies and can't take them seriously.

The first one being the woman ghost in the first forbidden room that "Yabe" investigates, a truly great scene and well shot.

The second one is the scene of a ghost woman walking freely in an arcade, and turns around to face the person looking at her in a really weird way; the motion blur on this is really well done.

The third one is IIRC the last forbidden room, where the living guy refuses to believe that ghosts are real, but it doesn't go away and when he tries to chase it away, he bumps into it as if the ghost is alive. Then it has what is honestly the creepiest shot in the entire film, that of this male ghost slowly bringing his face toward the camera. Truly well done and the motion blur and weird movements only add to its greatness.

Of course, it being Japanese, it has another sound effect, one where a woman jumps off of a factory canister and hits the ground in the same shot. While it is well done visually, the sound effect of the ground impact, while not as cartoonish as the sound effect from Ringu, still seems to be a little bit off, but then I don't really know how corpses sound when they hit the ground from a tall height, so I guess it's fine.

Adventures In Dinosaur City

Finally, the answer to "What if Hell Comes To Frog Town was a kids movie?"
A very bizarre curiosity from that time when DTV family friendly movies had budgets and got away with a lot of weird stuff. Dinosaur hookers hitting on human teenagers. If that sentence alone doesn't have you watching this, or have Vinegar Syndrome preparing a deluxe edition blu-ray of this oddity, then I have failed the art of film preservation.

Watched The Boogyman and Free Fire last week. The Boogyman was okay. It comes off as generic, but it is actually about dealing with the trama of losing a mother. As for Free Fire, Free Fire was fun. Probably will watch it again.

Oppenheimer 3 out of 5 stars