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I am surprised no one mentioned Shutter Island.
https://youtu.be/v8yrZSkKxTA
I enjoyed this movie and have watched it several times. Its fun to examine and analyze whats going on in the movie.
I wanna see more Junka episodes! I put a random best of the worst episode on one day for my fiance to watch with me, didnt know what Junka was (Its Jenga tower but made using old VHS tapes) and we were both truly engrossed in watching these guys pull those tapes with it getting to a point where we thought the tower would fall with every tape pulled xD
RLM is lots of fun : )
https://youtu.be/L1KCIHcUCxI
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https://youtu.be/ORiGny1m_90
and also xD
https://youtu.be/t2iPBlWhXuU
Fargo, as in the movie Fargo is a black comedy? I didnt find it funny at all. Just a disturbing crime caper. I'll have to go look at its genre classification on this one.
Your idea is exactly what Fear the Walking Dead is! Its why it was a fun show and gaves us new characters and situations to overcome in a new midwestern location. Season one is california, season two is mexico, and then season 3 onward is Texas and Lousiana
Z-Nation was a thrill ride and an amazing show! I agree the last season of the show was terrible, but up until then it was something great to see! I like the simple explanation that you gave that truly separates the shows. HOPE. Z-Nation had a guy from the very beginning episode that gained immunity from the zombie virus, and we joined the adventure of seeing if the world could be saved. In Walking Dead there is no relief. It really is rinse and repeat of the group finding safe haven only for it to crash and burn either through zombies, infighting, fighting an outside group, or all three combined. As much as I enjoyed Walking Dead, I noticed I took a long break from the show before returning and then the final season didnt feel like a real ending. We got no conclusion with any of the main characters stories. Now we gotta watch all these spinoffs to see? I have mixed feelings about this as Im glad there is more to see, but are we gonna see real conclusions?
What I was waiting on, other than walking dead people finding a real cure and not lies from a conman Eugene, was for them to encounter zombies that somehow gained sentience. Then we could have a bonified war between humanity and zombies with a great final conclusion. But even if walking dead did this it would be copying Z-Nation as they had sentient zombies. Also we already had "the whisperers" group that pretended to be real zombies. Final season of walking dead teased that walkers were regaining the ability to think through obstacles and even climb but it was too little too late by that point.
What were your impressions of her? Was it a nice experience?
Thats what made this show so interesting is that the magic of Jumanji must be immense as their clues taught a lesson to something the kids havent even done yet! How would the game know the choices the kids make within the game before they made them?
Also there were good beings that lived in Jumanji, not everything in the game tried to kill you (most though xD)
We never get all the answers and really just more questions. Its like the game was a twisted test and teacher but definitely magical! Maybe it was created by a powerful sorceror with a dark sense of humor? Maybe it is a magical jungle that was purposefully turned into and trapped within game? There are some episodes that deal with people trapped in Jumanji that NEVER rolled the dice! They claimed they entered it through a portal! One was the Captain Squint who claimed he sailed through and couldnt get back out <spoiler>Though we later discover that he is a part of Jumanji as he becomes the antagonist on two more episodes</spoiler> also there is the lady that flies a plane and she tells how a portal opened in the clouds and she flew through and got trapped. <spoiler>Alan, Judy, and Peter actually help her escape by that episodes end!</spoiler> It gave us the audience proof that Jumanji physcially does exist somewhere even if its within a parallel dimension and that Alan could possibly escape without solving his lost clue! Im trying not to spoil much for future watchers : )
Wonderful show!
Old post, but I gave it a 10 rating myself xD
The steam engines where a nice touch as since this is the middle of a jungle you would need steam power to have machines go not oil! So it was a nice touch by the show creators to work out how some vehicles and machines could function within a giant jungle.
Im glad to read others have found this show as fun. Two years back, I had randomly rediscovered this show at a local Dollar General, it was being sold there on DVD the complete series, a three disc set! For five dollars ; D My fiance could see my eyes light up and the excitement on my face as I picked up the case and told her "This is a show I want us to watch together" : ))
Im going to make a post about the show, and share the link here : ) I was typing here and then ran out of room to type! xD
https://moviechat.org/tt0115228/Jumanji/67619a1427641766be0a4438/This-show-is-wonderful-and-heightens-the-imagination
<spoiler>Charles S. Dutton (Cole) kept saying to Burns (Rutger Hauer) "I told you I know how to pick em"! With such enthusiasm and in told-you-so-dness fashion. That I finally questioned who was it that normally picked the victims of the game? Was it Burns that normally picked them? If so he seemed to play it safe just picking any homeless person he can find to trick, yet Cole took the time and studied Mason by stalking him to ensure he would put up a good fight.</spoiler> So it seems like they got complacent in their game and let their guard down thinking its easy so it really through things off that they are now hunting someone who is willing to fight back. I thought it was a nice subtle touch that is never fully explained.
I never felt guilty watching this gem of a film. Its been one of my favorite films since childhood. I understand by definition of B-movie that this movies budgets was only 7.4 million (Hard Targets budget was 18 million) so I guess it fits the definition somewhat yet this movie had an ensemble cast of many great actors!
I never thought about Wolf Seniors son as being gay and the dad was trying to "fix him" I always just saw it as his son was sensitive and compassionate. Wolf Senior is a rich guy who probably was tough and ruthless in business and he worried his sensitive untested son wasnt going to survive on his own if Wolf Senior passed away. The story of how Buseys dad tested him with violence and how it "helped him become the man he is today" supports why Wolf Senior decided to test his son in a similar fashion. Wolf Senior may have even gotten the idea from Doc Busey after hearing that story at some earlier time. I mean these guys met eachother somehow. Doc Busey may actually be every one of those hunters psychiatrist or most of them! Thats how I saw it, but your take is interesting and I'll have to keep it in mind on my rewatch.
I actually prefer that Mason (Ice T) is not some veteran or specialist or anything as it really makes us the audience wonder "How the heck is this man going to survive this game and what will he do next to thwart these psychos"! It keeps it more thrilling in my opinion. It also helps explain why the hunters are caught off guard so much and even Mason getting caught from mistakes. They underestimate him and dont know what he can do, and he himself doesnt really know the wilderness like they do.
I have a couple of questions for you:
<spoiler>What did you think of Masons speech in the cave when he talks about what happened to his wife and child? Did you enjoy the acting of that scene?</spoiler> It felt so emotionally powerful to me even when I was a kid watching this movie.
I'll post next question in a second post.
Lazarus is like Spock and Worf put together as he's highly intelligent but also comes from a warrior race
If youre a redlettermedia fan I'd say go ahead and watch it, I enjoyed Mikes role as a detective from a past era teamed up with the future space cop Rich Evans
There were times when I just wanted to hear the movie talk, but I actually miss the little storyline routine. I heartily laughed out loud during one episode when Mike and Jay where talking about a movie and Mr. Plinkett was duct taped to a chair and randomly interrupted the two and said "Are yall done fixing my VCR yet'? xD It reminded me thats what the entire storyline has been and they got away from it for awhile. <spoiler> Remember when Plinketts house was flying in the air then ended up on top of mount everest?</spoiler> The story took crazy turns all the time.
Is there a half in the bag, or a best of the worst episode you have returned to multiple times? The half in the bag episode that I introduced to my fiance was the one about Ready Player One and she has enjoyed watching RedLetterMedia with me ever since.
RedLetterMedia is the only youtube movie channel I havent grown tired of and its because they dont act pretentious and they are entertaining with enough different content to engage. I have stopped some best of the worst videos due to the movies themselves being disturbing, but mostly I have enjoyed watching them. My fiance and me were intently watching during the Junka episodes lol xD I didnt realize how much fun it would be to see them competing in pulling and stacking a Jenga Tower made of VHS tapes xD
You dont want to talk about Surviving the Game, you just want to argue and put me down and bask in how "wrong I am". I reckon this'll be the last time you see any response from me. You could prove me wrong though, but I doubt it. Either it'll be silence from you, or some kind of insult. Time will tell.
I know what was in it...
The briefcase from Pulp Fiction was inside the Briefcase of this movie
xD
Maybe it was lies in order to keep people distracted or his opponents on their toes and hard to get a good reading on Sam? It could be a goof, but maybe it was also a subtle thing people who knew guns would only pickup on? Or maybe Sam said that and then later got paranoid thinking they will sabotage his favored gun which is why he kept a different gun handy?
Theres so much secrecy and double cross and switcharoos that any of this is possible
Okay.
The WILL of the Vietcong was much higher than the those of the U.S. Soldiers, to the point where the U.S. just gave up. Whats the point of being over in Vietnam if in order to win the war we have to kill the entire country? It was a pointless war.
My dad told me that the Vietcong use to have the rifleman charge and behind them were those running barehanded or with spears and simply pick up the rifles of their fallen comrades to keep going. They won by sheer willpower and determination to never stop fighting us.
Theres a video you can find on youtube were the U.S. kept bombing a bridge, and the Vietcong kept rebuilding it, over and over and over. These people would not stop. Basically unwinnable if your opponent is like that.
Perhaps I could have used a better analogy, as Mason won by attrition yet no sacrificing on his part.
Now back to the main topic on hand. What did you think I wrote about Mason? Mason didnt win by sacrifice like the Vietcong did, but he mainly fought each opponent one on one when he could and built booby traps and distractions, used camouflage, used fear even. He wasnt arrogant like the Hunters, and never underestimated them like they did. He ultimately became their reckoning.
Is this one of your favorite films? It has been mine for many years now. I could rank it into my top ten easily
Ace: One scene I liked was when Dredd had a bunch of children threatening him with guns, but Dredd found a way to incapacitate the kids without killing them. It showed his humanity and discernment was not entirely black and white when it came to the law. Because didnt he say at some point in the movie that "Pointing a gun at a judge is a crime punishable by death". Yet he still managed to avoid hurting those kids.
The atmosphere and lived in world feel really brought me in, the dialogue too. Some movies just bring you to their world they built well and this was one for me. "...Its all a deep end".