Scout Taylor-Compton & Rooney Mara: Two Great Scream Queens That Admirably Filled Some Big Shoes!

Jamie Lee Curtis & Heather Langenkamp are tough acts to follow, but Scout Taylor Compton & Rooney Mara definitely did a great job filling those shoes they left behind! 

For those of you who haven't seen the movies for which I am talking about, I am talking about the remakes to, Halloween (1978) and, A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984)... And for those of you who have seen these movies... As for Rooney Mara and her role in, A Nightmare On Elm Street... I will get in to that in a minute... 

Now before I go on, let me say this, Jamie Lee Curtis (The Fog) & Heather Langenkamp (Shocker) are two actresses that did totally amazing jobs in the roles that they played... I mean Heather Langenkamp's girl next door who ends having to fight against an entity that only appears to exist in dreams... And Jamie Lee Curtis's role from regular high school student to having to fight against a brutal and sadistic killer who has targeted her and is killing off her friends is sheer brilliance, (Jamie Lee Curtis played, 'Laurie Strode' in the original, 'Halloween' and Heather Langenkamp played, 'Nancy Thompson' in the original, 'A Nightmare On Elm Street'...)

Jamie Lee Curtis as, 'Laurie Strode' in one of the most famous scene in horror movie history! 

 With that said though, I will say this, Scout Taylor-Compton (who plays, 'Laurie Strode' in Rob Zombie's Halloween remake series,) delivered a truly inspiring job taking over the role... 

Now Taylor-Compton's, 'Laurie Strode' is different from Jamie Lee Curtis's, 'Laurie Strode' in a lot of ways (a great example is, Scout Taylor-Compton's more, 'sarcastic' Laurie Strode as opposed to Jamie Lee Curtis's more, 'girl next door' type of Laurie Strode... Both are good,  but one of the reasons that Scout Taylor-Compton's Laurie Strode is so good is the differences between the two...) 

She may not be, 'The Girl Next Door', but this Laurie Strode definitely has some chops!

Another reason why she did so good taking over the role, is the fact that she really made the role her own, and her progression from sarcastic teenage girl, to traumatized teen (as seen in part 2), is just sheer brilliance... And a little scary, due to the fact that you could almost see that as how she would descend in to total madness if Ms. Taylor-Compton was really going through it! 

And now on to Rooney Mara... Before I continue... A Nightmare On Elm Street (2010) was not a great movie... But Rooney Mara for me was one of those few shining lights in the movie that really helped make sure that the movie did not totally suck! 

And what I mean by this is the fact that Rooney Mara (who took over the role of: 'Nancy' from Heather Langenkamp,) really did this role justice, by really only emulating Ms. Langenkamp's strength that she gave, 'Nancy' in the original movie... 

Rooney Mara in a modern version of one of the most famous scenes in, 'A Nightmare On Elm Street'! 

Other then that... She really made the role her own, and really just brought this character to life in a new and different, and exciting way! 

For more information on these movies and the differences between the original actresses, and the people that filled in the roles that the original actresses made legendary, and did a pretty damn good job doing so... Please see these trailers for: Halloween (1978) & A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984), as well as: Halloween (2007)  & A Nightmare On Elm Street (2010)! 

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Dementium: The Ward (2007) Video Game Review

Official Score = 2 1/2 Devils

When I was younger, one of the video game console series that I had a lot of fun with was the first Game Boy...

It was cool because it was one of the first video game systems that was portable, but also had more then one video game that you could play on it! And with it's popularity, Nintendo was releasing a ton of the games that were on Nintendo for the Game Boy!

Well like things are known to happen, I ended up loosing my Game Boy in a move when I was a kid... And didn't get another portable system until Nintendo came out with its revolutionary, 'DS' series!

The cover art for: Dementium: The Ward (2007)

Now you might be wondering why I am mentioning this... Well there was a horror video game that I think you guys might enjoy on the Nintendo DS... That game being... Dementium: The Ward (2007)!

Developed by: Renegade Kid, this game told the story of a man, William Redmoor, who has an operation on his brain. The Doctor realized that the mind of William is in danger, so he made nightmare dreams where William must fight back to the end and get out of his dreams. As the Doctor calls it, this is the first phase. Throughout the game, the constant mention of a man who murdered his wife and daughter is brought up. It was believed by the staff that William was the murderer. A news report towards the end of the game says that a man was found standing over the dead body of his wife with a gun in his hand. After a brief struggle police shot and wounded the man. His daughter was found alive.

How would you like to wake up to that when you are in the Hospital?0

The truth is, is the graphics were revolutionary, the effects were awesomely eery, and the story was fun... The only problem I had with the game is that on the Nintendo DS you still used the stylus, and it was hard to play a first person shooter with a stylus!

Give it a try though, I found it well worth it, and you might find it that way as well!

The Signal (2007) - Movie Review

[caption id="attachment_330" align="alignright" width="220"] Official Score = 2 1/2 Devils[/caption]

Written & Directed by: David Bruckner (V/H/S), Dan Bush (Goodbye Day) and Jacob Gentry (My Super Psycho Sweet 16). Starring: Anessa Ramsey (Footloose), Sahr Ngaujah (Stomp The Yard), AJ Bowen (The House Of The Devil), Juston Welborn (The Crazies), Cheri Christian (Dark Remains) & Scott Pythress (Prayers From Pelham).

The Signal, (which I suspect was heavily inspired by the Stephen King novel, 'Cell'), tells the story of how the world comes to an end due to a signal that is being broadcast through various electronic devices that can receive signals, (such as: TVs, Cell Phones, Cord Less Phones, Radio, etc...) that drives normal people in to psychotic rages that make them want to kill as many people as they can get there hands on!

Now surrounding this apocalyptic plot is three seperate plot lines surrounding the central cast that move in a very awesome 3 act structure...
The first act has to do with Mya (Ramsey), she is a woman who has just recently started to cheat on her husband by the name of, 'Lewis' (Bowen), and is heading home fearful after her first time cheating on him...

When she gets back to the apartment building that she lives in though, she comes to discover that there are a ton of people out in the Hallway and that these people seem to be near cracking they are so stressed out!

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="527"] This woman is heading home through hell![/caption]

When she finally makes it in to her apartment, Lewis is in there with two of his friends... But after a nerve racking moment of fear that turns out to just be a loving embrace between her and her husband, Lewis leaves, and Mya gets ready to take a shower.

Once she gets out there though she notices that her husband is watching the strange image on the screen that she first noticed when she was at, 'Ben's' (Welborne) house, (the man she was cheating on her husband with.)

As she is heading toward the shower, one of Lewis's friends is swinging a bat, and Lewis just utterly freaks out on the guy... After she gets in to the bathroom she hears a thunk and then comes back out to find out what is going on... The scene that she comes in to though, is something unfathomable!
You see when she gets out of the bathroom, she discovers that Lewis is beating one of his friends to death, and fearing for her life, she escapes only after Lewis's friend, 'Rod' (Ngaujah) is trying to stop him!

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="492"] This guy is one unhappy camper![/caption]

Once she gets out of there though, she notices that the entire apartment building seems to have gone off the deep end, when she discovers that her neighbor had gone insane, and another one was indiscriminately killing people, and that the hallways seem to be littered with bodies!

After a rough night of waiting in her friends locked apartment, she decides to take off, and once she gets in to the hall way she notices Rod is out there, and the 2 of them decide to take off...

Once they get outside though, Mya and Rod discover that it is the whole world that has actually gone insane, and that Mya will ultimately end up taking a quixotic journey to the train station in the hopes of meeting Ben on track 13 and eventually escaping the city of, 'Terminus'.

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="264"] Definitely a fun B movie![/caption]

In the end I didn't want to say the whole story, but it is an awesome tale of survivors from all walks of life as they connect during a psychotic mass murder spree, and try to escape it before, friends, loved ones, or even people that would normally be sane good natured people try and slaughter them!

The other thing that I wanted to say is that it is rare in the modern day that I get to see a truly awesome exploitation film (in my opinion the 50s - 80s really cornered the market on these types of films). But this movie was an awesome homage to the classic exploitation movies from way back then, with literally everything that made those types of movies awesome (but in a modern setting both in the story and the technology that was used to make the movie as well!)

I suspect though that unless you are a B Movie fan or a horror movie fan, then you are probably not gonna enjoy this one, but if you are a fan of one or both (like I am), then if you get a chance, check it out, (I think that you might like it!)

http://youtu.be/HdjYJPgCHD0

Marilyn Manson: Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of These) - (1995) - Song Review

[caption id="attachment_330" align="alignright" width="220"] Official Score = 2 1/2 Devils[/caption]

You know, as weird as people claim that Marilyn Manson is... And lets be honest here... This dude is pretty out there, I have to admit that his music is pretty awesome! I mean he takes metal to a whole new level, making it that borderline scary type of metal that I believe mostly only true goths really enjoy...

And you know what? His cover song for his 1995 EP, 'Sweet Dreams' was pretty much that level of awesomeness!

A remake of the classic 1980s song by the, 'Eurythmics', Marilyn Manson's song took the Eurythmics classic synthpop/new wave song and gave it the horror movie revamp!

What I mean by this is that  generally speaking the Eurythmics song was fun, and I imagine it could translate pretty well in to the soundtracks of certain Science Fiction movies of the 1980s... Marilyn Manson did that, but for Horror... As a matter of fact, I would say that this song could be a universally fun song to add to most horror movie soundtracks... As a matter of fact this song can already be heard in such horror movies as, Trick 'r Treat (2007), House On Haunted Hill (1999) and in the trailer for the Sci-fi/Fantasy movie, Wrath Of The Titans (2012)! And as for the small screen it can be heard in the pilot episode of Fox's hit TV series, 'The Following'!

[caption id="attachment_2897" align="aligncenter" width="458"] Marilyn Manson doing, 'Sweet Dreams' live in 2003![/caption]

The only problem with this song is that while it is definitely a fun one, it is also one of those songs that takes a certain type to listen to it and enjoy it... Basically it doesn't translate well to fans of other musical genres...

http://youtu.be/QUvVdTlA23w

 

Star Trek: Mirror Universe - Glass Empires (2007) - Book Review

[caption id="attachment_325" align="alignright" width="263"] Official Score = 3 Devils[/caption]

Star Trek shattered a lot of barriers, both barriers of racial barriers (i,e... Have the episode that had the first interracial kiss), and all sorts of other types of barriers, (such as having a culturally diverse crew during a time in human history when that was not really done to much.)

But one thing they did, which I feel was really expertly done, and which was a tradition that was not only carried in other shows, movies & novels, but became a seriously fun legacy that would play out real nicely through the entire Star Trek Universe (rather it be on TV or in written form), is the concept of going from our normal dimension in to a mirror universe (in the case of Star Trek, it would be Starfleet Officers from the Federation, going in to a mirror universe and mixing with brutal Starfleet Officers from the, 'Terran Empire'...

Well of course the first time this was done was with the original series when it was still on TV, but would be carried on in either written form or on TV, (with episodes based in the mirror universe for, 'Star Trek: Deep Space 9' and, 'Enterprise'

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="413"] Chekov (Walter Koenig) as he is trying to move up the ranks, by assassinating Captain Kirk (William Shatner) on the mirror universes, 'I.S.S. Enterprise' in the original series episode, 'Mirror Mirror'.[/caption]

But in 2007, Mike Sussman, Dayton Ward, Kevin Dilmore, David Mack & Greg Cox along with another group of notables sitting down to write the definitive time line of the mirror universe!

The authors mentioned the above would go on write the first 3 generations of the history in the book, 'Glass Empires'... This book told a couple of different stories, which includes a story about the consolidation of Hoshi Sato's control of the Empire during a rebellion that is threatening the Empire... (which is how Vulcans came to be accepted as full members of the Empire), through how Spock would collapse the Empire and how Jean-Luc Picard comes in contact with the rebellion and works to try and find a weapon to help destroy the Alliance for the Rebellion... And the ghastly consequences of his actions!

[caption id="attachment_2630" align="aligncenter" width="225"] This novel is a fascinating look at just about all the characters we have all come to know and love, if the choices they had taken had lead them to the dark side![/caption]

This is just the first part of this series, but if you found the whole mirror universe story as fascinating as I did, well the truth is, then I suspect that you will end up finding that you really like this series, if not... Well hey, it is Star Trek, and if you like that, then you might like this as well! I freakin loved this book as well as the rest of the series, and if you give it a try, then you might find that you really like it as well!

F.E.A.R. Perseus Mandate - F.E.A.R. Files Expansion Pack (2007) - Video Game Review

[caption id="attachment_325" align="alignright" width="263"] Official Score = 3 Devils[/caption]

So far I have to say that not only are, 'Shooter' games a total blast... (No pun intended) but that those who make horror video games are doing a truly awesome job in the games that they have created... I mean don't get me wrong, there are duds in just about everything, but there are a lot of truly fun horror & shooter games, and there are a lot of truly fun, 'horror shooter' games out there!

The reason that I mention this is the fact that since I have been playing X-Box 360 games, I have found that the makers of these games have done a truly great job in making these types of games! And one that I most recently played that I thought that I would mention here is, 'F.E.A.R. Perseus Mandate' (2007)!

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="512"] The initial briefing before you and your, 'F.E.A.R. Team' drop in to the facility![/caption]

Now, 'F.E.A.R. Perseus  Mandate' tells the story of how, 'F.E.A.R.' sends in a secondary team to investigate what is going on with the, 'ATC'' only to have you and your team going through various facilities, as you fight not just Replica forces, but mercenaries and the like as you, your F.E.A.R. team as well as Delta Force units race against time to capture the DNA sample of the big bad from the previous game (Alma)!

[caption id="attachment_1872" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Some times this job can be a real killer![/caption]

In the end, I played this game through the, 'F.E.A.R. Files Expansion Pack', which has both this game and, 'F.E.A.R. Extraction Point' (2006), and I have to admit that this one is better honestly for one reason and one reason only, the other game felt to me to be more like a mini-game (I mean I beat, 'F.E.A.R. Extraction Point' in 2 days only playing a few hours each day...) And not only was this game a little bit harder, but I kind of felt like this game was a little more detailed in all of the right areas!

This game was a fun one, and I found it well worth the time, and if you try it out, I think you might end up finding the same thing as well!

http://youtu.be/6cHuLFNxsLE

Crackdown (2007) - Video Game Review

[caption id="attachment_385" align="alignright" width="353"] Official Score = 2 Devils[/caption]

Believe it or not, I am still relatively new to the modern world of video games, (I come from the background of, 'Super Nintendo', 'Sega Genesis' and the like), so be patient with me as I catch up to the more modern video games... But as I am becoming more familiar with these games I have to admit that the more I am impressed with these types of games!

Now I will admit that I am still a fan of the more Retro 2D games and the 3D games that were really more helicopter views and 3rd person shooters , but I have found that as time goes on and Video Game Companies are creating more and more Video Games like, 'First Person Shooters' &, 'Horror Video Games' the more and more I am impressed! As a matter of fact I would go so far as to say that with the more and more real that these games are really beginning to look, more and more like movies, with closer and closer life like movement, soundtracks that are starting to really heavily get away from their Computer generated and more toward move style sound tracks...

And you know what? That is just part of the reason why, Crackdown (2007) is so cool!

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="600"] This super soldier is kicking some gangland butt![/caption]

Created by Realtime Worlds for distribution for the Microsoft X-Box, this game tells the story of, 'Pacific City' a large mostly  Island based city that has been almost entirely overrun by gangs... (In the case of this video game, the Central American Gang, 'Los Muertos' (which means, 'The Dead' in Spanish), 'The Volk' (A Russian gang whose name in English means. 'The Wolf'), and the East Asian Gang, 'Shai-Gen Corporation'... To combat this, and to take back the mean streets of Pacific city, the, 'Agency' (A peace keeping force) creates a super soldier!

And your mission through out the game is to take down the hierarchy of all 3 gang organizations... And lets face it, a veritable army of just dozen after dozen of solders from each gang!

Now like I said above, this game has some great music, it is an older game by comparison, but the graphics are still pretty solid. The 2 problems that I have here is the weird 3rd person shooter/first person shooter cross over that goes on through out the game... And the truth is, is that the game play is unnecessarily confusing, and it makes the initial game difficult to get in to!

In the end though, if you have the patients to get in to it, it will prove out to be a decent enough game, and at the very least one worth trying...

http://youtu.be/YBg0lOlSQpQ

Ed Gein... Movies He Inspired!

Unless you are an extreme horror movie fan or some one who does research on serial killers, then I doubt you would have heard of Ed Gein...

Well first of Ed Gein is one of the worst serial killers there is, yet he is also one of the most prolific serial killers in history... Why is that? Well besides the fact that he murdered only 2 people, and besides the fact that Ed Gein was more or less obsessed with his mother, he was also known to have made furniture and what not out of human body parts, as well as also having been known to have started making a woman costume out of human skin, to arrange some strange rituals... And yet he was a nice guy that lived as a hermit out in the middle of no where... Sound familiar?

It should, you see, one of the biggest contributions that Ed Gein contributed to the world, is what he contributed to the horror movie genre!

[caption id="attachment_1415" align="aligncenter" width="520"] Ed Gein, after the truth about hos gruesome life came to be known![/caption]

The first of these movies is, Psycho (1960), you see this movie was based on the book by author Robert Bloch who based his story mostly on Ed Gein's case, in that Psycho told the story of a reclusive young man by the name of, 'Norman Bates', who lived out at his mostly empty Motel, and who was obsessed with his overly possessive mother, and how after he kills a woman one night, the world that he had created for himself, had started spiraling out of control!

[caption id="attachment_1416" align="aligncenter" width="597"] Anthony Perkins as, 'Norman Bates' in Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 masterpiece, 'Psycho' (1960)[/caption]

The next one that I thought that I would mention here is, Three On A Meathook (1974). Now this is another movie that is loosely based on the story of Ed Gein, with the exception that it appears that the mother is no longer in the picture, and the father appears to become obsessed with the son, when the son starts pulling away!

[caption id="attachment_1417" align="aligncenter" width="600"] A scene from, Three On A Meat Hook (1974)![/caption]

And another one that I thought that I would mention here (One of the first movies that maybe the first most closest adaptions of the old Ed Gein story), a movie that I found to be a lot of fun, (and if you are huge B Horror fan I think you might to), that movie is, Deranged: Confessions Of A Necrophile (1974). This movie tells the story about how after the death of the mother that he loved so dearly, that this old hermit farmer, becomes a grave robber and murderer, and even goes so far to try and keep and preserve his mother's corpse!

[caption id="attachment_1418" align="aligncenter" width="600"] This guy is taking the term, 'getting a new look,' a little to far!'[/caption]

The next movie that I thought that I would say is more closely based on the story of Ed Gein is not so much a movie as it is a character in a movie, and that is the character of, 'Jame (Buffalo Bill) Gumb' (Played by: Ted Levine) from the award winning movie, Silence Of The Lambs (1991), a movie which has FBI trainee, 'Clarice Starling' (Played by: Jodie Foster) and how she enlisted the help of a captured serial killer in an effort to capture a serial killer by the name of, 'Buffalo Bill' a loner, that is kidnapping women in an effort to make a woman suit out of the women that he has murdered... And has gotten the FBI's attention when his latest kidnapping victim is the daughter of U.S. Senator!

[caption id="attachment_1419" align="aligncenter" width="604"] Ted Levine as, 'Jame (Buffalo Bill) Gumb' in, 'Silence Of The Lambs' (1991)![/caption]

The last one that I wanted to mention here is, Ed Gein: D.D.S. (2013). Now this movie hasn't been released yet, but this movie will tell the story of how a witches coven will resurrect Ed Gein using an old haunted dental chair that had been taken from the Hospital that he spent the last years of his life at.

[caption id="attachment_1421" align="aligncenter" width="450"] Ed Gein will be resurescted later this year to have some more fun in, 'Ed Gein: D.D.S.' (2013)[/caption]

And then of course there are the movies that are actually bio-pics of Ed Gein and his story, included in this is:

1. Ed Gein (2000), a movie which stars, Steve Railsback (Disturbing Behavior) as Gein.

2. Ed Gein: The Ghoul Of Plainfield (2004) a documentary on Gein himself.

3. Ed Gein: The Butcher Of Plainfield (2007) a horror movie that stars, Kane Hodder (Jason X)

4. Ed Gein: The Musical (2010) a movie which stars Dan Davies (West Of The Thunder)

The last area that I thought that I would mention here are just a few movies that took some element of Ed Gein and what he did for their film:

1. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) used Gein as the inspiration for, 'Leatherface', as well as the fact that Leatherface and his creepy family are on a creepy out of the way farm that is decorated with furniture that was made from Human remains.

2. Motel Hell (1980), used the whole creepy killer farmer element that lives almost entirely out in the middle of no where, and kills people!

3. Maniac (1980) a movie that used the fact that the killer in this movie had an abusive mother, and that is why he kills women he deemed, 'un-clean'.

4. Ed And His Dead Mother (1993) in this movie the lead character who is mourning the loss of his mother that he has lived his entire life with, dies and ultimately he has brought back to life!

5. Roadkill: The Last Days of John Martin (1994) tells the story of a crazy meat carver who lives on a farm by himself and goes out and kills people with car trouble for food... He also has an ornamental dead head.

6. House Of 1,000 Corpse (2003), now I suspect that when Rob Zombie was making this film, that he utilized the fact that Ed Gein would dress up in a woman suit and would dance in bizarre rituals at night as inspiration in this movie for the moment in the movie when the family dresses up (in real costumes) to sacrifice the remaining people that they had captured to, 'Doctor Satan'!

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The Lighter Side Of Remakes

Like most people I have to admit that I am not always the hugest fan of horror movie remakes...

I mean the creation of these types of movies generally tend to show that Hollywood is out of ideas, but in Hollywood's greed, they seem like they are not willing to put to bed these classic franchises, and often times seem to virtually destroy these franchises!

A couple of franchises that should have never have been remade, that have since seemed to have ruined a truly legendary franchise are, A Nightmare On Elm Street (2010), and Friday The 13th (2009)!

As for A Nightmare On Elm Street, this movie series has become truly legendary in the world of horror movies, and it made both the name and the character of Freddy Krueger, a house hold name.... The same can be said for Friday The 13th and Jason Voorhees!

Now as for the remakes, I actually did like the Friday The 13th remake (obviously not as much as the original series), and I haven't seen the new remake for A Nightmare On Elm Street, but from what I have heard and from what I have seen, it has been universally panned by just about every one!

Now that is the darker side of Remakes, there is also a lighter side as well!

What I mean by this is that there has in my opinion also been some good ones as well and at least one movie that I liked better than the original (If you can believe that!)

[caption id="attachment_1154" align="aligncenter" width="525"] The posters for John Carpenter's, 'Halloween' (1978), and the poster Rob Zombie's 2007 remake![/caption]

An example of a pretty solid remake of a horror movie was Rob Zombie's Halloween (2007), now this movie in my opinion was not as good as John Carpenter's original Halloween (a fav). But the truth is, is that this movie had some special effects that I doubt could have been done in 1978, (which was when Carpenter's Halloween was made) and the way that Rob Zombie expanded on the story line for what happened to Michael Myers before he started killing his family, to when he broke out of the insane asylum was a lot of fun and well worth it!

Another example is Marcus Nispel's, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003).... Now I personally was a fan of Tobe Hooper's classic, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), but the truth is, is that this movie was a lot of fun and really needed for the following reasons:

1. The last Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie to come out from the original series, 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation' (1994) kind of really sucked, and it looked like it would get worse and worse.

2. Everything about the remake was fun, including the special effects, the direction, the story, and the acting, and the look and feel of the movie seemed a lot more realistic!

3. And lastly I have to say that R. Lee Ermey (Se7en) was both funny and entertaining in this movie.

Earlier I mentioned that there was a remake that I actually liked more than the original... That movie is the remake of, The Last House On The Left (1972).

Now I enjoyed to a strong degree the story and the acting in the original movie, but the truth is, is that the original movie in my opinion was so intense that you would have thought that there was a film crew that had been sent out to film a group psychopaths as they brutally murdered a couple innocent girls (they didn't.) The remake on the other hand was a fun horror movie!

With that in mind folks, for the most part. I will agree with you that remakes and reboots are not the best, but I highly recommend not entirely discounting them entirely out of hand, because in the end you might find some movies that you really enjoy!

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