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Yesterday, I saw the movie Blink Twice (2024) starring Channing Tatum and Naomi Ackie. Please disregard what follows if you have seen this movie. The movie is unpalatably woke. I figured since Christian Slater and Geena Davis are in the movie, that it might be some decent modern take on Eyes Wide Shut. They went with the Epstein Island motif. They get some shit right, but a bunch of young women aren't going to get the better of some evil Billionaire and his people. Since it's woke, they had to make sure to use ethnic women and they had to make sure that they are able to best the billionaire (Channing Tatum). Drugging people and using them as sex slaves on a remote private island does happen all the time (one of the reasons for the open southern border is so that the wealthy can kidnap large numbers of anonymous people from the endless supply of them for their evil, sadistic pleasures without even leaving the country), but at least make the film realistic. I rate this film as 1.5/10.
I finally saw Alien: Romulus a few days ago, but it is woke and in the horror genre anyway so I didn't reco it. I wasn't going to post about Blink Twice since it was a terrible movie, but since I was logged in and reading the movie thread, I threw it in there as a heads up.
I watched a couple of movies last night that are worth a viewing if you get bored.
Arkansas (2020) with Double V is entertaining enough.
I enjoy a ranting Vince Vaughn playing a bad guy.
The comedic value/timing of the movie let me look past the plot holes and expediated ending.
I didn't want the movie to end.
I wanted it to go on for another hour.
Reptile (2023) was good enough for a movie made in 2023.
I guess I was in the mood for a police murder mystery type of movie.
The Pale Blue Eye (2022)
I fast-forwarded the Satanic Ritual near the end.
Didn't need to see that.
Edgar Allen Poe scenes get a little long winded.
I enjoyed some of the winter scenery.
Story was good enough to keep me interested for the duration.
Had an Ichabod Crane feel to it.
Better than that Contract Killer Movie I posted about.
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