{"id":13224,"date":"2023-10-15T18:11:48","date_gmt":"2023-10-15T22:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=13224"},"modified":"2023-10-15T18:11:48","modified_gmt":"2023-10-15T22:11:48","slug":"weekly-movie-roundup-47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=13224","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Movie Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I watched 6 movies last week:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt3427252\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/1-2-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Boogeyman\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/1-2-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/1-2-690x1024.jpg 690w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/1-2-768x1139.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/1-2.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt9224104\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/2-2-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"Meg 2: The Trench\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/2-2-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/2-2-691x1024.jpg 691w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/2-2-768x1137.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/2-2.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0024727\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/3-2-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Vampire Bat\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/3-2-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/3-2-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/3-2-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/3-2.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt3427252\/\">The Boogeyman<\/a> feels so tediously familiar, and not just because of its generic title or because I\u2019ve read the Stephen King short story on which the movie is (very loosely) based. Its plot calls to mind a dozen other horror movies of recent years, and even its moments of specificity feel generic\u2014chosen not because they add an interesting twist on the formula, or even because they\u2019re lifted from King\u2019s (light-on-plot) text, but because they\u2019re simply ticking boxes of the sort of things movies like this are supposed to have. It\u2019s not badly made, and the main cast do a decent enough job, but it seems like it would only be interesting if you\u2019d never seen a horror movie before.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li>I think I enjoyed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt9224104\/\">Meg 2: The Trench<\/a> better than the original, but I say that only because I remember practically nothing about the original except that there was, probably, a giant shark. There are a few scattered moments of half-hearted Ben Wheatley-style horror in this one, but none of them are given a chance to breathe. And while there\u2019s some enjoyment to be taken from the ridiculousness of the last act, it\u2019s never ridiculous enough and never rises above the limited cleverness of your average Sci-Fi Channel shark movie.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0024727\/\">The Vampire Bat<\/a> never really surprises you about where it\u2019s going, but it\u2019s a short enough ride that it\u2019s not without its charms.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0122143\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/4-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Last Broadcast\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/4-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/4-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/4-1.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0758746\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/5-1-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"Friday the 13th\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/5-1-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/5-1-692x1024.jpg 692w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/5-1-768x1136.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/5-1.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt8296030\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/6-1-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"You Won&#039;t Be Alone\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/6-1-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/6-1-691x1024.jpg 691w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/6-1-768x1137.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/6-1.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0122143\/\">The Last Broadcast<\/a> is creepy, if a little crude and unevenly paced, but it\u2019s mostly undone by a last-minute twist that might have worked in a different movie, but which bere feels tacked-on and unconvincing.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li>Somebody made a remake\/sequel of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0758746\/\">Friday the 13th<\/a> in 2009. Having now watched it, I can say yes, that\u2019s definitely a thing that somebody did. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s necessarily worse than any of the original films\u2014of which i\u2019m not the biggesr fan\u2014but it\u2019s definitely not better, nor does it offer any reason for rebooting the series in the first place. The slickness of its early 2000s production always feels at odds with the grimy\u2026for lack of a better word \u201ccharms\u201d of the originals.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li>\u201cWhat isn\u2019t strange, when you think about it?\u201d Despite the witches and the gore, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt8296030\/\">You Won\u2019t Be Alone<\/a> isn\u2019t a horror movie\u2014except maybe it is, and the horror is simply being alone and human in this world. It\u2019s a quieter and more contemplative movie than I\u2019d expected, an often beautiful folk tale about outcasts and belonging.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I also re-watched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0070047\/\">The Exorcist<\/a>. If there&#8217;s a better horror movie, I have yet to find it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched 6 movies last week: The Boogeyman feels so tediously familiar, and not just because of its generic title or because I\u2019ve read the Stephen King short story on which the movie is (very loosely) based. Its plot calls to mind a dozen other horror movies of recent years, and even its moments of &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=13224\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13224"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13224"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13232,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13224\/revisions\/13232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}