Finally watched it the other day and I still giggle thinking about a few of the gags.

And I've been trying to think of the last similarly funny movie. Hundreds of Beavers comes to mind, hence the mainstream studio qualifier.

Obviously, comedy is subjective so I'm sure there are some with which I'll disagree but curious to hear your thoughts!

30 years ago this movie was released. It's corny at times and not very accurate, but it's pretty nostalgic for me. I saw it when it the day it was released in 95.

I decided to fire up the ole blue ray player and rewatch it tonight. I realized I had missed something when I first saw it: in one of the opening scenes, Dade, our antihero star, is "taking over a TV station" so he can watch the outer limits. Currently being broadcast is a very racist TV show about how white people are superior are better then black people and other minorities. The tape is ejected and we see the name of the videos "America first".

It made me laugh out loud how 30 years later we are still experiencing the same rhetoric, and the same racism, using the same titles.

1964. When America was at war with itself.

Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the small town ways of his partner, a former sheriff.

I had on a documentary about the Salem Witch Trials. A book or movie about a witch witnessing all this in secret would be interesting, I thought. But searching isn't turning up anything, which surprises me. So I turn to you, Lemmy. Do you have the story I seek?

Pictures, or no pictures, or moving pictures are all cool.

Over 1,800 internationally known actors, directors, and film professionals pledged on 8 September to boycott Israeli film institutions that are “implicated in genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people.”

The pledge, released by Film Workers for Palestine, states, “As filmmakers, actors, industry workers, and institutions, we recognize cinema’s power to shape perceptions. In this urgent crisis, where many governments enable the carnage in Gaza, we must address complicity in this unrelenting horror.”

It highlights that the International Criminal Court (ICC) has determined a “plausible risk of genocide” in Gaza and describes Israel’s occupation and apartheid policies as unlawful.

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The book was phenomenal of course. However the American movie version ("Otto") while all the cast nailed it, really seemed like a long ad for Chevy, which irked me.

Not to mention their hypertruck or whatever at the end was OUTLANDISHLY hideous. One of the worst looking vehicles ever besides the cyber dumpster.

I have not seen the other version of the film.

Watched the movie last night with no knowledge of it except for the director’s last film. I was expecting another kinda campy high school horror film like Talk To Me, and that was not what I got; what I got was leagues better.

This movie surpassed every expectation and continued to blow me away as it progressed.

The casting was perfect. I would change nothing there. Sora Wong and Jonah Wren Philips deliver remarkable performances.

The pacing was remarkable; the last movie to keep me so locked in was Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite, and I don’t think any movie excepting The Lighthouse has filled me with such an overwhelming and compounding sense of anxiety and dread, and the antagonist is loathsome to an insane degree.

I did not find the cinematography particularly remarkable, but the tape nailed the snuff film vibe perfectly and the scenes of violence were next level and hauntingly vivid.

There are a few “trademark horror movie stupidity” moments (phone left unlocked on the bed), but they do not ever put the characters at a disadvantage to my recollection, which was super refreshing.

Also refreshing and something that I tremendously appreciate is the lack of jump scares.

I particularly liked how unique this movie’s approach is to common tropes of the genre. Despite the cursed media and ritual tropes, this movie oozes with originality in every aspect, and I was never certain of the outcome of its events.