Saltburned

The trailer looks like this was going to be a crazy romp, so I'm excited!

20 minutes in: This is just boring.

40 minutes in: Met the family, they are all terrible people.

60 minutes in: Everyone is just terrible people.

80 minutes in: Is this one of them black comedies I don't get?

100 minutes in: Is there a revelation to come? I hope there's a revelation to come.

190 minutes in: What a waste of a movie.

So yeah, I didn't enjoy it much. I do have trouble with black comedies, but I can intellectually realise they are black comedies, and I couldn't process this as that. This is just one terrible person infiltrating themselves into the lives of others and making everyone miserable. This is not a movie I wanted to watch after all.

In terms of doing the script, great acting from all people, nothing to be said about them. Just complaints about how bad I found the script.

Hope my next movie choice is better.

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Roping Cursing 3

Netflix continues its roll and we get a third movie.

Never mind the rope. There is only one rope in this, and it's barely cursing. The Thai Demon is back, with the Gate of Ghosts being open, and it's hanging out at a hotel in which people are slowly dying. In that people are dying, but it happens over the course of the movie, not that people are slowly losing life, which all of us are doing. The characters from the second movie are back to sort of deal with this, but it's really about yet another father/son pair who are ritual masters, although the son isn't that interested until this movie happens to him. Plot happens and the demon gets an upper hand, but hey, dancing will save the day.

I have no idea how many of these ideas are actual cultural practices, but I feel like Cthulhu should be stealing these ideas for modules.

It's very much a third movie in that it is more of the same. There is sort of a climax, but these movies are the sort that can go on and on, so even if it was defeated, there are more around (I'm not sure if the end scene is it still being around or something else).

If there's a fourth, I'll probably watch it, but I'm not looking for it.

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Rope Cursive 2

Netflix decided this was a series to sink their money into, and lo, we got the sequel.

Remember how the first was about someone who dies by rope being angry? Never mind any of that, it's a Thai demon now! And it uses ropes to kill people, so I guess it's at least related? And speaking of related, we get characters with plots that happen to overlap because they are related, where a young woman is near-psychic who helps some streamers, and entirely incidentally her uncle is killed by the Thai Demon because... because, that's why. And so the demon infects her family, her and her aunt, but don't worry there's a drunk Taoist Master who can help, who happens to have the same master as a character from the previous movie who is here with his stupid nephew! Hooray for returning characters?

This seems like a mélange of characters and plot because... it is. The threads are connected because the writer decided they would be. While we do get a rope ritual, this is really a different movie with a rope connection tied in to make it part of the series (yes, I see what I did there).

Not bad characters involved, but the dangling thread from the last movie isn't followed up on, and this has a whole new dangling thread to end on!

Let's see where the third movie ends up.

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Zong xie

Did you know that if someone dies under extreme rage or grief... they can make the rope they use be a cursed item.

This is actually a Taiwanese film which does have a certain air of familiarity, but the actual rope itself is rather incidental. Ten years after a girl was bullied to death (because of a ten year promise), all of a sudden a curse is unleashed that inflicts death on those that bullied her. One incidental was her friend she fell out with at the time, and so the movie is about their connection and problems between them, in a wrapping of an evil curse movie.

It's not a bad movie, there is some good building of tension, which I like in a movie. But yeah, the actual curse it rather incidental. The resolution promises that the events aren't over, but then we get a twist at the end that is comes out of nowhere, but is rather standard for these types of movies.

Let's see what the sequel holds...

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