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In case you haven’t seen the intro from my entry dated
1/26/19 (it’s in my archives whenever you want to read it), I’m no longer going
to review every single movie I see. I’m
going to review one, with the occasional bonus, and just give ratings for the
rest from now on (unless I decide to pick it up again in the future). You can always ask me why I gave the ratings
for the films without reviews though (via comments or the e-mail addresses
under the ‘About Me’ section).
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Nobody Sleeps in the
Woods Tonight OK
Here we have a Polish slasher movie recently added to
Netflix in which a group of people attend a camp geared towards getting them
away from technology. They split up into
groups and head into the woods in true slasher style. I did mention this was a Polish film, so,
yes, that means there are subtitles 99% of the time if you don’t understand
Polish (the 1% is when two characters quote a certain American movie that
actually isn’t a slasher film). This
film is full of clichés even though one character appears very knowledgeable of
the genre, i.e. entering a strange house in the middle of the woods, investigating
noises, a car only starting when it’s convenient, etc. The killers, yes plural, are downright
repulsive to behold (you do eventually see why), giving the inbred killers in
all the Wrong Turn films a hefty run
for their money (ironically, one of the kills here was exactly like one in Wrong Turn 2). I was hoping those Poles would strike two
this year with Netflix releases after giving us the worthy The Woods series; I mean, some of the kills here were fine and it
isn’t the worst movie I’ve seen in the subgenre, but, unfortunately, it doesn’t
deviate much from many of its average American (or elsewhere)
counterparts. 11/2/2020
Bonus review:
Mr. Mercedes: Season Three OK
I said this at the beginning of my review of the previous
season---[I never read the trilogy of novels by someone named Stephen King---Mr.
Mercedes, Finders Keepers, and End of Watch, released in that
order---but I do own the first two and hope to one day read them, preferably
when this series isn’t so fresh in my mind.
That being said, I went into this season, as well as the last, blind
with nothing to compare it to]---and it still applied here (you can read my
entire review for both season one and two in the archives---www.abcreviewarchive.blogspot.com). [POTENTIAL SPOILERS AHEAD] Something happened to the titular character
at the end of the last season which caused him to be M.I.A. this time, aside
from a few brief moments here and there that might not have even been played by
Harry Treadaway. This season focuses on
previous characters in addition to some new ones that were affected by Mr.
Mercedes, specifically an incident he caused in season one. Like the last two seasons, this one also
contained ten roughly 50-minute (give or take) episodes and I never felt like I
forced myself to continue, which makes me wonder if my rating should be higher. On the other hand, it also felt like a cash
grab that was a bit unnecessary in the sense it overstayed its welcome by
adding more characters, but, like I said, I haven’t read any of the source
material, so I don’t know what faithfully made it to the screen, what was
omitted, or what may have been added. In
other words, I thought it was an unnecessary season while simultaneously
thinking it wasn’t that bad, enough to want to continue, if I can say anything for
those planning on watching it anyway. So
far, a fourth season isn’t planned and I hope it stays that way! Let the series end here, if anything, before
it really overstays its welcome. 10/30/2020
Other movies I've seen and their ratings (see above):
Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet the Wolfman >>>OK
American Pie Presents: Girls’ Rules >>>EH/OK
The Assistant (2020) >>>OK/G
His House >>>OK
(Netflix)
Over the Moon >>>OK
(Netflix)
---Sean O.
11/2/2020
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