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Post by vishspal on Jun 29, 2019 23:03:54 GMT
Child’s Play is a remake of the 1988 horror film of the same name. I thought it was good, but not as good as the original. I thought it was great for its own version.
The performances were good and I thought the cliche robot out of control idea was a great way to introduce Chucky. Chucky in this movie reminded me of Uber Jason from Jason X.
I also liked that everyone knows that the doll was responsible for everything that happened instead of blaming the main character just like in the original franchise.
Mark Hamill did a great job and I thought Chucky was pretty cool controlling everything. I can’t wait to watch a sequel and see what else they will include.
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Post by James on Jun 29, 2019 23:06:33 GMT
Great review and I’m glad you enjoyed it.
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Post by darkpast on Jun 30, 2019 3:45:58 GMT
Chucky be a real sex doll in the sequel
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Post by Vits on Dec 1, 2019 10:37:36 GMT
CHILD'S PLAY 6/10 CHILD'S PLAY PART 2 4/10 Despite having a much more interesting cinematography, CHILD'S PLAY PART 2 pretty much recycled the plot from CHILD'S PLAY PART 1. While CHILD'S PLAY PART 3 does change things up by abandoning the "Possessed toy murders people and makes everyone believe his owner did it" formula, the end result is still not scary enough. The opening title sequence is the best of the franchise, but the one-liners have become stupid. At the end of the 1st installment, there were only a few people who could testify to the existence of CHUCKY the evil doll. The reasons given as to why the secret was kept at the beginning of the 2nd installment may have been too convenient, but at least it wasn't illogical. At the end of that movie, we saw security cameras recording everything, so why doesn't anyone believe in him this time around? This is the point in the franchise where CHUCKY stopped caring about being seen. He even pops up screaming with a knife in his hand near a man. The CHUCKY we all thought we knew until this point wouldn't have done that without making sure the person was unable to move. "Luckily" for him, he scared the man so much he died of a heart attack (he falls down on a table and breaks it, because apparently slasher flicks require the death scenes to be as noisy as possible). Speaking of, a lot of his plans require so many things out of his control to happen. One of them involves replacing paintball capsules with real bullets. I assumed that this would lead to a massacre (especially since he only did this with the red paint rifles instead of the blue ones), but it disappointingly doesn't. 4/10 BRIDE OF CHUCKY 3/10 SEED OF CHUCKY 3/10 CURSE OF CHUCKY 6/10 You know how many sequels are called "pointless" because the story didn't need to continue? CULT OF CHUCKY is pointless for a different reason. It feels like it's setting something up, but there's no clear direction. It starts out as an unbalanced mix of psychological thriller and gory slasher flick. Throughout the movie, there are hints of it also being a "Characters from different installments face off against each other and/or team up to defeat the villain" action sequel. It ends up being (again) an unbalanced mix of dark comedy and nihilistic drama. Seriously, just look at the plan ANDY BARCLAY (the protagonist of the original trilogy, now all-grown up) comes up with: Get himself locked up in an asylum, wait until CHUCKY comes for him, turn the tables around, and kill him. He succeeds... and he still is somehow left trapped. CURSE OF CHUCKY wasn't the best installment just because it had a well-crated moody atmosphere for most of its running time, but also because of NICA PIERCE (the protagonist). She was likeable and (internally) strong enough to taunt CHUCKY. I rooted for her to survive and I was invested in her family drama. Keep in mind that I don't usually say these things when dealing with a direct-to-video horror movie. Now, most of what she does is beg others to believe her or looked scared/sad when someone dies. I thought "OK, her personality isn't really being displayed because she's a victim of circumstances. The movie will build this up until the climax, where she'll fight back." That doesn't happen. Quite the opposite, actually. She gets hypnotized by DR. FOLEY (a rapey psychiatrist) and stays half-awake until her body is possessed by CHUCKY. Come on, Don Mancini! Why did you write the script in a way that holds Fiona Dourif back, when she has proven to be the best actress of the franchise?! By the way, CHUCKY mentions how disgusting FOLEY is (for taking advantage of NICA and probably other patients) but, when he finds himself in NICA's body, he touches her breasts. That's not rape too? Plus, even though they're unrelated characters, I don't want to imagine Brad Dourif touching his daughter like that. The continuity in this saga has always been questionable, but these last 2 movies have given me a headache. So... CHUCKY decided to stop trying to transfer his soul into a human body, which led to a fight with his wife TIFFANY VALENTINE and their child GLEN/GLENDA. TIFFANY switched bodies with the real JENNIFER TILLY, but CHUCKY didn't know that. CHUCKY killed JENNIFER, and GLEN/GLENDA killed their father. TIFFANY started to pretend she was JENNIFER. CHUCKY somehow survived and mailed his own arm via mail to the TILLY residence, where he killed his child. TIFFANY ignored it and decided to help CHUCKY transfer his soul into other dolls and humans, creating an army. The method to do this is a shortened version of the voodoo chant, and the time limit rule doesn't apply anymore for some reason. TIFFANY changed her identity back and, to this day, nobody makes the connection between the missing celebrity and her look-alike. Did I get all of that right? 2/10 I don't want to sound ungrateful by saying negative things about CHILD'S PLAY 2019, because it's what we've been asking for many years: A remake that, rather than telling the same story, tells a new one with the original's core elements. I'm sorry, but it's a forgettable bore. As goofy as the previous installments could get (purposefully or not), they were always memorable and kept my attention. I can't really judge Mark Hamill's performance, because the makers didn't decide if they wanted CHUCKY to be essentially a machine who does bad things out of misunderstandings or the same character he was before. The fact that he develops a semi-personality in the last part contradicts the tone they're going for. While the original looked a little creepy (for what was supposed to pass as a cute doll), I could get used to seeing him after a while. Who would ever want to be near, let alone play with, this hideous re-interpretation?! 4/10 ------------------------------------- You can read comments of other movies in my blog. |
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