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Cannibal Mukbang

Mukbang is an activity wherein someone eats a lot of food online while others watch. People enjoy this for a variety of reasons.

A guy with a steel plate in his head meets a girl who's way too attractive for him, but she seduces him and by the end she really does fall in love with him. The title is a dead giveaway, so obviously she, the cannibal, is eating people she's murdered on her mukbang videos.

It's a very earnest horror romantic comedy. The film tries really hard and succeeds sometimes at being a heartfelt love story in a Gen Z kind of way. The guy is maddeningly awkward and she has to pull him along throughout the film. Also, there's a big scene that guarantees it's going to be key to the movie, but it's never followed up on. It also asks the viewer to make some pretty big leaps and while it tries to be unpredictable, you can pretty much guess what's going to happen in the end.

It's not fair to say this is a bad movie, but it has a number of bad movie elements. OTOH, it has a lot of great elements too. It's like a labrador retriever puppy at their first few obedience training lessons, which is consistent with this being the director's first time ever directing a film.

If you like horror, you can definitely do worse. If you don't like horror, this one probably isn't for you.

Horror Scale: 6.89/10

Non-Horror: 5/10
 
The Cycle

FBI lady whose dad disappeared when she was four is tasked with solving a series of gruesome murders. Bodies that should be very decomposed are in states of odd preservation.

This one's like a combination of Silence of the Lambs and The Howling. The first 2/3 is pretty darn good, but by the end you just want it to be over. OMFG, please let this end!

Alien is probably the greatest movie ever at not showing the monster until the very end. This one starts off that way, and it's good, but eventually the monsters are everywhere and the special effects are horrible; maybe the worst I've seen since probably Ghoulies from 1985. Filmmakers are often criticized for overuse of CGI, but in this case it would've been a vast improvement.

The entire third act goes on and on and on and is rife with stupid crap. It's like high school film students invaded the set and said, "Okay, we'll take it from here."

It's so bad that there are two "Hey, didn't that guy die in the last scene?" moments.

3/10
 
The Sadness

Now this is a horror movie. If you want well done gore, ultra-violence, and unabashed depravity, then you, will love, this movie.

A virus related to rabies gets out in Taiwan.Utter fucking insanity ensues. I love this movie because the filmmakers put everything on the table, looked at it, and said, "Everything is staying on the table." There is no, "Maybe we shouldn't do that," involved. Just when you think the movie can't top itself, it comes up with something even more shocking yet it's all pretty damn clever. At the 15 minute mark, strap in because it's one helluva ride.

Despite one might think of such a movie upon hearing about it, it's well acted, well filmed, and well written. It touches on a couple of issues in a meaningful way, which doesn't give it a lot of depth, but it's there. One scene in particular occurs when one of the infected begins murdering people on a train. Most of the passengers pull out their goddamn phones and begin filming it, rather than helping the victims.

If you're at all uncomfortable with blood and violence, avoid this flick like it's The Dark Lord Himself. If you're a horror fan and don't like this movie, then get your milquetoast ass back to the first season of Stranger Things.

Horror Scale 9/10

Non-Horror Scale: 7/10
 
Watched Disclosure Day by Spielberg. It was about as stupid as I imagined it would be (spoilers ahead).

So the aliens came to earth in 1947 (first supposed sighting of flying discs or flying saucers as they later were called) and have been buzzing around ever since. Area 51 and all that stuff. For some reason they frequently crash. Would an alien civilization vastly intellectually and technologically superior to ours have frequent spaceship crashes?

Not only that! The survivors of crashes are held captives by us humans. You mean that the non-crashed aliens couldn’t rescue them?

Their crashed technology is reversed engineered, of course.

A couple of people are determined to disclose the existence of these aliens from stolen government computer data that have been covered up for decades. Why these two? Because when they were children the aliens captured them and gave them psychic powers! But why? And why those two? Why not give these powers to everyone?

Indeed, if the aliens wanted to be revealed to the world, why not just do it in 1947? Why not just land a flying saucer on the White House lawn and hold a press conference?

The aliens, of course, are the Grays, a long-standing trope involving little beings, about three feet tall, with huge foreheads, gigantic black eyes, tiny chins and mouths, and very long fingers. Would evolution on another planet different from ours produce shriveled entities that are still basically humanoid? I doubt it very much.

Almost all of the movie involves car chases (how original!), as the sinister government agents constantly chase, but always somehow fail to catch, the two good people who are determined to disclose the existence of the aliens. Are these agents really such incompetent buffoons?

Oh, and there is a subplot about the U.S. and North Korea about to start World War III. I guess the worldwide revelation of the Grays which happens at the conclusion of the movie must have prevented that, but that is not disclosed.

Also God is involved, with a nun saying the disclosure of the aliens proves that “we are not alone.” So aliens are gods to a nun?

Whatever. Watch it if you’d like to see a stupid flick. Some good acting and special effects.

3/10
 
pood said:
Watched Disclosure Day by Spielberg. It was about as stupid as I imagined it would be (spoilers ahead).

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3/10
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I worried about the big reveal at the end. How would the authors come up with one good enough to justify all the anticipation they'd created? (I call this author drama, when you're more concerned about how the authors will get out of trouble than how the characters will.)

So, at the big dramatic ending, she steps up to the microphone to do the big reveal, and she says,
"Listen ..." and we fade to black.

The big reveal is that she's going to do the big reveal after the end of the movie.

Aside from that, I enjoyed it. I'd rate it higher than you did. I'd call it middling.
 
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