Disney is going to buy 20th Century Fox for $50 billion dollars. Comic fans are happy that they can now have their Marvel movies with X-Men and Fantastic 4 now, but I say too little, too late. Infinite War has been built up as the culmination of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), featuring the crossover war featuring all sorts of characters. Litterally dozens of characters, but not all of them. That's why "fans" will piss and moan about this forever. Since it's a Disney property, they wont include the Netflix characters, because they're too hardcore. And of course, X-Men and Fantastic 4 weren't available at the time, so it's all kind of a cop-out.
Fox was finally on the right track with recent X-Men, making its entries violent and fucked up, with Deadpool and Logan. Great movies. However, Disney is guaranteed to pussify the brand, since they wouldn't dare go beyond a PG-13 rating. Where's the child audience they cater to, then?
So that's a lot of money, because Disney is getting out of hand. I always kinda joke about how Disney is the enemy, but they're on their way to monopolizing the industry, and that ain't good. Think of 20th Century Fox, for example. What are their good properties? I like Alien. Will that turn PG-13 (again ๐)? Will they make R-rated movies? Or will they buy up the company, and continue to make their A-list big-budget super movies non-stop, in their effort to own everything?
New Line Cinema used to be a thing. WB bought it, and you never hear much of it anymore. MGM used to be huge, but it barely exists anymore, if for nothing more than novelty. Yet, in a more contrasting point, the old 80s-early-90s company "Orion" sorta made a comeback. That's kinda funny. Anchor Bay used to be the best horror dvd company, then Starz bought 'em and who cares now? At least they're making the Evil Dead show though...
Universal is all hung up on Fast & Furious movies, and their shitty Dark Universe movies. They've got nothing good on the superhero bandwagon, and those movies are crushing the competition these days. Paramount? What have they done good lately? Baywatch? Then a bunch of other shit probably, but I can't remember any of it, because none of it is really good.
Sony is trying to jumpstart its own universe with a new Venom movie coming out, but other than that, Sony hasn't put out much lately. 2017 hasn't been a great year for movies. Nothing truly awesome besides Logan, and I'd been debating whether "Three Billboards" might be my fave of the year or not, and that only came out last month.
Fuckin' Disney and their comic movies and Star Wars, trying to take over the planet... I don't even think The Last Jedi will be that great, but people eat up anything Star Wars. People are crazy.
Maybe all the good movies are the lower-budget ones that sneak by, made from random indie companies. Maybe that's how it's always been?!
I'm losing my train of thought here, because the industry is pretty mind-numbing. I need to see Disaster Artist. That'll fix my brain.
Forget porn. Martyrs is a torture epic. An epic that, at times, isn't easy to watch. This film is about a girl named Lucie and her friend, Anna. Both have issues, but Lucie's are the kind from which one never recovers. When Lucie was a child, she was kidnapped and tortured by unknown assailants whom she narrowly escaped, but not without scars. Physical and mental. In fact, a different person escaped that day. Whatever type of woman Lucie was to grow up to be was already dead. In her place would be a withdrawn basket case, incapable of accepting love or kindness, and literally plagued by demons who are slowly gnawing away at what's left of her soul.
While Lucie did escape her captors, they were never brought to justice. Now in her 20's, Lucie is still far from ok with this. In fact, she is so not ok with this lack of justice, that she is about to take matters into her own hands. As we now oversee a seemingly normal family eating breakfast, a knock is heard at the door. As the father answers, he is suddenly blown away by a young woman with a shot gun. Lucie barges in and goes on to destroy this family in cold hearted fashion. Yeah, the little girl gets it, too. Shot right in the back. While harsh, Lucie was simply THAT pissed at the parents. After years of searching, Lucie had finally found her tormentors, and had finally given herself a little bit of peace ... or has she? Lucie's scars are so deep, there is no level of retribution that can turn back time, at this point. What's done is done.
And then, there's Anna. Lucie's only friend, who is loyal, maybe to a fault. Make that definitely. Either way, Anna loves Lucie with all her heart, and will do anything to help make things easier. Lucie knows this and gives Anna a call from the now dead family's house, asking for assistance in disposing of some bodies. As always, Anna is on her way. While we wait with Lucie, we witness yet another side-effect of her scars: Delusions. Delusions which seem as real to Lucie as they do us. At some point, the poor girl dreamed up a friend which is far more damaged than herself. A friend who sometimes attacks her, making even more scars. Of course, it's merely Lucie attacking herself. However this "friend" of her's is based on a real person whom she refused to help escape as she was almost out the door all those years ago. That's where a lot of the mental scars come from: Guilt over what probably became of that other girl who only wanted to live, and maybe could have even had a somewhat normal life, had Lucie only taken the time to set her free before limping to freedom. Nothing can change what happened that day. Even after doing what was asked of her by killing this family, it's still not good enough. What's done is done.
Anna just hangs around the dead family's house with seemingly no plan. Long enough to notice a secret passage way in some cabinets, leading to an underground torture room. In this room, Anna discovers the final victim of this evil couple who destroyed her friend's life. And Anna being Anna, she helps this poor girl who is easily ten times more fucked up than Lucie was. Once a girl, now a grotesque freak, incapable of even communicating. All this person wants to do is destroy herself. Anna should have left, but she stuck around. Maybe she felt like she had failed Lucie, and saw this creature as her retribution.
It is unclear what Anna's plan was, but she makes an attempt at cleaning up the freak, and later, tries in vain to get her to calm down, although, she's about to calm down permanently, as a bullet randomly flies in, putting this tortured soul down, where she belongs, to be honest. Anna now has some visitors who have a lot of questions for her. As Anna fills them in, it soon becomes clear. These people are the employers of the original captors. And as they force Anna down to the torture room, she is clued in as to what all this business is about. There is a bigger picture that even the sickest of minds wouldn't have considered, and Anna is about to become the center of it all, as she is sucked into a hell far worse than the one Lucie experienced. Goddamn, it sure doesn't pay to help people, these days, does it?
