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The failure of the Godzilla "Monsterverse" franchise, for whatever reason (most probably mass apathy for giant monsters), just again emphasizes what a miracle the success of the MCU has been. Again, Kong vs Godzilla is pretty much already done, so it will be released, I'm sure. And MAYBE two 'stars' in the title will…

Well, I liked it. Thoughts in the preceding post.

I'm not sure about these numbers. The production costs for Rob Zombie's Halloween must have been very low. It made $80 million worldwide and got a sequel. Meanwhile, the 2009 Friday the 13th, with a modest $19 budget, made $91 million and killed the reboot franchise. I get the numbers there, actually. Roughly $20…

So I kind of get them screwing up Nightmare on Elm Street, because that was a very good film and thus easier to fail with. However, how the heck do you mess up a Friday the 13th movie? I won't say it's because people are just tired of them, because there were two Rob…

Admittedly, the producers of this remake gave themselves a harder task than, say, the Friday the 13th remake, because the actual Craven Nightmares are really good, even great. Even so, you'd think they could have done better than a film with a 15% Rotten Tomatoes score. But hey, I'm sure it had a lot…

Wow, the original wasn't made until 1993? Anyway, let's look at the brilliant redoes of the classic horror movies of the 70s on!

Apparently this what that woman calls "Tuesday." Have a great long weekend, everyone!

Yeah, that would be bad. Quick, call Kona!