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The New Tom & Jerry Show (1975)
Elementary school anger
Growing up, Tom and Jerry would be on TV right when I got home from school and I loved it. I Looked forward to the zany humour.
Then this iteration started playing instead. And it was truly awful.
I don't know what that says about me, as I grew up to be a non-violent person, but the disappointment I felt when I came home and discovered this "friends" version was airing, caused urges inside of me that could almost be described as violent.
Throughout elementary school, Tom and Jerry would continue to play in the same time slot, rotating between the great pre-70's shorts, the not so great 80's version and the absolutely terrible 70's version.
Whether I was in grade 2 or grade 6, I found this 70's version unwatchable. So really young me and pre-teen me felt the same way about this dreck.
Without the violence, it relied on the lamest of plot situations. The same message over and over again - they had to work as friends to resolve a problem. And it was about as funny as Christian after school specials dealing with teenage pregnancy or parental alcoholism. I know because I would get exposed to them when I had to channel surf in the vain hope of finding something else to watch.
Half star for forcing me to go outside and play, and another half star for influencing the episode of the Simpsons when Marge tries to make Itchy and Scratchy cartoons non-violent.
The Open House (2018)
Bad Netflix
Basically, come up with an everyday event that could potentially be made frightening, throw every trope at it, allude to every genre of horror in hopes to rope viewers in, realized that you failed at doing so, but still make the movie anyway.
It Comes at Night (2017)
What comes at night? The end.
End of the world premise, carried out fairly realistically. No action heroes in this film, regular people trying to cope with a desperate situation none of us have ever been in before.
I've seen other reviews asking, "what happened?" "Too many plot holes." "Nothing happens" "No questions were answered"
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To those people, I ask them to ask themselves what does actually happen at night? Perhaps they were expecting some monster... and no literal monster appears. But in a sense the monster is them. The whole movie oozes tension... it sets up the expectation that something is going to get them at night. At night, the paranoia intensifies, and no matter how normal you try to tell yourself things are, it doesn't take much... one little inconsistency, and all doubt returns and intensifies at night. When you are away from your routine, where your thoughts or dreams, start demanding your attention that much more...
The movie is interesting because it shows, very well, how when all norms of society collapse, and your continued existence is threatened, a whole new standard of social interaction occurs. No more "Hey, how's it going?" Now it's a rifle butt in the face first, and ask questions later.
It's also extremely nihilistic. The new society they are trying to build ultimately leads to nothing as it is completely unsustainable.
It's a downer of a flick to be sure, but it's very well done and very interesting. If ultimately, it leaves you with nothing at all...