Bad Times at the El Royale is really fucking good

4  2019-06-03 by OkaySeriouslyBro

Best movie I've seen in quite some time. Pretty damn long, but has a Tarantino homage feel to it. Definitely feels like someone trying to make a Tarantino movie in the vein of Hateful Eight, but they pull it off.

Bombed at the box office and I've never heard anyone talk about it, made it real easy to just go in fresh and let the twists hit you like they're supposed to. HBO premiered it this past Saturday so if you got that, check it out.

12 comments

1  GroovyBastard 2019-06-03

By the trailers It looked like something I'd like, but I'm such a goddamn recluse I never went to see it in the theater. Is it on Netflix?

1  OkaySeriouslyBro 2019-06-03

HBO go. Worth a torrent if you can get a 1080 rip of it, some of the cinematography wouldn't come across as nice on a shitty cut.

1  GroovyBastard 2019-06-03

Ah ok, thanks man. I've been thinking about getting HBO go for awhile anyway. I've been wanting to rewatch Oz and check out that old show Carnivale.

1  OkaySeriouslyBro 2019-06-03

That Chernobyl miniseries is pretty good too. The guy in charge of it researched the accident like crazy and shows up to debate you on reddit if you try and find a historical inaccuracy.

1  GroovyBastard 2019-06-03

Lol the man knows he did a good job and he's not gonna let some assholes go on the internet and talk shit about his work. I can kid of respect that.

Thanks for the recomendation, I'll check it out.

1  BovineJoe 2019-06-03

Unlike our favorite scifi author who just goes on Reddit and embarrasses himself

1  inhaleexhaletv 2019-06-03

Check out the documentary the Woodpecker. A crazy Ukranian artist goes to Chernoble to investigate this clicking noise coming from there. Pretty much summises that Russia had a HAARP like device for missle drterring and set off Chernobyl as a meltdown to defer away from it. Interesting as fuck but only so much of Ukranian artists one can take.

1  AIIenRicketts 2019-06-03

It’s alright. A solid 6/10. Doesn’t really come together in third act for me. Everything before that was serviceable. It’s an attempt at Tarantino pastiche but I disagree that Goddard nailed it. There was just an underlying sense of me not really giving a shit what happened past a certain point.

I do love Drew Goddard though and only want good things for him.

1  OkaySeriouslyBro 2019-06-03

I liked how it ended. The only thing that bugged me was the constant need to discuss the stupid film reel.

We get it stupid, you're doing the golden briefcase bit from Pulp Fiction and want the masses to all be speculating on reddit OMG who are they talking about?!?!

Just every conversation of Is that who I think it is? He's dead! Oh look gang, they gave us another clue to the puzzle! I just knew the entire time they were pulling that shit, and god do they prattle on about that stupid MacGuffin in the third act.

1  Pud_Suckley 2019-06-03

I saw it in theaters and also really loved it until the third act where it completely fell apart for me. I also stopped caring about what was happening and thought it was an odd left turn when Chris Hemsworth arrived. Still really enjoyed it overall and would recommend watching it. The first 2/3 had some killer suspense and atmosphere.

1  senselessdegenerate 2019-06-03

Does it contain mindless violence?

1  OkaySeriouslyBro 2019-06-03

Yessir