Yeah. He messed up for sure but it was no where near as bad as some things like this get. There was no actual physical component, no threats, just a dude overstepping his boundaries while talking to women online about a fetish. It was repeated and not okay to happen, but when it was brought out he genuinely seems like he's gone about getting help and apologizing and explaining his pov pretty correctly.
It's pretty clear it was just him screwing up and that there was no malicious intent, to me. Things happen, people make mistakes when dealing with the opposite sex (or whatever gender they're into). If he learns from it, doesn't do it again, and becomes a better person then I at least absolutely forgive him.
The tldr is Chugga creeped out several women by going too far with foot/shoe fetish roleplay and didn't realize they weren't into it. They cut ties with him and it eventually got out on social media, causing a big controversy.
Various bits of evidence and he said/she said things came out and caused a war online etc.
Though The Shining towards the top of people's lists feels kind of default judging against the rest of the list, I dare anyone who listed it as #1 to watch it again in a theatre or without any distractions (book/phone/Shining as background) and see how it holds up to you. The movie is a slog.
One of my most disappointing theatre experiences was going to watch a special showing on the big screen. I'd seen it plenty of times before, loved the book and Room 237 and had some Nostalgia Critic-induced praise for the miniseries, and was going to see it with another horror-King friend. So while The Shining has so many great moments and memorable scenes... it feels like a four or five hour slog when you're just sitting there waiting for anything at all to actually happen. It is a slow, boring movie. I am so glad it didn't take top spot and The Thing did.
It's still a great piece of cinema! I've enjoyed it again since, at home--when I can do other things during 80% of the runtime. But I completely understand it getting blasted with terrible reviews for its theatrical run. It's insane to me how opposite The Shining is to a lot of other movies where Big Screen > Small Screen.
I always found Ebert's take on Hellraiser very strange. Hellraiser 2 is probably one of his worst reviews because of the extremely condescending tone he takes toward people who liked the movie. I find it rather odd that he bemoans how the movie is "made for people with no attention span" when he gave a 3/4 to a certain other movie on the list that feels like it deserves that criticism quite a lot more
Holy hell Possession is not good guys, lol
Glad to drag Predator down, what an incredibly boring movie. An "action-horror" movie that doesn't have any action or scares, was just waiting for it to end almost as soon as it started. How they thought this was a suitable rival for 'Alien', aside from box offices numbers, I don't know.
No doubt, I'm not saying it's good by any means. But I mean, MCU is intentionally silly. It's just a lower bar.
Most of the MCU has basically become a collection of "fun moments" without regard to anything else, and that's essentially what you get with TROS.
The problem with the 7-9 is that when compared to the series, they shrunk the idea of glorious space opera to a single planet and reused the overarching plot 4-6 again, but poorly. Not even considering the idea of just throwing around the idiot ball between the new republic, there was nothing of worth to consider plotwise that'd redeem what got destroyed, (including the demolition of the expanded universe)
Im genuinely worried for Predator at this point, because I look at the remaining 11 movies, and its the only one that doesnt feel like it has either a deep, mature tone (Shining, Possession, Henry, Hellraiser) or a very strong and distinctive directorial vision (Thing, Videodrome, Nightmare, Fly, Evil Dead, Beetlejuice).
Im gonna hope for the best and predict that Evil Dead II is similar enough to Re-Animator to end up just one point higher.
The fun police can't let Henry keep getting away with this!
Jesus absolute Christ you guys.
I just think "scientist trying to make a groundbreaking invention" is much more of a straightforward and standard character than "asshole TV executive is trying to find the most violent and/or softcore porn programming possible to get ratings". The former makes for a much more rational and sensical storyline, whereas the latter has to jump through so many hoops to get from point A to B to C. It works in Scrooged because the plot is that this asshole is meant to become a better person over the course of the film. But here, Woods' character arc isn't him really changing so much as multiple people are using him as a conduit for their ideological battle.