Recently Watched Films

I just wrote quite a long post about this, then my laptop refreshed the page for no reason and I lost the lot and now I can't be fucked. Short version: this film is considerably better than critics would have you believe, though I can see it being a very acquired taste. 

Crap.

John Wick racks up another body count in this action sequel. As good as the first IMO. Be interesting if they can keep it up with the 3rd one. 

Another previously unseen horror classic off my list. Enjoyed this one more than Friday the 13th, but not as much as Halloween. 

and it's a remake of a 70s movie.

Found it a bit slow to be honest. A letdown considering it's high critical acclaim. 

Sleepy Hollow - I liked it.

Evil Dead (2013) - Decent remake. Wouldn't say it's better or worse. Maybe a slightly serious tone.

SPOILER WARNING.

Mixed feelings. On its own it's solid enough and based on memory alone better than the earlier Tomb Raider movies (but I'd need to re-see those to be sure), but as an adaptation of the 2013 game I found it rather lacking as they threw a lot of the plot out (in fact the only thing it has in common are names and a few action scenes are largely ripped from the game) and with it a lot of the characters, including Sam, Jonah, Roth, actually everyone from the Endurance crew, which does appear but is now crewed by just one new character. Some elements from Rise of the Tomb Raider do appear, but I'm not sure how adapting that game for a sequel would turn out based on the approach taken by this film as the biggest change is that they removed every single supernatural element from the story... while at the same time going to lengths to make it clear that Trinity is involved in the supernatural. Weird way to go, IMO. I get that video game movies have to make changes, but a lot of this just didn't make sense. They may as well have written and marketed it as an original story rather than anything to do with the 2013 game.