Movie Details
| Title: | Bad Times at the El Royale | |
| Director: | Drew Goddard | |
| Year: | 2018 | |
| Genre: | Drama | |
| Times Seen: | 1 | |
| Last Seen: | 09.27.18 |
Other Movies Seen By This Director (1)
- The Cabin in the Woods
| Date Viewed | Venue | Note |
| 09.27.18 | Alamo South Lamar | This Screening is part of event: FantasticFest 2018 Closing night film. The only guest was a producer and video intro by Goddard. The movie was alright. I didn't care for Chris Hemsworth's part and the movie hit a slump when he came on screen for me. Also, the soundtrack reminded me of the video game Mafia 3. I wish it was juuuuuust a little better, but there was enough there to like. That's it. I had to get my car towed so I didn't go to the party. As always, the highlight was seeing all my movie friends again and stepping back into the life I led a dozen years ago. The lowlight was having to pay seven hundred bucks to do it. I'm not usually one to complain about prices (or maybe I am, who knows) but this year I felt it a little extra due to the price hike for this year's badges. The fantastic fest menu had a few good deals (the small popcorn, breakfast tacos) but also had a few duds (I ran out of chips for both the big and small queso. chips!). I was told several times that the price hike was because the festival lost sponsors after last years scandal-fest, but to me it did create an expectation that this year would be extra cool. While I can't complain about the programming (i didn't see anything terrible, I missed a few crowd faves like In Fabric, Chained for Life, Terrified, and One Cut of the Dead but that was due to my own choices), I do feel like there were fewer special little touches than I'd experienced in previous years. It felt very business-as-usual to me. Perhaps that's because many of the highball events were scheduled not to overlap with the breaks between movies so there was rarely anything going on over there, or maybe it's because i'm not really on twitter or facebook anymore so i just missed all the cool spontaneous whatevers that made the week special for people. I dunno. So, here's a top 3 -Climax -Mid90s -The Night Comes for Us I split out the rep stuff because I saw so much of it: -Sudden Fury -Mary Jane's Not a Virgin Anymore -Deadly Games And a bottom 3 -Overlord -Man Who Killed Don Quixote -An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn |
