Thursday Movie Picks #320: TMP Television Edition - Prequels

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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is TMP Television Edition - Prequels

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Prequels are the new sequels on TV. I've found that even though I have seen a couple of prequel series, I've only seen a few episodes of them before dropping the series, like Smallville and Gotham. Here are TV series prequels that  I've watched at least one season.

Fear the Walking Dead  (2015 - )
A prequel of The Walking Dead it takes place in Los Angeles at the beginning of the zombie apocalypse while Rick is in a coma in Atlanta. I started watching this when I was already feeling the zombie fatigue. While the first season of this was okay, it was nowhere near as good as the first season on The Walking Dead so I didn't watch the second season seeing that it could possibly follow the downward trajectory of The Walking Dead.

Castle Rock  (2018 - )
This is somewhat of a prequel. It features characters and locations from various Stephen King novels. Some of the characters are actually older than the same ones we meet in the novels/adaptations while others are younger...hence the prequel like story. In particular is the second season where one of the main characters is the younger Annie Wilkes from Misery. We get some of her childhood backstory before meeting her as a young mother battling mental illness arriving in Castle Rock with a teenage daughter at the start of season 2. And the season even ends with her attending an unseen author's book event who she's already started to obsess over.

Bates Motel  (2013-2017)

This is both a prequel and a sort of re-imagining of Psycho. It follows the mother Norma and the teenage Norman Bates when they first open the Bates Motel up until Norman is a young man and culminating in season 5 where we finally get to see most of the events in Psycho play out. I really like this series, it is the only one out of today's picks that I have seen all the seasons and would recommend it to those that like the movie. It was both sad and frightening to see how Norman's mental instability got worse and worse over the seasons with terrible consequences for the people around him.

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Thursday Movie Picks #319: Female Buddy Movies

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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is Female Buddy Movies

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Another hard theme. There are just so much fewer female buddy movies. Here's three that I have managed to see.

Violet & Daisy (2011)
The movie follows two teenage assassins on their latest job. I really don't remember much about this other than it was pretty boring and a disappointment especially since I had expected it to be a little like a mix of Hanna and The Professional.

The Heat (2013)

There are soooo many male buddy cop movies and this is the only female buddy cop movie that I can think of and one that I happen to have also seen. Unfortunately I didn't really enjoy this that much, just didn't find it that funny.
 

Thoroughbreds (2017)
Now I like this dark comedy about two childhood friends rekindling their friendship after having grown apart. As they relearn about each other, they also start planning to do a very bad thing.

 

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Thursday Movie Picks #318: School

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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is School

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Well it seems after years of no updates blogger has updated their interface a little and does anyone else find that their homepage only shows one blog post? Anyway this week's TMP comes a little late and I'm simply picking 3 of my most recent watches.

Happy Death Day 2U (2019)

College girl finds out why she has been repeating her days in this sequel. Not as good as the first one but still a fun college horror comedy.
 

Slaughterhouse Rulez (2018)
Monsters coming out of a sinkhole on a boarding school's ground. I thought this was going to be fun...unfortunately it wasn't really good. Pegg and Frost have been in better horror comedies.

 
Rocket Science (2007)
This was an okay quirky drama about a boy with a stutter who was convinced by their high school's leading debater to be her partner in an upcoming tournament.
 

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