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Both cuts are as close to perfect as a movie can get. I like how the Director's Cut includes new footage, and it's still shorter than theatrical.

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JC Dendeath @jcdenden.bsky.social · 4h

With two major franchises out of the way, The Lord of the Rings and The Hunger Games, I leave the extended editions of TLotR and The Hunger Games prequel for another time. Next time, I'm talking about one of my favourite anime movies, and it's no Ghibli or Ghost in the Shell. #MovieSky #FilmSky

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A ★★★★ review of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 (2015)

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JC Dendeath @jcdenden.bsky.social · 4h

He does kinda look like him. He little bit older perhaps. 😁

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JC Dendeath @jcdenden.bsky.social · 6h

#31DaysOfHorror #CountdownToHalloween #DendensMovieDen #DendensHalloweenDen Day 7: Tremors. One of the best horror movies of the 90s, and the start of a pretty awesome franchise. The only one with Kevin Bacon, automatically making it the best one. #MovieSky #FilmSky #HorrorSky

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JC Dendeath @jcdenden.bsky.social · 6h

I thought it was some kind of new slang. 😂

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JC Dendeath @jcdenden.bsky.social · 7h

I see what you did there. 😜

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JC Dendeath @jcdenden.bsky.social · 7h

I really enjoyed it. Definitely gonna chevk out [rec]²

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JC Dendeath @jcdenden.bsky.social · 7h

It was really good. Definitely gonna check out the sequel someday.

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JC Dendeath @jcdenden.bsky.social · 13h

Good morning, have a great day!

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JC Dendeath @jcdenden.bsky.social · 16h

Good morning! I was watching [Rec] for the first time this morning, until my daughter got out of bed and demanded Abby's Dollhouse. Now I can't decide which was more frightening: Abby's Dollhouse or [Rec]. It's a tie, really. Anyway, I'm very much freaked out this morning. Great start of the day! 😁

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JC Dendeath @jcdenden.bsky.social · 16h

I like all of what you post in one place. It's all good.

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JC Dendeath @jcdenden.bsky.social · 17h

Nope, but I'm working on it. I caught Let Me In in the cinema, but I never had the opportunity to watch Let The Right One In until recently.

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JC Dendeath @jcdenden.bsky.social · 17h

I have it on my watchlist. I loved the American remake, although the CG in that movie was pretty bad. Very curious about the original, which I have on DVD now.

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JC Dendeath @jcdenden.bsky.social · 17h

this century so far, delivering thrilling and entertaining action while still delivering a powerful message on the different kinds of casualties of war, both figuratively as well as literally, and where we’re headed as a society. #MovieSky #FilmSky #PhysicalMedia #DVD #TheHungerGames #MockingJay

Katniss in black and white staring into the fire on the DVD disc of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2.

Back of the DVD case, showing most of the main cast in screenshots.

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JC Dendeath @jcdenden.bsky.social · 17h

and why I love each and every one of The Hunger Games movies right up to Mockingjay – Part 2. Maybe I’ll read the novels someday and maybe even see what they came up with for the prequel. But as it stands, The Hunger Games is definitely one of the more meaningful movie franchises of

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JC Dendeath @jcdenden.bsky.social · 17h

her chemistry with Woody Harrelson throughout the franchise pay off handsomely the way they solved finishing Plutarch’s story by having him send a letter delivered by Haymitch. This scene alone is indicative of the thought and care they put into these adaptations as a whole,

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JC Dendeath @jcdenden.bsky.social · 17h

and the losses of a surprising number of important characters still hit hard thanks to the performances, that completely draw you in once more. Even though it’s a pity the late great Philip Seymour Hoffman wasn’t able to share that final emotional scene with Jennifer Lawrence,

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JC Dendeath @jcdenden.bsky.social · 17h

that a lesser evil is still evil, and the outcome of the conflict only has losers and no winners, which is pretty much the way Panem’s war was always going to end. While story development is predictable, the movie is visually stunning and convincing with its grim war-torn futuristic city,

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JC Dendeath @jcdenden.bsky.social · 17h

The movie holds nothing back as the most shocking and violent out of all Hunger Games movies, as should be the case in a civilian uprising, but by the time the conflict inevitably ends, president Snow gets captured and the dust settles, atrocities committed on both sides prove to Katniss

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JC Dendeath @jcdenden.bsky.social · 17h

In a sequence that wouldn’t be misplaced in a horror movie, the aggressive dog-like creatures from the original Hunger Games turn out to be just a taste of horrifying imagination of the game makers with the creatures called “mutts” unleashed in the sewers.

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JC Dendeath @jcdenden.bsky.social · 17h

there’s plenty of tension and action to deliver on the promise of a grand finale after the more subdued Part 1. Mockingjay – Part 2 delivers on the action with a city transformed into an arena filled with nasty boobytraps by Hunger Games game makers.

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JC Dendeath @jcdenden.bsky.social · 17h

Coin tries to keep her in line with a team to keep her in a propaganda-only role and by sending a maybe-not-quite rehabilitated Peeta along. With this much uncertainty on the battlefield and the battlefield itself turning into the next Hunger Games in anything but name,

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JC Dendeath @jcdenden.bsky.social · 17h

killing his former “fiancé”. As the rebellion moves on taking District 2 to gain access to the Capitol, Katniss keeps getting thwarted by rebel leader President Coin to break out of her symbolic Mockingjay role and physically join the fight, and as she does so anyway,

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JC Dendeath @jcdenden.bsky.social · 17h

#DendensMovieDen. No. 238. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2. As the first part ended on a dire note, as a successful rescue of Peeta and the other captives from the Capitol turned out to be a trap nearly costing Katniss her life, Peeta’s brainwashing was so severe his primary goal became

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 on DVD. "Nothing can prepare you for the end." Katniss in arrow-shooting action on the cover with a burning Mockingjay symbol in the background.

Katniss looking the Dutch and French language options on DVD.

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JC Dendeath @jcdenden.bsky.social · 18h

Kurt Russell is always worth a watch, but I did find myself bored with most of that movie. I guess it's time for a rewatch.

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JC Dendeath @jcdenden.bsky.social · 18h

I'm looking forward to it!

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JC Dendeath @jcdenden.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yeah, I had no idea myself until I started collecting for the PS1 a few years ago. I know they kept releasing stuff for the PS1 for a long time, but THPS3 and 4 were a complete surprise to me.

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JC Dendeath @jcdenden.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Still on Tennant myself before I can rewatch my first Doctor. Smith was awesome.

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JC Dendeath @jcdenden.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Ah, the half that came out of the Rodriguez/Tarantino Grindhouse project that I DID love. Such a fun movie.

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JC Dendeath @jcdenden.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I've only played 4 on the 'Cube, and I loved it. I have finally bought 3 on PC a while ago, and own 2 on the PS1 (I haven't played them yet) though I'm still interested in getting the stripped down PS1 version of 3 and 4 as well for comparison.

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Double Fine @doublefine.com · 06/10/2026

😂

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JC Dendeath @jcdenden.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You don't have 1999's The Mummy?! 😱

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JC Dendeath @jcdenden.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Extensively, almost as much as WWII.

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JC Dendeath @jcdenden.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

There's some interesting stuff in the Redux for sure, but it messes with the pacing of a disturbing psychological journey that's way more impactful in the original.

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JC Dendeath @jcdenden.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Bonus: the Redux cut makes it more of a traditional war movie, but it's no less disturbing.

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🎃 Ryan S. Pumpkins 🎃 (Any Questions?) @ryanwritesgood.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We have officially entered the season where coffee pulls double duty as both "warming liquid" and "anti-murder potion."

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JC Dendeath @jcdenden.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I've never really thought about it that way, but that's EXACTLY what coffee is!

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JC Dendeath @jcdenden.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And I have the fondest memories of the gameplay regardless.

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JC Dendeath @jcdenden.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I totally get that. I'm just so crazy about great cinematics in a game that I never minded it in any MGS. Not even in MGS4, which was admittedly excessive.

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JC Dendeath @jcdenden.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oh, good one. I forgot I had it, and I need to see how bad it is. Thanks! 😄

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JC Dendeath @jcdenden.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I've been watching some (okay, a lot of) crazy Carrey in the Sonic the Hedgehog movies lately, so I need some serious Carrey as well. Then again, I haven't watched Man in the Moon in years either.

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JC Dendeath @jcdenden.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

while making me cheer as excitedly or laugh as hysterically the next, all the while keeping me thoroughly entertained and meeting my expectations as a lifelong gamer and a die-hard Metal Gear Solid-fan. #GameSky #PhysicalMedia #Sony #Playstation #PS3 #Konami #Kojima #MetalGear #Stealth #MGS #MGS4

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots - Tactical Espionage Action manual and PS3 game disc.

"Old Dog" a close-up of an aged Solid Snake included with the manual.

Movement action in stealth gameplay explained in manual.

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JC Dendeath @jcdenden.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

despite the many ideas thrown into the mix. Metal Gear Solid 4 may be overstuffed with…well, EVERYTHING you can imagine, but that’s also its biggest charm and it’s what makes it a masterpiece all the same. There are few games that made me sob as loudly one moment,

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JC Dendeath @jcdenden.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

night, raining or snowing, Metal Gear Solid’s gameplay system is so expansive it adapts to any scenario. It’s not always as strong in the gameplay or story, but it always finds its way back to greatness soon enough and never really stops being entertaining nonetheless,

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JC Dendeath @jcdenden.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

apart from anything that came before. Not only do the many tools and gadgets give you more options in both stealth and action than ever before, so do the story scenarios and situations found within. Whether you’re in a jungle, urban, desert or industrial environment, or whether it’s day,

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