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Originally Posted by Miles
Watched "In the Electric Mist" over the weekend. I had never heard of it before seeing it on a Blu-Ray new release list. Since it starred Tommy Lee Jones and John Goodman I gave it a shot. Pretty enjoyable mix of small town cop investigating a few murders, corruption and dark humor.
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I saw "In the Electric Mist" listed at the Red Box machines so I looked it up but haven't rented it yet. In February it had a premier and a one week run in New Liberia, Lousiana where it was filmed and then went straight to video. The studio apparently thought the film felt chopped up and incomplete, flowed poorly and was confusing and decided to only release it to theaters in Europe with 15 extra minutes. On IMDB it has a 6.1 stars out of 10.
I watched one last night on Cinemax that had the same fate, the 2007 film "The Flock" starring Richard Gere and Claire Danes, which I had never heard of until I saw the TV listing. It's a poor man's version of "Seven", I gave it a 4 stars out of 10. The film had a budget of $35 million and took in zero U.S. dollars and just over $5 million outside the U.S.
If you want to rent a good movie, checkout "Let the Right One In". It's not available at Red Box but Blockbuster has it. It's a 2008 Swedish film that came out around the same time as "Twlight" but without all the publicity. When you watch it, don't choose the English dubbing, but just English sub-titles so you'll get the full effect. It's a vampire film but it's more realistic than the norm, I gave it 8 stars out of 10.