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PG was pretty good. I was pleasantly surprised with how good all the acting was. The dad was hilarious for the first half or so until they they took the traits we’d been allowed to laugh at the whole time and turned them into a marital dispute. Effects were fine considering, music was good and about a third of the jokes fell flat for me. The fight in the woods was unbearable to sit though but at least they gave an honest effort in every aspect of the movie, even the ones that didn’t work out. Definitely felt like it was riding on Turbo Kids coattails, but failed in a lot of areas that Turbo Kid excelled. Also watched The Reckoning and it was a lovely diaper. Brought absolutely nothing new to any of the genres it was blending into and wasn’t even a good period piece. It’s rare for a movie that violent to be outright boring, really a shame how far Neil Marshall has fallen since his early projects. Devil looked the way The Devil is supposed to look though, so I’ll give them a merit badge for his horns having nearly a full curl. Turning on St Maud now, hoping for a palate cleanse.
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Stink Billyums posted:just noticed the 2021 they shoot zombies list is out, only a few changes near the bottom given nothing came out last year I lost 3 with the new edition. I'm at 578 now. RIP Xtro  But yes for Mandy!
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RobbZombae posted:The Void was something I thought was a load of insincre wannabe 1980's wank, probably not helped that I saw Baskin around the same time. This for me, but you can replace The Void with Beyond the Black Rainbow and Psycho Goreman with Mandy. (Psycho Goreman's cool too though)
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Hollismason posted:Part 6 is the best Friday the 13th  completely. One of the best opening sequences to a pre-2000s horror film in general also, And one of the best soundtracks (He's Back by Alice Cooper is still on my Spotify regularly)Stink Billyums posted:just noticed the 2021 they shoot zombies list is out, only a few changes near the bottom given nothing came out last year Still at only 246 logged (idk what one they got rid of that I watched, but it didn't matter because they added Invisible Man 2020 which I also watched). I got work to do 
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Sucko Bore-man Anyway, I saw A Quiet Place Pt 2 the other night. It was alright. Essentially More Quiet Place-- it picks up like a minute after the first movie ends-- and I thought the first one was fine but not great. I liked that it kept the stakes small; the family is mostly just dealing with normal (post-apoc) problems: injuries, safety, a journey of a few miles. There's no new tougher super-monster, no mother-ship that's about to drop ten times as many monsters on the earth, no monster-queen that they can kill and live in safety forever. It does that thing a lot of sequels do where it splits the cast up and we get to see how each one does on their own, and the end of the movie does a pretty good job of weaving them all together, keeping the emotional beats synced up. Cillian Murphy's character may as well have been named Joel, honestly, his entire plotline with Regan is the most Last of Us thing ever.
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Kazzah posted:Sucko Bore-man New thread title except we already have a dope one
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Kvlt! posted:New thread title except we already have a dope one LMAO at your new avatar
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Spatulater bro! posted:I lost 3 with the new edition. I'm at 578 now. RIP Xtro They took off Xtro? gently caress this.
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Hollismason posted:LMAO at your new avatar lmao. Sorry kvlt! but that's really funny.
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im buying all of you donald trump avs
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RobbZombae posted:The Void was something I thought was a load of insincre wannabe 1980's wank, probably not helped that I saw Baskin around the same time. I loved all 3 of those movies. Dimensions to hellish worlds is extremely my thing at the moment
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Hollismason posted:Its okay if people like things that you don't. Let people like things. Equally, it's okay if people don't like the things we do. Let people not enjoy things. Just, let's not slap fight back and forth over several pages about it.
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But it’s one hundred percent objective truth that 28 Days Later is a zombie film.
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It they go roar they be zombies This is the rule set by god
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But they're wrong! On the internet!
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what's the most universally-loved-by-people-in-the-thread movie and is it FROM BEYOND ?
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Singapore Sling. Anyone who dislikes it is shadow-banned in CineD, poor suckers don't even know.
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alf_pogs posted:what's the most universally-loved-by-people-in-the-thread movie and is it FROM BEYOND ?
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alf_pogs posted:what's the most universally-loved-by-people-in-the-thread movie and is it FROM BEYOND ? it would be Hereditary if the miniatures were a bit better quality
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I feel like an outlier, where I did not like PG at all, but I get why people like it. Super intentional cheese just rubs me the wrong way most of the time. If I watch some cheesy poo poo I am mostly watching for the schadenfreude and I really don't care for the creators being "in on it" At the same time it just made me want to tell my buddy who loves that kind of poo poo to check it out. He thinks Turbo Kid is god tier and literally has like 10 of the original power rangers monster costumes lying all over his house. I feel like he'd be in love with pg.
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THE EVIL WITHIN is one of the most sincere and yet wrong-headed, awful horror films of recent times. I couldn't look away. It is so offensive but I don't believe it is trying to be and also there's some really good set-pieces. I think it's neat. Rich guy on coke.mov horror productions are a gift. 
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Fate Accomplice posted:Blade Runner 2049? Oh yeah, but in my defense he doesn’t talk so much in Spectre. I forgot about metal finger nail guy. CelticPredator posted:Guardians of the Galaxy? Infinity war? I know those are his big breakouts but I haven’t seen them.
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Debbie Does Dagon posted:Singapore Sling. Anyone who dislikes it is shadow-banned in CineD, poor suckers don't even know. Seconding Singapore Sling. That movies a 10/10.
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RobbZombae posted:THE EVIL WITHIN is one of the most sincere and yet wrong-headed, awful horror films of recent times. I couldn't look away. It is so offensive but I don't believe it is trying to be and also there's some really good set-pieces. I think it's neat. Wait, that logo, a mirror plays a huge part in how the story progresses some other bits mentioned in the synopsis, was this related to the 2014 video game of the same name in any way? Or like did it begin life as a script for an adaptation of the game or something?  
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Neo Rasa posted:Wait, that logo, a mirror plays a huge part in how the story progresses some other bits mentioned in the synopsis, was this related to the 2014 video game of the same name in any way? Or like did it begin life as a script for an adaptation of the game or something? No, not at all. I have only played 20 minutes of the game but I remember it being kinda like torture devices and Clive Barker kinda horror? I might be misremembering. The film is like an American afternoon soap opera about two brothers, one of which has learning difficulties and begins to be possessed by a Haunted mirror. Written and directed by a Getty fortune kid who died before it was released, it was 15 years in production!
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RobbZombae posted:
One thing I liked about it was that it’s the final role for Matthew McGrory, the huge guy who played Tiny in House of 1000 Corpses. Dude died like 12 years before the movie came out.
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alf_pogs posted:what's the most universally-loved-by-people-in-the-thread movie and is it FROM BEYOND ?
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alf_pogs posted:what's the most universally-loved-by-people-in-the-thread movie and is it FROM BEYOND ? The Devils
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From Beyond is probably so loved because most people who come in here don't know about it, so it's a major surprise we get to hit people with and it almost never disappoints. But there's other stuff that is just as universally loved, just in a more obvious way, like The Thing or The Exorcist.
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I watched two 'horror' films this weekend Psycho Goreman finally, I had a couple of friends over for this and we were all highly entertained. The bit with the cop before/in the forest was loving hilarious and had us in tears. Mimi is a huge arsehole and I'm fairly positive we've all known someone like that at one point or another in our lives. Anyway, I'm glad that after waiting for so long to see it, it held up to my expectations. It's good to see a movie where the people involved seem to have had as much fun making it as we did watching it. Which brings me to the second of the films I watched and the complete opposite of the good time I had watching PG... Army of the Dead. It just seemed massively confused about just what the gently caress it wanted to be or do. Tig Notaro's performance is the only thing interesting in it and she was onscreen for maybe 5 minutes of runtime and apparently recorded her part in front of a greenscreen because the previous actor got caught being a huge nonce. It was weird how her part had such different energy to everyone else who was on set at the time of filming. It was such a weird film, you'd imagine that a zombie heist film would've been a pretty solid genre mash up in terms of entertainment stakes but it pulls some really bizarre poo poo and basically wastes the initial premise. It kinda hints at some stuff but doesn't take it anywhere the blonde zombie expert talking about the torched/bombed zombies coming back to life when it rains? The fact the main zombie dude on a sick as gently caress zombified horse (one of only 2 animals in Vegas?) leads a horde of zombies and you'd imagine there'd be this huge pitched battle among the rubble of Vegas but is just a couple of dozen inside the casino... The guy with the saw doesn't even loving use it, it gets used to cut a concrete wall? I've had a chat with a few other friends who saw this and they similarly thought it was a waste of a premise. I guess with a sequel on the cards they can't really do any worse?? they specifically pick one dude because he's a crackshot and caps like 3 zombies with one bullet. Not-Vasquez busts through a window next to him fights off like a dozen zombies and he just stands there like a loving mug. Then only after a minute solid of her struggling she gets bitten and then he uses his pinpoint accurate shooting to put a bullet through her petrol tank to mercy kill her. Like what was the point of any of that? The whole film is full of nonsense like that and it was just a chore to watch because it was a solid hour too long considering how little happened. "daughter I thought you were mad at me because I killed your mother who you could clearly see was a loving zombie like the ones I was killing in Vegas before we got out. Oh it was because I was just a poor father who didn't speak to you after I'd killed her? Lol OK, let's stop talking now I've primed this generator" The film was dumb but not in an entertaining manner. Im wondering what went on during production that this was the best possible story result. Olympic Mathlete fucked around with this message at 16:36 on May 24, 2021 |
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alf_pogs posted:what's the most universally-loved-by-people-in-the-thread movie and is it FROM BEYOND ? Probably From Beyond, The Thing, Big Trouble in Little China, Escape from New York, They Live , The Re-Animator, Return of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead There's a lot of movies that are universally praised in the thread.
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Hollismason posted:Probably From Beyond, The Thing, Big Trouble in Little China, Escape from New York, They Live , The Re-Animator, Return of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead Some of Dead movies get criticized here in context because people favor one of the other entries in the trilogy. Also SMG posts in here and they’re pretty critical of The Thing (1982), though that’s clearly a spicy take. Some of the classics get universal praise here, like I don’t think anyone has said anything bad about Bride of Frankenstein.
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I thought Bride was disappointing. Not bad, but did not come close to meeting thread-established expectations. Everyone likes Ravenous.
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Yea sometimes the close to universal love that some films get ends up creating a level of expectation that can lead to disappointment. I think the reason stuff like From Beyond and Return of the Living Dead have such high hit rates is because the general age group and taste you see in posters here tends to skew towards that fun, goopy 80's style and those are movies that deliver that in spades. You go back further and it starts to get a bit more hit and miss. There's really not a whole lot of consensus on the Universal Monster films, when you think about it. There are definitely posters who just aren't into that style and don't get a whole lot out of them, and the same could be said for Hammer films and Roger Corman films and Hitchcock and everything else.
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Has anyone seen The Curse of Professor Zardonicus? It was suggested to me in a writer's call, and it actually slaps. I hated it at first, but then I "got it". It's like Tim and Eric make a horror movie. It's on Amazon Prime. Y'all should check it out.
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alf_pogs posted:what's the most universally-loved-by-people-in-the-thread movie and is it FROM BEYOND ? Society.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Society. 
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