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If I'm sure about something I won't look it up on my phone to prove it to somebody else, but I won't really argue about it either. I just say "nah, you're wrong" in a matter-of-fact way and let them look it up if they want to.
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I was arguing with someone who loved to argue so much that he disagreed with me that halo 1 was called combat evolved. He still said no when I showed him the image on google. I was mad as hell
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Jan 8, 2024 17:30
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CelticPredator posted:I was arguing with someone who loved to argue so much that he disagreed with me that halo 1 was called combat evolved. This was probably a while ago, but these days with AI and all it's pretty much "pics and it didn’t happen".
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Jan 8, 2024 17:37
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It was in 2017 lol
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Jan 8, 2024 17:46
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I suppose you could also have a semantic argument about what qualifies as a title vs. a tagline. If you wanted to be annoying.
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Jan 8, 2024 17:47
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He did want to be
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I'm at the point where I'm learning to not argue, especially as I now have a neurodivergent child who likes to be right exactly as much as I do and will absolutely drag you into an unrelated argument when anything else is happening. Anyway I'm learning to just sidestep any argument, the best is responding to someone you know is wrong with a patronizing smile and "oh okay" or "that's nice."
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Yep. Same. But mostly because “well actually” are super annoying even if they’re right. You can live if they got the title wrong or a name wrong. We all know what we’re sayin here
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Dustin Hoffman in Star Wars?!
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dorium posted:Dustin Hoffman in Star Wars?! Grand Hoff Dustin.
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Yeah, I'm currently watching the second season of 30 Coins where Giamatti is the main bad guy. You can tell he's a good actor because he manages to deliver incredibly cliché lines like - "It's close. I can feel it!" - in an entertaining way. Also, he gets to casually sass the devil. Overall, the second season continues the high pulp stylings of the first season. It makes me think about the books in "Paperbacks from Hell", which I bought on the recommendation of this thread. Edit: Oh yeah, and I really enjoy all the location shooting in the Vatican and so on. Tac Dibar fucked around with this message at 19:15 on Jan 8, 2024 |
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A Fancy Hat posted:I want to also add Annabelle: Creation to that list. That first Annabelle movie is one of the most generic horror movies ever created but Creation was super fun. Hell yeah, Creation is a good time. So is Annabelle Comes Home actually, which could go a little bit further than it does into the concept (some idiot kid opened the Warrens' Hell Jail and a bunch of poo poo gets loose in the house) but is lightyears above the original Annabelle for entertainment value. I think The Boy II probably took into account from The Boy that they heard people complaining about it not ACTUALLY being a haunted doll and just being some dude in the walls and decided to "fix" it and goddamn does it suck.
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Jan 8, 2024 18:03
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Nikumatic posted:Hell yeah, Creation is a good time. So is Annabelle Comes Home actually, which could go a little bit further than it does into the concept (some idiot kid opened the Warrens' Hell Jail and a bunch of poo poo gets loose in the house) but is lightyears above the original Annabelle for entertainment value. The Boy II does get points for the amazingly stupid expository tool that this haunted doll has been meticulously and continuously registered by it's owners on some kind of doll tracking website, including newspaper cuttings of the various crimes it's been tied too.
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Ok someone suggested I do this and I figured maybe people would get a kick out of seeing the movies or it could spark some discussion or something. Either way I guess I’ll post the weekly Bracketology matchup here until someone gets annoyed and tells me to stop or I forget. Where’ We’re At: - 4. Ishirō Honda’s The H-Man vs. 13. (Kangra’s Puberty Sucks) Michael O’Shea’s The Transfiguration - 5. (Sam’s #ThrowbackThursday) Adam Wingard’s Blair Witch vs. 12. (Weapon X’s Freddy’s Nightmares) Rachel Talalay’s A Babysitter’s Guide to Monster Hunting You can vote in this round until 12 noon EST Jan 15th (or when I get to it) Next Week! 3. Wes Craven vs. 14. Game Over 6. Dario Argento vs. 11. The Rage Virus Thread Spreadsheet Letterboxd List
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CelticPredator posted:Yep. Same. But mostly because “well actually” are super annoying even if they’re right. You can live if they got the title wrong or a name wrong. We all know what we’re sayin here Spoken like someone who can't get their facts straight. 
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Nikumatic posted:Hell yeah, Creation is a good time. So is Annabelle Comes Home actually, which could go a little bit further than it does into the concept (some idiot kid opened the Warrens' Hell Jail and a bunch of poo poo gets loose in the house) but is lightyears above the original Annabelle for entertainment value. I enjoyed Comes Home as well. I coulda used more crazy ghosts but there was still a pretty nice variety and I wonder if they're shopping around some kind of movie or show based around the other stuff from that museum. It'd be a fun anthology show, at least. I'm also a giant nerd because there's a tiny scene where they go to a grocery store and pass a comic spinner rack. I recognized a Swamp Thing comic from there and was enough of a weird geek to recognize that it actually did track with the time frame of the movie. So to whatever production designer put that in there, if you're out there, I see you and appreciate you.
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STAC Goat posted:Ok someone suggested I do this and I figured maybe people would get a kick out of seeing the movies or it could spark some discussion or something. Either way I guess I’ll post the weekly Bracketology matchup here until someone gets annoyed and tells me to stop or I forget. I think that was me, thank you! might be finally time to check out Blair Witch (2016) since last year I watched Book of Shadows. which, I actually think it’s kind of deece?? I spent like 40 minutes being “it’s funny how much this sucks” but by the end I felt like I had been wrong
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The Boy II is trash but the visual of the rotting, cursed doll gave me big Junji Ito "Hell'O Dollies" vibes.
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The Boy II was in a weird place where the first had a fun surprise but you couldn't do the same surprise again. I'd have gone with "elf on the shelf"ing a creepy non-haunted doll like in the first film, but now it's a gross haunted doll moving it around.
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alf_pogs posted:went in blind to the show ENTITLED this week, entirely because Brett Gelman was the star, and the first three episodes have been a weirdo semi-gothic horror comedy delight. mileage may vary and it might turn into a lovely puzzle box but so far so good finished Entitled last night, and while i enjoyed it overall, huge warning that the very final episode really flies off the rails in a quite unsatisfying way. they could have ended the show at the final title card, though, which is maybe visually the show's finest hour. spoiler and probably a bit nsfw: 
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ay yo Bruckner's best Hellraiser movie isn't even Hellraiser The Night House? The Night House fucks.
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Shrecknet posted:ay yo Bruckner's best Hellraiser movie isn't even Hellraiser agreed. so does The Ritual, which is kind of impressive as a massive improvement on the source material
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Night House's few trick shots of the entity are really cool and clever and Hall is great as always but I kind of hated where they went with it in the final act. I was hoping for something about building sacred geometry into the house itself or something cultish, or the accidental evilness of the house took him over, not "my wife's getting Final Destinationed and death is possessing me into killing her, maybe if I kill a bunch of women that kinda look like her in a house that kinda looks like our house I can beat death."
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Baron von Eevl posted:Night House's few trick shots of the entity are really cool and clever and Hall is great as always but I kind of hated where they went with it in the final act. I was hoping for something about building sacred geometry into the house itself or something cultish, or the accidental evilness of the house took him over, not "my wife's getting Final Destinationed and death is possessing me into killing her, maybe if I kill a bunch of women that kinda look like her in a house that kinda looks like our house I can beat death." Extreme same. To the point that I’m worried I’m basically mad at the movie for not reading my mind. I should really watch it a second time and see if I’m more forgiving if I know where it’s going. A lot of the sequences are very well done, and if nothing else it’s some XXX hardcore house porn.
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The visuals of Night House are great, the story kind of sucks. Rebecca Hall is pretty much the top actress in horror right now though, I finally saw Resurrection last week and that was a hell of a performance
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Xiahou Dun posted:Extreme same. To the point that I’m worried I’m basically mad at the movie for not reading my mind. I experienced similar, so it's not just you! It felt like it swerved at the end towards a less satisfying direction than it was setting up earlier. It also leads to a kinda unfortunate message if you've been interpreting the "nothing" as a manifestation of her depression/desire to self harm up to that point, then it turns out that it was contagious and she gave it to her husband. But depression doesn't work that way, one of her friends even says that at one point, but then the movie shows that happening anyway. The final line is also really on the nose. It's a shame because most of the movie is really good, it just stumbles at the end.
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I keep forgetting about that movie I wanted to see it so bad and I missed it and then kept missing it lol
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Shrecknet posted:ay yo Bruckner's best Hellraiser movie isn't even Hellraiser The Night House is amazing Also recommend Resurrection if you want to watch more incredible recent horror films with Rebecca Hall in them
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Baron von Eevl posted:Night House's few trick shots of the entity are really cool and clever and Hall is great as always but I kind of hated where they went with it in the final act. I was hoping for something about building sacred geometry into the house itself or something cultish, or the accidental evilness of the house took him over, not "my wife's getting Final Destinationed and death is possessing me into killing her, maybe if I kill a bunch of women that kinda look like her in a house that kinda looks like our house I can beat death." You might want to check out The House Next Door.
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Jedit posted:You might want to check out The House Next Door. The Anne Rivers Siddons book?
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High Warlord Zog posted:The Anne Rivers Siddons book? Yes, but they also made a moderately decent TV movie out of it.
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Shrecknet posted:ay yo Bruckner's best Hellraiser movie isn't even Hellraiser The Night House is great but i am going to be real with you here it is not even close to a Hellraiser. It’s more of a The Changeling. Uncle Boogeyman fucked around with this message at 14:07 on Jan 9, 2024 |
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https://m.imdb.com/title/tt7524444/ ??? No thanks, I'm not feeling Lovecraftian horror right now. edit to be clear this was a joke that Lovecraft was super racist and would be scared of that
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Jedit posted:Yes, but they also made a moderately decent TV movie out of it. I keep forgetting they made that.
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The Night House is pretty boring and meh. Hellraiser was fine and I think gets too much hate. The Ritual is Bruckners best film. Just a solid creature feature. Bruckner also had his hand in a bunch of VHS movies which I don't exactly blame him for being pretty crap. I think anyone that attempts to hobble together a bunch of film festival horrors into a cohesive story will have trouble with it.
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The way to make a Faces Of Death Movie in 2024 is to make every death just fake as hell, like somebody gets decapitated by a pizza slicer while making a pizza & a narrator gravely intones that this is "real horror, true horror".
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Forgive me if I'm wrong, it's been decades, but wasn't Faces of Death mostly staged while Traces of Death was the one where the majority of the footage was real? I remember that's how I originally saw the R. Budd Dwyer video before the internet.
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never seen any of those flicks but my understanding is that Faces of Death is mostly staged, yeah, except for some stock footage animal deaths and wartime footage (including holocaust footage). there's a pretty good review of it in the context of the video nasties list here
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Forgive me if I'm wrong, it's been decades, but wasn't Faces of Death mostly staged while Traces of Death was the one where the majority of the footage was real? I remember that's how I originally saw the R. Budd Dwyer video before the internet. correct. Faces had some real some fake, mostly fake. Traces is all real.
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