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Saw Mad God last night. Wtf was this movie about???? Which character was the titular "Mad God" (or was it about a world where God had gone mad)? Why did the Assassin have a worm baby inside him? Did the plague doctor work for the Quasimodo guy or the other way around? I praise the film's technical achievement and striking imagery, but I'll cop to being completely lost as to the symbolism. I mostly watched it as an extended special effects reel. Also I understand the brutality is the point, but even in a movie about vomit-inducing biological horrors I felt it got pretty gratuitous in places. I didn't like the inclusion of the live action sequences either. They felt like a cheat and every time the film switched to live action I felt like I was watching some shallow Syfy Channel original movie. Sorry A Fancy Hat. I didn't like it that much even though I can tell it's really good at whatever it's supposed to be.
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It's about the cyclical nature of the universe and about brutality and violence within that world. Notice the alchemist character's tiny little colorful world. He introduces violence into it and it degrades into a miniature version of the dark, depressing, post-apocalyptic world around him. A small cycle of that's presented in the section where the tiny hair monster guys are manning a factory where they're brutally killed in industrial accidents again and again but the machines keep running at the behest of the idiot baby-God on the flying TV screens. Those little guys are made from the literal poo poo of beings from a higher level, forged into human forms, and forced into jobs building things for no apparent reason. Also it might not be about anything except "look at this cool puppet I made out of dentures".
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Aug 4, 2022 14:58
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I thought the hair monsters were building monoliths to seed new worlds that the alchemist makes out of worm babies?
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Aug 4, 2022 15:00
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So did this guy make the Tool videos or what?
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Aug 4, 2022 15:01
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been meaning to check this out because Tippett, Skinner, et al. but I don't have Shudder. AFH's synopsis might change that.Vampire Panties posted:So did this guy make the Tool videos or what? Tool's guitarist Adam Jones made those videos
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Aug 4, 2022 15:01
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I thought the symbolism behind the colorful world meant that even when we think we're safe and life is good, our lives are still subject to the caprice of random cruelty of powers beyond our control.
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Aug 4, 2022 15:03
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MrQwerty posted:been meaning to check this out because Tippett, Skinner, et al. but I don't have Shudder. AFH's synopsis might change that. Apropos of nothing, if I could download a car I would.
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Aug 4, 2022 15:04
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I loved this movie but it's not really a movie in the traditional sense. It's like plugging directly into the nightmares of someone who lived through the Cold War and Reagan's Presidency and dreams in stop motion animation. My wife fell asleep like halfway through and asked me to explain what she missed. I could not, short of saying "yeah they ripped apart the explorer guy and a baby came out and the baby was given to a plague doctor thing that flew away and then two monsters with giant balls fought and the world ended."
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Aug 4, 2022 15:06
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A Fancy Hat posted:It's about the cyclical nature of the universe and about brutality and violence within that world. Notice the alchemist character's tiny little colorful world. He introduces violence into it and it degrades into a miniature version of the dark, depressing, post-apocalyptic world around him. Yeah I got all that. I thought there must be more to it I'm not getting because if I did I should have liked the movie more.
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Aug 4, 2022 15:06
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The worm represented how the assassin thought it was kinda funny, thought it was kinda sad, that the dreams in which he's dying are the best he's ever had. And he finds it hard to tell people, and finds it hard to take, that when people follow cycles it results in a very very mad god
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Aug 4, 2022 15:07
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*I* named the explorer guy "the Pilgrim." Though I'm given to understand from online commentary that he's "the Assassin." When the movie first started I thought he was an angel or alien sent from a higher plane to save the cruel world below by blowing it up.
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Aug 4, 2022 15:08
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I plan to put this on in the background at my Halloween party this year just to see how people react. I'm also probably just gonna act ignorant, say something like "I dunno, I just put on whatever was on TV" to get unbiased reactions.
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Aug 4, 2022 15:09
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Deffo gonna draw on a lot of this stuff for future D&D campaigns.
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Aug 4, 2022 15:12
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Mad God by Gary Jules ft. Donnie Darko
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Aug 4, 2022 15:13
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it was good I enjoyed it. Like something I would have watched in '93 at the only "art house" cinema in town.
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Aug 4, 2022 15:14
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Also why do the commentaries of the film speak about the other assassin as if the events the doctors observe are taking place in the present when it's pretty obvious they're looking at an earlier cycle?
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Aug 4, 2022 15:15
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Applewhite posted:Also why do the commentaries of the film speak about the other assassin as if the events the doctors observe are taking place in the present when it's pretty obvious they're looking at an earlier cycle? I also thought it was an earlier cycle but it seems like the general consensus is it was a 2nd assassin sent down. The movie doesn't really conform to ideas of linear time, I don't know why people get so hung up on this one part and insist it must at this point.
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Aug 4, 2022 15:17
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Mad god hates you and will torture you for eternity after you die. No more than us believers though, so you better hold on to your life for as long as you can.
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Aug 4, 2022 15:18
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I'm just saying if they have the power to make new maps all the time they would have sent the first guy down with a new map. It seemed clear (to me anyway) he was the last guy.
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Aug 4, 2022 15:19
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A Fancy Hat posted:I also thought it was an earlier cycle but it seems like the general consensus is it was a 2nd assassin sent down. I think the general consensus is wrong.
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Aug 4, 2022 15:23
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Applewhite posted:I'm just saying if they have the power to make new maps all the time they would have sent the first guy down with a new map. It seemed clear (to me anyway) he was the last guy. Although this raises the questions: how does the map get back up? And did the first half dozen or so assassins not have maps? There's several briefcases already in place when the fresh assassin arrives at the gates of the square pit, plus the figure the assassin sees in the window appears to be a fellow assassin (I call that silhouette "the deserter"). This suggests the fresh assassin is not the first in the cycle. However, the new and polished state of his gear, as well as the good repair of his map, suggests the fresh assassin is from an earlier cycle than the assassin who starts the movie, IMO.
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Aug 4, 2022 15:31
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Aug 4, 2022 15:44
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is this a reboot of 'the gods must be crazy'?
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Applewhite posted:Also why do the commentaries of the film speak about the other assassin as if the events the doctors observe are taking place in the present when it's pretty obvious they're looking at an earlier cycle? A wizard did it.
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BigBadSteve posted:A wizard did it. A wizard wrote the commentaries?
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Aug 4, 2022 17:27
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I really want this on blu ray just for completionisms sake but I had no idea what was going on
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Aug 4, 2022 17:44
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I'm gonna watch this tomorrow morning when my weekend starts, maybe wake up my girlfriend and make her watch it too. She's down to watch poo poo like this. I love Tippett's work, I love Skinner and followed his work on this movie for a bit, my favorite band is High on Fire, esoteric insanity and auteur poo poo is my thing art-wise, this is all extremely up my alley and has been since I first heard about it. Will post a trip report.
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Aug 4, 2022 17:52
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Noob questions, next
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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:Noob questions, next What are your questions
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Aug 4, 2022 17:55
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It was cool. Don't think about it too hard, you are visiting a hosed up world where things don't make sense to us
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Aug 4, 2022 18:03
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It's about society op. If you live in one of those, you might want to take a good look around.
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Aug 4, 2022 18:16
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Mad God kicks rear end
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Mad God was a loving masterpiece. Absolutely the kind of movie I love to see people make, a passion project that projects the passion put into it on the audience. Skinner's little blacklight OH NO! scene was fun, too. La Jetée/12 Monkeys vibes throughout, cinematography and story-wise. Really, really liked all of it.
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i wish big dudes getting perpetually shocked in electric chairs would poo poo in MY mouth.
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Where does the poop even come from? Do the electrocuted guys get a break from being electrocuted to eat? Is this like a 9-5 job for them? "What do you do for a living?" "You know those guys who get electrocuted to poo poo into the mouth of a robot to make those hair people on level five? Yeah that's me." "Wow! I wish I had that job!"
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I feel like the overarching story is just a perpetual reset based on failure of the assassin, as evidenced by Skinner's scene near the end of the movie where the mad god(?) introduces the predators to the OH NOOOOOOOOO guys and it just all goes to poo poo forever. Nothing gets better and the more people interact with it, the worse it gets. Idk it's a very confusing movie and I'm inclined to agree with Fried Watermelon and Mooey Cow, but I do think the themes are really strong and really well-entrenched. It's been a long time since I've been moved to pursue stop-motion again, but this movie really lit that fire.
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I think it's tackling the Problem of Evil in a sort of roundabout way. The inanity of the world, nihilism in contrast with religiosity, and society in general with a broad brush.
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