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DrNutt posted:Considering the typical age of forums posters here you may have just answered your own question. Nostalgia is a hell of a drug. If anything, I'd think it would make most goons nostalgic for Gremlins and Explorers.
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Volume posted:I don't get why people liked The Hole. It was just like a Goosebumps episode but with good production values. Haha, I watched it with my brother last night because of all the mentions in this thread, and this is exactly what he thought of it. When the nutty guy said that the hole had been there "since the world's first scream," the movie pretty much immediately lost all horror atmosphere. (That spoiler doesn't give anything away plotwise, but it's a ludicrous line that caught us unaware, and we laughed ourselves breathless.) There's no tension at all in the third act; in fact, the kids don't actually seem to be in danger at pretty much any point. The set design in the climactic scene was well-done, though. In short, The Hole kind of sucked, and I'm really glad I watched it with someone else. Also, the youngest kid is by far the best actor in the movie.
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I am scared to watch Explorers again because I think it'll not be as good as I remember and it'll be a MY CHILDHOOD  moment.Unrelated, what do people think of "Melancholia"?
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A lot of people liked melancholia. I liked the first half as an exploration of depression, but any possible sympathy or relatability to the main character is lost in the second half when she reveals herself not to be just suffering from depression but a disgusting person. I also thought it was stupid how she and her mother devalues everything worthwhile by comparing loving everything to poo poo/toilets, they sounded like children. I sometimes like sad movies. I liked enter the void. I hated this movie.
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Jan 28, 2013 22:43
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I have such a fondness for The Hole was because it was basically the first movie I ever randomly flipped past a scene that just flipped my poo poo as a kid. I'm just channel surfing one night and suddenly I see a kid running outside to hug his dad, and his dad's face starts melting offand my prepubescent brain had no idea to process what the hell I was seeing and I flipped away and had nightmares for weeks. Then later I happened to come across it again and was like "Hey, neat, that movie that broke my mind as a kid. Cool."
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Jan 28, 2013 23:04
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Crappy Jack posted:Then later I happened to come across it again and was like "Hey, neat, that movie that broke my mind as a kid. Cool." The "Large Marge" scene in Pee Wee's Big Adventure did that for me. And looking at it now it's pretty comical. But the scene built up the tension pretty effectively and freaked the hell out of me when I was 10. 10 year olds today would probably not bat an eye.
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priznat posted:Unrelated, what do people think of "Melancholia"?
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Cool, thanks! I'm not too knowledgeable about Lars von Trier, I only remember his name because of his whole "Hitler" fiasco. I'll give that thread a read through.
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Yonic Symbolism posted:A lot of people liked melancholia. I liked the first half as an exploration of depression, but any possible sympathy or relatability to the main character is lost in the second half when she reveals herself not to be just suffering from depression but a disgusting person. Melancholia has the best portrayal of depression I have ever seen to the point where it hit so close to home at times that I had to turn it off.
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Jan 28, 2013 23:37
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priznat posted:I am scared to watch Explorers again because I think it'll not be as good as I remember and it'll be a MY CHILDHOOD It pretty much is. The sudden ending is way more jarring as an adult than as a kid.
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Crappy Jack posted:I have such a fondness for The Hole was because it was basically the first movie I ever randomly flipped past a scene that just flipped my poo poo as a kid. I'm just channel surfing one night and suddenly I see a kid running outside to hug his dad, and his dad's face starts melting offand my prepubescent brain had no idea to process what the hell I was seeing and I flipped away and had nightmares for weeks. That's The Gate, which is an actually somewhat scary movie about kids who find a creepy hole, and it's also streaming on Netflix. e: Well, it definitely was on Netflix Instant at one point, but I just checked and it's been taken off. Sorry. A HUNGRY MOUTH fucked around with this message at 00:16 on Jan 29, 2013 |
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Crappy Jack posted:I have such a fondness for The Hole was because it was basically the first movie I ever randomly flipped past a scene that just flipped my poo poo as a kid. I'm just channel surfing one night and suddenly I see a kid running outside to hug his dad, and his dad's face starts melting offand my prepubescent brain had no idea to process what the hell I was seeing and I flipped away and had nightmares for weeks. That movie is only like 4 years old.
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Baron von Eevl posted:That movie is only like 4 years old. He definitely means The Gate.
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It's a slog. I was sure that one half of the movie didn't happen, or wasn't as real as the other half. I think the movie's much more emotionally believable and resonant that way. But I couldn't find anybody else who had my interpretation. So the director probably didn't intend it the way I took it.
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priznat posted:Unrelated, what do people think of "Melancholia"? I couldn't stand it. I thought it was so dull, and frustrating to watch her mope around for the whole film, that I ended up just fast forwarding through the last half.
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Nihonniboku posted:I couldn't stand it. I thought it was so dull, and frustrating to watch her mope around for the whole film, that I ended up just fast forwarding through the last half. I thought the same exact thing. Literally the most boring film I have ever seen. At 1.5x speed it might be pretty good.
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morestuff posted:If anything, I'd think it would make most goons nostalgic for Gremlins and Explorers. Explorers is on instant! edit: Another childhood film I recently found is Real Monsters. It's just as campy and fun as I remember from childhood, and the scenes in the monster world are pretty neat looking. mod sassinator fucked around with this message at 04:51 on Jan 29, 2013 |
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Melancholia is great. Definitely in my top three from 2011.
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So I caught Megan is Missing on Netflix, it certainly was disturbing. I wouldn't recommend it to someone unless you are trying to scare your teenage daughter from using the internet ever again.
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Two Worlds posted:Melancholia is great. Definitely in my top three from 2011. What about it in particular did you like? I agree with the above posters that it was generally a slog, in the experimental film tradition of "you will understand depression because you will live every moment." But as open as I am to art films / experimental genre I fast forwarded through the last 40 minutes. I also like the interpretation of the above poster that melancholia is really a manifestation of Kirsten's depression / symbolic of the way it destroys ones own world. That was the way I chose to view it, at least.
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weekly font posted:Melancholia has the best portrayal of depression I have ever seen to the point where it hit so close to home at times that I had to turn it off. If you're like me and you like your movies about depression to hit home, I recommend Special. It's a bit of a comedy as well but Michael Rapaport really sells the depression bit.
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Volume posted:If you're like me and you like your movies about depression to hit home, I recommend Special. It's a bit of a comedy as well but Michael Rapaport really sells the depression bit. Yeah, but don't watch the trailer. It spoils the whole arc of the movie.
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Sarchasm posted:Yeah, but don't watch the trailer. It spoils the whole arc of the movie. Don't they all these days?
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I just watched "Monsters" A slow paced movie, but I enjoyed it. Creative twist for an alien movie. Anyone see "Graham Chapman: Anatomy of a Liar" yet? I'm a huge fan of Monty Python.
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duckpond posted:Anyone see "Graham Chapman: Anatomy of a Liar" yet? I'm a huge fan of Monty Python. It's not bad, but it's basically an advertisement for a film based on Graham's autobiography. So it's a documentary advertising an animated movie based on a book. And yeah, I was totally thinking of The Gate earlier. Stupid two word titles all sounding the same.
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Crappy Jack posted:And yeah, I was totally thinking of The Gate earlier. Stupid two word titles all sounding the same. You're not the only one. The Gate is fantastic. Kids summon demons with heavy metal. What's not to like?
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The Gate remake is still supposedly in development. The director: Alex Winter.quote:“I could hit you with a million reasons why it’s not even vaguely the same,” he says. “The tone of THE HOLE, the type of movie Dante made, was more like a stark, surreal supernatural thriller. That is not what I’m making. That is not what the original GATE is. I’ve always maintained that it’s like a war movie in a house. My movie’s going to be a f**king blitzkrieg, you know what I mean? It’s got more in common with the first 25 minutes of SAVING PRIVATE RYAN than it does with THE HOLE. It’s an action movie in a house, that’s what it is. It’s just full-bore insanity; I mean, the minions show up and poo poo goes crazy [laughs]. That’s what I liked about the first one, and that’s what we’re doing with the second one. It’s not a somber movie; it’s the opposite of that.”
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Those are such distressing words to hear from the mouth of Bill S. Preston, Esq.
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quote:SolidSnakesBandana posted: RightClickSaveAs posted:This was posted almost a year ago, but I've had it in my queue since then and only now finally watched it, and wanted to thank you for the recommendation. I wouldn't have known to check it out otherwise, as I've never heard a thing about it. The low budget shows in places but I thought it was effectively acted, and they make great use of the space so it doesn't feel monotonous (it takes place entirely in one house). I really enjoyed it. Holy hell, did both of you guys work on this movie or something? I'm a huge fan of understated/cerebral horror thrillers, but this very well could have been written and directed by a 13 year old kid after having his mind blown by The Matrix.
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Here is a public service announcement Ding dong: do not watch Coupling on Netflix. I mean, DO watch Coupling. It's a fantastic British sitcom about a group of 30-something friends and their relationships. This sounds horrible on paper, but you have to remember: it's British. It's clever, well written, has likeable characters and is surprisingly dirty. That is to say, the original is. The Netflix version? Not so much. What did they do to my Coupling? - Episodes have been edited down from 29 minutes to 21. And not well. A lot of sudden fades to black, sometimes during actual lines of dialogue! - These edits take out many of the most famous and funniest scenes in the show, so I can only assume they were done by a bad robot of some kind. - The show is censored. "My auntie who practically raised me just died! Say something, Steve!" "Well... poo poo." becomes "Well... *silence*" and loses all effect. The show is absolutely worth seeing, but not in this format. And this discovery also prompted me to start wondering how many other Netflix shows are censored and I don't know about it because I've never seen the original versions?
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Hard to say, but if something like The Inbetweeners can go unedited, they'll let anything through. I love that show just for the fact that it's what a comedy is in the UK, but if something like played in the US, the unending shitstorm of bleeding heart fuckwads screaming for someone to think of the children would register on the richter scale.
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Der Shovel posted:Here is a public service announcement My guess would be that the version they were sent was a "US edit" that cut it down for US television. Fortunately, Netflix doesn't have the same restrictions that US broadcast does but it looks like they still got saddled with that one.
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I watched some film called "Sexual Chronicles of a French Family" a couple of months ago and thought it was fairly explicit but then I found out recently that there's a ton of genital shots and penetration that's cut out of the Netflix version. I don't think it would make the film better (it was barely not a porn film even in censored form) but it does make me wonder how much stuff is getting cut out of the "NR" stuff I'm watching. I always assumed "NR" means it's not edited at all. Why would a film get censored if it doesn't have to go in front of the MPAA?
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Baron von Eevl posted:My guess would be that the version they were sent was a "US edit" that cut it down for US television. Fortunately, Netflix doesn't have the same restrictions that US broadcast does but it looks like they still got saddled with that one. That would be my guess. The BBC seems to sometimes give them BBC America versions, like the most recent Doctor Who episodes they've added having the stupid "hey Johnny Foreigner here's what Doctor Who is" opening tacked on. tliil posted:I watched some film called "Sexual Chronicles of a French Family" a couple of months ago and thought it was fairly explicit but then I found out recently that there's a ton of genital shots and penetration that's cut out of the Netflix version. According to Wikipedia that's just the version that got released in the US, period. America doesn't like boners.
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Erebus posted:According to Wikipedia that's just the version that got released in the US, period. America doesn't like boners. And on that note, have you guys seen This Film is Not Yet Rated? A great examination of the movie rating system in America. Aside from what I thought was an underexplained section attempting to connect the MPAA's roots to McCarthyism in Hollywood, the film is funny and revealing about American culture. And, without spoiling it, the meta ending is perfect. It's by the same documentarian who did The Invisible War, the oscar-nominated-also-on-netflix-instant documentary about rape in the american military.
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Kirby Dick also made Outrage, which I'm pretty sure is still on Netflix.
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Virgin posted:Holy hell, did both of you guys work on this movie or something? I'm a huge fan of understated/cerebral horror thrillers, but this very well could have been written and directed by a 13 year old kid after having his mind blown by The Matrix. And I think this came up earlier, but it is weird how few reviews there seem to be of it. I found 6 linked from IMDb, all from small blog-type sites, and just a handful of comments in the IMDb reviews themselves.
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Looking at that post about Coupling, I've noticed that sometimes Netflix has cut down episodes of shows. I'm pretty sure I've noticed it on Psych, Arrested Development, Parks and Rec, and a few Law and Orders. Is this correct, of am I mis-remembering the shows when they originally aired?
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Could be correct. I've noticed extra scenes in shows like The Office for some episodes. Usually easy to check by looking at the run time. I'd guess it depends if Netflix is given the TV edits or the DVD edits.
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Jerk McJerkface posted:Looking at that post about Coupling, I've noticed that sometimes Netflix has cut down episodes of shows. I'm pretty sure I've noticed it on Psych, Arrested Development, Parks and Rec, and a few Law and Orders. Is this correct, of am I mis-remembering the shows when they originally aired? With Pysch I've noticed the opposite actually, I started watching reruns of the show on Ion, so when I went through all the seasons on netflix there were scenes that had been cut for syndication.
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