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Captain Lavender posted:I haven't seen Irreversible mentioned. It's taken Human Centipede 1/2's title of most unsettling movie I've ever seen. If you can handle the extreme content though, I think it's an impressive movie. It's a great example of special effects serving the story. They're all horrifyingly believable, but the effects don't exist for their own sake if that makes sense. This is a movie done by the same guy that did Enter the Void, Gaspar Noe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKRxDP--e-Y It's less rape-y than Irreversible but just as unsettling and occasionally disturbing. Both are incredible films and I'd recommend both, especially since Enter the Void is on Instant Watch as well.
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Ishamael posted:I don't think that music was triumphant at all. I watched that bit again and maybe triumphant was the wrong word? Still seems a bit, for lack of a better term, 'gently caress yeah kick rear end' guitar riffs. But maybe I missed the point of the movie I dunno.
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I just watched The Bay. It's a found footage horror movie by Barry Levinson from 2012. It was pretty well done and had a few great scare jumps. It's based on :that image of a fish with a parasite for it's tongue. I wish I could find the gif from the movie of the guy holding the fish he just caught by it's lower jaw and something runs out of it's mouth onto his arm. Found footage films can be an acquired taste, but this one has an interesting and scary plot line.
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ScrapsCantGo posted:I just watched The Bay. It's a found footage horror movie by Barry Levinson from 2012. It was pretty well done and had a few great scare jumps. It is a really interesting movie. I wouldn't even really call it a horror movie, from the trailer I was expecting something like The Crazies but they could run this on Discovery or ABC and start some kind of War of the Worlds panic. It's impressive how subdued and subtile they went with it The reporter in the framing device is just such a terrible actress though, I'd rather they'd left that out or got someone better Opopanax has a new favorite as of 01:37 on Jul 29, 2013 |
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Jul 28, 2013 04:02
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mr. mephistopheles posted:Are you trying to say The Dark Knight and Fight Club are not two of the ten greatest films ever made? I would totally say that.
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Jul 28, 2013 05:07
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Carl Seitan posted:I would totally say that. Preposterous. Next you'll tell me you don't think Inception is better than Star Wars, Seven Samurai, and Goodfellas, and that, sir, is absurd.
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Jul 28, 2013 08:10
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The Collection went up on Instant Streaming this week. Apparently it's a sequel to a film I've never seen called The Collector, which oddly isn't on stream. Nevertheless, I clicked it. Holy poo poo the first ten minutes. ...then it became a blatant SAW 2 rip-off.
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Jul 28, 2013 22:20
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Vriess posted:The Collection went up on Instant Streaming this week. Apparently it's a sequel to a film I've never seen called The Collector, which oddly isn't on stream. Nevertheless, I clicked it. The Collector is amazing and absolutely worth seeking out. It was written to be a Saw sequel (hence the similarities) but turned into its own franchise. Appropriately, The Collection is amazing and the best film of 2012.
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Jul 28, 2013 22:48
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insularis posted:Watched this on your recommendation, as it seemed like something I'd like. I couldn't 2 star it enough. It was just depressing and boring to me. I didn't see any ambiguity about his powers being anything other than mental illness. I think this is another love it or hate it movie.
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User-Friendly posted:The Collector is amazing and absolutely worth seeking out. It was written to be a Saw sequel (hence the similarities) but turned into its own franchise. Appropriately, The Collection is amazing and the best film of 2012. Coulda done without the cokehead zombies which were kinda "Perkins-12"-ish.
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Jul 29, 2013 02:24
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I found some good controversial movies that stream to Netflix. Red State Rampage (2009) Irreversible The Brown Bunny The Girl Next Door Ma Mere I Saw the Devil Megan is Missing The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover Masters of Horror: Imprint Antichrist The Human Centipede Santa Sangre Caligula
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Jul 29, 2013 03:15
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A lot of those are terrible. Are you just looking for controversial movies, period?
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numbs posted:I found some good controversial movies that stream to Netflix. The Brown Bunny is only controversial because Chloe Sevigny performed oral sex on film, and you can just google the scene if you want. Megan is Missing because it's a boring as hell movie until the last 20 minutes when it gets hosed up. Again, I would just google it if you really really want to see it. (I wouldn't) And Caligula is pretty much just porn.
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numbs posted:The Human Centipede I just got the Netflix trial on my ps3 and I'm glad I did it now because Mary And Max is only available until the 1st of August. God, I love that movie. For anyone who hasn't seen it, it's a dark comedy claymation about two pen pals; a little girl in Australia and a middle aged man with Asperger's syndrome who lives in New York. The dialogue is fantastic and there were a few scenes that made me cry. It's also not a kids movie. Leper Residue posted:I feel bad for any parents who got suckered by the claymation and got that movie for their kids. Their kids are going to be scarred. I loved the movie, but wooooowee, that is not a kids movie. Celery Face has a new favorite as of 05:32 on Jul 29, 2013 |
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Celery Face posted:That movie is horrible, though the doctor can be unintentionally hilarious at times, especially when the two women don't see anything off about him despite how creepy he is. I feel bad for any parents who got suckered by the claymation and got that movie for their kids. Their kids are going to be scarred. I loved the movie, but wooooowee, that is not a kids movie.
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numbs posted:I found some good controversial movies that stream to Netflix. Santa Sangre is fantastic and does not deserve to be lumped in with the rest of these movies.
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numbs posted:The Girl Next Door This is an intense movie. I had trouble making it through and ended up turning it off halfway through, made especially worse by my familiarity with the actual story its based on.
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Dodecalypse posted:This is an intense movie. I had trouble making it through and ended up turning it off halfway through, made especially worse by my familiarity with the actual story its based on. I didn't realize there was a horror movie named this, my first thought was the movie with Elisha Cuthbert.
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11b1p posted:I didn't realize there was a horror movie named this, my first thought was the movie with Elisha Cuthbert. Me too. I was confused by the past few posts until I realised it must be a horror with the same title.
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Dodecalypse posted:This is an intense movie. I had trouble making it through and ended up turning it off halfway through, made especially worse by my familiarity with the actual story its based on. Just reading the Wikipedia summary made me feel ill.
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Dodecalypse posted:This is an intense movie. I had trouble making it through and ended up turning it off halfway through, made especially worse by my familiarity with the actual story its based on. Yeah, the same thing happened with me. Though I'm not sure I actually got half way through it, it was just too much, mainly because it involved kids.
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Leper Residue posted:Yeah, the same thing happened with me. Though I'm not sure I actually got half way through it, it was just too much, mainly because it involved kids. I'm watching this now because of this thread. I read wikipedia so I doubt I'll make it through it. e: noped the gently caress out of this movie. jaegerx has a new favorite as of 11:40 on Aug 1, 2013 |
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Aug 1, 2013 11:23
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From Wikipedia I found another streaming film based off Sylvia Likens' murder called An American Crime, starring Ellen Page and Catherine Keener. I bet that one is more suitable.
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jaegerx posted:I'm watching this now because of this thread. I read wikipedia so I doubt I'll make it through it. I almost didn't make it through this movie, the incredibly uncomfortable and horrifying rape scene made my skin crawl. However, some kind of justice is done as the father and mother murder the poo poo out of those terrible sub-humans, if I am recalling this correctly.
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The Human Centipede is pure comedy, anyone who can't handle that movie, takes themselves way too seriously. I actually fell off the couch laughing when the girl who was escaping fell into the pool, and the doctor cries out, "Now I know who will be in the middle because the experience will be TWICE AS INTENSE!"
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Dodecalypse posted:This is an intense movie. I had trouble making it through and ended up turning it off halfway through, made especially worse by my familiarity with the actual story its based on. You did yourself a favor because it was a terrible movie with horrible acting. The end was awkward because the actresses just couldn't sell it.
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The Girl Next Door is in the queue for movies to watch tonight.
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Instead, watch Antichrist. Overall a better movie with a much harsher cringe factor and you'll actually enjoy watching it.
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wormil posted:You did yourself a favor because it was a terrible movie with horrible acting. The end was awkward because the actresses just couldn't sell it. Yeah, "Ruth" was just a terrible actor. That was probably the most important role, I don't know why they'd settle with that actress (assuming there was a choice). There was no good child actor - you'd think they could get at least one. Maybe it's hard to cast movies that vile. Not that I hated it, but.... uffda.
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Zodiac is up on instant as of yesterday. If you haven't seen it, you owe it to yourself to watch it. While it wound up on a lot of Ten Best lists of 2007 so many phenomenal films came out that year that it did poorly at the box office and wound up pretty well overlooked in many circles. It's David Fincher's telling of the Zodiac investigation - and that's the important part, this isn't a horror movie. Zodiac is filled with foreboding and general fear, but apart from a couple of violent scenes it is far more an exploration into the psyches of the police detective, news reporter, and editorial cartoonist who are trying to figure out who the gently caress is killing all these people. Anyway, Mark Ruffalo and John Carroll Lynch are absolutely fantastic in their roles and Jake Gyllenhaal and Robert Downey Jr. are also rock solid in theirs. It's extraordinarily well-shot and extremely atmospheric.
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The Prisoner posted:Zodiac is up on instant as of yesterday. If you haven't seen it, you owe it to yourself to watch it. It's David Fincher's telling of the Zodiac investigation - and that's the important part, this isn't a horror movie. It is one filled with foreboding and general fear, but apart from a couple of violent scenes it is far more an exploration into the psyches of the police detective, news reporter, and editorial cartoonist who are trying to figure out who the gently caress is killing all these people. And you would be shocked at the number of special effects in it.
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Kruller posted:And you would be shocked at the number of special effects in it. There may be some scene spoilers in this, but it's not that type of movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sZS8OVyVr4
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Aug 2, 2013 20:34
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Breaking Bad season 5 is available (at least in California)!
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Cream-of-Plenty posted:Breaking Bad season 5 is available (at least in California)! On the east coast as well, awesome! Looks like all the Bond movies are back up, too! Pretty sure I had stuff to do this weekend, but I suddenly can't remember what they were...
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The Parralax View is up, and it owns bones. It's from the director of The Manchurian Candidate, and I might like it better than I did Manchurian Candidate. It follows Warren Beatty as a reporter who investigates a company that dabbles in creating presidential assassins. The brainwashing video sequence alone is worth it.
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House of Cards rules. I didn't give it a chance when it came out cause it got kinda middling reviews, but I ended up seeing the first 3 episodes on a plane, and holy moley it's good. I really like Kevin Spacey, so that could be it, but I also found it's a really good counterpoint to The West Wing, which I'm still working through. West wing is about all these staffers trying to control scandals and make sure things are handled in a way that makes everyone look good, and house of cards is about someone in the political world who is trying to purposefully ruin people. It's really interesting.
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numbs posted:I found some good controversial movies that stream to Netflix. These are the ones that are actually okay to good. numbs posted:Red State So all the people saying most of these are terrible are dumb because most of these are actually pretty good. Especially The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover, which is just an absolutely incredible film from beginning to end. Also, Prince of Egypt is on Netflix, it is the best animated film ever made, it takes a Bible story, makes it not boring, gives it depth, and then proceeds to not hold any punches, and still comes off as tasteful and not stupid, also, good thematically relevant songs that actually develop the characters instead of just being filler.
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JebanyPedal posted:Also, Prince of Egypt is on Netflix, it is the best animated film ever made, it takes a Bible story, makes it not boring, gives it depth, and then proceeds to not hold any punches, and still comes off as tasteful and not stupid, also, good thematically relevant songs that actually develop the characters instead of just being filler. I'm happy you weighed in on this, because I remember enjoying it when I saw it in theatres when I was younger, and I wasn't sure how much was nostalgia. I'll be sure to check it out.
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I rewatched prince of Egypt a few years ago and it definitely holds up. The cast is wall-to-wall A-list (and upper B-list actors) and Hans Zimmer gives an absolutely beautiful score. They set out to make an animated version of The Ten Commandments and it shows. Some of the songs (by Stephen Schwartz, who did the lyrics for Pocahontas, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Pippin, Godspell, and Wicked) drag a bit, but never badly enough that you're clawing out your ears waiting for them to end. The opening song, in particular, stays fantastic for seven and a half minutes. Plus Steve Martin and Martin Short provide the comic relief, which is pretty great.
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FadingChord posted:I rewatched prince of Egypt a few years ago and it definitely holds up. The cast is wall-to-wall A-list (and upper B-list actors) and Hans Zimmer gives an absolutely beautiful score. They set out to make an animated version of The Ten Commandments and it shows. Some of the songs (by Stephen Schwartz, who did the lyrics for Pocahontas, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Pippin, Godspell, and Wicked) drag a bit, but never badly enough that you're clawing out your ears waiting for them to end. The opening song, in particular, stays fantastic for seven and a half minutes. So,I went on to watch Joseph King of Dreams after finishing the Prince of Egypt. The animation was bleh( it was a direct-to-video movie so it's something to be expected). Yet I couldn't stop laughing at what now I call Joseph's "I'm a smug special snowflake bitch" song.
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