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If I have to watch one Friday the 13th film, which one should I watch - that is, which has the best deaths, good jokes, lots of hockey mask guy doing ridiculous stunts? Alternatively, if that's too hard - rank them from best to worst.
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Sep 29, 2013 02:42
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Red posted:If I have to watch one Friday the 13th film, which one should I watch - that is, which has the best deaths, good jokes, lots of hockey mask guy doing ridiculous stunts? The first one is probably the best if you want one that most effectively plays it completely straight Friday the 13th Part VI is interesting as a kind of proto-Scream, in that it makes some nods towards acknowledging horror movie conventions and some slight breaking of the 4th wall. It's not like a deconstruction or anything as significant a change from the franchise as that makes it sound, but there are a couple clever moments.
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Sep 29, 2013 03:04
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Red posted:If I have to watch one Friday the 13th film, which one should I watch - that is, which has the best deaths, good jokes, lots of hockey mask guy doing ridiculous stunts? No hocky mask guy in the 1st one, just fyi (I was expecting that and was disappointed).
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Sep 29, 2013 04:13
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Red posted:If I have to watch one Friday the 13th film, which one should I watch - that is, which has the best deaths, good jokes, lots of hockey mask guy doing ridiculous stunts? My favorite is Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (fourth film). If there was a Maslow's hierarchy of needs pyramid for serial killer monsters Jason seems to be the most self-actualized in that film. He does it all. If you find Crispin Glover funny he's in it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_f0ELRcgCo It has a good synopsis for the first three films at the beginning too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkuA6C7So6k The first four films make a pretty good tetralogy for fans of the genre. Part 5 is the first one that I remember disliking and it may be the consensus least favorite.
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Sep 29, 2013 04:16
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Red posted:If I have to watch one Friday the 13th film, which one should I watch - that is, which has the best deaths, good jokes, lots of hockey mask guy doing ridiculous stunts? He doesn't get the hockey mask till Part III, just so you know. I, like the others, recommend the first 4, but Jason X is good cheesy fun too.
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Sep 29, 2013 04:24
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Hell, I'll go against the grain. If you want the pop culture mythology of Jason boiled down from 4 movies to 1, I say go with the recent Friday the 13th remake.
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Sep 29, 2013 06:34
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What are the best, most popular, or most otherwise noteworthy silent films? Is there a silent film thread? Should I, who knows nothing about silent films, make one?
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Sep 29, 2013 06:49
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Bongo Bill posted:What are the best, most popular, or most otherwise noteworthy silent films? Is there a silent film thread? Should I, who knows nothing about silent films, make one? Everything on here from 1927 or earlier plus City Lights and Modern Times which are from the 30's: http://www.imdb.com/chart/top?ref_=nb_mv_3_chttp And you probably shouldn't make a silent movie unless you have a good reason to because it's not 1927.
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Sep 29, 2013 07:37
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Schweinhund posted:Everything on here from 1927 or earlier plus City Lights and Modern Times which are from the 30's: http://www.imdb.com/chart/top?ref_=nb_mv_3_chttp And you probably shouldn't make a silent movie unless you have a good reason to because it's not 1927. Thanks, but I mean make a thread about silent films, not make a silent film.
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Sep 29, 2013 07:46
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Schweinhund posted:Everything on here from 1927 or earlier plus City Lights and Modern Times which are from the 30's: http://www.imdb.com/chart/top?ref_=nb_mv_3_chttp And you probably shouldn't make a silent movie unless you have a good reason to because it's not 1927. Well, many introductory film classes start off asking students to make a silent (or at least non-dialogue) film in order to emphasize the visual storytelling possibilities of the medium.
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Sep 29, 2013 07:53
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Plus nobody has to hold a mic or dub the voices in later.
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Sep 29, 2013 08:05
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I just made a pretty specific little observation during my rewatch of an older favorite; maybe some of you guys know your trivia enough to explain. In Romero's The Dark Half, I noticed something odd during the final climactic scene: in a couple of the shots where Thad Beaumont is talking to George Stark while Stark is holding the twins in each of his arms (while they are still outside in the living room, with Thad's wife), you can clearly tell that Stark's mangled and bandaged head was composited into the frame from a different shot. It's so odd since other shots that show the three in the exact same position are not composited. So what could have been the reason they did this? Were the baby actors too traumatised of his ugly mug so they needed to do some takes without the horrific makeup? But then in the next shot all of them are clearly physically there, so the kids are right up in his disgusting face. The IMDB trivia page does not say anything about this. I always find it fascinating to think about how child actors deal with being used in horror movies. I would love to hear about the experiences of some of those kids who were made to do some horrible stuff on screen back in the 80s and 90s, like the kid who played Gage in Pet Sematary.
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Sep 29, 2013 11:53
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Bongo Bill posted:What are the best, most popular, or most otherwise noteworthy silent films? Is there a silent film thread? Should I, who knows nothing about silent films, make one? Silentera.com has a good list: http://silentera.com/info/top100.html
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Sep 29, 2013 14:06
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poronty posted:
Kubrick's daughter made a decent doc during the filming of The Shining, including footage of the characters getting direction, etc.
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Sep 29, 2013 18:18
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Egbert Souse posted:Silentera.com has a good list: Thank you for giving me a beautiful site to
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Sep 29, 2013 19:22
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This isn't exclusively a movie question, but I've noticed that in older science fiction--mostly the 1950s and 1960s--actors almost universally pronounce the word "robot" as "robutt," with a short o at the end--like how Dr. Zoidberg pronounces it on Futurama. Does anyone know how or why the word changed so recently and quickly? Robot has been a word in English since 1920, and the most recent version of the older pronunciation I've heard is the dad in Lost in Space on tv in the 60s. Kind of a stupid question, but it's always bothered me.
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Sep 29, 2013 22:36
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I saw the movie Flight last night. Isn't everything in the cockpit recorded? Why don't the investigators care that captain denzel is taking oxygen hits and sleeping for half of the flight?
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Sep 29, 2013 22:47
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LesterGroans posted:Hell, I'll go against the grain. If you want the pop culture mythology of Jason boiled down from 4 movies to 1, I say go with the recent Friday the 13th remake. I'm with you on this one. The remake is my favorite movie in the series (though I do like them all). The first 20-30 minutes of the movie is just pure F13 awesomeness. The rest of the movie follows the typical F13 plot but a little more modern than the previous films. I love that the dudebro character is apparently the same character from the first Transformers movie and there are some pretty good kills throughout.
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Sep 29, 2013 23:27
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ethanol posted:I saw the movie Flight last night. Isn't everything in the cockpit recorded? Why don't the investigators care that captain denzel is taking oxygen hits and sleeping for half of the flight? Probably because drinking on the job was the more worrying concern, plus the fact that despite being against the rules and grounds for dismissal, a pilot or copilot sleeping during the flight is not entirely uncommon and one of the dirty little secrets of the airline industry.
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Sep 30, 2013 00:16
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There was just a news story about pilots sleeping on the job and they weren't going to be punished because they were only scheduled to have 5 hours of sleep. Also I didn't see that movie but those flight recorders sometimes only record the last 30 minutes of audio. So if there's an incident and it takes 30 minutes to land after that there wouldn't be any audio of the incident.
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Sep 30, 2013 00:20
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Red posted:If I have to watch one Friday the 13th film, which one should I watch - that is, which has the best deaths, good jokes, lots of hockey mask guy doing ridiculous stunts? The second one does not feature the hockey mask, but is easily the best movie. Parts 1, 4, 6 and the remake make good alternates.
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Sep 30, 2013 04:45
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Egbert Souse posted:Silentera.com has a good list: It's crazy they put Voyage dans la Lune in the 60's. I mean lists are stupid and all, but that's one of the most influential movies ever.
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Sep 30, 2013 06:06
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Jack Gladney posted:This isn't exclusively a movie question, but I've noticed that in older science fiction--mostly the 1950s and 1960s--actors almost universally pronounce the word "robot" as "robutt," with a short o at the end--like how Dr. Zoidberg pronounces it on Futurama. I noticed this in a couple of Twilight Zone episodes, it's pretty hilarious. "You see I made Casey. I built him. He's a roebert."
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Sep 30, 2013 08:16
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Zogo posted:I usually don't mind titles being reused because I can't think of many that overlap in the same year. What I find humorous is the cable providers screwing up and putting the wrong info in the box.
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Sep 30, 2013 13:43
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LtKenFrankenstein posted:The second one does not feature the hockey mask, but is easily the best movie. I honestly haven't seen any of the movies, but I'm floored the hockey mask doesn't show up until the third film. I'm also a little confused that the focus of one of the films (that I watched a few minutes of yesterday, it happened to be on Sci Fi) is a copycat killer. I'll probably watch the remake first, then go with 4, 6, and maybe... the Manhattan one?
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Sep 30, 2013 13:55
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The Manhattan one's real bad, but in a pretty fun way.
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Sep 30, 2013 14:28
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effectual posted:It's crazy they put Voyage dans la Lune in the 60's. I mean lists are stupid and all, but that's one of the most influential movies ever. While it's one of the most influential films ever made, I can't say it's a better film overall than Sunrise, The Passion of Joan of Arc, The General, or even Nosferatu. I'd definitely rank it as the most important film ever made, perhaps edged only by The Great Train Robbery and Intolerance. Melies' films are wonderful, though. They're full of energy and fun to watch. Few filmmakers are able to capture the joy of filmmaking as well as he did.
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Sep 30, 2013 15:46
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Red posted:I honestly haven't seen any of the movies, but I'm floored the hockey mask doesn't show up until the third film. I'm also a little confused that the focus of one of the films (that I watched a few minutes of yesterday, it happened to be on Sci Fi) is a copycat killer. I really like part III best myself. I know it's a bad movie and I shouldn't, but I have soft spot for movies that were shot for gimmicky 3D when they're shown in 2D. There are just so many jumps and shots that never, ever work. Boards and yo-yos flying at the camera.
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Sep 30, 2013 16:15
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Pretty much every Friday the 13th movie (except 5, stay the hell away from 5) through 6 starts out with a "last 5 minutes of the previous movie" or a recap montage. 7 tried to get to be too supernatural, 8 is not too bad, but it features teleporting Jason. Jason Goes to Hell (#9) is barely a Friday the 13th movie, Jason X is stuck in the modern age of horror movies that try to be funny. Freddy vs Jason is a great ending to either series. I missed the main discussion earlier, but I can echo their ideas. 1 is a good one to watch for the base idea, 4 might be the best slasher-style of them all, and 6 is one of the best earlier horror-comedy that is self aware. I initially didn't like the remake when I first saw the trailer (MY Jason doesn't run  ), but once I saw it, it perfectly captures the camp-ness of the 80s movies. I also suggest 3. There are some obvious "THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE 3D GET IT?" spots, but overall, it's a decent movie in the series. I would say watch the remake last.i.e. the mask: It's certainly an icon now, but back then it was just a way to cover the face he was ashamed of. (Part 2 at the end is your best reveal of it) It wasn't a "Darth Vader's mask gets lowered onto him" kind of moment, he just sort of appears in it. It belonged to one of the characters on Part 3, who gets a jump scare on one of his "friends." I could go on and on about the series, but there was a retrospective thread that I think finally died and went to archives that hits the first few movies.
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Sep 30, 2013 19:52
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effectual posted:It's crazy they put Voyage dans la Lune in the 60's. I mean lists are stupid and all, but that's one of the most influential movies ever. I haven't seen much out of the top 25, so I don't know if A Trip to the Moon's placement is entirely fair . . . but it also can't compete with most of those films at the top of the list, most of which were equally or more influential and had significantly more complicated narrative structures than it does. It was an incredibly important work in the history of film, and if the list were designed solely to judge historical importance then it would deserve to be much higher. But it's a list of the "best" silent films, and its story is lacking compared to most of those in the top 25. Stuff like The General/Metropolis/Sunrise/The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari/Nosferatu/Nanook of the North literally created the mold for specific film genres and invented the tropes that are still being used in those genres today, and Birth of a Nation/The Passion of Joan of Arc (among others) changed the way films were shot--and they all had good, well fleshed-out narratives too (well, interesting ones, at least--I'm not sure I'm willing to argue that Birth of a Nation's story structure is objectively good). At any rate, the list is generated by user votes (so you can send yours in for A Trip to the Moon if you feel it's being slighted!), so it obviously can't be held to a much higher standard than any other movie list compiled by user votes . . . although Silent Era's fan base is probably slightly more educated and introspective than, say, IMDB's. The list is a good starting place, at least. (And I would love a silent film thread if somebody wants to start one! Maybe it'll convince me to start filling in some of my gaps on the list from 25-100. I wish there was more discussion on the classics/older movies around here, since that's the bulk of what I watch.)
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Oct 1, 2013 01:03
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Mixed up some posts. I intended to post this here: Were there scenes in Lawrence of Arabia that were permanently lost? Learning about the restoration it underwent, it is not quite clear to me whether they recovered everything. Maybe some of you know more about this. It would be a tragedy if they didn't. Judakel fucked around with this message at 23:33 on Oct 3, 2013 |
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Oct 1, 2013 01:37
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Shanty posted:I noticed this in a couple of Twilight Zone episodes, it's pretty hilarious. "You see I made Casey. I built him. He's a roebert." Even Rod does it in the narration for the one where Lee Marvin does robot boxing! Although he does it more like "robit." What's weird is that Billy Mumy uses the modern pronunciation on Lost in Space, but nobody else does.
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Oct 1, 2013 02:59
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I think I mentioned this in another thread, but I watched Re-Animator recently and loved it. Is anything else by Stuart Gordon worth tracking down? I saw both Robot Jox and Fortress a long time ago, but I don't remember much.
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Oct 3, 2013 02:55
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morestuff posted:I think I mentioned this in another thread, but I watched Re-Animator recently and loved it. Is anything else by Stuart Gordon worth tracking down? I saw both Robot Jox and Fortress a long time ago, but I don't remember much.
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Oct 3, 2013 03:09
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morestuff posted:I think I mentioned this in another thread, but I watched Re-Animator recently and loved it. Is anything else by Stuart Gordon worth tracking down? I saw both Robot Jox and Fortress a long time ago, but I don't remember much. From Beyond and Stuck are both excellent and Edmond, Dagon and King of the Ants are pretty good too.
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Oct 3, 2013 03:11
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If you liked Re-Animator, From Beyond is similar and also great. Dolls and Castle Freak are highly entertaining too, and I liked King of the Ants a lot, although it isn't a horror movie. edit: drat, you guys are quick.
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Oct 3, 2013 03:12
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Thanks, folks. I was hoping some of these would be streaming on Netflix, but I guess I'll have to track them down the hard way.
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Oct 3, 2013 03:16
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Necronomicon is a decent anthology movie.
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Oct 3, 2013 04:50
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At the end of Resolution, were the two main characters killed by Big Foot? Or could it have been this thing: ... from the movie poster? The positioning would be right... Professor Shark fucked around with this message at 12:42 on Oct 3, 2013 |
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Oct 3, 2013 12:39
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In the godfather ii, Michael doesn't let Kay say "what's wrong with Anthony." What's wrong with him?
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