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Grawl posted:Just watched ParaNorman. Wow that was a great movie. I don't understand why it scores so low (6.9) on IMDB. Read some of the negative reviews. quote:With a pathetic title,this film puts me off even looking at the poster or trailer digusts me.The characters and their designs are awful,the plot is rushed and doesn't make any sense,the animation though looks nice sometimes however unfriendly,some jokes are probably unentertaining and it's very mean spirited.When your kids watch this movie, it will become their nightmares for weeks maybe even months.
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It's an animation that's not Pixar. People are very weary of those, plus the "those are for kids" crowd that still exists. But really, it's a great movie. Probably the best animation I watched in recent times.
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Oct 2, 2013 20:12
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Holy poo poo, some of these reviews are golden. quote:Norman jokingly says he was watching sex and violence on the television, which raises two red flags. First, I do not condone my children lying to me. I am worried that this "joke" will encourage my children it is okay to lie to me. Secondly, my twelve year old son is at the age where teenage boys typically begin to "Explore" sex: (porn, masturbation, etc.) Now, I am fearful this movie will expedite that process. I don't want him going behind my back and purchasing porn movies on pay per view because this movie gave him the knowledge that one can watch sex on television.  My 12 year old son tricked me into renting ParaNorman, now he's going to be masturbating all over the place! One Star!
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Oct 2, 2013 20:14
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Yeah I'm sure this movie clued him in to there being sex on the television. I hope nobody does a movie about porn on the internet!
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Oct 2, 2013 20:27
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Grawl posted:Just watched ParaNorman. Wow that was a great movie. I don't understand why it scores so low (6.9) on IMDB. Literally the gay reveal at the end.
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Oct 2, 2013 20:27
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Logged on to Netflix to find something to blow 20 minutes on and saw that Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels is available. There goes my afternoon.
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Oct 2, 2013 20:39
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I watched Fargo last night and it was definitely good, but I was a little disappointed. I've seen most of the Coens' movies and love most of them. No Country for Old Men is a perfect movie, and True Grit is close to it. Barton Fink is a great exploration of alienation. Fargo was just a regular good movie.
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Oct 2, 2013 20:40
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computer parts posted:Literally the gay reveal at the end. I love that part so much.
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Oct 2, 2013 20:41
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Grawl posted:Just watched ParaNorman. Wow that was a great movie. I don't understand why it scores so low (6.9) on IMDB. It was marketed as a zombie movie but the undead don't even show up until the third act and there's no brain-eating.
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Oct 2, 2013 20:45
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The sad part is how many people completely miss the wonderful message of the film. Just the ending is full of positivity.
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Oct 2, 2013 20:53
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Grawl posted:Just watched ParaNorman. Wow that was a great movie. I don't understand why it scores so low (6.9) on IMDB. One of the characters is both openly gay and not evil.
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Oct 2, 2013 21:03
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I loved the climax of ParaNorman The Fountain is one of my favorite movies, and the music during that scene is quite similar
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Oct 2, 2013 21:08
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Pick posted:One of the characters is both openly gay and not evil. And the best part about it, they don't make a big deal about the character being gay. You only find out from a throwaway line literally 5 minutes before the movie ends.
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Buzkashi posted:Demon Knight is definitely worth watching. Overall, it's not a very good movie, but Billy Zane is obviously having a ridiculous amount of fun with it and it's infectious. Right, it's a great movie.
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Oct 2, 2013 21:15
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JohnSherman posted:Logged on to Netflix to find something to blow 20 minutes on and saw that Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels is available. There goes my afternoon. Aw man, I know what I'm watching later today.
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Irish Taxi Driver posted:And the best part about it, they don't make a big deal about the character being gay. You only find out from a throwaway line literally 5 minutes before the movie ends. No, the best part is how brazenly unapologetic they are for doing it; the trailer for their next film shows gay and lesbian families. 
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Egbert Souse posted:Read some of the negative reviews. These people must just be trolls, I mean... e: she doesn't even have an 11 year old, according to her introduction. quote:Similarly, my children (ages 20, 16, 12, and 9) have been raised in a clean, Christian home their whole lives. They have never been deviant or defiant to the rules that my husband and I have established. We allow no movies containing witchcraft, the supernatural, curse words of any kind, and most importantly, sex. That being said, I never thought I would have to worry about my children viewing a "Pg-rated" movie with a homosexual!!!! It is revealed in the end that Mitch is a homosexual. I think this movie has made my eleven year old explore homosexuality! After he used the family computer for homework the other night, I found "shirtless men" and in the search history! And there were balled up Kleenex in the trash can! I do not want my children exposed to this nonsense, and I know other parents have the same concerns. My son will not be subject to the gates of Hell for being a homosexual because of this movie! quote:First of all, this was a B movie at best. The CGI was clumsy and the voice over acting forced. CGI, really? 
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Oct 2, 2013 21:56
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Sorry for the double post, but I just watched Hellraiser. Are any of the movies that come after it worth the time?
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Oct 2, 2013 23:35
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Grawl posted:Sorry for the double post, but I just watched Hellraiser. Are any of the movies that come after it worth the time? The second one.
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Oct 2, 2013 23:39
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Grawl posted:Sorry for the double post, but I just watched Hellraiser. Are any of the movies that come after it worth the time? Second one is. The rest, not so much.
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Oct 2, 2013 23:39
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Hellraiser 3 is fun, but I wouldn't call it good. Watch it if the idea of cenobytes arriving in a 90s industrial goth music club with a white-collar restaurant on the second floor sounds like a laugh to you.
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Oct 2, 2013 23:48
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Grawl posted:Sorry for the double post, but I just watched Hellraiser. Are any of the movies that come after it worth the time? I've seen the first two only; while the second isn't as good as the first, it's still worth watching. Hellraiser V has been sitting in my Netflix queue for a while, because someone on here recommended it, but I still haven't gotten around watching it.
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The AV Club's TV Roundtable just did an extensive article on the Dr. Who episode "Blink" (which I made too big a deal of last page) as the first of a five-part series this month spotlighting the best and scariest standalone episodes of popular series. And I only bring it up again because it just so happens that their first three choices are available on Netflix Streaming right now: Doctor Who, "Blink" (Season 3, Episode 10) Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "Hush" (Season 4, Episode 10) The X-Files, "Home" (Season 4, Episode 2) Having seen all three, that's the start of a drat fine list. Might be a good chance to try out a series you've never seen before or revisit an old favorite.
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Oct 3, 2013 00:38
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That x files episode was banned on TV too! It is absolutely disgusting and horrifying.
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jjack229 posted:I've seen the first two only; while the second isn't as good as the first, it's still worth watching. Hellraiser V has been sitting in my Netflix queue for a while, because someone on here recommended it, but I still haven't gotten around watching it. The very last scene is really loving stupid, though.Hellraiser III turned Pinhead into a standard one-liner spewing horror dude. This is where they start getting really, really dumb Cenobite designs. It does have a pre-DS9 Terry Farrell. I like how it kinda-sorta-not-really keeps continuity with the second movie. The first five minutes might fool you into thinking it's going to be awesome, but... Hellraiser: Bloodlines is an interesting concept that is WAY too ambitious for the budget, actors, writers, and director involved. Hellraiser: Inferno is the first DTV release. It's not that great of a movie, but it's a relief to see a more subdued and coherent story compared to the increasingly grandiose last three movies. I haven't bothered with any of the other ones. I was somewhat surprised to see a 2011 entry that did not involve Doug Bradley, although I think I remember reading on here somewhere that it was an ashcan copy. The first four movies are required watching if you are a fan of 80s/90s industrial music - Frontline Assembly, Skinny Puppy, and Ministry sampled the hell out of them (also the NIN song Sanctified is based on the second movie). I always get a kick of recognizing samples in movies. In a completely unrelated note, the X-Files episode F. Emasculata makes for horrible meal time viewing 
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Inudeku posted:That x files episode was banned on TV too! It is absolutely disgusting and horrifying. That is the only one I skip on a research. Most disturbing tv episode I've ever seen.
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Do not waste your time with Hellraiser VIII: Evil Goes Online. Evil does not go online. 1 star.
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My kid hated Paranorman for some odd reason. She really just didn't like it. Thought it mighta been because of all the spooky stuff, but we recently watched The Nightmare Before Christmas and she adored it. I'd be interested to find out what the general consensus is of Paranorman amongst kids. Whenever I talk to kids about cartoons, it never gets mentioned.
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Inudeku posted:That x files episode was banned on TV too! It is absolutely disgusting and horrifying. Yeah Home is so far beyond what came before it that it's a total shock.
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Quantum of Phallus posted:Yeah Home is so far beyond what came before it that it's a total shock. Man, me and my girlfriend are watching this show for the first time, and I cannot wait until this episode. We just finished season 1. I've not looked up exactly what it consists of but the precedent is killing me.
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Quantum of Phallus posted:Yeah Home is so far beyond what came before it that it's a total shock. I just watched this five minutes ago thanks to this thread. Meh. Maybe you all overhyped it, or maybe I'm just desensitized and not easily shocked. My girlfriend watched it with me and she hates anything "horror", but she wasn't very terrified either. Really the episode just felt gross. To me the incest fell flat and was very predictable. The episode opened strong with the infanticide. But it steadily went downhill from there. I enjoyed watching this and plan on starting the X-Files now, but this was not horrifying to me.
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It did come out nearly 20 years ago. I think it's hard to have something carry the same impact after a pretty huge saturation of horror stuff since then. I wish the Lance Henrickson series Millennium was on streaming. It was a pretty good series with fun X-files crossovers.
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Room 237 was everything I wanted it to be. Much funnier than I was expecting and some real surprising stuff also. Highly recommended for Kubrick and The Shining fans.
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david_a posted:Hellraiser II is a wonderful 80s sequel. Dumber, grosser, and with a scene that should have been among the greatest things ever put on film, but sadly wasn't. Chanard v Pinhead I do love it for that awesome sleazy-80s-horror-grainy-film-stock vibe. That pillar is so awful. Its like hell scrapbooked something.
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Irish Taxi Driver posted:That pillar is so awful. Its like hell scrapbooked something.
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david_a posted:"We have such "This is the baby's body from my spawn's first possession, heres the face we ate part of when we went to the Styx, and heres a family photo of us at Donner Pass!"
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I'm old enough to have watched X-files through when it was new, which was pretty awesome. For about a year after home aired I used to hum that "Wonderful, wonderful" song and my ex wife would get the creeps and go "Ugh, stop it" every time. And yeah Millennium was pretty good for at least one season. At least you can get it on disc, I'm gonna rent the first one and see how it holds up.
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DangerDummy! posted:My kid hated Paranorman for some odd reason. She really just didn't like it. Thought it mighta been because of all the spooky stuff, but we recently watched The Nightmare Before Christmas and she adored it. I'd be interested to find out what the general consensus is of Paranorman amongst kids. Whenever I talk to kids about cartoons, it never gets mentioned. Depending on how young your kid is I could see it being a bit too intense. Especially the third act. There's nothing really comparable in Nightmare which is a much smaller canvas.
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How long has http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Forrest_Gump/ been up?
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Supernatural season 8 just got put up. Time to catch up before season 9.
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