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flashy_mcflash posted:The same guy also wrote Cellular and Messages Deleted. Dude needs to stop using telephones entirely or maybe change providers. Cellular wasn't bad either, for a nice little "regular guy forced into intense, dangerous situation" movie. (See also: Nick of Time.)
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I checked out Society and realized the trailer sort of spoils some of what goes on in the ending. I'm not sure what I would have expected otherwise and it is also foreshadowed in set decoration a lot. The part that really blew me away was when he said, "I need another copy of the tape!" without ever having to be more explicit about preserving the original, because only an idiot would not make copies when such a thing is so easily done. Few movies do anything like that.
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Watching Coherence right now based on this threads recommendation. It's just beginning, but the dinner scene is killing me because it comes across as so natural and well done, then they throw in "you know my brother, he hands with the theoretical physicist types, and he said to phone me if there was anything... weird going on"
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Oct 9, 2014 22:01
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Finished it, enjoyed it.
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Professor Shark posted:Watching Coherence right now based on this threads recommendation. Thank loving god someone said it. So dumb.
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Yeah, a lot of the dialog in the film is really really dumb. Its unfortunate because the concept and most of the actual plot and characters are great, but it feels like occasionally someone entirely different wrote everything to do with the book and the physicists brother.
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For what it's worth, the IMDb page claims that the dialogue was largely improvised.
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Admiral Goodenough posted:For what it's worth, the IMDb page claims that the dialogue was largely improvised. Yeah I saw it with one of the actors doing a Q&A afterwards and he said they didn't have a script so much as a rough outline.
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That makes a lot of sense, considering the worst dialog is all from that one guy.
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Here's a good list of Lovecraftian films, I'm sure most of them have already been posted in this thread. One that I think I'm going to watch soon is The Last Wave, since according to the list it's S.T. Joshi's (Who's the premier Lovecraft scholar) favorite Lovecraftian film. It also apparently has a Criterion DVD.
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James Woods posted:The Signal – 2007 I love this movie so much.
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Rhyno posted:I love this movie so much.
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Rhyno posted:I love this movie so much. I hate that another movie called The Signal came out because this is one of my most-recommended films of all-time.
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Oct 13, 2014 09:16
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Strontosaurus posted:I hate that another movie called The Signal came out because this is one of my most-recommended films of all-time. "On a road trip, Nic and two friends are drawn to an isolated area by a computer genius"  damned computer geniuses luring innocent people into isolated areas! Those bastards how dare they!?"
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coyo7e posted:I doubt you have much to be concerned about as to whether or not anyone will confuse the two - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2910814/ Have you seen the movie? It's not amazing but they really tried to do something interesting with the premise. The ending is kinda crazy and Fishburne is fun to watch. Not the worst way to spend 90 minutes.
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I really disliked the 2007 Signal because the tone shifts are really massive, and I don't think they work. I was really digging the first part, then it shifted and the humor was, in my opinion, just not good enough for it to work. Then it shifts again and it just felt weaker then the first segment.
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Strontosaurus posted:I hate that another movie called The Signal came out because this is one of my most-recommended films of all-time. The new one is surprisingly enjoyable but yeah, I understand. This is among my go-to "Watch this weird film!" recommendations.
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Kangra posted:I checked out Society and realized the trailer sort of spoils some of what goes on in the ending. I'm not sure what I would have expected otherwise and it is also foreshadowed in set decoration a lot. Yeah, when we said 'go in cold' with absolutely no spoilers, literally go in with no spoilers. Skip trailers, reviews, everything. Maintains the ~magic~ that way.
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Major The Signal 2014 Spoilers. How many other movies have it so Earth isn't really Earth but an Alien observation facility/space ship? I know there was one I've seen, called Dark City with these ghoulish looking aliens. I'm sure there has to be more. I remember people speculating the film the Village was being run by aliens and how awesome that would have been. I did not expect the alien slant to this film at all and was pleasantly surprised when I first heard the term ECB being thrown out there. Good movie, especially going in totally blind.
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Toad Road. I really liked it. I'm bad at describing things but I don't feel like it needs a whole lot of explaining. It's a hybrid documentary/horror movie. There's a lot of (real) drugs. I think it'll probably be more poignant for people who have a history with drugs. But I think it's worth watching for everyone else. I have never seen anything quite like it.
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Conduit for Sale! posted:Toad Road. I really liked it. I'm bad at describing things but I don't feel like it needs a whole lot of explaining. It's a hybrid documentary/horror movie. There's a lot of (real) drugs. I think it'll probably be more poignant for people who have a history with drugs. But I think it's worth watching for everyone else. I have never seen anything quite like it. Also, I really liked Shrooms.
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I maintain that that is far more than weird trivia for that film, given the character she played.
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It's a tragedy, but it does continue to blur the line between documentary and fiction in that film. That blending of real-life elements is what gives Toad Road its edge. A lot of the film's unease comes from losing the stability of accepting it as straight docu or straight scripted. The director's next film, Felt, has been screening at fests to good reviews. Sounds like it has some similar elements to Toad Road, but this one's being described as a feminist film.
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This movie is excellent. Beautiful cinematography and great acting. It may feel similar to Black Death at times, but that's mostly because of the structure of both movies. The historical backdrop makes it all the more interesting.
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Also watched Sauna and The Tunnel from recommendations from this thread and I'll echo the above poster's sentiment, Sauna was excellent and very much like The Black Death in style and tone. The Tunnel could've been a lot better but the way it was presented sucked all of the tension out of it for me. It's set up like an episode of I Shouldn't Be Alive and big surprise, the members of the film crew being interviewed make it out okay and the ones that aren't being interviewed don't. Despite great cinematography and an overall spooky and haunting atmosphere, you know who's gonna make it out and that makes everything that should be unsettling about this movie decidedly palatable. I Shouldn't Be Alive consists of stories of human perseverance and survival against all odds, and this is a horror movie where people who make bad decisions for selfish reasons get what's coming to them. There are films that are able to create a sense of real tension and danger despite knowing a character's ultimate fate, like Life of Pi, but this movie isn't one of them.
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I just watched Grace: The Possession. It's a fairly standard possession movie but the cool thing is that the whole movie is from the first person perspective of the person being possessed. That turned an average movie into an above average one, in my opinion. It really did add to the tension. It even has the nerdy dude from Grandmas Boy for some reason. ' Edit: The whole time I kept thinking how much of this movie could be translated into a video game. I couldn't help but be reminded of P.T. SolidSnakesBandana fucked around with this message at 17:36 on Nov 18, 2014 |
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I was real mad that that wasn't a sequel to the horror film Grace, which I adore for reasons that remain a mystery to me. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1220213/
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flashy_mcflash posted:I was real mad that that wasn't a sequel to the horror film Grace, which I adore for reasons that remain a mystery to me.
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RightClickSaveAs posted:I thought they nailed the atmosphere in Grace so well, it's a movie that just looks and feels gross and unsettling. Yeah, the very first shot that shows a despondent Jordan Ladd having the most mundane sex possible really sets the tone for the whole thing. Also one of the more effective final shots I've seen in a movie.
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So I've just seen Triangle. I liked it, pretty solid overall. There's one thing that I'm not sure if it's supposed to mean anything: Near the end of the movie, when Jess crashes her car, there's a kid from the marching band with a drum from Aeolus. Is it the same drum, is it a nod to the audience or is it something elsejust a reused prop? Doesn't seem like it makes much sense for it to be there. Also watched The Box recently and I'm not very impressed. I liked the whole twilight-zoney esthetic it had going on, but the plot was kinda dumb. The 'moral dilemmas' the main characters were presented with were especially lame and at times completely nonsensical.
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grate deceiver posted:So I've just seen Triangle. I liked it, pretty solid overall. There's one thing that I'm not sure if it's supposed to mean anything: Near the end of the movie, when Jess crashes her car, there's a kid from the marching band with a drum from Aeolus. Is it the same drum, is it a nod to the audience or is it something elsejust a reused prop? Doesn't seem like it makes much sense for it to be there. What movie named Triangle are you talking about? Is it this one?
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Yeah, he's talking about that movie. The symbols on the drum, Alpha and Omega, may be a reference to the fact that the crash can be seen as both the beginning and ending of the story. Also if the Aeolus is Jess's Sisyphean afterlife torture for shortchanging Charon the taxi driver, then maybe the drum being on the ship is a hint for her to show that at that moment she had sealed her fate? Edit: Misremembered the symbols, it's actually an Alpha and Phi so I don't know what the gently caress. MrGreenShirt fucked around with this message at 01:42 on Nov 29, 2014 |
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speshl guy posted:The Tunnel could've been a lot better but the way it was presented sucked all of the tension out of it for me. It's set up like an episode of I Shouldn't Be Alive It really goes to great deliberate lengths to grind all the tension out of itself. There'll be these amazing shots in the dark dank underground, and then it'll just cut to a talking head interview with one of the characters blankly stating that it was very dark, and foreboding.
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Saw a pretty good one the other day: The manager of an apartment complex goes to check on a tenant who is late on his rent and finds a camera that takes photos 24 hours in the future, I think you already know he starts trying to use this to his advantage. It's not a masterpiece or anything but I think you guys will enjoy it all the same.
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That movie was a steaming pile of poo poo.
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Well gently caress, which is it?
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grate deceiver posted:So I've just seen Triangle. I liked it, pretty solid overall. There's one thing that I'm not sure if it's supposed to mean anything: Near the end of the movie, when Jess crashes her car, there's a kid from the marching band with a drum from Aeolus. Is it the same drum, is it a nod to the audience or is it something elsejust a reused prop? Doesn't seem like it makes much sense for it to be there.
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the chaos engine posted:Well gently caress, which is it? I didn't care about it enough to think it was real good or real bad. It's kind of just there, and is probably not worth your time unless it's literally right in front of you and you have nothing else to watch.
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flashy_mcflash posted:I didn't care about it enough to think it was real good or real bad. It's kind of just there, and is probably not worth your time unless it's literally right in front of you and you have nothing else to watch. Yeah this was what I thought, it's not very interesting at all. Not offensively bad, just generically bad. Although the ending sucks
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