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Zwabu posted:The fact that SMG can rate it as not just good, but "insanely good", I don't even know. I'm going to let you in on a little secret about SMG's taste in movies...
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Hey guys, is Bride of Frakenstein James Whale's 3rd best picture? Cuz I think The Invisible Man and The Old Dark House are better. All great films, but The Invisible Man is an underrated masterpiece. James Whale was real good is all I'm saying.
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Apr 26, 2015 21:02
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Hat Thoughts posted:I really hope this is good http://m.ign.com/articles/2015/04/23/bruce-campbell-on-ash-vs-evil-dead-its-going-to-be-a-much-bigger-story
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Apr 26, 2015 21:33
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I'm only like 10 minutes into The Return of the Living Dead and I'm already struck by how much this 1) owns 2) is dope 3) is well-shot
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Apr 27, 2015 02:42
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Apr 27, 2015 02:51
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Jenny Angel posted:I'm only like 10 minutes into The Return of the Living Dead and I'm already struck by how much this yuuuuuuuup
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Apr 27, 2015 02:54
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Did I lose the race against whoever the other person was who had to watch some other movie? Also: it's been pointed to twice so far, but to what extent does this movie keep on being about fear of, and useless attempts to control, young people?
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Apr 27, 2015 02:54
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ROTL is probably equally influential as Night at this point.
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Jenny Angel posted:Did I lose the race against whoever the other person was who had to watch some other movie? the whole thing's basically a zombie movie meets an '80s anti-Reagan punk song also any time anyone mentions it Surfin' Dead pops in my head. this is a good thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHww_HJt1qk
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My favourite part of the movie is how the young people are accepting, smart and resourceful. Well, tied for favourite with everything else. Bert & Ernie 4 lyfe
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Apr 27, 2015 02:57
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Twinkling synths coming in to match the fluttering wings of some recently-zombified butterflies is a gag that any horror-comedy would be lucky to have. EDIT: Let me know if it's obnoxious for me to basically live-post my watching of the movie like this, happy to collect everything in Notepad and put it all in one post once I'm done.
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Apr 27, 2015 03:01
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it's drat near unparallelled how well Return of the Living Dead switches between effective horror and silly comedy. the butterfly wings and the split dog are legitimately haunting images, even at the same time as being really funny jokes.
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Apr 27, 2015 03:03
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Jenny Angel posted:Did I lose the race against whoever the other person was who had to watch some other movie? I think you won, as I don't recall who the other person was and what movie it was they had to watch...
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Apr 27, 2015 03:11
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Are any of the ROTLD sequels worth watching?
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Apr 27, 2015 03:14
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I think you won, as I don't recall who the other person was and what movie it was they had to watch... K Waste and Ghost World
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Coffee And Pie posted:Are any of the ROTLD sequels worth watching? part 3 is really, really good. part 2 really, really blows.
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Hat Thoughts posted:K Waste and Ghost World Ghost World is like #270 on my Netflix queue. I'm not racing any of you jock-o-homos. I am the Tortoise. You are the Achilles.
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K. Waste posted:I am the Tortoise. You are the Achilles. Well joke's on you dumbass because I'm pretty sure Achilles wins that race [looks up spoilers] Noooooo
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Jenny Angel posted:Well joke's on you dumbass because I'm pretty sure Achilles wins that race To be fair, I don't really "win." I just trap you in a flushing toilet of my own logical fallacies, using your own pride against you. I should probably spoiler that, don't wanna give away my whole bit.
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Apr 27, 2015 03:32
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:part 3 is really, really good. Backing this. 2 is just a generic horror comedy that isn't funny or scary at all and is just a waste of your time. 3 is something else altogether.
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I did not hate Unfriended, though the kills were uninspired. I did kind of wish the girl had gotten linked to the full video revealing her as the one recording, THEN the ghost started the countdown and we either cut to black or gotten the spooky-ghost-hand-laptop-slamming moment (if they absolutely had to do something) at zero.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:part 3 is really, really good. Yeah. Hat Thoughts posted:K Waste and Ghost World This is his loss. He's going to watch a million bad movies before watching one good one.
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Apr 27, 2015 12:06
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morestuff posted:ROTL is probably equally influential as Night at this point. If I remember right, it invented the concepts of talking zombies and fast zombies, so it definitely had a large influence.
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X-Ray Pecs posted:If I remember right, it invented the concepts of talking zombies and fast zombies, so it definitely had a large influence. It also originated zombies craving brains specifically, rather than just being cannibals.
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Jenny Angel posted:EDIT: Let me know if it's obnoxious for me to basically live-post my watching of the movie like this, happy to collect everything in Notepad and put it all in one post once I'm done. Return of the Living Dead is one of those movies that comes up like once a month in this thread, yet nobody will ever get tired of talking about it. The more horror I see the more RotLD shoots up my all-time list. Its the best horror-comedy ever, that much I'm sure of. But it may be one of the top-5 horror movies of all-time, period. I struggle to think of more than one or two horror films that I'd place above it.
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X-Ray Pecs posted:If I remember right, it invented the concepts of talking zombies and fast zombies, so it definitely had a large influence. As well as zombies craving brains.
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CopywrightMMXI posted:It also originated zombies craving brains specifically, rather than just being cannibals. Yep! I love the whole spiel about NOTLD being part of a bullshit coverup.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Yep! I love the whole spiel about NOTLD being part of a bullshit coverup. the fact that the monologue places the real life event Night of the Living Dead is based on in 1969 despite the fact that the movie came out in 1968 is one of my favorite subtle gags.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:the fact that the monologue places the real life event Night of the Living Dead is based on in 1969 despite the fact that the movie came out in 1968 is one of my favorite subtle gags. Alex Jones talked about this...
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CopywrightMMXI posted:It also originated zombies craving brains specifically, rather than just being cannibals. Ah, I knew I was forgetting something else. It's such a great idea, and it seems so obvious now. God, I really want to rewatch Return of the Living Dead now. Basebf555 posted:The more horror I see the more RotLD shoots up my all-time list. Its the best horror-comedy ever, that much I'm sure of. But it may be one of the top-5 horror movies of all-time, period. I struggle to think of more than one or two horror films that I'd place above it. Evil Dead 2 just barely edges it out as a better horror-comedy, but both are loving great.
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X-Ray Pecs posted:Evil Dead 2 just barely edges it out as a better horror-comedy, but both are loving great. if forced to choose, I would say Evil Dead II is the better movie (because it's basically my favorite movie of all time), but I think Return of the Living Dead navigates the transitions between horror and comedy better. the horror definitely hits harder in ROTLD.
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I saw The Re-Animator for the first time recently, and it jumped to the top of my horror comedy list. I probably need to see it another time or two.
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morestuff posted:I saw The Re-Animator for the first time recently, and it jumped to the top of my horror comedy list. I probably need to see it another time or two. yeah Evil Dead II, Return of the Living Dead and Re-Animator are the holy trinity of the genre. some throw Dawn of the Dead in there too but I choose not to count it.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:yeah Evil Dead II, Return of the Living Dead and Re-Animator are the holy trinity of the genre. I feel like Shaun of the Dead will make it with a little more distance, if it hasn't already.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:yeah Evil Dead II, Return of the Living Dead and Re-Animator are the holy trinity of the genre. 100% agreed. The order is personal preference but I don't think there's any other horror-comedies that would compete with these three.
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morestuff posted:I feel like Shawn of the Dead will make it with a little more distance, if it hasn't already. I would definitely agree with this.
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Dead-Alive also deserves a spot in the conversation of course. I'd put Cabin in the Woods in there too but I know that even mentioning that movie is like hurling a firebomb into the thread
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I'm sure some people would throw bows for American Werewolf in London, but as much as I like that movie it always feels paper thin
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morestuff posted:I feel like Shaun of the Dead will make it with a little more distance, if it hasn't already. Shaun of the Dead is already there, the question is whether The World's End will join it.
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morestuff posted:I'm sure some people would throw bows for American Werewolf in London, but as much as I like that movie it always feels paper thin oh poo poo, I forgot that one. I think it can hang with the all-time greats.
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