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If you just skip to the "money shot" or the interesting scenes in a movie, most of the time you're missing the context of what makes those scenes so great.
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Kvlt! posted:If you just skip to the "money shot" or the interesting scenes in a movie, most of the time you're missing the context of what makes those scenes so great. you have to provide more context if you are going to tell me that skipping straight to the money shot isn't a good idea 
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Jul 18, 2016 21:07
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Universal is releasing "Legacy Collection" Blu-Rays for both Frankenstein and The Wolfman. It's odd that there are films that appear in both collections, but Universal isn't well known for thinking too hard about collectors anyway ... The Frankenstein Legacy Collection: Frankenstein Bride of Frankenstein Ghost of Frankenstein Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man House of Frankenstein House of Dracula The Wolf Man Legacy Collection: The Wolf Man Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man House of Frankenstein House of Dracula Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein She-Wolf of London https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR8yBW0xago Somebody should make a modern comedy-duo/monster crossover. Key & Peele Meet Freddy & Jason!
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Jul 18, 2016 21:41
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InfiniteZero posted:Somebody should make a modern comedy-duo/monster crossover. I think 21 Jump Street Vs. Men In Black is the closest we're going to get to this for a while
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Jul 18, 2016 21:42
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Broad City Meets Jigsaw I'd line up for it, and I'm not really fan of Broad City or Saw.
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Jul 18, 2016 21:44
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Cougar Town meets Grizzly.
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Jul 18, 2016 21:46
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InfiniteZero posted:Universal is releasing "Legacy Collection" Blu-Rays for both Frankenstein and The Wolfman. It's odd that there are films that appear in both collections, but Universal isn't well known for thinking too hard about collectors anyway ...
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Jul 18, 2016 21:47
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The Invitation goes to Peter and Paul from Funny games. edit: wait is that a comedy duo/monster crossover?
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Jul 18, 2016 21:48
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InfiniteZero posted:Universal is releasing "Legacy Collection" Blu-Rays for both Frankenstein and The Wolfman. It's odd that there are films that appear in both collections, but Universal isn't well known for thinking too hard about collectors anyway ... Guess they're just trying to maximize demographic potential for folks who either just like Wolf Man/Dracula/Frankenstein movies, which is still bonkers. At any rate, these are actually re-packagings of sets they already have on DVD, so hopefully we'll just be able to snatch up this whole kit and kaboodle on Blu-Ray soon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00L8QP082?psc=1&smid=A2RQ38FFUL7LO9
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Jul 18, 2016 21:51
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SubG posted:Why does Universal hate Son of Frankenstein (1939)? It's on the set, and Werewolf of London is on the Wolf-Man set. For some reason it's not in the product description, but the images show it clearly on the back of the box.
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Jul 18, 2016 21:53
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K. Waste posted:It's on the set, and Werewolf of London is on the Wolf-Man set.
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Jul 18, 2016 22:00
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Basebf555 posted:Sorry I didn't realize posting one of the infinite scenarios that could happen in a movie would be considered a spoiler. Your spoiler of the not ending has ruined it.
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Jul 18, 2016 22:04
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3 segments into Holidays and Jesus Christ, this is pure poo poo
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Jul 18, 2016 22:18
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TLLP ends with the hipsters coming together to fight the Asian final boss at an Arcade Fire concert.
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Jul 18, 2016 22:25
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Stop ruining movies man that's not cool.
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Jul 18, 2016 22:30
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FreudianSlippers posted:Complaining about hipsters has been oldhat since the 1950s. Weren't they called mods back then? Kvlt! posted:If you just skip to the "money shot" or the interesting scenes in a movie, most of the time you're missing the context of what makes those scenes so great. Skipping to the interesting scenes is often the better route in bad movies, especially in genres like horror that almost universally stick to the same tempo, cliches, and final act. Martial Arts movies also fall into this category, since most people watch them for their fight scenes and not story. Some movies, like you mentioned, have to be watched the whole way through. Taxi Driver is a great example of this. On the flipside, I caught 10 Cloverfield Lane in theaters and was so bored that I almost fell asleep until the last 15 minutes when the aliens finally appear. The ending would have made a great short film since it was so disconnected from the rest of the movie. ObamaPhone fucked around with this message at 22:46 on Jul 18, 2016 |
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Jul 18, 2016 22:35
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Almost every single memorable action scene in movie history is better in context. The 1 vs 10 scene from Ip Man is a perfect example.
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Jul 18, 2016 22:46
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Just saw The Purge: Well, that was poo poo. Especially the girl gang, the foreign gang, the over the top neo-nazi mercs, and the cartoon final bosses. It was really bad and I cringed every time the black guy said something in really outdated 90's slang. 10 Cloverfield Lane was awesome though until the aliens show up.
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Jul 18, 2016 23:07
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LesterGroans posted:Cinema Discusso: As a single guy with very few responsibilities, I do not have this problem Reminds me of something Roger Ebert wrote in his review of The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. Ebert posted:If you think "The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor" sounds like a waste of time, don't waste yours. I, as it happens, have time to waste [...] I think of that quote a lot when I'm watching a mediocre film.
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This is the one and only time in my life where something I said will be compared to Ebert, so I guess I'll take it.
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A GLISTENING HODOR posted:Just saw The Purge: Is Election Year better or worse than Anarchy? Have you ever watched The Tournament? It's a good deal like the Purge movies IMO. Here's the trailer for those not in the know (I believe it was released DTV): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQzH98dSSk0 ObamaPhone fucked around with this message at 23:38 on Jul 18, 2016 |
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Jul 18, 2016 23:29
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ObamaPhone posted:Is Election Year better or worse than Anarchy? Way worse. By a drastic margin. Anarchy was bad and kinda cheesy, but it felt like a real Hollywood movie, with actors and cinematography and script writers. Election Year felt like a Neil Breen movie or Birdemic. It's so heavy handed and cliche. It's so cheap. Between the "bad girls" who are hilariously ineffectively scary ("I'm bad. I just killed my parents now I'll kill you, too, you rear end in a top hat jerks. Bitch."), the neo-nazis with magic tracker bullets so they can And I can't stress enough how much of a stereotype the black guy is. He's from the hood and he's done bad things but now he's turned his life around and he took a young guy under his wing to help run his shop but he's still street smart and his best friends are the loving old guys from the barbershop in Coming to America, and drat aww hell naw that's what I'm talking about yo OMG this script is so white it drinks 2% because whole milk is too spicy. gently caress this movie. e: oh yeah, and the recycled shots of the terrible CGI helicopter is shameful and Asylum Films levels of awful
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ObamaPhone posted:Weren't they called mods back then? Nah mods were the dudes in the 60s who wore fancy suits, rode scooters and got into meth fueled fights with rockers. Hipsters were originally just 1940s white dudes who listened to jazz and used black slang like "cool" and "groovy" and eventually developed into beatniks which then developed into hippies. Sort of. It was of course far more complicated than that but this is the internet and we're all about massive simplification here.
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Thanks, thread, for introducing me to a lotta horror films I watched this weekend. I was pleasantly surprised by The Guest, which ended up like a suprisingly tense mash-up of Fear/Drive/that one movie with Jake Gyllenhaal and Tobey Maguire, in at least three ways: 1) Realizing that the main character was this doofy motherfucker and then giggling every time his Southern drawl slipped. 2) Realizing that Adam Wingard was the director, explaining the weird undercurrent of humor running throughout the film, up until the pitch-perfect ending. ("You did the right thing. I don't blame you. *thumbs up*" and "What the gently caress.") 3) Experiencing the opposite of "cold chills down my spine" when this track dropped during the climax. It was like watching Nicholas Winding Refn eat his own tail. If you're wondering what that feels like, it's kinda like doing a popper.
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Just finished Man Bites Dog, and while it's terrifying in all the right ways, with a pair of truly laugh-out-loud moments, it suffers from me seeing it after it inspired a generation of films to ape it, including the (imo superior) Behind the Mask. It's sort of like seeing Rocky for the first time years after seeing it parodied and recreated in everything else. It also has that insufferable film-student ending: Can't think of an ending? fade to black, hail of bullets, roll credits
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Jul 19, 2016 02:57
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If any of you are feeling lonely tonight, I have a solution: https://youtu.be/sT2SvI2Yx6w
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A GLISTENING HODOR posted:
Are you sure a lot of that wasn't on purpose? The ridiculous stereotypes got some real laughs out of me, they might has well have changed "Joe" to "Superfly Johnson."
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Jove posted:Thanks, thread, for introducing me to a lotta horror films I watched this weekend. I was pleasantly surprised by The Guest, which ended up like a suprisingly tense mash-up of Fear/Drive/that one movie with Jake Gyllenhaal and Tobey Maguire, in at least three ways: If you liked The Guest and it sounds odd ,but check out Beyond the Black Rainbow it's got a killer soundtrack and the film is great as well. Dr. Angela Ziegler posted:Just finished Man Bites Dog, and while it's terrifying in all the right ways, with a pair of truly laugh-out-loud moments, it suffers from me seeing it after it inspired a generation of films to ape it, including the (imo superior) Behind the Mask. Watch Angst it's basically a sort of Found Footage ,but not really. It's a darker Henry :Portrait of a Serial Killer It's not funny. The camera work really fucks with your head. Hollismason fucked around with this message at 03:05 on Jul 19, 2016 |
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InfiniteZero posted:If any of you are feeling lonely tonight, I have a solution: 
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Neumonic posted:Are you sure a lot of that wasn't on purpose? The ridiculous stereotypes got some real laughs out of me, they might has well have changed "Joe" to "Superfly Johnson." If Election Year was being tongue in cheek about what a schlocky piece of poo poo it was, then I've been taken for one hell of a ride. Because I was waiting for the old lady from Airplane! to come in out of nowhere and offer to translate the jive.
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Jul 19, 2016 03:15
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btw, my favorite castration scene is this part in Death Race 2000: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO-YkaXGtLM&t=844s
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Hollismason posted:If you liked The Guest and it sounds odd ,but check out Beyond the Black Rainbow it's got a killer soundtrack and the film is great as well. Yessss, that makes two people who like BTBR!  I would say though that the similarities really end at the visuals and killer score part though.To kinda jump back on the THEY LOOK LIKE PEOPLE IS HIPSTER GARBAGE TRASH BLARGHLE conversation: I think in the past few years quite a few movies like TLLP, The Invitation etc have been promoted as horror movies and appear frequently on horror sites, but aren't strictly horror in the traditional monsters/ghosts/slashers sense of horror. In both cases, I think you could make the case that TLLP is more of a drama with horror elements, while The Invitation is a bit more thriller with a horror vein. In both cases, I tend to find them scarier than a lot of out and out horror we've gotten in the same time frame- The Conjuring, Sinister, Ouija, Paranormal Activity 157, etc. There's something about these kinda normal-seeming situations with an undercurrent of dread, or otherwise realistic situations where you question whether theres supernatural activity or not, that I find eerie and unsettling. With The Invitation, I figured out early on what the deal was, but that made me more nervous, if anything. I had read a bunch about various cults/doomsday groups before seeing the movie and it's loving terrifying how some of these situations have turned out in real life. While TLLP did a good job of keeping viewers guessing til the end, I think the ending they went with was in some ways much more disconcerting and sad than had they gone with the other direction, because it's a scenario that could happen. But yeah. I think one of the reasons this particular thread keeps on going is because there's so many opinions of what posters find scary/not scary, and what subgenres of horror folks love or absolutely can't stand. Personally I don't give a poo poo about slashers/ANOES/Halloween-type films and my eyes glaze over at giallo discussion, and I'm positive there's people who feel the same about various subgenres. In conclusion, the best castration scene is the one in Piranha 3D. Bonus prize for non-castration mutilation to Antichrist.
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A GLISTENING HODOR posted:Way worse. By a drastic margin. Counter point. Yes Bubba/Bodeaga owner is pretty cliche. Its just an action movie with a pretty good premise that never quite capitalizes. Neil Breen or Birdemic though? If anything its the opposite in that it is so banal that it hits all the beats that you guess them like your a pre-cog. I can at lest throw down a time line and rough map of what went down. If you made it through a few of the earlier Saw movies then your fine. Hey its all opinion though, but Id probably have to be put in a pretty dire state to compare it to a Breen or Birdemic movie though. No offense Hodor, not everything worth watching is gold, I dont like Rosemary's Baby.
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Whispering Machines posted:Yessss, that makes two people who like BTBR! Beyond The Black Rainbow was my favorite film of 2012.
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I regularly throw on BTBR when editing photos. Along with Enter the Void, Lost River, and Spring Breakers. I have kind of weird comfort films.
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Lost River was so good. That's how you make a derivative movie folks!
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If you want actual hipster/indie horror then you are going to want to watch Applesauce or Summer of Blood. They look like People is not a hipster horror film. Hipster horror films are really easy to spot because they usually have a specific dialogue scene where two characters or more sit around a table and then have a most likely improvised conversation about a film / subject whatever that sounds like a actual conversation / whatever. It's generally interspersed with realistic conversations and the horror happenings take a back seat to the real problems people are going through. The horror element is usually perfunctory to what is happening in the film sometimes. Hollismason fucked around with this message at 15:14 on Jul 19, 2016 |
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I have complicated feelings on Beyond the Black Rainbow because the only time I've seen it I was extremely hosed up and a doom metal band was playing the soundrack live with the speakers about two feet from my head. I'd guess that's the optimal way to watch it, though.
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Is there a famous example of "hipster horror" so that I can get an idea of what that even is? I've never seen or heard of Applesauce of Summer of Blood. I refuse to just lump all indie horror into one big "hipster" category. There's nothing hipster about Baskin, for instance.
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I loved Beyond the Black Rainbow and every so often I check IMDB to see if Panos Cosmatos has something else in the works yet. So far, no. Sad!
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