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Inspector Hound posted:They're in college, i was initially remembering them being high schoolers. I'm mostly thinking about the monster as the old lady (fits with your interpretation, but also works as a young person looking forward to a time when they'll be undesirable with a kind of existential horror), the naked guy in the roof (who is not attractive, but is definitely naked, an uncomfortable image whose brief time on screen you probably spend recoiling), her friend in the bikini (representing sexual curiosity), the little boy (perhaps a representation of the innocent affection of childhood, now transformed into a tireless stalking monster), and finally the shape it takes at the end, which we don't get to see and is almost certainly her father (elektra). Her friend also gets iced when the monster turns into his step mom and, in the only scene where we get to see a kill happening, appears to have sex with him (oedipus). My interpretation of the different forms is that once you feel the bottom drop out of life and you get dropped head first into a directionless liminality, everything you experience starts signifying your sense of existential disorientation and terror and pushes you to escape any way you can, ideally by committing some ritualized act or acts that signal a close to that stage.
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Guy Mann posted:I have no idea what this means, unless "hipster" has lost all meaning It has. It's so overused and misused that it doesn't signify anything anymore.
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If you don't see why calling it follows a hipster horror film makes sense I don't know what to tell you.
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veni veni veni posted:If you don't see why calling it follows a hipster horror film makes sense I don't know what to tell you. It "makes sense" because hipster is a word that doesn't actually convey anything. It's been generalized into oblivion. There are threads on this forum where people enjoying the Transformer films are called hipsters, and it "makes sense" because that word doesn't mean poo poo anymore.
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People like to pat themselves on the back for calling the word hipster meaningless, but let's look at it follows. Retro synth soundtrack. Check. Ignoring modern technology for a retro feel. Check. Hip young people. Check. It's not even inherently a bad thing it just is what it is. If you were able to watch that movie and not get that vibe I'm sorry you don't notice things.
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Dec 10, 2016 00:26
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You're not wrong for saying it's a word with connotations, but they're not wrong for saying it makes you sound like a grandpa
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I won't argue that. Seems like the most fitting word I can think of for it follows though.
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Dec 10, 2016 00:34
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I just don't see why it matters any more than, say, the characters in A Nightmare on Elm Street wearing '80s clothes. It's a movie that has traits of the era in which it was made.
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It's not really something that matters much, although it's notable because there's romanticizing of another era , something that's sort of getting run into the ground with horror right now, which is why I thought it was worth bringing up. I'm not even the one fixating on the word hipster. I used it as a descriptor which is IMO pretty apt for that movie. For some reason goons fall all over themselves to say how meaningless of a word it is when it's really not. I won't deny that using it makes me sound like an old dweeb.
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Tldr: I'm tired of modern horror movies with retro synths and vintage vibes, so that aspect of it follows rubbed me the wrong way. I don't even think it follows is a bad movie I just didn't enjoy it. veni veni veni fucked around with this message at 00:51 on Dec 10, 2016 |
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Dec 10, 2016 00:49
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I'm actually getting tires of the retro synth score thing too, but It Follows has easily the best one from that whole wave.
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Dec 10, 2016 00:51
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Disliking the instrumental choices and the clothing worn by the characters is a really poor reason for disliking one of the best horror movies of the past decade.
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Spatulater bro! posted:Disliking the instrumental choices and the clothing worn by the characters is a really poor reason for disliking one of the best horror movies of the past decade. Agree with you on the clothes thing but music is important, especially in horror movies and double especially in a movie that emphasizes the music as much as It Follows. I love the music, but if I didn't it would certainly negatively impact my opinion of the movie.
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Dec 10, 2016 00:53
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I'm kinda done with the super minimalist, clean aesthetic now but It Follows does it better than most. (Helps that they don't make everyone super pale.) Hipster in its current meaning is something I mostly associate with the mid to late 2000s, not so much what's hip now. Granted that aesthetic is still around.
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Dec 10, 2016 00:57
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Agree with you on the clothes thing but music is important, especially in horror movies and double especially in a movie that emphasizes the music as much as It Follows. I love the music, but if I didn't it would certainly negatively impact my opinion of the movie. Yeah, I suppose that's true. It's just hard for me to imagine disliking a movie due to a particular instrument being used. "Pfft, a synthesizer? That's OLD. gently caress this hipster poo poo."
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Dec 10, 2016 00:58
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It's not an inherent dislike of that style of music for me as much as it feels really calculated, like all of a sudden a bunch of young horror filmmakers watched susperia/ carpenter/ cannibal holocaust , mutually decided it was cool, and everyone's gotta have 80s synths now and I got burned out on it really quickly. Some of those old soundtracks are really awesome. It follows may have a better soundtrack than I'm giving it credit for, I think I kind of immediately judged it and thought " here we go again" when the soundtrack kicked in.
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Dec 10, 2016 01:08
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veni veni veni posted:It's not an inherent dislike of that style of music for me as much as it feels really calculated, like all of a sudden a bunch of young horror filmmakers watched susperia/ carpenter/ cannibal holocaust , mutually decided it was cool, and everyone's gotta have 80s synths now and I got burned out on it really quickly. This is basically how I felt about the Stranger Things soundtrack.
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Dec 10, 2016 01:19
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Hey this new movie on Netflix called Spectral is rad as gently caress.
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Blind Rasputin posted:Hey this new movie on Netflix called Spectral is rad as gently caress. I was gonna ask about that one. The cast looks pretty good.
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Dec 10, 2016 02:11
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Pretty drat big production value. And anything with captain Pike in it is good with me.
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Dec 10, 2016 02:16
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Put me down for a "It Follows" is tedious/boring and most importantly, not scary at all, vote. So I've noticed that Netflix has bowed to pressure from Amazon and added the ability, at least on my iPad app, to download shows/movies for offline viewing. Does anyone know whether there is a time limit on how long you can keep the file or view it? Does the Android app allow for the same?
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Dec 10, 2016 02:19
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I'm pretty sure I'm older than all y'all and even I can't stop rolling my eyes whenever anyone calls anything "hipster". Like, 20 years ago, and I do mean literally 20 years ago, "hipster" just meant "someone who listens to bands I've never heard of". e: to be fair, I'm probably a hipster
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Dec 10, 2016 03:13
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Yeah, Spectral starts out a lot like a live action final fantasy: the spirits within, turns into some badass sci-fi military adventure, and ends by basically being Titanfall 2 and it rocks really drat hard.
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Dec 10, 2016 03:17
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The word has meant the same thing since the 60s or even earlier, even if some tend to totally misuse/over use it. People that call it meaningless generally think that because they have no context outside of seeing it thrown around on the internet by people that are equally naive. I agree it's become an obnoxious word at this point and I guess I am just asking for a stupid debate by using it any context anymore.
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Dec 10, 2016 03:26
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veni veni veni posted:The word has meant the same thing since the 60s or even earlier, even if some tend to totally misuse/over use it.  Did you just own yourself?
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Dec 10, 2016 03:41
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I've literally used the word once in as long as I can remember and it was totally in context. goons are just incapable of not losing it any time they see it.
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Dec 10, 2016 04:19
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On an unrelated note ,Terriers is still on Netflix and is also still one of the most perfectly made TV shows of all time.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:On an unrelated note ,Terriers is still on Netflix and is also still one of the most perfectly made TV shows of all time. This is so true and every time I see it in my queue (every day) I get so goddamn mad that it wasn't renewed
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Ugly In The Morning posted:On an unrelated note ,Terriers is still on Netflix and is also still one of the most perfectly made TV shows of all time.
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Blind Rasputin posted:Hey this new movie on Netflix called Spectral is rad as gently caress. Military 'Ghostbusters' played straight with a great cast.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:I'm actually getting tires of the retro synth score thing too, but It Follows has easily the best one from that whole wave. Hey, I know the composer! He's loving great, check out his Bandcamp page (under Disasterpeace). The first entry is a soundtrack for a fictitious video game. It's from a contest I officiated on another forum over a decade ago, and it's some of my favorite driving music. (Think chiptune + live drums.) He has since created soundtracks for real games, and now this!
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Spectral was really good! Netflix keeps surprising me with their original content here lately, they have their poo poo together.
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Blind Rasputin posted:Hey this new movie on Netflix called Spectral is rad as gently caress. Definitely a decent watch even if the ending was pretty heavy handed coyo7e fucked around with this message at 10:47 on Dec 10, 2016 |
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Dec 10, 2016 10:36
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atholbrose posted:I ended up really disliking The Wailing. It had already fallen into incoherence before the end presented two or three twists too many. I can dig movies without complete answers, but I like to feel like something makes sense. I just watched this, and I can see how polarizing this can be. I like it because it feels like South Korea's The Exorcist. It's just one big mess that has a bunch of cinematic moments. edit: It's almost like mass psychosis has swept the town and everyone's just doing things that makes no sense and somehow there's a semi-coherent plot. rngd in the womb fucked around with this message at 13:31 on Dec 10, 2016 |
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Die Sexmonster! posted:Hey, I know the composer! He's loving great, check out his Bandcamp page (under Disasterpeace). The first entry is a soundtrack for a fictitious video game. It's from a contest I officiated on another forum over a decade ago, and it's some of my favorite driving music. (Think chiptune + live drums.) He has since created soundtracks for real games, and now this! Oh yeah, didn't he used to post here? I remember him posting a chiptune album back when that was a thing around 2006 or so.
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First Off, don't watch Yoga Hosers. It's not the Ghost World + Dude, Where's My Car? mashup you're hoping for. Secondly, if you did see it, was it my imagination or did you get a gross creeper vibe? Edit: It's on Netflix Edit: I thought it was directed by a hack Canadian, but then it occurred to me that Canadian humor isn't usually this hacky. Turns out it's Kevin Smith. Warm und Fuzzy fucked around with this message at 14:04 on Dec 10, 2016 |
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Dec 10, 2016 13:56
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Orunitier posted:The Wailing is on Netflix. Must watch. Everybody watch!
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Dec 10, 2016 14:23
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The Lobster is on Amazon Prime and is very good.
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Animal House is on Netflix. Aside from the whole rape thing, still a really funny movie.
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