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Hey if I want to watch a good, funny person, I'll just look in a mirror (sorry for brag trying some self-esteem exercises)
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Loved It Follows. The premise is creepy as hell and for the first time in years watching a movie I got that shiver down my spine feeling the first time the 7 foot tall demon slowly walks into her room behind her friend. Definite recommend for people who like horror.
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Perestroika posted:I kind of dropped the books when furry sex/rape started becoming a recurring theme, so chances are some distance from the source material is probably for the best. Oh.......  Hoping it strays from the book quite a bit.
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Wow! Gonna second the recommendation for Embrace of the Serpent. Excellent movie.
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I watched the first 2/3rds of Clinical so you don't have to. It's bad
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precision posted:Lemony Snicket is god tier agreed.
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Gann Jerrod posted:By my recollection, the second book ends with one of the main characters getting raped by a fox god Yes this is in the show too.
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I'll say Magicians is a good show and the finale was good enough for me to want to see another season. It's pretty heavy on the sex/nakedness/token hot girls thing so that may keep you watching it. I really, really wished they made magic seem a bit more capable or something. Like, most of the time the magic is some poo poo they barely get to work or it kills everyone. There's no character growth taking place that would result in one of them. Coming magically more capable or whatever. And god the main protagonist is just insufferable.
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Blind Rasputin posted:And god the main protagonist is just insufferable. At least its consistent with the books
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Big thanks to everyone who recommended It Follows, most fun horror movie I've seen in a long time.
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precision posted:Lemony Snicket is god tier I really like it but it stresses me out to watch it, I have to pace myself
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Gann Jerrod posted:By my recollection, the second book ends with one of the main characters getting raped by a fox god
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precision posted:Lemony Snicket is god tier Tier of being bad?
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Holy poo poo the OA is atrocious
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I watched It Follows when it first came out and I loved it. Re watched it for the first time in like two years, and while some of the suspense is lost in knowing the movie, I still thoroughly enjoyed re watching it.
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I just watched it but I was unclear as to whether a large body of water would stop the it follows following thing? Like, if it just continues to walk towards the host like they say, then why not get on a plane and leave. As well, it doesn't seem to be very good at opening doors so why not just like armor up a house and have someone slot you the food and supplies (itc tampons I guess?) you need. Just didn't seem that threatening of a demon thing is all.
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:Tier of being bad? It's actually pretty solid. It follows the books (from what I can remember), the acting is pretty good, and Patrick W. Is killing it as Lemony Snicket. Better than the movie that came out years ago and tried to smash all the books together.
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:Oh, I didn't know there was a second one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tup-5yOcJuM coyo7e fucked around with this message at 05:11 on Jan 17, 2017 |
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Blind Rasputin posted:I just watched it but I was unclear as to whether a large body of water would stop the it follows following thing? Like, if it just continues to walk towards the host like they say, then why not get on a plane and leave. As well, it doesn't seem to be very good at opening doors so why not just like armor up a house and have someone slot you the food and supplies (itc tampons I guess?) you need. Yeah, just leave all of your family and everything you know behind, no biggie. Just living it up, never knowing if the person you haven't seen before is actually the demon that finally found its way to you. And you know teenagers, always going around with their huge sums of money to create armored up houses. Why not just ride in the Airforce One and have your plane refuel midair for the rest of your life? I'm sure the American taxpayers will understand.
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coyo7e posted:Yeah it's got Neil Patrick Harris and Joan Cusack and it's a netflix original, and it kills. Holy poo poo  E: Even the OP owns bones! Queen_Combat fucked around with this message at 05:33 on Jan 17, 2017 |
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Blind Rasputin posted:I just watched it but I was unclear as to whether a large body of water would stop the it follows following thing? Like, if it just continues to walk towards the host like they say, then why not get on a plane and leave. As well, it doesn't seem to be very good at opening doors so why not just like armor up a house and have someone slot you the food and supplies (itc tampons I guess?) you need. Only a goon would think "new armor house and hourly food delivery" is a simpler solution than "have sex."
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Short Penguin posted:It's actually pretty solid. It follows the books (from what I can remember), the acting is pretty good, and Patrick W. Is killing it as Lemony Snicket. Better than the movie that came out years ago and tried to smash all the books together. Yeah, the wife and I crushed this show over the weekend and it's incredible. As someone who never read any of the books or saw the movie, I loving loved it and she as an enormous fan of the books (and hating the first movie) also loving loved it. Definitely the strongest Netflix original show I've seen. It being only 8 episodes long instead of the usual 13 goes a long way to avoiding the slow, dragging middle like every other Netflix show suffers from.
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So this just popped up on Netflix and I immediately put it in my queue. I can't believe I'd never heard of it before.
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ChickenMedium posted:So this just popped up on Netflix and I immediately put it in my queue. I can't believe I'd never heard of it before. This was the better version.
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Blind Rasputin posted:I just watched it but I was unclear as to whether a large body of water would stop the it follows following thing? Like, if it just continues to walk towards the host like they say, then why not get on a plane and leave. As well, it doesn't seem to be very good at opening doors so why not just like armor up a house and have someone slot you the food and supplies (itc tampons I guess?) you need. The movie shows that hiding in a room doesn't really work, since the monster will just tear at the walls or doors until it gets you. Unless you're using elementary school logic, then yeah, I guess a bunch of teenagers/young adults in a poverty-stricken city should build an armored facility or all buy tickets into foreign lands, because they can thrive efficiently in that situation and rent cars and gets work visas and Or IT just gets on the airplane with them, or swims the distance. It doesn't seem exhaustible. What else does it have to do?
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But what if the mogwai started a meal at 11:00pm and it only takes half an hour to eat but it's on a plane crossing the international date line?
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At what point in the morning is it safe to feed the mogwai again? Sunrise? 6AM?
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Franchescanado posted:At what point in the morning is it safe to feed the mogwai again? Sunrise? 6AM? 12:01
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The limitations of the characters in It Follows are, like the monster itself, linked to the themes of the movie and don't necessarily "work" if you're going to dissect them with tactical realism crap. They're trapped, they can't get out of the place they're at, both literally and figuratively. Hopping on a plane might be a "realistic" thing to do, but it wouldn't make sense in the context of what the film is trying to convey.
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Iron Crowned posted:12:01 Nice try, Spike. Basebf555 posted:The limitations of the characters in It Follows are, like the monster itself, linked to the themes of the movie and don't necessarily "work" if you're going to dissect them with tactical realism crap. Yeah, seriously. Also, to repeat: the characters are poor and are probably under 21, so their resources are limited if you have to consider the realism of a movie that uses dream-logic, Quentin.
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I just watched It Follows and the entire movie is soaked in fantasy-world stuff, so trying to apply any hardcore realism to it is folly. The year, even the decade the movie takes place in is weirdly impossible to figure out. There are anachronisms all over the place, the seasons seems to switch around, it's vaugely set in Detroit, that's about the hardest thing we have. Even at the end, where did they find a well-maintained pool that's open in the middle of the night with no staff or security? All this stuff is intentional. Maybe the movie leans a bit too hard on it, but on my first watch it wasn't annoying and really added to my sense of disorientation.
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When it was over I thought that the scene at the beginning might have taken place in the present and the rest of the movie in the past but then that one girl had the weird clam e-reader/phone.
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LogisticEarth posted:I just watched It Follows and the entire movie is soaked in fantasy-world stuff, so trying to apply any hardcore realism to it is folly. I felt the same way. I didn't want to be weird for saying it, but we don't really know if there are airplanes in this world. Sounds silly, but the world we're shown isn't ours.
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Blind Rasputin posted:I just watched it but I was unclear as to whether a large body of water would stop the it follows following thing? Like, if it just continues to walk towards the host like they say, then why not get on a plane and leave. As well, it doesn't seem to be very good at opening doors so why not just like armor up a house and have someone slot you the food and supplies (itc tampons I guess?) you need. No, water wouldn't stop it. The demon didn't jump in the water because it was smart enough to grasp the nature of the swimming pool trap immediately. By chucking all the electric devices at the protagonist it was both disarming the trap and harming her. Once knocked in the pool, it was not only fine but also a better swimmer than the protagonist. They were able to harm it with bullets but couldn't kill it because the demon is immortal. As for doors, it proved it's strong enough to basically batter through anything, given enough time and a lack of better options. The basic conceit of the film is that the demon is slow but it never stops coming for you, so whether you whore yourself out, fly around the world like a playboy, ride the rails like a hobo, take a job on a deep-sea oil rig, or even stow away on a rocket bound for the ISS, it's only a matter of time before the demon catches up with you. You stay on the move until you die. You could keep it up for decades but you'll always be harried and never have a home.
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LogisticEarth posted:I just watched It Follows and the entire movie is soaked in fantasy-world stuff, so trying to apply any hardcore realism to it is folly. The setting of the director's other film Myth of the American Sleepover is also a vague, nebulous, parent-free world. It's for a different reason there, but it works extremely well in both.
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ChickenMedium posted:So this just popped up on Netflix and I immediately put it in my queue. I can't believe I'd never heard of it before. The Wraith is awesome, and it seems not a lot of people are familiar with it. Movie is worth watching for Clint Howard's character alone.
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Franchescanado posted:I felt the same way. Weren't the prostitutes at the end near an airport?
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Enos Cabell posted:The Wraith is awesome, and it seems not a lot of people are familiar with it. Movie is worth watching for Clint Howard's character alone. The Wraith is amazing and everyone should watch it. You will be enraptured.
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