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Mandy was the rare horror-comedy with zero levity, the comparison to Hobo With A Shotgun is very well earned.
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Wheat Loaf posted:That would make sense. just off the top of my head you've got Peppermint, The Accountant, 24 Hours to Live, Red Sparrow, Proud Mary, The Villainess, and American Assassin (one of which tbf is Korean but still)
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Sep 16, 2018 23:29
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:just off the top of my head you've got Peppermint, The Accountant, 24 Hours to Live, Red Sparrow, Proud Mary, The Villainess, and American Assassin Surely a bit more like Raidsploitation? 
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Sep 16, 2018 23:31
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Mandy was the rare horror-comedy with zero levity, the comparison to Hobo With A Shotgun is very well earned. If Cheddar Goblin isn't levity, then I don't know what is!
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Sep 16, 2018 23:42
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therattle posted:I think it’s “turbulent priest*”? Well, uh, clearly I was quoting the venerable James Comey, rather than that limey Henry II.
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Wheat Loaf posted:Surely a bit more like Raidsploitation? I feel like Raidsploitation is a bit of a separate category, possibly a supercategory that Wixploitation occupies depending on how ypu look at it. Like, if I had to name one central hallmark of Wixploitation, it's that the premise centers around a renowned badass of some stripe (typically a criminal, sometimes a spy or cop) either avenging a wrongdoing against them or, alternately, getting pushed into a desperate situation by external forces. Often, the setting will also be in some way hyperreal or bizarre or comic-book-y, though this isn't quite as strict a requirement. Purgesploitation is more obvious: if it's a movie where the central premise is "something happens that makes everybody in an area fuckin' lose it and start rampaging," it's Purgesploitation. Meet the Blacks, Mayhem and Assassination Nation would all be examples.
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Sep 17, 2018 00:19
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Upgrade and Hotel Artemis are also two super recent examples of Wixploitation that I could name (though Upgrade fucks with the formula by essentially splitting the badass and the revenge-seeker into two characters that share a body).
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Budgie Jumping posted:If Cheddar Goblin isn't levity, then I don't know what is! Alright I'll give you this one.
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:Upgrade and Hotel Artemis are also two super recent examples of Wixploitation that I could name (though Upgrade fucks with the formula by essentially splitting the badass and the revenge-seeker into two characters that share a body). I'd say Upgrade is more in the tradition of RoboCop than John Wick
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Sep 17, 2018 00:26
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:I feel like Raidsploitation is a bit of a separate category, possibly a supercategory that Wixploitation occupies depending on how ypu look at it. did you make up all of these
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Sep 17, 2018 00:44
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Alright I'll give you this one. That and "Jesus freaks, man". I get what you're saying though. These funny moments almost feel wrong to laugh in the aftermath of the mid-movie tragedy.
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Sep 17, 2018 00:48
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CelticPredator posted:did you make up all of these Yep. Mostly for my own benefit because having a word for it feels nicer than saying "John Wick clones" and "Purge clones," and also because acknowledging that these are basically the modern successor to exploitation movies is cool and good. WeedlordGoku69 fucked around with this message at 00:51 on Sep 17, 2018 |
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Sep 17, 2018 00:49
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It's dreddsploitation, please.
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Sep 17, 2018 01:12
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ploitationsploitation is my favourite genre of talkie
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:Yep. Mostly for my own benefit because having a word for it feels nicer than saying "John Wick clones" and "Purge clones," and also because acknowledging that these are basically the modern successor to exploitation movies is cool and good. A popular movie being imitated or copied to death in the wake of its success is as old as Hollywood. edit: It's that time of year again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0GqqvyzrMw CPL593H fucked around with this message at 01:29 on Sep 17, 2018 |
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Sep 17, 2018 01:17
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Budgie Jumping posted:That and "Jesus freaks, man". I get what you're saying though. These funny moments almost feel wrong to laugh in the aftermath of the mid-movie tragedy. Yeah, the jokes weren't nasty, just jarring.
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Sep 17, 2018 01:44
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I wouldn't count Red Sparrow as Wixploitation unless we consider literally all espionage films Wixploitation. I mean, there's no aesthetic or thematic overlap to speak of there, much more of it is simply a (boring) slow burn historical thriller.
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Sep 17, 2018 02:07
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And wouldn't they really be denzelsploitation? Denzel really led the charge on modern day man rampage with John q, out of time and man on fire all coming out right after the other.
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Sep 17, 2018 02:15
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I love cinemasploitation.
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Sep 17, 2018 02:17
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Atomic Blonde already isn’t Wixploitation by virtue of being an espionage thriller much more than it is an action movie, Red Sparrow especially isn’t.
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Sep 17, 2018 02:31
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Those are millasploitation flicks.
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K. Waste posted:I wouldn't count Red Sparrow as Wixploitation unless we consider literally all espionage films Wixploitation. I mean, there's no aesthetic or thematic overlap to speak of there, much more of it is simply a (boring) slow burn historical thriller. Pirate Jet posted:Atomic Blonde already isn’t Wixploitation by virtue of being an espionage thriller much more than it is an action movie, Red Sparrow especially isn’t. I haven't seen Red Sparrow, so fair enough, I think I kinda misidentified what it is (and it sounds like the actual movie is way less interesting). I don't think that really goes against my point, though. And with regards to CPL's point: yeah, that's one of the things an exploitation film can be. The worst thing Tarantino ever did to cinema was cause the definition of "exploitation film" to narrow to only really hosed up movies; Mac and Me or Grizzly are as much exploitation movies as The Gore Gore Girls and Blood Sucking Freaks are, because they're exploiting the success of a bigger and better movie.
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I wouldn't put The Villainess anywhere near John Wick, because that movie is willing to go places no John Wick movie would ever be willing to go. Like the only real similarities I can see between them is "protagonist loses something impossibly close to them, seeks revenge", but even then, that is a thing that happens at opposite ends of the movies - Wick's happens as the inciting incident for the plot to start rolling, Villainess's is the last straw before she hunts down her husband and the father of her child, and it's basically the "protagonist hits rock bottom" moment. The Villainess has a lot more DNA from the Vengeance Trilogy, really. Fits in more with the sorts of movies that explore what happens to a person when they abandon their humanity to attain retribution.
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:I haven't seen Red Sparrow, so fair enough, I think I kinda misidentified what it is (and it sounds like the actual movie is way less interesting). I don't think that really goes against my point, though. Mac and Me is McDonaldsploitation.
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Funny how you often hear the nouns "blaxploitation", "sexploitation", "ozploitation", etc., but never the verbs: "I blaxploit", "he sexploits", "they ozploited". You'd think those would have found their way into some modern vernacular by now.
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CPL593H posted:Mac and Me is McDonaldsploitation. Macsploitation is a dope subgenre. It has The Founder and Supersize Me.
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Budgie Jumping posted:Macsploitation is a dope subgenre. It has The Founder and Supersize Me. What about Coming to America?
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CPL593H posted:Mac and Me is McDonaldsploitation. ... i mean, yeah, but i was thinking more that it barely even tries to hide how much of an ET ripoff it is if ET is Dawn of the Dead, Mac and Me is Hell of the Living Dead, pretty much
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Can't wait for the next wave of X-Mensploitation.
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Sep 17, 2018 03:38
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Budgie Jumping posted:Funny how you often hear the nouns "blaxploitation", "sexploitation", "ozploitation", etc., but never the verbs: "I blaxploit", "he sexploits", "they ozploited". You'd think those would have found their way into some modern vernacular by now. Blaxploitation et al are adjectives.
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Skwirl posted:Blaxploitation et al are adjectives. they're attributive nouns 
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:Mac and Me or Grizzly are as much exploitation movies as The Gore Gore Girls and Blood Sucking Freaks are, because they're exploiting the success of a bigger and better movie. Ah, yes, the "mockbuster," perhaps my fav exploitation category.
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Skwirl posted:Blaxploitation et al are adjectives. Don't you sploitsplain to me.
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I liked Mandy a lot and made this stupid thing today:
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That’s not stupid at all, even though I don’t get it right now
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Sep 17, 2018 05:36
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If we’re talking about things we’re making because of Mandy, I’m gonna try to make The Beast (out of foam, but I might make a wood one if the first goes well). I have the outline done, now I gotta figure out the size, I’m guessing it was probably about 4-5 feet long?
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CelticPredator posted:That’s not stupid at all, even though I don’t get it right now So it's got 4 panels...
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Sep 17, 2018 06:06
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As if Bezos wasn't bad enough, now Marc Benioff, the founder of Salesforce, is buying Time Magazine.
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Timby posted:As if Bezos wasn't bad enough, now Marc Benioff, the founder of Salesforce, is buying Time Magazine. People still read Time Magazine? The only time I ever hear about that magazine or any of their journalism is like one day a year when they announce person of the year
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Krazyface posted:So it's got 4 panels... I’m at a loss
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