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Shrecknet posted:Ginger Snaps owns because I think its the only werewolf movie to finally explicitly tie lycanthropy to both puberty and menstruation. See, that's exactly why I don't like it. It treats female sexuality as a terrifying curse that the innocent younger sister has to kill her older sister to exorcise. It's the exact same thing Bram Stoker does with Lucy and Mina in Dracula, except now people think it's feminist for some reason.
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T Bowl posted:The guy who loves Zombie's Halloween movies should listen to In Myers We Trust episodes 11 and 12... Heh. Yeah, they are very harsh on them, while still very complimentary towards my favorite parts (Sheriff Bracket, Danielle Harris as Annie)
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:See, that's exactly why I don't like it. It treats female sexuality as a terrifying curse that the innocent younger sister has to kill her older sister to exorcise. It's the exact same thing Bram Stoker does with Lucy and Mina in Dracula, except now people think it's feminist for some reason. 
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Jan 26, 2020 19:59
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Shrecknet posted:Ginger Snaps owns because I think its the only werewolf movie to finally explicitly tie lycanthropy to both puberty and menstruation. The Company of Wolves is a movie that makes analogies between puberty and werewolves but it doesn't say that becoming a wolf is bad like Ginger Snaps does.
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Jan 26, 2020 20:08
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"Horror fans" who don't care for the Zombie Halloween movies have no inner child, and are likely impotent.
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Jan 26, 2020 20:23
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Ginger Snaps was written by a woman, so I imagine the idea of menstruation being a horrible curse was a feature and not a bug.
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Jan 26, 2020 20:37
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So the new Brandon Cronenberg joint sounds like a hell of a time.
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Jan 26, 2020 20:38
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I got the Antiviral bluray and theres an interview with him on it and he is most disaffected boondock saints and pulp fiction dorm room movie poster film student ever. Everyone else on the featurette is working so hard to not say "he only got this movie becaise of his last name" and its pure cringe.
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Jan 26, 2020 21:23
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Color Out Of Space was great!
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Shrecknet posted:Ginger Snaps owns because I think its the only werewolf movie to finally explicitly tie lycanthropy to both puberty and menstruation. i FINALLY saw ginger snaps recently and liked it a lot (also was that the girl who played bev in 1990 it??) - are the sequels as good or worth watching? going to to be at the mall tomorrow so i figure ill see the turning even though im sure it's as boring as everyone says because it's all that's playing and there is a horse in the trailer. the second season of hill house is going off the same book isn't it?
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Jan 26, 2020 22:09
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Also watching Dust Devil last night then Color Out of Space today was pretty cool. Some neat similarities in the storytelling.
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Color out of Space was really good. It was definitely I feel only hampered by budget.
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Shrecknet posted:I got the Antiviral bluray and theres an interview with him on it and he is most disaffected boondock saints and pulp fiction dorm room movie poster film student ever. Weird cause it’s a good movie
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"Horror stories that have themes of how difficult and scary female puberty can be are dumb and gross and probably all written by dumb and gross men and never women exploring their own complex feelings and experiences in unique ways, also women who relate to these kinds of stories are idiots." -As said by a woman written by a man At least Garth Ennis knows what he's talking about when he says writers suck
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Alhazred posted:The Company of Wolves is a movie that makes analogies between puberty and werewolves but it doesn't say that becoming a wolf is bad like Ginger Snaps does. Much like the classic gangster movie, in which all the bad guys are either shot or hanged (or blown up) by the end, because they have to be, because they are very naughty boys, the reason we go to werewolf movies is because we actually want to see the very naughty wolves doing very naughty things. The pun title is a dead giveaway. Ginger isn't being "turned." She just "snaps." The film is not about puberty. It's part of the superficial content, and a thematic device of the narrative, but the narrative itself is not analogizing puberty to turning into a werewolf. It's analogizing mental illness to the myths and legends of the werewolf, which makes sense because that's a pretty popular historical theory about the non-exclusive origins of werewolf like myths. The point is not, "female puberty turns innocent little girls into brides of satan"... anymore than, like, "Goth / industrial is a red flag for a school shooter." I'd argue that the case is clearly the opposite, that the film's very aesthetic is romanticizing the perceived trauma coming from these devices, that it's wallowing in a Faberge of 'wild youth' behavior; not representing any of these individual things, in the abstract, as inherently significant or connotative of some terrible essence. I see Aaron Sorkin is in comics, now.
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Yeah, I'm not sure I see Ginger Snaps as telling me that puberty/lycanthropy turned Ginger into a monster. When we meet Ginger at the start of the film she's already dark, withdrawn, obsessed with violence and death, and plotting a suicide pact with her sister. Ginger wasn't an average, stable teenage girl. Yeah, the puberty thing is obviously all written into the film's dna but it kinda feels like a red herring to me.
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Hollismason posted:Color out of Space was really good. It was definitely I feel only hampered by budget. Yeah the cg is a bit bumpy but overall I think it’s a fun time. Definitely a good adaptation. The festival I saw it at was running a NC17 cut of Hardware right before it, I’m bummed I missed out on that. edit: The trump voice was a little weird but shine on you crazy diamond edit2: Amateur Farmer/Bourbon Connoisseur Drunkboxer fucked around with this message at 07:43 on Jan 27, 2020 |
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enjoyed Underwater quite a lot. could have used a bit of pacing, but I appreciated how much of a rollercoaster it was - just wish the characters got a little bit more time to breathe!
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That weird all CG episode of Love, Death and Robots with the werewolf soldiers was pretty cool until the end. Werewolves are a hard sell. I can't think of a werewolf movie other than An American Werewolf in Paris that is actually good. I have not seen Ginger Snaps. Is it on any streaming service? Fake edit: Teen Wolf slaps and is a werewolf movie. Also that urban legend that an extra has his dick out at the end of the movie in the background.
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Untrustable posted:That weird all CG episode of Love, Death and Robots with the werewolf soldiers was pretty cool until the end. Werewolves are a hard sell. I can't think of a werewolf movie other than An American Werewolf in Paris that is actually good. I have not seen Ginger Snaps. Is it on any streaming service?
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david_a posted:extremely triggered I just assumed it was a typo. Really though, as much as I hate John Landis, An American Werewolf in London is truly the GOAT.
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Jan 27, 2020 16:13
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I liked COOS a lot but it seems pretty reckless for someone to publish a paperback edition of the Necronomicon.
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You're not allowed to make a Lovecraft adaptation without a copy of an eldritch tome lying around and someone wearing a Miskatonic U sweatshirt. Chaosium will send wizards to kill you. There are actually several paperbacks purporting to be the Necronomicon, but they all suck.
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“Well Mom’s sick, better grab this book that makes my soul itch and pulls at the very threads of my sanity, walk out into the woods and fire a few spooky spells off.”
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I've only seen the first episode so far, but the new season of Sabrina on Netflix is teasing the return of "The Old Ones", so I'm hoping they're gonna do a Lovecraft storyline.
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Basebf555 posted:I've only seen the first episode so far, but the new season of Sabrina on Netflix is teasing the return of "The Old Ones", so I'm hoping they're gonna do a Lovecraft storyline. Can't wait for Cthulhu to be played by a 29 year old skinny white guy with his shirt off.
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Lurdiak posted:Can't wait for Cthulhu to be played by a 29 year old skinny white guy with his shirt off. Hell yea
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Lurdiak posted:Can't wait for Cthulhu to be played by a 29 year old skinny white guy with his shirt off. this but unironically
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Lurdiak posted:Can't wait for Cthulhu to be played by a 29 year old skinny white guy with his shirt off. That's how I've always pictured Cthulhu. Not white tho
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Cthulhu? More like SWOLElhu
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Lurdiak posted:Can't wait for Cthulhu to be played by a 29 year old skinny white guy with his shirt off. I’d have no problem with this
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lol if you think mancthulhu is gonna be skinny, he's swole af smdh
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Lurdiak posted:Can't wait for Cthulhu to be played by a 29 year old skinny white guy with his shirt off. This but it's a different shirtless built dude every scene so as to emphasize Cthulhu's otherworldly nature.
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i will play cthulu
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This discussion got me imagining The Rock as Cthulhu and at the risk of sounding trite, YUMMERS e: imagine Cthulhu singing "You're Welcome"
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Everyone saying Cage was doing a Trump voice in COOS clearly have forgotten Vampires Kiss. He brought back the voice from that amazing movie.
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Drunkboxer posted:I liked COOS a lot but it seems pretty reckless for someone to publish a paperback edition of the Necronomicon. https://www.amazon.com/Necronomicon-Simon/dp/0380751925
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 I am the concept of buff shirtless dudes and I'm going to annihilate you.A stunned humanity: Okay
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Yeah I was googling around and was this the actual book they used as a prop? Seems weird to use that in a mythos movie.
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