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Franchescanado posted:I paid full-price for Beastmaster, and it's worth every penny. Amazing packaging, the restoration is insane, the colors with Dolby Vision or HDR just pop, and the supplements rule. I was so-so on the film but enthusiastic about having the new restoration, but after seeing it, I loving love it. Vinegar Syndrome impressed me. Yeah it's probably the nicest single release I've seen from any label, even Criterion e: in terms of the presentation, packaging, restoration, etc. I'm actually not too hot on the film personally, but I see why people love it
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gey muckle mowser posted:Yeah it's probably the nicest single release I've seen from any label, even Criterion I think the two that could beat it are maybe Arrow's Tremors UHD release, or their new Demons 1 & 2 UHD release, which I was looking at last night. Tremors has the most supplements I've ever had in a release, and Demons has a really interesting packaging, and the book they included is hardbound and looks pretty thick. Beastmaster has that magnetic flap and really awesome art direction, so it's still in the Top 5 I own, outside of, like, Criterion box sets.     The poster is reversible, and the disc book is a four-way gateway fold. The ticket is thick card stock and the same size as the movie. I love Demons 1 & 2, and it's a great presentation. I've never seen a disc box that splits open. Franchescanado fucked around with this message at 17:50 on Mar 5, 2021 |
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Mar 5, 2021 17:41
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Gonna need you to go ahead and watch that Tremors UHD so I can figure out if I need it or not.
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Basebf555 posted:Gonna need you to go ahead and watch that Tremors UHD so I can figure out if I need it or not. You know what? Today is a perfect day to give it a go.
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Basebf555 posted:Gonna need you to go ahead and watch that Tremors UHD so I can figure out if I need it or not. Lol like we won't just buy it on sale next chance we get
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The Tremors UHD is well worth the asking price. Fantastic PQ, tons and tons of extras (including new docs) and the overall package is exceptionally well done.
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MacheteZombie posted:Lol like we won't just buy it on sale next chance we get That's really the main factor yea. If it were $25 like most other UHDs I'd already have it.
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Neo Rasa posted:Just want to mention here that Son of the White Mare is insanely loving good and everyone here should watch it, and it does kind of have that vibe too even if it's not gory per se so thanks for reminding me of it. Son of the White Mare whips rear end. Absolutely gorgeous animation.
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Kvlt! posted:yah it is i like it a lot Everyone in the new Wrong Turn is the villain and that makes the whole thing a slog to get through. Darko fucked around with this message at 19:17 on Mar 5, 2021 |
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Mar 5, 2021 18:50
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:Fun garbage or genuinely unpleasant and boring to sit through garbage? I wouldn't call it boring to sit through, but I wouldn't call it fun or worth watching either.
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The trailer for the new Wrong Turn did kinda make me want to watch it though. The scene where a gigantic log is rolling towards them looked pretty cool. Anyway it can't be very long before it shows up on a streaming service so I can watch it for free.
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lol thank you Debbie, for the birthday present that is my name change <3
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No. 1 Juicy Boi posted:lol thank you Debbie, for the birthday present that is my name change <3 You're extremely welcome  All the thanks should really go to the admin team though, all I really did was give them puppy eyes and whimpered "please".
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Debbie Does Dagon posted:all I really did was give them puppy eyes and whimpered "please". Oh dear lord, what did you do with the rest of the dog?
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Basebf555 posted:The trailer for the new Wrong Turn did kinda make me want to watch it though. The scene where a gigantic log is rolling towards them looked pretty cool. If you have seen the log rolling scene, you have seen about 50% of the hunted by hillbillies action that's in the movie. The film isn't really what it appears to be. I honestly appreciate that they tried to subvert the genre, but it fails on every conceivable level. Practically everything that happens and every line of dialog in the movie just doesn't work, or crumbles under the tiniest bit of scrutiny, and the film takes itself way too seriously. Watch The Ritual instead. It's similar and 100 times better.
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EL BROMANCE posted:Oh dear lord, what did you do with the rest of the dog? I call the top half because that's the side with the face.
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veni veni veni posted:Watch The Ritual instead. It's similar and 100 times better. I imagine between that and Midsommar there's a bunch of Swedes wondering what the hell we think goes on in their country
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Mar 5, 2021 19:59
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Dead Meat put out their Wrong Turn 2021 vid so I’ll watch that instead lol
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Phy posted:I imagine between that and Midsommar there's a bunch of Swedes wondering what the hell we think goes on in their country i recently finished reading Chainsaw Man, which is an incredibly trashy and occasionally borderline-porny comic, but one thing I really enjoyed was there's a point where the President of the United States calls upon the incarnate spirit of Gun Violence to destroy his rivals in exchange for one year off the life of every American citizen and as an American i'm like "yeah, that's basically how it works"
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Phy posted:The Ritual is one of those movies I wish I could watch it for the first time again  I watched it again a couple weeks ago, and when you know what's happening it's not quite the same.
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Yea I've never revisited The Ritual even though I loved it, and maybe that's why. It's such a masterful build-up to the reveal of the monster, and then seeing it for the first time is amazing but none of that can ever be quite the same on rewatch so I guess I haven't had the desire.
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For schlocky fantasy movies, there’s also Deathstalker: https://youtu.be/P8FTMs4hzZk It’s like a dumb and sleazy live-action masters of the universe. Just silly standard Conan/Gor type stuff with manly men and evil wizards. Tac Dibar fucked around with this message at 20:21 on Mar 5, 2021 |
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Debbie Does Dagon posted:
  Sunday Chill Stream All times are in EST, and may not reflect reality. 0900 Neverwhere 1040 Neverwhere 1220 The Alchemist Cookbook 1350 Extra Ordinary 1535 The Piano Teacher 1755 Baby Blood 1930 Stranger by the Lake 2120 The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover 2330 Mystics in Bali Neverwhere Rated R/15 The Alchemist Cookbook TV-MA Extra Ordinary strong sex references, gory images, violence, language The Pianist Rated R for aberrant sexuality including violence, and for language Baby Blood Rated R for bizarre violence and gore, sexuality and language Stranger By The Lake Contains strong real sex The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover NC-17 Mystics in Bali Rated R
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Neo Rasa posted:
I wouldn't call Hawk: The Slayer bad, but more very much a product of its time. If I'm remembering rightly, it was supposed to be a standard dark ages adventure film but once the mindstone got added into the script, they put magic in. It was also supposed to be the start of a franchise, but that didn't pan out for whatever reason. I'd be quicker to recommend Robin of Sherwood from '84 with Michael Praed for the middle ages + magic genre. The Swords of Wayland and Cromm Cruac episodes are especially good.
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this is kind of a derail, but I trust horror thread posters about it over book barn posters: does anyone have any recommendations for dark swords-n-sorcery fantasy novels, sort of in the Robert E. Howard/Conan the Barbarian vein? I just read the first Black Company book by Glen Cook and it was pretty good but didn't blow me away.
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The go-to is Michael Moorcock. When people talk about "dark fantasy" or "sword and sorcery" as opposed to high fantasy, he's probably the single most iconic example. Read the Elric series, and if you like that you could delve into other works in his "Eternal Champion" mythos like Corum and Hawkmoon. Moorcock also did a Barsoom pastiche called "Kane of Old Mars." I also can't recommend Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun series enough. It's the finest fantasy novel series I've ever read and is truly great literature. It rewards multiple readings, if you feel like it, and its subtle mysteries are still discussed by fans. I'm also a big proponent of Jack Vance, who invented the "Dying Earth" subgenre with with his eponymous short story collection. I recommend the Dying Earth series as well as The Dragon Masters and The Last Castle, both Hugo winners. If you like Conan then you will certainly like Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd & The Grey Mouser stories. Clark Ashton Smith wrote a lot of dark fantasy (with none-too-serious ties to the Lovecraft mythos). His writing style is very different from Howard's. Something to bear in mind about all my recommendations is that they were written in the days before interminable bloated series like The Wheel of Time. Like, the entire Elric saga is shorter than the shortest A Song of Ice and Fire novel. None of these are huge time commitments. Halloween Jack fucked around with this message at 22:03 on Mar 5, 2021 |
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Black Company is as good as it gets, to the best of my knowledge. I've heard good things about Moorcock's stuff but never got around to it myself. Pretty much everything from the past couple decades is either too DBZ or more modern in setting. Like, I'd absolutely go to bat for The Library at Mount Char for vaguely horror-tinged fantasy, but it's very much not in that kind of classic pulpy vein despite technically featuring a lot of the same elements. e: I like Gene Wolfe and suspect Uncle Boogeyman would enjoy his stuff, but also wouldn't file it with dark swords-n-sorcery.
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Thank you for the recommendations! I’ve read a bit of Michael Moorcock - Behold the Man (not swords n sorcery, but very good) and the first two Von Bek novels but I’ve never really dipped into the Eternal Champion stuff. I also love Hawkwind so he’s an easy sell for me.
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Halloween Jack posted:If you like Conan then you will certainly like Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd & The Grey Mouser stories. I love Moorcock and Zelazny as well, but Fritz Leiber's work is really a cut above.
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Karl Glogauer and Ulrich von Bek are also Eternal Champions. It's champions, champions all the way down
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Halloween Jack posted:I also can't recommend Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun series enough. It's the finest fantasy novel series I've ever read and is truly great literature. It rewards multiple readings, if you feel like it, and its subtle mysteries are still discussed by fans. I think I'm gonna re-read these soon, it's been like a decade. So so good.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:this is kind of a derail, but I trust horror thread posters about it over book barn posters: does anyone have any recommendations for dark swords-n-sorcery fantasy novels, sort of in the Robert E. Howard/Conan the Barbarian vein? I just read the first Black Company book by Glen Cook and it was pretty good but didn't blow me away. This genre is not really my forte so I don't know how well known this is, but Michael Shea's Nifft the Lean stories knocked my socks quite off. Good horror imagery to boot.
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Gene Wolf, The Shadow of the Torturer posted:The picture he was cleaning showed an armored figure standing in a desolate landscape. It had no weapon, but held a staff bearing a strange, stiff banner. The visor of this figure's helmet was entirely of gold, without eye slits or ventilation; in its polished surface the deathly desert could be seen in reflection, and nothing more. This warrior of a dead world affected me deeply, though I could not say why or even just what emotion it was I felt. 
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Ok, #1, poo poo I did not pick up on that at all when I read the first book back in uni. Always meant to retry reading those. But #2... what's with that second moon
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Phy posted:Ok, #1, poo poo I did not pick up on that at all when I read the first book back in uni. Always meant to retry reading those. But #2... what's with that second moon
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Phy posted:Ok, #1, poo poo I did not pick up on that at all when I read the first book back in uni. Always meant to retry reading those. But #2... what's with that second moon kubrick hosed up
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The problem with books is that there are no sounds or moving pictures and that I have to read them instead of watching them.
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