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It's been a minute since a really good ff flick dropped
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# ? Apr 30, 2022 21:38 |
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Yeah. V/H/S/94 was all right.
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# ? Apr 30, 2022 21:43 |
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# ? Apr 30, 2022 21:43 |
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The only zombie movies I liked from the past...decade or so was Train to Busan and the Sadness. There were a few good ones here and there, like The Battery, the Crazies 2010, and Snyder's Dawn. I agree though the genre needs a break. Of all those the Sadness is the only one that felt new and refreshing rather than just "Yeah a p good zombie movie but nothing new"
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# ? Apr 30, 2022 21:44 |
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Yeah and even with the Sadness you really have to stretch the definition of zombie. Like, I blame 28 Days Later for really stretching what "zombie" means in popular culture.
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# ? Apr 30, 2022 21:45 |
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Man, Snyder's version of dawn is almost old enough to vote.
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# ? Apr 30, 2022 21:51 |
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They should make a zombie movie where the zombies don't do anything. They get up, maybe shamble around, but they don't attack anyone because why would they. It should be a drama about how hosed up it would be if you saw your dead gramma shuffling down the street every day.
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# ? Apr 30, 2022 21:52 |
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Baron von Eevl posted:Man, Snyder's version of dawn is almost old enough to vote. gently caress it's almost 20 years old, and I remember seeing it in theaters It still whips rear end
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# ? Apr 30, 2022 21:53 |
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Roadside Picnic has zombies but they just go home and shamble about there, and then sometimes they scream into the night. They pretty much exist to emotionally torture the living.
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# ? Apr 30, 2022 21:55 |
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Grendels Dad posted:They should make a zombie movie where the zombies don't do anything. They get up, maybe shamble around, but they don't attack anyone because why would they. It should be a drama about how hosed up it would be if you saw your dead gramma shuffling down the street every day. I live near methadone mile, this is just walkin outside for me lol
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# ? Apr 30, 2022 21:55 |
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Yeah I think there's a niche for a zombie horror that's just pure mental and existential horror, no action, no "brrraaaiiins", just pure existential terror
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# ? Apr 30, 2022 22:01 |
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That's basically It Comes At Night.
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# ? Apr 30, 2022 22:02 |
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Kvlt! posted:That's basically It Comes At Night. Immediately added to my watch list thanks bud
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# ? Apr 30, 2022 22:03 |
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Also it's not good but Escape From Tomorrow is a little like that
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# ? Apr 30, 2022 22:04 |
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Count Thrashula posted:Immediately added to my watch list thanks bud It's a slow burn but excellent. One of my fav movies A24 has released. Lmk what you think!
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# ? Apr 30, 2022 22:10 |
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Count Thrashula posted:gently caress it's almost 20 years old, and I remember seeing it in theaters I don't know about that, but it's definitely far better than I expected it to be and better than it really had any right to be.
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# ? Apr 30, 2022 22:11 |
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Romero's Dawn is a GREAT movie. Snyder's Dawn is a FUN movie.
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# ? Apr 30, 2022 22:12 |
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Count Thrashula posted:Yeah I think there's a niche for a zombie horror that's just pure mental and existential horror, no action, no "brrraaaiiins", just pure existential terror I'm stretching a bit, but it seems interesting to say: the Birds. The end hammers in the existential part.
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# ? Apr 30, 2022 22:17 |
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It Comes at Night didn't entirely work for me but it's an impressive film, it's remarkably claustrophobic and does a lot of fun stuff with aspect ratios
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# ? Apr 30, 2022 22:22 |
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Grendels Dad posted:They should make a zombie movie where the zombies don't do anything. They get up, maybe shamble around, but they don't attack anyone because why would they. It should be a drama about how hosed up it would be if you saw your dead gramma shuffling down the street every day. Not a movie, but there's a book called Handling the Undead by John Ajvide Lindqvist that's mostly just about people dealing with their dead relatives coming back. It follows three sets of people, each having lost their loved one a different amount of time ago. It's really good, even if it falls apart a bit at the end.
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# ? Apr 30, 2022 22:24 |
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I cannot for the life of me remember the title but I read a kinda comedy book once and there was a subplot about zombies coming to life but then being just stuck in their coffins 6 feet underground.
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# ? Apr 30, 2022 22:28 |
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Girl With All The Gifts hosed me up hard, but I think that has a lot to do with institutional cruelty towards children being super triggering for me. It's a fantastic take on a lot of standard zombie movie stuff.
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# ? Apr 30, 2022 22:32 |
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Lumbermouth posted:Girl With All The Gifts hosed me up hard, but I think that has a lot to do with institutional cruelty towards children being super triggering for me. It's a fantastic take on a lot of standard zombie movie stuff. That is actually the only movie I ever had to turn off bc it got to me. Literally. As a survivor of the troubled teen industry that one was just tough. Fantastically made but drat it hit hard.
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# ? Apr 30, 2022 22:34 |
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Kvlt! posted:That is actually the only movie I ever had to turn off bc it got to me. Literally. As a survivor of the troubled teen industry that one was just tough. Fantastically made but drat it hit hard. It's the one horror movie that my fiancee really wanted me to watch during the challenge and in the middle of it I was like "this is very good but I am never watching it again." It does a fantastic job of addressing the central problem with of a lot of zombie media, where anyone who has an emotional reaction to the situation is weak and you can do whatever you want to a zombified person. The fact that all of these children are still human when not under stressful conditions means that every bullet fired into them isn't just a tally, it's a human being. Lumbermouth fucked around with this message at 22:41 on Apr 30, 2022 |
# ? Apr 30, 2022 22:37 |
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Jedit posted:I don't know about that, but it's definitely far better than I expected it to be and better than it really had any right to be. Like it or not, the opening of Dawn 2004 is still one of my all time favorite openings of a horror movie. Goddam the use of Johnny Cash was perfect.
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# ? Apr 30, 2022 22:38 |
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I haven’t liked Snyder’s Dawn on rewatches but it’s an interesting kind of thing I think. Because James Gunn’s style is so known now and Snyder’s style is so know you can watch that film and really see how a Gunn script changes entirely in tone when done by Snyder.
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# ? Apr 30, 2022 22:39 |
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Baron von Eevl posted:Also it's not good but Escape From Tomorrow is a little like that I’m kinda mad this is the Disney movie that got through. I could totally do some cool stuff in Disney tbh. Much cooler than “Disney has secret nasty princess sex workers!!! And a secret base!!! Oh man I wanna gently caress them teens! Now I’m making GBS threads so much!!” Lol.
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# ? Apr 30, 2022 22:41 |
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Kvlt! posted:Romero's Dawn is a GREAT movie. As always, I agree with kvlt
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# ? Apr 30, 2022 22:45 |
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Count Thrashula posted:As always, I agree with kvlt and as always my friend, you are a Kvlt! certified non-poser!
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# ? Apr 30, 2022 22:48 |
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As a huge A Nero Wolfe Mystery fan, I'll always have a soft spot for Snyder's Dawn casting Boyd Banks and RD Reid.
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# ? Apr 30, 2022 22:49 |
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CelticPredator posted:Disney has secret nasty princess sex workers!!! And a secret base!!! Oh man I wanna gently caress them teens! Now I’m making GBS threads so much!! Updating my Plex description of the movie to just this.
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# ? Apr 30, 2022 22:50 |
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Baron von Eevl posted:Roadside Picnic has zombies but they just go home and shamble about there, and then sometimes they scream into the night. They pretty much exist to emotionally torture the living. Oh dang, I totally missed that Rosewater totally cribbed its style of zombie from Roadside Picnic.
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# ? Apr 30, 2022 22:53 |
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PKMN Trainer Red posted:Updating my Plex description of the movie to just this. Lmao
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# ? Apr 30, 2022 22:57 |
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lol diary of the dead and survival of the dead exist
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# ? Apr 30, 2022 22:57 |
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Count Thrashula posted:Immediately added to my watch list thanks bud +1 It Comes At Night that I also saw recommended earlier in the thread. I didn't think about it at the time but 'a zombie movie without the zombies' is basically the perfect elevator pitch for it. e: Lumbermouth posted:Girl With All The Gifts hosed me up hard, but I think that has a lot to do with institutional cruelty towards children being super triggering for me. It's a fantastic take on a lot of standard zombie movie stuff. The wiki plot summary makes it sound like The Last of Us, right down to the fungal infection and having to get a young macguffin girl from point A to B. Is this just The Last of Us: The Movie? Takes No Damage fucked around with this message at 23:02 on Apr 30, 2022 |
# ? Apr 30, 2022 22:58 |
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CelticPredator posted:I’m kinda mad this is the Disney movie that got through. I could totally do some cool stuff in Disney tbh. Much cooler than “Disney has secret nasty princess sex workers!!! And a secret base!!! Oh man I wanna gently caress them teens! Now I’m making GBS threads so much!!” Disney has such a weird history to mine, and they go for such a superficial understanding of it.
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# ? Apr 30, 2022 23:02 |
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What the
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# ? Apr 30, 2022 23:09 |
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MacheteZombie posted:It's been a minute since a really good ff flick dropped The last pleasant surprise for me was Host (the 2020 movie). Short, to the point, with some great scares.
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# ? Apr 30, 2022 23:11 |
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Takes No Damage posted:The wiki plot summary makes it sound like The Last of Us, right down to the fungal infection and having to get a young macguffin girl from point A to B. Is this just The Last of Us: The Movie? No. The novel was published after The Last of Us came out, but it's expanded from a short story written before. It was just steam time for the idea.
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# ? Apr 30, 2022 23:23 |
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Watching The Happiness of the Katakuris and this moment feels instantly iconic.
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# ? Apr 30, 2022 23:37 |