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Kvlt! posted:A big problem with the gore genre is streaming too. Big streaming services won't let gore movies onto them, and the few gore companies that have tried streaming (Unearthed, A Baroque House) have generally had little success. I think a big part of it is the audience for these movies are physical media collectors. I don't really wanna stream Traces of Death or Orozco, I want to own it. But that makes the genre harder to grow, because people are hesitant to spend $20-$30 on a DVD or blu ray of a movie they've never seen. Yeah there are so many movies that I hear about or find on Letterboxd and it's like... Not streaming, not even out there to pirate, the only possible way to see it is to buy off some shady third party storefront. I don't even own a physical media player lmao
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Count Thrashula posted:Yeah there are so many movies that I hear about or find on Letterboxd and it's like... Not streaming, not even out there to pirate, the only possible way to see it is to buy off some shady third party storefront. If you're having trouble with finding specific titles feel free to shoot me a PM and I'd be happy to help
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Count Thrashula posted:Yeah there are so many movies that I hear about or find on Letterboxd and it's like... Not streaming, not even out there to pirate, the only possible way to see it is to buy off some shady third party storefront. my xbox does a lot of heavy lifting as a dvd / bluray player these days, or you could grab a pretty cheap region-free one someplace
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Jul 8, 2022 02:44
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if youre into collecting DVDs/BluRays a region free player is 100% a wise investment. I waited for years and then finally got to watch all the movies I had accidentally bought that were the wrong region.
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Kvlt! posted:if youre into collecting DVDs/BluRays a region free player is 100% a wise investment. I waited for years and then finally got to watch all the movies I had accidentally bought that were the wrong region. Or just if you like foreign stuff. Back when I owned a DVD player, it was always region free just because otherwise I’d have to collate and organize my media by region and fuuuuck that.
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Jul 8, 2022 02:55
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i always felt bad for VHS collectors because DVDs and Blu Rays dont degrade with time (afaik, correct me if I'm wrong), so if they had held out for one more generation of tech their collections could last forever
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Kvlt! posted:DVDs and Blu Rays dont degrade with time (afaik, correct me if I'm wrong) Manufacturers are sorta cagey about this issue, but most commercial DVDs are expected to last 30 - 40 years if treated well and not exposed to conditions that would damage them. The exception is the very first generation of DVDs that were released, which have notorious quality issues. I had a DVD box set of the Peter Gunn TV show that came out early in the DVD life cycle, and the discs have degraded/become unplayable even though they're stored alongside thousands of other discs that are completely fine. As a paranoid person, I started to digitize my collection when COVID hit, and now everything's streaming on the Plex and is way easier to access. Nothing's dying off now!
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Jul 8, 2022 03:14
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Even if you don't have a TV to have a regular player on, there's portable players (affordable ones!) you can hook up to your computer that work wonders. Definitely will always recommend giving physical media a sincere chance and try, especially with companies gambling on letting history fade away rather than thinking there's still a potential audience for it. Digitize that poo poo too if you have the time Watch/preserve what you can while you can
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I love buying and owning cool editions of movies I love. I don’t mind double dipping bc I can just give them to friends. I gave my old buddy my OG behind the mask BR because he loved it so much. I got the shout one, and it rules
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Took my 10 year old to Thor and they played the Smile trailer beforehand. Guess tonight I'll find out how deep it seeped into his subconscious lol
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Someone had fun putting that trailer before Thor
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Opopanax posted:Took my 10 year old to Thor and they played the Smile trailer beforehand. Guess tonight I'll find out how deep it seeped into his subconscious lol Well that's just cruel to put before a Marvel movie
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Saw Mattei's In the Land of the Cannibals. I can't remember the last Mattei movie I saw that wasn't half a remake of Aliens. It even rips off specific lines. One of the last things in the movie is a woman named Vasquez blowing herself up with grenades because she's surrounded.
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Shudder now has The Deadly Spawn so I finally watched that Can't remember the last time I genuinely cheered that hard for an ending reveal  hell yeah
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Jul 8, 2022 18:07
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Deadly Spawn's ending owns so much.
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the design of the aliens in deadly spawn owns
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Chris James 2 posted:Shudder now has The Deadly Spawn so I finally watched that Hell yeah I wonder if shudder is using the new 4k transfer, gotta be I suppose
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Jul 8, 2022 19:10
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Off Season was pretty good. The best Silent Hill adaptation ever produced.
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Jul 8, 2022 20:03
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got my May challenge prize and...it's good. it's one of these, and possibly the funniest thing to receive as someone who has been watching exactly 1 F13 movie per challenge and hasn't gotten to part 3
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VROOM VROOM posted:got my May challenge prize and...it's good. it's one of these, and possibly the funniest thing to receive as someone who has been watching exactly 1 F13 movie per challenge and hasn't gotten to part 3 sick
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VROOM VROOM posted:got my May challenge prize and...it's good. it's one of these, and possibly the funniest thing to receive as someone who has been watching exactly 1 F13 movie per challenge and hasn't gotten to part 3 well now i gotta know where to get one...
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VROOM VROOM posted:got my May challenge prize and...it's good. it's one of these, and possibly the funniest thing to receive as someone who has been watching exactly 1 F13 movie per challenge and hasn't gotten to part 3 That’s so cool
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Oh lord. I'm not saying that I just bought an awful movie specifically because it stars Tony Moran, but I'm not saying that I didn't either.
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dorium posted:Off Season was pretty good. The best Silent Hill adaptation ever produced. Better than Shutter Island?
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Finally got round to watching After Midnight and I loved it. Felt like a mashup of a creature feature with the very talky relationship drama of the Before Sunrise/Sunset/Midnight trilogy (which I love, and I honestly wondered if the title was a reference to those films!). I bought the special edition Blu ray that comes with The Battery, which I had already seen and thought was fantastic. Pretty sure I need to watch everything involving Jeremy Gardner, Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson (already seen Resolution and The Endless).
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I highly recommend it. They’re one of my favorite collective of filmmakers going right now. Gardner also did Ted Montana Will Survive! which isn’t horror but I thought was a lot of fun. And it was free on YouTube last I saw. Brea Grant is also a collaborator with them and I think Best Friends Forever was very much in the same spirit of films. What I call “relationship movies while a horror movie happens over there”. Her follow up 12 Hour Shift is a better film but a different vibe. She also just did Torn Hearts but I haven’t seen it. STAC Goat fucked around with this message at 22:47 on Jul 8, 2022 |
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VROOM VROOM posted:got my May challenge prize and...it's good. it's one of these, and possibly the funniest thing to receive as someone who has been watching exactly 1 F13 movie per challenge and hasn't gotten to part 3 Glad you like it! If you haven’t opened the box, I put a couple little things in the mug as well
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Opopanax posted:Better than Shutter Island? its more succinct than Shutter Island and gets the Silent Hill vibes across much more quickly and neatly. Shutter Island gets stuck in the narrative for too long, compelling as it is, Offseason gets in an out in under 90 minutes.
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Baron von Eevl posted:Yeah it refers to a specific process of looping it to record multiple takes, but it's used commonly to refer to any out of place or obvious dubbing, especially adding in lines from a character when their back is turned to the camera. I saw Blood Diner for the first time a few weeks ago and it has some of the most aggressively terrible ADR/overdubbing I've ever heard. I actually paused it a few minutes in and looked up if it was originally an English movie and I was somehow watching a crappy USA dub of a foreign film. But that's what it sounds like, some bullshit 0 budget dub of like old Godzilla or Hercules movies from the '60s. The movie itself is complete batshit, ridiculous over the top gore and more nudity than some pornos from that era. 3 words: Topless. Cheerleader. Aerobics. Highly recommend. e: Count Thrashula posted:Yeah there are so many movies that I hear about or find on Letterboxd and it's like... Not streaming, not even out there to pirate, the only possible way to see it is to buy off some shady third party storefront. Recommended to not mention sketchy sites at all, fair enough. Takes No Damage fucked around with this message at 00:28 on Jul 9, 2022 |
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Takes No Damage posted:Hey go to this piracy site Edit this before a mod bans you. Kvlt! fucked around with this message at 00:28 on Jul 9, 2022 |
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also just popping in to say Manhunter is the greatest film adaption of Hannibal Lecter I will not be elaborating on this objectively true fact
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Kvlt! posted:also just popping in to say Manhunter is the greatest film adaption of Hannibal Lecter I will not be elaborating on this objectively true fact
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Timeless Appeal posted:Mads disqualified from competition there? Yah bc im talking film not tv. Also im not talking about Hannibal the character specifically, but rather the movies as a whole. Also two more Manhunter thoughts: Ryan Gosling in BR2049/Drive def gives off some similarities to William Peterson in Manhunter its kinda funny it should be called MANNhunter Kvlt! fucked around with this message at 00:46 on Jul 9, 2022 |
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Manhunter is loving great, it's got a fantastic mood and I love everyone and everything in it. Noonan is an all-timer villain and Cox's Lecter (Lecktor???) is chilling and very different from the Hannibal you're used to. I appreciate why Hopkins' take is so iconic and has overshadowed the idea of the character, but it's a very different kind of approach. Hopkins is playing Lecter as the literal devil, it's an intense and otherworldly performance. Cox is playing him as a perfectly reasonable doctor who realized one day that eating people is a good idea and he happens to be quite good at it. The reasonableness to his performance is incredible. Silence is probably the better film, and it certainly has an understanding of the language of cinema in a way that Manhunter or frankly very few films overall have, but holy hell Manhunter is a movie.
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Manhunter is also stylish as hell, I fuckin love Michael Mann. The opening POV shot of a flashlight shining on a sleeping woman is so drat creepy
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My ex would never let us sleep with the screen door open because of Manhunter
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I also think Manhunter does a better job of showing how Leckter gets inside of Graham's head than Lecter does inside Clarice's. SoTL makes Lecter a little too villainous, the way he taunts Clarice is a little too overtly malicious. In Manhunter, Leckter certainly taunts and plays with Graham, but you get the sense that Graham is disturbed/haunted far more by the fact that a hosed up dude like Leckter exists than he is at Leckter's personal taunts. I guess a better way of what I'm trying to say is Manhunter makes Graham meet Leckter/the Tooth Fairy and become scared and haunted at the evils of the world, whereas SotL just makes Clarice scared of Lecter, which is fine but personally less interesting to me. I realize also im comparing two different stories.
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Eh, he resents Will because Will was instrumental in his capture. He admires Clarice, he enjoys loving with her because he needs control but I think he also very much respects her. If I remember correctly he never tries to kill her or get her killed, he just gets in her head because that's what he does. He legit wants to hurt Will though, and he tries to get his family killed.
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That's what makes Manhunter so great though. Cox is so restrained and hes maliciously hunting Will and his family, whereas Lecter is just loving with Clarice and acting much more malicious and sinister despite offering no real threat to her. I think Silence of the Lambs falls short personally bc film wise im definitely a style over substance and Manhunter is so loving stylish in a way only Michael Mann can do and I love it.
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