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ruddiger posted:The reveal on the raft at dawn scene in Midnight Mass bought the rest of the episodes a lot of good will. I do really like that, and there's a lot of awesome stuff later on too. The bit where the vamp just picks up that one dude and flies off with him is really good. But you mentioning that made me remember the very final scene of the show, and the way it builds to a genuinely horrible final line. Just a total clunker of a moment and a really poor way to finish the show. I get what they were going for, but jeez.
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I liked the monologues in Midnight Mass 
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I like the Flanagan shows but I also kinda hate them. They are well done and corny at the same time in a way that balances both of the emotions right at their edge.
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Midnight Mass is gonna be his apex no matter what.
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Captain Jesus posted:I like the Flanagan shows but I also kinda hate them. They are well done and corny at the same time in a way that balances both of the emotions right at their edge. Yeah this is how I feel. Like... I don't consider them "good horror" (but not really a huge horror/supernatural fan for the most part). But also I don't... not enjoy them. I don't know it's weird.
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They're more like "ghost stories" than straight up horror, which is something he explicitly leaned into for Midnight Club, and that's a part I personally really like. I do think he is capable of making a pretty great Dark Tower series, though I'm sure it won't please everyone.
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I think Midnight Club was effective at dealing with a pretty horrific subject. I saw a lot of comments complaining about how certain characters acted but there were always folks who’d actually been through hospice care that attested to the realism. The stories were pretty hit-and-miss. I tuned out hard through a few of them.
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BonoMan posted:Yeah this is how I feel. Like... I don't consider them "good horror" (but not really a huge horror/supernatural fan for the most part). But also I don't... not enjoy them. I don't know it's weird. I'm a guy who sort of like horror, but like A24 like horror like Men, Under the Skin, and especially It Follows. Always looking for more stuff like that. Found this list that's giving me a couple ideas: https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/a24-horror-movies-ranked-best-worst/
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Season 3 of Top Boy falls into the trap of a lot of crime dramas, where the street gang violence quickly escalates to the level of international news coverage/comment from the Prime Minister. I'm sure the number of gun deaths in the course of the week covered in the season eclipses the UK's monthly total in the real world.
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Shageletic posted:I'm a guy who sort of like horror, but like A24 like horror like Men, Under the Skin, and especially It Follows. Always looking for more stuff like that. Found this list that's giving me a couple ideas: https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/a24-horror-movies-ranked-best-worst/ you might like Significant Other, its on paramount
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I thought the monologues in Midnight Mass were fantastic. Proper "I know directors who use subtext and they're all cowards" vibe I'm really down for.
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OrthoTrot posted:I thought the monologues in Midnight Mass were fantastic. Proper "I know directors who use subtext and they're all cowards" vibe I'm really down for. Individually his monologues are usually good, they just get a bit overwhelming sometimes with the sheer volume of them. He just doesn't have much restraint with it, there's instances of monologues stacked on top of each other within the same episode and they have a cumulative effect that isn't really about how effective they are in a vacuum.
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I can deal with monologuing if you give me good spookies in between. Hereditary is to me the best way to do dramatic horror where the horror is fun and the drama is terrifying lol
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Basebf555 posted:Individually his monologues are usually good, they just get a bit overwhelming sometimes with the sheer volume of them. He just doesn't have much restraint with it, there's instances of monologues stacked on top of each other within the same episode and they have a cumulative effect that isn't really about how effective they are in a vacuum. Reminds me a bit of flashbacks.
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:Reminds me a bit of flashbacks. This was Bly Manor's sin. Cool set up, great characters, way too much explaining way that came way too soon.
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im putting on Plane starring Gerard Butler. he looks pretty old dude
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haunting of hill house was one of the few times I thought something was too “writerly.” the last ep got so overwrought I wanted a big vaudeville hook to pull a few actors away mid-speech
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Glottis posted:They're more like "ghost stories" than straight up horror, which is something he explicitly leaned into for Midnight Club, and that's a part I personally really like. I do think he is capable of making a pretty great Dark Tower series, though I'm sure it won't please everyone. Flanagan is always and everywhere restrained and tasteful. To pull off Dark Tower he's going to have to do the exact of opposite of his instincts in every way
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Flanagan needs to get Art the clown in one of his things when people start talking too mcuh
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finished Plane. It starts out relatively grounded (ha) for a Gerard Butler movie and gradually ramps up the insanity. some good action sequences in the second half
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DeimosRising posted:Flanagan is always and everywhere restrained and tasteful*. To pull off Dark Tower he's going to have to do the exact of opposite of his instincts in every way
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A MIRACLE posted:you might like Significant Other, its on paramount I'll check it out.
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Basebf555 posted:Individually his monologues are usually good, they just get a bit overwhelming sometimes with the sheer volume of them. He just doesn't have much restraint with it, there's instances of monologues stacked on top of each other within the same episode and they have a cumulative effect that isn't really about how effective they are in a vacuum. Andor was so good about this. Limited it to 1 or 2 of the best monolpgues ever per an episode
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Shageletic posted:I'm a guy who sort of like horror, but like A24 like horror like Men, Under the Skin, and especially It Follows. Always looking for more stuff like that. Found this list that's giving me a couple ideas: https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/a24-horror-movies-ranked-best-worst/ It Follows is my fave horror movie of the past 10-20 years. Oh and Hereditary. BonoMan fucked around with this message at 01:11 on Sep 19, 2023 |
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The Dark Tower: Oops! All Monologues!
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BonoMan posted:It Follows is my fave horror movie of the past 10-20 years. Oh and Hereditary. Hereditary is a masterpiece
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The climax of the first dark tower book is just Walter cosmically monologuing at Roland while putting a skeleton in his clothes as a dummy for when Roland wakes up.
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Does the warriors pop up on any of the major platforms often? I was looking for it but don't want an amc sub.
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Kingtheninja posted:Does the warriors pop up on any of the major platforms often? I was looking for it but don't want an amc sub. I know it's been on both Netflix and Prime before, I think it's one of the rotating catalogue titles that gets passed around every few months
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loved El Conde, a new Netflix movie that supposes that Pinochet (yes that one) is a 300 year old vampire that is tired of living and ready to die as his children gather to fight over his eventual inheritance. A ridiculous premise that gets more strange as it goes but with some great gore and the satire is spot on.
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Skinamarink might be considered the worst honest attempt at making a horror movie I have seen. It reminds me of Battlefield Earth where the director thought that the entire movie should be Dutch angles. This is as fundamentally unsound. The movies subjects are almost never in frame. Not even partially in frame. Its mostly just odd angle shots of nothing with pounds of film grain added. There is audio so poorly mixed (intentionally) the movie has captions. It starts with a statement that it had covid protocols in place to ensure the safety of the crew and actors. I could argue that that is very accurate as over the course of 130 minutes it almost has no actors and frankly evidence of a crew beyond a camera Upsidads fucked around with this message at 05:53 on Sep 22, 2023 |
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My take on Skinamarink is that clearly the writer/director showed people his short film and supporters said “This is great! You should expand it into a feature!” But he didn’t have anything else to say, so he didn’t expand it, just EXTENDED it, making it way too long and obtuse. The mood was great, just not sustainable for 2 hours. I also feel like some writer/directors need to learn there is such a thing as TOO open for interpretation. When your film can potentially be about anything, your film is actually about nothing.
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gently caress Amazon Replacing current plan with same with ads next year Pay extra for no ads
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Brocktoon posted:My take on Saw is that clearly the writer/director showed people his short film and supporters said “This is great! You should expand it into a feature!” But he didn’t have anything else to say, so he didn’t expand it, just EXTENDED it, making it way too long and boring. The mood was great, just not sustainable for 90 minutes.
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My take on Justice League is that clearly the writer/director showed people his short film and supporters said “This is great! You should expand it into a feature!” But he didn’t have anything else to say, so he didn’t expand it, just EXTENDED it, making it way too long and boring. The mood was great, just not sustainable for 90 minutes
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It works for literally any movie, really.
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7 samurai was what 6 hours?
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we need the chris rock "bullet control" bit but for film stock. 100 feet of film should cost ten million dollars. "ah man i'd shoot this pointless flanagan monologue if i could afford it"
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Elemental is nowhere near as bad as its reputation would suggest, but it's all over the place. It starts feeling like a cute, if derivative, allegory about emotional expression and repression, but then flips into a literal intercultural romantic comedy.
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The Modern Leper posted:Elemental is nowhere near as bad as its reputation would suggest, but it's all over the place. It starts feeling like a cute, if derivative, allegory about emotional expression and repression, but then flips into a literal intercultural romantic comedy. That's modern Pixar for you.
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