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Nightmare is 364 days before next Halloween. It starts November 1st and ends on Christmas eve
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Oct 2, 2023 21:15
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Obviously Nightmare Before Christmas is a Thanksgiving movie. Bridge that gap.
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Oct 2, 2023 21:21
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Deadite posted:If it’s Saw vs Final Destination, I’m a Final Destination person all the way. The bad guy in the FD movies is literally death, so we don’t need to know their backstory of motivations. I know its stupid because its horror movies but along these lines. At some point the sprawling conspiracy of the Saw people would be figured out and snuffed out of existence. Again, its horror, I get that we have to suspend belief that a dream demon, a revenant in a lake, an ironman psychopath that can take no damage, exist but in universe they all KINDA make sense. Final Destination death says gently caress you, I am the boss and just gets ridculous but with Saw, the further it goes on the more people in it, it would be discovered.
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Oct 2, 2023 21:27
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Mooseontheloose posted:I know its stupid because its horror movies but along these lines. I don't follow. Like it does get discovered?
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Oct 2, 2023 21:42
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Mooseontheloose posted:I know its stupid because its horror movies but along these lines. it gets discovered multiple times including the first movie where jigsaw gets shot in the leg
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Oct 2, 2023 21:48
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Yeah and in the later movies the entire motivation of Detective Hoffman is "boy howdy i sure hope i don't get discovered like everyone else did" (he does).
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Oct 2, 2023 21:52
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Snooze Cruise posted:Yeah and in the later movies the entire motivation of Detective Hoffman is "boy howdy i sure hope i don't get discovered like everyone else did" (he does). I guess I am not explaining it well. It feels like the amount of resources and timing and coincidence makes it feel contrived?
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Oct 2, 2023 21:57
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Mooseontheloose posted:I guess I am not explaining it well. Oh so do you mean like the vastness of the conspiracy should have been discovered earlier? Yeah that makes more sense.
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Oct 2, 2023 22:00
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I’m doing horror movie trivia tonight and I need a team name that will prove I’m no dilettante I’m thinking “Tom Atkins’ Whiskey Shakes” but I’m flexible, anyone have a good name I can use?
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Oct 2, 2023 22:01
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Snooze Cruise posted:Oh so do you mean like the vastness of the conspiracy should have been discovered earlier? Yeah that makes more sense. Yes! Thank you.
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Oct 2, 2023 22:05
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Deadite posted:I’m doing horror movie trivia tonight and I need a team name that will prove I’m no dilettante The Team With All the Gifts Team 2: The New Batch
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Oct 2, 2023 22:12
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Mooseontheloose posted:I guess I am not explaining it well. saw has one of the most ridiculously contrived timelines in the history of horror, that's the best part
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Oct 2, 2023 22:18
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it's easy to uncover the Saw conspiracy but to do so and also stay alive? forget about it
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Oct 2, 2023 22:28
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Shrecknet posted:The Team With All the Gifts Just "Team 2" would be a good name if you were solo. Because there's not actually a team in it.
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Oct 2, 2023 22:33
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I did “Freddy Krueger’s Daycare Center” for trivia last year but that isn’t a deep cut
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Oct 2, 2023 22:38
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Gaitlin Nebraska Childcare Center
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Oct 2, 2023 22:55
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Woodsboro High Mathletes (Slashletes?)
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Oct 2, 2023 22:59
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I feel like Saw wouldn't be a very enjoyable binge watch. I tried and bounced off midway through 3, although happen to have seen 6, Jigsaw and Spiral all later and don't think any of them are particularly good. Jigsaw in particular was a disappointment since I was interested in the Spierig brothers coming off Predestination My understanding of the sequels after 2 is they all fell into a predictable pattern of the movie mainly focuses on one guy going through a series of traps where everybody else gets killed in gruesome ways and meanwhile we cut back and forth to the timeline soap opera of John Kramer stuff which got increasingly convoluted and boring and never really recaptured the magic, mainly focusing on Jigsaw's wife (cast because she was the producer's fiance) and the apprentice Whereas I think why 1 and 2 worked is they had that Cube thing going for it where you actually want to see if any of them can work together to get out I still haven't seen X but I'm kind of intrigued to see why it's so positive. The thing I'm seeing people praise about it (that they just straight up make John the protagonist and the victims are mainly despicable conmen) seem... interesting since I think the premise that Jigsaw isn't a murderer he's actually helping people bla bla bla has always been kind of bullshit, and the films work better when they acknowledge that he obviously has a sadistic streak and his traps aren't actually that fair, and where there's actually dramatic tension where we want to see some people make it out. But I'm keeping an open mind! BOAT SHOWBOAT fucked around with this message at 23:55 on Oct 2, 2023 |
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Oct 2, 2023 23:09
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Deadite posted:I’m doing horror movie trivia tonight and I need a team name that will prove I’m no dilettante "Happy Happy Halloween Halloween Halloween Happy Happy Halloween Silver Shamrock", and demand it's read out in its entirety every time.
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Oct 2, 2023 23:20
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Eh, I wanted the Saw X victims to make it out and like, that isn't exactly how they are presented. Like the majority of them are just people who don't have the best lot in life trying to make a quick buck. They aren't really even like part of the main scheme, just locals picked up for this batch of patients because the mastermind takes this grift on the road. Its not that they are more awful than other Saw victims, and heck are way more sympathetic than a lot of them, its just the personal stakes for Kramer. And the most despicable one is the lady who makes it out in the end lol. Snooze Cruise fucked around with this message at 23:28 on Oct 2, 2023 |
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Oct 2, 2023 23:23
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:"Happy Happy Halloween Halloween Halloween Happy Happy Halloween Silver Shamrock", and demand it's read out in its entirety every time. ooooh that's good, that's a team name that triggers a sense memory even for people that have only seen that once
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Oct 2, 2023 23:26
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I was also thinking "Jigsaw's Dead Poet's Society" but that might be too abstract
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Oct 2, 2023 23:38
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Quizmaster 2: Evil Never Dies
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Oct 2, 2023 23:43
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I marathoned the SAW movies last October and I would very much confirm it’s a miserable experience of diminishing returns.
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Oct 2, 2023 23:44
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Deadite posted:I’m doing horror movie trivia tonight and I need a team name that will prove I’m no dilettante “My favorite music genre is Hausu”
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Oct 2, 2023 23:44
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Snooze Cruise posted:Eh, I wanted the Saw X victims to make it out and like, that isn't exactly how they are presented. They knowingly take money from dying people and lie to them saying they’re cured even though they know drat well they will die. They all deserved to die.
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Oct 2, 2023 23:45
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CelticPredator posted:They knowingly take money from dying people and lie to them saying they’re cured even though they know drat well they will die. 100%
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Oct 2, 2023 23:46
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You could maybe make a slight case for that one character and the film did more or less. But still.
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Oct 2, 2023 23:47
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The most damning/impressive feat of the SAW franchise is that it effectively created a generation of people putting themselves into the mind of serial killers rationalizing why their victims deserve it. Dexter never could have pulled that off.
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Oct 2, 2023 23:50
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CelticPredator posted:They knowingly take money from dying people and lie to them saying they’re cured even though they know drat well they will die. Maybe I am built different, but I don't think anyone deserves to die in a Saw trap B) But also this is a series with rapists as victims. We had an entire movie with victims whose entire job is finding reasons to not give dying people money. They (the mexico crew at least) are not especially bad people for this series. Snooze Cruise fucked around with this message at 23:54 on Oct 2, 2023 |
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Oct 2, 2023 23:50
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Jigsaw’s philosophy is bullshit and he’s a psychopath There’s not one character who I believe came out the other side loving life and having a positive Influence on this world. I know they had a jigsaw victims meeting thing in 7 but I don’t think those people were anything but broken. Anyway yeah they did deserve to die in X. Very repugnant people
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Oct 2, 2023 23:56
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Like the one thing I kind of like about the SAW films is that they basically acknowledge that all of Jigsaw’s acolytes are full of poo poo and are just psychopaths rationalizing their blood lust. But that works directly against the general reverence for Jigsaw always acting like he really has some kind of point or actual righteous mission. I don’t think the movies are pushing a philosophy or anything but they built up Jigsaw into this messianic figure and are boxed in.
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Oct 3, 2023 00:00
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most of jigsaws victims were just people who werent living their life the way he thought they should hes an rear end in a top hat but toobin bell owns so jigsaw owns
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Oct 3, 2023 00:02
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Tobin Bell is loving awesome and yeah you’re right he’s the only thing keeping the character interesting. He’s incredible in Saw X. I hope they just keep making him the main character until he calls it quits
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Oct 3, 2023 00:09
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It’s funny and a bit sad that it took them this long to realize you have a great horror character you need to use more. I’m glad the film didn’t wuss out either and give us another main who could be a moral anchor. It’s just jiggy baby.
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Oct 3, 2023 00:11
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When there’s a gif available I may have to change my avatar to the aztec head heater.
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Oct 3, 2023 00:16
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STAC Goat posted:I marathoned the SAW movies last October and I would very much confirm it’s a miserable experience of diminishing returns. trivia team name here
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Oct 3, 2023 00:17
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STAC Goat posted:Like the one thing I kind of like about the SAW films is that they basically acknowledge that all of Jigsaw’s acolytes are full of poo poo and are just psychopaths rationalizing their blood lust. But that works directly against the general reverence for Jigsaw always acting like he really has some kind of point or actual righteous mission. I don’t think the movies are pushing a philosophy or anything but they built up Jigsaw into this messianic figure and are boxed in. X feels very messy with how it deals with Kramer but I feel like it works. Every confused aspect of his character is there and then the movie presents an alternate interpenetration of him as a sort of con artist himself, which fits with the messiah stuff.
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Oct 3, 2023 00:22
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BOAT SHOWBOAT posted:I feel like Saw wouldn't be a very enjoyable binge watch. I tried and bounced off midway through 3, although happen to have seen 6, Jigsaw and Spiral all later and don't think any of them are particularly good. Jigsaw in particular was a disappointment since I was interested in the Spierig brothers coming off Predestination I did it last week to prepare for X and it was a good time. My favorites ended up being 3 and 4, and my least favorites 5 and 7.
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Deadite posted:I’m doing horror movie trivia tonight and I need a team name that will prove I’m no dilettante "Your Trivia Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Answer Key"
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