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Y'all are sleeping on Close Encounters of the Third Kind... which is understandable because the film was tranquilizing!
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Magic Hate Ball posted:Spielberg is a bad film director and should be shunned. drat, that's a baller probe
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Nov 16, 2023 21:35
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Spielberg's bad (or "bad") movies are more interesting than his good ones. Like the latter are extremely impressive works of art, but I honestly love how weird and off-putting Hook is, for example. For that matter some of his better and more-respected films have the same energy I'm talking about, it's not really directly related to quality -- I'd group Minority Report and E.T. under the same heading.
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Nov 16, 2023 22:10
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Schwarzwald posted:Y'all are sleeping on Close Encounters of the Third Kind... which is understandable because the film was tranquilizing! I was surprised by how "sleepy" this movie is. Threw it on for some friends earlier this year cuz I had just bought the 4k, and they all tapped out when the spaceships showed up in the first act. Everyone was bored. I went back and finished it, and I like it, but it doesn't have a lot of highs. I know people love it, but I understood how I'd gone so long without seeing it all the way through. It did get me to watch more Truffaut films, so it was a net positive overall.
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Nov 16, 2023 22:40
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For me it's one of the best films about ufo's and aliens in how it just slowly drops all the information. It's a super dark story but it's also very childlike and awe inspiring. It's not a film to show to some buddies lol. It's a film you sit in the dark by yourself and watch.
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Nov 16, 2023 22:46
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It'd be a cult classic darling if only it weren't directed by Steven Spielberg.
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Nov 16, 2023 23:16
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AI owns and the Flesh Fair is NASTY
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Nov 16, 2023 23:47
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All the household clutter and everyone talking over each other in Close Encounters is a remarkable bit of realism and the way it clashes with the alien stuff is awesome
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Nov 16, 2023 23:53
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Hilarious that Close Encounters was considered exciting popcorn poo poo in the 70's and now people can't even make it through the first act.
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Nov 17, 2023 00:09
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His entire body of work is a bit recontextualized post-Fablemans.
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Nov 17, 2023 00:11
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From what I understand the special effects in the big finale of Close Encounters was mind blowing poo poo for the late 70s. And they hold up, they really don't feel dated to me when I watch the movie now.
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Nov 17, 2023 00:14
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Basebf555 posted:From what I understand the special effects in the big finale of Close Encounters was mind blowing poo poo for the late 70s. And they hold up, they really don't feel dated to me when I watch the movie now. It's like a prog rock show with a huge light show setup and end on a synthesizer duel.
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Nov 17, 2023 00:28
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I love Close Encounters because it doesn't have any "action" in it. Its just a chill movie about a guy who gets taken away by aliens for a human zoo.
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Nov 17, 2023 00:37
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its a weirdly dark story of an unhappy man who chases his childlike dreams and abandon's his family. There was one year where the film confused me and I didn't like how frustrating those two things went together, but ive come to love it about it. it's a conflicting film.
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Nov 17, 2023 00:41
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It's literally about a dude abandoning his children and wife for possibly the rest of their lives so he can live in a zoo for aliens. If you watch the special edition they specifically show you the zoo with other aliens. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmD-e3QSQ1k Dudes in a loving zoo
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Nov 17, 2023 00:48
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not canon
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CelticPredator posted:not canon Absolutely canon, dude spends the rest of his life in a zoo
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Nov 17, 2023 00:56
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no special edition is canon
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Nov 17, 2023 00:57
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It'll be fine, they're going to serve him! That must be good!
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Nov 17, 2023 01:02
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Opopanax posted:It'll be fine, they're going to serve him! That must be good! 
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Nov 17, 2023 01:07
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I think the reason it works is because Spielberg himself didn't seem to really understand how dark it was when he made it. He made it earnestly because he legitimately had that much wide-eyed enthusiasm for aliens and it wasn't until he got a bit older that he fully realized the implications of it.
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Nov 17, 2023 01:13
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Basebf555 posted:I think the reason it works is because Spielberg himself didn't seem to really understand how dark it was when he made it. He made it earnestly because he legitimately had that much wide-eyed enthusiasm for aliens and it wasn't until he got a bit older that he fully realized the implications of it. 100% agreed. Honestly top 3 Bergs. I just think it's a beautiful film and John Williams best score. I took mushrooms and looked up to the sky with close encounters music blaring and I weeped.
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Nov 17, 2023 01:19
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https://x.com/sillydeadite/status/1725342769546252314?s=46
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Nov 17, 2023 03:57
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I'd be more hype if this was a James Wan joint.
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Nov 17, 2023 03:59
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a "glorious throwback to 90's horror" isn't the ringing endorsement they seem to think it is
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Nov 17, 2023 04:03
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Yeah OK so Thanksgiving might be good but does it have anyone yeeting a chair at a cop??? No???
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Nov 17, 2023 04:03
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im going to find out saturday morning.
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Nov 17, 2023 04:09
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When I realized that it wasn't keeping the Grindhouse aesthetic I immediately tuned out. I'm just not really an Eli Roth person unfortunately. But it is a horror movie with a holiday theme so no doubt I'll give it a shot eventually.
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Nov 17, 2023 04:11
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I thought I couldn't love the Chucky TV series more, but now I'm on S2 and there's Marlon Brando Chucky and I'm dying.
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Nov 17, 2023 04:18
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Origami Dali posted:a "glorious throwback to 90's horror" isn't the ringing endorsement they seem to think it is A brilliant throwback to the films of yesteryear, such as *checks notes* Stigmata, House on Haunted Hill, and End of Days.
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Nov 17, 2023 04:34
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End of Days rules 
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Nov 17, 2023 04:38
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House on Haunted Hill 1999 has Geoffrey Rush doing a Vincent Price impression and its loving amazing.
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Nov 17, 2023 04:53
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Silence of the Lambs was in the 90's but i really doubt Roth is channeling that Demme energy
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Nov 17, 2023 05:02
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And the scary rear end VCR camcorder scene and cinema's best depiction of Yawgmoth
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Nov 17, 2023 05:03
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Scream is 90's horror.
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Nov 17, 2023 05:20
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alf_pogs posted:Silence of the Lambs was in the 90's but i really doubt Roth is channeling that Demme energy Demme had more honest empathy in one shot than Roth will have ever. And I don’t even need to go to one of his good movies for that. That version of A Master Builder shot like a play at a B&B is Ossining was better than anything Roth has done. Come in!
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Nov 17, 2023 05:23
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I assume the 90s reference just means Roth does more of his wonderfully dated edgelordiness.
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Hollismason posted:House on Haunted Hill 1999 has Geoffrey Rush doing a Vincent Price impression and its loving amazing. I always come back to watching it every few years. It's a pretty decent flick, and I like the 90s marilyn manson/nin music video special effects vibe.
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Nov 17, 2023 07:03
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Count Thrashula posted:That would be cool, they created a really interested "world" that I would be interested in getting more stories out of. It left me with so many questions I hope they get a series just to go into more detail.
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The Rental was kind of interesting but the fact that our whole cast gets killed off so quickly (major spoiler) while unique, is kind of unsatisfying by design. I think one of the things that makes a thriller or slasher satisfying is a cat-and-mouse, but the choices made undercut that. Certainly a mumblecore horror
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