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I should watch the Tomie movies, I am a fan of Tomie she is a role model of mine and taught me to be persistent and never give up.
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Pretzel Rod Serling posted:*bravely* They should do an adaptation of the comic where he loves his wife’s kitty cats Nothing brave about this, they absolutely should
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Pretzel Rod Serling posted:*bravely* They should do an adaptation of the comic where he loves his wife’s kitty cats
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I have now seen Terrifier 2. Good lord did that movie need an editor, it was an all-timer at 105 minutes but there's whole-rear end scenes that could be cut and lose nothing, and checking my watch is the last thing you want your audience to be doing.
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Nov 18, 2023 05:08
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Holy poo poo, Saltburn was so loving good. I went in knowing basically nothing except the main actor and it being the 2nd film of the director of Promising Young Woman. Definitely my favorite movie of the year by a large margin. Gave me similar vibes to Killing of a Sacred Deer for obvious reasons, which I also loved.
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Shrecknet posted:I have now seen Terrifier 2. Good lord did that movie need an editor, it was an all-timer at 105 minutes but there's whole-rear end scenes that could be cut and lose nothing, and checking my watch is the last thing you want your audience to be doing. Half the fun is it’s super indulgent
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Pretzel Rod Serling posted:*bravely* They should do an adaptation of the comic where he loves his wife’s kitty cats I would love to make this movie.
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I watched Exists, a found footage bigfoot movie recommended by Basebf55. It was good! Most striking moments to me were when the characters would hear a haunting, unnatural wail off in the distance, like wtf is that?? Super creepy. And when the bigfoot decided to throw down, poo poo got serious. What do you do when there's an enraged, super strong animal after you? The characters themselves were beyond unbearable dipshit college types, but the action was good. Check it out.   (that's a bigfoot I swear)
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Megasabin posted:Holy poo poo, Saltburn was so loving good. I went in knowing basically nothing except the main actor and it being the 2nd film of the director of Promising Young Woman. Where's it available? I've been looking forward to this one
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I didn't really like promising young woman at all but maybe second time's a charm
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Shrecknet posted:I have now seen Terrifier 2. Good lord did that movie need an editor, it was an all-timer at 105 minutes but there's whole-rear end scenes that could be cut and lose nothing, and checking my watch is the last thing you want your audience to be doing. I felt the same way. I loved the original for being dumb exploitive fun but the sequel really had a lot of fat that felt counter to that spirit.
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A True Jar Jar Fan posted:Where's it available? I've been looking forward to this one I saw it in theaters. Not sure if that’s a NYC only thing or wide release. Was happy to see it was a packed theater.
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I read/heard some criticism that the movie has a tendency to overexplain itself. Did you find that to be true?
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Punkin Spunkin posted:I didn't really like promising young woman at all but maybe second time's a charm the "cops to the rescue" of it did a lot to undermine the whole thing for me, especially for the story it was telling
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Both are good, well made movies with some flaws, I'd still recommend both of her films highly with the less known about the better for both.
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Going into Saltburn blind must really be good, given I've seen the trailer dozens of times before other movies and I had no clue it's even a horror/thriller.
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Shrecknet posted:I have now seen Terrifier 2. Good lord did that movie need an editor, it was an all-timer at 105 minutes but there's whole-rear end scenes that could be cut and lose nothing, and checking my watch is the last thing you want your audience to be doing. *me in the audience leaning over to check Schrecknet's watch*
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anatomi posted:I read/heard some criticism that the movie has a tendency to overexplain itself. Did you find that to be true? Short answer: Yes, that is one flaw, but it does come with a significant payoff. Longer answer I am spoiling even though it includes no specific spoilers and just describes a general film structure thing, but still better for people who want to go in completely blind: I wouldn't call it a tendency rather than one specific decision that does affect the pacing of the film, but ultimately has an incredible payoff. I actually did literally feel "Oh they are overexplaining" and then during the payoff scene "Ok, Ill take this tradeoff".
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Honestly thought Promising Young Woman was actively and energetically terrible, stupid, cruel, misguided, and possibly one of the worst scripts I'd encountered that year, with almost all of its violence and punishment reserved for women... but hey some people like a woman getting herself into attempted rapes for x??? years so she can give a guy some really snappy one liners and talk like a bad thinkpiece. Imo it's the ultimate liberal white woman yaas queen movie complete with the absolutely predictable Britney Spears needledrop and as mentioned earlier a message that begins by pointing out that authorities are ignoring violence against women and then ends with the main character being brutally murdered (after the director asked her cop dad how long it would take irl and filmed it for that long) which is supposed to be a triumph somehow because she got evidence out to...the authorities.... See also: https://ayeshaasiddiqi.substack.com/p/id-like-this-to-stop-praise-for-a
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Punkin Spunkin posted:Honestly thought Promising Young Woman was actively and energetically terrible, stupid, cruel, misguided, and possibly one of the worst scripts I'd encountered that year, with almost all of its violence and punishment reserved for women... but hey some people like a woman getting herself into attempted rapes for x??? years so she can give a guy some really snappy one liners and talk like a bad thinkpiece. Imo it's the ultimate liberal white woman yaas queen movie complete with the absolutely predictable Britney Spears needledrop and as mentioned earlier a message that begins by pointing out that authorities are ignoring violence against women and then ends with the main character being brutally murdered (after the director asked her cop dad how long it would take irl and filmed it for that long) which is supposed to be a triumph somehow because she got evidence out to...the authorities.... I agree! I hope this new movie is Not That, given the praise it's getting, but I will have to wait and see.
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My take on the end of promising young woman is that the authorities only care once there's more than one body, and only after every bit of evidence is hand wrapped delivered to them. I didn't really see it as a triumphant ending tho. I initially gave it a 4/5 but I do admit seeing a lot of the criticisms of it softened by opinion quite a bit.
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Punkin Spunkin posted:Honestly thought Promising Young Woman was actively and energetically terrible, stupid, cruel, misguided, and possibly one of the worst scripts I'd encountered that year, with almost all of its violence and punishment reserved for women... but hey some people like a woman getting herself into attempted rapes for x??? years so she can give a guy some really snappy one liners and talk like a bad thinkpiece. Imo it's the ultimate liberal white woman yaas queen movie complete with the absolutely predictable Britney Spears needledrop and as mentioned earlier a message that begins by pointing out that authorities are ignoring violence against women and then ends with the main character being brutally murdered (after the director asked her cop dad how long it would take irl and filmed it for that long) which is supposed to be a triumph somehow because she got evidence out to...the authorities.... Yeah I really hated that the plot resolution required the protagonist to be murdered in order to get her "victory". Bleah.
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I think those are all very valid reads. To me it's a powerful movie about the systems that are supposed to protect us failing at every possible turn, leaving us with nothing but a (very unhealthy) fantasy. The end isn't a triumph as much as it's inevitable (and it clearly shouldn't be, in a better world.) The whole thing is very deeply nihilistic and angry but it mostly works because Carey Mulligan is so good. I don't personally think there's a single thing in the movie that makes her feel like a "girlboss character."
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MacheteZombie posted:I initially gave it a 4/5 but I do admit seeing a lot of the criticisms of it softened by opinion quite a bit. this was my exact trajectory, I think I’m at a 2 now lol
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You can't promise a cathartic revenge movie and then yank the catharsis out from under the audience. For good revenge, see Revenge.
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I saw Thanksgiving; it did a very good job with its unique slasher-flick-but-it's-thanksgiving-instead premise, the cast is game, and it was entertaining throughout, but... it felt like Eli Roth was holding back and I don't know why. It's an R-rated movie that's edited like it's PG-13, that's the best way I can describe it -- there are some fun, gnarly kills, but the camera tends to cut away immediately after (or even before) impact, and it all happens so fast. I genuinely have no idea how the first kill even happened, it seemed like the car tapped that woman and her entire top half went blasting off like Team Rocket for no apparent reason. There's also the meat carver on the security guy that seems to travel on a straight line out of nowhere and propelled by nothing, and the killer has both a real gun and a (semi-automatic?) dart gun, and I genuinely couldn't tell who was being shot by what. Also, where's the gratuitous nudity, Roth, I thought we were doing genre here. (Although admittedly, the cheerleader-on-trampoline kill is a lot more inventive here than in the Grindhouse trailer.)
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Fine I will watch Promising Young Woman and form an opinion about it despite wanting to avoid watching it because I have a baseline distaste for revenge films made in a post Lady Vengeance world.
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Yeah for me it's just like...taking away the revenge catharsis in a film that was clearly trying to ride #metoo, rage over Kavanaugh/Brock Turner at the time, etc, and then have it so the cruelest poo poo happens to women one being tricked into thinking she was raped. Yaas queen!! and comparatively no men suffer really. That's not a clever subversion, that's just loving stupid and cruel. So of course it won the academy award for best original screenplay lol. She toggles on realism selectively and always in service of the worst decisions, like oh yeah let's make sure this death scene lasts exactly as long as my cop dad said it would but also this lady's going to just get fingers jammed in her mouth for years and almost assaulted so she can mildly admonish creepy dudes. Anyway that's enough of me ranting. I'm looking forward to give her second movie a chance (although Promising Young Woman is still highly acclaimed in general so I dunno how hopeful I am that the buzz over saltburn means anything). Also finally saw the last Blair Witch. I thought it was fine? Obviously it's not deserving of the Blair Witch label, and that's not a movie that needed any sequels...but it felt like an above average found footage film you might find on tubi. I guess thats not high praise but it was fine, the body horror element was totally unexpected and definitely made me squirm the most. I'm not criticizing the characters' actions (honestly it's understandable) but it's funny to me that basically everyone is Lot's wife. "WHATEVER YOU DO, DO NOT TURN AROUND...wait is that you Gregg? You're okay??! And directly behind me?!?:
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Snooze Cruise posted:Fine I will watch Promising Young Woman and form an opinion about it despite wanting to avoid watching it because I have a baseline distaste for revenge films made in a post Lady Vengeance world. here's a cheat code no one will tell you: you can form an opinion on a movie without watching it. i do it all the time.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:here's a cheat code no one will tell you: you can form an opinion on a movie without watching it. i do it all the time. Agreed. If a Dracula is in it, the movie is good.
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I picked up the Arrow box set with Arena, Robot Jox, Dolls, Cellar Dweller and The Dungeonmaster. What's my viewing priority?
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I finally watched X today and enjoyed it quite a bit, but goddamn if its not the darkest movie I've watched in a long time. There were entire scenes I could barely make out what was happening. I thought it might be my TV at first but everything else looks fine and the daylight scenes of the film look good too so I guess it was just shot that way. I am looking forward to Pearl next regardless.
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I think those reads on Promising Young Woman are reading the end as more triumphant than I think it's intended to our protagonist is literally dead i.e. the loss of another promising young woman, and it takes extreme lengths for the police to have caught up to the evidence. It's bittersweet and a kind of posthumous last laugh for our character but hardly a pro cop happy victory. Also while I am firmly on the side of many of the political movements today about the problems with the police force, dismissing any movie where police arresting someone is used as a plot device because ACAB is going to lead to a lot of dismissive and boring readings of movies
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BOAT SHOWBOAT posted:the perpetrators don't get away scott free. I think a lot of the criticism is because we don’t know that and based on the premise of the entire movie, the ending is implied to be opposite of that. (Sorry for the vague posting. Trying to respect spoilers)
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A True Jar Jar Fan posted:Agreed. If a Dracula is in it, the movie is good. Even if it’s Dracula’s second cousin, Ron Dracula? Who is not a vampire and collects stamps
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