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Shageletic posted:Even Mandy? It's a metal album cover come to life. Kinda? I didn't hate Mandy but I didn't like it much either. It's kind of hard to articulate, but I feel like Panos Cosmatos stuff is unpredictable in a very predictable way. Feels like style over substance, except the style is basically just a carpenter brut music video. I guess I get why people like him but it doesn't do much for me personally. badjohny posted:If you look close you can see Akira and Tetsuo walking around in one of the crowd shots.  I'm assuming it was in the Stink Bomb segment?
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Sax Solo posted:because I like to be shown cool/weird/funny poo poo. I like to be shown those things too, but a movie has to come by it organically instead of trying to force it with unfunny garbage and fake nostalgia.
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I thought Psycho Goreman was funny and cute but what can I say I don't usually go for horror comedy type stuff so must of the stuff that PG haters acclaim I usually completely bounce off of (like say, Deadstream). As for Mandy I adored the first half, absolutely loving gorgeous and moody, but when it gets into like WOAH WHAT IF A SKELETON RIDING A MOTORCYCLE HAD AN AXE GUITAR CHAINSAW THAT SPAT FIRE or whatever I was respectfully out. Not my thang. Punkin Spunkin fucked around with this message at 17:21 on Jan 30, 2024 |
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Mandy wasn't bad but its eagerness to steal from other, better movies, from Hellraiser to Phantasm II, got to me after a while
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I think I liked The Void but I haven't seen it since it came out and can't remember a drat thing about it. I'll have to check it out again
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bewilderment posted:Empire Queen is now streaming on Prime Video. It just got made.
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veni veni veni posted:Kinda? I didn't hate Mandy but I didn't like it much either. It's kind of hard to articulate, but I feel like Panos Cosmatos stuff is unpredictable in a very predictable way. Feels like style over substance, except the style is basically just a carpenter brut music video. My memory of....memories..was off. They appeared in another anime, called robot Carnival. Not memories.
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badjohny posted:My memory of....memories..was off. They appeared in another anime, called robot Carnival. Not memories. Oh yeah, he worked on Robot Carnival as well. I haven't seen it though.
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Tiny Timbs posted:iirc it has a great head squish At least two of the afformentioned movies do actually
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veni veni veni posted:Oh yeah, he worked on Robot Carnival as well. I haven't seen it though. You are in luck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am8grbyTxTw
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Punkin Spunkin posted:As for Mandy I adored the first half, absolutely loving gorgeous and moody, but when it gets into like WOAH WHAT IF A SKELETON RIDING A MOTORCYCLE HAD AN AXE GUITAR CHAINSAW THAT SPAT FIRE or whatever I was respectfully out. Not my thang.
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Sax Solo posted:I think this is like saying Cheech and Chong had no idea why people like to smoke pot. I think Psycho Goreman is clearly the product of people with a developed taste for trash, with their own ideas of what makes bad stuff good. Mad God is fuckin amazing. I got high with a few friends and watched it and we could barely look away from the screen the entire time. And whoever is on the Nicholas Cage kick definitely check out Pig and Color Out of Space, not sure where they're streaming these days though.
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The Peccadillo posted:You are in luck Nice, thanks. I'm actually in the middle of digging through pretty much all of his work that I can dig up atm, so I'll put that in the queue for sure.
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Punkin Spunkin posted:I thought Psycho Goreman was funny and cute but what can I say I don't usually go for horror comedy type stuff so must of the stuff that PG haters acclaim I usually completely bounce off of (like say, Deadstream). The second half is when I start head banging to the movie lol
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Field Mousepad posted:Mad God is fuckin amazing. I got high with a few friends and watched it and we could barely look away from the screen the entire time. Pig is a beautiful movie.
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Punkin Spunkin posted:I was pleasantly surprised by the marketing misdirection of Pig The weird thing is that there is one scene that does feel like its out of a John Wick movie.
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Field Mousepad posted:Mad God is fuckin amazing. I got high with a few friends and watched it and we could barely look away from the screen the entire time. Pig is on Hulu, and Color Out of Space is on Prime. I saw Pig a while ago, it was good. Color Out of Space tonight, then Inspector Hound fucked around with this message at 22:21 on Jan 30, 2024 |
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Pig is sweet thanks for the rec
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feedmyleg posted:I thought The Void was sloppy, lazy, and amateurish trash. I later heard a lot of people giving it love and felt like I was probably too harsh on someone trying to make something cool without much time or budget. Really should have trusted my instincts before putting on PG. I loved the effects, but woof I could not make it more than halfway through, just so completely not for me. Felt in the same camp as Turno Kid or Samurai Cop 2, obnoxiously trying to chase the "so bad it's good" vibe without having any idea why people enjoy ambitious and earnest low-budget misses. An overly-ironic bad comedy sketch stretched out for way, way too long. wrong PG isnt trying to be so bad it's good. It's just trying to be with no money. It's camp but it's not made with that kind of snark. Unless you think using outdated tech automatically makes it so bad its good, in that case I don't agree with that and think its wrongo. Also The Void kicks rear end. The fact it cost next to nothing with those creatures is INSANE.
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Like it uses miniatures and stop motion, but it's done in such a cool stylish way. If you see photos of them you can see a lot of detail put into them. If it was so bad it's good, they would just be some crap slapped together with paint, and badly composited.
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I definitely get where they are coming from with with the turbo kid/samurai cop comparison. I dunno if I would call it so bad it's good, but I think it's why those movies are kind of off putting to me and why some other people seem to like them so much. For lack of a better way to put it they feel like something a Youtuber would make.
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It has the feeling of a modern filmmaker bending over backwards to make their film feel like something from the 80s without really getting any of that actual feeling except on an extremely shallow level. It feels artificial and forced because it is by design. Some people like that, but I always immediately bounce hard off it.
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CelticPredator posted:wrong Absolutely disagreed. The way the little gorl was written was snarky as hell and obnoxiously self-aware.
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Yeah but its not snarky as in "movie is bad look how BAD we are". It's trying to make a film inspired by japanese fighting shows like power rangers. Manborg is the same way. I haven't seen it in forever, but what got me was how while it was done so cheap and so jank, it was still trying to tell a story. It wasn't like being so bad its good.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:It has the feeling of a modern filmmaker bending over backwards to make their film feel like something from the 80s without really getting any of that actual feeling except on an extremely shallow level. It feels artificial and forced because it is by design. I think you've got this backwards. PG isn't failing to ape 80s films — it's succeeding at portraying a mid 90s sensibility to a degree that almost sucks. Like, I knew a Mimi and a Luke in middle school. They weren't always fun people to be around (in real life). edit: I mean all this to the films credit. Mimi being a terrible hell child is entertaining (in a movie). Schwarzwald fucked around with this message at 06:21 on Jan 31, 2024 |
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Mimi basically stepped out of invader Zim which is why I think she’s hilarious. An insane cartoon character to contrast with an insane cartoon alien
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Oh man Pig was so good. A 90 minute movie zoomed in on a small cast of characters that communicates their internal experiences beautifully. Like a film from a different time.
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Color Out of Space was pretty great. Really nailed the breakdown of reality in a somehow more gratuitous way than Annihilation. The Beach House is also a modern take on the Color Out of Space story that I feel undeservedly slipped under the radar.
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CelticPredator posted:Mimi basically stepped out of invader Zim which is why I think she’s hilarious. An insane cartoon character to contrast with an insane cartoon alien 
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Tiny Timbs posted:The Beach House is also a modern take on the Color Out of Space story that I feel undeservedly slipped under the radar. The Beach House was solid. Unrelated, but I am re-watching Review (paramount+) and is seriously one of the funniest shows ever. So underrated.
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veni veni veni posted:The Beach House was solid. Review is hilarious. Glad to hear it's on paramount+ now, was always a tough sell to get people to endure the lovely comedy central site to watch it previously.
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feedmyleg posted:Absolutely disagreed. The way the little gorl was written was snarky as hell and obnoxiously self-aware. That’s not really camp though. Camp- at least as I see it- is drawing attention to the artifice. The girl is just acting like a brat which some kids are at that age.
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And the joke, theme of the movie is that humans are bigger monsters than the actual ones. Mimi is probably more of an evil being than PG is.
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Also I adore deadstream. One of the best FF movies in years. Absolutely hilarious and has the best intentionally annoying and accurate main character as opposed to a lot of FF where every character sucks and we know too much about them
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By all metrics I should hate Deadstream but I thought it was fantastic. I'm usually not a horror comedy guy, but if a movie succeeds as both a horror and comedy that's a home run imo. Dead Stream is hilarious and actually quite spooky at times. Really gave me Sam Rami at his best vibes.
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