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it's dope as all get out (re: Possession)
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May 14, 2016 21:01
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Yaws posted:My friend is raving about Possession. What'd you guys think of it? It's one of those films that you have to experience for yourself, preferrably while knowing as little as possible about it beforehand. Mere words cannot do it justice.
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May 14, 2016 21:04
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Yaws posted:My friend is raving about Possession. What'd you guys think of it? I found it pretty boring but I'm definitely in the minority around here when it comes to that movie, probably warrants another viewing from me.
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May 14, 2016 21:35
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Yaws posted:My friend is raving about Possession. What'd you guys think of it? Its the best divorce movie ever made
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May 14, 2016 22:21
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Y posted:Conversely, the ghosts are never clearly shown to be "real". Everything that happens in the movie can be explained as the result of normal traumas causing breaks in reality - the guy begins to see "ghosts" after his wife cheats on him, the son hears a "ghost" after both his mother and father die gruesome deaths. Nothing supernatural happens, and we are shown that when the father sees a "ghost" in the footage, his friend sees nothing, and this discontinuity causes him to snap again. I feel like the real estate agent plot thread contradicts that interpretation, unless all of that is a red herring including the final shot.
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May 14, 2016 23:22
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Yo, I nearly cried at the end of They Look Like People, bros
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May 14, 2016 23:36
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Lil Mama Im Sorry posted:Yo, I nearly cried at the end of They Look Like People, bros I really like that all four characters are some species of oddball so it's not all on Wyatt.
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May 14, 2016 23:51
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I really like that all four characters are some species of oddball so it's not all on Wyatt. I seriously like everything about that movie, but especially the characters.
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May 14, 2016 23:53
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Am I the only person who finds Possession to be horribly irritating? The incessant exaggerated emoting from the two leads made for a wholly unpleasant experience.
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May 14, 2016 23:57
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I love TTLP, I almost cried too. The characters and their suffering felt very real and it was easy to empathize with them. It was one of the more empathetic views of mental health I've seen in a movie. While Wyatt's delusions and paranoia could have ended up becoming very real and dangerous, the movie focuses more on the interpersonal tensions that can happen when someone is in the depths of a crisis. His relationship with his fiance ends, he's not making friends, he's sure bad guys are out to get him, things are bad- but you still want so badly for him to be okay and to get help. Having Christian suffering in his own way was interesting as well- his problems weren't as outwardly obvious as Wyatt, but he was deeply insecure and unhappy and struggling as well. I think these days people are more sensible about not casting people with mental health issues as evil/crazy/bad/murderers/etc, but it's still nice to see a movie where the character is not defined by their illness.
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May 15, 2016 00:04
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I love movies about good characters and feeling emotions. I will watch that movie based on those two things.
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May 15, 2016 00:12
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The Interior is getting a July VOD release.
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May 15, 2016 00:54
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caiman posted:Am I the only person who finds Possession to be horribly irritating? The incessant exaggerated emoting from the two leads made for a wholly unpleasant experience. Bad break ups are the worst kind of over emoting. Be glad you've never gone through it if you can't relate. Possession would make a great double feature with That Obscure Object of Desire (although you may want to jump off a building after).
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May 15, 2016 01:41
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I thought you guys were talking about the 2012 movie "The Possession" and was super confused because it looked like poo poo. Then I found the Franco-German-Polish movie "Possession" from 1981 and it sounds way fuckin' cooler.
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May 15, 2016 02:07
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I've got They Look Like People and Murder Party lined up for tonight. Is the latter nearly as good as Blue Ruin + Green Room or should I temper my expectations?
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May 15, 2016 02:19
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caiman posted:Am I the only person who finds Possession to be horribly irritating? The incessant exaggerated emoting from the two leads made for a wholly unpleasant experience. Possession is equal parts irritating, funny, and terrifying. It's the perfect horror film.
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May 15, 2016 02:20
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I loved Don't Blink, holy poo poo. Just the perfect horror movie for me. No jump scares, no easy explanations, the horror comes from something elegant and simple and absolutely terrifying.
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May 15, 2016 02:48
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Lil Mama Im Sorry posted:Yo, I nearly cried at the end of They Look Like People, bros It ends up being a pretty positive message of a movie. Fuckin bros taking care of their bros, bro. It earned its' good vibes ending.
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May 15, 2016 04:51
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ruddiger posted:Bad break ups are the worst kind of over emoting. Be glad you've never gone through it if you can't relate. Possession would make a great double feature with That Obscure Object of Desire (although you may want to jump off a building after). Oddly enough I was going to say that Possession may be my third fav love story, behind That Obscure Object of Desire and In the Realm of the Senses. And I think the emoting is absolutely essential to the film. It's almost like a theater performance more than a movie., Glamorama26 posted:It ends up being a pretty positive message of a movie. Fuckin bros taking care of their bros, bro. It earned its' good vibes ending.
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May 15, 2016 05:08
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Yeah, besides that part (sorta) I'd say Possession feels very similar to my own divorce in all honesty and realism.
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May 15, 2016 05:30
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Glamorama26 posted:It ends up being a pretty positive message of a movie. Fuckin bros taking care of their bros, bro. It earned its' good vibes ending. re: They Look Like People This was critical to me because I'm a giant pussy and I really like earned Good Endings. Both of the main characters' problems dovetail to bring the narrative there—Christian has just had his whole Dominate Everything Be Great!! house of cards completely fall apart right as Wyatt is closing in on the hour at which he thinks he has to start killing people. Christian submits to it because whatever, gently caress everything; Wyatt is going ahead because he's similarly that far down his own rabbit hole. But then it doesn't end in the horrible way that you think it will and I am happy with that  first time since It Follows that I almost immediately want to watch something again. edit: alansmithee posted:I'm wondering, how would people have felt about the movie had it ended without showing Christian was saved? anime tupac fucked around with this message at 06:30 on May 15, 2016 |
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May 15, 2016 06:25
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A dispute with HUNDU in another thread got out of hand and he implied some unsavory things about me, so I feel the need to clear the air and say no, I do not prefer Friday the 13th - nor Friday the 13th part III - to Halloween. HOWEVER, I rewatched Friday the 13th parts II-IV for this past Friday and part III was actually better than I remembered! Some very good kills and the final girl scene is a real pip.
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May 15, 2016 22:36
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I was about to say.
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May 15, 2016 22:39
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:A dispute with HUNDU in another thread got out of hand and he implied some unsavory things about me, so I feel the need to clear the air and say no, I do not prefer Friday the 13th - nor Friday the 13th part III - to Halloween. We're going to need some concrete proof.
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May 15, 2016 23:44
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The Darkness was bad, but in its own way very entertaining.
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May 16, 2016 00:38
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Coffee And Pie posted:The Darkness was bad, but in its own way very entertaining. It's rocking a 0% on RT on 15 bored but savage reviews. All movies: quote:There isn’t one genuine scare in the entire film. The plot is so thin and the action so sparse that the majority of The Darkness is spent exploring this family’s inconsequential problems. It exploits autism, anorexia, and alcoholism for half-baked story filler, none of which has anything to do with a bunch of pissed-off Native Americans trying to hack their way back into the world of the living. It’s difficult to even call this interminable mess of a movie forgettable, if only because it’s so remarkably bad by just about every metric by which it could be judged. The Darkness is a punishing slog made up of every bad horror cliché of the last 20 years, and this reviewer implores you not to see it.
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May 16, 2016 01:46
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"The plot is so thin and the action so sparse that the majority of The Darkness is spent exploring this family’s inconsequential problems" me --> this sounds good now
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May 16, 2016 02:40
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Hat Thoughts posted:"The plot is so thin and the action so sparse that the majority of The Darkness is spent exploring this family’s inconsequential problems" One of the weird bits in the movie that actually crossed over into actually upsetting to me was the teenage daughter getting caught purging into a tupperware, and the subsequent reveal of a bunch of storage containers under her bed that presumably contain many days worth of vomiting school lunches But then it has hilarious things like Kevin Bacon shouting "YOUR DOG BIT MY DAUGHTER" at the neighbor whose dog attacked the teenage daughter 30 seconds earlier It's very much a good-bad horror movie.
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May 16, 2016 03:07
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Hat Thoughts posted:"The plot is so thin and the action so sparse that the majority of The Darkness is spent exploring this family’s inconsequential problems" I realized a while ago that I'd rather see a 3/10 horror movie than a 7/10 anything else. I dunno what that says about me though.
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May 16, 2016 03:20
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Coffee And Pie posted:One of the weird bits in the movie that actually crossed over into actually upsetting to me was the teenage daughter getting caught purging into a tupperware, and the subsequent reveal of a bunch of storage containers under her bed that presumably contain many days worth of vomiting school lunches Finally a horror movie about poopsocking (basically)
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May 16, 2016 03:24
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Yaws posted:My friend is raving about Possession. What'd you guys think of it? CelticPredator posted:I love movies about good characters and feeling emotions. I will watch that movie based on those two things. COOL CORN posted:I thought you guys were talking about the 2012 movie "The Possession" and was super confused because it looked like poo poo. Possession (1981) is great, and yall should go in as blind as possible. By CineD law, you are required to post your reaction to it in this thread.
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May 16, 2016 04:07
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and we don toleryate no yanks commin in this here thread talkn down on Possession 
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May 16, 2016 05:50
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I enjoyed Possession but I think this thread got me a bit too hyped for the craziness. I found it packed a much stronger emotional punch, it wasn't just WTF : The Movie.
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May 16, 2016 05:54
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frozenpeas posted:I enjoyed Possession but I think this thread got me a bit too hyped for the craziness. I found it packed a much stronger emotional punch, it wasn't just WTF : The Movie. Exactly. It is very strange, but once you get past the initial strangeness and start thinking about the greater themes being shown, it becomes almost frighteningly affecting. And the performances are really spectacular; Sam Niell somehow out Nicholas Cage-s Nicolas Cage, and Isabel Adjani somehow outdoes Sam Niell in the performance of a lifetime (literally, in this case, since in interviews later she said she was never, ever doing anything like that again), and still the relationship they present, warts and all, is as believable as any I've seen presented in movies. Seriously, everyone should see Possession. Best movie I've seen in which I've thought "Did... Did that man just kick a...  "
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May 16, 2016 14:20
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Ramadu posted:I realized a while ago that I'd rather see a 3/10 horror movie than a 7/10 anything else. Holy poo poo, this describes me perfectly. Thank you.
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May 16, 2016 22:48
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:A dispute with HUNDU in another thread got out of hand and he implied some unsavory things about me, so I feel the need to clear the air and say no, I do not prefer Friday the 13th - nor Friday the 13th part III - to Halloween.
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May 16, 2016 23:02
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SubG posted:I read this backward at first and was totally ready to go to bat for the idea that Halloween III (1982) is better than any of the Friday the 13th films. I've only seen the first three Friday films, but I'm willing to say Halloween III: Season Of The Witch is easily better than them.
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May 17, 2016 00:48
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Speaking of Halloween III, its supporters and horror fans often blame audiences for being dumb philistines who unfairly judged the movie for not having Michael Myers in it, but... did the marketing really communicate the whole anthology concept well, or even at all? Because it really does seem like they sent that movie out there and slapped the "Halloween III" title on it and while, yeah, the ads and such didn't feature Michael Myers, it seemed like just about no effort was made to elucidate the new format and left it up to audiences to piece it together. I can remember even as a kid who had no idea what the Halloween series was about, coming across the VHS for Halloween III and wondering "so... is this one of those Halloween movies I've heard about? Why doesn't this sound like a sequel? It doesn't mention anything about continuing a story or anything... but then why would it have a "III" in there? What is this?" Even just now I looked up the movie's listing on Amazon and the marketing copy makes no mention of this movie's relation to the other movies: Halloween III on Amazon posted:When a terrified toy salesman is mysteriously attacked and brought to the hospital babbling and clutching the year’s most popular Halloween costume, an eerie pumpkin mask, Dr. Daniel Challis (Tom Atkins, The Fog, Night Of The Creeps) is thrust into a terrifying Halloween nightmare. Working with the salesman’s daughter, Ellie (Stacey Nelkin), Daniel traces the mask to the Silver Shamrock Novelties company and its founder, Conal Cochran (Dan O Herlihy, RoboCop). Ellie and Daniel uncover Cochran’s shocking Halloween plan and must stop him before trick-or-treaters across the country are kept from ever coming home in this terrifying thriller from writer/director Tommy Lee Wallace (Stephen King’s It). Were they really hoping that folks would come in hoping for some kind of continuation of the Myers storyline (even if it was apparent to them he wouldn't be in it much) and that the movie would be so good it would just win over these viewers regardless? Because that sounds unbelievably dumb to me, but it also seems unbelievably dumb that they would think they did enough to sell the anthology idea. I mean, it just seems to me that it would've been so easy to just start off with something like, "You survived Michael Myers, but there's more terrifying tricks and treats where he came from... Now face a brand new tale of Halloween horror in the John Carpenter tradition!" But it's like they didn't even try.
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May 17, 2016 01:38
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X-Ray Pecs posted:I've only seen the first three Friday films, but I'm willing to say Halloween III: Season Of The Witch is easily better than them. Ramadu posted:I realized a while ago that I'd rather see a 3/10 horror movie than a 7/10 anything else. I think this is one of the problems with number/star rating systems. Like, I finally got around to watching The Force Awakens (2015) the other day. And you know that scene in They Look Like People (2015) where Wyatt and Christian play Blobby Wars, a game they played as kids, and it just somehow doesn't work? That's how The Force Awakens left me feeling. It is a superbly crafted bit of mainstream cinema. All of the production design is beyond reproach. But the thing that made your toes tingle if you saw the original Star Wars (1977) when it was released, the reason why it has cast such an enormous shadow over American film in the decades since, is that it wasn't a meticulous reproduction of something you'd already been seeing for years. I mean on one level it kinda feels like it is---that's one of the magical accomplishments of Spielberg and Lucas in those early days of modern blockbuster filmmaking. Films like Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) feel like they're part of an existing school of filmmaking, are polished examples of existing genres, but they're not. That's the result of Spielberg and Lucas channeling all of the poo poo they loved as kids, all the things that inspired them as filmmakers, and melting it down and synthesising it into something that feels vaguely familiar while still being inarguably novel. Horror film classically relies, in very simple terms, of a cycle of titillation, transgression, then catharsis. And I think the problem with retreading old material in horror cinema is that it takes all of the exhilaration out of the titillation and all of the bite out of the transgression. It becomes mere formula. And even if it's a good formula I'm not going to feel as transported the second time I see the same schtick, whether it's second time I'm seeing an alien sun set perfectly framed behind a condenser tower (or whatever the gently caress) on a desert world, or a couple getting run through with a spear mid-coitus.
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May 17, 2016 01:47
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SubG posted:I read this backward at first and was totally ready to go to bat for the idea that Halloween III (1982) is better than any of the Friday the 13th films. That's OK because it's 100 percent true.
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May 17, 2016 02:15
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