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weekly font posted:Hoo boy. Not even close. FYAD already spoiled this for me but I thought they were kidding. Welp,
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To each their own. While I think the particulars of the ending aren't exactly the greatest thing put to screen, the movie that leads up to it is so fun, I can kind of enjoy the dumber things. The very ending is kind of silly, but the last act is still one of the most fun things I've ever seen. The wet fart thing is dumb though. Did you type that and go "Hell yeah, that just made my post kick-rear end?"
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Mar 30, 2012 05:13
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Was it half as good as Insidious? If it was, I'll watch it.
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Mar 30, 2012 05:21
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Was it half as good as Insidious? If it was, I'll watch it. I loved Insidious, and I loved Cabin in the Woods. They are totally different movies, but I'd say they were both amazingly fun horror movies.
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Mar 30, 2012 05:22
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Okay, that just sounds loving stupid.
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Mar 30, 2012 05:46
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That sounds dumb as hell, but (spoilering just in case I guess) is it trying to be a serious horror movie, or are they aware of how bugfuck crazy that premise is and just kind of run with it? Because if they're aware of the stupidity, it could still be a fun watch. I'd just like to know before I watch it so I know what mindframe to go in with.
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Mar 30, 2012 05:57
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spixxor posted:That sounds dumb as hell, but (spoilering just in case I guess) is it trying to be a serious horror movie, or are they aware of how bugfuck crazy that premise is and just kind of run with it? Because if they're aware of the stupidity, it could still be a fun watch. I'd just like to know before I watch it so I know what mindframe to go in with. When the movie switches from "normal slasher tropes" to the actual story beggining to unfold, it never takes itself to seriously. A lot of the stuff that happens in the last act is played for laughs, and is genuinely funny. There is one particular payoff to a running joke in the film with Bradley Whitford's character that may be the funniest thing I've ever seen in a horror-comedy. Also, if you enjoy J-Horror films like Ringu, there is a spectacular gag in the film that pokes fun at it.
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Mar 30, 2012 06:24
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Why are people even posting spoilers for a movie that isn't even on release for two weeks?
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Mar 30, 2012 11:53
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E the Shaggy posted:I had been waiting to see The Divide for awhile and man oh man, what a disappointment. Not to mention the massively retarded ending The fiance goes to get the gun from the bedroom that's locked behind the safe under the pretense of using the bathroom but guy-in-the-dress tells him that the bathroom is down the hall and to the left. Then minutes later the girl escapes the fire by going into that same bedroom which now magically has the toilet. Also the mom literally forgetting who her kid was after smoking one joint owned pretty hard too.
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Mar 30, 2012 13:13
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Honeydew posted:Why are people even posting spoilers for a movie that isn't even on release for two weeks? Because someone asked? And some people like to be spoiled? TheBigBudgetSequel posted:The wet fart thing is dumb though. Did you type that and go "Hell yeah, that just made my post kick-rear end?" Yep pretty much exactly this.
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Mar 30, 2012 13:25
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I will never understand how anyone could hate Skyline.
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Mar 30, 2012 13:27
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weekly font posted:Hoo boy. Not even close.  Here's strange I watched Mary Marcy Martha MArlene <-- I think that's the title, because it was on bloodydisgusting, Goddamn you bloodydisgusting this was not a horror movie. Although it was a really good movie. Just not horror. Thanks , yeah. I'm probably not going to see it then. Go ahead and spoiler the end I don't care. I kind of thought that was exactly what it was that that it was a movie or some television show being made for someone, and it was all fake. Which pisses me off because it is literally saying All horror movies ever including evil dead etc.. are bullshit. This is what has really been happening. So basically its a big gently caress you to all of those producers in its smugness at a explanation. It's like writing a movie with Zombies and then throwing Jason Vorheeves name in there for no reason.
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Mar 30, 2012 15:11
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I read the first sentence of that Cabin in the Woods spoiler and I'm actually more excited to see it now than I was before. v v
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Mar 30, 2012 15:13
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:I read the first sentence of that Cabin in the Woods spoiler and I'm actually more excited to see it now than I was before. v Yeah I figured that idea would interest some people which is cool - it just wasn't for me at all and besides a couple of good jokes, wasn't even that clever. Hollis posted:
 Well, it is real. They're really killing the kids. The movie needs to be done by [some arbitrary time - midnight?] to appease the Gods and because the virgin lives and they don't get the virgin sacrifice, the Gods are pissed and the last scene is a giant God Hand coming up from the Earth and crushing the cabin - implying that uh...the Gods are gonna end the world I guess?
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Mar 30, 2012 15:21
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Ugh, pass. Also, in regards to spoilers for horror movies, I don't mind poo poo spoilered if its going to prevent me from seeing another Devil Inside. This is the only film where I looked up who made it so I would know what they look like in case I ever ran into them. So that I could specifically tell them to gently caress off. edit: Well to start some kind of discussion. Ill go ahead and argue that the Devil Inside is literally the worst horror movie ever made. Hollismason fucked around with this message at 15:45 on Mar 30, 2012 |
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Mar 30, 2012 15:43
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I'm kindof in a place with horror where so much of it is either bad or boring that the really polarizing movies are interesting to me. If people either outright hate or love something it probably means that the movie is actually trying something out of the ordinary.
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Mar 30, 2012 15:47
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There's original horror out there it's just difficult to find. I can't think of the last really even sort of original horror movie I've seen, although I watch a lot of them. Ntohing that's made a impression on me though. I think the last one was May actually and Inside which I found just absolutely disturbing.
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Mar 30, 2012 16:25
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Devil Inside is probably not the worst horror film ever made but it is probably the most insulting to the audience.
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Mar 30, 2012 20:22
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weekly font posted:Yeah I figured that idea would interest some people which is cool - it just wasn't for me at all and besides a couple of good jokes, wasn't even that clever. I can't help from how you described but imagine that the ending looks something like THIS
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Mar 31, 2012 01:22
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Professor Clumsy posted:I will never understand how anyone could hate Skyline.
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Mar 31, 2012 01:52
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Mouser.. posted:I can't help from how you described but imagine that the ending looks something like THIS This is hilarious and infinitely better.
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Mar 31, 2012 07:09
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weekly font posted:Devil Inside is probably not the worst horror film ever made but it is probably the most insulting to the audience. No it's the worst. It literally has no ending. Poorly shot, nonsensical plot, bad acting, makes you angry not because of what occurs to the movie but because the way it was decided to be made. It's like if they ended the first Star Wars half way through the film and a note came up and said." Luke then blew up the deathstar ; turns out vader is his father, visit the Charleton Library and check out a periodical I put there it will tell you more ". Hollismason fucked around with this message at 17:25 on Mar 31, 2012 |
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Mar 31, 2012 17:20
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RightClickSaveAs posted:Hate is way too strong a word for me personally, but is it really such a surprise to anyone that a movie made by special effects guys turned out to be not good? But it is good. Really good.
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Mar 31, 2012 17:57
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Yeah, I was really puzzled by the negative reaction to Skyline. It is sincerely goofy.
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Mar 31, 2012 18:18
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Outside of the loony tunes ending it's not nearly goofy enough to be camp. The plot, dialogue and action range from bad to just bland. So that leaves the special effects, which are all the movie has going for it. It's stuck in some terrible middle ground of not being bad enough to be fun, but definitely not good.
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Mar 31, 2012 18:50
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RightClickSaveAs posted:Outside of the loony tunes ending it's not nearly goofy enough to be camp. The plot, dialogue and action range from bad to just bland. So that leaves the special effects, which are all the movie has going for it. It's stuck in some terrible middle ground of not being bad enough to be fun, but definitely not good. Even the special effects are poo poo. It's just an all around bad movie. Battle: LA, which the creators of Skyline were working on before they left to make Skyline, is twice the movie Skyline is, and even Battle: LA isn't that good. And why is it being discussed in the horror movie thread anyway  It's clearly a terrible sci-fi flick.
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Apr 1, 2012 00:34
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weekly font posted:Because someone asked? And some people like to be spoiled? I usually like to read about certain movies in advanced so I can gauge how kuch gore is in a movie. I'm really squeamish and don't like torture films or things like 'Funny Games' so I often read spoilers. With a really good horror it doesn't really matter. Usually with ghost films or anything supernatural I don't spoiler though. And I laughed at the wet fart, what can I say. V V
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Apr 1, 2012 02:34
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Michael Biehn's new film is basically fan service and masturbation. It's also not at all like a grindhouse movie. I'm apparently the only one on the internet who hates it, so I'm sure someone on here will enjoy it. If you like fan service and self-indulgent bullshit, see The Victim.
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Apr 1, 2012 06:03
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So The Loved Ones was certainly a movie, huh?
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Apr 1, 2012 06:05
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Rabid Koala posted:Michael Biehn's new film is basically fan service and masturbation. It's also not at all like a grindhouse movie. I'm apparently the only one on the internet who hates it, so I'm sure someone on here will enjoy it. If you like fan service and self-indulgent bullshit, see The Victim. You haven't seen a horrible Biehn horror movie until you've sat through The Divide. 
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User-Friendly posted:So The Loved Ones was certainly a movie, huh? Yes, I suppose it was. Thanks for reminding me... 
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Apr 1, 2012 06:57
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Even the special effects are poo poo. It's just an all around bad movie. Skyline is totally horror - Alien-style body horror is all over it, and it has a good deal of similarity to The Mist. That places it in a continuity of 'siege-horror' films going back to, at least, Night Of The Living Dead. It's also a clear successor to the underrated AV|P:R, which was itself a blend of Alien and the satirical over-identification with a misanthropic inhuman protagonist from Rob Zombie's Halloween films and Jonathan Liebesman's Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning. That's reflected in Skyline's deliberate over-emphasis on its spectacular effects at the expense of its human characters. Jonathan Liebesman, as it happens, was the director of Battle: Los Angeles, the Official 2011 Film Of The Year - and obviously a blend of the science fiction, war and horror genres in the tradition of Them! and Aliens. All the films listed in this post own.
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Then I can make the argument that War of the Worlds is horror, hell I could argue that the Sixth Day with Arnold is about loss of gender identity. I mean you can apply horror to any genre. We apply that to Scifi as it has definitive sci fi elements, aliens etc... just because something is suspenseful or has suspense elements doesn't make it horror. Just because you can justify a statement doesn't make it correct. It's just an opinion. It took the special effects over the acting elements of the movie because really the people who made it didn't give a poo poo, they wanted to make something that looked like a huge summer blockbuster with little money. So the money was spent where they felt it was most important on special effects. I think the special effects are good btw. I mean I was impressed and really enjoyed parts of the film. It also has the true love overcomes, triumph of the human spirit aspect of most alien invasion stories as well. edit: You seem to apply the Heisenburg uncertainty principle something normally associated with physics to your film critiques which are well written but you seem to be obsessed with seeing Jungian archetypes, sexuality, feminism, etc.. to the point of ad nauseum. Maybe take a step back and just review the the film on whether you enjoyed it or not and why instead of letting your personal political beliefs creep into your analysis. Your viewing of those films doesn't inherently change the essence of a film. You just sound like a crazy person who's intelligent and verbose. Hollismason fucked around with this message at 21:03 on Apr 1, 2012 |
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Apr 1, 2012 20:57
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Hollis posted:Then I can make the argument that War of the Worlds is horror What War of the Worlds did you see? It's a horror movie, dude - one of the first big budget horror pictures that can be described "post 9/11" horror movie.
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Apr 1, 2012 21:39
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Its science Fiction, again having elements of suspense does not automatically place something into a horror genre. I mean it literally is one of the first science fiction novels, it's classified as science fiction, you can share categories but the predominant motif of the film is science fiction. Most movies have to some degree an amount of suspense, that doesn't make them horror.
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Apr 1, 2012 22:04
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Again, if you're talking about the movie, there's barely anything that characterizes it as science fiction. Every major event of the film is essentially one of abject horror.
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Apr 1, 2012 22:14
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It's an alien invasion with giant robots trying to terraform our planet. How much more "science fiction" do you need?
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Apr 1, 2012 22:20
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Apr 1, 2012 22:26
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Is this some April Fool's trolling going on here or something, because if so that's not cool guys!SuperMechagodzilla posted:That's reflected in Skyline's deliberate over-emphasis on its spectacular effects at the expense of its human characters.
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Let me give you three examples. First is the emergence of the pods. The science fiction information posed to you is that there are craft buried under the earth awaiting pilots riding lightning bolts (which is pregnant with other implications). These craft have heat rays to vaporize the pesky humans scurrying around. However, watching this scene, you undoubtedly recall humans being reduced to dust, our hero, Ray, running away from a dust cloud and returning to his panicked family, covered in human ash. The impression of the scene is unfathomable horror, fear and destruction. It's not a scene about the aliens. Next is entire section following the estranged mom's townhome, which comes in 3 major parts: the carjacking, the hell-train/ferry, and the battle on the ridge. The carjacking may be the signature scene of the film, contains no aliens or science fiction concepts whatsoever, yet carries the tone of the rest of the film - what fear and panic does to people. The horror is present in what other people will do to one another out of self-preservation. No science fiction. The next scene with the screaming train ablaze and the panicked scramble for the ferry is another reminder of the themes of the film, the familiar becoming the frightening. The battle on the ridge couldn't be more focused on the family drama, the son rushing off to war totally unprepared but certain that he doesn't want to spend another second with his lovely father. Aliens are barely on the periphery of these scenes. Finally is the encounter with the hermit - the aliens crawling around the basement are a sideline to what's actually going on in this scene: Ray and his daughter are afraid of this mentally unstable man. We subsequently become afraid of Ray because he is willing to do to keep his family safe. None of these scenes are about science fiction concepts or the aliens themselves, they are, like the rest of the film, a crucible of terrified people against something that can barely be understood. Is Cloverfield science fiction?
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