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Gejimayu
Mar 4, 2005
spaz
On Megan's Missing:

wikipedia posted:

Criticism was directed at the acting, writing, cinematography, directing, and font choices, as well as numerous production mistakes; for example, the boom mic can be seen in several shots and director Michael Goi can be heard saying "Action!" during one scene.
loving lol at "font choices." From the plot description, I'd say if you want to see a good movie, go watch Spoorloos instead. Its the dutch movie that was adapted from the same novel as The Vanishing, but didnt tack on a bunch of Hollywood bullshit and gently caress up the ending.

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Gejimayu
Mar 4, 2005
spaz
I'm a substitute teacher, and you'd be surprised at the stupid names I see. Most notably: Szylveszter, Marquivion, God's Favour.

Gejimayu
Mar 4, 2005
spaz

KillerQueen posted:

Some family friends have named their 2 girls "Calliope" and "Fable", and while I will say I think "Calliope" is a cool name I'm betting both will eventually have them changed.

I... I like Fable actually. That said, my daughter definitely has an original name. And we're considering naming a future child Thane Taco Lastname

Gejimayu
Mar 4, 2005
spaz

Megaman's Jockstrap posted:

Nicolas Cage is in the forest. A bunch of Nicolas Cages commit debauchery. We ONLY see Nicolas Cage's dong. Nicolas Cage murders a bunch of Nicolas in a Cage. He puts on the Cage. It's Face/Off 2: Face the Cage

Gejimayu
Mar 4, 2005
spaz
As someone who hasnt rewatched the Evil Dead movies in a long time, I remember watching the first two and and being pissed that ED2 couldnt decide if it was a sequel or a remake (almost like the atrocious The Thing sequel remake nonsense but far less aggravating). Why do people love the second one so much? Ive been wanting to rewatch them but maybe I should skip 1 and just watch 2 as to not have that same feeling?

Edit: like, how does it even male sense as a sequel? Didnt Ash seemingly not remember the first movie or am I misremembering?

Gejimayu
Mar 4, 2005
spaz
Is 'Chrismas Evil (You Better Watch Out) [vhs retro style] 1980' the film you guys are talking about? I mean it must be cause its yhe only thing called Christmas Evil but the title card just said You Better Watch Out. If so, im watching it with the wife right now.

Gejimayu
Mar 4, 2005
spaz
Quite a mouthful

Edit: Moss Garcia might be my new favorite antagonist.

Gejimayu fucked around with this message at 02:17 on Dec 7, 2018

Gejimayu
Mar 4, 2005
spaz

Jedit posted:

This would seem to be a good time to ask: what is everybody's favourite final shot in a horror movie? For me it's got to be Prince of Darkness.

Hmm... It Follows? Im sure I can think of a better one but that stood out.

Gejimayu
Mar 4, 2005
spaz

flashy_mcflash posted:

Well first you have to accept that sex work is real work, and the writer of the film was/is a cam performer. It's feminist in the sense that she has complete agency over her decisions (until she doesn't, and her agency is taken away completely, which is the horror aspect and main conceit of the film). There's nothing cringey about the mother helping her in her career since lots of sex workers parents are fine with their chosen profession.

The idea of the ending, as I understand it, is that her act reveals that the AI exists, and presumably they would stop using it after that.

My main issue with it is honestly the glorification of Camgirl culture. They make it all out to be like a competitive social networking thing where the girls are all empowered and roommates/friends, when in reality they fall prey to the same abuses that all sex workers do. Its just irresponsible film making, especially considering the writer's background. Also the movie kinda sucked. The song was my favorite part.

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Gejimayu
Mar 4, 2005
spaz

Tuxedo Catfish posted:

Nah, you just haven't seen enough Takashi Miike films.

(It's the ending of Audition. If I remember correctly the final "shot" is actually just a black screen, but context is everything.)

I grew up on Takashi Miike being a teen when you could order discs from Netflix. My wife has issues with sexual abuse and gore porn so a lot of Miike films are out of bounds (aside from like Happiness of the Katakuris and Bird People of China), but after my she loved the Ace Attorney movie, I convinced her to watch 13 Assassins last night, which she also loved. Thinking about it, I probably dug my own Miike hole with her by loving Ichi the Killer but never letting her watch it and explaining in detail why. His ouvre is so bizarre. He's clearly brilliant though. Or is he? Man, I dunno. I guess hes like Hideo Kojima on the crazy/genius scale.

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