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Okay, time to rank em: Phantasm >> Phantasm III > Phantasm II > Phantasm IV >> Phantasm V
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TheKingslayer posted:Move Phantasm II to the front of the line and then you have my list. Me, to anyone who would claim any film other than Phantasm as the best in the franchise 
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Dec 12, 2018 17:43
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long-rear end nips Diane posted:I think people liked Hell House LLC 2. Swing and a miss there, I heard nothing but bad things from people who were baffled it was made by the same team as the first.
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Dec 12, 2018 17:52
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long-rear end nips Diane posted:Ah, I was just going off what I remembered reading since I didn't like the first one enough to watch the sequel. Hell, same, first one did nothing for me.
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Dec 12, 2018 17:59
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gey muckle mowser posted:is Scream too obvious? It’s only obvious because it’s the correct answer. Halloween is a strong contender.
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Dec 12, 2018 19:44
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M_Sinistrari posted:Since we're talking on favorite opening and ending scenes, what about favorite trailers for movies? Here's some of my faves. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggWS4tTzs60 Also a strong contender for best opening scene, in which an ATM calls Stephen King an rear end in a top hat.
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Dec 12, 2018 19:46
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Wait a minute...how old are you? Don’t worry, I’m older than I look  s.i.r.e. posted:I'll have to check out Shin Godzilla, but most other Godzilla titles are action comedies as if Jackie Chan was in that suit. Shin Godzilla is pretty funny, but most of the jokes are leveled at the bureaucracy and inefficiency of the government during a true emergency. The Godzilla scenes themselves are devastating but extremely badass. HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:What else you got in mind? There is one very effective scare during the horror movie portion of Gymkata. Jedit posted:Peter Jackson is going to remaster his first four movies using the restoration technique used on the World War 1 footage for They Shall Not Grow Old. That includes Bad Taste and Braindead. And Heavenly Creatures! I haven’t seen that movie in forever!
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Dec 13, 2018 15:21
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Franchescanado posted:Heavenly Creatures is what they say "won" him LotR, but I have a strong suspicion that Dead Alive's party scenes--with the large amount of special effects, choreography, stunts, and sheer amount of zombies--is what secretly convinced the suits to give him LotR. It's easy to look at those scenes and say "Oh yeah, they guy could totally pull off large battles with orcs and elves and poo poo." Miramax/Disney didn’t want to pull the trigger on two movies with around $100 million dollars (someone who’s read DisneyWar more recently than me can jump in and correct me) between both of them because they thought it wasn’t going to succeed, even though Harvey (ugh) was assuring them it would be a good idea. After they passed, New Line gave him 3 movies at $100 million each. People were skeptical, but New Line took a chance and won out big time.
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Dec 13, 2018 15:35
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Liberal Idiot posted:I think Heavenly Creatures might be my favorite Peter Jackson movie. It's no wonder that Melanie Lynskey was catapulted into similarly meaty, challenging roles such as, uh (checks notes) Charlie Sheen's stalker on "Two and a Half Men." Hm. She’s good in I Don’t Feel At Home In This World Anymore, the movie by Jeremy Saulnier’s buddy, Macon Blair.
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Dec 13, 2018 15:48
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Basebf555 posted:Looking back on it, that was such a great time to be a movie lover and I'm sure other studios in hindsight were like "wtf were we thinking?" The major reason Disney balked was because of the price tag and the fact that it was an old story that people wouldn’t care about, not realizing that a big leap forward in CGI and action filmmaking would itself be a huge draw. This was also the era of Disney that was worried about Johnny Depp’s appearance tanking Pirates of the Caribbean.
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Dec 13, 2018 16:01
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OldTennisCourt posted:A police body cam film about the start of a zombie outbreak would be amazing. the most fascist movie premise possible deety posted:Roar (1981) Don’t forget the DP, Jan de Bont, got his scalp lifted during this movie. He later went on to shoot Die Hard and direct Speed and Twister. Roar is a genuinely baffling movie and it needs to be seen to be believed. deety posted:Rats: Night of Terror (1984) I saw this one with Lowtax  david_a posted:I watched it at a midnight screening so maybe my memory of it isn’t the best, but I remember it being fairly slow and kinda boring. It is, it’s a bad movie but the fact that animals are actually attacking people makes it a special, one-of-a-kind film experience.
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Dec 14, 2018 15:16
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DeimosRising posted:I was gonna say, just the perspective we need on an uprising of the poor: a cop’s You know how the Walking Dead and other bad zombie properties are about the fantasy of exterminating undesirables? What if we made a movie about that but from the perspective of people who already have that power?
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Dec 14, 2018 15:38
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Coffee And Pie posted:I’m not sure I really understand the whole killing zombies=murdering minorities connection? Besides, most (good) zombie movies aren’t about the zombies at all. Zombies are other people that it’s okay to kill because they’re a mindless horde. Look at Fox News, Trump, or any conservative outlet talking about the migrant caravan, a group of people fleeing from horrific poverty and violence for a better life in America, as an existential threat to America, and look at the photos of women and children getting attacked with tear gas. See also, what kind of people horde guns because of the upcoming race wars? Bad zombie media gives these kind of people an outlet for their terror, a place where they can swap in any Other for the zombies getting mowed down.
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Dec 14, 2018 15:52
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Not all zombie media is racist, and I think we all agree that Night of the Living Dead is about racism leading to our own undoing. Again, it’s the bad zombie fiction that just focuses on the slaughter and doesn’t use zombies as a stand-in for other societal ills like mass consumerism or racism.
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Dec 14, 2018 16:08
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Coffee And Pie posted:I get that but like I can’t think of any movies where people take a “kill em all” kinda glee in killing zombies, it’s usually more offense and being sad for them. But then, I don’t really watch Walking Dead. The Walking Dead is nominally about interpersonal conflicts leading to tragedy in the face of catastrophe, but when they have a closeup on a Gerber(R) knife set and show people hacking zombies apart with that poo poo, you can tell they’re appealing to baser desires.
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Dec 14, 2018 16:14
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Coffee And Pie posted:Yeah, actually in retrospect there is a group of humans enjoying the apocalypse: the nazi biker gang. Also it’s surprising how long it took me to notice all of the nazi poo poo they have. Now chew on this: the most popular character on the Walking Dead is a biker whose brother was a neo-Nazi.
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Dec 14, 2018 16:18
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Coffee And Pie posted:Is he also a Nazi? From what I watched (didn’t even finish season 2 because show sucks mondo rear end), they never say he’s a Nazi, but they never NOT say he’s a Nazi, and he’s plagued by visions of his dead Nazi brother yelling at him.
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Dec 14, 2018 16:25
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