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Open Source Idiom posted:Ehat films are you thinking about? I think the only A24 horror films I've seen are Hereditary and Midsummer, though I suspect you're not talking about either of them. I am pretty much talking about Hereditary and Midsommar. I think both those films dragged way too long and the horror elements were scant or body horror that current audiences aren't used to for some reason. I mean when the head popped off in Hereditary it was literally a mannequin sticking its body halfway out which is lower production value and less believable than some 80s gore horror. But either way like I said I don't dislike all A24 or slower films. I think the VVitch is one of the best horrors ever made, and even dramas that have tacked on horror like Saint Maud were extremely good films. I think that Midnight Mass falls more towards the Hereditary side than the VVitch side. I just don't get the enjoyment and I can't see how people watch that stuff without having their cellphone out sometimes. Not that slow is boring, but slow plus ponderous is.
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Doltos posted:I am pretty much talking about Hereditary and Midsommar. I think both those films dragged way too long and the horror elements were scant or body horror that current audiences aren't used to for some reason. I mean when the head popped off in Hereditary it was literally a mannequin sticking its body halfway out which is lower production value and less believable than some 80s gore horror. But either way like I said I don't dislike all A24 or slower films. I think the VVitch is one of the best horrors ever made, and even dramas that have tacked on horror like Saint Maud were extremely good films. I watch a lot of horror movies at 1.25x speed, at least for the first half. If I let my mind wander I might miss something, but speeding it up keeps me engaged. Most services automatically adjust the pitch so speeding the movie up doesn't make them sound like chipmunks.
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Lmao monologuing about "the state of horror" making you sad sounds like something that would be in an A24 film.
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Doltos posted:I know this is a small microcosm of the internet but you guys make me depressed at the current state of horror Yes, and most major horror writers film makers on Twitter are raving about midnight mass because it’s loving great.
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RenegadeStyle1 posted:Lmao monologuing about "the state of horror" making you sad sounds like something that would be in an A24 film. Yea but the difference is it wasn't over 10 pages with people quoting me saying it's brilliant
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Sarah Paulson is a national treasure. "He loved my fudge."
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That birthing scene at the end was  . And then  This is a surprisingly decent mini season of 3 stories.
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On the one hand I want to be sour because what is arguably the best season of AHS since Asylum is only 4 episodes long But on the other hand, that's probably why it's actually good
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4 episodes doesn't give you any time to mess around, I think this might be the best way to do AHS. The current timeline stuff especially feels very compact and to the point. Kids go camping, get abducted, end up pregnant in Area 51. The stuff that would normally end up in a weird, meandering subplot (Steve Jobs is alive, the anti-tech professor) just gets to stand on its own as a little bit of world building.
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You know you've now cursed us with the next episode being a flashback to explain Steve Jobs and the luddite professor, and other unimportant subplots.
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By the way, did the name Valiant Thor set off anybody else's "too weird to be made up by AHS" alarm? Cause it definitely set mine off. I googled and, sure enough, it's from a real conspiracy theory involving Eisenhower and aliens. https://wcpi.ca/valiant_thor/ For a moment I thought it was just a way to shoehorn Cody Fern in, because "creepy well-dressed slightly aloof fancy man who turns out to be a robot" is undoubtedly a great fit. Turns out it's an even better fit than I realized because it fits directly with the subject matter. A Fancy Hat posted:4 episodes doesn't give you any time to mess around, I think this might be the best way to do AHS. So true. Just like with the clunker episode in Part 1 where they tried to go back and explain stuff. Some stuff is better unexplained!
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Doltos posted:Yea but the difference is it wasn't over 10 pages with people quoting me saying it's brilliant I think I missed the part where you gave me an example of a *good* movie from the past five years that hasn't depressed you about "the state of horror."
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timp posted:On the one hand I want to be sour because what is arguably the best season of AHS since Asylum is only 4 episodes long Also the only two seasons to involve aliens. Coincidence? Or just an unsolved mystery? I did like that in the first episode of this mini-season, the girl mentions Betty and Barney Hill, who were part of the inspiration for the Asylum alien plot. Though I did think it was a missed opportunity for her not to actually look up Kit and Alma Walker rather than the Hills. timp posted:By the way, did the name Valiant Thor set off anybody else's "too weird to be made up by AHS" alarm? Cause it definitely set mine off. I googled and, sure enough, it's from a real conspiracy theory involving Eisenhower and aliens. This whole season has been based on a conspiracy theory about Eisenhower making a treaty with aliens that popped up in the late 70s. As kind of a tie-in to this episode, a lot of UFO folklorists will point out that the claim that aliens landed on a military base in the West and made a treaty with the government somehow developed and started spreading right after Close Encounters of the Third Kind came out. Speaking of Valiant Thor, I did have a chuckle at this episode having the aliens tell the US in a scene set in October 1957 that their technology is decades ahead of the Soviets, only to then reveal that the US space program is entirely a hoax while (presumably) the Soviets actually did do all their space achievements. killer crane posted:You know you've now cursed us with the next episode being a flashback to explain Steve Jobs and the luddite professor, and other unimportant subplots. Well, the next episode is the last, so that would definitely be a double downer if that's what is covered!
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timp posted:By the way, did the name Valiant Thor set off anybody else's "too weird to be made up by AHS" alarm? Cause it definitely set mine off. I googled and, sure enough, it's from a real conspiracy theory involving Eisenhower and aliens. There's a band named Valiant Thorr, I didn't know it was an actual thing. I guess the name fits since they claim to be aliens.
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This show is such a facepalmer. That ending to Episode 9 had me laughing into my fingers for a solid half-minute. So incredibly dumb, yet decent popcorn all the same.
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Memnaelar posted:I think I missed the part where you gave me an example of a *good* movie from the past five years that hasn't depressed you about "the state of horror." I listed a couple for A24 but my list for the last five years is: The Endless The Color Out of Space Host The Void The Lighthouse The Autopsy of Jane Doe Train to Busan I Am Not A Serial Killer Saint Maud Rent - A - Pal Censor His House The Witch Even most of those are pretty meh. It's really that the big names like Hereditary, Midsommar, the Babadook, and It Follows taught directors that they can just slap drama on to something and call it horror while being repetitive and droning. Get Out and A Quiet Place are so unbelievably overrated that it feels like audiences are starved for anything that has an interesting plot, much less being scary.
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Doltos posted:I listed a couple for A24 but my list for the last five years is: I liked quite a few that you list there; it's weird that you list them off as examples of "good" but then say most of them are "pretty meh." I suppose I'm glad I'm able to like as much as I do. I mean, of those, is there any you can unreservedly say. "I really like what it did" or have the last five years really been that hard on you?
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I promise this isn't a build-up to you actually exposing some true part of your soul, getting all vulnerable in admitting without cynicism that something touched you, and me turning around and responding "LOL that one sucked tho." ...or is it? ;-)
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Memnaelar posted:I liked quite a few that you list there; it's weird that you list them off as examples of "good" but then say most of them are "pretty meh." I suppose I'm glad I'm able to like as much as I do. Just nix censor, saint maud, his house, rent-a-pal, I am not a serial killer, and every other slow burner except for the Witch and Lighthouse and that's my list of I really like what it did. Really slow burners aren't that bad but movies insist on being an hour and 30 minutes long so you end up watching most of them and getting the point 5 minutes in then being subjected to 85 more minutes of quiet dialogue.
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What in the gently caress was that finale
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Lt Jon Kavanaugh posted:What in the gently caress was that finale First time?
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Lt Jon Kavanaugh posted:What in the gently caress was that finale Perfection. All the young people died, Henry Kissinger is a lizard person, the aliens were after our thetans. Just perfect.
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I like drama so I guess I don't see anything wrong with it. Plus I feel like drama and horror were always pretty closely linked anyway. Life and death stakes are one of the most dramatic things I can think of.
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What a poo poo season. Just endless reams of undrammatic exposition. Frances Conroy was good at least, in the first half.
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lol that was it? yeah this is a totally forgettable season
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I feel like the alien half could have used one more episode, and the Provincetown half could have used one fewer episode.
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I really liked the black and white scenes and the send ups of Kissinger, Nixon, and LBJ. They shouldn't have had the time jumps to the future running throughout the season. Just a missed opportunity to suddenly switch to color and show a present day situation.
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Doltos posted:I really liked the black and white scenes and the send ups of Kissinger, Nixon, and LBJ. They shouldn't have had the time jumps to the future running throughout the season. Just a missed opportunity to suddenly switch to color and show a present day situation. Yeah, having just watched it I can't help but feel it would've played better in chronological order (and then made it kind of a big thing when all the characters from the black and white segments show up again at the very end, and then made the ending not a mess, and etc etc)
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The finale didn't really feel it wrapped anything up. It just kinda stopped. It also felt like the reptilian thing might go somewhere and then they're like 'Oh, yeah, them, no big deal'
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As an end to a normal story written by humans it wasn't very good, but compared to other AHS seasons this was a fantastic ending.
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I'm finally caught up and that was... something. The back half of the season was fun but yeah that was really abrupt
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watched the first episode. meh. just like last years. of course they have to make a callback to a previous AHS season out of the blue
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I love how indecipherable the ending would be to someone who has never watched american horror story. Was anyone desperately wanting to know Spaulding's backstory?
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The alien half of last season was a "skip" for me. Still pissed no mermaids. Was still excited to see new Stories pop up! Sexy Clown Mommy was maybe going to be a pretty standard evil wins until the pivot at the end which didn't feel very earned. I think I'd like the ending more if they chucked the kid in the well instead of letting him tag along.
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So apparently there's beensome drama happening in the non-SA AHS fandom community. A few weeks ago most of the major AHS twitter feeds got tired of posting into the void and published an open letter declaring their intent to stop promoting the show until there was some season 11 news to promote. The "strike" began Monday, and one day later, FX complied by acknowledging during a media event that season 11 is definitely going to happen. There are no actual details like a date or theme yet, but it's more than we had before. Collective action works, now let's do it in our real jobs
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haveblue posted:So apparently there's beensome drama happening in the non-SA AHS fandom community. A few weeks ago most of the major AHS twitter feeds got tired of posting into the void and published an open letter declaring their intent to stop promoting the show until there was some season 11 news to promote. The "strike" began Monday, and one day later, FX complied by acknowledging during a media event that season 11 is definitely going to happen. There are no actual details like a date or theme yet, but it's more than we had before. Collective action works, now let's do it in our real jobs poo poo that's actually pretty cool
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haveblue posted:So apparently there's beensome drama happening in the non-SA AHS fandom community. A few weeks ago most of the major AHS twitter feeds got tired of posting into the void and published an open letter declaring their intent to stop promoting the show until there was some season 11 news to promote. The "strike" began Monday, and one day later, FX complied by acknowledging during a media event that season 11 is definitely going to happen. There are no actual details like a date or theme yet, but it's more than we had before. Collective action works, now let's do it in our real jobs What the gently caress is an AHS news account. Seriously I read that entire open letter and I'm still not entirely sure what the dynamic is here. They all have unique logos and regional designators? Is it a volunteer fan-based thing, or are they paid affiliates of FX/AHS? Is this common for TV series??
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I think they're just AHS stans, and effectively are free promotion for Fox. They're also the ones seeing internet engagement waning with nothing new coming out. They feel like they've developed a symbiotic relationship with the show, and are threatening to stop that relationship if Fox remains silent about the upcoming season.
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