SuperMechagodzilla posted:

How the gently caress did you get scared watching the joss whedon comedy movie.

Sweet Tea posted:

pulp fiction is the best romantic comedy imo

Hector Beerlioz posted:

Nothing like a movie that makes you think of better ones.

West SAAB Story posted:

like any other joss wheaties movie or show its the same loving thing with a different girl (that he wants to be(

Revitalized posted:

wait really?

I remember like a million references in that movie but I don't remember The Thing. Was it in that awesome end sequence?

Revitalized posted:

wait really?

I remember like a million references in that movie but I don't remember The Thing. Was it in that awesome end sequence?

Sweet Tea posted:

do your loving research before you start a thread, you little bitch

Sweet Tea posted:

just because there's a helicopter and snow it doesn't mean it's a reference to the thing.


dumbass.

A Wizard of Goatse posted:

I was on board with Cabin in the Woods until the stoner character didn't die because of course the Troper has to be the one with the skills to pull through being axe murdered

naem posted:

Merman

naem posted:

I would have liked to see KEVIN

When the monsters are getting loose from their glass cages and its pandemonium, explosions, just have a quiet moment of a cage opening with the word KEVIN on it and a lone 29 year old guy with glasses steps out wearing blue jeans and a tshirt, walking calmly down the hallway

Gaunab posted:

The only good horror comedy is Shaun of the Dead

Zazi posted:

jesus christ that breakdown on the AV Club is retarded.

"Batdragon - a reference to the vampires from Blade, by the way the bat's mouth opens."

or just generally something slapped together by the CG department for the loving retarded end sequence


seriously that film was actually quite good until they went down into the facility and it's just a bunch of garbage jammed on the screen for 20 minutes of pointless gore.

Zazi posted:

Because there's nothing of merit to be said about the exact nature of the horror movie dynamic. That AV Club review finished with a blanket statement that we, the audience/old gods, keep coming back to see the same movies being made over and over, with the same ritualistic character-death dynamic and that we apparently 'need' to move away from this dynamic and work from a fresh slate.

The problem is that the state of horror movies has long since moved from there, with the exception of starter works (student and low budget films that no one really expects to make it big, mostly exist as a training exercise). Horrific comedy pastiche films have been making essentially the exact same tired point for as long as the cliche has existed, except they usually don't have the massive sense of self-importance required to go all the way and make it so overtly meta-textual. They tend to just present a stock-standard horror storyline with exaggerated features and rely on the audience to recognise that the cliche is being evoked intentionally specifically because of its absurdity.

Yes, you still see the occasional horror film that ends with the one girl walking out alive formula (see the 2011 The Thing for instance), but even those never have the whole nerd/jock/slut/nice guy story plan that's being essentially complained about or, if they do, as mentioned it's being made light of.

So what you've got is a film that starts off with a reasonably interesting premise that gives its audience the credit of seeing that it's highlighting certain classic elements of horror films [edit] while gently bringing in a new angle with the amusing juxtaposition of the obscene horror with the mundane office environment [/edit]. But then it seems to jarringly run out of ideas, to the point of even not knowing how to end itself. Everything interesting about it just stops, and we see a 20 minute gore fest that rubs in a point that I don't think was there when the movie started by simply pointing at horror movie tropes and acting as if lampshade hanging was itself a replacement for interesting commentary.

yeah yeah yeah trap sprung etc.

A misanthrope posted:

Wicker Man posted:

It bugs me that all the monsters share an unspoken alliance with each other. Should have been some monster infighting.

gnarlyhotep posted:

I'm thinking about imposing a new thread limit per day on redshirt

I know you have no life dude but drat

Skilleddk posted:

its a bad movie because it tries to be scary but then goes into comedy

its neither scary nor funny

Monkey Fracas posted:

I feel like as a person that has wasted a lot of time watching B-horror flicks that it was made for me

Monkey Fracas posted:

wait like the original original or the john carpenter movie they made that lovely prequel film out of a few years ago

the original film from the 50's is kinda unremarkable


if you haven't seen the one from the 80s ya you need to watch that

Djeser posted:

oh yeah the item they chose was 100% bullshit

if you're gonna play on expectations do the loving mermen or something

Mr. Popo posted:

Joss Whedon's career

Mr. Popo posted:

Joss Whedon's career

etherealshaq posted:

the best horror movie is the texas chain saw massacre, how is this even an argument

Say Nothing posted:

Board o' monsters.
I like how witches and sexy witches are in separate categories.