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I can see the appeal for Freddy’s Dead, but it’s just too lame imo. Too much nonsense. Honestly Talalay did a better job channeling this stuff into Tank Girl. It just feels too far for Freddy. Also his death is lame as hell.
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The weird thing about Child's Play 3 is that it's a pretty bland and boring movie but the British tabloids tried to blame it for a murder and get it banned. It was a weird aftershock of the Video Nasty scare.
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Oct 16, 2018 07:23
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Whoa now, ANOES 4-6 are solid (if dumb) horror sequels. I’d even say they’re more entertaining than the consistently-praised but secretly boring New Nightmare. Yeah, I re-watched New Nightmare a while ago and loving hell, what a slog to get through. It definitely gets praised for what it’s trying to achieve, rather than how successful it is in doing so. Also, was 4 the one with the guy screeching and flailing about while fighting an “invisible” Freddy? Good lord, that poo poo was stupid.
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Oct 16, 2018 09:14
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Vagabundo posted:Yeah, I re-watched New Nightmare a while ago and loving hell, what a slog to get through. It definitely gets praised for what it’s trying to achieve, rather than how successful it is in doing so. You have to give Craven credit for trying to redefine what the Nightmare series was at a time when horror - especially with slashers - was running on fumes. Unfortunately, rather than streamline it back down to the core concept and jettison the ridiculous mythology, he decided Freddy just needed a NEW ridiculous mythology.
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Oct 16, 2018 16:31
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Liberal Idiot posted:You have to give Craven credit for trying to redefine what the Nightmare series was at a time when horror - especially with slashers - was running on fumes. Unfortunately, rather than streamline it back down to the core concept and jettison the ridiculous mythology, he decided Freddy just needed a NEW ridiculous mythology. Craven was a creative talent, obviously, but then he also had a tendency to go for the same tricks multiple times and for me that gets tiresome when I watch his films. Probably the worst example that I noticed recently was Cursed, which he made about 10 years after Scream but he had to do that thing again where he puts a known actress on the poster and then kills her off in the first scene. But it's just so painfully obvious that's what he's doing, and sorry but Shannon Elizabeth isn't exactly a timeless name compared to Drew Barrymore. So the movie is already dated as gently caress because you watch it and you're like "oh yea haha I guess I was supposed to be surprised that they'd kill of major Hollywood star Shannon Elizabeth so soon".
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Basebf555 posted:Craven was a creative talent, obviously, but then he also had a tendency to go for the same tricks multiple times and for me that gets tiresome when I watch his films. Probably the worst example that I noticed recently was Cursed, which he made about 10 years after Scream but he had to do that thing again where he puts a known actress on the poster and then kills her off in the first scene. But it's just so painfully obvious that's what he's doing, and sorry but Shannon Elizabeth isn't exactly a timeless name compared to Drew Barrymore. So the movie is already dated as gently caress because you watch it and you're like "oh yea haha I guess I was supposed to be surprised that they'd kill of major Hollywood star Shannon Elizabeth so soon". I hadn't even heard of that film, and looking at the cast, it's funny how a whole bunch of the other cast members are now much bigger deals than Shannon Elizabeth (what is she even doing these days?), like Jesse Eisenberg. Reading up on the production issues, it's really unfortunate that the Weinsteins were involved, because a fair chunk of those problems can be pinned directly on those two loving pieces of poo poo.
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Oct 16, 2018 19:17
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Vagabundo posted:I hadn't even heard of that film, and looking at the cast, it's funny how a whole bunch of the other cast members are now much bigger deals than Shannon Elizabeth (what is she even doing these days?), like Jesse Eisenberg. Shannon Elizabeth is a strange case. I mean after the success of American Pie, it looked like she was going to become the next big "it girl." I guess 9/11 happened?
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Vagabundo posted:I hadn't even heard of that film, and looking at the cast, it's funny how a whole bunch of the other cast members are now much bigger deals than Shannon Elizabeth (what is she even doing these days?), like Jesse Eisenberg. The same thing easily could've happened with Scream, it's actually easy to forget that Drew Barrymore was in a weird kinda limbo in her career when she did Scream, she hadn't quite transitioned into adult roles successfully yet. So if not for stuff that came after Scream like The Wedding Singer, Charlies Angels, Ever After, Never Been Kissed etc., she might be just as forgotten. Especially compared to people like Courtney Cox, David Arquette, Jamie Kennedy, and Neve Campbell who all went on to have pretty big careers in the 2000s. Basebf555 fucked around with this message at 19:32 on Oct 16, 2018 |
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Just dropping in to back up that ANOES 4 is amazing. The movie theater/dream loop/roach motel block is maybe the best part of the series. It's definitely Renny Harlin's best movie behind Long Kiss Goodnight.
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Iron Crowned posted:Shannon Elizabeth is a strange case. I mean after the success of American Pie, it looked like she was going to become the next big "it girl." These days I just assume that any actress who was big for a while and then disappeared suddenly refused some handsy pervert.
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Oct 16, 2018 20:39
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Liberal Idiot posted:These days I just assume that any actress who was big for a while and then disappeared suddenly refused some handsy pervert. Usually a good assumption but Shannon Elizabeth really had no talent. There really was just nothing there, she was never going to be able to pull off any serious role.
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Liberal Idiot posted:These days I just assume that any actress who was big for a while and then disappeared suddenly refused some handsy pervert. Yeah, I bet she didn't play (with the) ball(s) and the scumbags blacklisted her. gently caress Hollywood forever.
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Basebf555 posted:Usually a good assumption but Shannon Elizabeth really had no talent. There really was just nothing there, she was never going to be able to pull off any serious role. She was a decent professional poker player.
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Basebf555 posted:Usually a good assumption but Shannon Elizabeth really had no talent. But yeah, oh man her delivery was Made for TV stilted.
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Teenage Fansub posted:Just dropping in to back up that ANOES 4 is amazing.
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david_a posted:I looked up Harlin’s filmography earlier because I also wondered if that was the case but I haven’t seen enough of them recently to make that claim. Looking at his work though, woof... He occasionally rises to the level “eh, pretty good I guess” in between a bunch of dreck. I remember that he came off as super, super smug in the Alien 3 special features, acting like he was far above the chaos going on while he was attached to that film... He's a strange case, because he never had like a fantastic run of films where you can look at those years and say "yea, I get why people thought he was a big deal". Right from the beginning he couldn't seem to go more than one or two movies without a spectacular failure. Between 1988 and 1995 he made Nightmare on Elm Street 4, Die Hard 2, and Cliffhanger(all successful).....but also in that same stretch he did The Adventures of Ford Fairlain and Cutthroat Island, two notorious flops. Then the same thing happened when he kinda came back a bit with The Long Kiss Goodnight and Deep Blue Sea, he then followed that up with two absolute turds in Mindhunters and Exorcist: The Beginning. He's gotta be one of the most inconsistent big-time directors ever.
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Whatever his faults, Renny Harlin at least won 2014's battles of the Herculeses against noted shitbag Brett Ratner.
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On paper Cutthroat Island is incredible. They blew up a real pirate ship! Frank Langella as a pirate captain! Geena Davis at the absolute peak of her physical beauty as a rogueish pirate! A gazillion dollars on sets! A great score! And it's a drat mess
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Oct 16, 2018 21:36
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Egbert Souse posted:On the fence about Carrie and Dead Ringers. Have you considered the German edition of Dead Ringers? I think it looks much better.
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Renny Harlin sucks rear end, but I'll be damned if NOES 4 and yes Ford Fairlane aren't both highly entertaining movies. Also, I want to say that Tuesday Knight revealed in a not so subtle way in Never Sleep Again that she got her part by banging Harlin, so there's that.
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So apparently this coming Saturday, 10/20, is International Video Store Day. Unbeknownst to me my town (Kansas CIty) has a video store! Who knew? It's called Video Mania. And like most remaining video stores it specializes in porn and lube. But I'm curious to check it out. Maybe they have a copy of Winterbeast!
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A bunch of Twilight Time blu-rays are 15 bucks for the rest of the month. These are they: Thunderbolt and Lightfoot Chato's Land The Panic in Needle Park Eye of the Needle Runaway Train Kiss of Death The Fortune Cookie Beneath the 12 Mile Reef Captain From Castile Wild Bill My Cousin Rachel The Incident Don't Bother to Knock Auto Focus The Birth of a Nation
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Oct 18, 2018 02:12
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Spatulater bro! posted:So apparently this coming Saturday, 10/20, is International Video Store Day. Unbeknownst to me my town (Kansas CIty) has a video store! Who knew? It's called Video Mania. And like most remaining video stores it specializes in porn and lube. Whoa cool! I've been going to an amazing shop in South Pasadena called Videotheque lately. I'll make sure to stop in there. And if you're in the area, that place RULES.
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Unmature posted:Whoa cool! I've been going to an amazing shop in South Pasadena called Videotheque lately. I'll make sure to stop in there. And if you're in the area, that place RULES. Yeah, I've been meaning to check it out.
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CPL593H posted:A bunch of Twilight Time blu-rays are 15 bucks for the rest of the month. These are they: I've heard of one of those.
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Oct 18, 2018 03:16
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CPL593H posted:A bunch of Twilight Time blu-rays are 15 bucks for the rest of the month. These are they: You neglected to mention Ice Age: Collision Course  Also Scream and Scream Again is only 
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CPL593H posted:A bunch of Twilight Time blu-rays are 15 bucks for the rest of the month. These are they: Ooof, I picked up The Birth of a Nation and Thunderbolt and Lightfoot; shipping was another $20 to Australia. Still, the Bergman Criterion set is *technically* going to count towards November's budget so I can make it work...
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Oct 18, 2018 03:58
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Runway Train is an amazing film. It starts off as the stupidest and dumbest eighties action film you can imagine. You have all these cliches, and then... It becomes gripping. You care about the characters. The one convict gets this amazing speech where he asks the other prison escapee what he's going to do, and the guy is like "I'm going to live on an island and be rich" and the convict is like "no, you might have a shot if you can take poo poo from a guy and not bash his head in." I love it.
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CPL593H posted:A bunch of Twilight Time blu-rays are 15 bucks for the rest of the month. These are they: poo poo, I ordered BOAN and Kiss of Death, but would have added Runaway Train. It wasn't showing up when I was looking at the site on my phone, so I guess it sold out? Just got a raise from work, so I don't feel as insane for giving into Shout, TT, and Criterion sales all at once. Hopefully Kino waits until next month to do one.
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Yeah, looks like Runaway Train is sold out. Thankfully, there’s also a UK Arrow release.
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Spatulater bro! posted:So apparently this coming Saturday, 10/20, is International Video Store Day. Unbeknownst to me my town (Kansas CIty) has a video store! Who knew? It's called Video Mania. And like most remaining video stores it specializes in porn and lube. My town's video store is the library. A nearby city has an actual video store that's a nonprofit.
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The Universal Monsters complete set is back up at Amazon at $115. https://www.amazon.com/Universal-Cl...m=ATVPDKIKX0DER I'm assuming these have the corrected discs.
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DeepDiscount has a BOGO sale on Olive Films releases: https://www.deepdiscount.com/deep-olive-films-bogo-sale/b233819?az=20-13829 All the Olive Signature releases have been excellent - especially The Quiet Man, Macbeth, Johnny Guitar, and High Noon. I’d also recommend their edition of The Stranger, which is the best master out there. Also, Olive’s upcoming Frank Capra WWII set will include Prelude to War and The Battle of Russia from the Why We Fight series plus The Negro Soldier, Tunisian Victory, and Your Job in Germany. Spatulater bro! posted:The Universal Monsters complete set is back up at Amazon at $115. https://www.amazon.com/Universal-Cl...m=ATVPDKIKX0DER Yes, per Robert Furmanek on HTF.
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Egbert Souse posted:DeepDiscount has a BOGO sale on Olive Films releases: Also is there some way of knowing if you get bad Creature discs. It's the only set I don't have yet.
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For anyone still into 3D and looking for a new TV: https://www.bestbuy.com/site/sony-65-class-led-z9d-series-2160p-smart-4k-uhd-tv-with-hdr/5480900.p?skuId=5480900 I picked one up this AM. Deal was too strong. Edit: what’s the go-to UHD player? I’m assuming XB1S/X, but maybe I’m wrong.
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Get an XBOX and a media remote if the gaming side of things interests you. If not, get a dedicated player.
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Looks like Arrow is now licensing from Warner Bros and they’re starting with William Friedkin’s Cruising. The only WB licensees have been Criterion and Shout! Factory besides two one-offs with BFI (Revolution and a DVD-only The Devils) and one with Twilight Time (Heaven & Earth).
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Egbert Souse posted:Looks like Arrow is now licensing from Warner Bros and they’re starting with William Friedkin’s Cruising. https://youtu.be/twEF6E4BVfo I’ve heard Cruising is a pretty hard watch. Is it worth checking out?
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Egbert Souse posted:Looks like Arrow is now licensing from Warner Bros and they’re starting with William Friedkin’s Cruising. Hope in there being a "Death To Smoochy" bluray release rising...
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