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Basebf555 posted:Someone in a PYF thread said they are embarrassed about what their favorite movie was when they were a teenager, but at least now that they're older and wiser they have a legit favorite to be proud of.....Cabin in the Woods. Lol I still really like Cabin in the Woods. That’s a helluva snipe.
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Fart City posted:I put American Beauty and Crash in the same genre of romanticized pretension.
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Jan 17, 2019 20:12
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Drunkboxer posted:I generally agree with you but some people “of a certain age” had to deal with the weird cult following it got from tedious college assholes when it first came out on dvd. I understand the backlash. When a friend first showed me this movie he unironically said I would want to be just like the guys in it after I saw it. It was the weirdest poo poo. "You'll wanna go buy a peacoat as soon as it's done." "What?"
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Jan 17, 2019 20:16
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Yeah, I had a couple of conversations that amounted to: "This movie will change your life." "Uh, why?"
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Jan 17, 2019 20:19
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I feel like one of the few constants of the universe is if someone owns a Boondock Saints shirt they have punched a woman during sex.
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Jan 17, 2019 20:20
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I finally saw Boondocks Saints when I was 20 and I didn’t get it
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Jan 17, 2019 20:21
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To add more to that story, the friend in question was a guy from New York that practically fetishized Boston and the Irish.
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Jan 17, 2019 20:22
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CelticPredator posted:I finally saw Boondocks Saints when I was 20 and I didn’t get it It definitely feels like a movie that only really works if you are exposed to it between the ages of 15-17.
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Jan 17, 2019 20:22
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Fart City posted:I feel like one of the few constants of the universe is if someone owns a Boondock Saints shirt they have punched a woman during sex. This checks out IME
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Jan 17, 2019 20:29
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CelticPredator posted:I still really like Cabin in the Woods. I do too, it's a fun movie. I think it sometimes gets more praise than it deserves though (hence the backlash), and someone calling it their all-time favorite movie of any genre is a little  .
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Jan 17, 2019 20:33
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Greetings. Habitual lurker here. Decided to post since I feel like I'm running into a dead-end: If I have Amazon Prime and Netflix, are there any horror movies in either that I might be overlooking worth the while?
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Jan 17, 2019 20:36
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Wark Say posted:Greetings. Habitual lurker here. Decided to post since I feel like I'm running into a dead-end: If I have Amazon Prime and Netflix, are there any horror movies in either that I might be overlooking worth the while? The Ritual is a pretty great Netflix exclusive, as is Hush. I think it also has The VVitch still? And Cabin In The Woods is perfectly fine, but would have been better without the Whedon  factor
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Jan 17, 2019 20:41
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gey muckle mowser posted:I do too, it's a fun movie. I think it sometimes gets more praise than it deserves though (hence the backlash), and someone calling it their all-time favorite movie of any genre is a little I can see it sorta. If horror movies aren’t your thing, but you kinda like some here and there, Cabin kind of plays off as a big “catch all” with a slight jab at them. Also if you’re a big Whedonite or whatever they’re called, that would help. I think people say it’s too hateful of horror but I don’t feel like it is, on a whole. It’s definitely making GBS threads on horror, but it feels specific rather than as a whole. 2009-2012 horror was kind of weak. Lots of lame zombie movies and the tail end of the torture porn garbage. Maybe some James Wan stuff thrown in. It felt kinda empty to me. I feel like it’s been getting amazing as of late with A24’s offerings. So maybe the movie ended up on a meta level working considering the best horror films made today don’t really follow the classic formula but something weirder and different. Maybe I’m wrong here since I don’t watch everything.
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Jan 17, 2019 20:42
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Wark Say posted:Greetings. Habitual lurker here. Decided to post since I feel like I'm running into a dead-end: If I have Amazon Prime and Netflix, are there any horror movies in either that I might be overlooking worth the while? Do you prefer newer stuff or older stuff? What about foreign films? Netflix has The Ritual, The Eyes of My Mother, The Void, As Above, So Below, and The Devil's Candy, just to name a few. Those are all lesser known horror movies from the past few years that you may have missed.
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Jan 17, 2019 20:43
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For a sec I was getting Cabin In The Woods and Cabin Fever mixed up. Cabin Fever did have this, uh... thing in it though... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34g_IwinwnI
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Jan 17, 2019 20:46
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Wark Say posted:Greetings. Habitual lurker here. Decided to post since I feel like I'm running into a dead-end: If I have Amazon Prime and Netflix, are there any horror movies in either that I might be overlooking worth the while? I recommend using JustWatch to browse - you can filter by service, genre, etc. Here is a list of all horror movies currently on Netflix for example: https://www.justwatch.com/us/provider/netflix/movies?genres=hrr Some on there that I personally liked a lot are The Ritual, Raw, Hush, Green Room, The Autopsy of Jane Doe, Train to Busan, Creep/Creep 2, As Above So Below, Murder Party
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CelticPredator posted:I still really like Cabin in the Woods. I hate that film. Wark Say posted:Greetings. Habitual lurker here. Decided to post since I feel like I'm running into a dead-end: If I have Amazon Prime and Netflix, are there any horror movies in either that I might be overlooking worth the while? On Netflix I'd recommend: The Ritual, Veronica, The Babadook, Cult of Chucky, Apostle, I Am The Pretty Thing That Lives In The House, The VVitch, Krampus, Train to Busan, Dawn of the Dead (2004), Scream, Coraline, Monster House, Scream 2 and Let Me In. I'm in Canada so some of these may not be available to you.
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Jan 17, 2019 20:48
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It’s good. It’s the second movie I’ve seen that when I thought “man I wish this would happen” the movie did it. Kong Skull Island was the other one
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Jan 17, 2019 20:49
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Lurdiak posted:I hate that film. Off the top of my head I'm pretty sure Krampus is not on U.S. Netflix.
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Jan 17, 2019 20:51
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Netflix is really bleeding licenses lately, last time I checked their horror section there was at least 30 more "names" on there.
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Jan 17, 2019 20:52
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There’s one scene in Cabin in the Woods that propels it to greatness for me. Not greatest of all time status, but still one of my favorite movies ever. You know the scene.
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Jan 17, 2019 20:55
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Basebf555 posted:Do you prefer newer stuff or older stuff? What about foreign films? There was one which, if I don't misremember, was a Danish movie about this cute lady with short, boyish hair that hulks out when she puts a raincoat and it has a very Jekyll/Hyde thing going on. Can't for the life of me remember the name, and I immensely regret not jotting down the name of the movie.  OTOH, whoa, a lot of recs in no time! I wrote them all down and I think I'll be quite busy in my down time. Thanks! 
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Jan 17, 2019 20:56
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colachute posted:There’s one scene in Cabin in the Woods that propels it to greatness for me. Not greatest of all time status, but still one of my favorite movies ever. The wolf make out sesh?
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Jan 17, 2019 20:56
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colachute posted:There’s one scene in Cabin in the Woods that propels it to greatness for me. Not greatest of all time status, but still one of my favorite movies ever. Assuming you're talking about the bike jump scene, I bet that's even more effective today for someone who hasn't seen the movie because they'd be even more certain that Hemsworth wasn't going to die right there.
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Jan 17, 2019 20:57
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My biggest gripe with Cabin In The Woods is that the B plot of the behind-the-scenes bureaucracy of the facility and the engineers is way more interesting than the survivors plot, and every time it jumps back and forth it degrades the momentum.
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Jan 17, 2019 21:00
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cabin in the woods is a parody/spoof/pastiche (whatever you wanna call it) of the horror genre made by people who don't watch horror movies for people who don't watch horror movies
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Jan 17, 2019 21:06
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I like meta movies. Any genre any kind. Also the scene is the monsters escape scene which rules so much and I wish more movies would just let loose a bunch of creatures.
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Jan 17, 2019 21:10
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And they should all be really cool, and some of them should be sexy, and they should be my friends. So I agree that someone should make a sequel to Nightbreed.
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Jan 17, 2019 21:12
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Nightbreed was cool. I wish someone would make a Dr. Decker toy. Love Davy Chronebone.
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Jan 17, 2019 21:13
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Kvlt! posted:cabin in the woods is a parody/spoof/pastiche (whatever you wanna call it) of the horror genre made by people who don't watch horror movies for people who don't watch horror movies Maybe more precisely it’s for people who thought horror was still in the post-80s slasher boom slump. I still enjoyed it for the monster mash aspect and I think the general idea is good, but I don’t super like the satire.
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CelticPredator posted:I like meta movies. Any genre any kind. That scene's good and I appreciate the work of all the various special effects people who worked on each monster to give it a distinct look, but I don't think the entire rest of the movie is even mildly enjoyable so that sequence alone can't hold it up for me. The biggest problem with the movie is that it thinks it's clever and funny, and it's neither, and that's really grating.
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I disagree, I find a lot of it funny and I love the idea of chemicals and technology making people do dumb things in horror movies.
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Jan 17, 2019 21:17
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Lurdiak posted:That scene's good and I appreciate the work of all the various special effects people who worked on each monster to give it a distinct look, but I don't think the entire rest of the movie is even mildly enjoyable so that sequence alone can't hold it up for me. Joss Whedon has made a career of horror-adjacent work, but it’s very clear he doesn’t actually understand horror mechanically at all.
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Jan 17, 2019 21:18
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I really wanted to like Nightbreed more than I did, after knowing it only by reputation for a long time. I was way more into Cronenberg's thing than I was with the "city of monsters" concept. I wanted the whole movie to be about the interplay between the hero and his psychiatrist and none of the sympathetic monster stuff.
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Jan 17, 2019 21:21
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Really sad I missed Boondocks Saints bashing so *taps mic* The Boondock Saints is Donnie Darko for people who have screamed a racial slur at a TV while a sports game was on.
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Jan 17, 2019 21:23
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97x2y1Ks2tk It should be a crime for YouTube to compress this to 480p after I went through so much trouble getting a european sourced 576p copy. It completely loses all the detail in YouTube compression. Anyway, it may look marginally better than other copies on YouTube.
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Jan 17, 2019 21:36
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Windows 98 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97x2y1Ks2tk NMS that poo poo dude. I got so scared I poo poo my pants and now I’m fired from work because I’m not wearing pants.
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Jan 17, 2019 21:39
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Drunkboxer posted:NMS that poo poo dude. I got so scared I poo poo my pants and now I’m fired from work because I’m not wearing pants. It’s a bold strategy, but you made the right move.
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Jan 17, 2019 21:41
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:Inferno's okay. I mostly don't regard it super highly because I like cats and that movie, uh, does not. Make sure to check out the movies he wrote/produced though! Especially Demons 1/2 and The Church are top tier films.
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Fart City posted:It definitely feels like a movie that only really works if you are exposed to it between the ages of 15-17. as someone in undergrad when it came out, i loving wish it stopped having any appeal to people at 17
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