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Burkion posted:Also Dark Starr Since Dan O'Bannon wrote both did he plagiarize himself?
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Pandorum is a movie with fun leads and good production and an awesome concept, but absolutely shits its pants in execution. It also has some of the most horrendous editing I've ever seen in a wide release.
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Mar 11, 2019 03:39
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I've watched Pandorum like 3 times thinking "Man, I love every single thing about this on paper" and end up disappointed every time.
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Mar 11, 2019 03:41
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It's a film that just strangely Does Not Work in a way where I can't point to one thing in particular for its failure. It's essentially The Descent in space, which should be an easy win, but doesn't have the muscle behind the camera to push it over the finish line.
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Mar 11, 2019 03:51
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Burkion posted:Also Dark Starr Is this like a grimly revelatory ringo Starr biopic or what
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Mar 11, 2019 03:55
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Yeah I always find it interesting to reflect on what it is that certain films have, a certain brilliance or LIFE animating the writing or directing, that give them something, even sometimes with crappy budget or effects, that other similary budgeted films lack. Like Hellraiser is a film that looks like it has a fairly low budget. But the dialogue and writing are sharp and clever. Characters are good, the story compelling. Even with super low rent films like Phantasm and Sleepaway Camp, they are not clever like Hellraiser but have a certain sincerity and earnest quality that make them compelling to me that other low budget horror films absolutely lack.
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Fart City posted:Pandorum is a movie with fun leads and good production and an awesome concept, but absolutely shits its pants in execution. It also has some of the most horrendous editing I've ever seen in a wide release. I was under the impression that it was 2 separate scripts that were stitched together after the fact. The Quaid storyline and the Space Morlocks storyline have basically nothing to do with each other.
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Mar 11, 2019 04:56
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That would actually make a lot of sense and probably speak to why both those seemly interesting ideas never actually connect to make a good film.
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DeimosRising posted:Is this like a grimly revelatory ringo Starr biopic or what How have you not seen Dark Star
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Finally saw ReAnimator after 30 years of slacking and man that's a movie that doesn't waste any time.
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Easy Diff posted:Vampire Hunter D is good and Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust is near-perfection Haven’t seen either since my early teens, but I really disliked Vampire Hunter D for how it used its female characters. Bloodlust was overwhelmingly stunning but I doubt it’s as feminist as 14 year old me felt it was.
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Mar 11, 2019 09:08
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Zwabu posted:Since Dan O'Bannon wrote both did he plagiarize himself? Nah, he got everything from 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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Easy Diff posted:Vampire Hunter D is good and Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust is near-perfection Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust is great. I love the worldbuilding, it throws the weirdest things together and everything just works. It is the year 12000, nuclear holocaust happened, people live in Wild West-like towns, Vampires castles are gothic ruins with spaceships in them, mechanical horses, rail guns, motion-sensor lasers, monsters are real, giant manta rays swim in the desert and drugs can turn you into a ghost that shoots laserbeams. BioTech fucked around with this message at 13:37 on Mar 11, 2019 |
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Mar 11, 2019 13:34
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Reviews for Us are trickling in. https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/us_2019 It's at 100% with 39 reviews so far. The praise is glowing.
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Mar 11, 2019 13:39
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I watched Hellier. I'm not sure if it counts as a movie or a series. Either way it is really bad. Imagine if a dude got a Nigerian scam email but took it seriously and then when he found out there was no Nigerian prince's millions of dollars he decides it was never about the millions of dollars but in fact was the mothman.
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Mar 11, 2019 14:17
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Untrustable posted:I watched Hellier. I'm not sure if it counts as a movie or a series. Either way it is really bad. Imagine if a dude got a Nigerian scam email but took it seriously and then when he found out there was no Nigerian prince's millions of dollars he decides it was never about the millions of dollars but in fact was the mothman. It's really awful. You can literally see these people getting scammed in real-time. The first episode was good and kept me watching, but everything else after that was straight garbage. These people very, very stupid.
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Ehud posted:Reviews for Us are trickling in. dope
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So I saw Day of the Dead for the first time and I don't think I've been as hosed up or disturbed by a horror movie kill then when the zombies rip that one guy's head off while he's screaming and his voice shoots up several octaves because they tear apart his vocal cords. Like, I'm actually upset that I had to see that. I don't think horror movies are for me, guys...
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Al Cu Ad Solte posted:So I saw Day of the Dead for the first time and I don't think I've been as hosed up or disturbed by a horror movie kill then when the zombies rip that one guy's head off while he's screaming and his voice shoots up several octaves because they tear apart his vocal cords. Like, I'm actually upset that I had to see that. I don't think horror movies are for me, guys... That honestly stands out to me as one of the most brutal things in a horror movie. Like, top 10 at least.
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TheKingslayer posted:That honestly stands out to me as one of the most brutal things in a horror movie. Like, top 10 at least.  It's one of the few things I've seen in a movie that still disturbs me no matter how many times I've seen it.
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Al Cu Ad Solte posted:So I saw Day of the Dead for the first time and I don't think I've been as hosed up or disturbed by a horror movie kill then when the zombies rip that one guy's head off while he's screaming and his voice shoots up several octaves because they tear apart his vocal cords. Like, I'm actually upset that I had to see that. I don't think horror movies are for me, guys...
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Mar 11, 2019 16:07
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Neo Rasa posted:The 1970 Japanese movie Blind Woman's Curse is on Prime and that's a movie everyone here should see. Something I love about it is how the horror content is sort of on the fringes of society and of the characters' lives but interwoven into the trappings. Like when you watch it, you'll regularly start to think "huh, I guess this is more of a lighthearted sort of revenge romp more than anything" but then some poo poo goes down and it gets more and more frequent. It's not super gory by today's standards but what's there stands out and is memorable because of those sudden changes in tone. The main gist of it is a brutally escalating gang war that's both egged on by and also feeds the bloodlust of an evil black cat. So like it goes from folks goofing around/whatever to one of our friends has had the tattoo ripped off their back and they've been strung up in a tree and the tattoo has been pinned to our front door kind of stuff. Also stars Meiko Kaji (Lady Snowblood herself). Thank you for this, I watched it last night and it rules. I didn't realize it was the same director who did Horrors of Malformed Men, which by total coincidence I watched for the first time this weekend as well.
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TheKingslayer posted:That honestly stands out to me as one of the most brutal things in a horror movie. Like, top 10 at least. Scenarios where someone is aware of what’s happening to them as it slowly happens in real-time always makes sort of squirm. Like Pirhana 3D is a fairly goofy movie, but there’s a quick shot during the big attack on the lake where two guys are trying to carry an injured woman to safety and she’s pleading for them to stop, and she just suddenly falls apart at the waist that is similarly urgggh.
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gey muckle mowser posted:Thank you for this, I watched it last night and it rules. I didn't realize it was the same director who did Horrors of Malformed Men, which by total coincidence I watched for the first time this weekend as well. Awesome! Also thank you because I still have to see Horrors of Malformed Men, it's been on my list for a while. 
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Fart City posted:Scenarios where someone is aware of what’s happening to them as it slowly happens in real-time always makes sort of squirm. Pirhana 3d was always very upsetting to me because it seemed a movie that wanted to be seen as silly and fun despite a lot of unchecked misogyny and general misanthropy
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Mar 11, 2019 16:30
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Unfortunately par for course for an Aja joint
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Mar 11, 2019 16:31
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Fart City posted:Unfortunately par for course for an Aja joint I was always surprised Paul Scheer was cool with it considering he tends to be vocally socially conscious about his film roles
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Al Cu Ad Solte posted:So I saw Day of the Dead for the first time and I don't think I've been as hosed up or disturbed by a horror movie kill then when the zombies rip that one guy's head off while he's screaming and his voice shoots up several octaves because they tear apart his vocal cords. Like, I'm actually upset that I had to see that. I don't think horror movies are for me, guys... It’s the ones that stick with me like that that keeps me coming back. Day of the Dead is way better than its reputation.
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Neo Rasa posted:Awesome! Definitely check it out, it's on Prime as well. It gets way more bizarre and psychedelic than Blind Woman's Curse and the last act is some of the wildest poo poo I've ever seen.
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Drunkboxer posted:It’s the ones that stick with me like that that keeps me coming back. Day of the Dead is way better than its reputation. I think it's better than Dawn and that it's really not even a very close race. The atmosphere is better, the violence is more intense, and probably most important is that the characters are great. There are three or four characters in Day of the Dead that are more memorable than any in Dawn, at least in my opinion. For me the appeal of Dawn is all in the setting and Day has it beat in pretty much ever other area you can think of.
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day of the dead is like night of the living dead except every character is the father
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Pretty much every character in Day of the Dead is in some stage of a nervous breakdown. It would be a very tense watch even if it weren't for all the scenes of people being torn apart.
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Mel Mudkiper posted:I was always surprised Paul Scheer was cool with it considering he tends to be vocally socially conscious about his film roles I'm thinking that, intent or not, Piranha 3D is so over the top that it's basically making fun of it. Also, the main misogynist's dick being eaten off is so pointed to be ridiculous. That movie had some of the best CG deaths overall - they still managed to be pretty convincingly gory.
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Liberal Idiot posted:Pretty much every character in Day of the Dead is in some stage of a nervous breakdown. It would be a very tense watch even if it weren't for all the scenes of people being torn apart. I also like how half of the last remnants of humanity are useless angry assholes, because why should the endtimes be any different than the rest of history?
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Mar 11, 2019 17:23
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Liberal Idiot posted:Pretty much every character in Day of the Dead is in some stage of a nervous breakdown. It would be a very tense watch even if it weren't for all the scenes of people being torn apart. Rhodes is way scarier than any of the zombies in that movie. It kinda sinks in with the audience and the civilian characters at the same time, just how dangerous the situation really is.
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Darko posted:I'm thinking that, intent or not, Piranha 3D is so over the top that it's basically making fun of it. Also, the main misogynist's dick being eaten off is so pointed to be ridiculous. Piranha 3D is kind of a minor masterpiece imo
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Darko posted:I'm thinking that, intent or not, Piranha 3D is so over the top that it's basically making fun of it. Also, the main misogynist's dick being eaten off is so pointed to be ridiculous. The problem is that going "here, have naked hot women being violently killed" is not over the top enough to overcome the issues with it Like I respect Giallo and Mondo films because they acknowledge they are creating prurient art. Pirhana 3d seemed to believe it had rendered its violent misogyny harmless, which, to me, is far more toxic and dangerous.
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Burkion posted:How have you not seen Dark Star I was making a joke about how you spelled it with 2 Rs dude, I still have my parents’ Dark Star vhs, probably first saw it when i was 6 or 7
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I'd love to see Dark Star become Carpenter's first entry in the Criterion collection. I think it would really be a perfect selection for them, an underseen and underappreciated early film by a big name director.
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Untrustable posted:I watched Hellier. I'm not sure if it counts as a movie or a series. Either way it is really bad. Imagine if a dude got a Nigerian scam email but took it seriously and then when he found out there was no Nigerian prince's millions of dollars he decides it was never about the millions of dollars but in fact was the mothman. gently caress. I loved the first episode and paranormal stuff. Like no one will find poo poo but the hunt is the best part.
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