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Uncle Boogeyman posted:i'd have to read the script but it doesn't even really seem like a premise so much as an opening scene Yeah I agree that it's basically enough for an opening that's about it.
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Granted I’m a bit of a partisan for the Nightmare movies, but at this point if we’re not counting the remake (and why would we?) I’d only rate one of the movies as straight up lousy and I’d put three of em in my all time top 50
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I don’t hate the remake as much as a lot of people here. Which is to say I think it’s just bad as opposed to the worst thing ever
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Jun 29, 2019 22:23
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it's pretty funny jackie earle haley thinks the original is poo poo.
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Jun 29, 2019 22:30
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I think the new Child's Play should kind of set a standard for how much you need to change up for a remake to feel like a fresh take, and not just a retread of what we've seen before. I wonder how a Nightmare on Elm Street would look if radically re-approached. Obviously it's still gotta feature Freddy in some manner, but maybe you change up the origin a bit? Maybe he's a vaguely human representation of some horrific entity that feeds off dreams, something to that effect. Kind of let the rest of the changes bleed out from that. Fun to think about this kind of stuff in the wake of some of the more original re-imaginings we've got lately. I think Gremlins would be wise to do something similar whenever that inevitably gets remade.
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My opinion on the remake has nothing to do with it being a remake, I just genuinely think it sucks rear end and doesn't utilize modern technology to take advantage of the concept or really understand the appeal of the antagonist at all.
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Jun 29, 2019 22:34
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Bert of the Forest posted:I think Gremlins would be wise to do something similar whenever that inevitably gets remade.
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Jun 29, 2019 23:51
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I fell asleep three loving times during the remake. Even the worst Freddy films were at least interesting.
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Shrecknet posted:Gremlins can never be remade because I will drive to Hollywood and prevent that from happening if they try. You're loving late, dude, Chris Columbus has already written the script for the soft reboot "sequel" and it's about to go into production.
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A movie about the Gremlins going on a road trip to stop Columbus and wrecking Hollywood in the process would be startlingly on brand though
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Shrecknet posted:A movie about the Gremlins going on a road trip to stop Columbus and wrecking Hollywood in the process would be startlingly on brand though That does sounds like something Joe Dante would do.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Granted I’m a bit of a partisan for the Nightmare movies, but at this point if we’re not counting the remake (and why would we?) I’d only rate one of the movies as straight up lousy and I’d put three of em in my all time top 50 Which one do you think is lousy?
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Jun 30, 2019 04:18
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That they never made an Elm Street movie called "the dream police" is a crime
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Jun 30, 2019 04:42
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Watched Summer of '84. I think I liked it? The tone is all over the place and it felt like it was forcing nostalgia too much most of the time but it had good performances and a great, unexpectedly bleak ending.
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el oso posted:Watched Summer of '84. I think I liked it? The tone is all over the place and it felt like it was forcing nostalgia too much most of the time but it had good performances and a great, unexpectedly bleak ending. I am totally the target audience for that type of movie, and the last 20 minutes or so is what really makes it stand out imho. I probably would have forgotten about ot otherwise.
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Almost Blue posted:Which one do you think is lousy? The Dream Child
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The Dream Child was a strange decision coming off a loving Renny Harlin sequel. Then again, I feel like 1989 is the year slasher movies died until Scream. People forget what a wasteland the early 90s was.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:The Dream Child was a strange decision coming off a loving Renny Harlin sequel. I guess it depends on if you count Candyman as a slasher, but even then that’s just 1 movie.
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The Peccadillo posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deLiDLkQzio For anyone not willing to sit through a minute or two of these, it's a new horror comedy satire of make-up tutorials by Australian comedian Claudia O'Doherty.
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Cool I guess that's me sorted for tomorrow at work. I love Claudia, she is excellent in the tv show LOVE
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I picked up The Auctioneer cause some of y’all (hundu and lt ken?) recommended it and I just want to say it’s loving me up I had to have a librarian go pull it out of the low circulation stacks or whatever, but it turns out it sold a million copies back in the day
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I got around to watching The Perfection last night. Very weird movie. It's like someone wanted to remake The Handmaiden, but set in America, with cellos.
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Franchescanado posted:For anyone not willing to sit through a minute or two of these, it's a new horror comedy satire of make-up tutorials by Australian comedian Claudia O'Doherty. I was going to comment but forgot. Yeah, she's kind of amazing. Didn't know what to expect after loving her charavter in Love, but she's pretty great in everything.
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el oso posted:Watched Summer of '84. I think I liked it? The tone is all over the place and it felt like it was forcing nostalgia too much most of the time but it had good performances and a great, unexpectedly bleak ending. The whole thing that makes this movie is the contrast between the ABC Afterschool Special cheerful childhood nostalgia tone of most of the movie and what comes at the end.
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Zwabu posted:The whole thing that makes this movie is the contrast between the ABC Afterschool Special cheerful childhood nostalgia tone of most of the movie and what comes at the end. It didn't really work for me. I was mostly bored and then the end came and that was definitely a bit of a surprise but it didn't redeem the whole movie imo.
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I dug it all the way through, but I'm the weird guy who likes both cheesy throwback afterschool special poo poo and bleak horror movies so 
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King Vidiot posted:I dug it all the way through, but I'm the weird guy who likes both cheesy throwback afterschool special poo poo and bleak horror movies so Same. For me it was one of those "I didn't realize I wanted both of these flavors at once" experiences.
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i watched Santa Sangre last night......hmmmm....
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Kvlt! posted:i watched Santa Sangre last night......hmmmm.... Yea it's definitely weird but good weird.
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I watched Us with my partner last night. We made a snack in the middle of it and she was too spooked for me to leave the room without her. I thought it was an interesting home invasion movie, not the ending felt a little clumsy? I liked the ideas and themes they were laying down but the execution felt they weren't sure how to translate them into a conclusion. I liked that there wasn't a distracting b plot, the TSA stuff in Get Out always feels like a drag in rewatches. Solid 8/10 anyone who's asking how they fed the rabbits or ran the tunnels is a goober, who gives a poo poo
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Tart Kitty posted:My opinion on the remake has nothing to do with it being a remake, I just genuinely think it sucks rear end and doesn't utilize modern technology to take advantage of the concept or really understand the appeal of the antagonist at all. This is pretty much it. You have the ability to really go crazy with the Dream World and do anything now, and...it does less than the first movie with it. Then it repeats scenes from the first movie (ie. wall Freddy) WORSE. Then it acts like it's about to do something different (ie. Childs Play 2019), and then...doesn't (plot twist that Freddy may have been falsely accused and thus a different, more sympathetic vengeful spirit...then nope, he's a molester). It could have really played around with micro-sleeping...but did nothing with it. Outside of the villain not being scary OR fun. And the kills are weak as hell. Part 5, as boring as it is, has the weird looking fridge scene and the goofy rear end comic book guy scene.
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Kvlt! posted:i watched Santa Sangre last night......hmmmm.... That was the first movie autorecommended to me after I rated a bunch of movies on a website. Coverbox didn't look like anything I'd watch but I ended up liking it so much I gave more Jodorowsky films a chance.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:i dunno, people act like it's a big tragedy we didn't get that one but i don't really get what makes it such a great premise. it's certainly way less inherently interesting than Dream Warriors or New Nightmare. firstly: it was the original concept for Freddy's Dead, and while it's not any great shakes, it's sure as poo poo better than that movie secondly: iirc that was a Peter Jackson script and... Peter Jackson in his heyday doing a Freddy movie would have loving owned
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Franchescanado posted:For anyone not willing to sit through a minute or two of these, it's a new horror comedy satire of make-up tutorials by Australian comedian Claudia O'Doherty. These are all really good.
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M_Sinistrari posted:That was the first movie autorecommended to me after I rated a bunch of movies on a website. Coverbox didn't look like anything I'd watch but I ended up liking it so much I gave more Jodorowsky films a chance. I mean Jodorowsky's a rapist so I don't really dig him as a person but I'm not gonna lie and say Santa Sangre wasn't an absolute MASTERPIECE of a film either.
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:firstly: it was the original concept for Freddy's Dead, and while it's not any great shakes, it's sure as poo poo better than that movie I wouldn’t really call Freddy’s Dead a good movie but I’ve developed a certain affection for it. And if Peter Jackson does a Nightmare movie in 1991, we don’t get Braindead, so yeah I still think everything worked out for the best.
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DeimosRising posted:I picked up The Auctioneer cause some of y’all (hundu and lt ken?) recommended it and I just want to say it’s loving me up I'm really glad to hear this book apparently isn't too hard to find!
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:I wouldn’t really call Freddy’s Dead a good movie but I’ve developed a certain affection for it.
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As a huge dork and fan of Cracked magazine (and Cracked Monster Party) when I was a kid, I was in the perfect frame of mind to love Freddy's Dead when I first saw it. I don't think I could watch it today without nostalgia goggles, so I doubt I could ever truly "hate" it.
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The child's play reboot is the best movie of the series. Seriously just a fantastic movie that you can tell was made with love and respect for the series
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