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Shrecknet posted:I will cop to getting angrier and angrier at scene after scene of endless driving/walking where nothing happened, or if it did it took ten minutes to do what should have taken 2 when there's no threat or conflict to ScarJo because every Scotsman willingly just follows a random girl into a spooky house because they're ruled by their dicks. Are you saying that you wouldn't follow ScarJo into a spooky house?
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Jul 29, 2019 17:17
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Jul 29, 2019 17:18
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Shrecknet posted:I will cop to getting angrier and angrier at scene after scene of endless driving/walking where nothing happened, or if it did it took ten minutes to do what should have taken 2 when there's no threat or conflict to ScarJo because every Scotsman willingly just follows a random girl into a spooky house because they're ruled by their dicks. It's a very slow pace, no argument there. I can understand that kind of pace not being for everyone. Personally though I was engrossed by that first hour, before you even get to the real changes that her character goes through. You're basically presented with a mystery. Why is she approaching these men? What is she doing with them? And the scenes are meticulously constructed so that you find out a little bit more each time. At first when she gets a guy in the car it just cuts away, the guy is never seen or heard from again. It builds to that moment where you finally do get to follow the guy all the way to the final destination, which is absolutely horrific. From there you get all the stuff with her developing as a character and maybe even as a human being, and there's a very clear character arc from that point. So to say that it's just a mood piece with no narrative or story is just inaccurate.
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Jul 29, 2019 17:23
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Pomp posted:My eyes did pee a little in blade runner tho I feel you my friend
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Iron Crowned posted:Are you saying that you wouldn't follow ScarJo into a spooky house? I'd drag my balls through a mile of broken glass if she invited me into a house to gently caress.
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Iron Crowned posted:Are you saying that you wouldn't follow ScarJo into a spooky house? I would, even knowing full well the consequences. It'd be worth it. I loved Under the Skin, but it's not a movie that I can view again and again because it really does prioritize style over substance. But the style is really, really good. You're shown an alien being working the problem of how to feed on human beings, you are told exactly nothing. It's like a hosed up nature documentary, showing the predator and prey play a game that plucks random Johns from the street. It's a scenario we've all entertained and seen before, the mysterious hitchhiker, but it's expressed in a day-in-the-life of a completely alien being that's fresh and novel. It really depends on the audience to figure out and spitball the exposition, but I dig a film that has the confidence to leave a little (to a lot) to the imagination.
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Jul 29, 2019 17:31
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I can hold pee for a 3 hour movie if I don’t drink anything during it. If I have a sparking water, I’m going to pee like 2 times. If have 2+ beers, forget about it, might as well just stay in the bathroom.
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Jul 29, 2019 17:38
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The problem with beer in a theater is that always intend to space it out but I end up drinking it all during the 30 minutes of commercials and trailers because I’m bored.
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Jul 29, 2019 17:40
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Under the Skin is one of the most perfect scifi-horrors ever made you weirdos.
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Jul 29, 2019 17:46
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It's really drat good, I loved it.
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weekly font posted:Under the Skin is the most perfect scifi-horror ever made you weirdos.
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Jul 29, 2019 17:53
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I think I’d probably like under the skin a lot more if I watched it again right now. But I dunno. It was not the film I wanted nor was into when it came out.
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Jul 29, 2019 17:55
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I"m definitely getting the urge to watch Under the Skin again. It's not a movie for summer though, it's a movie for a cloudy fall day with a crisp breeze.
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Jul 29, 2019 18:01
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Shrecknet posted:What I want to talk about is the idea of "mood pieces," and what anyone sees in them. Like, I get what they are, what I don't understand is why they exist. They're essentially really elaborate screen-savers or like those DVDs of fish aquariums. They serve no narrative purpose, and to me film/cinema is a narrative medium. Like, a book that was just endless descriptions of a beautiful flower-filled field would be horrible, because you need some sort of story. Any story will do, make the story about a bee flying from flower to flower getting more pollen and then having too much pollen to make it back to the hive, I don't care. But you have to give me something or I just cannot get into it. I don't think it's pretentious, I think it's unfinished. Am I way off base? The idea that films is purely a narrative medium is so strange to me. Do you think works like Man With a Movie Camera or Koyaanisqatsi are completely meaningless? That no one could derive pleasure from Meshes of the Afternoon or Last Year in Marienbad?
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weekly font posted:Under the Skin is one of the most perfect scifi-horrors ever made you weirdos. I have Under the Skin on my 2010's Letterboxd list as the #6 best horror film of the decade. I need to update it though and put Mandy on there.
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Shrecknet posted:I will cop to getting angrier and angrier at scene after scene of endless driving/walking where nothing happened, or if it did it took ten minutes to do what should have taken 2 when there's no threat or conflict to ScarJo because every Scotsman willingly just follows a random girl into a spooky house because they're ruled by their dicks. May your realisation of how much of a massive dork you're being about this movie come to you quicker than it ever did to me on countless other cool movies.
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Jul 29, 2019 18:14
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Under the Skin might be the best sci fi movie ever tbh
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Jul 29, 2019 18:17
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Basebf555 posted:I have Under the Skin on my 2010's Letterboxd list as the #6 best horror film of the decade. I need to update it though and put Mandy on there. Link to this list please
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COOL CORN posted:Link to this list please https://www.letterboxd.com/basebf555/list/best-horror-of-the-2010s/
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Jul 29, 2019 18:27
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I feel like I"m alone in not liking It Follows
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Iron Crowned posted:I feel like I"m alone in not liking It Follows Well there's a difference between liking it, which I think most people here do, and putting it as #1 of the decade. Opinions change over time though, looking at the list now I can say there's a few near the top that I'd probably slide down a few spots and also a few in the middle of the pack that I've rewatched and like even more now than when I made the list.
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weekly font posted:Under the Skin is one of the most perfect scifi-horrors ever made you weirdos. fine, fine, I, a pos(t)er who tends to love style and atmosphere in horror movies, will finally watch this "stylistic" "atmospheric" "movie" with "Scarlett Johannson" hey, it's on Netflix, that's neat Iron Crowned posted:I feel like I"m alone in not liking It Follows I first watched it back in October for the Challenge thread and I really, really did not like it. Not to the point of hating it; if someone likes it, I get it, but the atmosphere never clicked with me It doesn't help that I watched it right before Jennifer's Body, which I loved, so it suffers due to the largely unfair comparison (they both have fights in a pool, which is the entire reason I watched 'em the same day) e: because it always seems my opinions on It Follows are when basebf555 is talking about liking it and I don't want to seem like I'm pouncing on them when their posts are usually somewhere between agreeable and keen, I'll say that their 8/9/10 of The Ritual -> You're Next -> As Above, So Below is  and I could rewatch any of those most nights of the week
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Shrecknet posted:So I recently watched Under the Skin; here's my letterboxed review: This is the worst post I’ve seen in CD. Congrats!
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That is a beautiful, and sensible list. But for the life of me I cannot figure out what Crimson Peak is doing there. Is it like a participation grade sort of thing, because it's been the only real attempt at grand-gothic horror in the last few decades? As much as I sincerely wanted to enjoy and become immersed in the movie, it just felt like a hollow spectacle ala the last few decades of Tim Burton. The set pieces were cool, some shots memorable, but the story was paper thin, full of tropes and engaged very little. Pan's Labyrinth, on the other hand, is a loving masterwork.
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sponges posted:This is the worst post I’ve seen in CD. Congrats! I think it's a fairly reasonable opinion I just don't agree that it applies to Under the Skin. Adlai Stevenson posted:fine, fine, I, a pos(t)er who tends to love style and atmosphere in horror movies, will finally watch this "stylistic" "atmospheric" "movie" with "Scarlett Johannson" I was trying to broaden my roommate's horizons a little bit and he usually doesn't like slower, more atmospheric films so I sold him on Under the Skin by telling him that Scarlett Johannson gets naked in it. He seemed interested but then I came back the next day and asked if he wanted to watch the movie and he told me he'd just looked up all the nude scenes on youtube so he didn't need to watch it lol
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Adlai Stevenson posted:because it always seems my opinions on It Follows are when basebf555 is talking about liking it and I don't want to seem like I'm pouncing on them when their posts are usually somewhere between agreeable and keen, I'll say that their 8/9/10 of The Ritual -> You're Next -> As Above, So Below is I haven't seen As Above, So Below yet, but every time I see The Ritual on the Netflix feed, I think about watching it again.
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I love Under the Skin, As Above So Below, and It Follows. Anyway for all you baby bladder people, download Runpee. Let’s you know the best times to dip out to pee, tells you what happens while you’re there.
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Lords of Salem being #2 of the last decade is a bold statement and might actually get me to watch it finally.
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COOL CORN posted:Lords of Salem being #2 of the last decade is a bold statement and might actually get me to watch it finally. I'm a gargantuan Rob Zombie nut so I'm biased but it's one of my favorite movies of all time and probably his best after Rejects and Halloween II. It's a beautiful movie, and Sheri Moon does a fantastic job in the lead.
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Iron Crowned posted:I haven't seen As Above, So Below yet, but every time I see The Ritual on the Netflix feed, I think about watching it again. If you have that kind of reaction to The Ritual then there's a real solid chance that As Above, So Below is in your wheelhouse
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Null of Undefined posted:Anyway for all you baby bladder people, download Runpee. Let’s you know the best times to dip out to pee, tells you what happens while you’re there. Holy poo poo, you didn't just make that app up  Kvlt! posted:I'm a gargantuan Rob Zombie nut so I'm biased but it's one of my favorite movies of all time and probably his best after Rejects and Halloween II. It's a beautiful movie, and Sheri Moon does a fantastic job in the lead. I'm like the opposite of a Rob Zombie nut. I really can't get into his movies.
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I've only seen 41% of the films on this list so I have some homework to do, but for me The VVitch would be at the top. I just watched As Above, So Below for the first time the other day and thought it was just okay. I love occult poo poo so I thought it would totally be my thing, but it just never really felt scary to me.
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TheOmegaWalrus posted:But for the life of me I cannot figure out what Crimson Peak is doing there. Kinda, yea. I love gothic horror and Crimson Peak is the kind of movie I can watch on mute, the visuals are enough all on their own. But I'm sure if there were 10 other legit gothic horror films this decade it might not seem as good to me in comparison.
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Jul 29, 2019 19:40
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I really want to watch Crimson Peak again, I loved the visuals so god drat much.
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Is it too much to ask to have a modern take on an old gothic Hammer Horror movie? You could even do one of the non-licensed things like Plague of the Zombies (god what a fuckin' good movie)
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Yeah I can't remember the last movie I saw that had cemeteries and cobwebbed crypts, a horse drawn carriage traversing dark woods, a dim tavern in an old foggy village, an ancient abandoned castle in the mountains, etc. I tried to watch Crimson Peak and its bombastic overstylized spookhouse stuff just wasn't scratching that itch at all.
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Pomp posted:I sat through midsommar and blade runner 2049 without so much as a drop in my pants I can't remember anything that happened in the last 30 minutes of blade runner because i desperately needed a piss and because it was plot wrap-up time, i didn't want to risk missing the ending.
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Kin posted:I can't remember anything that happened in the last 30 minutes of blade runner because i desperately needed a piss and because it was plot wrap-up time, i didn't want to risk missing the ending. I can't remember the last 30 minutes because I dozed off
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