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Blast Fantasto posted:He never liked horror movies except for Maximum Overdrive and They Live for some reason I believe that if you do your research, you will arrive at the appropriate conclusion, which is that They Live owns bones.
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Splint Chesthair posted:I believe that if you do your research, you will arrive at the appropriate conclusion, which is that They Live owns bones. Oh yeah I love it, just pointing out that it’s weird that my dad liked two horror-ish movies and basically no others. Though I did just remember he loved Big Trouble in Little China and Starman, so he may have just had a thing for Carpenter movies without knowing it.
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Sep 9, 2019 19:46
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I forgot to mention that my showing of IT 2 there was a 12-13 year old girl and her mother next to me that talked every 20-30 seconds THE ENTIRE loving MOVIE. They didn't even whisper.. just kept commenting on the movie and during scary scenes kept going OH NO!, OH NO! I wanted Pennywise to pop out from under their seats and do the ol' chomp chomp.
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Sep 9, 2019 19:55
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They were Pennywise. He's toying with you. Next time he plans to sit next to you on public transport and watch a Terrance Malick flick on his phone without headphones.
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Sep 9, 2019 19:58
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The Joe Bob poo poo is weird, considering his opening monologue in the TCM episode of Last Drive In is a long bit about the United States being built on a foundation of exploitation and racism.
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Sep 9, 2019 20:39
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Origami Dali posted:The Joe Bob poo poo is weird, considering his opening monologue in the TCM episode of Last Drive In is a long bit about the United States being built on a foundation of exploitation and racism. Probably stems from free speech absolutism.
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Sep 9, 2019 20:43
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He also did a segment on the North Carolina transgender bathroom stuff during The Last Drive In and took the side of “leave people the gently caress alone and let them use whatever bathroom they want”
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Sep 9, 2019 20:48
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Blast Fantasto posted:He also did a segment on the North Carolina transgender bathroom stuff during The Last Drive In and took the side of “leave people the gently caress alone and let them use whatever bathroom they want” Excepting the politics I prefer his shtick, which includes a lot of trivia, over Elvira's, which is mostly just jokes.
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Sep 9, 2019 21:00
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https://twitter.com/closetsmonster/status/1170836802535477248?s=21
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Sep 9, 2019 21:27
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All this Joe Bob talk makes me glad I subscribe to the good book of Svengoolie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5BT_9ZDaLU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5oIx4Hr0sA
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Sep 9, 2019 22:11
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Everyone knows I'm the best horror host. Does Elvira ever give anyone free pizza?feedmyleg posted:Christine is terrific, though the climax is a bit of a letdown. And it's the rare film where I wish they would have included the planned backstory. If it's the one from the book, I completely disagree. An evil car that just exists is a lot more creepy and interesting than the ghost of a wife beater. Like it's fun to know that going into the film and think of it as additional context, but the car itself works as a metaphor for addiction. Blast Fantasto posted:The first 10-15 minutes of Maximum Overdrive are fun as hell. Bridge collapse, ATM insulting Stephen King, dude getting nailed in the nards by a vending machine, kid getting run over by a steam roller, AC/DC blasting the whole time. The rest of the movie doesn't even try. It's so loving boring, and then the movie stops mid-scene because they ran out of money. They really needed to get out of that loving diner/gas station much earlier and have more adventures in the machine apocalypse. Lurdiak fucked around with this message at 22:48 on Sep 9, 2019 |
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Sep 9, 2019 22:42
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Sep 9, 2019 22:51
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King is so weird looking. Like he has some kind of extremely rare chromosomal anomaly or something
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Sep 9, 2019 23:00
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DeimosRising posted:King is so weird looking. Like he has some kind of extremely rare chromosomal anomaly or something That's not a nice thing to say about someone.
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Blast Fantasto posted:I will say a positive thing about It 2, which I actually thought was firmly okay despite all the criticisms I have of it - James Ransone was great in this, despite almost all of the hype going to Bill Hader. Reaching way back for this but I just had the epiphany that Ransone was fuckin Ziggy Sobotka on The Wire. I'd read about it a while back and was like "neat" but I guess I forgot because I was having serious I-know-this-guy vibes any time he was on screen. But yeah, he killed it.
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Sep 9, 2019 23:26
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Last Wednesday one of the local Regals played IT Chapter 1, so I went to see it again in anticipation of Chapter 2. Ended up being the only person in the theater, so that was p dope. Saw Chapter 2 over the weekend and largely enjoyed it. Any gripe(s) I had are basically the same ones already mentioned. One thing that I kinda found myself chuckling at: When Pennywise is terrorizing Richie with the "I know your secret" bit, I couldn't help but like the idea that Pennywise was totally oblivious to the social change that's taken place regarding LGBT rights/issues because he's been asleep for the last 27 years. For Richie to just come back like, "wait, THAT'S your angle? Buddy, I've been publicly out forever. My second standup special was all about it," would have made me fall out of my chair Unrelated: Crawl and Ready or Not were both fun as hell, despite their flaws.
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Sep 9, 2019 23:38
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QuoProQuid posted:I guess the intent might be to provide catharsis. The first movie is about the horrors of childhood. The second is about confronting them. Alex McLevy at the A.V. Club makes a similar argument here. A related argument was made by Grady Hendrix about the book in his 2013 review for The Great Stephen King Re-Read. That is, his conclusion was "It isn't a book about the magical power of childhood, it's a book about growing up". Stressing, for example, the ways in which it's sex-positive (by 80s standards) as compared to its contemporaries. quote:The book ends not with a battle, not with horror, not with Pennywise, but with Bill trying to connect with his wife who has slipped into a coma. In the last passage in the book he wakes up in bed next to her, touches her, remembers his childhood, but also thinks about how good it is to change, to grow, to be an adult. Baku fucked around with this message at 00:39 on Sep 10, 2019 |
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Sep 10, 2019 00:35
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Speaking of Grady Hendrix. Satanic Panic is not good and you shouldn't bother with it unless you can see it for free.
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Sep 10, 2019 00:45
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Casimir Radon posted:Speaking of Grady Hendrix. Satanic Panic is not good and you shouldn't bother with it unless you can see it for free. How is it not good? I've been hearing lots of raves over it.
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Sep 10, 2019 01:07
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Today I spent like 10 minutes of a job interview talking to my future employer about the Child's Play movies. I ended up getting the job. Horror movies truly are the great unifier of society.
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Sep 10, 2019 01:50
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M_Sinistrari posted:How is it not good? I've been hearing lots of raves over it.
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Sep 10, 2019 01:56
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:Today I spent like 10 minutes of a job interview talking to my future employer about the Child's Play movies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeMVKmK1teo
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Lurdiak posted:If it's the one from the book, I completely disagree. An evil car that just exists is a lot more creepy and interesting than the ghost of a wife beater. Like it's fun to know that going into the film and think of it as additional context, but the car itself works as a metaphor for addiction. Watching Christine with my roommate last year, she said the car was grieving and I can't exactly refute that if you missed the opening scene
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Sep 10, 2019 02:39
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Re: Maximum Overdrive, any movie that features Pat Hingle hip-firing a rocket launcher is worth at least a lazy Sunday rewatch every couple of years.
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Sep 10, 2019 04:42
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Blast Fantasto posted:The change of historian from Mike to Ben is sort of okay in Chapter 1, but then Chapter 2 makes it retroactively worse as Mike's role as the historian is restored and child-Ben gets to do his architecture stuff. And to be a crack baby for some reason I guess having his dad be a soldier who rescues people from a KKK attack is too risqué for this movie about eating children
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Sep 10, 2019 04:54
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Tart Kitty posted:Re: Maximum Overdrive, any movie that features Pat Hingle hip-firing a rocket launcher is worth at least a lazy Sunday rewatch every couple of years. Yeah bubba
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Sep 10, 2019 04:55
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AdmiralViscen posted:And to be a crack baby for some reason He wasn't a crack baby. That was Pennywise's influence on the town.
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Sep 10, 2019 05:02
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Pennywise wasn’t lying about Bill just not feeling like going outside that day, or about Richie’s secret, so I don’t see why we should take the crack thing as a complete lie. I took the changed headline as the article being less dehumanizing in its framing, rather than it converting from an outright falsehood to truth. Either way they completely scrubbed the racism subplot.
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Sep 10, 2019 05:09
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I'd say what makes that different is that is what the town wrote about the incident as public record as opposed too Pennywise directly saying it, but idk.
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Sep 10, 2019 05:11
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Rewatching Killer Klowns makes me sad the remake was scrapped. Most of the klown antics are still fun but there's a lot of not-klown antics that could afford some tightening up.
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Adlai Stevenson posted:Rewatching Killer Klowns makes me sad the remake was scrapped. Most of the klown antics are still fun but there's a lot of not-klown antics that could afford some tightening up. The last time I watched it I remember being struck by how the movie somehow felt both grotesque and simultaneously restrained. Other than the throwing pie and handpuppet deaths, the actual “horror” of the movie is pretty tame, with the Klown designs doing most of the heavy lifting.
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Casimir Radon posted:Speaking of Grady Hendrix. Satanic Panic is not good and you shouldn't bother with it unless you can see it for free. I watched it over the weekend and I thought it was fine. Definitely not great, but I enjoyed it. I laughed out loud a few times and there are some great practical effects (and one or two that are hilariously bad and only endeared the movie to me more). My biggest complaint is that it's shot like an episode of a sitcom. Static cameras pointing at small crowds of people, always at eye level. The movie is just consistently boring to look at.
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XIII posted:One thing that I kinda found myself chuckling at: Oh my god this was such a missed opportunity
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Tart Kitty posted:Re: Maximum Overdrive, any movie that features Pat Hingle hip-firing a rocket launcher is worth at least a lazy Sunday rewatch every couple of years. jesus, is that what the whip pan looks like in the movie? That's awful AdmiralViscen posted:And to be a crack baby for some reason He wasn't. At the end, he says he's been listening to Pennywise's lies for 35 years, or something like that, and it shows the same history book with CRACKHEADS DIE IN FIRE and it actually says something like "Two dead in electrical blaze." Petr fucked around with this message at 05:51 on Sep 10, 2019 |
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Sep 10, 2019 05:49
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Petr posted:He wasn't. At the end, he says he's been listening to Pennywise's lies for 35 years, or something like that, and it shows the same history book with CRACKHEADS DIE IN FIRE and it actually says something like "Two dead in electrical blaze." Yeah, I'm going to take the article Mike sees initially as It just taking advantage of the racism in Derry that Mike faced as a kid to gently caress with him. Just like how It appeared to Ben as Beverly insulting him and his crush on her.
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So is IT 2 the end of the franchise, or are we going to get a bunch of increasingly cheaper flicks based on the interludes and cutaways? I'd be down for 50s set prequel based on the bits where It kills kiddies in the form of various universal monsters. Toss in a framing device involving Mike researching the town between cycles.
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High Warlord Zog posted:Toss in a framing device involving Mike getting chased by a horrifying prehistoric bird
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High Warlord Zog posted:So is IT 2 the end of the franchise, or are we going to get a bunch of increasingly cheaper flicks based on the interludes and cutaways? I'd be down for 50s set prequel based on the bits where It kills kiddies in the form of various universal monsters. Toss in a framing device involving Mike researching the town between cycles. Skarsgård has said he's open to playing Pennywise again.
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I want to know who thought it was a good idea to remake the Texas Chainsaw Massacre and remove the chainsaw massacre from it?
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Iron Crowned posted:I want to know who thought it was a good idea to remake the Texas Chainsaw Massacre and remove the chainsaw massacre from it? There's no chainsaw massacre in the first one
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