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Jeremy Saulnier's first film Murder Party is on Netflix and I highly recommend it to fans of Blue Ruin and Green Room. It might be the most bitter and misanthropic of all his films, it's a gently caress you to all the mediocrities in the Williamsburg scene of the 2000s
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My favorite part of Murder Party is that one woman's video art project that is just her sitting in a bathtub while someone dumps hotdogs all over her. It's funny and also really believable, I've seen even dumber video art in real life.
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Jan 7, 2020 18:21
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Murder Party is a lot of fun. Each character is such a specific type of rear end in a top hat and/or dipshit and it rules.
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Jan 7, 2020 18:25
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that's Saulnier's? i passed on it thinking it was another one cheap netflix horror joint
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Jan 7, 2020 18:27
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In general parodies of pretentious art students and New York art culture tend to be pretty bland and narrow themselves, but good god is Murder Party one of the best takes on the concept I've ever seen. Just brilliant from start to finish. A feature length version of the "Who wants to die for art?" gag in Female Trouble. edit: Fun fact. Saulnier really likes Murder Party but had to downplay its existence when Blue Ruin came out cause the distributor knew the movie would get more attention if it was his "first film." So they played up like Blue Ruin was a debut instead of a sophomore effort.
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Jan 7, 2020 18:28
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drat it if I had just posted three times less.
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Jan 7, 2020 18:31
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Murder Party rules. It manages to be really over the top in a believable way if that makes any sense. Like the situation is absurd and the characters all caricatures but they still feel like they're based in something real.
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Jan 7, 2020 18:35
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Watching it I got the feeling that the entire cast and crew came out of the same scene and were all in on the joke, it felt so specific to a time and place. I only got a couple short glimpses of what was going on there in real life but everything in the film felt really authentic to what I saw. My favorite minor character is the suit-wearing med student (?) who shows up in the art space for one scene, and clearly was there to hang out with the freaks for a couple hours so that he had stories to tell his straight laced buddies.
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Jan 7, 2020 18:42
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Murder Party and Green Room is such an interesting parallel. The Comedy/Horror sides of the same coin.
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Jan 7, 2020 18:54
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Franchescanado posted:37,707 posts 844 ignored posts.
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Jan 7, 2020 19:27
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Detective No. 27 posted:844 ignored posts. I will not dignify this with a response.
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Jan 7, 2020 19:56
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gey muckle mowser posted:My favorite part of Murder Party is that one woman's video art project that is just her sitting in a bathtub while someone dumps hotdogs all over her. It's funny and also really believable, I've seen even dumber video art in real life. Speaking of video art, I’m back in Chicago and just discovered Sinema Obscura on local late night cable, they show a bunch of local music videos and short films. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNGA52me8Qg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph6S-Li_ToY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rthp4tC5Kx0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW85UTXsRkM Someone put together a YouTube playlist of a lot of the shorts they’ve shown. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLH3YZYXyqMndS8GTavm3GmyLsCvT0-Pa8 it’s p fuckin awesome
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Jan 7, 2020 20:02
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Franchescanado posted:37,707 posts Who rated it 1 star? I know one time I was one of the people who did that and it must have been a misclick because I didn't remember rating the chat thread anything at all, I generally don't bother to rate threads Also, Monica Lewinsky tripping on acid with the Chapo boys sounds like one of the scripts that shows up on The Black List and never actually gets produced. https://twitter.com/willmenaker/status/1214629094136188929?s=20
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Jan 7, 2020 20:49
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Franchescanado posted:Oh, the weird atonal synth bass drops that happened every so often were legitimately awesome, and fueled the horror of the film in an impressive way. It reminded me of an 80's Italian horror film. I love the synths that are about two decades out of style
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Jan 7, 2020 20:51
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Skwirl posted:Who rated it 1 star? I know one time I was one of the people who did that and it must have been a misclick because I didn't remember rating the chat thread anything at all, I generally don't bother to rate threads Also: I'll get you next time, TrixRabbi 
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Jan 7, 2020 20:59
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Skwirl posted:Who rated it 1 star? Forget that. Who the hell rates a thread 2 stars?
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Jan 7, 2020 20:59
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gey muckle mowser posted:My favorite part of Murder Party is that one woman's video art project that is just her sitting in a bathtub while someone dumps hotdogs all over her. It's funny and also really believable, I've seen even dumber video art in real life. I had to go to a student art gallery in SoHo a couple years back and one of the pieces was a see-through fleshlight with a running vibrator stuck in it, so that’s my gold standard for stupid art.
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Jan 7, 2020 21:02
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caligulamprey posted:Also: I'll get you next time, TrixRabbi You're already behind.
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Jan 7, 2020 21:22
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TrixRabbi posted:You're already behind. I'm going to have to really step up my poo poo posting to beat CPL
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Jan 7, 2020 21:30
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TrixRabbi posted:Of the Saulnier I've seen Blue Ruin is the most Just Okay. Green Room is a masterpiece and Murder Party is an underrated delight. Red R... I watched Blue Ruin around the time Green Room came out and was kind of apprehensive beforehand, what I read on here about Saulnier made me expect something intense and gnarly... which Blue Ruin was in parts, but the main character was so oddly Zen at the beginning that it really helped me get through the rest of the movie. Then Green Room turned out to be completely worthy of apprehension, a bunch of people who love life just dying horribly, then some Nazi fucks dying a little less horribly.
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Jan 7, 2020 21:33
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drat, I post too much.
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Jan 7, 2020 21:38
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Honestly I ranked way higher than I expected given I go long stretches without posting.
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Jan 7, 2020 21:39
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ytotd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Chu4mvEUc5I
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Jan 7, 2020 21:44
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:The singing in CATS is quite rough to be honest, I'm sure this is a choice on Hooper's part but it doesn't quite work. A lot of Hollywood musicals just cast faces you know instead of people who can sing and I'm glad they're finally paying for it.
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Jan 7, 2020 22:15
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Adding my vote to the motion that Murder Party rules
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Jan 7, 2020 22:20
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Was Hold the Dark any good? I love Saulnier and Im gonna watch Murder Party tonight but Ive heard very mixed things about Hold the Dark.
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Jan 7, 2020 22:59
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Jeremy is underrated as a comedy director
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Jan 7, 2020 23:24
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Also didn't love to learn I posted more than one thousand times in the last thread
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Jan 7, 2020 23:43
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The Peccadillo posted:Also didn't love to learn I posted more than one thousand times in the last thread The Poster’s Lament
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Jan 7, 2020 23:44
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The Peccadillo posted:Also didn't love to learn I posted more than one thousand times in the last thread Think I found a reason for that?
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Jan 7, 2020 23:47
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That's not a reason at all
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Franchescanado posted:37,707 posts I may have fatfingered a vote accidentally while phonebrowsing. Sorry. Oh hey, can you actually check what/if I voted?
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Jan 8, 2020 00:22
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AccountSupervisor posted:Was Hold the Dark any good? I love Saulnier and Im gonna watch Murder Party tonight but Ive heard very mixed things about Hold the Dark. It's severely okay to disappointing
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McCloud posted:I may have fatfingered a vote accidentally while phonebrowsing. Sorry. You used to be able to (or mods couldat least), like I said, on a previous chat thread the then mod listed everyone who rated the thread and I apparently fat fingered a 1 rating and that was the first I knew about it.
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I, Butthole posted:It's severely okay to disappointing Good to know, I totally forgot he directed it and never really felt compelled to check it out. Bummer hes got nothing else slated after his two eps of True Detective.
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AccountSupervisor posted:Was Hold the Dark any good? I love Saulnier and Im gonna watch Murder Party tonight but Ive heard very mixed things about Hold the Dark. Ehhhhhh it’s decent. Got some good scenes but the script’s confusing and flabby. AccountSupervisor posted:Bummer hes got nothing else slated after his two eps of True Detective. He’s making another one for Netflix called Rebel Ridge, and John Boyega’s attached. Too bad we’re never gonna see it because Iran just launched missiles at a US military base in Iraq lol
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All the stuff everyone is saying about Cats sounds made up but you could also never convince me that it's all made up. Anyway here's the superior cockroach musical sequence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru_EiJgTodQ Franchescanado posted:37,707 posts Please don't tell anyone how I live. Skwirl posted:I'm going to have to really step up my poo poo posting to beat CPL The mistake all of you are making is that you have lives. WHEN THE END COMES I WILL BE ALL THAT IS LEFT! fake edit: I think I might have been one of the 1 votes because I thought it was funny and I know mods can see those. TrixRabbi posted:In general parodies of pretentious art students and New York art culture tend to be pretty bland and narrow themselves, but good god is Murder Party one of the best takes on the concept I've ever seen. Just brilliant from start to finish. A feature length version of the "Who wants to die for art?" gag in Female Trouble. I have a friend who went to art school and the thing she's told me a bunch of times is that the way art school/students/artists are portrayed in pop culture is either spot on or not stupid enough. She took me to an art installation once to show me this in person and it was the dumbest poo poo I've ever seen. Basically it was some rented room in a basement that played a repitituous bass tone in threes like "boom boom boom" and in the center of the room was three tables each with a little wooden rack that held a can of beer or a little cup of wine. When someone took an item off the table these dim colored lights over the tables would flash a little.; It was pretty obvious that everyone was there for the free beer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqmNaOn56mc CPL593H fucked around with this message at 01:39 on Jan 8, 2020 |
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Jan 8, 2020 01:31
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Hell yeah war time
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Jan 8, 2020 01:44
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Yessssssssssssssss. Fun fact: my most prized DVD in my collection is the official Sifl and Olly Season 3 DVD I bought from Liam Lynch's site twenty goddamn years ago.
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caligulamprey posted:Yessssssssssssssss. I've tried to get one of those but they very rarely appear on ebay. They don't even sell for much, they're just super rare. I have a bootleg set with all three seasons but whoever made it got cheap about the discs and crammed season three onto a single dvd so it's really compressed and looks worse than the other episodes which are sourced from home tapings. I never watched season 3 because of this. I have an ebay alert for it and a few months back an official season 3 set came up and sold for  and for some reason I didn't get the alert. I'm still pretty pissedOn another note, former CD forums poster Geekboy just showed me this: https://twitter.com/baphometadata/status/1214362811276681218 CPL593H fucked around with this message at 01:58 on Jan 8, 2020 |
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