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When you understand that Verhoeven was trying to skewer American culture in all his English movies it's impossible not to see him as a master. That pool sex scene is loving insane tho
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Franchescanado posted:I did, in fact, watch Antonia Bird's Ravenous this weekend! And it's very good! I am glad you enjoyed it, and now I want to watch it again to celebrate.
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I remember thinking the pool scene was hot when I was like 12, and also that sex seemed like either the greatest most mind blowing experience ever or the worst, most dangerous thing one could do in this life.
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flashy_mcflash posted:When you understand that Verhoeven was trying to skewer American culture in all his English movies it's impossible not to see him as a master. The slow blade penetrates the shield.
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About The Lodge: The dad was definitely the least sympathetic character in the movie for me. What the kids did was terrible, but they're also also A) children and B) dealing with a massive amount of trauma that their father isn't taking seriously AT ALL. That poor little girl had a full on mental breakdown because she sincerely believes her mother will never be able to go to heaven, the son is extremely upfront and vocal about still being deeply upset about her suicide, and instead of getting his children the therapy they so clearly need immediately the dad responds to their grief with "Hey kids you know that woman you already didn't like before your mom killed herself over the affair I had with her? I think it would be a great idea for you to spend a week alone with her in an isolated location, and also there's a gun there LOL" and when the kids tell him "No, we don't want to do that, we would never want to do that" he does it anyway. Also, I guess there isn't anything illegal about it, but it's still vaguely creepy to start dating a woman who's trauma you're writing a book about. The first conversations they had would have all been interviews about the most horrifying parts of her life, that would have put her in an extremely emotionally vulnerable spot, it's almost like a therapist dating their patient.
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:About The Lodge Yes! All this is true words.
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Hollow Man has an invisible gorilla. That rules. Just think about what a bad idea that is.
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Generally an ANGRY invisible gorilla. And Thanos too. (And Cable I guess)
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flashy_mcflash posted:When you understand that Verhoeven was trying to skewer American culture in all his English movies it's impossible not to see him as a master. I'm still sad that Verhoeven was so pissed off as a result of studio fuckery during Hollow Man that he went back to Europe and swore he'd never work for an American studio again.
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Luz is certainly a movie.
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Hollow Man isn't awful but it definitely feels like a Paul Verhoeven movie that was meddled with to make it less Paul Verhoeven.
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I always liked Hollow Man back in the day but everyone told me it was bad so I decided it was bad. Also, the 90 seconds of Showgirls pool scene that I recorded from HBO might have been the most worn out piece of VHS tape in history.
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Feb 25, 2020 15:00
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Color Out of Space is out on blu ray today. I'm pretty excited.
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Basebf555 posted:Color Out of Space is out on blu ray today. I'm pretty excited. It's also available for rent on Amazon Prime today too, for those hesitant to blind-buy.
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Feb 25, 2020 15:09
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I'll blind buy Lovecraft adaptations starring Nicolas Cage until the end of time.
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Feb 25, 2020 15:14
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Basebf555 posted:I'll blind buy Lovecraft adaptations starring Nicolas Cage until the end of time. I'm excited for you to watch it! You and I are on a pretty similar movie wavelength, so I'm ready to hear your thoughts on Color Out of Space and Come To Daddy.
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Thank you to whoever it was (Kvlt! maybe?) that recommended Baby Blood, that was wild. Ridiculously gory and really funny.
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Franchescanado posted:Come To Daddy. This was so much fun, I loved it.
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Iron Crowned posted:I do not regret blind buying Mandy Well yea, you're not a dumbass
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COOL CORN posted:This was so much fun, I loved it. Semi-controversial opinion: at this point, I like it more than Color Out of Space. I haven't seen many 2020 releases, but it's currently my #1 for the year.
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Franchescanado posted:Semi-controversial opinion: at this point, I like it more than Color Out of Space. I haven't seen many 2020 releases, but it's currently my #1 for the year. I think I agree with you. Color Out of Space had a great second half, but Come to Daddy was great all the way through.
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COOL CORN posted:I think I agree with you. Color Out of Space had a great second half, but Come to Daddy was great all the way through. It also weirdly has an awesome emotional payoff? One of my favorite parts, which I haven't discussed (since there's only a few of us on SA that's seen it), is how Norval has practiced this speech to confront his father, and you hear him try to say it at least three times, once while Gordon is drunk, once to Gordon's corpse, and then finally to Brian/Norval's Dad, and by the time he actually gets to say it to Brian, the whole context behind it has changed, both for Norval and for the audience. Now that Norval knows who his parents are, there is a depressing irony to his speech about never letting his mother forget who his father is, and how he always sabotaged her chance at true happiness. And Brian spends what may be his last bit of energy to hold Norval's hand is really bittersweet and dark as hell. What was once supposed to be kind of a "let's hug it out!" moment between father and son is now a sad, bitter, regretful admission and really speaks to Norval's naive immaturity he's kinda coasted on, which he is only now sorta forced to grow out of. I haven't seen a horror movie with that emotional complexity for a character since...Well I guess since Midsommar and Hereditary. That the director, Ant Timpson, wrote the movie as a way of dealing with his father passing away, really brings out the emotional sincerity in such a bizarre situation. Franchescanado fucked around with this message at 15:44 on Feb 25, 2020 |
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TheBizzness posted:I always liked Hollow Man back in the day but everyone told me it was bad so I decided it was bad. When you purchase Showgirls on DVD or blu-ray it has an easter egg where it just loops those particular scenes. 
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I'd watch Come to Daddy immediately but it's one of those movies that I get the feeling might show up on Shudder within a month or two. Any whispers of that going around?
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Basebf555 posted:I'd watch Come to Daddy immediately but it's one of those movies that I get the feeling might show up on Shudder within a month or two. Any whispers of that going around? I'm surprised they haven't said anything about it. There was nothing in the Q&A about it. But since it's the same producers as Mandy and The Greasy Strangler, I'd say it might? It's really perfect for their service. If not Shudder, it seems like something Hulu would be interested in. They're all about the weird indie darlings.
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Hollow Man is dope and gay. Hth
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Cross posted from the poster thread: Wash your hook, buddy!
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flashy_mcflash posted:Cross posted from the poster thread: I'm looking forward to this. It looks like they're going in a bit of different direction and addressing gentrification, which is good because I'm not sure you could improve on the original. Plus it's a horror film directed by a black woman, which is... I was gonna say "rare" but I can't think of even a single other film. Someone correct me on that if I'm wrong.
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flashy_mcflash posted:Cross posted from the poster thread: That bee frightens me
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I'm glad they're keeping the bee aspect of the story, I was worried they might drop that.
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Legit bees scare me so it the sound is good I might just duck down if I hear thousands of bees. I started ducking during Jackass 3D lmao
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CelticPredator posted:Legit bees scare me so it the sound is good I might just duck down if I hear thousands of bees. I sprinted all the way from my car to the front door of my building yesterday because there was a wasp chasing me.
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Bees will leave you alone if you don't gently caress with them
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Iron Crowned posted:Bees will leave you alone if you don't gently caress with them Thanks dad
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A bee will never sting a person who is true of heart.
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CelticPredator posted:That bee frightens me Just wait til you see where the hook goes!
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Stink Billyums posted:remember when fox would air specials about how the bees were coming to kill us? Hell yea, killer African bees that are already making their way up South America and have already even killed a few people in the border states! Fox was pretty wild back in the day.
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