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really dissapointed in lack of xenu jokes in regard to everyone talking about invisible man tbh
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King Vidiot posted:Let's not get carried away, it's mildly passable. Are we all that desperate for good spook-a-doodles? Let’s get carried away because the movie fuckin owns and Leigh Whannell is quickly becoming my favorite director right now
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Mar 22, 2020 16:38
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Iron Crowned posted:Vinegar Syndrome Right on! Thanks. Has anyone seen "The Candy Snatchers"? Looks like a low-rent Last House on the Left.
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Mar 22, 2020 16:41
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today I will be watching "Wedding Trough". The only thing I know about it is the IMDB summary: "A mad farmer falls in love with his pig and has mutant piglets with it. When the "piglets" prefer their mother over him, he hangs them all and the sow kills herself."
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Mar 22, 2020 16:45
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Watched Zombieland: Doubletap. And it really strikes me as that franchise thinks that it's more iconic than it really is, that people really was waiting the whole decade to get a sequel. Kudos to Zoey Dutch though who gets absolutely poo poo to work with and still manages to shine.
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Mar 22, 2020 17:23
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CelticPredator posted:Let’s get carried away because the movie fuckin owns and Leigh Whannell is quickly becoming my favorite director right now I loved Upgrade but Invisible Man had some problems, though for me that was mostly the writing and not the direction.
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Mar 22, 2020 17:27
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Kvlt! posted:today I will be watching "Wedding Trough". Where on earth did you find that movie???
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Mar 22, 2020 17:34
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some random imdb list
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Mar 22, 2020 17:47
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real talk, invisible man is Pretty Good but the lack of attention paid to continuity and things making sense beyond a sort of general "he's invisible therefore he's anywhere and everywhere all at once" dream logic kinda hurts it but it's also more or less a necessary weasel, as it were, for an invisible man movie where the protagonist isn't the invisible man, since you have to do that kind of weirdness to pull off effective scares so i dunno, i don't disagree with the overall point that its continuity editing is kinda hosed, but YMMV on how much it actually matters e: like, your options are pretty much either do that and keep your titular pseudo-John-Cena in the back pocket for a scare whenever you need one, or go to Shane Carruth levels of what-the-gently caress overcomplicated where you're basically writing an entire separate movie from the villain's perspective that the audience doesn't get to watch.
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Mar 22, 2020 18:13
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A few of the nitpicks can be explained by the fact there's more than one suit. That being said, I didn't dig the movie that much. It's aggressively mediocre. Could have been WAY better, could have been way worse. Solid 3 star movie.
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Mar 22, 2020 18:16
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"The Invisible Man" full-on "eats rear end". Everyone knows it "eats rear end". Who gives a poo poo.
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Mar 22, 2020 18:23
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:A few of the nitpicks can be explained by the fact there's more than one suit. It reminds me in some ways of The Hunt, where the lead's performance makes you badly want to forgive any other shortcomings of the film.
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Mar 22, 2020 18:36
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In the Mouth of Madness is loving my poo poo up right now! I’m going to say this may be my fav Carpenter flick.
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Mar 22, 2020 18:38
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Serious Party Gods posted:"The Invisible Man" full-on "eats rear end". Everyone knows it "eats rear end". Who gives a poo poo. I'll tell you what doesn't eat rear end, Color Out of Space. Holy poo poo was that good, like a modern retelling of that meteor story from Creepshow by way of a Brian Yuzna-esque Lovecraft adaptation. All it needed was Barbara Crampton, but then you could say that about any movie.
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Mar 22, 2020 18:42
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CelticPredator posted:Let’s get carried away because the movie fuckin owns and Leigh Whannell is quickly becoming my favorite director right now Agreed. Continuity errors don't erase Elisabeth Moss's performance or the craft with which the movie is directed. It's definitely not a movie for everyone, but the pushback it's seeing in this thread is a little surprising.
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Mar 22, 2020 19:33
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Kvlt! posted:today I will be watching "Wedding Trough". How can any film live up to that summary? Was it good?
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Mar 22, 2020 19:51
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thatfuturekid posted:In the Mouth of Madness is loving my poo poo up right now! I’m going to say this may be my fav Carpenter flick. It’s really good. Definitely in my top 5 Carpenter movies, maybe even top 3.
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Mar 22, 2020 20:00
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King Vidiot posted:I'll tell you what doesn't eat rear end, Color Out of Space. Holy poo poo was that good, like a modern retelling of that meteor story from Creepshow by way of a Brian Yuzna-esque Lovecraft adaptation. All it needed was Barbara Crampton, but then you could say that about any movie. Its a very solid example of horror as the monstrousness* of getting exactly what you want. *Don't know if that's quite the right word.
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Mar 22, 2020 20:15
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Severin is re-releasing When the Wind Blows April 28th along with a trove of goodies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb4R8I03C9Y It is the perfect quarantine movie, along with Threads. Who knew that all it took to obliterate the human spirit was a little David Bowie, an old English couple and some stop-animation?
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Mar 22, 2020 20:17
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Serious Party Gods posted:Right on! Thanks. Has anyone seen "The Candy Snatchers"? Looks like a low-rent Last House on the Left. Kinda sorta but way better than Last House
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Mar 22, 2020 21:45
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Drunkboxer posted:How can any film live up to that summary? Was it good? i ended up not watching it bc i can't stomach even the slightest bit of real animal cruelty and it became pretty evident early on that this was gonna be chock full of it
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Mar 22, 2020 22:59
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Kvlt! posted:i ended up not watching it bc i can't stomach even the slightest bit of real animal cruelty and it became pretty evident early on that this was gonna be chock full of it You're one of the good ones
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Mar 22, 2020 23:23
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ruddiger posted:It’s really good. Definitely in my top 5 Carpenter movies, maybe even top 3.  3rd behind The Thing and Halloween for me e: also The Invisible Man owns. Elisabeth Moss is maybe my favorite actress working today. gey muckle mowser fucked around with this message at 23:36 on Mar 22, 2020 |
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Mar 22, 2020 23:23
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CelticPredator posted:Let’s get carried away because the movie fuckin owns and Leigh Whannell is quickly becoming my favorite director right now lol Sarchasm posted:Agreed. Continuity errors don't erase Elisabeth Moss's performance or the craft with which the movie is directed. They don't, but a better written script wouldn't hurt.
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Mar 22, 2020 23:25
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In the Mouth of Madness might just make the top 5 for me but that's just because I love so many Carpenter films so much.
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Mar 22, 2020 23:27
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Debbie Does Dagon posted:You're one of the good ones <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 my fav carpenter movie is the original precinct 13
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Mar 22, 2020 23:29
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The Thing Prince of Darkness Big Trouble in Little China Carpenter Top 3.
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Mar 22, 2020 23:29
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dorium posted:The Thing See, this how awesome Carpenter is because I love all three of those films and yet only the Thing makes my top 3 with The Fog and Halloween. And no one's even mentioned They Live.
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Mar 22, 2020 23:30
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The Thing is the best Carpenter film. I feel a bit weird saying that because he made so many other fantastic movies, but The Thing is just REALLY good.
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Mar 23, 2020 00:00
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I watched sunchoke and that movie was the definition of being carried by its performances.
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Mar 23, 2020 00:12
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I'm giving yall a choice: either acknowledge the genius of They Live, or start eating that trash can.
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Mar 23, 2020 00:17
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TheOmegaWalrus posted:I'm giving yall a choice: either acknowledge the genius of They Live, or start eating that trash can. I am already eating from the trash can all the time.
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Mar 23, 2020 00:22
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TheOmegaWalrus posted:I'm giving yall a choice: either acknowledge the genius of They Live, or start eating that trash can. if I could break the fabric of space and time and make a top three look like a top three in our reality, but in the broken space/time it's actually just: The Thing Prince of Darkness Big Trouble in Little China They Live Assault on Precinct 13 In The Mouth of Madness Halloween Escape From New York The Fog Christine Then I would. This is my true top three list.
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Mar 23, 2020 00:38
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Its actually just more effective to name your 3 least favorite Carpenter films. The Ward Village of the Damned Escape from LA
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Mar 23, 2020 00:52
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Top 5 Carpenter The Thing Halloween In the Mouth of Madness The Fog They Live Bottom 3 Someone's Watching Me Memoirs of an Invisible Man Dark Star (I owe this one a rewatch obviously)
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Mar 23, 2020 00:58
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Shrecknet posted:OK, I have enough votes for the first 63. Now the first heads-up vote, for the BUBBLE TEAM! This franchise will go up against Friday the 13th (the #1 overall Seed) in the main tournament, so don't get too attached.  vs 
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Mar 23, 2020 01:08
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sigher posted:They don't, but a better written script wouldn't hurt. Fair, but it's hard to make your villain unpredictable and frightening while also providing the necessary setup to answer everyone's lingering questions. The movie would need an extensive postscript (unnecessary, dull) or lengthy setup scenes from the POV of the invisible man (robbing the film of all suspense). How he did these things isn't the point. I get that "a wizard did it" isn't a satisfying explanation, but would a step-by-step explanation actually add anything to the experience? If there was a scene where Adrian sneaked into the restaurant and checked the reservation list to see where his wife and her sister were to be seated that evening and then stashed a knife under their table in advance, how would the movie benefit?
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Mar 23, 2020 01:15
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I really like that Carpenter remade Rio Bravo three different times in three different decades. Assault on Precinct 13 in the 70s, Prince of Darkness in the 80s, and Ghosts of Mars at the turn of the millennium.
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Mar 23, 2020 01:16
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also Explanation is for scrubs. Embrace the mystery.
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Dark Starr is important for what it did and gave us Even if I have no doubt Carpenter was high as gently caress making it
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