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I mean I guess it's true to real-life that the police are so incompetent that they send a patrol car out somewhere to investigate a disappearance, they don't come back, and then it takes seven months before anybody does anything about it.
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King Vidiot posted:I mean I guess it's true to real-life that the police are so incompetent that they send a patrol car out somewhere to investigate a disappearance, they don't come back, and then it takes seven months before anybody does anything about it. Texas police also let the Sawyer family collect what looked like ~30,000 bodies and skeletons in TCM2.
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I like Sleepaway Camp 2 more than the original. It's not as interesting as the original, but less skeevey and can't really roll with the twist because of personal life stuff. Sleepaway Camp 2 is just fun. All the Purge movies are better than the unnecessary original.
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Sep 23, 2021 20:08
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I'm just going to say this but I don't like it: You can skip Mad Max and go right to the Road Warrior.
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Sep 23, 2021 21:06
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moths posted:I'm just going to say this but I don't like it: it's the god's honest truth. hell, i think we can safely say at this point that Fury Road was a whole lot of people's first Mad Max movie. probably a lot of people's only Mad Max movie.
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Sep 23, 2021 21:21
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Shameful to skip Mad Max
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Sep 23, 2021 21:24
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MacheteZombie posted:Shameful to skip Mad Max I dunno... I finally watched the original for the first time a few years ago, and I was struck both by how little it looked or functioned like the sequels and how dull it was in comparison. I think it's perfectly fine to jump right to The Road Warrior instead.
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Sep 23, 2021 21:27
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Class3KillStorm posted:I dunno... I finally watched the original for the first time a few years ago, and I was struck both by how little it looked or functioned like the sequels and how dull it was in comparison. I think it's perfectly fine to jump right to The Road Warrior instead. But you wouldn't have this experience if you had seen it first. There is a natural escalation that occurs with all of them. I watched them all chronologically growing up, and there's a lot of moments in the original that still stand out as impressive/disturbing and iconic.
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Sep 23, 2021 21:28
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Mad Max is an awesome movie and one of the few “upcoming apocalypse” movies out there. I can’t think of many that deal with the slow collapse of it all. Idk it’s good if you tamper your expectations.
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Sep 23, 2021 21:30
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CelticPredator posted:Mad Max is an awesome movie and one of the few “upcoming apocalypse” movies out there. I can’t think of many that deal with the slow collapse of it all. Yeah. It's an awesome "Society is Collapsing, The Bad Guys Have Already Won" vibe that's palpable but not direct. I grabbed the new 4k UHD recently but still haven't watched it yet. Might get it in before October, or it'll have to wait until after. Toe Cutter is an awesome villain. He's the most human of the Mad Max villains, and that makes his brand of anarchic evil just really mundane and horrific.
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Sep 23, 2021 21:32
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I'm meeting Michael Berryman tomorrow at a drive in theater that's showing The Hills Have Eyes 
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Sep 23, 2021 21:33
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feedmyleg posted:What are some horror sequels that: Maniac Cop 2
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Sep 23, 2021 21:40
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Toecutter, Johnny the Boy, and Bubba Zanetti are better villains than most of the others and we also get that incredible police chief
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Sep 23, 2021 21:41
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Texas Chainsaw 2 is a perfect example honestly its so tonally out of synch with the original and the entire story is bugnuts that you could easily watch it first
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Sep 23, 2021 21:44
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More than anything else, OG Mad Max lacks the modern action movie pacing of the later films. It's more atmospheric.
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Sep 23, 2021 21:54
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Silent Night Deadly Night 2 is 50% clips from the first movie but introduces one of the greatest horror performances ever yes I’m serious
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Sep 23, 2021 22:00
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Mad Max is a fantastic film, but it's also a lot more subtle. I didn't appreciate it until I was an adult. It's a more mature film. In a lot of ways, it makes a better prequel to Road Warrior. Road Warrior is just pants on fire awesome with car chases and the humungous and the feral child. It's also a smaller film, more of a western without the implicit racism. It's so over the top and absurd. I honestly couldn't say which is a better movie, but Road Warrior is easily more accessible. Other films do what Mad Max does, but Road Warrior is uniquely gonzo. Not horror, but you can also skip Star Trek the Motion Picture.
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Sep 23, 2021 22:06
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Yeah skipping Mad Max is a bad choice if you absolutely must skip one of the series when the back half of Thunderdome exists.
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Sep 23, 2021 22:48
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CelticPredator posted:Mad Max is an awesome movie and one of the few “upcoming apocalypse” movies out there. I can’t think of many that deal with the slow collapse of it all. Tampering with expectations is a dangerous game.
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Sep 23, 2021 22:55
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While you can watch Mad Max movies without the original, I feel like it’s important to have the context that when you’re seeing these insane post-apocalyptic civilizations, they didn’t grow after centuries like in Fallout. Something that resembles our world existed in living memory to all of this. And I feel like that makes it all very hilarious. People who enjoy Mad Max’s slow upcoming apocalypse should read Children’s Bible. It’s the most realistic depiction of the end of the world where you don’t even realize the world is ending until well into the novel.
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Sep 23, 2021 23:35
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Mad Max is just a slight exaggeration of the situation during the Oil Crisis of 1973.
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Timeless Appeal posted:People who enjoy Mad Max’s slow upcoming apocalypse should read Children’s Bible. It’s the most realistic depiction of the end of the world where you don’t even realize the world is ending until well into the novel. I'm gonna need an author or something because that is the single most unsearchable title.
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Franchescanado posted:Maybe this helps, maybe it doesn't, but here's the top 200+ on Amazon Prime US, via Average Ratings on Letterboxd. 3 of the top 16 horror movies on Prime are Gamera? is really neat. He is made of turtle meat.
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Sep 24, 2021 00:53
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Schwarzwald posted:I'm gonna need an author or something because that is the single most unsearchable title. I’m assuming they mean A Children's Bible by Lydia Millet, I haven’t read it myself yet but it’s been on my list for a while
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Sep 24, 2021 00:53
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I'm trying to remember a short film I once saw, where a guy was stuck in some kind of a storm drain in a city as a storm hits and water begins to pour into the drain. Does that ring a bell for anyone, or did I make that up? Anyway haven't posted in a million years, just hit the 600 mark on the list of horror movies I've watched over the last 20 years or so.
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Sep 24, 2021 01:06
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AKZ posted:Tampering with expectations is a dangerous game. In my opinion having any is a dangerous game. I flat out just don’t care for anyone’s opinion that starts with “I expected…” “I was hoping” ect Or people that hate a film because of the film they made up in their mind through word of mouth or trailers or whatever. Personal thing that annoys me… Idk. I guess it comes from hearing critics say that. It’s annoying lol. Never gave it a fair chance
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Sep 24, 2021 01:19
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Schwarzwald posted:I'm gonna need an author or something because that is the single most unsearchable title.
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CelticPredator posted:In my opinion having any is a dangerous game. I flat out just don’t care for anyone’s opinion that starts with “I expected…” “I was hoping” ect I agree but also say the one exception is that film with Nicolas Cage fighting evil fast food mascots. I expected him to say some cool lines.
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Timeless Appeal posted:While you can watch Mad Max movies without the original, I feel like it’s important to have the context that when you’re seeing these insane post-apocalyptic civilizations, they didn’t grow after centuries like in Fallout. Something that resembles our world existed in living memory to all of this. And I feel like that makes it all very hilarious. Mad Max is the only one of the movies that is based on events that were true within their world. All the others are myths told around campfires. That's why Max can be roughly the same age as Furiosa, even though he's supposed to have been a grown man with a family before the Collapse and she was born well after it.
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Turns out House II: The Second Story isn't just a great title, it's a damned fine movie too
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CelticPredator posted:In my opinion having any is a dangerous game. I flat out just don’t care for anyone’s opinion that starts with “I expected…” “I was hoping” ect I'm having a bit of fun tamper vs temper  I do agree with the sentiment
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Ok, why is Spookies so good? It's like Spirit Halloween: The Motion Picture, or the movie equivalent of a haunted sound effects tape. Love it so much
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Ambitious Spider posted:Ok, why is Spookies so good? It's like Spirit Halloween: The Motion Picture, or the movie equivalent of a haunted sound effects tape. Love it so much It’s great because it’s a trainwreck sort of movie but also fun to watch because it’s constant puppets and monsters and gags. Perfect Halloween movie. I see it as the equivalent of a bad haunted house theme park ride. Like the kind where the animatronics barely work and it’s operated by a drunk carnie.
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Holy poo poo, the ending of the new Creepshow episode with the giant queen bee animatronic and Aliens-esque honey beehive monster feeding is the coolest thing I've seen on screen in a long long time  The other segment's ending was also fantastic. Both got off to a slow start but finished strong. I've got a very good feeling about this season.
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AKZ posted:I'm having a bit of fun Yeah sorry I wasn’t tryin to come at you specifically. Idk it’s a thing that annoys me bc a lot of people including me have loathed stuff because of my expectation, including formerly mentioned mad max which I thought was lame the first time I saw it. Rewatched it a bit later and I was like yo this is cool
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feedmyleg posted:Holy poo poo, the ending of the new Creepshow episode with the giant queen bee animatronic and Aliens-esque honey beehive monster feeding is the coolest thing I've seen on screen in a long long time The monster actually gave me The Thing vibes I love that they are using practical effects, and they look really good!
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A Proper Uppercut posted:The monster actually gave me The Thing vibes Yeah, the transformation for sure. But the girl being stuck to the honeycomb and used for food reminded me of Aliens, or even the Alien cocoon deleted scene.
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feedmyleg posted:Turns out House II: The Second Story isn't just a great title, it's a damned fine movie too It’s definitely the best thing Bill Maher ever did at least
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Ambitious Spider posted:Ok, why is Spookies so good? It's like Spirit Halloween: The Motion Picture, or the movie equivalent of a haunted sound effects tape. Love it so much Spookies is one of my top favorite movies. Even the behind the scenes story's fascinating. https://thedissolve.com/features/oral-history/788-the-strange-saga-of-spookies/ I still would like to've seen the Twisted Souls version.
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Mad Max chat: Apparently, in Australia at the time, they would send some reporter out to cover all the major car accidents, and apparently they were pretty gruesome. The character came about when George Miller thought what would happen if he had been sent out to cover the accident that killed his family. Of course when you realize that the opening of Mad Max makes a whole ton of sense. Also if you skip Mad Max, you skip the opening which is just flat amazing.
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