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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:The Happening is even better because of its twist, who would have expected that Wahlberg's dim-bulb high school science teacher would just accurately guess what was going on? For me, the fact that the movie was shot partially at my old middle school makes it even more bizarre. Like Wahlberg just wandered in one day and decided to pretend he was a teacher.
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Encryptic posted:Wonderful. Now I'm never going to be able to stop wondering if Mario is really a Goombah.  You've done a man's job, sir!
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step aside posted:But I'm a Cheerleader See, I saw this movie back when it came out and, yeah, those all seem like perfectly valid criticisms to me, and you can throw "blunt", "toothless" and "seemingly edited with a sledgehammer" on top. Just because some of the critics who gave it a bad review might have been homophobic (I'm not wading through the reviews to find out if that was actually the case) doesn't make it a good movie.
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Sep 29, 2011 20:20
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Schweinhund posted:It really seemed to me at the time that people turned on Kevin Costner for no good reason. He was in a bunch of good successful movies like Dances with Wolves, Field of Dreams, Bull Durham, Prince of Thieves, JFK etc.. Then all of a sudden Waterworld comes along and even before it came out it was labeled a bomb and he became the butt of a lot of jokes and his career went downhill pretty much. Of course The Postman was another movie that bombed right after Waterworld so that probably had a lot to do with the career part. Wyatt Earp came right before Waterworld too, so three high-profile, big-budget flops in a row. More importantly, I think his ego and his meddling were blamed for the first two, and he straight up directed The Postman so...
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Anonymous Zebra posted:Don't forget a character having her skin literally ripped from her body by Pyramid Head who then proceeds to throw the skin-sack at the main character. gently caress, the visuals in that movie were so awesome. Ehhh...I'm a huge fan of horror movies, but scenes like that ruined Silent Hill for me. The whole movie had this grim, sadistic quality to it - remember the woman crying and begging before she got her skin ripped off and the lingering close-ups on the woman getting roasted alive - that pushed it past being a scary, effective horror movie towards borderline torture porn. It was just very unsettling, and not in the way that was probably intended.
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Oct 7, 2011 18:10
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Super Ninja Fish posted:It's a movie about adults who were traumatized as children. Nastiness and violence is pretty much required for the story they were telling. It's a disturbing story, yes, but disturbing doesn't automatically mean bad. Some very bad poo poo had to happen to drive an older Kayleigh to suicide and for Evan to want to change the past as much as he does. You do not see the dog being set on fire, the child abuse, or the actual damage the bombs do. It's all implied. It's okay for a critic to be grossed out by the content of the story, it's not okay for them to pretend like their dislike for the violence of the story (truly bad parts not even shown on screen) is in any way even close to an objective analysis of the movie's quality. Except that you quote stuff like Common Sense Media, whose stated goal is to warn parents about stuff they might not want their kids to see; and the other two reviews in your post seem to be complaining that the film resorts to cheap shock tactics, as opposed to the violence itself. They're right to do it, too - it's a pretty thoroughly mediocre movie that relies on petty shocks in lieu of building any actual tension.
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Nov 9, 2011 21:12
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Vagabundo posted:The Faculty, IIRC, was at the tail-end of that when it seemed like every movie that had even the most remote horror element to it had to have a bunch of smug smart alecs. To be fair, this was still way better than the period before it, where almost no horror movies were released theatrically at all. Scream may have inspired a ton of lovely imitators, but it also revived the genre almost singlehandedly.
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Maxwell Lord posted:To me the fascinating thing about Battlefield Earth is it's one of the most technically inept films ever to get a major release. The only thing that compares in my mind is Superman IV. Even Superman IV went in with a competent director and a strong cast, and supposedly the budget kept getting slashed mid-production. You can see how everybody would think that could be a good movie when they started. The only way anybody thought Battlefield Earth was going to be good was through cultish blindness.
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