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Has anyone seen Black Mass? Worth it?
My fiancee gets a free year round movie pass and gets to take me for free too. But we never go because we're lazy. Or we have other things to do. So we just wait til digital release.
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Has anyone seen Anomalisa? Is it good? I really like Charlie Kaufman but I'm not a big fan of stop motion animation. They're showing it at Film Bar so I might go get drunk and watch it.
It's incredibly good.
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Feb 25, 2016 02:44
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I watched High Noon for the first time last night and it was very good. My only problem with the film is that Gary Cooper sounds like Hank Hill, and now I wish there was a King of the Hill version of High Noon.
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Feb 25, 2016 05:04
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- ChairmanMeow
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Fire up the grill everyone eats tonight!
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I'll get us started by cross-posting myself from Cinema Discusso about a good movie i saw this weekend about chopping wood, called The Witch or The Vvitch:
So who remembers during the Nathaniel Hawthorne unit of high school english class, learning about how in puritan times "the woods" were a symbol of the spooky unknown? That is this film in a nutshell, and it's good.
To summarize the setup: a family is exiled from a puritan New England settlement and starts a homestead on the edge of  the forest. The dad chops wood. A lot of it. They notice that every time they or the camera look at the edge of the dark forest nearby, creepy ambient music plays. Then their baby disappears, and the family starts to freak out. There's also a black goat - that's probably no big deal though, right?
First of all, it's an excellent, beautifully shot period piece of a 1600s New England puritan homestead. The dialogue was period-accurate which pleased me a lot but I could see it annoying some (subtitles wouldn't be a terrible idea). The way the house, barn, and fences were all built, the costume, the food they ate, the wood chopping... I'm not an expert in 1600s New England but there was enough attention to detail that I assume they did their research. Either way I found it very convincing.
Second, and obviously the point of the film, is that it's a great ambient horror piece. Not a ton actually happens, but there is a terrific sense of evil the whole time. Much like the family in the film, as an audience I found myself constantly on-edge and scared but not sure what I was afraid of. The times when there is actual action, it is realistic in a way that made me squirm and cringe a little. When there is an actual witchly ritual, holy poo poo is it disconcerting.
Cinematography note: the lighting and color balance stood out to me as particularly good. After the film, someone told me that apparently they used natural light to the maximum extent possible, which I think added a lot to the... primitive, squalid, inglamorous feel of the family's life.
The soundtrack contributed a lot to the ambient horror. It was a mix of scratchy creepy strings, and discordant stuff that reminded me of Ligeti (the guy who wrote the creepy choir stuff from 2001).
Oh also it has the breastfeeding lady from Game of Thrones.
Anyway it was the best horror film I've seen since It Follows. I give it 8/10, with 10/10 for the wood chopping scenes. Please discuss.
I went and saw this last night on your recommendation. I liked black Phillip. was beautifully shot and the period setting was nice. I think it was more psychological drama than horror.
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i recently watched a bunch of coen brothers movies i'd missed
it was really hard to take true grit seriously after the unfiltered nihilism of A Serious Man
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- ChairmanMeow
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Fire up the grill everyone eats tonight!
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Mar 12, 2016 23:30
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I went and saw this last night on your recommendation. I liked black Phillip. was beautifully shot and the period setting was nice. I think it was more psychological drama than horror.
It's true, it reminds me a bit of rosemary's baby in that regard. I'm glad you liked it, black phillip is boss af
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Mar 12, 2016 23:38
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Has anyone seen Black Mass? Worth it?
My fiancee gets a free year round movie pass and gets to take me for free too. But we never go because we're lazy. Or we have other things to do. So we just wait til digital release.
it's really good. if you've seen the older mob movies: donnie brasco, goodfellas, the godfather 1-3, the departed, scarface, heat, public enemies, the untouchables, etc, it's gonna be similar to some of those but has it's own twists of course. the brutality in black mass was refreshing. give it a watch and tell us what you think?
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Mar 12, 2016 23:40
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by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
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Gremlins still owns.
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Mar 13, 2016 09:39
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Saw that 10 Cloverfield Lane tonight, it's pretty good.
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Mar 13, 2016 11:47
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i recently watched a bunch of coen brothers movies i'd missed
it was really hard to take true grit seriously after the unfiltered nihilism of A Serious Man
A Serious Man is really good, and I'm a serious man about this.
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I just watched Zootopia, it is a kids movie but it was still interesting to watch. A rabbit wants to make a name for herself in the big city. It wont spoil it for anyone.
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Double Dragon is a work of genius
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by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
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Double Dragon is a work of genius
the ending was sweet
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