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Drunkboxer posted:I don’t know what it is about this franchise that has kept me from watching it. I saw the first one, thought it was fine but not great, and never bothered watching any of the other ones. I got free digital codes for a bunch of them and I don’t know that I can be bothered to watch past 3. It scratched my nostalgia itch for the kind of garbage the Sci-Fi channel would show in the early-2000s but that’s about all I can say for it.
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alf_pogs posted:i couldn't get through Scare Me, i just absolutely hated both leads and the dialogue felt completely written and false I sat through it for one of Challenges and the synopsis sounded like it'd be up my alley but it just didn't work for me. I do feel the premise has potential but it'd have to be in different writer's hands.
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Feb 25, 2021 05:50
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One day I'll just buy a $5 set of them and watch through just to say I did but there's a reason I went from seeing those films in the theaters to not caring when they available to stream.
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Feb 25, 2021 06:08
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The Dark and The Wicked was pretty solid. Felt like a nice middle ground between the arthouse horror stuff I have watched a lot of and more mainstream Horror. Very stylish, but it was kind of refreshing that it was just straight horror and not "it's a metaphor!" for once. Not that I don't like those movies. There have just been so many lately. Nothing amazing, but all around a pretty solid flick with some standout moments.
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Feb 25, 2021 06:46
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I think Saw VI is weirdly incredible, the worst for me are 3D and Jigsaw.
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Feb 25, 2021 09:09
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Origami Dali posted:Well Brick was purposefully stylized to both continue and subvert noir traditions. Brick didn't subvert anything. It followed all the tropes so slavishly that if you'd ever seen a Noir movie you could have recited the full plot of the movie after watching the first 20 minutes.
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Feb 25, 2021 10:44
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Drunkboxer posted:I don’t know what it is about this franchise that has kept me from watching it. I saw the first one, thought it was fine but not great, and never bothered watching any of the other ones. You're not missing much, I can barely remember what happened in most of them.
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Feb 25, 2021 13:39
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dorium posted:The Night Comes For Us could be considered a slasher. This is from a few pages back but hard agree. It was probably in the top 3 for violent movies I watched last year. It's gore surpasses most slashers with it's realism and it's squishyness.
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Feb 25, 2021 13:47
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If Rob Zombie and Ozzy Osbourne got into a straight fight who do yall think would win?
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Feb 25, 2021 14:46
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TheOmegaWalrus posted:If Rob Zombie and Ozzy Osbourne got into a straight fight who do yall think would win? Ozzy is very old, with holes in his brain from years and years of drug, so my money would be on Rob Zombie.
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Feb 25, 2021 14:55
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Jigsaw was pretty good as a movie but as a Saw movie was terrible because it didnt have that ultra-saturated grimy Saw filter that gives the series its distinctive look of grime and filth. It felt too clean and polished to be a "proper" Saw movie but if you take it as a spin-off its not too bad. Saw II will always be my favorite.
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Drunkboxer posted:I don’t know what it is about this franchise that has kept me from watching it. I saw the first one, thought it was fine but not great, and never bothered watching any of the other ones. I find them profoundly annoying. Everyone's always overacting and just saying obvious things out loud. Yeah, I get that you don't trust each other, you don't have to keep saying "HOW CAN I TRUST YOU?" Fuckin characters in slashers don't run around saying "I'm scared of getting stabbed!"
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Feb 25, 2021 14:58
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Kvlt! posted:Jigsaw was pretty good as a movie but as a Saw movie was terrible because it didnt have that ultra-saturated grimy Saw filter that gives the series its distinctive look of grime and filth. It felt too clean and polished to be a "proper" Saw movie but if you take it as a spin-off its not too bad. I found Jigsaw to be borderline insulting because I couldn't get over the fact that they did the thing where actually half the movie has been taking place at a completely different time period than the other half! again. Like they expected me to forget that they'd done that before.
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Feb 25, 2021 15:08
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Sometimes I'm in the mood for some mindless entertainment and the Saw films fit that bill for me. They're generally not very good but I find them fun anyway. Similar to how I feel about the Resident Evil movies.
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Feb 25, 2021 15:09
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david_a posted:I got free digital codes for a bunch of them and I don’t know that I can be bothered to watch past 3. It scratched my nostalgia itch for the kind of garbage the Sci-Fi channel would show in the early-2000s but that’s about all I can say for it. I actually watched Saw II last night after I posted that and you’re totally right about that early 2000s nostalgia feelings. I mean, I guess it’s nostalgia. It’s objectively an ugly looking movie which I guess is the point but it’s a very specific type of ugly from the early 2000s. Did the first movie look that way? I haven’t seen it since it was in theaters. Kvlt! posted:Jigsaw was pretty good as a movie but as a Saw movie was terrible because it didnt have that ultra-saturated grimy Saw filter that gives the series its distinctive look of grime and filth. It felt too clean and polished to be a "proper" Saw movie but if you take it as a spin-off its not too bad. Last night I wasn’t feeling the grimy, the filter made it seem almost metallic to me. Nu-metalic if you will. Definitely a distinctive look though.
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Feb 25, 2021 15:27
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The first part of the 2000's really loved things being overtly grimy. There was an over-the-topness to it, like they took an abandoned building and made it more abandoned.
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Iron Crowned posted:The first part of the 2000's really loved things being overtly grimy. There was an over-the-topness to it, like they took an abandoned building and made it more abandoned. I love it and I wish this filter was applied to every movie ever
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Feb 25, 2021 15:53
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I loathe it with all of my aesthetic being.
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Feb 25, 2021 15:53
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noise to MAX green to MAX yellow to MAX congratulations on your film, Mr. Wan
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Kvlt! posted:I love it and I wish this filter was applied to every movie ever Now I want to see Lawrence of Arabia like this.
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Feb 25, 2021 16:13
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Shook on Shudder is just a nothing movie, just literally nothing going on. It's both predictable and completely uninteresting and I can't even muster an opinion on it beyond that. I have no idea what the normally-great curators at Shudder saw in this thing.
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Feb 25, 2021 16:23
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gey muckle mowser posted:Sometimes I'm in the mood for some mindless entertainment and the Saw films fit that bill for me. They're generally not very good but I find them fun anyway. Similar to how I feel about the Resident Evil movies. This is me with the Final Destination films. I can happily look at my phone during the talking bits and as soon as you hear music you can look up and you'll see someone get killed horribly. Perfect.
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Feb 25, 2021 16:33
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is the trailer for Bit better than the movie because that trailer was so awful I might just skip the movie Attack the Block trailer was the opposite though I'm hyped as gently caress for this one
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Feb 25, 2021 16:33
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Olympic Mathlete posted:This is me with the Final Destination films. I can happily look at my phone during the talking bits and as soon as you hear music you can look up and you'll see someone get killed horribly. Perfect. whenever someone says "Should I watch the FD movies" I just say "watch the first one, then look up the kill compilations on youtube for the rest"
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Feb 25, 2021 16:34
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The one where the jock dude gets his intenstines sucked out through his arsehole on the bottom of the pool was a fantastic kill. Full marks to the people putting together the chain of events leading to all the deaths, there's a whole bunch of them that are superb.Kvlt! posted:Attack the Block trailer was the opposite though I'm hyped as gently caress for this one Great film. I was actually shocked to find out the monster effects were practical too.
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Feb 25, 2021 16:36
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Kvlt! posted:is the trailer for Bit better than the movie because that trailer was so awful I might just skip the movie I just watched the trailer and you're right, it's trash. I liked the film though. This is why I avoid trailers. I really hope you enjoy Attack the Block, it rules
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Feb 25, 2021 16:37
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I really like John Boyega too, Im not a fan of the new Star Wars movies but I thought he did a great job (him and Oscar Isaac both gave good performances with such lovely writing to work with), so Attack the Block is first up on the watching block for my challenge
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Feb 25, 2021 16:40
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Boyega blows the doors off in Attack the Block and is much more charming with his natural accent.
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Feb 25, 2021 16:42
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I have no idea who I was supposed to be rooting for in Wrong Turn 2021.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:The one where the jock dude gets his intenstines sucked out through his arsehole on the bottom of the pool was a fantastic kill. Full marks to the people putting together the chain of events leading to all the deaths, there's a whole bunch of them that are superb. The filmmakers evidently read Chuck Palahniuk.
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Feb 25, 2021 16:46
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Wow, Army of the Dead looks both interesting and dumb as hell at the same time. On one hand, it's got bautista, on the other hand it looks like dead rising made into a movie. I... gently caress I have no idea if I'm gonna watch it or not. I remember reading a book with a similar plot a few years ago, but damned if I can remember anything from it.
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Attack the Block is a lot of fun and that bit at the end where she asks 'How old are you?' gets the point of the movie across so deftly that I remember it as much as any of the sweet rear end vantablack monsters. edit: HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Boyega blows the doors off in Attack the Block and is much more charming with his natural accent. Yeah this too. He's great.
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Kvlt! posted:Jigsaw was pretty good as a movie but as a Saw movie was terrible because it didnt have that ultra-saturated grimy Saw filter that gives the series its distinctive look of grime and filth. It felt too clean and polished to be a "proper" Saw movie but if you take it as a spin-off its not too bad. They strayed more and more from that look as the series went on, imo. At least Jigsaw looked better than Saw 3D where all the effects looked cheap as hell and every scene had boring, flat lighting.
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:Wow, Army of the Dead looks both interesting and dumb as hell at the same time. It's on Netflix so it's a low-investment watch and is a return to the last watchable Snyder film so I'll give it a shot.
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Spatulater bro! posted:The filmmakers evidently read Chuck Palahniuk. TBF Palahnuik got that from a popular urban legend from the 70s.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:TBF Palahnuik got that from a popular urban legend from the 70s. which in turn came from a patent filed by a Mr. Seymour Butts for a failed suction based colon hydrotherapy machine
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Kvlt! posted:which in turn came from a patent filed by a Mr. Seymour Butts for a failed suction based colon hydrotherapy machine 
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Feb 25, 2021 16:54
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Seymour Butts was 80s not 70s dude!
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It'd be nice to see a actual trailer for Army of the Dead the one they released doesn't really grab me. its just kind of a teaser also a robbery during a Zombie Apocalypse is kind of ridiculous because what are you going to use the money for?
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Boyega blows the doors off in Attack the Block and is much more charming with his natural accent. The weird directions his career has taken have been a little disappointing considering what an outstanding breakout performance Attack the Block was. I do need to watch Small Axe still.
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