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It bothers me more than it should that The Invitation reuses the title of a really great movie that’s less than a decade old. Gonna go see the new Orphan movie later today, looking forward to it. I remember the first one being surprisingly good.
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Watched Blob 88 last night. That movie fuckin rules.
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Aug 27, 2022 16:11
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I was really confused that everyone was suddenly talking about The Invitation because its like a 8 year old film.
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Aug 27, 2022 16:28
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Ambitious Spider posted:Saw it last night. I don't think it's as bad as a lot of reviews have made it out to be, but it's not very good either. It's fun when it's leaning hard into being Gothic and spooky, but that's very little of the movie. A lot of it is sort of a 50 shades kind of thing with rich aristocrat, and plucky poor artist meeting. There's also a bunch of stuff I thought (major spoilers if you care)were cutesy little references but, actually It's a sequel to Dracula, if Dracula won Oh wait, there’s an actual twist? The trailer seemed to cover the entire film’s story beats in about 2 minutes.
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Aug 27, 2022 16:51
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Chris James 2 posted:Not a big ask at all! You are a gentleman and a scholar.
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Aug 27, 2022 18:12
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The_Doctor posted:Oh wait, there’s an actual twist? The trailer seemed to cover the entire film’s story beats in about 2 minutes. A minor twist, you might find groan worthy! fake edit after watching the trailer- Wow, that really is basically the last 20 minutes of the movie cut down to two minutes, including at least a passing reference to what I had spoiled.
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Aug 27, 2022 18:44
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The Invitation looks pretty bad, but The Invitation is great!
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Aug 27, 2022 18:48
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Ambitious Spider posted:A minor twist, you might find groan worthy! Is the twist "the Harkers"?
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Aug 27, 2022 19:43
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Logan Marshal Greene deserves bigger roles. I thought he was ready to pop after Upgrade. He’s consistently great in everything he does even when the all around project isn’t that good.
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Aug 27, 2022 20:17
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dorium posted:Logan Marshal Greene deserves bigger roles. I thought he was ready to pop after Upgrade. He’s consistently great in everything he does even when the all around project isn’t that good.
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Aug 27, 2022 20:27
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Rageaholic posted:I liked him in Prometheus too! Prometheus rules He had a pulpy noir assassin show set in the late 60’s on Cinemax awhile ago called Quarry that was some of the finest action/noir television ever conceived that didn’t get a second season. Dudes just had some bummer luck getting propelled into the next level. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgISvffeT-8
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Aug 27, 2022 20:45
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Tom Hardy's underrated twin
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Only a few minutes into Mad God and wow this is like Tetanus: The Movie E: this is his vengeance upon the world for a decade of "Dinosaur Supervisor" jokes, isn't it Phy fucked around with this message at 22:46 on Aug 27, 2022 |
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Aug 27, 2022 21:29
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pospysyl posted:Is the twist "the Harkers"? We’ll kind of in that the vampire is actually Dracula! And the movie more or less acts like he was victorious in the books. Takes place at carfax abbey, Lucy is one of his brides, etc… they fudge the ages a bit, but it’s Mina and John
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Aug 27, 2022 21:29
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Ambitious Spider posted:Saw it last night. I don't think it's as bad as a lot of reviews have made it out to be, but it's not very good either. It's fun when it's leaning hard into being Gothic and spooky, but that's very little of the movie. A lot of it is sort of a 50 shades kind of thing with rich aristocrat, and plucky poor artist meeting. There's also a bunch of stuff I thought (major spoilers if you care)were cutesy little references but, actually It's a sequel to Dracula, if Dracula won Perfect response, thank you Speaking of Crimson Peak, I loved 99% of that movie, but thought the very ending was a huge missed opportunity. I thought I saw where it was about to go, and was excited because it would have been the perfect climax and thematic resonance to the villain's arc and motivation, but then it swerved in a pretty uninteresting way. So the protagonist is running from the antagonist sister lady, circling the giant clay excavation machine the brother designed. Sister's whole characterization is about how she refuses to leave (or let anyone else leave) this decaying family estate that's literally sinking into the muck. The metaphors are rampant. Sister is wearing, iirc, a flowing dress or robe. She is about to stab protagonist, but sees the ghost of her brother, and protagonist takes the opportunity to bonk her on the head with a shovel. The End. WHAT WOULD HAVE BEEN A COOLER ENDING WITH ACTUAL THEMATIC SIGNIFICANCE TO THE CHARACTERS AND NARRATIVE: Sister's flowing dress is caught in the teeth of the excavator, and she dragged down into the muck and smothered/crushed. It would have looked sick as hell and reinforced the theme that she is being undone by her obsession with squatting in this sinking marsh. The metaphor would be made literal as she gets the most direct interpretation of what she always wanted.
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Aug 27, 2022 22:37
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Creepy Japanese found footage Youtube channel Q uploaded a new video today. If you haven't seen their stuff before, you should watch it - this one is pretty good too.
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Aug 27, 2022 23:11
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The spoilers for The Invitation make me a lot more interested in the movie, honestly
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Aug 28, 2022 00:18
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Anybody see Broadcast Signal Intrusion? Just checked the trailer on Shudder.
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Chris James 2 posted:
Is there much difference between trakt and justwatch?
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Aug 28, 2022 01:15
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A True Jar Jar Fan posted:The spoilers for The Invitation make me a lot more interested in the movie, honestly Yeah same here. I was like "Nah," but then I read the spoilers and was like " Okay , yeah that's pretty interesting "
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Aug 28, 2022 01:25
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Crescent Wrench posted:Is there much difference between trakt and justwatch? I think they both have the same info, trakt is just more helpful to me because it also helps me easily keep track of what I watch and when I watch it which I rely on a lot for help with thread challenges involving first time watches
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Aug 28, 2022 01:46
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Hollismason posted:Yeah same here. I was like "Nah," but then I read the spoilers and was like " Okay , yeah that's pretty interesting " I’m assuming some posters here must work in like a competing ad company or something, because they’re doing a much better job getting me interested to see The Invitation than I was before.
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Aug 28, 2022 03:23
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So I really liked Howl. Very good werewolf movie. I think I am going to watch The Howling next.
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Aug 28, 2022 03:48
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Hollismason posted:So I really liked Howl. Very good werewolf movie. I think I am going to watch The Howling next. It was, wasn’t it! And you’ve had a great run of werewolf movies lately. I think I followed pretty much your same path with them about three years back. Found Bad Moon, Late Stages, and Howl all on Prime and had never heard of any of them, watched them all in one afternoon/evening. And later followed up with the classics like American Werewolf, the Howling, Dog Soldiers, and Wolfman ‘41. MrMojok fucked around with this message at 03:59 on Aug 28, 2022 |
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I saw The Invitation (2022) earlier and thought it was decent, maybe because I hadn't seen the trailers beforehand, which evidently spoil the twist and also the last 20 minutes :x That's the best approach I can think of for seeing it because it becomes a drastically more-competent/interesting film that's essentially a slow burn making you wonder what's up because there's definitely a feeling of something being off On its own, it starts out (and is 70%) an atmospheric romantic drama about a black woman (Nathalie Emmanuel) discovering a white British cousin (Hugh Skinner), meeting him, and visiting his family (and their maids and their friends) for a special wedding whereupon she falls for family friend Thomas Doherty, while everyone else around alternates between their own variation of off, whether it's too nice (Alana Boden), too sassy (Stephanie Corneliussen), or too much of an rear end in a top hat (butler Sean Pertwee, who I adored in Dog Soldiers and am happy he still gets to be a dick in films) And yeah the twist is Doherty and the family are a bunch of Draculas, the maids are the meals, the friends have been helping provide the Draculas meals as part of a truce to stay alive (the implication being this also isn't the only such section of not just England but the world where the Draculas have won), and the wedding she's at is her own so she can join the arrangement The biggest complaints I had really were that it doesn't go far enough in any direction to justify either the fun twist Or the homages to the films it reminds you of that you would be better off seeing instead. Some of it (not much blood, overreliance on jump scares) was due to the non-R rating obviously, but also there's some lighting issues in a few key scenes in the first half, camera wonkiness and issues in the second half, and a tacked-on sequel-tease scene at the end when the ending right before was perfectly fine And in terms of what it reminds you of: obviously the title (this isn't The Invitation 2015), but also the baseline concept in the second paragraph is meant to remind one of Get Out, the perfectly-fine ending mentioned in the last sentence tries to have its own Ready or Not, the atmosphere and countryside setting made me and the person I was seeing it with think of Hammer films, and the twist obviously puts this in the vampire subgenre which has its own smorgasbord of great-to-amazing films. And while I didn't outright hate this like others here may have, and it didn't leave me regretting having seen it (even though other options I posited that the person I was seeing it with rejected included Bodies Bodies Bodies, 3000 Years of Longing, Beast, Fall and Where the Crawdads Sing), and I thought the cast varied from fine to impressive (Pertwee ruled, Boden and Corneliussen were fun, and I liked how creepy Doherty was throughout): When I list all of those other films it reminds you of intentionally, it makes me want any/all of those instead. Even before getting into the fact it has a runtime longer than all of those but Get Out, which it has the same length as
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You know, the entire time y'all were talking about Howl, I sincerely somehow thought y'all meant the Allen Ginsberg biopic was just way, way weirder than I knew about. Instead it's a distinct movie from 5 years later that's like a siege on a train. It also looks like it fucks so I'm gonna have to watch it soon.
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MrMojok posted:It was, wasn’t it! And you’ve had a great run of werewolf movies lately. I have had a real good run of werewolf movies. I'm saving up for American Werewolf in London , Wolfman 41. I'll probably watch The Howling then Late Phases. I gotta work in The Howling 2 though because its so batshit outrageously good.
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Xiahou Dun posted:You know, the entire time y'all were talking about Howl, I sincerely somehow thought y'all meant the Allen Ginsberg biopic was just way, way weirder than I knew about. That movie would have been amazing if half way through Allen Ginsberg was bitten by a werewolf. Howl does indeed slap. Its real good and the werewolf design is really interesting.
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Aug 28, 2022 04:10
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Hollismason posted:That movie would have been amazing if half way through Allen Ginsberg was bitten by a werewolf. hell yeah I wanna see James Franco get eaten by a were-woof
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Aug 28, 2022 04:12
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Xiahou Dun posted:hell yeah I wanna see James Franco get eaten by a were-woof I would actually settle for like James Franco getting eaten by a regular wolf or a pack of wild dogs
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Aug 28, 2022 04:24
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I've seen the trailer for The Invitation a handful of times before other movies in theaters and didn't feel the need to see it because the trailer showed so much. Chris James 2 posted:And yeah the twist is Doherty and the family are a bunch of Draculas, the maids are the meals, the friends have been helping provide the Draculas meals as part of a truce to stay alive (the implication being this also isn't the only such section of not just England but the world where the Draculas have won), and the wedding she's at is her own so she can join the arrangement
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Chris James 2 posted:Watcher is available to stream later today on Shudder, if you haven't seen it yet I recommend it and so does Guillermo del Toro Another reason to watch this btw: director Chloe Okuno has great taste https://twitter.com/Shudder/status/1563617382937108480 Okuno's fav films on Shudder posted:Tammy and the T-Rex
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Aug 28, 2022 04:29
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For horror movies especially so much relies on mood and pacing that trailers can't really spoil anything for me, I think they're fun short films on their own when they tell a complete story
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Aug 28, 2022 04:30
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Xiahou Dun posted:You know, the entire time y'all were talking about Howl, I sincerely somehow thought y'all meant the Allen Ginsberg biopic was just way, way weirder than I knew about. Hey, we already have that, Under Siege is rad
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Aug 28, 2022 05:58
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Under Siege 2: Dark Territory is a massive step down from the first but Eric Bogosian is a rather unsettling villain at times. Speaking of, he's cast as Daniel Molloy in the Interview With A Vampire series that's in pre-production.
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Aug 28, 2022 08:03
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That Firestarter remake was not good, but the abysmal reviews seem dramatic. Was pretty watchable overall, although the kid really wasn't able to pull off the finale at all so it felt really corny.
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Aug 28, 2022 08:25
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Oh yeah short film update. I got rejected from pretty much all of the festivals I submitted, the one I may have had a chance in cancelled. So in two weeks I’ll release it on line and just move on I guess. I don’t think I’ll do film festivals again unless I really feel like I have something special and even then I won’t make as big a deal about it in terms of waiting a whole year. I think just doing cool YouTube stuff is maybe a better way for me right now
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Aug 28, 2022 09:29
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Someone on Reddit essentially made a short NOPE fan film: It’s a bit spoilery for the film, so if you’ve not see Nope, don’t watch this. https://imgur.com/a/vj9mv2V
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Aug 28, 2022 12:49
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Still watching werewolf movies. Watching The Howling right now and totally forgot it was Joe Dante.
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Children of Sin on Tubi is everything I wanted They/Them to be. It's not particularly good, but it is very slashy. Shark Side of the Moon is possibly a werewolf movie. If werewolves are allowed to be organized, Soviet, and sharks. It's bad.
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