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CelticPredator posted:Would Bill Skarsgard and Jack Quaid count? Jack Quaid definitely. Of the innumerable Skarsgårds I'd only have doubts about Alexander and Bill, but I could see the case being made. I think it's got to be the usual "go for it if it's not taking the piss" - I've successfully argued in the past that things you wouldn't normally consider to even be horror movies qualify, like Blade Runner 2049 and Excalibur. Jedit fucked around with this message at 10:47 on Apr 15, 2025 |
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Apr 15, 2025 10:45
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Stellan Skarsgård is actually a mortal avatar of the Norse fertility god Freyr. Which is how there's a new Skarsgård every week.
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Apr 15, 2025 10:59
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Bill and Stellan should play cool nasty old vampires and have Alexander be the hero guy to stop them
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Apr 15, 2025 11:01
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Sono posted:https://gizmodo.com/you-wont-find-the-m3gan-chatbot-at-the-alamo-drafthouse-2000589279 This is loving deranged behavior on Zuck's part. Honestly, it this ever takes off I am going to start missing any movies that are only in the multiplexes because I simply cannot tell that many people to shut the gently caress up and put their phones away, especially if they have the theater's blessing. What the gently caress is wrong with people?
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Apr 15, 2025 13:26
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Crescent Wrench posted:What the gently caress is wrong with people? They think the reason people aren't going to movie theaters isn't because of the price or the pandemic or that everything is a sequel or remake, it's because they're not allowed to be on their phones. So let them be on their phones.
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Apr 15, 2025 13:38
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For the amount of work these freaks do to not deliver a good product they probably just could have delivered the good product.
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Apr 15, 2025 13:48
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It's especially ironic considering M3GAN's message against iPad Babysitting.
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Apr 15, 2025 13:50
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I would absolutely go to theaters to see Groundhog Day: The Shallows https://x.com/BDisgusting/status/1911800233685557599
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Apr 15, 2025 13:51
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Pope Corky the IX posted:They think the reason people aren't going to movie theaters isn't because of the price or the pandemic or that everything is a sequel or remake, it's because they're not allowed to be on their phones. So let them be on their phones. Looking at the Minecraft bullshit the idiots are probably right, sadly.
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Apr 15, 2025 13:56
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Chris James 2 posted:Great thread from the writer (feature debut too!) of Woman in the Yard https://x.com/SamStefanak/status/1910715850363199939 Bought, will check out after work before Friday  https://x.com/HorrorCalendar/status/1912129739357106251
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Apr 15, 2025 14:24
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I'm excited to see why everyone is so mad / upset with Woman in the Yard finally, yay.Sono posted:https://gizmodo.com/you-wont-find-the-m3gan-chatbot-at-the-alamo-drafthouse-2000589279 I'm just glad David Lynch doesn't have to see this 
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Apr 15, 2025 15:09
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Sir Nose posted:You're thinking of John's son David? Yes, although, David, Keith and John himself were all "that guy's" at some point in their career.
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Apr 15, 2025 15:18
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There's nothing as distracting to me as a cell phone in a theater, so I stand with Alamo on this, even if it's a gimmick designed for the movie.CelticPredator posted:I still wish we got a follow up to shin. I want to see whatever was coming out of that tail. Just pure freakish energy on those things In my mind that's the end of the world right there, bunch of human-ish Godzilla offspring that will eventually replace humans as the dominant lifeform on Earth.
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Apr 15, 2025 15:24
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Jedit posted:Lon Chaney Jr Sr. was one of the greatest of the silent era and delivered a hit a year for most of the 1920's. Jr. was in the Wolf Man and a bunch of steadily deteriorating sequels (Son of Dracula, Ghost of Frankenstein, all the mummy sequels, the crossovers). Chris James 2 posted:I would absolutely go to theaters to see Groundhog Day: The Shallows Hopefully on streaming by Shark Week, so I can double-feature it with Onsen Shark (which also needs to become available). Sono fucked around with this message at 15:50 on Apr 15, 2025 |
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Apr 15, 2025 15:47
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Pope Corky the IX posted:They think the reason people aren't going to movie theaters isn't because of the price or the pandemic or that everything is a sequel or remake, it's because they're not allowed to be on their phones. So let them be on their phones. Going from my own observations over the years, make good movies and people will come.
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Apr 15, 2025 16:02
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I make a point of going to the movies at least once a week, and my take on how to get more people to go there is that it's all down to marketing. So many times someone's asked what movie I'm seeing this week, only to reply "I've never heard of that/I didn't know that was out" when I tell them. People can't go to a movie they don't know exists.
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Apr 15, 2025 17:27
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I was pretty hyped for the movie Drop after seeing a trailer for it during The Monkey. I think I saw one TV commercial for it a couple of weeks ago. Then I just found out it came out last Friday, opened in 5th place, and will presumably drop out of theaters and onto streaming within a month. Similar thing happened for Presence - I saw a trailer that intrigued me, then it almost secretly hit theaters and was in and out in less than a month. Both movies have good reviews. Neither was going to be a billion dollar blockbuster or anything, but it really feels like marketing for this mid and low budget movies is almost non-existent in a lot of cases.
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Apr 15, 2025 18:07
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Ultimately there is just a chunk of the population that feels like the home experience is now close enough to the theater experience that they don't need the theater anymore. There are so many more people these days who have decent setups with huge 70+ inch screens and surround sound, I get why they don't feel like wading through opening weekend crowds is necessary. Back when I was growing up everyone had their basic 30ish inch screens and nobody really attempted to put together a home theater setup unless they had a ton of money. So anyway my point is you aren't getting some of those people back no matter how good the movie is. They'll wait to watch it at home.
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Apr 15, 2025 18:13
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You don't even need like a massive theater experience at home. I'd say the percentage of movie goers who truly value sorround sound or massive screens where you can see every detail are a minority of the overall movie watching audience. And those people are probably the ones who are back in theaters despite prices or crowds or health or inconvenience presuming they don't have $20K to replicate it at home. But for the average movie goer I think the fact that you can watch a movie in the comfort of your own home for a minimal or no extra cost makes waiting a couple of months worth all the stuff you didn't like about the movie going experience. Like half the difference is the advent of digitial releases but half of it is just all those youtube videos during the lockdown about how to make movie theater popcorn. The second a lot of people figured that out they probably never had a reason to go to a movie again.
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Apr 15, 2025 18:47
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It was a bit wild learning about Freaky Tales while browsing the day's showtimes, seeing it that night, then the next day it was completely gone from any theaters near me. Crazy how a movie starring a relatively hot name (Pedro Pascal) could just be dumped and forgotten in a blink.
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Apr 15, 2025 19:25
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they won't let me go to most movie theaters fully nude what's the point excited for shark shallows movie. they're gonna have to work hard to beat out under paris which i think might be my new favorite shark movie.
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Apr 15, 2025 19:29
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It's not about having a better setup at home; I watch movies in bed, with my cat, on a cracked screen smartphone. It's a better experience than the theater, where some fucker inevitably crinkles a wrapper louder than the speakers. IDK how theaters could fix that. Maybe let me sync noise-cancelling headphones to a theater signal?
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Apr 15, 2025 19:37
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My justification for wanting to go to see things in movie theaters besides stuff coming out that I don't currently have access to at home is just the experience of being able to focus better on the screen, despite seeing the backs of other people's heads and having to put up with the odd inappropriate noise from an audience member (I'm usually the one making those anyways after being so long used to watching movies by myself at home where I can have any reaction to the screen that I want). There's just something that really locks me into a movie that wants its audience to be locked into it; it's been that way ever since I saw the director's cut of Blade Runner as a midnight movie back in 1997 or so and came out of the theater and noticed that my mind had gone extremely silent in an incredible contrast to how I usually experienced the outside world when I was out and about. It was an addictive feeling that lasted for about half an hour or so after the film ended and something that I've always appreciated since on the rare occasion when it does happen.
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Apr 15, 2025 19:39
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i think that, regardless of the last few posts, most people still like going to the movies
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Apr 15, 2025 19:40
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The main thing people don't like about going to the movies is that it costs 40 dollars. That's it and that's all.
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Apr 15, 2025 19:41
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:i think that, regardless of the last few posts, most people still like going to the movies I don't want to make it sound like I don't! I loved the whole experience of going to the movies as a kid; entering the theater and seeing all the posters for upcoming films (some of which scared the poo poo out of me like the poster for Pink Floyd: The Wall) and finding a place to sit and wait to be transported to another world. My two favorite movie theaters in my city are two of my favorite places to be at period; one because it's a gorgeous old movie palace with buddhas on the walls and ornamentation everywhere (and it's somewhere I've been going to see movies for the past forty years), the other because the theater is stripped down and chill and knowing that the theater plays every type of experimental and art film imaginable just makes it a sacred space in my mind somehow. Servoret fucked around with this message at 19:47 on Apr 15, 2025 |
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Apr 15, 2025 19:44
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Last night I decided to watch 825 Forest Road which was new on Shudder, by the HELL HOUSE LLC guy. I was so bored after 20 minutes I realized I was just browsing the movie's IMDB and not watching, but I noticed a bunch of people involved also worked on a movie called Another Cabin in the Woods Movie (2024), so I turned it off and watched that instead. Letterboxd reviews said it was very stupid but pretty funny at times and kind of charming. It was all of those things, and a couple of the bits had me laughing out loud. Not a bad "Tubi Original" vibe movie if you're in the mood for something that doesn't take itself seriously at all.
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Apr 15, 2025 19:50
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:The main thing people don't like about going to the movies is that it costs 40 dollars. That's it and that's all. yeah pretty much
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Apr 15, 2025 20:03
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I'll see any old thing on $5 Movie Tuesday.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:The main thing people don't like about going to the movies is that it costs 40 dollars. That's it and that's all. Honestly? Yeah. I'd put up with a lot more of people's bullshit if I didn't pay $40 for the privilege.
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Apr 15, 2025 20:04
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I find almost nothing enjoyable about going to the movie theater anymore and that makes me sad. Other than stuff for my kid I pretty much only go to Fathom-style event stuff.
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Apr 15, 2025 20:11
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I'm the opposite, I'd pay top dollar if I could be guaranteed to not have to deal with other people in the theater. I try to go to 11am shows but even that is no guarantee.
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Apr 15, 2025 20:11
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i kinda feel like the other people are the point. i went to see Re-Animator last weekend and it wouldn't have been as fun without everyone hooting and hollering.
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Apr 15, 2025 20:17
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fullroundaction posted:Last night I decided to watch 825 Forest Road which was new on Shudder, by the HELL HOUSE LLC guy. You didn't miss anything, it's only semi interesting at first because it tells the story in a kind of unique way (the timeline will follow one character through a sequence of events then start over and show you what another was doing during the same timeline) but the actual plot is boring, some of the acting is community theater level flat, and the twist is predictable af with an unsatisfyingly abrupt end. I guess it looked okay.
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Cool thanks. I'll probably finish it when I have nothing else going on but it just didn't hook me at all.
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Apr 15, 2025 20:23
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:i kinda feel like the other people are the point. i went to see Re-Animator last weekend and it wouldn't have been as fun without everyone hooting and hollering. Depends on the movie. The first time I saw The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was a blast with a fully packed house. I saw Flow on Sunday and the experience was significantly improved by the row of young women in front of me making cooing noises every time something cute happened on screen, which was quite often.
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Apr 15, 2025 20:59
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I'll see any old thing on $5 Movie Tuesday. More people need to be aware of Discount Tuesdays.
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Apr 15, 2025 21:14
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Lazy_Liberal posted:they won't let me go to most movie theaters fully nude what's the point There's a nude screening of The Naked Gun happening near me. I'm not going but that's still very funny to me.
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Our local theater is kind of an Alamo-lite and does a yearly gift-card offer where you get $250 worth of tickets on a gift card for $125, so we grab that every year so that going to see any given thing we feel like is much more of "whatever, we already paid!" mentality while not feeling pressured to keep up with a monthly subscription (which they recently also introduced as an option) if there's nothing we want to go out to see for a bit. Plus the food's pretty decent so it's a nice little date night, and the crowds are generally good. It's much easier for me to get sidetracked or distracted at home than it is when I'm locked in watching something in the theater, which is especially nice for horror movie experiences.
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