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 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
What is the nature of the “monster” in the asylum? The setting feels more limited in terms of what kinds of terrors you’d be afraid of running across. Part of what made the Blair Witch work for me is just how much it used my imagination against me.


There isn't really a single entity as such, so much as it was an asylum where mentally ill people were treated badly and did bad things to themselves, the staff and each other. So therefore it is a haunted and terrifying place. Perversely, there is more to it than that, but it is simultaneously extremely obvious to anyone who's seen a horror film and kind of a spoiler, so I won't say more.

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My Cousin Vinny

You know how good this is. If you've never seen or heard of this before what are you waiting for? Most movies that are based on a specialist subject get ridiculed by professionals in the field but this is the one courtroom movie that lawyers have used as a training aid, it's that good. It's stupidly funny with Joe Pesci projecting his Goodfellas aggression through an ill prepared lawyer and there's a damn good reason Marisa Tomei earned an Oscar for this.

Go and bloody watch it.
   
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I'll second Henry, its an awesome film although I always pegged it as a chrimbo movie for some reason but given The Event it's December 171st so go for it

Parks and Rec

Gave this a miss at the time as looked kind of officey and to a degree it is but having been subjected to the innane ways of the civil service this was amusingly spot on

Highlander

Wonderfully 80's with shonky acting, silly accents, wonky swordplay and a glorious soundtrack, admittedly there should have only been one and the rumbling of a remake are worrying, disengage thinking and enjoy

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Curse of the Crimson Altar

Christopher Lee! Boris Karloff! A very racy opening scene, especially for 1968 Britain.

This film cannot possibly suck.

   
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Usually a racy scene at the beginning is the ultimate sign of suckage to come!

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 Easy E wrote:
Usually a racy scene at the beginning is the ultimate sign of suckage to come!


Fnyar, fnyar and a bit of oo-er missus for good measure

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 Easy E wrote:
Usually a racy scene at the beginning is the ultimate sign of suckage to come!


In the words of Tom Baker in Blackadder The Third?

That’s where you’re wrong!

It was perfectly enjoyable for a Tigon production. Competently shot, decently acted. Yes it’s all daft and very hokey. But if I wanted sensible, I wouldn’t be watching 60’s/70’s British horror starring Christopher Lee, would I, Clever Trousers!

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*all indignation in this thread is meant to be comedic. Because tone of voice and Young One’s references don’t translate well online or through time*

   
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 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Saw Raya and the Last Dragon.
Pretty fun, nice little adventure movie. It does seem like the movie was not originally going to end with all humans coming back(The one warrior guy and the baby looked like they where going to form a family). With the IDea that Dragons where the ones to trust last time so humans cam back and then vice versa, and humanity needing to come together to recover from a tragedy. But IT ended the way
Disney would end their movies.


The constant, CONSTANT teenager talk (or at least what a middle aged screen writer thinks kids today talk like) just ruined it for me. It wasn't funny, it kept knocking me out of the story (seriously, a reference to the 80s martial arts film The Last Dragon?) and instantly dated the film.

Gorgeous visuals, maybe it would be better dubbed into Thai.

You are actually bringing up something. The reason why they talk like that and written like that is so jokes can be easily translated, mostly into chinese. Saying something like "Im kinda a Dragon Nerd" is easily translated then a joke requireing cultural context.
ITs going to be like that from now on, with china and other asian countries becoming the prime market for these shows.

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Maybe?

I mean, it's fairly obvious that Disney is taking a run at the Chinese market, but they've struggled to get any real traction.

So unless they have some sort of breakthrough, they're just as likely to concentrate on the markets where they're already successful and just take anything they get from China as a bonus.

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balmong7 wrote:
Luca

It's a Pixar film, less heart than most, but still endearing. It's about two mermaid boys who run away from the ocean and try to earn enough money to buy a Vespa so they can travel the surface world.

A lot of people on the internet are trying to sell it as a gay allegory. I didn't see it, and that is an argument for another place.


You know I saw that one with my boys. Definitely didn't catch any gay allegory. To me, it was like if you took The Little Mermaid, made it Italian (witha a capital a 'I') and then lowered the stakes from dominion over the sea to a child's race. Very silly, very pretty, very much equivalent to the kids Netflix movie of the month.

Needless to say, the boys loved it.

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 Azreal13 wrote:
Maybe?

I mean, it's fairly obvious that Disney is taking a run at the Chinese market, but they've struggled to get any real traction.

So unless they have some sort of breakthrough, they're just as likely to concentrate on the markets where they're already successful and just take anything they get from China as a bonus.


I think they're massively investing into getting into China (and take money from China in return). Certainly won't help with Disney's depiction of 'the good life' and things to aim for getting any more progressive over the next decades...

   
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 Gitzbitah wrote:
balmong7 wrote:
Luca

It's a Pixar film, less heart than most, but still endearing. It's about two mermaid boys who run away from the ocean and try to earn enough money to buy a Vespa so they can travel the surface world.

A lot of people on the internet are trying to sell it as a gay allegory. I didn't see it, and that is an argument for another place.


You know I saw that one with my boys. Definitely didn't catch any gay allegory. To me, it was like if you took The Little Mermaid, made it Italian (witha a capital a 'I') and then lowered the stakes from dominion over the sea to a child's race. Very silly, very pretty, very much equivalent to the kids Netflix movie of the month.

Needless to say, the boys loved it.

Funny you mention The Little Mermaid because alot of LGBTQ+ find that movie as much of the same, with ariel forbidden from pursuing who she loves. and then once she does is treated weird.
But like i mentioned to my fellow LGBTQ+ while it can be read that way and it valid, the theme is SOOOO broad it can be applied to alot of people

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I happened to see on TV last night that Keira Knightly won't let her kids watch TLM because she objects to the idea that a woman gives up her voice for a man!

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And yet it is her lack of a voice that allows Prince Eric to fall in love with her.
Not because she cant talk, the entire montage of her at the castle shows she is very forceful and still communicating and isnt a wallflower.
If she still had her voice, prince eric would have been enamored with her and not learn the real Ariel.

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I just watched Motherless Brooklyn. I quite enjoyed it. It’s a bit longer than it needs to be, but was a pretty good modern take on private detective noir.

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 Azreal13 wrote:
I happened to see on TV last night that Keira Knightly won't let her kids watch TLM because she objects to the idea that a woman gives up her voice for a man!


after being tricked into it by another lady whilst ignoring the wisdom of the lobster chap

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 hotsauceman1 wrote:
And yet it is her lack of a voice that allows Prince Eric to fall in love with her.
Not because she cant talk, the entire montage of her at the castle shows she is very forceful and still communicating and isnt a wallflower.
If she still had her voice, prince eric would have been enamored with her and not learn the real Ariel.


And then he marries another woman and she decides not to brutally murder him, dies and turns into seafoam.
But at least its better than the constant agony she endures walking on land, and she'll earn a soul of her own one day, by golly.

Fun story, really.

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But honestly, if she could speak... he'd learn less about her and she'd be more of a wallflower? Magically bound not to speak is the real her? That seems... unlikely.

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Yes because prince eric was obsessed with her voice.

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Being a famous person (in acting and similar things) must be weird. Being the kid of a famous person must be even weirder.

It's also funny what people consider a danger and what they don't. But then maybe she won't let her kids watch any Disney films, which then again might be a good thing.

   
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A Boy and His Dog (1975)

Post-apocalyptic dark comedy.
A young man (Don Johnson) roams the deserts of post-apocalyptic (2 nuclear world wars) North America, accompanied by a dog whom he has a telepathic bond with, so they can talk to each other. The dog is a well-educated misanthrope, but he needs the boy to help him get food. In return the dog sniffs out women for the boy, who are a rare but not well-preserved commodity in that world.


Of course I'd heard of the film, but just now I watched it for the first time. Boy, 70s films are interesting. Of course the depiction of the post-apocalyptic world is very striking and inspired all the things people like. It's also depicted as being extremely violent and entirely anarchistic. Several threatsa the film implies (but which would have been expensive to actually show, like the Screamers, stray androids, irradiated insects, etc.) are left to the imagination, but that's okay. It's probably even more effective seeing people be the baddies.

It's an entertaining film. At the very least it keeps you guessing where things are going, and there are some clever (some less clever) points the film makes. The female protagonist's character is very interesting.


Watch It, it's one of the genre classics, and all the things reference it.




Also: did you know that they did a Predator film in 2018? Turned on the tv last night, saw a lady running along some scaffolding or something, above her ran a predator. Craziness. I turned it off.

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Fear Street Part 1: 1994
So I never knew the books existed, but when I saw the trailers and saw that it was an adaptation of an RL Stine book series I got interested. This movie straddled a weird line between goosebumps camp and legitimate slasher film. Based on the trailer for Part 2 they played at the end, it will begin toeing the line even closer to a slasher movie.

I recomend this film to anyone who thought the trailer looked interesting. It was a good film and my wife and I are excited for part 2 to drop on friday.
   
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balmong7 wrote:
Fear Street Part 1: 1994
So I never knew the books existed, but when I saw the trailers and saw that it was an adaptation of an RL Stine book series I got interested. This movie straddled a weird line between goosebumps camp and legitimate slasher film. Based on the trailer for Part 2 they played at the end, it will begin toeing the line even closer to a slasher movie.

I recomend this film to anyone who thought the trailer looked interesting. It was a good film and my wife and I are excited for part 2 to drop on friday.


I Understood That Reference (nephews being big goosebumps fans), saving it for spooky season


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The Tomorrow War

So it turns out the J Jonah Jameson is Star Lord's dad! They don't get along, but that ultimately doesn't prevent them taking part in what is a sort of reverse Terminator plot where humanity is being sent forward in time to help to destroy the machines aliens.

Despite initial reservations about the generic sci-fi nature and the hefty running time, it turned out to be decently entertaining and moved along at a reasonable pace.

The aliens (sort of what the offspring of Giger's Alien fething a DnD Displacer Beast might look) carry a decent threat, the set pieces arrive regularly and with variety and the whole affair is underpinned with a suitably rousing score.

Criticisms are largely that there appears to have been a redemption arc intended for Chris Pratt's character that doesn't really work, I suspect due to rewrites softening his character in early scenes, and as per for time travel plots, it's best just to accept it as presented and not pull the thread.

It also carries a large percentage of generic action movie DNA in its makeup, but when well executed it's harder to criticize it for that.

We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't. - Frank Howard Clark

The wise man doubts often, and changes his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubts not; he knows all things but his own ignorance.

The correct statement of individual rights is that everyone has the right to an opinion, but crucially, that opinion can be roundly ignored and even made fun of, particularly if it is demonstrably nonsense!” Professor Brian Cox

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Midsommar

Difficult one this. Firstly, if you've ever seen an "outsider arrives in insular, isolated community" style film, Wicker Man being the clear elephant in the room, then you know what you're getting. A fact that the director (Ari Aster, Hereditary) has acknowledged.

So then it becomes a question not of "what happens" but more "how does the film realise and play with the tropes that you're expecting."

Broadly, our main protagonist Dani (Florence Pugh) suffers a family tragedy, which, without spoilers, is both bleak and harrowing, but it needs to be for her arc to make sense. In order to try and come to terms with her grief she accompanies her (somewhat reluctant) boyfriend and his mates on an anthropologic academic summer trip to their Swedish friend's remote community to study as they celebrate the coming of the summer equinox.

This will almost certainly be the brightest and most colourful horror you'll ever watch, set at the height of summer in a part of the world where the sun seldom sets, and while the film adds little new to the genre, it has left certain imagery (and sounds) in my brain that I'm sure will be there for a while. This was enhanced by subsequently learning that significant parts of the ceremonies depicted are either factual or draw heavily from history.

A two and a half hour horror isn't an easy recommend to everybody, and equally the pacing could well lose people too. But I think if you stick with it, by and large, you'll watch a film which will ultimately make an impression and stay with you.

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Yarp the pacing made me give up about 45 mins in, I just assumed the baddies win with a selection of horror trope traps and / or eco freindly volvo's

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There's a sequence in it at the cliff that I think trumps Kill List for most graphic meaty thumping ever put on film, if you didn't make it that far then you probably didn't see everything it has to offer, but your assumption isn't far off, we all knew that's where it was going when we took the mushrooms.

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 Azreal13 wrote:
Midsommar

Difficult one this. Firstly, if you've ever seen an "outsider arrives in insular, isolated community" style film, Wicker Man being the clear elephant in the room, then you know what you're getting. A fact that the director (Ari Aster, Hereditary) has acknowledged.

So then it becomes a question not of "what happens" but more "how does the film realise and play with the tropes that you're expecting."

Broadly, our main protagonist Dani (Florence Pugh) suffers a family tragedy, which, without spoilers, is both bleak and harrowing, but it needs to be for her arc to make sense. In order to try and come to terms with her grief she accompanies her (somewhat reluctant) boyfriend and his mates on an anthropologic academic summer trip to their Swedish friend's remote community to study as they celebrate the coming of the summer equinox.

This will almost certainly be the brightest and most colourful horror you'll ever watch, set at the height of summer in a part of the world where the sun seldom sets, and while the film adds little new to the genre, it has left certain imagery (and sounds) in my brain that I'm sure will be there for a while. This was enhanced by subsequently learning that significant parts of the ceremonies depicted are either factual or draw heavily from history.

A two and a half hour horror isn't an easy recommend to everybody, and equally the pacing could well lose people too. But I think if you stick with it, by and large, you'll watch a film which will ultimately make an impression and stay with you.


I enjoyed it, certainly made me look away a few times! Kind of a good modern version of the Wicker Man, and I thought played with similar themes of the outsider coming into a community.

One criticism I had was that the cliff jump sequence and resulting (really, horribly graphic) sequence came too early in the film. And the subsequent attempts at shock/revulsion horror (because really, where do you go from that?) felt a bit contrived.

The whole film was really unsettling though, it was a well-made horror.

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“The mallet, we did a replica of the mallet from a museum we saw in Stockholm,” he said. “When they jump from a cliff that was the custom until not so long ago, for elderly people. But they mainly got pushed. And many of the cliffs are now historic sites for everyone to see. So it’s true, all of it. And that’s the scary part.”


https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-midsommar-spoilers-ari-aster-jack-reynor-20190703-story.html

I think the introduction of it so early is because the director felt that, as an audience, we already know what's coming, so delaying the inevitable is a bit pointless. Plus I think for the characters it creates a sort of false sense of security, when they're talked back from the edge they think they've seen the worst and now the partying can get started.

If one were to take the film as a metaphor for a break up (which Aster explicitly says it is) then I guess it lines up with the immediate aftermath of realising that you're not with someone anymore? Therefore it needs to be near the beginning.

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Captain Fantastic (2016)

Dad (Viggo Mortensen) raises his many many children in the wilderness because he (and mom) don't agree with how the United States turned out. It's a comedy-drama about how this family travel the US to attend the mom's wedding (who was bipolar and committed suicide), and how they clash with the US.

First off - the kids are good. None of them's annoying, the casting works, they don't get overly cutesy. Mortensen of course carries the film, with his magnificent hair and his big, scruffy beard. I like how he communicates with the kids and how the family life is depicted. He's a cool dude, but especially after his wife's death, obstinate in his beliefs because that's all he's got left, the kids and his beliefs. Problem is that the film is too much in love with the dad character. He's drawn as a somewhat ambivalent character, but not enough so in my opinion.

I liked the clash between Mortensen's family and his sister-in-law's as they visit for dinner. Okay, the sister-in-law's kids are brats, but overall it was interesting to see the different sort of communication. Still, a bit heavy leaning towards Mortensen's side overall.

The thing is that with time it becomes painfully obvious that the film very much knows its audience and in my opinion does a bit much to appeal to them. And I think that's a bit of a problem, as there is NO flexibility what so ever on either side, mostly Mortensen's. I know, that's kind of the point of the film, but still - it all feels very monolithic and instead of actually critisizing that the film seems to put all its sympathies on Mortensen's side. The ending
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(when they go out and steal their mom's body)
thing feels a bit tucked on, unnecessary, and makes the dad (and the kids in a way) seem incredibly selfish and draws a very weird, romantisized picture of their life and what they do. I did not like that.

The film seems to have a hard time deciding between citizism of what the US turned out to be and presenting an all too idyllic picture of a family of people who opt out (well, the parents did, the kids have no choice).

Depite it being a totally different beast, this film of course reminds me of Little Miss Sunshine. While LMS is a bit cartoonier it feels more real in a sense and not the least the arc is a MUCH more interesting one. While in LMS the family start out entirely convinced or rather not even questioning 'american values' (except maybe for the uncle, but that's a given with his background and emotional state), they come around very much putting into question what happens around them and what they subscribed to. The family in Captain Fantastic on the other hand start out being basically prisoned in their own upbringing/beliefs (much of which of course I agree with, but the execution is just odd) and THEN come around, realize that they should integrate (by means of conveniently very rich granddad, played by Frank Langella, who's always good to see) and in the end they sit at the breakfast table, awaiting the school bus.

I wonder how the film played out if the sister-in-law's family and the granddad weren't as well off materially.

Take it or Leave it. It's a perfectly fine film with an excellent cast. Feels a bit long in the end (I think it's 2 hours for some reason), but it's entertaining and well made. The only problem is that with time it's starting to feel a bit weird in terms of how the problems are presented and solved. Maybe that's just me though. Oh, and the soundtrack is revolting, but that's a given now with widely released US films with the indie label I'm afraid.

   
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Digging Up The Marrow

Bit of an oddity this one, tripped over it while browsing and decided to give it a go.

Its in the found footage style, although rather than "found" the film is presented as the result of making a documentary. The twist is that the host of said documentary is real-life film maker Adam Green (Frozen (not that one,) Hatchet, Holliston) playing himself, as are many of the other people on camera.

In fact, pretty much the only person with meaningful screentime not playing himself is Ray Wise (if you don't know the name, Google him, you'll have seen him in something) who plays Decker, an ex-cop with a ludicrous story he claims he can back up.

What follows is an investigation into something not unlike the idea behind Clive Barker's Cabal/Nightbreed, a hidden society where all the freaks retreat to when they're too disfigured to live on the surface.

This is a fun movie, light on scares but an entertaining premise which barrels along at a decent rate (89min runtime) which, once it pulls back the curtain actually delivers enough of a punch to actually be a little chilling at the end of the final act.


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Oh, and there's cameos of proper horror royalty playing themselves for the big horror nerds out there.

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