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Kofi Drinka said:
I'm convinced this is another "it's great!" for the die hards going day 1. Then everyone else will point out it's an art film with a MASSIVE BROWN COCK swinging around and say it sucks. Give it 2 weeks until you see it to get the fanboys clear.
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she felt it was more like "a movie in the horror setting of the 28 Universe" than an actual "horror movie"
but yeah def Invasion Of The Floppy Naked People again
 
PS1gamenwatch said:
This looks silly, like Goldberg as a killer Santa silly.
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Which is why it might be great. I can overlook the standard Hollywood race bullshit if the action remains that good and funny throughout.
Kofi Drinka said:
I'm convinced this is another "it's great!" for the die hards going day 1. Then everyone else will point out it's an art film with a MASSIVE BROWN COCK swinging around and say it sucks. Give it 2 weeks until you see it to get the fanboys clear.
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Let me put it like this: Danny Boyle is an atheist shitlib who tried to use the previous film to make thematic points about Brexit and racism or whatever, and because he's a good filmmaker, you could overlook that quite easily and enjoy what was a weird as hell, creative zombie movie. Some liked how strange it was, others did not.

The Bone Temple is well-directed by Nia Dacosta, but Garland wrote this one as well, so it has the same DNA as the first film. But it's far more character focused than the first (which felt like it was about ideas, not characters), so, outside of some throwaway lines at the end that seem directed at the audience, you again get an interesting, weird film.

It moves between tones in an unexpected and strange way: some will hate this, others will accept it. It is unapologetically, strangely funny and surreal at times. It also commits the horrible sin of letting the subject matter naturally evolve away from the compelling, initial premise of the series (a straight up zombie movie), and others won't like that.

If you didn't like 28 Years Later, you aren't going to like this, because it's more of that, including a ton of unerotic nudity.
 
frozen_runner said:
Let me put it like this: Danny Boyle is an atheist shitlib who tried to use the previous film to make thematic points about Brexit and racism or whatever, and because he's a good filmmaker, you could overlook that quite easily and enjoy what was a weird as hell, creative zombie movie. Some liked how strange it was, others did not.
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frozen_runner said:
If you didn't like 28 Years Later, you aren't going to like this, because it's more of that, including a ton of unerotic nudity.
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So it's another artsy film about dicks that no one likes or remembers 2 weeks after it comes out. Why are you so desperate for horror films that you would watch this crap? There's so many 80s and 90s horror films to explore. Even 2000s has some good ones.

I watched the elm street remake the other day. It was kinda shit, but it was interesting seeing the inspirations it used for dream transitions. They clearly copied Silent hill in places and it was fun to watch. Where is the fun in brown man's penis waving around in a kid's face?
 
Kofi Drinka said:
I watched the elm street remake the other day. It was kinda shit, but it was interesting seeing the inspirations it used for dream transitions. They clearly copied Silent hill in places and it was fun to watch. Where is the fun in brown man's penis waving around in a kid's face?
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If you are convinced the first film is part of a humiliation ritual, you won't like the sequel either.

I just think Garland and Boyle are typical English shitlibs who have a big, Arab guy running around as a secondary character because they truly believe the "new British" are just as English as the natives. You can overlook it if you want. Without joking, the film is filled with things the audience doesn't want to look directly at.
 
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Prince Loki said:
Stephan King films are but a shadow of their book counterparts. The only exception is the Shining and that is more of a companion piece, or alternate take if you will, to the original book, as opposed to a surpassing of it.
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Old comment, but I get what you are saying. The movies miss all of the cocaine-fueled world and backstory building that make the books good. IT the book? Amazing, top 10 books of all time. IT the original TV movie and the newer movies? Meh. Not good, not bad. Both have their merits, but they are missing all of what made the characters in the book so real (i.e. cocaine-fueled backstories) and likeable/hateable. IIRC neither of the movies really even touch on Patrick Hockstetter and him being a very naughty boy, or even the abuse that Henry Bowers experienced on a regular basis. Then again, it'd take a lot more than 2 2 hour movies to get everything in.

The Shining movie is better than the book. The book is literally just "spooky haunted hotel." No ambiguity, Jack goes crazy but it's because of the hotel and it's ghostly spookiness. Probably the most boring King book I've read, but I won't include the latter Dark Tower books in that list.

ANYWAY

Got a 4k TV recently and need some good horror to go on it. Already have Jacob's Ladder, Alien, The Thing, The Antichrist, The Evil Dead and 2. If anyone has any recommendations for movies that have good rips available, I'd greatly appreciate it.
 
plgfarts said:
Got a 4k TV recently and need some good horror to go on it. Already have Jacob's Ladder, Alien, The Thing, The Antichrist, The Evil Dead and 2. If anyone has any recommendations for movies that have good rips available, I'd greatly appreciate it.
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The first 3 Hellraisers are available in good versions, seemingly all of Halloween is (I saw 1-3 which looked good to me), the Predator 4K remaster looks very good which is nice since it looked horrible on regular Bluray. Possession, Texas Chainsaw, American Werewolf, The Ring, Dark Water, Exorcist 1 & 3. The Shining's transfer looks phenomenal, ditto Jaws if you count that. Argento, Carpenter, Cronenberg and Fulci's stuff are all pretty widely distributed by now and look great.

I notice Salem's Lot on 4K BD is on the way which will be nice. Now Return to Salem's Lot too, please, since Cohen has some in 4K already.
 
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plgfarts said:
The Shining movie is better than the book. The book is literally just "spooky haunted hotel." No ambiguity, Jack goes crazy but it's because of the hotel and it's ghostly spookiness. Probably the most boring King book I've read, but I won't include the latter Dark Tower books in that list.
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I thought it was a reasonably good neo-Gothic novel. Those usually tend to be fairly slow and not plot-driven, so it's in accordance with the theme. That said, I agree the movie was better. Kubrick was a better director than King was a writer.
 
Both cuts of Exorcist 3 (theatrical and director's) have their strengths and flaws. It's a matter of taste for which one you prefer.
 
TotalNematodeDeath said:
Deciding if sitting in the theaters twice this month is worth doing, gonna pull the trigger for iron lung due to morbid curiosity but idk about 28 years later 2. The first one of those was a good film but it wasn't exactly cinema candy. The best part of the first 28 years film really was all the people shocked with the sympathy for the infected angle. As if George Romero wasn't doing that decades ago...
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It makes a lot more sense in the 28 movies, since these are still actually people, and not rotting corpses.
 
12345 said:
Leprechaun writer and director passed away at 72.
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This makes me want to insert the stem of a four leaf clover into Warwick Davis' urethra, turn on a boombox playing the Superman theme, then throw a pot of hot grits onto Warwick Davis, then dropkick Warwick Davis in his little balls; so he flies backwards into a concrete mixer that then turns over and dumps Warwick Davis into Mark Jones' open grave (which is filled with acid and lit sticks of dynamite). Then I will excrete onto him (Warwick Davis). The grave will be two feet deep; and Warwick Davis will be unable to climb out. All Warwick Davis will be able to do is complain about his little balls, and the effects the acid and dynamite has upon them.

RIP Mark Jones.
 
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