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Quijibo69 said:
That movie is boring trash, I'm glad I quit watching 20 mins in!
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It felt like an adaption of one of those really lame online horror stories (that, no matteer how lengthy they are still get called creepypastas) about "lost media" or "lost episodes", like one of those that just goes on and on for thousands and thousands of words and you can tell the author thinks they are crafting a "smart" horror story but in the end are no better than tripe like Suicide Mouse.
 
Judge Holden said:
Conclusion: Honestly I unironically kinda enjoyed this one.
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It's kind of indefensible but I liked Nightmare City too. I rate it: NOT BORING.

ChampFantana said:
Reading the Wikipedia entries for the two sequels makes them sound like the most retarded shit imaginable, and not in the good way.
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They are retarded, but I really can't complain.

Commander X said:
It felt like an adaption of one of those really lame online horror stories (that, no matteer how lengthy they are still get called creepypastas) about "lost media" or "lost episodes", like one of those that just goes on and on for thousands and thousands of words and you can tell the author thinks they are crafting a "smart" horror story but in the end are no better than tripe like Suicide Mouse.
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I sat through We're All Going to the World's Fair and part of me wants to find out if anything could be worse.
 
Calandrino said:
It's kind of indefensible but I liked Nightmare City too. I rate it: NOT BORING.
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I really fucking hate to bring my least favourite zombie franchise into the discussion, but Nightmare City almost feels like Crossed done right in a few moments with intelligent and fully sapient zombies acting as an organised group with weapons and vehicles to spread the infection rather than just being retarded edgelords torturing and raping people while aimlessly shiddin, fardin, and killing eachother for shits and giggles (and yet still effortlessly taking down all opposition because smugfuck author fiat).

Its a bit like how people give Event Horizon extra points for being a rarity with its "sci fi setting intersects with literal fucking hell" schtick. Its an extremely imperfect movie and one which bungles the concept for most of the run time, but the fact it actually tried to do something with a criminally underused concept made it far more interesting than if it were just another dumb and slow flesheater flick.

Honestly at the top of my head I cant think of another movie that has tried the "zombies but actually fucking smart and capable of using most of the shit humans use like guns and cars in order to get at more victims" angle unless I get extremely generous and class Land of the Dead as such given that showed the beginnings of this coming into effect with late stage Romero Zombies.
 
Vampirella said:
I think I'll raise my abusive husband that hated me for not getting pregnant now that he's turned himself in to a baby from a botched spell he got from a old man hippy and his fat wife from their weird spin off shop of Medieval Times.
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:informative: This is the ending of Shadow of the Colossus. :informative:More or less.
 
Judge Holden said:
Honestly at the top of my head I cant think of another movie that has tried the "zombies but actually fucking smart and capable of using most of the shit humans use like guns and cars in order to get at more victims" angle unless I get extremely generous and class Land of the Dead as such given that showed the beginnings of this coming into effect with late stage Romero Zombies.
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There's the deadites, although I guess they also use magic. Although at a certain point, they'd stop being zombies and just be cannibals or something.
 
Anyone watched From (TV show)? Halfway into S2.

Season 1 was interesting. A lot of lovecraftian horror. Plot moves fast, interesting character fynamics, etc. Setting is very unique
S2 is a lot slower paced. Show slams the breaks hard to focus on teen drama or lesbian romance. Characters act stupid and have obvious plot armor. "Yea this guy came over a weird thing or something, anyway let's focus on these two pointless characters and their relationship drama for the rest of the episode. And this show pulls these "oh characters are in sudden peril oh they're fucked... Bazinga it was just a deam everyone is fine" so often I swear to god...

This show is a lot like lost in that the more of the "mystery " is uncovered the more it cheapest it, and the writers give me the impression they aren't gonna pull a smart or introspective ending.[/Ispoiler]
 
Judge Holden said:
Its a bit like how people give Event Horizon extra points for being a rarity with its "sci fi setting intersects with literal fucking hell" schtick
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It's a real shame more isn't done with this concept. The Doom games really popularized it, but you don't really see anything done with it in movies. Even when Doom was finally adapted into a movie, the entire concept of demons and Hell was shitcanned in favor of genetic experiments and mutants for some unfathomable reason.
 
Gender: Xenomorph said:
Anyone watched From (TV show)? Halfway into S2.

Season 1 was interesting. A lot of lovecraftian horror. Plot moves fast, interesting character fynamics, etc. Setting is very unique
S2 is a lot slower paced. Show slams the breaks hard to focus on teen drama or lesbian romance. Characters act stupid and have obvious plot armor. "Yea this guy came over a weird thing or something, anyway let's focus on these two pointless characters and their relationship drama for the rest of the episode. And this show pulls these "oh characters are in sudden peril oh they're fucked... Bazinga it was just a deam everyone is fine" so often I swear to god...

This show is a lot like lost in that the more of the "mystery " is uncovered the more it cheapest it, and the writers give me the impression they aren't gonna pull a smart or introspective ending.[/Ispoiler]
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Season 1 was great but season 2 is clearly them pulling an Abrams/Lindelhof and being fucked with plot points they set up before that they didnt think out and also digging fresh hells. I have to watch season 3 since it's done and done now.
Reminds me of the time I saw "It Comes at Night." The tranny director of the Glow film stopped a movie from being shown at the Music Box since he deemed it was "transphobic."
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What was the movie in question? Or am I not understanding and It Comes At Night is transphobic?
 
Brain Problems said:
Season 1 was great but season 2 is clearly them pulling an Abrams/Lindelhof and being fucked with plot points they set up before that they didnt think out and also digging fresh hells. I have to watch season 3 since it's done and done now.
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It's also cheaper.

They've put up so many "this character is dying - haha it was just a hallucination they are fine" and that's annoying.
Plot armor is thick. there's countless scenes where the vampires can pounce and murder people, yet when the main character encounters them, they get to walk away. It's so clear that the main characters are not under any threat.
And the whole horror now, that the main characters are not under any threat, are cheap and predictable jumpscares.
 
ChampFantana said:
I checked out Red State a few weeks ago and MAN was that one a barely-watchable pile of shit. Funnily enough, I read up on Smith's intended ending, and THAT would have redeemed the whole movie if it had happened.
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I consider Red State to be the worst movie ever made.

Gender: Xenomorph said:
Anyone watched From (TV show)? Halfway into S2.

Season 1 was interesting. A lot of lovecraftian horror. Plot moves fast, interesting character fynamics, etc. Setting is very unique
S2 is a lot slower paced. Show slams the breaks hard to focus on teen drama or lesbian romance. Characters act stupid and have obvious plot armor. "Yea this guy came over a weird thing or something, anyway let's focus on these two pointless characters and their relationship drama for the rest of the episode. And this show pulls these "oh characters are in sudden peril oh they're fucked... Bazinga it was just a deam everyone is fine" so often I swear to god...

This show is a lot like lost in that the more of the "mystery " is uncovered the more it cheapest it, and the writers give me the impression they aren't gonna pull a smart or introspective ending.[/Ispoiler]
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FYI the show has a thread
 
Watching Thanksgiving (2023). Pretty decent practical effects, especially in the opening scene. Very visceral. The plot is standard, but it's a fun watch. Especially since it's all Massholes who die.
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So I saw Thanksgiving (2023) and Black Friday (2021)

Thanksgiving is a pretty nice Slasher film, had a pretty generic plot, but still was pretty fun with how it had pretty neat special effects, and some really good scenes. The best scene I'd say was either the dinner scene near the end or the opening Black Friday sequence that really hooked me in.

Black Friday is a pretty schlocky B-Movie that is a nice watch as background noise. It has some neat effects, but the random background music is too much and Bruce Campbell was the best part of the movie, which makes his absence near the end feel very noticeable since he carried the scenes that focused on the employees.
 
ChampFantana said:
I checked out Red State a few weeks ago and MAN was that one a barely-watchable pile of shit. Funnily enough, I read up on Smith's intended ending, and THAT would have redeemed the whole movie if it had happened.
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Red State felt like I was watching some really cheap and bad exploitation film made in the recent but not "too recent" wake of the Branch Davidian compound siege. It was a movie where Smith was trying to "say something" but it comes out really garbled.
 
Watched Bone Tomahawk recently, I was actually already familiar with Craig Zahler from his novels, especially his two Western novels. His debut was A Congregation of Jackals the plot of which sounds like a standard Western (a former member of an outlaw gang is out for bloody revenge against his former partners in crime and heads to the wedding of one of them with gunmen in tow) but is a very gritty exercise in the genre. After that came Wraiths of the Broken Lands which was later described by Zahler as being like Bone Tomahawk times 10, members of the Plugford clan, as well as some others they've enlisted to help, cross into Mexico to rescue two women of the clan who were kidnapped and forced into prostitution at a brothel that caters to well-off and depraved clients. It doesn't feature any troglodytes or anything, but it does get pretty horrific.

While I think Bone Tomahawk is a great Western-horror piece and just great horror in general, one of the more horrific things to result from it was this Letterboxd review, which was part of the reason I stopped visting Letterboxd because every other review was becoming either zany one-liners from people trying too hard or long essay posts on why, say [x] was all about toxic masculinity or anti-colonialism, or this one particular user being just one example, rambling schizo posts that were encouraged by other posters.

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Commander X said:
Watched Bone Tomahawk recently, I was actually already familiar with Craig Zahler from his novels, especially his two Western novels. His debut was A Congregation of Jackals the plot of which sounds like a standard Western (a former member of an outlaw gang is out for bloody revenge against his former partners in crime and heads to the wedding of one of them with gunmen in tow) but is a very gritty exercise in the genre. After that came Wraiths of the Broken Lands which was later described by Zahler as being like Bone Tomahawk times 10, members of the Plugford clan, as well as some others they've enlisted to help, cross into Mexico to rescue two women of the clan who were kidnapped and forced into prostitution at a brothel that caters to well-off and depraved clients. It doesn't feature any troglodytes or anything, but it does get pretty horrific.

While I think Bone Tomahawk is a great Western-horror piece and just great horror in general, one of the more horrific things to result from it was this Letterboxd review, which was part of the reason I stopped visting Letterboxd because every other review was becoming either zany one-liners from people trying too hard or long essay posts on why, say [x] was all about toxic masculinity or anti-colonialism, or this one particular user being just one example, rambling schizo posts that were encouraged by other posters.

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"MAGAsploitation" does sound like a based genre.
 
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