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I was a Teenage “JA”-man said:
Insideous is like the exorsist meets poltergeist, this time it’s a boy, still it’s actually pretty good it’s feels the same as conjuring but better at least the first 2.

some of the best movies ever, similar effects as well where the ghosts were real puppets shown in bright lights than superimposed on the film giving them an otherworldly look. I wish that was still used, opposed to keeping things in dark shadows.
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For one, in the original novel that the exorcist was based on, Reagan was a boy, and two, yeah, I wished they brought back the trippy Ghostbusters/Poltergeist style of effects.
 
It's funny how good the Insidious films are relative to the average horror movie of the last 5 years. I mean don't get me wrong, they were pretty lame (defanged demons, no nudity, lame scares - basically all the reasons why PG-13 horror sucked balls), but at least they had likeable characters, relatively non-retarded dialogue, and limited the stupid decisions their protagonists made to only a couple per movie. Like I never bailed on an Insidious because the MC was annoying as shit or because some side character unironically told a cuck to stop man-splaining to her. I mean at best they were probably a 2.5, but that's still head and shoulders above a similar tier PG-13 horror of the past 5 years. Times change, I guess.
 
AnsemSoD1 said:
For one, in the original novel that the exorcist was based on, Reagan was a boy, and two, yeah, I wished they brought back the trippy Ghostbusters/Poltergeist style of effects.
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A lot of movies have done fake stop motion with CG. Perhaps someday we'll get fake mismatched matte effects, complete with AI paintings for backgrounds. If that hasn't happened already.
 
Your Starter for 10 said:
It's funny how good the Insidious films are relative to the average horror movie of the last 5 years. I mean don't get me wrong, they were pretty lame (defanged demons, no nudity, lame scares - basically all the reasons why PG-13 horror sucked balls), but at least they had likeable characters, relatively non-retarded dialogue, and limited the stupid decisions their protagonists made to only a couple per movie. Like I never bailed on an Insidious because the MC was annoying as shit or because some side character unironically told a cuck to stop man-splaining to her. I mean at best they were probably a 2.5, but that's still head and shoulders above a similar tier PG-13 horror of the past 5 years. Times change, I guess.
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The Beetlejuice 2 effect where I’ve seen so much shit these past 2 years that Bj2 was amazing in comparison, I always liked parapsychology so I have a soft spot for Insidious and that event seems like fun
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anyway, speaking of the beetlejuice 2 effect, I bet you this will make the tom cruise mummy movie look like cinema gold.

Universal trying so hard to resurrect dark universe. With the Invisible Incel movie, toxic male Werewolf, and probably I wuz kang mummy.
Universal should just give up. monster squad, hotel Transylvania, castlevania, even Rankin’ bass beat you to it. Lest‘ we forget how house of frankenstien turned out
Calandrino said:
A lot of movies have done fake stop motion with CG. Perhaps someday we'll get fake mismatched matte effects, complete with AI paintings for backgrounds. If that hasn't happened already.
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if that happened it would be the biggest non political outrage on the internet, and I’m all for it!
 
I was a Teenage “JA”-man said:
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anyway, speaking of the beetlejuice 2 effect, I bet you this will make the tom cruise mummy movie look like cinema gold.

Universal trying so hard to resurrect dark universe. With the Invisible Incel movie, toxic male Werewolf, and probably I wuz kang mummy.
Universal should just give up. monster squad, hotel Transylvania, castlevania, even Rankin’ bass beat you to it. Lest‘ we forget how house of frankenstien turned out
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Because girl mummy went so well.
 
In your opinion and experience, what genres or monsters are the ones you ”acquired a taste in” as let us say, you develope a taste for something like a foot stinking moldy cheese or olives?

I used to dislike zombies because I thought the idea behind them was boring, but as I get older and enter my never ending philosophical phase, the possibilities and variations which could cause zombie outbreak are intriguing. The humanity aspect of it.

Twilight hysteria surrounding me in my late teens ruined vampires for me for a very long time, but I have cautiously and slowly started from the classics and so far it’s good. I am not sure if I like the overly sexual tones related but hey, it’s horror.

Something I consider as vanilla nowadays is Stephen King cause I have read his books since I was a kid - safe, follows the same pattern, good old slop. Very mainstream, but I grew up with it so it is easy to fall back on. Christine is my favourite movie adaption of his books.
 
I only saw the first two Conjuring movies, and they were pretty forgettable. Technically well made, but nothing about them really stood out to me. However, the fact that Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga play very likeable, utterly fictional versions of two obnoxious frauds really annoyed me. At least with the Insidious movies, there's none of that going on. I've only seen the first Insidious and it was pretty good, even if the last third of the movie doesn't live up to the creepiness of the rest of the movie.

The only James Wan movies I really like are Saw and Malignant.
 
Wolfen, when I was younger I thought it was a werewolf movie and got pissed I didn't get to see a werewolf. I love werewolf movie and they only seem to be really good or really bad, so I was pissed I got tricked in to watching what I thought was a bad werewolf movie. Then a few years ago I gave it another shot because I had gotten in in a movie bundle DVD. I ended up liking a lot more then I did when I first saw it.

It's really more of a supernatural noire with Native Americans and wolf spirits, and for that it's not bad. Very slow but I enjoyed the mystery and the atmosphere. Made me want to look up more supernatural noire. I'm glad I gave it a second chance.
 
SynthwaveDeux said:
Something I consider as vanilla nowadays is Stephen King cause I have read his books since I was a kid - safe, follows the same pattern, good old slop. Very mainstream, but I grew up with it so it is easy to fall back on. Christine is my favourite movie adaption of his books.
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Stephen king slop has a new meaning cant go one day without hearing this cokefiend‘s opinions like he’s some autistic kid who sits next to you in school IMG_9205.jpeg
christine is an amazing movie, artie was a realistic character, I feel like we all have that one friend.
 
BrunoMattei said:
It's ironic that two of the best killer car movies are Stephen King adaptations. You have Christine and on the other end of the spectrum you have Maximum Overdrive.
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Ironic, because a car almost killed him? It was probably out for revenge because of all the bad press he caused.
 
I watched Get Away, a new "comedy" horror by Nick Frost. Like the more movies he and Simon Pegg make, the less I understand how Shaun of the Dead was so good. Get Away isn't that BAD, I guess, it's just that it's not good, and it really could have been. All the jokes are telegraphed and tired and noticeably lacking in any edge - which is in stark contrast with how edgy the plot is trying so hard to be.

It's kind of depressing, really. The cast actually does pretty well, Aisling Bea is great, as is the girl that plays the daughter. The son is annoying and (literally) gay, but that actually becomes a plot point, so I can almost forgive him.

The native Swedes (and kne Danish guy) are pretty great, playing the straight man in every scene.

All the pieces are there for a good movie...it's just not. There's a few things to like (the waffles scene, the island play production, the Air BnB guy), but they just never quite come together. I guess because the twist is SOOOO obvious in the first 10 minutes, and everything outside of that twist is so subdued and tame it just doesnt work out.

All in all a 2 or MAYBE 2.25 because at least there's not a single nigger shoehorned into it. Just mainly disappointing because it had the chance to be good. Not scary or funny, but almost worth watching because of the daughter, the spider costume, and the waffles. Not insultingly bad, but so, so tepid.
 
SynthwaveDeux said:
In your opinion and experience, what genres or monsters are the ones you ”acquired a taste in” as let us say, you develope a taste for something like a foot stinking moldy cheese or olives?
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Ya know now you mention it I have just realised I kinda am still in the "slowly trying to stop disliking on reflex" stage with the whole "evil entity tormenting family in their house" subset of the haunted house subgenre which includes shit like Insidious but also if one takes a charitable approach would also include some of my all time favourite horror movies like The Shining as well as all manner of enjoyable flicks and fun trash.

I suspect it may be latent trauma relating to my first and only viewing of The Babadook which was so fucking shit and so epically failed to live up to the obsessive fucking hype it got it may have poisoned me against the entire concept, it may involve some of the really shit horror movies I was exposed to as a kid via the ole Blockbuster rental roulette as I have vague memories of a bunch of interchangeable shitty movies that fit the concept. I suspect thats one of the main reasons why I have subconsciously given shit like the whole Conjuring cinematic universe a wide ass berth as well as Paranormal Activity which likely means I have been spared some real fuckin shitshows but also that I have missed a handful of hypothetically brettygud flicks
 
Calandrino said:
That happened. Way before Deadpool. It sucked. I thought we were over that.
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I rarely follow movies these days unless I come across trailers on my daily YouTube crawl like that one. What movies are you thinking of?
 
sodomy lifestyle said:
Looks entertaining, but I'm worried of movie execs thinking "you know Deadpool movies made money? Let's make every other genre self-aware!"
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Movie execs are retarded as to what the public actually want. When Joker 2 bombed and Terrifier 3 was #1 a movie exec quipped "The public wanted a different kind of killer clown." Which is not even remotely accurate.

One of my favorite BTS anecdotes ever is for Alien 3 when director David Fincher was trying to convince the producers to give him time to make a good movie and all that. A guy goes up to him and takes him away and say's "You could film someone piss against a wall for 2 hours and call it Alien 3 and it will still make $40 million opening weekend!"
 
BrunoMattei said:
Movie execs are retarded as to what the public actually want. When Joker 2 bombed and Terrifier 3 was #1 a movie exec quipped "The public wanted a different kind of killer clown." Which is not even remotely accurate.
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My interpretation was that the original Joker movie was an attempted character assassination and the creators had to assassinate the character harder in the sequel when audiences actually liked the first one.

To me the Terrifier movies feel like the thought "how about Saw movies but only the torture scenes?" come to life.

BrunoMattei said:
One of my favorite BTS anecdotes ever is for Alien 3 when director David Fincher was trying to convince the producers to give him time to make a good movie and all that. A guy goes up to him and takes him away and say's "You could film someone piss against a wall for 2 hours and call it Alien 3 and it will still make $40 million opening weekend!"
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Ironically, every Alien franchise movie since seems to have been crafted with all the effort of pissing against the wall.
 
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