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Back as a wee lad, I was a schizo who loved the supernatural, my uncle gave me a blank VHS saying it's proof of the supernatural. Aliens.

There was no title crawl, no credits, just a family celebrating their birthday party when the power goes out, and while investigating, they find alien invaders at a UFO and even shoot one and take it as a sample. This was a found footage horror movie with such a no budget aesthetic that it sold it. It was an insane experience and I pity that younger generations will never experience such a thing.
 
TV's Adam West said:
Back as a wee lad, I was a schizo who loved the supernatural, my uncle gave me a blank VHS saying it's proof of the supernatural. Aliens.

There was no title crawl, no credits, just a family celebrating their birthday party when the power goes out, and while investigating, they find alien invaders at a UFO and even shoot one and take it as a sample. This was a found footage horror movie with such a no budget aesthetic that it sold it. It was an insane experience and I pity that younger generations will never experience such a thing.
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Like seeing Ringu on a bootleg VHS tape
 
TV's Adam West said:
Back as a wee lad, I was a schizo who loved the supernatural, my uncle gave me a blank VHS saying it's proof of the supernatural. Aliens.

There was no title crawl, no credits, just a family celebrating their birthday party when the power goes out, and while investigating, they find alien invaders at a UFO and even shoot one and take it as a sample. This was a found footage horror movie with such a no budget aesthetic that it sold it. It was an insane experience and I pity that younger generations will never experience such a thing.
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I saw the same movie on TV. It's called The McPherson Tape.
 
TV's Adam West said:
Back as a wee lad, I was a schizo who loved the supernatural, my uncle gave me a blank VHS saying it's proof of the supernatural. Aliens.

There was no title crawl, no credits, just a family celebrating their birthday party when the power goes out, and while investigating, they find alien invaders at a UFO and even shoot one and take it as a sample. This was a found footage horror movie with such a no budget aesthetic that it sold it. It was an insane experience and I pity that younger generations will never experience such a thing.
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The McPherson Tape

 
Recently watched "Funny Games" and hated it. Didn't realize it even existed and decided to try it for Naomi Watts. It moved way too slow. I'm sure someone has made the argument for suspense but its slow beyond reasonable. Your payoff for sitting through that slowness is an unrewarding, unexplained ending.
Basically a home invasion (Visitors) hostage movie. The thing that pissed me off the 2nd most was the knife that the husband dropped in the boat in the beggining. You're thinking it's going to pay off later and it turns out the setup was more of an insult than anything.
The 1st most insulting was the movie being rewound after the guy gets blasted. I'm not buying the lame conversation in the boat about black holes and reality as a good explanation or plot device. That shit was lazy as fuck.
I'd like to give a big fuck you to time. Look what it did to my girl.
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PrettySneakyCis said:
Just popping in to say the people going back and forth on which was worse, 3 or World, have apparently forgotten that 2 had Ian Malcolm’s magic black daughter beat a raptor with fucking gymkata. Fuck that movie - its only saving grace was Pete Postlethwaite being a fucking boss.
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The first movie is the only one that I own. I had a bit of hope with the first World movie but that died with the second one and the stupid clone girl subplot, and the smirking Freddy Kurger dino that killed Buffalo Bill. I wish they had gotten creative with the mutant dinosaur designs, there were already designs for them in the old toy line. No we get upscaled fancy raptors and whatever that new one in the last movie was, the 4 armed T rex with a beluga whale looking head. It's like they get to the edge of being fun and cheese and pull back.
 
Cardinal Cardinal said:
Recently watched "Funny Games" and hated it. Didn't realize it even existed and decided to try it for Naomi Watts. It moved way too slow. I'm sure someone has made the argument for suspense but its slow beyond reasonable. Your payoff for sitting through that slowness is an unrewarding, unexplained ending.
Basically a home invasion (Visitors) hostage movie. The thing that pissed me off the 2nd most was the knife that the husband dropped in the boat in the beggining. You're thinking it's going to pay off later and it turns out the setup was more of an insult than anything.
The 1st most insulting was the movie being rewound after the guy gets blasted. I'm not buying the lame conversation in the boat about black holes and reality as a good explanation or plot device. That shit was lazy as fuck.
I'd like to give a big fuck you to time. Look what it did to my girl.
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Imagine if they did to the remake like they did to the American Speak No Evil
 
Vampirella said:
The first movie is the only one that I own. I had a bit of hope with the first World movie but that died with the second one and the stupid clone girl subplot, and the smirking Freddy Kurger dino that killed Buffalo Bill. I wish they had gotten creative with the mutant dinosaur designs, there were already designs for them in the old toy line. No we get upscaled fancy raptors and whatever that new one in the last movie was, the 4 armed T rex with a beluga whale looking head. It's like they get to the edge of being fun and cheese and pull back.
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World derailed after the first one. It had the right concept and it executed it well enough. The series suffers because it only has 2 stories to tell. Dinosaur theme park goes wrong or Dinosaurs in urban areas. None of the other stories are interesting. I can't tell what the new one is trying to be but it's got a girl boss and the last 2 were unwatchable so it's better that way
 
Kofi Drinka said:
World derailed after the first one. It had the right concept and it executed it well enough. The series suffers because it only has 2 stories to tell. Dinosaur theme park goes wrong or Dinosaurs in urban areas. None of the other stories are interesting. I can't tell what the new one is trying to be but it's got a girl boss and the last 2 were unwatchable so it's better that way
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You know what sucks about these franchises, they have no idea where they want the story to go but they'll like to and make you think they do until the new movie comes out. It's not that franchises before knew what they were doing or were better, it's that back then when a sequel failed the studios would stop. After Batman Forever we didn't see another Batman movie for 10 years, now I don't even know what number Batman were up to.

How many soft reboots has Halloween had? You have the first 6 movies, then there's H20 as a new sequel to the fist 2 and the movies after that, then you have the Halloween (201.8 branch that starts with Halloween!, then you have the Rob Zombie movies.
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I should not need a flow chart to watch movies.
Edit: because of the stupid sunglass emoji taking place of numbers.
 
Vampirella said:
You know what sucks about these franchises, they have no idea where they want the story to go but they'll like to and make you think they do until the new movie comes out. It's not that franchises before knew what they were doing or were better, it's that back then when a sequel failed the studios would stop. After Batman Forever we didn't see another Batman movie for 10 years, now I don't even know what number Batman were up to.

How many soft reboots has Halloween had? You have the first 6 movies, then there's H20 as a new sequel to the fist 2 and the movies after that, then you have the Halloween (201.8 branch that starts with Halloween!, then you have the Rob Zombie movies.
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I should not need a flow chart to watch movies.
Edit: because of the stupid sunglass emoji taking place of numbers.
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You're forgetting the autistic fan theory that Michael being indestructible is because he was part of the cult or whatever from season of the witch.
 
PS1gamenwatch said:
Imagine if they did to the remake like they did to the American Speak No Evil
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Just finished the remake of "Speak No Evil". I'm guessing the original didn't get gay and fall apart in the third act like the remake did.
Was the dad also a massive bitch in the original? I hesitate to call it woke but even after he got the family off the roof they brought him back to faggot status by having him unable to kill the villain (recalling him not being able to shoot the fox) and make the kid do it.
 
I just finished watching Bring her Back and I think its a pretty solid film. It wasn't that scary though there were a couple scenes that made me flinch and look away. More importantly I think it did a good job at making the characters likeable so I actually cared when bad shit happened to them.
I'd give it a 7.5/10.
 
Tried watching The Fall of the House of Usher, it had been just long enough since I watched any Flanagan slop to give it a chance again. Now not to seem too:politisperg:but of course the series starts with a white man with his black granddaughter. Then a flashback starts with the obligatory tough young sister being the tough kid in his childhood, it keeps going on about powerful female figures and his mother killing the bad powerful white man. Around this time I was starting to remember why I really didn't like all his other series, then they make a reference to this black man's husband and I decided to just call it there and save myself the trouble.
This truly is beyond parody. Honestly the high RT score was also a red flag, knowing "critics".
On the bright side I only wasted like 15 minutes so thanks for front loading all of that.
 
Blonrad Blurze said:
I just finished watching Bring her Back and I think its a pretty solid film. It wasn't that scary though there were a couple scenes that made me flinch and look away. More importantly I think it did a good job at making the characters likeable so I actually cared when bad shit happened to them.
I'd give it a 7.5/10.
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The teeth stuff made me squirm. Definitely a lot better than "Talk To Me".
 
Cardinal Cardinal said:
Recently watched "Funny Games" and hated it. Didn't realize it even existed and decided to try it for Naomi Watts. It moved way too slow. I'm sure someone has made the argument for suspense but its slow beyond reasonable. Your payoff for sitting through that slowness is an unrewarding, unexplained ending.
Basically a home invasion (Visitors) hostage movie. The thing that pissed me off the 2nd most was the knife that the husband dropped in the boat in the beggining. You're thinking it's going to pay off later and it turns out the setup was more of an insult than anything.
The 1st most insulting was the movie being rewound after the guy gets blasted. I'm not buying the lame conversation in the boat about black holes and reality as a good explanation or plot device. That shit was lazy as fuck.
I'd like to give a big fuck you to time. Look what it did to my girl.
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I saw it and also hated it. The movie wants to wag its finger at the audience for wanting to watch a violent home invasion movie, but that's essentially just an ineffectual, smug whine about human nature. Go make something else then, faggot.

Don't care that it's a remake. I won't watch the original.
 
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