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Your Starter for 10 said:
28 Years Later: The Boner Temple trailer is out. Looks gay, movie 100% will be.
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I don't know if it's a troll but I've seen claims it's going to be woke as all fuck, with a batch of infected Amazonian women who fight the patriarchy and all sorts of other race bullshit, with white Britons portrayed as a cult of racist, chauvinist Nazis, and similar absolute bullshit.

I also don't like the excessive CGI and what looks like probable AI slop at first glance, probably because it's a low budget cash grab (or maybe a high budget cash grab). One of the greater strengths of classic zombie movies has been dramatic practical effects like those of Tom Savini and his acolyte Greg Nicotero.

Anyway even if the wokeshit stuff is bullshit, it just looks like it's going to blow goats on every conceivable level.
 
I mean look at Nigra Dacosta's (literal) entire filmography. Nigger wokeslop award bait bomb (about muh bortions), nigger wokeslop bomb re-make of Candyman, and nigger wokeslop The Marvels.

You think woke faggots Danny Boyle or Alex Garland will say no to anything she "adds"? Or that their ideas would actually be any better anyway?

I don't think it's trolling, or even a stretch at all, it's just pure observation.

Hell, Years was garbage anyway, it'd take a genius to turn it around, and this dumb she-boon definitely isn't that.
 
Would you kind folx recommend a good streaming site? I currently use 123movies but there's a lot of recommends on here they don't have.

Somewhat related, I wanted to see "We're all going to the world's fair" to see if it was also a one to one allegory for being trans like "I saw the TV glow".
 
Cardinal Cardinal said:
Would you kind folx recommend a good streaming site? I currently use 123movies but there's a lot of recommends on here they don't have.

Somewhat related, I wanted to see "We're all going to the world's fair" to see if it was also a one to one allegory for being trans like "I saw the TV glow".
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Tubi.
 
Cardinal Cardinal said:
Would you kind folx
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Faggot.

Just finished watching the I know what you did last summer remake/sequel. It's the worst modern Hollywood horror film I've seen. Even bad modern horror films have good cinematography and this one did not. Every shot is framed badly. It never uses establishing shots until half way into the scene. Conversations are shot like a bethesda game where you see the back of one characters head and the face of the other. And it will jump between this two shots 10 or more times in a minute. No break or zoomed out shot, the exact face cam. The prequel trilogy dialog scenes are better shot than these are using the same technique.

The story is boring. The podcaster is the only character with a personality and it's just bad in every possible way. I didn't like the originals but there were moments you could enjoy like the kills. This thinks it's a sequel or parody of 2000s California teen horror (Scream, IKWYDLS, Urban legend) but it's got none of the charisma. This is like someone took that picture of the Indian kid being disgusted at Chloe whatever from Kick-ass and made it into a movie. Every woman is dressed to look at ugly as possible. Every character is bisexual and calls their friends "daddy" "Mommy" or claims to be soul mates with them in a sexual way. It's like the script was written with weird modern bisexual shipping in mind because the original movie style had metrosexual men and it was badly trying to copy it.

I would avoid. There aren't any good kills. There's no atmosphere or tension. It's just instagram people being annoying and then dying. Only watch if you want to see how badly you can shoot a movie. So bad when changing focus in a scene the camera will physically fisheye and distort the framing to change focus. It makes the new Screams look good in comparison.

Could someone suggest movies on Tubi worth watching? I usually pirate my films through streaming sites but I keep hearing about Tubi having some original stuff. What's original and worth watching?
 
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Kofi Drinka said:
Even bad modern horror films have good cinematography
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They're all way too dark and have some kind of tint on top. I think they look awful. For comparison, I saw Subspecies yesterday, which is a straight to video movie from 1990 and it looks pretty good to this day.
 

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Hentai-Semitism said:
They're all way too dark and have some kind of tint on top. I think they look awful. For comparison, I saw Subspecies yesterday, which is a straight to video movie from 1990 and it looks pretty good to this day.
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Lighting and shot framing is IMO one of the few things modern horror is getting right. Unfortunately it's the only thing they're getting right. I think film schools have completely lost their teachers through DEI hiring and now you have only teachers who can teach you the text book not the art that extends beyond it.
 
XYZpdq Jr. said:
seriously they have a real knack for getting a nice mix of shit
outside of horror, too, like pretty sure they had Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, New Captain Scarlet, Cyber 6, lot of lesser-known but pretty solid stuff
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BrunoMattei said:
Tubi.
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Yeah Tubi is our site. It's like a better version of Netflix back in it's heyday where most of the titles are exploitation/horror most people have never heard of, but also plenty of classic hollywood films. They have shit I would never find on another site (Cannibal Ferox, Grotesque, Trauma from 2018, they have their own italian horror section with always almost 200 titles, and they get most of the boutique label releases (Severin, Synapse, ect.) as soon as they're out. The only issue is gay ads but you can get an extension that pretty much skips all of them. I seriously can find pretty much any obscure horror movie ever there.

Also I saw someone here say they have a better selection than Shudder. What kind of non-bar is that? Everyone has a better selection than Tubi. They never had a huge selection but at least they had a good one maybe... five years back. Who the fuck still pays for that shit?
Kofi Drinka said:
Lighting and shot framing is IMO one of the few things modern horror is getting right.
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Why the shit takes? Modern horror looks so flat and lifeless. I think there's a way you can have a muted look to a film without it becoming so cold and empty. I seriously can't think of a single modern horror film that I've been impressed by the aesthetics with. MaXXXine was decent just because Ti West is better than most at getting that retro color design down.
 
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(((I am NOT a jew))) said:
Why the shit takes? Modern horror looks so flat and lifeless. I think there's a way you can have a muted look to a film without it becoming so cold and empty. I seriously can't think of a single modern horror film that I've been impressed by the aesthetics with. MaXXXine was decent just because Ti West is better than most at getting that retro color design down.
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Aesthetics is subjective. I'm talking fundamental framing and lighting is generally very good now. All the elevated horror shit and even junk like 28 years later is visually very well done.
 
Kofi Drinka said:
Aesthetics is subjective. I'm talking fundamental framing and lighting is generally very good now. All the elevated horror shit and even junk like 28 years later is visually very well done.
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I guess. In my opinion stuff can be technically very... accomplished and still be really forgettable. Yeah, a lot of stuff looks fine on a technical level, but there's nothing there. I'll still take an 80s' slasher or some shitty giallo over anything now because I can at least remember there being a flair there. It's a complaint I have about pretty much all American film now. It's not that I see any real errors on screen, but there's no personal touch there. A lot of it's just really flat and cold. The new Dune movies are a perfect example. I know there's a lot of work that went into those things. But that work means nothing if the aim of said work is to make feel hollow. If everyone and everything is supposed to look intentionally ugly and empty, then what the fuck is the point if it's framed correctly?
 
(((I am NOT a jew))) said:
I guess. In my opinion stuff can be technically very... accomplished and still be really forgettable. Yeah, a lot of stuff looks fine on a technical level, but there's nothing there.
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I think the Bone Temple is a perfect example of this. The concept is like something you'd see from H.R. Giger, but the actual visuals, while smooth, are basically what you'd get out of an AI fed with Giger-type imagery. It doesn't give me any sense of primal dread.

A counter-example would be the first Evil Dead. The effects were outright laughable, but the movie itself was somehow terrifying despite this.
 
AnOminous said:
I think the Bone Temple is a perfect example of this. The concept is like something you'd see from H.R. Giger, but the actual visuals, while smooth, are basically what you'd get out of an AI fed with Giger-type imagery. It doesn't give me any sense of primal dread.

A counter-example would be the first Evil Dead. The effects were outright laughable, but the movie itself was somehow terrifying despite this.
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That's how I feel as well. It's technically very proficent so when you see something that isn't it stands out. Almost every shot in I know what you did 2025 is done wrong. It's framed wrong, it's lit wrong, it's edited wrong. You can tell it's a woman who got the job for being a (bad) writer. She has no business being behind the camera and she even dresses her cast to make them as unappealing as possible.
 
AnOminous said:
A counter-example would be the first Evil Dead. The effects were outright laughable, but the movie itself was somehow terrifying despite this.
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Funny enough I didn't care for the first Evil Dead the first time I watched it but I watched them all recently and I now consider them all equal, and a big reason why is the first one has such a visual flare and... grit the other ones don't. It also is just... pleasing looking, despite being made on a fraction of most modern films. It's something I feel people have lost now. You can give a long list of things that makes things work (contrast, type of film used, lighting, ect.) but at the end of the day directors knew that even if they were making a film trying to terrify people, they had be visually appealing on some level. There's a reason stuff like Evil Dead, Possession or Suspiria is still remembered now. Directors back then knew that even if they were making "highbrow" horror, they had to make it memorable and distinct.
I think a huge difference between then and now is most big directors back then were obviously fans of film, but they also usually were interested in multiple formats like painting and literature. Now you have a bunch of kids pushed out of college only studying film composition but are lacking when it comes to actually knowing why an image works.
It's a very new thing. There's plenty of stuff even from the 2000s' that looks pretty great compared to most shit now.
Werner Herzog put it best that the best directors read a lot, so I've been trying to appreciate literature more recently.
 
Cardinal Cardinal said:
Would you kind folx recommend a good streaming site? I currently use 123movies but there's a lot of recommends on here they don't have.

Somewhat related, I wanted to see "We're all going to the world's fair" to see if it was also a one to one allegory for being trans like "I saw the TV glow".
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you’d be surprised how much shit you can find for free on Telegram & The Wayback machine.
 
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