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It's not a twist in the movie, best I can tell.
The trailer shows scenes in both B&W and color, and it's strongly implied what's going on. I've never read the book, but it was clear to me what was going on in the trailer.
Maybe the film itself tries to preserve a "twist," but it doesn't look like it.
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I don't think Bay's "explosion porn" has any sexual context, either.
"Torture titillation" is nicely alliterative, though.
I thought you were as well. I just wanted to point out that the connotation of porn and sex is still there. Even if we generally know what is "actually meant".
(And I'd argue that at the very least Bay has fetishized explosions to such an extent, that a sexual subtext isn't really that far-fetched.)
I think the general rule here is: Don't call it "something porn" if there is very likely porn of it."
I don't think Bay's "explosion porn" has any sexual context, either.
"Torture titillation" is nicely alliterative, though.
I thought you were as well. I just wanted to point out that the connotation of porn and sex is still there. Even if we generally know what is "actually meant".
(And I'd argue that at the very least Bay has fetishized explosions to such an extent, that a sexual subtext isn't really that far-fetched.)
I think the general rule here is: Don't call it "something porn" if there is very likely porn of it."
Um, that'd apply to nearly everything. People love their porn.
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Wait, there's a Giver movie out now? How does the reveal even work? Or do they even put a twist like that in?
Due to me being placed in the 'accelerated' reading courses in elementary school, I skipped over the class book study of that book. Got to read it on my own time many years later, and as a person who visualizes every thing in a book (and even provides mental voices for each character), that twist was a real nice one.
The reveal is
It is actually a 3-D movie all along. Everybody put your glasses on now.
When I heard about the giver for some reason I got it confused with the gift of the magi the dumbest christmas story of all time. BITCH CAN REGROW HER HAIR HE CAN'T REGROW HIS WATCH!
I think we've all learned by now that if there's one thing you should never do, it's sell an heirloom watch.
I don't understand the Final Destination films. People escape a tragic accident and then all die? It seems pointless.
They die IN RIDICULOUS WAYS that you have to see to believe. And not like, horrifically gruesome ways necessarily. More like "okay some of these things COULD happen... but all of them at once?"
The platonic ideal of a Final Destination death (it is from a "horror" movie, so stay away if squeamish):
This guy is a racist A hole who is going to do the whole KKK bit. Burning cross on the black guy's lawn. Death spills the gas from the back of the truck, then shifts the truck into neutral so that it will roll, then trips the guy and hooks the chain just so.
I watch the Final Destination series as occasionally suspenseful dark comedies, they definitely swing that direction more and more the more they do.
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Final Destination 4 is definitely the more comedy based out of all of them.
The first is a junior grade musing on life and fate.
The second tries to amp that up to 11, but the message is lost in the creative death scenes.
The third kind of abandons that for straight teen melodrama and more creative deaths.
The fourth goes full bore dark comedy, and is generally amusing.
And the fifth is like, this odd action thriller where everyone is back to trying to find out 'the rules' and they now involve murder to gain more time.
It's definitely an interesting series.
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In FD 1 chick hit by bus is probably one of the few good "startling" scenes in movies.
Outside of guinea pigs and guinea bees.
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In FD 1 chick hit by bus is probably one of the few good "startling" scenes in movies.
Outside of guinea pigs and guinea bees.
Honestly, I thought it was incredibly telegraphed, but sitting with my friends, watching it, their reactions were priceless.
It was like their mouths were full of delicious bees that they didn't want escaping, because despite the stings, they wanted that sweet, sweet, taste, so they brought their hands to their mouths like a really strained simile.
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It has recently come to my attention that I am able to tell my boyfriend the title of a movie about 75% of the time, despite not having seen it, by watching a random 10 second scene, purely by cultural osmosis. Last night, I walked into the room, and saw Nicholas Cage asking some chick if she had seen another chick. Instantly, I asked if they were watching the Wicker Man. I was right.
He was less than pleased at the end of the movie
I'm still not as good as my little brother, who can tell you not only the actors/voice actors, date it came out, and production companies, just by hearing the title. Mind you, he's autistic, so it's not "Wayne Knight", it's "The guy who's in Jurassic Park and Seinfeld is also in Toy Story 2."
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I find myself doing that too, sometimes. I'll walk into some coworkers discussing some scene from a movie from the 70s, and they'll be all, "What was the name of that guy who played the boyfriend?" And I'll respond, "Oh, that was XXX. YYY played a cameo too, back before he became famous." And they'll be all, "Yeah! Hey, did you like the movie?" And I'm all, "I dunno, never seen it." And then I get weird looks.
I credit YouTube with a lot of it. I've seen scenes from a hojillion obscure films that I've never watched but know way too much about.
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Part 2 of Mojo's watching some horror films that @Apothe0sis mentioned was Sinister.
I was quite impressed to be honest. It's really creepy (or sinister I suppose, hur hur hur). I definitely regretted watching it alone at night.
Some more less coherent but spoilery thoughts:
I liked that they didn't bother having the dad even try to come up with a way of killing it. He runs away and calls it a day. Although that does actually lead to one of the more obvious bad decisions he makes. Even if it was just a serial killer, spotting that two of the families lived in the same house should immediately have set him off down that path. He's a crime writer! Or maybe it's the whole point that he's a bad one and I didn't pick up on that.
The implication that his writing is really tough on the family was a good one, that he becomes a drunk and a general tit as he digs into terrible murders should have been played up a bit more. I can see that they wanted to steer around the stereotypical "is there a ghost or is he just crazy?" thing, but I think they needed to push his obsession harder to be rationalise his continued refusal to share the videos with anybody else, even when he realises that there's a scary Michael Jackson involved.
Also, his wife is the heaviest sleeper in the world. He was very nosily banging around at all hours and she only ever seems to wake up when the son has his night terrors.
The night terrors were actually quite a good misleading element though, so well done with that.
Not going too deep into the mythology was good, although getting that from the random apple Skype professor was a little forced.
The one misstep on the mythology is that they needed to include a scene where the dad walks in on his kids watching the video. Otherwise I really liked that all Michael Jackson does is provide the poison to knock the families out and the rest is all just urging the kids to do it.
I only realised when he gets the extended cuts that the tree branch wasn't being cut by a floating saw. I really thought they were going poltergeist and that didn't seem to mesh with anything else.
They probably relied a bit too much on jump scares (I'll forgive the very last one though, as you'd almost be disappointed if they didn't do it)
Good fun. I imagine the sequel is/will be a disaster though.
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Sinister as features music by Aghast. Which is music basically designed to be reminiscent of horror movie soundtracks. So that is a fun cycle.
We were very pleased when we recognised it.
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The music was pretty good. Especially the scores to the super-8 video. Those were some unsettling sounds.
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It has recently come to my attention that I am able to tell my boyfriend the title of a movie about 75% of the time, despite not having seen it, by watching a random 10 second scene, purely by cultural osmosis. Last night, I walked into the room, and saw Nicholas Cage asking some chick if she had seen another chick. Instantly, I asked if they were watching the Wicker Man. I was right.
He was less than pleased at the end of the movie
I'm still not as good as my little brother, who can tell you not only the actors/voice actors, date it came out, and production companies, just by hearing the title. Mind you, he's autistic, so it's not "Wayne Knight", it's "The guy who's in Jurassic Park and Seinfeld is also in Toy Story 2."
Also 3rd Rock From The Sun.
No, I didn't have to look that up.
ETA: I can usually do lead actors, distribution studio, and box office/awards from titles - less good at dates (mainly because thinking about how long ago some seminal growing up films were released makes me feel old).
These days I mainly catch up on movies during long-haul flights and occasionally when I crash at a hotel with decent movie channels over weekends. About the only time I catch things in the cinemas is when I get my company-paid trip "home" every 3 months and I take my mom out (do you know how weird it is watching Black Swan with your mother?).
Fortunately GotG came out 2 days before I was scheduled to fly out of the country.
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Mojo_JojoWe are only now beginning to understand the full power and ramifications of sexual intercourseRegistered Userregular
Oh. One other thing about sinister: the word is hanged not hung. C'mon!
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I don't think Bay's "explosion porn" has any sexual context, either.
"Torture titillation" is nicely alliterative, though.
I thought you were as well. I just wanted to point out that the connotation of porn and sex is still there. Even if we generally know what is "actually meant".
(And I'd argue that at the very least Bay has fetishized explosions to such an extent, that a sexual subtext isn't really that far-fetched.)
I think the general rule here is: Don't call it "something porn" if there is very likely porn of it."
I thought we called it porn cause it fetishizes torture.
So I watched The Prestige and Looper for the first time each, back to back today.
Holy crap those were two good movies. The Prestige was entertaining in every way it wanted to be for me. Looper might not have been the highest quality film ever made but I don't care because JGL cannot go wrong in my estimation.
I was spoiled today cinematically, I highly recommend this to everyone.
I ain't watched much with JGL in it but everything I've seen him in has been pretty alright.
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Because it gets mentioned quite a bit I watched The Raid last night.
That is a boring film. There's a couple of nice set pieces, but even in those there's no drama or suspense because they are inevitably "the good guy kicks ass for a bit". But aside from that it's just a desert.
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Because it gets mentioned quite a bit I watched The Raid last night.
That is a boring film. There's a couple of nice set pieces, but even in those there's no drama or suspense because they are inevitably "the good guy kicks ass for a bit". But aside from that it's just a desert.
Yeah, stay far away from the sequel.
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Because it gets mentioned quite a bit I watched The Raid last night.
That is a boring film. There's a couple of nice set pieces, but even in those there's no drama or suspense because they are inevitably "the good guy kicks ass for a bit". But aside from that it's just a desert.
Yeah, stay far away from the sequel.
Everything in these two posts is in an indecipherable alien language to me. I feel like I'm reading the words of a extraterrestrial Armond White.
Finally saw Cap 2. Really liked it. The end is setup for Cap 3 and not avengers 2 right?
And for those with more comic knowledge
who are the twins hydra has at the end there?
The Bucky bit is probably setup for Cap3. The Hydra twins are setup for Avengers 2; they're Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch.
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Seeking A Friend for the End of the World, a good movie I never want to see again.
It's definitely not a comedy, not at all. But it's a good drama that makes up for Carrell starring in Dan In Real Life, and touches the right notes for an end of the world movie where you know what's coming. The constant feeling of fear that permeates the film is done well and is always in the background, no matter the people involved, be it the married family whose given up, the young adults just partying away at a TGI Fridays, or the bunker people. And while Knightly's role could have been played by anyone because the romance angle isn't really necessary no matter how the film tries to make it important (though she does do a good job), Carrell really does do a good job going from this man so dejected at everything, almost because he did everything he was supposed to in life and now this meteor is coming.
And one thing I respect about the film is that while it's constantly about fear of the inevitable, there's also a good amount of hope and even a weird kind of happiness, which I wouldn't have expected from this type of film. They don't really mock anyone's beliefs in the movie about what they plan on doing to ride out the end of days, and just kind of show a pretty accurate depiction of what would happen, at least for Hollywood. In a time when everyone is negative and just looks to make fun of things first without a real reason, it was a nice ray of sunshine in a storm of sadness.
I finally got to see Guardians of the Galaxy today. Fun, fun movie. It surprises me that Chris Pratt only had his shirt off for one shot, because holy moly that dude got ripped.
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I finally got to see Guardians of the Galaxy today. Fun, fun movie. It surprises me that Chris Pratt only had his shirt off for one shot, because holy moly that dude got ripped.
You know, that's a damned good point. I remember back when a workout pic of him surfaced online rocking his abiliciousness and he tweeted something like "My brother made me take this pic because I couldn't drink beer for six monthes"
It's pretty funny that the movie itself hardly used his newfound beefcake powers, but...then again, it turned out to be a pretty shrewd method of relatively inexpensive self-promotion.
I finally got to see Guardians of the Galaxy today. Fun, fun movie. It surprises me that Chris Pratt only had his shirt off for one shot, because holy moly that dude got ripped.
Doesn't that happen with every Marvel movie?
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Maybe the film itself tries to preserve a "twist," but it doesn't look like it.
I think the general rule here is: Don't call it "something porn" if there is very likely porn of it."
Um, that'd apply to nearly everything. People love their porn.
The reveal is
I think we've all learned by now that if there's one thing you should never do, it's sell an heirloom watch.
They die IN RIDICULOUS WAYS that you have to see to believe. And not like, horrifically gruesome ways necessarily. More like "okay some of these things COULD happen... but all of them at once?"
The platonic ideal of a Final Destination death (it is from a "horror" movie, so stay away if squeamish):
To recap:
I watch the Final Destination series as occasionally suspenseful dark comedies, they definitely swing that direction more and more the more they do.
The first is a junior grade musing on life and fate.
The second tries to amp that up to 11, but the message is lost in the creative death scenes.
The third kind of abandons that for straight teen melodrama and more creative deaths.
The fourth goes full bore dark comedy, and is generally amusing.
And the fifth is like, this odd action thriller where everyone is back to trying to find out 'the rules' and they now involve murder to gain more time.
It's definitely an interesting series.
"Readers who prefer tension and romance, Maledictions: The Offering, delivers... As serious YA fiction, I’ll give it five stars out of five. As a novel? Four and a half." - Liz Ellor
My new novel: Maledictions: The Offering. Now in Paperback!
Outside of guinea pigs and guinea bees.
Honestly, I thought it was incredibly telegraphed, but sitting with my friends, watching it, their reactions were priceless.
It was like their mouths were full of delicious bees that they didn't want escaping, because despite the stings, they wanted that sweet, sweet, taste, so they brought their hands to their mouths like a really strained simile.
"Readers who prefer tension and romance, Maledictions: The Offering, delivers... As serious YA fiction, I’ll give it five stars out of five. As a novel? Four and a half." - Liz Ellor
My new novel: Maledictions: The Offering. Now in Paperback!
I'm still not as good as my little brother, who can tell you not only the actors/voice actors, date it came out, and production companies, just by hearing the title. Mind you, he's autistic, so it's not "Wayne Knight", it's "The guy who's in Jurassic Park and Seinfeld is also in Toy Story 2."
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Dear Satan.....
I credit YouTube with a lot of it. I've seen scenes from a hojillion obscure films that I've never watched but know way too much about.
I was quite impressed to be honest. It's really creepy (or sinister I suppose, hur hur hur). I definitely regretted watching it alone at night.
Some more less coherent but spoilery thoughts:
The implication that his writing is really tough on the family was a good one, that he becomes a drunk and a general tit as he digs into terrible murders should have been played up a bit more. I can see that they wanted to steer around the stereotypical "is there a ghost or is he just crazy?" thing, but I think they needed to push his obsession harder to be rationalise his continued refusal to share the videos with anybody else, even when he realises that there's a scary Michael Jackson involved.
Also, his wife is the heaviest sleeper in the world. He was very nosily banging around at all hours and she only ever seems to wake up when the son has his night terrors.
The night terrors were actually quite a good misleading element though, so well done with that.
Not going too deep into the mythology was good, although getting that from the random apple Skype professor was a little forced.
The one misstep on the mythology is that they needed to include a scene where the dad walks in on his kids watching the video. Otherwise I really liked that all Michael Jackson does is provide the poison to knock the families out and the rest is all just urging the kids to do it.
I only realised when he gets the extended cuts that the tree branch wasn't being cut by a floating saw. I really thought they were going poltergeist and that didn't seem to mesh with anything else.
They probably relied a bit too much on jump scares (I'll forgive the very last one though, as you'd almost be disappointed if they didn't do it)
Good fun. I imagine the sequel is/will be a disaster though.
We were very pleased when we recognised it.
No, I didn't have to look that up.
ETA: I can usually do lead actors, distribution studio, and box office/awards from titles - less good at dates (mainly because thinking about how long ago some seminal growing up films were released makes me feel old).
These days I mainly catch up on movies during long-haul flights and occasionally when I crash at a hotel with decent movie channels over weekends. About the only time I catch things in the cinemas is when I get my company-paid trip "home" every 3 months and I take my mom out (do you know how weird it is watching Black Swan with your mother?).
Fortunately GotG came out 2 days before I was scheduled to fly out of the country.
I thought we called it porn cause it fetishizes torture.
Holy crap those were two good movies. The Prestige was entertaining in every way it wanted to be for me. Looper might not have been the highest quality film ever made but I don't care because JGL cannot go wrong in my estimation.
I was spoiled today cinematically, I highly recommend this to everyone.
That is a boring film. There's a couple of nice set pieces, but even in those there's no drama or suspense because they are inevitably "the good guy kicks ass for a bit". But aside from that it's just a desert.
Yeah, stay far away from the sequel.
At least one of the tapes was backed by Aghast.
Pretty sure the fire one, with the people on the beds was the one we first noted.
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And you guys were right, Cap 2 was a huge step up from the first.
And I guess one more question
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It's definitely not a comedy, not at all. But it's a good drama that makes up for Carrell starring in Dan In Real Life, and touches the right notes for an end of the world movie where you know what's coming. The constant feeling of fear that permeates the film is done well and is always in the background, no matter the people involved, be it the married family whose given up, the young adults just partying away at a TGI Fridays, or the bunker people. And while Knightly's role could have been played by anyone because the romance angle isn't really necessary no matter how the film tries to make it important (though she does do a good job), Carrell really does do a good job going from this man so dejected at everything, almost because he did everything he was supposed to in life and now this meteor is coming.
And one thing I respect about the film is that while it's constantly about fear of the inevitable, there's also a good amount of hope and even a weird kind of happiness, which I wouldn't have expected from this type of film. They don't really mock anyone's beliefs in the movie about what they plan on doing to ride out the end of days, and just kind of show a pretty accurate depiction of what would happen, at least for Hollywood. In a time when everyone is negative and just looks to make fun of things first without a real reason, it was a nice ray of sunshine in a storm of sadness.
And it's making me question what I would do with myself if i knew we had just a few weeks left.
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You know, that's a damned good point. I remember back when a workout pic of him surfaced online rocking his abiliciousness and he tweeted something like "My brother made me take this pic because I couldn't drink beer for six monthes"
It's pretty funny that the movie itself hardly used his newfound beefcake powers, but...then again, it turned out to be a pretty shrewd method of relatively inexpensive self-promotion.
One shirtless scene limit per lead character. Guaranteed to be featured in the trailer.