I have a lot of love for Silver Streak. Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Patrick McGoohan. A little murder, a little mystery, and some real stupid ignorant son of a bitch dumb bastards.
I watched Halloween yesterday and man why are there documentaries about Friday and Nightmare and not this? It's the only slasher movie that 100% completely works. The lighting is incredible.
Birdman: Crap. Hated it. Well done technically tho.
Adventures in Babysitting: Holy crap, seen nowdays this is just racist as all hell.
The Absolutely Fabulous Movie: I'm a huge fan but I found very very little to like about this.
Florence Foster Jenkins: Pretty mean spirited and focused far more on the men around her rather than the lady herself. She and her circle of friends was where the story was, not with her pianist with the constant gay jokes and her "husband" and all the excuses he had for why he was having sex with someone else. Bleah.
tl;dr: not a good weekend for movies for us
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Raijin QuickfootI'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Someone actually watched Florence Foster Jenkins?
I thought it was just a movie made up so Meryl Streep could get nominated again.
I would probably be more interested in watching a movie about a talentless person who has a successful career in the performing arts because she's rich and privileged if I didn't already exist in a world that contains Max Landis.
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StraightziHere we may reign secure, and in my choice,To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered Userregular
I watched Halloween yesterday and man why are there documentaries about Friday and Nightmare and not this? It's the only slasher movie that 100% completely works. The lighting is incredible.
Halloween is ridiculously good
But as a series, it's significantly weaker than either Friday or Nightmare
It's really just the first movie that you want when you're talking about Halloween
Max Landis is just a kind of cheap shot too. I've known a lot of people who were able to pursue careers purely because they were bankrolled by daddy and it kind of leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I don't want to watch a movie about a woman who's doing kind of a shitty thing and should actually sit the fuck down.
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StraightziHere we may reign secure, and in my choice,To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered Userregular
Tube have you seen Black Christmas yet? If you're interested in classic slashers, that's really the one to watch (it's pretty much the first of the genre). It's not quite as good as Halloween, but it's super influential on the genre as a whole, and honestly a lot better than it has any right to be.
Max Landis is just a kind of cheap shot too. I've known a lot of people who were able to pursue careers purely because they were bankrolled by daddy and it kind of leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I don't want to watch a movie about a woman who's doing kind of a shitty thing and should actually sit the fuck down.
I give her a pass because she was doing it because she loves music that much; she was incredibly passionate about it and couldn't play piano anymore so her only outlet was singing. If people hadn't insisted she was a soprano she may have done quite a bit better.
I watched Halloween yesterday and man why are there documentaries about Friday and Nightmare and not this? It's the only slasher movie that 100% completely works. The lighting is incredible.
Halloween is ridiculously good
But as a series, it's significantly weaker than either Friday or Nightmare
It's really just the first movie that you want when you're talking about Halloween
I think Friday and Nightmare (as series) are both broadly entertaining but completely unscary. Halloween had that magical formula that made the first one great but when they lost that they didn't have "this is just fun to watch!" to fall back on.
Even the mask is this amazing happy accident, where other slasher film masks don't really work. It looks just slightly inhuman enough to set off a bunch of fucking fire alarms in your lizard brain. But then they make sequels and go "ok I know what this mask looks like, let's do this" and...
I watched Halloween yesterday and man why are there documentaries about Friday and Nightmare and not this? It's the only slasher movie that 100% completely works. The lighting is incredible.
Halloween is ridiculously good
But as a series, it's significantly weaker than either Friday or Nightmare
It's really just the first movie that you want when you're talking about Halloween
I think Friday and Nightmare (as series) are both broadly entertaining but completely unscary.
Super agree. Halloween (if you remove the awful awful Rob Zombie films) is literally the only slasher series done close to right (although the first Friday and Nightmare and pretty creepy as well).
Black Christmas is also a fantastic film for the genre, just avoid the re-make.
I actually like the Rob Zombie films (mostly the first one) but I'm aware that I'm essentially a bizarre mutant in that respect. I found that giving Myers a character added... something to it. I don't know, maybe I'll watch it again and compare.
I watched Halloween yesterday and man why are there documentaries about Friday and Nightmare and not this? It's the only slasher movie that 100% completely works. The lighting is incredible.
Halloween is ridiculously good
But as a series, it's significantly weaker than either Friday or Nightmare
It's really just the first movie that you want when you're talking about Halloween
I actually like the Rob Zombie films (mostly the first one) but I'm aware that I'm essentially a bizarre mutant in that respect. I found that giving Myers a character added... something to it. I don't know, maybe I'll watch it again and compare.
I don't like director's spending too much time making a serial killer relatable or worthy of pity because it removes the scare. Plus the longer the film went on the less he was Michael Myers and more just some random murder-hobo in a cheaply made porn film set in a trailer park (although that's more the second than the first).
Remember when Rian Johnson released the director's commentary for Looper while it was still in theaters, so you could go back and watch it with headphones in to hear it?
How come everybody didn't steal that?
It's a great idea that encourages multiple theater visits
If I could get Jordan Peele's commentary on Get Out already, I'd be back in the theater today
The other fun thing about Halloween is that score. Everyone remembers the DUH duh duh DUH duh duh DUh duh DUH duh part, which is in odd time which already puts people who are acclimated to 4/4 slightly on edge. What I noticed this time is there's a super insistent metronome click in the back of it that's both completely jarring AND drives home the odd time.
Tube have you seen Black Christmas yet? If you're interested in classic slashers, that's really the one to watch (it's pretty much the first of the genre). It's not quite as good as Halloween, but it's super influential on the genre as a whole, and honestly a lot better than it has any right to be.
I haven't seen Black Christmas, but I'll check it out. I get it confused with Silent Night, Deadly Night.
The other fun thing about Halloween is that score. Everyone remembers the DUH duh duh DUH duh duh DUh duh DUH duh part, which is in odd time which already puts people who are acclimated to 4/4 slightly on edge. What I noticed this time is there's a super insistent metronome click in the back of it that's both completely jarring AND drives home the odd time.
It's an AMZING theme. The only one that comes as close to making my bird flip is the Exorcist theme.
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Every time I've seen anything about Florence Foster Jenkins all I could think is, "I have zero interest in this movie."
Tube have you seen Black Christmas yet? If you're interested in classic slashers, that's really the one to watch (it's pretty much the first of the genre). It's not quite as good as Halloween, but it's super influential on the genre as a whole, and honestly a lot better than it has any right to be.
I haven't seen Black Christmas, but I'll check it out. I get it confused with Silent Night, Deadly Night.
Yikes, SNDL is so so so bad.
Black Christmas is super worth watching. I think its considered the second actual "slasher" flick with the first being a black and white silent film. Plus CANADIAN!
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StraightziHere we may reign secure, and in my choice,To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered Userregular
Tube have you seen Black Christmas yet? If you're interested in classic slashers, that's really the one to watch (it's pretty much the first of the genre). It's not quite as good as Halloween, but it's super influential on the genre as a whole, and honestly a lot better than it has any right to be.
I haven't seen Black Christmas, but I'll check it out. I get it confused with Silent Night, Deadly Night.
I also love the Silent Night, Deadly Night films, but they are the exact opposite of the slasher spectrum.
Tube have you seen Black Christmas yet? If you're interested in classic slashers, that's really the one to watch (it's pretty much the first of the genre). It's not quite as good as Halloween, but it's super influential on the genre as a whole, and honestly a lot better than it has any right to be.
I haven't seen Black Christmas, but I'll check it out. I get it confused with Silent Night, Deadly Night.
I also love the Silent Night, Deadly Night films, but they are the exact opposite of the slasher spectrum.
Remember when Rian Johnson released the director's commentary for Looper while it was still in theaters, so you could go back and watch it with headphones in to hear it?
How come everybody didn't steal that?
It's a great idea that encourages multiple theater visits
If I could get Jordan Peele's commentary on Get Out already, I'd be back in the theater today
God, that's such a good idea, but if I had to guess, I'd say publishers weren't happy about its potential to cut into DVD/Blu-Ray sales.
Tube have you seen Black Christmas yet? If you're interested in classic slashers, that's really the one to watch (it's pretty much the first of the genre). It's not quite as good as Halloween, but it's super influential on the genre as a whole, and honestly a lot better than it has any right to be.
I haven't seen Black Christmas, but I'll check it out. I get it confused with Silent Night, Deadly Night.
I also love the Silent Night, Deadly Night films, but they are the exact opposite of the slasher spectrum.
Tube have you seen Black Christmas yet? If you're interested in classic slashers, that's really the one to watch (it's pretty much the first of the genre). It's not quite as good as Halloween, but it's super influential on the genre as a whole, and honestly a lot better than it has any right to be.
I haven't seen Black Christmas, but I'll check it out. I get it confused with Silent Night, Deadly Night.
Yikes, SNDL is so so so bad.
Black Christmas is super worth watching. I think its considered the second actual "slasher" flick with the first being a black and white silent film. Plus CANADIAN!
Tube have you seen Black Christmas yet? If you're interested in classic slashers, that's really the one to watch (it's pretty much the first of the genre). It's not quite as good as Halloween, but it's super influential on the genre as a whole, and honestly a lot better than it has any right to be.
I haven't seen Black Christmas, but I'll check it out. I get it confused with Silent Night, Deadly Night.
Yikes, SNDL is so so so bad.
Black Christmas is super worth watching. I think its considered the second actual "slasher" flick with the first being a black and white silent film. Plus CANADIAN!
a bay of blood predates it by a few years
still the most enjoyable slasher i've ever seen
huh never heard of that one. apparently it's not actually considered a slasher for some reason.
This is going of a somewhat spotty memory of it, but it has a lot of elements that are slasher-like, but some of the story/structure elements aren't quite "classic" slasher, which might lead some to not include it, despite it being an inspiration to some later slasher directors.
This is going of a somewhat spotty memory of it, but it has a lot of elements that are slasher-like, but some of the story/structure elements aren't quite "classic" slasher, which might lead some to not include it, despite it being an inspiration to some later slasher directors.
I always heard "slasher" meant multiple victims where the audience would occasionally be in the viewpoint of the killer. I don't really know for certain tho or if it's even really important to define it all that much
Tube have you seen Black Christmas yet? If you're interested in classic slashers, that's really the one to watch (it's pretty much the first of the genre). It's not quite as good as Halloween, but it's super influential on the genre as a whole, and honestly a lot better than it has any right to be.
I haven't seen Black Christmas, but I'll check it out. I get it confused with Silent Night, Deadly Night.
Yikes, SNDL is so so so bad.
Black Christmas is super worth watching. I think its considered the second actual "slasher" flick with the first being a black and white silent film. Plus CANADIAN!
a bay of blood predates it by a few years
still the most enjoyable slasher i've ever seen
huh never heard of that one. apparently it's not actually considered a slasher for some reason.
it's probably more generally lumped in as a giallo because it was directed by mario bava, but it was drawn on so heavily by other later slashers (especially friday the 13th) that it feels like one
I think of slasher movie as just the typical "there's a guy who kills people/teenagers in a variety of ways". There are other associated tropes but that's mostly it.
I also watched the Friday the 13th remake the other day. It wasn't horrible but the amount of nudity became slightly insulting.
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Old Blue Eyes was always a little larger than life
The movie itself was actually quite a bit better than that dumb trailer makes it look as far as I remember.
I have a lot of love for Silver Streak. Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Patrick McGoohan. A little murder, a little mystery, and some real stupid ignorant son of a bitch dumb bastards.
Birdman: Crap. Hated it. Well done technically tho.
Adventures in Babysitting: Holy crap, seen nowdays this is just racist as all hell.
The Absolutely Fabulous Movie: I'm a huge fan but I found very very little to like about this.
Florence Foster Jenkins: Pretty mean spirited and focused far more on the men around her rather than the lady herself. She and her circle of friends was where the story was, not with her pianist with the constant gay jokes and her "husband" and all the excuses he had for why he was having sex with someone else. Bleah.
tl;dr: not a good weekend for movies for us
I thought it was just a movie made up so Meryl Streep could get nominated again.
Nah, Florence Foster Jenkins was a pretty kick ass lady albeit ridiculously overprivileged. I think they did her a disservice to be honest.
Halloween is ridiculously good
But as a series, it's significantly weaker than either Friday or Nightmare
It's really just the first movie that you want when you're talking about Halloween
I give her a pass because she was doing it because she loves music that much; she was incredibly passionate about it and couldn't play piano anymore so her only outlet was singing. If people hadn't insisted she was a soprano she may have done quite a bit better.
But yeah, it walks a fine line.
I think Friday and Nightmare (as series) are both broadly entertaining but completely unscary. Halloween had that magical formula that made the first one great but when they lost that they didn't have "this is just fun to watch!" to fall back on.
Even the mask is this amazing happy accident, where other slasher film masks don't really work. It looks just slightly inhuman enough to set off a bunch of fucking fire alarms in your lizard brain. But then they make sequels and go "ok I know what this mask looks like, let's do this" and...
OH SHIT HERE COMES SOMEONE'S GRUMPY AUNT
Super agree. Halloween (if you remove the awful awful Rob Zombie films) is literally the only slasher series done close to right (although the first Friday and Nightmare and pretty creepy as well).
Black Christmas is also a fantastic film for the genre, just avoid the re-make.
Uh excuse me, Halloween III
I don't like director's spending too much time making a serial killer relatable or worthy of pity because it removes the scare. Plus the longer the film went on the less he was Michael Myers and more just some random murder-hobo in a cheaply made porn film set in a trailer park (although that's more the second than the first).
Remember when Rian Johnson released the director's commentary for Looper while it was still in theaters, so you could go back and watch it with headphones in to hear it?
How come everybody didn't steal that?
It's a great idea that encourages multiple theater visits
If I could get Jordan Peele's commentary on Get Out already, I'd be back in the theater today
I honestly don't even remember him in the film. It's been a LONG time since I saw it tho.
I haven't seen Black Christmas, but I'll check it out. I get it confused with Silent Night, Deadly Night.
It's an AMZING theme. The only one that comes as close to making my bird flip is the Exorcist theme.
Yeah, it's crazy niche. I'm pretty amazed they even did a film on it much less two!
Yikes, SNDL is so so so bad.
Black Christmas is super worth watching. I think its considered the second actual "slasher" flick with the first being a black and white silent film. Plus CANADIAN!
I also love the Silent Night, Deadly Night films, but they are the exact opposite of the slasher spectrum.
No? I mean, they're 100% slasher films.
God, that's such a good idea, but if I had to guess, I'd say publishers weren't happy about its potential to cut into DVD/Blu-Ray sales.
Of the slasher spectrum, not from @Magic Pink
a bay of blood predates it by a few years
still the most enjoyable slasher i've ever seen
huh never heard of that one. apparently it's not actually considered a slasher for some reason.
I always heard "slasher" meant multiple victims where the audience would occasionally be in the viewpoint of the killer. I don't really know for certain tho or if it's even really important to define it all that much
it's probably more generally lumped in as a giallo because it was directed by mario bava, but it was drawn on so heavily by other later slashers (especially friday the 13th) that it feels like one
I also watched the Friday the 13th remake the other day. It wasn't horrible but the amount of nudity became slightly insulting.