Are there any examples of say, a slasher movie, where the killer starts in on some group of victims and it turns out one or more of them are actually like, really competent and dangerous, and all of a sudden the killer is the one on the run? A reversal like that?
'No One Lives' is very close to that. Group of people who typically would be the villains of a given slasher/horror flick kidnap a girl, only to realize that they've kidnapped an already kidnapped girl, and that they've, to paraphrase Arrested Development, made a huge mistake.
Don't love the ending, but the rest is so good it makes up for it.
I love how the shots are composed to encourage you to look around the frame for the monster with a similar paranoia as the characters. It gives you the sense of constantly looking over your shoulder or peeking around corners, just through composition. That's good direction.
It Follows is one of the only movies I've seen with thoughtful use of the circular pan.
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It Follows is one of the only movies I've seen with thoughtful use of the circular pan.
Absolutely yes. And I'm super tired of one point/center framing for eerie effect, but It Follows found a great use of it.
This isn't my favourite example but it's the first I could find. Sticking her in the middle of the frame gives you so much room to look around for the monster, and if you can't see it, there's always the sense that it's right behind you friggin turn around.
I am not a horror nerd, I usually only watch 1-2 a year but I really liked It Follows
Only real quibble with it is the weird pseudo future setting that serves no real purpose for the movie and is barely used so it is just distracting
what were the futuristic elements?
There are barely any, which is why it annoys me
The most notable one is when one of the kids pulls out a phone thing and it looks like this:
It isn't at all a deal breaker and the director said the goal was to make a "dreamlike" period that wasn't tied to a specific time but it felt super half-baked to me so the handful of times something like that showed up it bugged me
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I've been meaning to watch It Follows for awhile because the soundtrack is by Disasterpeace and his work was 50% of the reason Hyper Light Drifter took such a hold on me
I've been meaning to watch It Follows for awhile because the soundtrack is by Disasterpeace and his work was 50% of the reason Hyper Light Drifter took such a hold on me
I think the reason it stuck with me is because the group I was watching it with was super into it and mega tense at every moment because It is a tense movie and when she pulled that out all of us went "Wait what the hell was that" and it took us out of the moment
Then we got immediately pulled back in by the end of that scene
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Are there any examples of say, a slasher movie, where the killer starts in on some group of victims and it turns out one or more of them are actually like, really competent and dangerous, and all of a sudden the killer is the one on the run? A reversal like that?
It's only an approximate match, but The Perfect Host is somewhat along those lines.
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I love It Follows noncommittal time period. It's kind of a cheat to make it feel both nostalgic and modern. But I imagine that will help it age well. Also helps with the sort of dream like quality for me.
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What about Friday the 13th's Future Past of the 1990s of the 1980s?
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What if Armageddon but weather? That seems to be at least one of the half-baked pitches that led to Geostorm, a disastrous disaster movie that is actually quite low on the disasters to its own detriment.
Let’s be honest: You don’t go into something like “Geostorm” thinking it's going to be great. But there are things you expect to see, and actually hope for. For instance, Gerard Butler swaggering around for a couple of hours as a wisecracking action hero? Sign me up. Whiz-bang visual effects depicting the destruction of major cities around the globe? Neat-o! But when the movie can’t even fulfill those relatively meager pleasures, you’re left with a big, boring mess like “Geostorm.” It’s an action movie without an exciting moment. It’s a special effects flick with chintzy visuals. And it’s a Gerard Butler vehicle without enough Gerard to go around.
In the tradition of KFC’s Famous Bowl—famously described by Patton Oswalt as “a failure pile”—comes Geostorm, which attempts to be every possible apocalyptic weather-based disaster movie at once...For most people, 15 minutes worth of impressive annihilation won’t be worth enduring an hour and a half of dramatic monotony. Butler sleepwalks through his thinly written role
An inanely spectacular disaster movie — though perhaps “spectacularly inane” would be more apt — from the producer of “Godzilla” and “Independence Day,” Dean Devlin’s “Geostorm” attempts to have it both ways, treating a gang of scientists who’ve “solved” the problem of global warming as its heroes while exploiting how little its target audience knows about the subject to supply an extreme-weather clip reel with contributions of variable quality from a dozen different visual effects houses.
Won't even be the biggest disaster film of the week; currently 24% on RT. The Snowman? 10%
Did dogs hack into the weather control system to kill off humanity?
Prequel to Tokyo Jungle?
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Is there a bunch of dogs in this movie that it specifically makes a point of not killing? Because that would be super cool.
Only real quibble with it is the weird pseudo future setting that serves no real purpose for the movie and is barely used so it is just distracting
'No One Lives' is very close to that. Group of people who typically would be the villains of a given slasher/horror flick kidnap a girl, only to realize that they've kidnapped an already kidnapped girl, and that they've, to paraphrase Arrested Development, made a huge mistake.
An usher at my indie cinema deliberately made a point of coming in half way through and walking directly at me when I was the only one watching it
so I guess I have good memories of that movie
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I love how the shots are composed to encourage you to look around the frame for the monster with a similar paranoia as the characters. It gives you the sense of constantly looking over your shoulder or peeking around corners, just through composition. That's good direction.
what were the futuristic elements?
Absolutely yes. And I'm super tired of one point/center framing for eerie effect, but It Follows found a great use of it.
This isn't my favourite example but it's the first I could find. Sticking her in the middle of the frame gives you so much room to look around for the monster, and if you can't see it, there's always the sense that it's right behind you friggin turn around.
The most notable one is when one of the kids pulls out a phone thing and it looks like this:
It isn't at all a deal breaker and the director said the goal was to make a "dreamlike" period that wasn't tied to a specific time but it felt super half-baked to me so the handful of times something like that showed up it bugged me
Honestly I thought it was an e-book reader, in a smaller size for easier carrying
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Like this is a super minor thing, I think the movie is fantastic, but for some reason it has stuck with me
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so I'll probably watch it on Halloween
Everyone's wearing fancy suits that seem classic but they have futuretech that doesn't look particularly future-y
The music is super good. Disasterpeace aced it.
Then we got immediately pulled back in by the end of that scene
It's only an approximate match, but The Perfect Host is somewhat along those lines.
Won't even be the biggest disaster film of the week; currently 24% on RT. The Snowman? 10%
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Probably watched it six or seven times, which I rarely do.
I'd watch that movie
Serves me right for waiting so long to see it, I guess. Standard screen will be fine but I was kinda looking forward to seeing it in IMAX.
I am loving the inept Spider-Man trying to learn how to do shit.
I'm not loving the Stark/Dad relationship thing. It's a little heavy handed.
OH FUCK!
So my favorite part of "not good at being Spider-Man" in Homecoming is his fighting style
He never throws a punch during the movie
Also
My deepest Spider-Man knowledge comes from the 90's cartoon on Fox Kids so never throwing a punch seems like regular Spider-Manning to me.
What a weird era
Prequel to Tokyo Jungle?
Hey now.
He threw two punches.