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[Movies] Fantastic Beasts, guest starring Xenomorphs
Harry Dresden
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Movies. Hollywood has made them for a very long time, as well as other places over the world.
We live in the not so new era of the remake and the sequel, which has made people assume this is new but it really isn't.
Scarface, for instance, is a remake of a film made in 1932!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_z4IuxAqpE
Look what's happening here, Carpenter has returned to Halloween! Pretend every other movie doesn't exist, of course.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek1ePFp-nBI
and the Jurassic Park franchise refuses to die.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0_96_YQu0k
For those interested in horror this arrived and it is excellent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6wWKNij_1M
Oh yeah, Bogart wants you to know that old movies are superior to new ones.
We live in the not so new era of the remake and the sequel, which has made people assume this is new but it really isn't.
Scarface, for instance, is a remake of a film made in 1932!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_z4IuxAqpELook what's happening here, Carpenter has returned to Halloween! Pretend every other movie doesn't exist, of course.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek1ePFp-nBIand the Jurassic Park franchise refuses to die.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0_96_YQu0kFor those interested in horror this arrived and it is excellent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6wWKNij_1MOh yeah, Bogart wants you to know that old movies are superior to new ones.
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It’s been a bit, but I’m starting to remember there were things I used to like, and talking about movies was high on that list, as was actually seeing them in the first place. I want to get back there.
So, uh, . . . hi.
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Now let's go see Hereditary!
We genetically engineered a super dinosaur and oh it escaped
Would you rather have a Jurassic Park movie where no dinosaurs escaped and nothing went wrong?
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I don’t normally go in for horror, but I’ve heard nothing but good things
It would be a novel experience at least. Just having the dinosaur park as a backdrop to something completely different.
The movie would of course constantly hint about the park breaking down in the background, but competent and efficient employees would always stop it without much fuss!
Alternatively stop making them, but that option seems unfeasible.
An actual explanation for different enemy types!
Thousands of years in the future, humanity has made itself extinct, and a group of scientific aliens arrive on earth, find some human blood in amber, and begin to clone humans.
Which of course, due to them thinking that the humans are 'primitive', forget to take proper precautions, and the humans break out, killing nearly everyone.
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Dear Satan.....
So planet of the apes with dinosaurs ?
I just usually associate horror with bad movies.
Granted, we've gotten A Quiet Place and (to some degree of horror) Get Out!, which have been kind of revelatory for the genre as of late.
I feel like horror done well is probably the most emotionally evocative of all film genres.
Seriously, why do people spend $14 a ticket and talk throughout the whole movie? Fucking rent a movie.
Teenagers are assholes.
Its sad because the genre has so much to offer that's underutilized.
Edit: in the sense that I'm going to buy a Blu-ray for my movie collection.
OK, some CGI effects are dodgy, but the beginning underwater fight and the final fight are amazing.
And the lead (who is also the director) is charismatic as hell :biggrin:
It also must have the highest innocent civilian death count ever :eek:. Yup, the Bad Guys are really Evil.
Get Out, it follows, and hereditary have been some spectacular recent horror movies. The genre has been revitalized somewhat, to my delight and horror! My personal, completely unfounded theory is The Ring reminded people horror movies could have great production values and excellent acting.
I think most people would put the babadook in that list too but I didn’t enjoy it as much as most people
Well, I think the people who were inspired by The Ring realized this and grew up to give us some good films. The moviemakers at the time just saw "OH JAPANESE HORROR AND A WEIRD KID OKAY" and proceeded to make a ton of shit (Except the Grudge, which was terrifying to me for reasons I can't articulate) because it's kinda like The Ring so it should work!
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Why was that even a thing? Slashers I got, you go to watch dumbass teenagers get killed, and the gore was actually pretty mild for the most part (except in Italy, those people have problems). But who sees a poster for the SAW movies or Hostel and decides that watching someone get castrated on screen sounds like a good use of an afternoon?
Saw made tons of money off zero budget
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And I know I've seen that before but for the life of me, I can't place it.
Does anyone remember a similar scene, and if so, what movie or TV show?
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Yes, and we had 50 ghost movies for a few years following Paranormal Activity.
Could be thinking of Izombie I think something like that happened in season 1.
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Novelty is a potent driver of ticket sales. Show people something they haven't seen before or in a while and occasionally you'll strike gold.
Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
I was talking to a friend after seeing it again and I was a little hung up (still) on Logan Marshall Green's speech pattern choice in the film, but I came around on it more this time, and he plays the physicality of a person not in control of their own body and the mechanical nature of it so well.
That movie really delivered in a way I wasn't expecting and there's a fair bit more foreshadowing and clever wordplay than I gave the script credit for upon first viewing.
"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!
Imagine my surprise when I saw Paul Verhoeven's name.
And for some reason I watched 50 Shades of Grey.
Yeesh, that escalated quickly. It actually is really well made, despite the questionable source material. (See also: Twilight)
The contract scene in particular was well edited.
I think the two films also have another thing in common: ditching a very talented director due to creative differences prior to making the sequels.
As a fan of the Saw franchise! I was mostly in it for the plot twists. They're often deviously clever. They're gross and fun and remarkably well crafted given they cranked em out year after year with no downtime in between. 7/3D is trash dreck, but otherwise they're a good time.
On the other end of the horror spectrum I just watched Hereditary and it was rull gud.
Total Recall had sequels?
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The theatrical cut has one transition between scenes that I really liked, that the DC ditches to fit in another scene that is silly, but mercifully short. It's very early on In the movie and if you've not seen the TC (or not seen it in ages) you probably won't notice. In every other respect, the DC is better, with all the extra stuff making a good case for why it's there and it doesn't even mess up the already slow and deliberate pacing; to the point that I think the TC only exists because the movie needed to come in at under three hours for the theatrical release.
The UC, as previously mentioned, just stuffs in the animated sequences from Tales of the Black Freighter, which was cool in the book but doesn't work at all interspersed in the movie. Better appreciated in its standalone release if it interests you.
So, DC for the win, handily.
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I was thinking of the remake.