Embarrassed at how loud I went “HAH!” when a certain pop song drops at the very, very end of Barbarian. What an insane movie.
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This has to be one of the strangest and most surreal horror films I’ve seen. Some real fascinating direction. Bummed that this is likely the only feature film of it’s director.
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Film needed more Richard Brake but was otherwise stylish and enjoyable
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we’re all going to the world’s fair was surprisingly contemporary and I think it’d be well received here
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I feel like that’s for certain. It’s a great internet film.
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I know this is a Very Bad Take but I didn’t think it had enough ideas to justify its run time. It’s fine, and at least different enough from anything else to be worth a watch. It was very, very funny that when it did the festival circuit, all the reviews were like, ‘It’s a movie about growing on on the internet!’ ‘It’s a movie about being a teen girl, on the internet!’ and so forth and then, when the director had come out as a trans and it came out, all the reviews were like, ‘It’s a movie about being trans!’
It is absolutely, 100% in no way about being trans lol
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Do you think this shirt was going to play into the plot or do you think it was just a gag that they decided was too on the nose and decided to drop along with Stoltz?
I’m not a Futurehead or whatever, so I don’t recall if this shirt appears in the final movie, but it doesn’t seem familiar.
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watched Occult and liked it, it didn’t have the same compelling slow-motion-car-accident feeling of Noroi for me but i liked the sense that it was trying to fold aspects of that earlier movie into something new: there are some effectively creepy moments with the same vibe but the way it gets sidetracked into a very different kind of story on the way is new. my favourite part was the epilogue set 21 years later, when everything looks the same and the producer and newly out-of-prison director are catching up on the minor ways bbq food and slang have changed in the meantime. and the producer casually mentions that 100,000 people in japan have died offscreen of mad cow disease in the period we skipped over, and the only reason it comes up is as an explanation as to why the bbq place is shutting down. it’s such a funny, bleak put down of the yearning for apocalypse that the main characters spend the last half of the film chasing, and the final shot of the Jellyfish Dimension itself is the perfect chaser.
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i’ve been looking into filibus some more (truly excellent silent movie from 1915 shared by Tulpa, mostly involves scheming on airships, seducing your enemy’s sister, sleeping powder) and found the most accursed take
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Definitely the most accursed take, Filibus deserves so much better than to be compared to any modern blockbuster, let alone one as creatively bankrupt as that one
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I also adored the time skip in the ending of this movie. A very sly and fun way to cap it off. Since seeing it earlier this year I have met several people who have seen Noroi but not Occult and I always try my hardest to convince them that it’s worth seeing! If you liked the humor in this one, I recommend seeing his movie Cult, which is much less satisfying IMO but very amusing.
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i watched the rob zombie halloween movies ln i thought they were like upsetting and horrifying and sad and like kind of really good. hard to say i “enjoyed” them but certainly i found them moving… halloween ii 2009 in particularly is like a really nicely shot (on super 16mm!) / lit / textured film tho.
theres a scene in the first one which like kind of obvs parodies one from blade runner and suggests that dr loomis created michael with his inability / unwillingness to understand him as just some fucked up guy and not the literal devil walking the earth. you see all this brutal violence and bulldozer-like destruction and think it’s something only an animal or a monster could do but the point is made obvious—only a human could do that.
def anticipates drive in some ways too i think… just like this really brutally effective killing without ever being gimmicky or tryhard edgy.
anyways please express any and all disagreement with this post in a courteous and civil manner i am not in the mood to be blithely dismissed as a subliterate zoo critter for enjoying a movie some people thought was mid or dumb or w/e
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Watched Decision to Leave a couple nights ago. It was at the Alamo so Park Chan-Wook had a little video thing before it that had him saying sorry for it being a little long, second act ends pretty quickly tho don’t worry. He wasn’t kidding about it feeling a little long, that’s for dang sure. If yr going to make a rom-com, have the decency to make it closer to 90 minutes imo! Really coulda done without the back third of it, but it’s fine. I was thinking about how the big drama in korean media doesn’t really jive with me most of the time, but it’s also not totally off-putting. Guess it makes me think of my korean side of the family and how over the top they can be which is annoying most times and endearing some times.
But it looked really nice and the jokes were good. The detective’s partners are real funny and i like their interactions with Mr. Detective a lot. I feel like the trailer is very misleading. Was not expecting the lightness at all! Thought it was going to be a lot moodier and lean way heavier into enigmatic atmosphere type of stuff. Pretty sure the SB colors were in the lighting in this one hallway scene and all the fog got me thinking about silent hill pretty easily.
dunno, think park chan-wook is just a-okay in my book. his movies usually hover around a 5-6/10 for me most of the time and this one hit that mark
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honestly I adored this one – it felt like a weirdly more realistic but still tawdry take on basic instinct, like the characters were so fully realized and it kept taking you on all these wild but totally believable turns
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I was happy to see Tang Wei finally being able to display the fullness of her power.
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My roommate and I hooked up his VCR player to our tv to watch this bootleg tape of Peter Jackson’s Bad Taste and it was honestly a really impressively made film. Jackson’s a talented editor and, apparently, practical effects person. I haven’t seen Meet the Feebles or Dead Alive/Brain Damage so this was my first taste of his gross out horror scifi pastiche thing he had going in the 80s and 90s.
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ParaNorman again, an animated film that’s spooky and scary without being too frightening for our youngest viewer. delighted by the strong moral themes about bullying. character designs weirded me out, Norman’s dad is Brian O’Halloran and the himbo Ron Howard somehow
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Paranorman is a very good step back from the assault on the psychological well being of children that was Coraline
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Coraline was the other option and while I like the animation it’s way too intense and morbid
ParaNorman got me like, wow what if a Tim Burton film was fun and cute and gross?? that damn zombie erupting from the ground butt-first gets me every time
Norman’s ring tone got us onto the John Carpenter Collection album post-movie, eventually (predictably) ending at Summer Is A-comen In and obliquely explaining to eldest the horror of the film is founded on the shock to cultural norms of 60s English Anglican society and so it would not obviously be ‘scary’ and no we’re not watching it tomorrow, ask again in 5 years
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How far Tim Burton has fallen since the 80s and 90s makes me weep, but I have always suspected the 2010s Frankenweenie could be pretty decent. Has anyone seen that?
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