I think what really impressed me about Oculus is it was a movie ripe with chances for cheap jumpscares, but never even once took that easy way out. It managed to just be unnerving and creepy, which, in my opinion, makes for a much stronger horror movie.
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So many otherwise good movies and books suffer from this. Most of the time, it's enough to pull me out of my immersion.
That's actually a thing. And I don't mean a trope, I mean an actual psychological thing, where basically powering through a lengthy discomfort is seen as some kind of "I meant to do that" that makes the viewer say, "Oh, ok."
--Patrick
The fact that it's a psychological phenomena is probably why it works in fiction / art / etc. Like, for me, this is what shock comedians attempt, and fail at. Daniel Tosh, for example, never quite hits the other side for me, so he winds up deep in "wow, that was nasty", rather than, "That was so outrageous it was funny."
Yeah, I was watching it with my girl and she kept burying herself into me because she kept expecting jump scares. There were some still in there, but they were very few and far between. Maybe even less than half a dozen.
Saw Book of Life and really enjoyed it. The colors were wonderful. The designs were like eye candy. The music was great and the story pretty engaging.
I can see this one being a cult fav.
I'm just sad to see it doing poorly in the box office, especially since it seems to be the only kids movie out right now!
I can see this one being a cult fav.
I'm just sad to see it doing poorly in the box office, especially since it seems to be the only kids movie out right now!
Agreed, I hope it at least breaks even.
You probably wouldn't like it.
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One of the theatres in my town is showing a different Hitchcock movie every week for October. Tomorrow Psycho is playing, and I'd really like to go. I also got to see Vertigo a couple of weeks back. The first time I saw that movie with my dad and Jimmy Stewart said "ah college days" to his much younger lady friend, I didn't give it a second thought. Man, it's true. All adults look the same to children.
Rifftrax Anaconda is Thursday, and I'm very excited. Gotta take the good with the bad, though. When the 3 guys jog on stage, you have to put up with 5-10 minutes of forced dad joke banter.
Rifftrax Anaconda is Thursday, and I'm very excited. Gotta take the good with the bad, though. When the 3 guys jog on stage, you have to put up with 5-10 minutes of forced dad joke banter.
Have you seen Psycho? I was really impressed how well it holds up in terms of suspense/horror. That and the Brolin Amityville Horror still creep me the hell out to this day.
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Yeah, I love it
still creepy. I really want to see Amityville too. I've only seen the "get out" scene.
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I really enjoyed Frozen...but this is so much better and original than that. May be my new fav animated movie.
There's definitely some stuff in the movie that's dated and won't work as well as it did at the time.Yeah, I love it
There's also some stuff that's still creepy as shit and makes it hard to sleep at night.
Amityville is unfortunately one of those movies that hasn't aged too great. But Psycho holds up.Yeah, I love it
Psycho is still fantastic. As is, in my opinion, the Birds.
Recently on AMC MOVIE talk, a viewer posed the question "if you could go back In time to see movie in theatres on opening day, what movie would you go back in time for?" The panelists all picked Star Wars. I thought about it, and I think I'd go see Psycho.
Recently on AMC MOVIE talk, a viewer posed the question "if you could go back In time to see movie in theatres on opening day, what movie would you go back in time for?" The panelists all picked Star Wars. I thought about it, and I think I'd go see Psycho.
I can't handle Birds, the effects are ridiculously dated and the whole movie just became hilarious instead of scary.
The ABCs of Death
...Not sure if I should comment on all 26 films in the anthology, but I will say as a cohesive whole I was certainly tested. I liked it, the mileage will vary on any one of them; it doesn't start from the weakest entry to the strongest, so one is completely unprepared for what's to come and I think that's it's strength.
To say it goes downhill near the end would be silly, I think it just increases in intensity towards the end... in a weird good way. The ending though - uhm... lol. Kind of a weird way to bow out, but as the whole thing was generally uncut, I guess there's no reason to really ignore it.
...Not sure if I should comment on all 26 films in the anthology, but I will say as a cohesive whole I was certainly tested. I liked it, the mileage will vary on any one of them; it doesn't start from the weakest entry to the strongest, so one is completely unprepared for what's to come and I think that's it's strength.
To say it goes downhill near the end would be silly, I think it just increases in intensity towards the end... in a weird good way. The ending though - uhm... lol. Kind of a weird way to bow out, but as the whole thing was generally uncut, I guess there's no reason to really ignore it.
Kinda is yeah, especially how in Book of Life the songs work with the scenes rather than dominating them like in Frozen.
Also I want an action figure of Manolo's sword armed ancestor, dude was COOL!
The premise is ridiculous... but in that great, over the top, almost a parody of itself way.
Fright Night: I've never seen this before, but heard people say it was good. In the first 15 or 20 minutes, I had a feeling that was nostalgia talking. The horror cliche of stupid characters comes up a bit, for instance.
But, once Charlie walks in on his mom's guest ... the movie picks up pretty fast, and it turns, this was really good! I got sucked in hard and while at some points I was more enjoying the camp value, by the climax I was invested in the characters. The lead puts out a good performance and Prince Humperdink is menacing, yet you could see why people would fall for his charms (unlike in The Princess Bride).
Best scene for me:
But, once Charlie walks in on his mom's guest ... the movie picks up pretty fast, and it turns, this was really good! I got sucked in hard and while at some points I was more enjoying the camp value, by the climax I was invested in the characters. The lead puts out a good performance and Prince Humperdink is menacing, yet you could see why people would fall for his charms (unlike in The Princess Bride).
Best scene for me:
Ed's death. That was engrossing, disturbing, and then sad. As nasty as he was, his death was pitiable and slow, and I entirely empathized with the Peter Vincent character as he stared at this happening.
To this day, the scene where
His girlfriend goes all big-toothed
Really? I always thought that was the worst effect in the entire movie and it totally pulled me out of the film.
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I still have yet to decide of Shoot-Em Up is a horrible movie, or a great movie. It's so self-aware and goofy that I think it may be great, but it's also so self-aware and goofy that it may be terrible.
I really loved the Fright Night remake. Colin Ferrell is in good actor mode, David Tennant is really fun, and Anton Yelchin is gonna be a huge star someday.
I'm sad to say I've never seen the original. But the remake was actually pretty okay. Nothing particularly outstanding or memorable, but nothing offensive, either. Worth at least one watch.
If you have Netflix, you should check out the original. It would've gone along with some of the other stuff on your Halloween movie thread.
Godzilla (the 2014 one)
I... didn't really like this movie. To be honest, I found it rather boring. So did my wife, who fell asleep halfway through the climactic battle.
I think the problem is that there's little dramatic tension, because obviously Godzilla's going to beat the crap out of the MUTOs and win the day. The movie didn't really work within this limitation, for example the director should've known that if there's not going to be much riding on the outcome of the battles, then the battles themselves need to be as spectacular as possible. Take Pacific Rim as contrast. Obviously in Pacific Rim the Kaiju are going to be defeated, but the battles themselves are visually exciting, peppered with cool lines from interesting characters.
Oh yeah, that reminds me, the human characters in Godzilla were boring too.
All in all, not a terrible movie, but I hope the inevitable sequel is more interesting.
I... didn't really like this movie. To be honest, I found it rather boring. So did my wife, who fell asleep halfway through the climactic battle.
I think the problem is that there's little dramatic tension, because obviously Godzilla's going to beat the crap out of the MUTOs and win the day. The movie didn't really work within this limitation, for example the director should've known that if there's not going to be much riding on the outcome of the battles, then the battles themselves need to be as spectacular as possible. Take Pacific Rim as contrast. Obviously in Pacific Rim the Kaiju are going to be defeated, but the battles themselves are visually exciting, peppered with cool lines from interesting characters.
Oh yeah, that reminds me, the human characters in Godzilla were boring too.
All in all, not a terrible movie, but I hope the inevitable sequel is more interesting.
They're both good in different ways, but I liked Godzilla more since at least it climaxed at the end instead of having the best battle halfway through. I wanna rewatch Pacific Rim, but the ending / underwater battle just felt kind of muddy and lame and didn't live up to the rest of the movie.
This is how I feel too.
Tonight again watched Django Unchained. Love this movie.