The Movie Thread

[deathstorm]

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Dave whould go wild over hot lesbian porn. Right Dave

Yep your Right there Deathstorm

[FatherAlabaster]

*Insert question regarding the nature of your sexuality here*.

yes, you struck me as the curious type.

[BlutAusNerd]

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Actually the cheesy' date=' funny ones are the only ones I get into. Some old horror is good in its way. But as a general rule I don't like horror films, and I don't seek them out. I'm a Dead Alive, Shaun Of The Dead, Evil Dead 2 kind of horror fan.[/quote'] I love horror movies (hugely prefer the old school stuff), but those are some great choices too. Have you ever seen Tucker and Dale Vs. Evil? That one is another favorite of mine in that horror spoof genre, it's hilarious. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2

[FatherAlabaster]

I love horror movies (hugely prefer the old school stuff), but those are some great choices too. Have you ever seen Tucker and Dale Vs. Evil? That one is another favorite of mine in that horror spoof genre, it's hilarious. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2

I haven't seen it, I'll gladly check it out. Thanks!

[Caz Reason]

For horror lovers: try REC. It's a Spanish horror and it's pretty scary. There is an American version (obviously) but I heard it's not as good as the Spanish one.

REC is awesome, REC 2 was good as well. The American version was pretty much exactly the same as the Spanish version but it wasn't as good.

[Atrocity]

It really is excellent' date=' if you can cope with the subtitles! [/quote'] Of course I can, I don't have the privilege of having world famous movies made in my mother tongue The Killing also has an American version and it's pretty good. The series is a bit slow, the story lasts 26 days and each day is an episode, but it gets you hooked on. I didn't know there was also an English adaptation of The Bridge

[Atrocity]

REC is awesome' date=' REC 2 was good as well. The American version was pretty much exactly the same as the Spanish version, it wasn't as good.[/quote'] I never bother to see the American version because the original was so good I didn't want to spoil it I'm off to watch The Conjuring now

[Iceni]

Realistic portrayals of human cruelty and suffering are repulsive to me. I can't deal with them. I can take it in painting and music' date=' but the movies do nothing but make me feel sad and disgusted.[/quote'] That's my dad's view a lot of the time. The intent behind the violence seems to be what affects him, much more than the actual violence itself. I get affected by both. Still, sometimes it's great to see. The shovel-kill in Blood Diamond sticks out as a scene that was unsettling - but its visceral nature helped it in a sense.

[Caz Reason]

I never bother to see the American version because the original was so good I didn't want to spoil it I'm off to watch The Conjuring now

yeah, don't bother seeing it, the original is awesome. Just like The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, the original Swedish version was so awesome but the remake was rubbish. Excellent, i really enjoyed the Conjuring. It was fun.

[BlutAusNerd]

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yeah, don't bother seeing it, the original is awesome. Just like The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, the original Swedish version was so awesome but the remake was rubbish. Excellent, i really enjoyed the Conjuring. It was fun.

The originals are pretty much always better. The only remake I can recall to surpass the original was John Carpenter's remake of The Thing, which gets my vote as one of the best horror movies ever. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2

[Atrocity]

Done with The Conjuring. Finally a decent horror! The remake of The Omen was ok, they didn't massively fucked it up, but I still prefer the original. I didn't like that the kid in the remake looked like Satan, the kid in the original was cute and had big blue eyes and that made it scarier, the fact that something so cute and so innocent can be a demon. I want to see the remake of Carrie because, as I've seen in the trailer, it follows the book more than the original. Oh, and I hate what Rob Zombie has done to Halloween. The remake is complete garbage. The point of the movie was that Michael Meyers was a just kid from a normal family who went crazy one day. The story in the remake, where he lives in a highly dysfunctional family, kills it. It's just not the same movie.

[RelentlessOblivion]

Remakes are seldom, if ever, close to as good as the original. I hated the Halloween remake, the Nightmare On Elm Street remake was worse, but nothing compares to the truly terrible remake of Friday The 13th.

[Atrocity]

I didn't even know there were remakes for Nightmare of Elm Street and Friday the 13th.

[RelentlessOblivion]

I wish I could say the same.

[Atrocity]

Saw The Woman in Black just now, the new version, and I didn't like it. The book was nice but they changed the story to much in the movie.

[RelentlessOblivion]

That's why I haven't liked The Hobbit movies all that much. When you get too far away from the book which your movie is based on it's a recipe for disaster.

[Atrocity]

I agree. I try to ignore that there is a book and think of The Hobbit as just a movie.

[RelentlessOblivion]

I tried that, but then the movie just seems to drag on and on, it's like watching Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers all over again...twice.

[SBird94]

I'm interested to see how they make the Oldboy remake but It definitely won't be as good as the original, especially that great fight scene, how will they ever top that?

[Ghouly]

So I watched Hesher, finally. Joseph Gordon-Levitt's role as a psychopathic / chaotic metalhead was an amazing performance. I really loved Natalie Portman too, she is one of my favorite actresses of all time. Overall it's a really difficult-to-watch movie. It's really sad and depressing and almost feels pointless. I would have liked to hear better metal, I felt the Motorhead was a bit cliche. And I had some weird feels about how people might mis-perceive metal heads if they watched this. Overall, I'm mixed. I liked and disliked it. It was really strange, chaotic maybe to a fault, and beautiful in some parts. Hesher (2010) - IMDb

[SBird94]

It's on my movies to watch list, I would really like to see it and I really like joseph gordon-levitt as an actor.

[BlutAusNerd]

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So I watched Hesher, finally. Joseph Gordon-Levitt's role as a psychopathic / chaotic metalhead was an amazing performance. I really loved Natalie Portman too, she is one of my favorite actresses of all time. Overall it's a really difficult-to-watch movie. It's really sad and depressing and almost feels pointless. I would have liked to hear better metal, I felt the Motorhead was a bit cliche. And I had some weird feels about how people might mis-perceive metal heads if they watched this. Overall, I'm mixed. I liked and disliked it. It was really strange, chaotic maybe to a fault, and beautiful in some parts. Hesher (2010) - IMDb

I really liked Hesher, Joseph Gordon-Levitt was great because you loved him at times and hated him at others. He starts out selfish, but the grandma really changes him and helps him push the family back together. The supporting actors were great, but it was all about Hesher, as he was pretty much just a catalyst throughout the whole movie. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2

[FatherAlabaster]

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That's my dad's view a lot of the time. The intent behind the violence seems to be what affects him' date=' much more than the actual violence itself. I get affected by both. Still, sometimes it's great to see. The shovel-kill in Blood Diamond sticks out as a scene that was unsettling - but its visceral nature helped it in a sense.[/quote'] Yeah, his view makes sense to me. I like plenty of action and martial arts movies. Like I said to JBaker, it's torture and captivity, rape, and senseless death that I have a hard time watching. I'm more sensitive to it now that I'm a parent, as well. A good example of unsettling and horrific violence that actually served an artistic purpose, in my opinion, is the portrayal of rape, murder and revenge in The Virgin Spring, because the rest of the movie was so stylized. The tension between the fairytale quality of most of the movie and the graphic and emotional violence called to mind the way that real-life trauma has of stripping away layers of ordinary concerns. The violence had the effect of making me think of normal social interaction as a fairytale, an artificial construct hiding something very brutal, unnecessary but unavoidable. And it wasn't pretty, or glorified; there wasn't any sympathy for the father's act of revenge. I don't know what you'd think of the movie. The final scene, where the father prays with his family, and the spring appears, seemed meaningless to me, and that may have been the point of it. I also think part of this may have been in the acting. It seemed to leave a lot of room for interpretation, maybe one of the things I found so striking.

[JBaker]

And it wasn't pretty' date=' or glorified; there wasn't any sympathy for the father's act of revenge. [/quote'] As I say, I've seen more than my fair share of bloody horror films over the years, and I've yet to see any I legitimately feel are 'glorifying' violence; not even amongst the so-called 'torture porn' genre.