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What MOVIE(s) have you been....seeing? watching?
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But no. Django and Hateful Eight pretty well proved Tarantino just enjoyed the violence and seeing those who deserve it take it. Not that he’s entirely off base, but it’s the more pat position to take.
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I just finished watching As Above, So Below (2014) on Amazon Prime, and it is a very good horror movie that seems to be influenced by the best parts of both The Blair Witch Project and The Descent. And yet it is very much an original movie. An obsessive archaeologist ventures into the extensive catacombs beneath Paris (which really exist) in search of the legendary Philosopher's Stone. The movie builds suspense gradually but steadily, then plunges into mayhem and madness. It does the viewer the great courtesy of letting you figure things out yourself, and also of leaving others unexplained and therefore more creepy. I don't scare easily, but this movie really had me on edge and managed a couple of real scares near the end. There is one final eerie twist and an ending that is oddly both unsatisfying and yet just right. The one reason why some of you might not enjoy it is that the handheld camera work can feel chaotic at times.
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The theater was an art theater in Greenwich Village. The lobby had displays of props that were shown as “artifacts collected from the site”. That was in line with the idea of a documentary I thought I was going to see.
The movie scared the shit out of me. I don’t believe in ghosts, I thought I was watching a documentary and that what the “film crew” were experiencing was like some locals that decided to fuck with them and maybe murder them. The entire time the movie got progressively more disturbing in the context of me being completely fooled into thinking I was watching actual footage.
I think other people would probably be embarrassed by this story, 20 something years later. But that turned out to be one of the greatest movie experiences of my life, because my belief in what I was watching was so real. I was bored at first, some stupid documentary that’s going to lead to nothing. And then being increasingly terrified for these people.
That was priceless.
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So much stone washed denim...and the soundtrack is banging!
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jason10mm wrote: Totally Killer on amazon. This is a FANTASTIC 80's mock horror film. It constantly throws modern "values" against the 80's and as a deconstruction of the slasher genre it's quite good. It's a fairly light comedy until it suddenly isn't.
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Watched this last night, it was a good time! And they play New Order, always a plus.
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Now it’s been done with the hearing and singing daughter of a deaf family, and it’s excellent. There are no surprises, but it doesn’t matter when everything is so well executed. The setting, both small town Massachusetts and a deaf home, are fully realized. Acting is great top to bottom, which is a treat I didn’t recognize any names.
Appreciated too that the movie never stoops to be an after school special and explain the deaf experience. It just looks at their lives and lets them exist. They’re not victims or tokens. Just a particular fishing family.
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My biggest fear going in was how a lanky Kenneth would interpret an ageing slob from Belgium, which was unfounded. It looks like some people had so much fun making this.
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Nodens wrote: My biggest fear going in was how a lanky Kenneth would interpret an ageing slob from Belgium, which was unfounded.
As this is his third run at the role, he should have it down by now.
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To be honest, I've only seen Orient Express, and I don't know anything about the character as a whole. From what I was told, the book this movie was based on did not have a haunting, nor did it take place in Venice, so to me, it doesn't really matter. New editions of stories (read: reboots) can do whatever they want as far as I'm concerned, including changing up characterizations.Nodens wrote: A large number of internet critics seems to disagree, or maybe they just hate the guy on principle, hard to tell. What did you think?
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