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DuracellEnergizer

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#990619
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If you need to B*tch about something... this is the place
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yhwx said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Since I don’t want to get in undue trouble for responding to the following in its original thread, I’ll say everything I have to say here.

imperialscum said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Too many people act like movies should adhere to a strict, realistic narrative – that there should always be a clear series of events with a defined beginning, middle, and end, with characters acting/reacting logically. They don’t have to and they shouldn’t have to.

There’s nothing wrong with finding surrealist filmmaking not to your liking – if it’s not to your tastes, it’s not to your tastes. But when you insist that its bad – with no understanding of the genre – then you’re just being a narrow-minded populist.

You have just defended PT without noticing it.

Take a pack of rabid beavers in the ass teeth-first, you fatherfucking man-bitch.

I think a better description would be “self-entitled man child.”

It lacks vitriol.

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#990607
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If you need to B*tch about something... this is the place
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Since I don’t want to get in undue trouble for responding to the following in its original thread, I’ll say everything I have to say here.

imperialscum said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Too many people act like movies should adhere to a strict, realistic narrative – that there should always be a clear series of events with a defined beginning, middle, and end, with characters acting/reacting logically. They don’t have to and they shouldn’t have to.

There’s nothing wrong with finding surrealist filmmaking not to your liking – if it’s not to your tastes, it’s not to your tastes. But when you insist that its bad – with no understanding of the genre – then you’re just being a narrow-minded populist.

You have just defended PT without noticing it.

Take a pack of rabid beavers in the ass teeth-first, you fatherfucking man-bitch.

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#990523
Topic
If you need to B*tch about something... this is the place
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moviefreakedmind said:

imperialscum said:

ray_afraid said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

imperialscum said:

moviefreakedmind said:

imperialscum said:

moviefreakedmind said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Urge to break Impscum’s fucking legs in with a sledgehammer – most goddamn definitely rising.

His life is so pathetic that no one can do anything to make it worse.

If thinking that makes you feel good then by all means think so.

I know so. We all do. You’re the one lying to yourself.

One of us is obviously lying to make himself feel better. As long as we both feel better because of it, I don’t see any harm.

Goddamn cretin. I will literally jump for joy once the ignore feature’s back, knowing I will never have to read another one of your ego-masturbating shitposts ever again.

I really don’t know why anybody here still reads or responds to his posts.
Just do what people in real life do- Ignore him.
Then, I’m sure that’s easier to do to him in real life, where he keeps himself inside and closed off. It’s not like he’s down at the bar bugging everyone or trying to mingle socially. He knows that shit wouldn’t fly.

I don’t know what kind of bars you go to and people you meet, but around the bars I go to and people I meet, the only shit we have seen here that wouldn’t work is telling people you have an urge to “break legs in with a sledgehammer” and telling people (you don’t know) that their “life is so pathetic”.

What bars do you go to, Applebee’s? I don’t go to bars anymore, but that language was thrown around all of the time. My friends and I loved a good fight.

Oh, so you’re one of these two guys.

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#990516
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Last movie seen
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SilverWook said:

Balto (1995)

I have only two things in particular to say in regards to this movie:

  1. Any movie which features talking animals shouldn’t claim to be based on a true story (inspired, sure, but not based).
  2. “No animals were injured or harmed in the making of this motion picture.” Well, seeing as this is an ANIMATED film, that’s bloody obvious!

8/10

It’s called a joke?

I wasn’t quite serious myself. =P

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#990474
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Last movie seen
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Pod (2015)

Others who’ve seen this movie criticize it for focusing on the three main characters arguing instead of cutting to the chase and getting down to the paranormal stuff, but I didn’t mind that at all; I thought it helped establish mood as the depths of the brother’s mental instability were revealed, as the siblings became evermore disturbed by his erratic behaviour.

What let me down about the movie was the ending. It felt too abrupt, too half-assed, like the writer/director just shot whatever idea came to mind without fleshing it out/refining it first.

6/10

Knick Knack (1989)

Moderately amusing, but nothing to write home about.

(BTW, I watched the original version, just in case Frink was wondering.)

6/10

Let’s Scare Jessica to Death (1971)

I liked the locale. I liked the nightmarish atmosphere. I liked the performance of the lead actress. I liked the ambiguity pertaining to the strange events which occur in the film. I didn’t like that it wasn’t ambiguous enough.

8/10

This Island Earth (1955)

I rather liked Jeff Morrow as Exeter, and the matte paintings used to realize the world of Metaluna were pretty damn gorgeous. Unfortunately, the first half of the movie before everyone gets to Metaluna is pretty disinteresting, and the mutant’s antics towards the end were more amusing than menacing.

This in the first time I’ve watched This Island Earth in its un-MST3Ked form. Once will probably be enough for me.

7/10

Amityville II: The Possession (1982)

It’s not as abysmal as I remember it being, but it’s still a very poor movie. Had the story focused on the eldest daughter instead of the son, if she had survived, and had the film come to a close with the shootings – thus excising that faux Exorcist garbage – it could have been at least as slightly above average as the first film.

4/10

Amityville 3-D (1983)

I’d say this sequel was better than the one previous. Sure, many of the scares weren’t really scary, the editing was iffy, and the ending was laughably stupid, but the actors gave decent performances (largely) and the “car fire” and “wet ghost” scenes were effectively offputting, so I’d say this sequel more-or-less lives up to the original.

6/10

Titan A.E. (2000)

SPOILERS AHEAD

The good: Akima’s character design.

The bad: the Drej’s weak-as-piss reason for destroying the Earth; the tepid characters; the bland/cornball alien designs; the fact that there’s nothing to stop the Drej from destroying New Earth, since its location doesn’t appear to be kept secret (Or were the Drej supposed to have been completely wiped out by film’s end? If that’s the case, the damn movie certainly didn’t make that clear.).

The ugly: the fusion of traditional animation with 3D animation. I just didn’t care for the final result at all.

6/10

Oculus (2013)

Early in the film, you get the impression that this movie is going to be a horror version of Rashomon, with the sister and brother giving equal but mutually exclusive descriptions of the trauma they experienced as children – she believing it was all caused by an evil enchanted mirror, he believing it was the result of more mundane phenomena. The movie does run with that engrossing idea – for about the first twenty minutes; then it decides to dispense with any possibility that there could be a rational explanation behind their childhood trauma and completely goes for supernatural shenanigans.

The movie from there on out is still very good – mixing the real with the unreal and the past with the present rather flowingly – though it does get to be a bit of a mess towards the end. Still, I think the film would’ve been better than good – a true masterpiece – if it had just stuck to ambiguity.

8/10

Next (2007)

I’d say this movie dishonours the name of Philip K. Dick by associating it with such cinematic swill, but Nic Cage’s hair’s a bird, so my argument’s invalid.

4/10

Balto (1995)

I have only two things in particular to say in regards to this movie:

  1. Any movie which features talking animals shouldn’t claim to be based on a true story (inspired, sure, but not based).
  2. “No animals were injured or harmed in the making of this motion picture.” Well, seeing as this is an ANIMATED film, that’s bloody obvious!

8/10

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#990328
Topic
If you need to B*tch about something... this is the place
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TV’s Frink said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

imperialscum said:

moviefreakedmind said:

imperialscum said:

moviefreakedmind said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Urge to break Impscum’s fucking legs in with a sledgehammer – most goddamn definitely rising.

His life is so pathetic that no one can do anything to make it worse.

If thinking that makes you feel good then by all means think so.

I know so. We all do. You’re the one lying to yourself.

One of us is obviously lying to make himself feel better. As long as we both feel better because of it, I don’t see any harm.

Goddamn cretin. I will literally jump for joy once the ignore feature’s back, knowing I will never have to read another one of your ego-masturbating shitposts ever again.

Sorry, I’m gonna quote his best posts.

Even the toughest, driest cut of meat is made tender and juicy with the right marinade.

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#990323
Topic
October Horror Movie Challenge
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I guess these are the horror films I’d watch throughout October. I don’t own most of these movies, though, so this list is purely ideal.

  1. The Hitcher (1986)
  2. Roadgames (1981)
  3. Mr. Sardonicus (1961)
  4. The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
  5. The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
  6. Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
  7. The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)
  8. The Pit and the Pendulum (1991)
  9. Big Meat Eater (1982)
  10. Sleepaway Camp (1983)
  11. The 'Burbs (1989)
  12. Dead of Night (1945)
  13. After Midnight (1989)
  14. Carnival of Souls (1962)
  15. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
  16. Incubus (1966)
  17. The Seventh Seal (1957)
  18. Prince of Darkness (1987)
  19. The Ninth Configuration (1980)
  20. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
  21. Phenomena (1985)
  22. A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)
  23. The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988)
  24. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
  25. Eraserhead (1977)
  26. Dementia (1955)
  27. The Machinist (2004)
  28. Phantasm (1979)
  29. The Changeling (1980)
  30. Poltergeist (1982)
  31. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1949)
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#990300
Topic
<em>The Prequels Strike Back: A Fan's Journey</em>
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ZkinandBonez said:

Also, why is Dali a genius, but Lynch isn’t simply because he applies the same logic to a movie narrative?
I mean I completely agree that his films are the very definition of “niche”, but something not being made for everyone doesn’t automatically make it bad.
I think it’s pretty immature and ignorant to assume that just because something doesn’t work for you specifically that then it must by default be “bad”.

Exactly.

Too many people act like movies should adhere to a strict, realistic narrative – that there should always be a clear series of events with a defined beginning, middle, and end, with characters acting/reacting logically. They don’t have to and they shouldn’t have to.

There’s nothing wrong with finding surrealist filmmaking not to your liking – if it’s not to your tastes, it’s not to your tastes. But when you insist that its bad – with no understanding of the genre – then you’re just being a narrow-minded populist.