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Post by trashcanman on Apr 9, 2014 20:21:00 GMT 2
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Post by The Curmudgeon on Apr 13, 2014 15:11:40 GMT 2
The day well written, thought provoking articles become "nothing to see" is the day I hand in my internet badge.
Man, I am really gonna have to watch Sucker Punch, aren't I? I can't remember a movie you've went on about more than that one, and I still haven't seen it to decide for myself. I also had no idea any of Lovecraft's work was based on fear of other nations. Very interesting stuff.
As per usual, your horror knowledge piledrives mine through the floor, and I've only heard of two of these movies and only seen one. Cannibal Holocaust is a shocker. And that poor fucking turtle. I'll keep an eye out for the others, though. I think. Do you think these are GOOD movies or just nasty ones?
Sigh. I must be the only person who didn't care for House of Cards. The talking to the viewer thing just seemed so forced and a little contrived to me, especially when the earlier, (in my eyes) superior House of Lies did the exact same thing. Spacey's cornball accent turned me off completely too. I walked away on the third episode, knowing full well I was probably missing something great but having no desire to continue.
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Post by trashcanman on Apr 13, 2014 18:56:32 GMT 2
Well, if it doesn't do it for you, there's no reason to force yourself to watch HoC. I just find it really new and refreshing. Cannibal Holocaust sis the only movie on that list that I'd say wasn't really good. The rest were pretty excellent, but occasionally painful to watch because of it.
I tend to rep Sucker Punch a lot because it is literally the most derided and misunderstood movie...probably ever. I'd hope to find somebody who understands the premise and appreciates that the movie respects its audience enough to not waste time explaining itself. Snyder wrongly assumed that with nerd culture being in vogue that there was an audience who'd appreciate figuring it out for themselves and relate to using video game, sci-fi, fantasy, and anime imagery to symbolize using fantastic fiction as an escape from reality. He clearly misjudged. In my experience, people hate it because they don't understand what it is even about. It's actually a much cooler and better thought out version of Inception where dreams are replaced by awesome B-grade fantasy and sci-fi (hence the "bad acting") and used as a coping mechanism by a girl whose real life was a hopeless nightmare. It's an amazing concept to stage some insanely imaginative action scenes and I wish more people got that instead of just going "derrrrrr there's no plot and the girls are dressed funny so it's stupid".
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