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Kepler said:
It's a much-abused genre, and it doesn't help that most modern horrors are marketed to adolescent tastes, but a great horror movie is a joy forever.
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That it is. I still get a little tense when watching the orig Halloween. And yes, the Blair Witch Project, which is a divisive movie.
 
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Brenthoven said:
I generally despise horror movies, as they are either too gory or too obvious/stupid for my tastes. This, of course, excludes tongue-in-cheek like "Tucker And Dale Vs Evil" and "Cabin In The Woods." I like my shadows, my smoke and mirrors, the wait for the villain, etc. "It Follows" does all that I want in the horror genre.
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I had my sister in law watch Tucker and Dale over 4th of July. She'd never heard of it. She loved it.
 
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That it is. I still get a little tense when watching the orig Halloween. And yes, the Blair Witch Project, which is a divisive movie.
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Maybe I should re-watch Blair Witch. I laughed through most of it "back in the day" *dons false teeth*

Halloween has an iconic theme track, but that's about all I can say for it. The general stupidity of slasher flicks from that era is why I love Student Bodies.
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
Maybe I should re-watch Blair Witch. I laughed through most of it "back in the day" *dons false teeth*

Halloween has an iconic theme track, but that's about all I can say for it. The general stupidity of slasher flicks from that era is why I love Student Bodies.
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I loved Halloween because the villain had no theatrics. He went out, did his job, and that was it.

Blair Witch I loved, simply b/c I've camped in the middle of nowhere, heard sounds I had not heard before, and was freaked out. BW brought back those memories. Shaky Camera Effect...okay, I understand that.
 
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I would have enjoyed Blair Witch more if the characters didn't so much time screaming at each other.
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
Maybe I should re-watch Blair Witch. I laughed through most of it "back in the day" *dons false teeth*

Halloween has an iconic theme track, but that's about all I can say for it. The general stupidity of slasher flicks from that era is why I love Student Bodies.
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Student Bodies is great. The pinnacle of western civilization is the horsehead bookend. Great physical beauty can also be a handicap.

The slasher films were all ripoffs, er, imports of the Italian giallo genre, which has some great movies: Bird with the Crystal Plumage, Opera, the "Three Mothers" trilogy. For instance, Friday the 13th was the dumbed-down version of Bay of Blood, which is a really interesting movie.

My only problem with giallo is the gore, which I think is just stupid, but which is an important part of the movies' culture (the directors basically all try to out-do each other in walking right up to the line of self-parody without crossing it).

For the record, I think Halloween is as close to a perfect horror movie as any ever made.
 
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One of my all-time favorite movies is The Serpent and the Rainbow, which actually is based on a true story no less. At first, I was a bit surprised to find it included in the "horror" genre, but it does fit there.

Bill Pullman is an anthropologist who works for a pharmaceutical company who travels to and lives with indigenous peoples around the world to learn from them about their folk medicine; several useful drugs have resulted from his finds. and so he travels to Haiti.....and has some harrowing adventures.
 
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FreshFish said:
One of my all-time favorite movies is The Serpent and the Rainbow, which actually is based on a true story no less. At first, I was a bit surprised to find it included in the "horror" genre, but it does fit there.

Bill Pullman is an anthropologist who works for a pharmaceutical company who travels to and lives with indigenous peoples around the world to learn from them about their folk medicine; several useful drugs have resulted from his finds. and so he travels to Haiti.....and has some harrowing adventures.
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Wes Craven if I'm not mistaken. I really want to like this movie, but I just can't get past the terrible acting. I'd love to see it remade.

I've heard the book on which it's based is interesting but, shall we say, creative with the facts.
 
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Re-watching Good Will Hunting. I like how $2.50 a gallon was an example of high gas prices then.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
The bar scene in Star Trek (first Abrams) really is fantastic.
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It really is.


These Final Hours:

A self-obsessed young man makes his way to the party-to-end-all-parties on the last day on Earth, but ends up saving the life of a little girl searching for her father. Their relationship ultimately leads him on the path to redemption.

Australian movie, and it sounds sappier/more cliched than it really is. Loved the presentation, it does make you think about a few things. Worth a watch.
 
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Hurt Locker.

Good but by no means great. Acting was superb but rating it as a whole I didn't think it deserved the rave reviews it got. I can name at least two or three military movies that were far superior.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
Hurt Locker.

Good but by no means great. Acting was superb but rating it as a whole I didn't think it deserved the rave reviews it got. I can name at least two or three military movies that were far superior.
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*cough* Full Metal Jacket *cough* especially boot camp scenes *cough*
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
Hurt Locker.

Good but by no means great. Acting was superb but rating it as a whole I didn't think it deserved the rave reviews it got. I can name at least two or three military movies that were far superior.
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It was better than FMJ, but Apocalypse Now is still the gold standard.
 
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FMJ was incredible. One of my favorites.

FMJ is not the best I've seen (Saving Private Ryan, The Longest Day (maybe), Lone Survivor, Patton, Dchindker's List, I'm sure I'm missing others) but it's easily top five to ten.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
FMJ was incredible. One of my favorites.

FMJ is not the best I've seen (Saving Private Ryan, The Longest Day (maybe), Lone Survivor, Patton, Dchindker's List, I'm sure I'm missing others) but it's easily top five to ten.
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Lone Survivor is up there, but I think I consider that a slightly different classification (specific story, not one on general war experience like FMJ/HL/AN). SPR...the first 30 minutes? Best ever. Rest of movie? Meh. Patton was solid overall, Longest Day slightly behind that.
 
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I don't hate FMJ, but it's got a few cheesy bits - I don't get any cheese vibe from Hurt Locker. Around that time, I was reading a book Shadow Divers, about a bunch of New Jersey scuba divers who found a German U-boat off the coast that they spent years trying to identify. The best diver, John Chatterton, had been a medic in Vietnam, and his chapter described how he "felt excellence" in that role, and because of PTSD, he struggled to find that same feeling upon returning home. Ultimately, he got married and found his calling as a hard-hat commercial diver, but he would've gone back for another tour in Vietnam if his mother hadn't pushed buttons among her military friends and intervened.

The point is, so many of those guys went back because it was all they knew, and that was Renner's character in The Hurt Locker. That end scene...I walked out trying not to cry. How do you forsake your wife and kid for another tour? Luckily it was a 10 PM mid-week showing, and I was the only person in the theater. But it was like, "This is my generation's Vietnam."
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
I don't hate FMJ, but it's got a few cheesy bits - I don't get any cheese vibe from Hurt Locker. Around that time, I was reading a book Shadow Divers, about a bunch of New Jersey scuba divers who found a German U-boat off the coast that they spent years trying to identify. The best diver, John Chatterton, had been a medic in Vietnam, and his chapter described how he "felt excellence" in that role, and because of PTSD, he struggled to find that same feeling upon returning home. Ultimately, he got married and found his calling as a hard-hat commercial diver, but he would've gone back for another tour in Vietnam if his mother hadn't pushed buttons among her military friends and intervened.

The point is, so many of those guys went back because it was all they knew, and that was Renner's character in The Hurt Locker. That end scene...I walked out trying not to cry. How do you forsake your wife and kid for another tour? Luckily it was a 10 PM mid-week showing, and I was the only person in the theater. But it was like, "This is my generation's Vietnam."
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And that's why I say it was a modernization of FMJ.

As for modern war movies...I'll admit, I bawled after Lone Survivor. The sh* they went through...knowing for sure...(ok, yeah, there's a Dumb And Dumber "chance"), but hell...

That is pure balls.
 
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