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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: square_marker on October 15, 2003, 07:01:42 PM
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Anyone think this will be a good remake?
How was the old one, because personally it looks pretty sweet.
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The old one rules... I\'m not even gonna bother to see the remake.
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I saw a little bit of the old one. It\'s one of the only movies that are scary that include gore. I want to see the remake :)
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I think this will be c r a p. Just watch the original instead.
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well seen the original and my friend saw the new one and said it was scary
said it was the scariest movie she has seen in a while
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Originally posted by Sublimesjg
said it was the scariest movie she has seen in a while
She? If a girl says that we all know it\'s not that scary. :p
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:stick:
Go see the original.
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I own the original .
I\'ll still go see the remake.
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Is the old on the one with Reese Witherspoon in it?
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Originally posted by ##RaCeR##
Is the old on the one with Reese Witherspoon in it?
Um, no. The original is from 1974.
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The original to me is at about the same level as The Exorcist, all it did was make me laugh or bore me in equal measures and is not nearly as bad is its reputation suggests.
It\'ll be \'interesting\' seeing what they do with it!
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Originally posted by Samwise
Um, no. The original is from 1974.
Hmmm, whose the chick it then?
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Marilyn Burns
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072271/
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the original wasnt scary
it was fricking disturbing
gonna skip the remake *gasp*
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Originally posted by Samwise
She? If a girl says that we all know it\'s not that scary. :p
nah shes one of those girls that doesnt scare easy
heh my gf shit - i get scared waaaay before she does - nothing phases her
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they are making a remake??? will most prob be pants, the original rocks
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I\'m going to go see it. I\'m sure, though, the only thing it will do is make me wish I was watching the original.
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I\'m going to see this because remakes are ALWAYS better than the originals.
*kicks mm in the nuts
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the remake has "house of a 1000 corpses" written all over it
/me vomits
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Originally posted by mm
the remake has "house of a 1000 corpses" written all over it
/me vomits
I couldn\'t get through a quarter of that piece of crap.
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This movie looks like $#!t. Wont bother with it even if im given a free ticket. Its one of those movies that attract stupid teens+ cause it sounds kool and people are getting killed with a chainsaw etc etc. Ooooh who cares.
Now THIS is a shit flick.
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Originally posted by Lord Nicon
This movie looks like $#!t. Wont bother with it even if im given a free ticket. Its one of those movies that attract stupid teens+ cause it sounds kool and people are getting killed with a chainsaw etc etc. Ooooh who cares.
Now THIS is a shit flick.
I hold out no great hope that it will be good but I will at least see it before I say it\'s a piece of garbage.
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by the previews alone, i dun like how they changed things
the original did not have some crying chick being the "hitchhiker"
spoiler from original
[sp]they better, better have not altered the scene where leatherface lifts the chick up and impales her on the meat hook, that is one of the most disturbing scenes of all time[/sp]
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[sp]How about the scene where grandpa tries to kill the girl with the hammer?[/sp]
There were so many little moments in Saw1 that were just flawless. There\'s no way you can improve on them. You can stage the same scene, film it with the same kind of camera and lense, get down 10 takes, and pick the most identical one, but WHY?
It\'s already been done perfectly. There\'s no point for this film to exist except to make money. If I were an aspiring young director I would have NEVER accepted this job.
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I hate to defend a remake of anything, but you just don\'t know how they are approaching their version. As a horror fan, I want to see and hope for the best.
I do agree, however, lets see some original movies.
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the last original horror film that was any good was "darkness falls"
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No harm in seeing it. The first one was disturbing, the other remake/sequel from a few years back was borderline crappy to alright.
This one isn\'t original, but it still can be a very good remake.
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At least it might be better than that steaming pile of crap called Cabin Fever.
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Originally posted by SER
At least it might be better than that steaming pile of crap called Cabin Fever.
Agreed!
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Originally posted by mm
the last original horror film that was any good was "darkness falls"
That was one of the worst films of that year. Also one of the most Hollywood productions - I\'m surprised you enjoyed it. I can\'t think of a single redeaming factor..well, other than the Christina Applegate cameo...
Course, you did defend \'The Rock\' and \'Armgeddon\'....Yikes!
:D
Oh and Reese Witherspoon was not in ANY of the Texas movie\'s, Racer. You are thinking of Reene Zilgwinger (or wtf ever - the girl from \'Bridget Jones Diary\'). She was in \'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The New Generation\' .
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i didnt defend the rock and armageddon, they defined a genre, nothing more
last original horror film that was any good.....
perhaps there\'s another im missing?
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Did they exaggerate it or did this really happen? If so, me and my buddies are going on a field trip :)
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It\'s based loosely on Ed Gein
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Anyone watched Ed Gein?
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Originally posted by mm
i didnt defend the rock and armageddon, they defined a genre, nothing more
last original horror film that was any good.....
perhaps there\'s another im missing?
How do those two define a genre? Other than the fact they have "Criterion" on it. Come on!
Original? Good?
What are you talking about?!?!?
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:rolleyes:
anyways, skip TCM and go see alien directors cut in theatres instead
http://www.alien.com/
being as you 95% of you guys never saw it on the big screen. i remember seeing it at a drive in and being scared shitless
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I\'m just lost on how you trash ninety percent of movie\'s, complaining that they are too mainstream - then you mention three HIGHLY mainstream movie\'s and how great , "original" and genre defining they are, when I would have to say they are none of the above.
As for Alien - plan on goin\' to see it. If I can, as the bastards did cut the screens down to 350 nation wide.
:(
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"The Rock" and "Armageddon" were two of the most replusive, excruciating, soul sucking works of bankrupt commercialism that have been released by Hollywood in the last 20 years. It\'s amazing that "Deep Impact" was released around the same time as "Armageddon," and was 50x better, but everyone seems to remember only Armageddon.
I will not miss the rerelease of Alien and neither should anyone else here. It was a defining moment of my youth. I was not allowed to see R rated movies in 1979, but my friend\'s father took us without my parents\' permission. It scared the crap out of me for months.
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The rerelease of Alien was originally going to be widespread and it\'s been hyped considreably, but now apparently they cut the screening size down to 350 and that limits a lot of people out, including myself, most likely. However, there is the new Alien box set, with the directors cut\'s of all four movie\'s comin\' out. It\'s what? A nine DVD set? Yummy...
And as for the TCM debate.....
The first review is up, per Bloody-Disgusting.
(https://psx5central.com/community/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bloody-disgusting.com%2Fimages%2Freviews%2Fchainsawreview1.jpg&hash=e60215605ea34598b4a9e58345fe15a290e629e5)
http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/reviews.php?id=331
And thank you Cored . I have to agree that both movie\'s was soul sucking commercaliisim and some of the worst commercialist movie\'s made in recent time , however they do have \'Criterion\' on the DVD label..
-Pokes MM in the side-
:D
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poke me in the front, i like that better
:)
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I\'ve never seen any Alien movies
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I\'m due to see TCM Saturday night...
should be good.
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Originally posted by ViVi
I\'ve never seen any Alien movies
you dont deserve to watch ANY film if this is true
alien and aliens should be required viewing.
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yea aliens is the best imo for action and alien is just scary
man i hope they release it here - i think they will we got 3 stadium theaters here now
so the chance is looking good
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Originally posted by mm
you dont deserve to watch ANY film if this is true
alien and aliens should be required viewing.
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Never got to see either of them on the big screen. I seriously hope they re-release Aliens (as it\'s my all-time favorite movie).
Disappointing to hear that they downgraded the hype. I always thought that both of those movies (particularly the second - despite the fact that it\'s been shown on TV over 3000 times) would still do quite well commercially if re-released today. On reputation alone.
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Well, I went and seen TCM and let me say, forget this "remake" idea. This movie holds little with the original, other than the Leatherface character and he has been changed.
It\'s really not that bad of a flick. It\'s alittle too polished at times, but the fact is, after watching it, I viewed it more as an expanded story & different group of teens.
Oh and there is a \'Dawn of the Dead\' remake trailer infront of the film.
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OMFG
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363547/
dawn of the dead (2004) has Planet of the Apes remake written all over it
i can only pray romero was paid well for this
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Originally posted by mm
OMFG
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363547/
dawn of the dead (2004) has Planet of the Apes remake written all over it
i can only pray romero was paid well for this
I take it you was not aware of this remake?
I have to disagree with this one - even if the picked the weakest of the Dead trilogy (I perosnally don\'t care for Dawn).
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The original movie is a classic all the other remakes of it have been crappy. This one looks like it will be the best remake so far, but it won\'t ever live up to the original.
I am still debating on if I should see it or not.
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Darkness falls sucked major ass
Dreamcatcher was a pretty good movie, dunno if itd be horror, prolly more sci-fi.
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not if you read the book (dreamcatcher)
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Dreamcatcher was pretty good, atleast entertaining. It also provided me with a new movie quote;
"Ooby dooby do, we ot um erk to do" (retared voice)
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Thats probley true mm, but im just saying, darkness falls was nothing special. It was cheesey, and it was un-original, the chracters were EXTREMLEY generic and predictable.
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what film did it rip off then if it was so unoriginal?
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It didn\'t rip any story off, but it was typical and seemed to be based on the same formula as every crap-horror film made.
Sure the plot was never done before, but that does NOT make a movie good.
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so it didnt rip off another film then?
:stick:
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No, not the plot atleast, but an original plot can still be crappy.
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Am I the only one who enjoyed "28 Days Later"?
I\'m going to see TCM tonight btw... Here are some reviews released from it thus far:
"Vile, ugly and brutal. There is not a shred of a reason to see it." - Roget Ebert
"...an effectively scary slasher film." - Robert K. Elder
""Completely watchable, but brings virtually nothing new to the horror/gore table." - Bob Longino
I\'ll post my views later tonight
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My friends loved it. I thought it was ok. It was okay till
SPOILER
[sp] they got to that mansion and those soldiers planned to repopulate the world with those 2 girls, that was too farfetched [/sp]
SPOILER
someone tell me how to do those spoiler tags
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[sp]they didnt REALLY wanna repopulate, they just wanted some pussy[/sp]
28 days had incredible film techniques and a nice soundtrack
thats umm, about it
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I\'m a sucker for zombie movies.
The lady friend never saw "The Serpent and the Rainbow" so we rented it tonight.
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Originally posted by ViVi
[sp] they got to that mansion and those soldiers planned to repopulate the world with those 2 girls, that was too farfetched [/sp]
[/b]
[sp]It was meant to be farfetched. They were insane. And that was clearly stated.[/sp]
And besides..
Originally posted by mm
[sp]they didnt REALLY wanna repopulate, they just wanted some pussy[/sp]
[sp]That\'s exactly right. The one in charge (I have a poor memory) had plans of repopulating, the others were just horny as shit.[/sp]
28 days had incredible film techniques and a nice soundtrack
thats umm, about it
28 Days Later. ;)
And I quite enjoyed the film, though it was fairly derivitive.
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TCSM: was so gay. It made sense. But I thought it was kind of corny. My girlfriend was horrified though.
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Darkness Falls... I\'m surprised you liked it so much mm. Guess we all have faults - I mean, I did enjoy 2h 30 mins of Bad Boys II.
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I thought TCSM was the best horror "thriller" released since I was in 5th grade and thought Scream was scary.
It rocked, definately cheesy at points, but holy crap did I get a good jump at some parts.
I give it a B for keeping me entertained, but it dragged on just a lil bit longer than I wanted.
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SwifDi you crack me up.
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I mean was it "horror" yeah, TCSM was. But it\'s the kind that relies on grosing you out and having something pop out of nowhere in order to scare you. I don\'t find that scary at all after the first few jumps. Im more of the type that likes to get freaked out, not by seeing a girl take a gun out her kitty, but the type that makes you think, and by making you think, you scare yourself.......I hope that made sense...
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Just got home from seeing it...
Not bad at all... certainly kept me entertained but it was quite disturbing at some points...
So... was the home video in the movie real?
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Originally posted by SirMystiq
I mean was it "horror" yeah, TCSM was. But it\'s the kind that relies on grosing you out and having something pop out of nowhere in order to scare you. I don\'t find that scary at all after the first few jumps. Im more of the type that likes to get freaked out, not by seeing a girl take a gun out her kitty, but the type that makes you think, and by making you think, you scare yourself.......I hope that made sense...
Yeah. Have you seen the original? Because it is the type of movie that makes you think.
This sounds shit.
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Darkness falls was based of a aussie woman. mm being a film buff probably knows this and pays respect were its due.
This movie is based on the story of Matilda Dixon who was the victim of a real witch-hunt in Port Fairy, Australia in 1841. Matilda\'s husband was a sailor aboard a whaling vessel that sank in 1836. They had no children. After his death, Matilda grew quite eccentric baking special cakes for children who\'d lost their teeth and was dubbed the tooth fairy by the town\'s people. In 1840, an oven fire horribly disfigured the woman forcing her to wear a porcelain mask and to hide indoors only emerging at night. Children who left their teeth wrapped in a handkerchief and tied to their front doors would awake to find a few coins. In 1841, two children who\'d told their parents that they were going to visit the tooth fairy went missing. The town all ready leery of the strange woman hung her only to find the missing children amongst the crowd. Matilda\'s death was ruled accidental asphyxiation and she was buried in an unmarked grave. In 1861, the cemetery was moved and her body lost so a plaque was erected to her memory. In 1951, it was vandalized by some youths who later went missing. In 1953, a new plaque was added to the monument and no has vanished since.
don\'t believe me go on google and do a search.
This movie was a rip off on another movie. I can\'t remember the name sense it\'s been a long time sense i\'ve seen it. But pretty much everything was the same, expect they didn\'t use a tooth fairy myth...
here\'s a quote from this (http://www.popmatters.com/film/reviews/d/darkness-falls.shtml) page.
This brief description of an early scene from Darkness Falls makes it sound like lots of scary movies. But, while it borrows heavily from previous films -- Elm Street\'s badly-burned-fiend and don\'t-go-to-sleep premises; the Blair Witch old-biddy vengeance plot; the unfounded blame for murder that haunts selected vics in the Candyman; the rather worn out Phantom-of-the-Opera-Halloween-hockey-mask monster look; They\'s "night terror" framework; the can\'t-go-in-the-light idea used much more effectively in The Others, as well as Pitch Black\'s stay-in-the-light-or-else business; the little-kid-accused-of-murder-and-sent-to-a-madhouse concept; even the exceedingly familiar spooky-lighthouse long shot, most recently used in The Ring -- Jonathan Liebesman\'s movie is uncommonly weak.
Yep, original
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Elm Street\'s badly-burned-fiend and don\'t-go-to-sleep premises; the Blair Witch old-biddy vengeance plot; the unfounded blame for murder that haunts selected vics in the Candyman
This movie was a rip off on another movie. I can\'t remember the name sense it\'s been a long time sense i\'ve seen it.
puh-lease soully
i give you a D- for effort tho
:rolleyes:
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I saw the Texas Chainsaw Massacre last night and would have to say not seeing the first, that this was the scariest movie I\'ve seen in a long time, just my opinion though!!!
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Seems you\'re not calling it original anymore mm.
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i was mocking you bro
shame you didnt notice
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i noticed your lame mock attempt.. But it still doesn\'t change the fact, whether you believe it or not. Darkness falls = rip off from a lot of other movies... Originality is something that doesn\'t seem to fit movies anymore.
PS. It\'s not horror.. Try Suspense, and lame at that.
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[the above doesnt dignify a response]
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Any Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie without Gunnar Hansen as Leatherface is not worth seeing IMO (The Icelander in me speaking)
But with him surpressed, I did enjoy the wackyness of the 2nd movie, I hated the fact that they made Leatherface a friggin retard in it instead of a cold hearted butcher, and the dance the lead character (that radio chick) did after killing Otis with the chainsaw was friggin priceless, still cracks me up.
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Originally posted by nO-One
and the dance the lead character (that radio chick) did after killing Otis with the chainsaw was friggin priceless, still cracks me up.
When was that?
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It was in Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, very very bad movie but a funny one.
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I just got back from seeing the movie and I have to say that I liked it. I watched the special edition DVD of the original last night and it doesn\'t hold a candle to the original but on it\'s own I thought it was well done.
The thing that I didn\'t like about this movie is that they kind of made leatherface Jason like. It also didn\'t have the nervous humor of the original. I also missed the gritty look of the first film as well.
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Originally posted by mm
[the above doesnt dignify a response]
like i didn\'t see that coming :rolleyes:
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Darkness Falls+CSM+he Ring=Stupid, non scary, BS
Signs+6th Sense=Real movies
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I saw the texas chainsaw massacre and it was awesome! The movie was just so brutal! Just when you think its bad enough, they pour salt on the wound, LITERALLY...
i\'m going to speculate...
good movies I\'ve seen recently...
Cabin Fever (YES, I thought it was the most innovative, very unorthodox)
School of Rock
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
incredibly bad movies...
Cold Creek Manor
House of the Dead
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why would you even consider seeing house of the dead. Any movie with a DMX song in the preview is destined to be crap on a stick :)
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Originally posted by SirMystiq
Signs+6th Sense=Real movies
Signs !!!! Great movie.... but everyone hated it.
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I also saw \'House of the Dead\' and wins "worst movie of the year" award, hands down.
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Went to see Chainsaw and I must say I don\'t think I\'ve ever been that tense through a movie. I can say that it was very good at what it did, however I don\'t wish to ever see it again.
The house they fimled it at is 5 miles from my house. Now every time I drive by it I\'ll get flash backs of the gruesome remake.
I do need to see the original, just to compare.
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I finally watched it. I found it very predictable, and just not all that. It did manage to give me a headache though.
IMHO wrong turn which is now out on dvd does a better job, and that is not saying much. It is a mix between deliverance and TCM.
EDIT: I also saw the dawn trailer. I will watch it ok, but it looks as if they have messed with the Romero formula. Zombies appear to be more like those in 28 days later.
I wish Romero would get off his ass, and make another dead movie instead of stuff like Bruiser. He would make alot more money, and make the fans happy. Or I hope so atleast. Yes I do realize there is one in pre-production, but it is the least likely to get made of all Romero\'s projects. Anchor Bay has offered to fund this one. Heck I would not mind seeing DAY as Romero first wrote. The version we have is so stripped down it barely resembles the original script.
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I have the feeling that Romero has lost his touch. That\'s just my gut feeling though. After you take a look at Romero\'s career, you boil it down to two movie\'s really "Night of the Living Dead" & "Day of the Dead". Anything else was either filler material or severely lacking (Martin almost counts as a decent flick).
Then you also have to face the fact that if Romero actually got to make his dream project, it would be a four hour epic, with massive sets and social commentary interweaved into the storyline. Who is goin\' to actually fund for such a project? I can\'t think of any company.
Here\'s hoping for \'Dead Reckoning\', but I won\'t hold my breath.
And on a somewhat un-related note, I need to borrow your \'Wrong Turn\' DVD this week, Capcom. I got four days off (finally), so I will have plenty of time to watch it.
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It is here LIC. Feek free to stop by and get it. I will set a few others out for you also.
Also Romero could do a four hour zombie movie, and it would be fine with me. Romero deals more with the people in the situation. Then of course kill most of them at the end, but Day could have added another hour without alot of trouble. Versus will be one them. Very nice zombie flick from japan. I will also leave the eye out for you.
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Originally posted by Capcom
It is here LIC. Feek free to stop by and get it. I will set a few others out for you also.
Also Romero could do a four hour zombie movie, and it would be fine with me. Romero deals more with the people in the situation. Then of course kill most of them at the end, but Day could have added another hour without alot of trouble. Versus will be one them. Very nice zombie flick from japan. I will also leave the eye out for you.
I need to just go ahead and pick up \'The Eye\'.
As for Versus - I tried watching your copy and the video quality was sh!t (no offense). Though, I hear in general all the transfers for that film are like that.
As for a four hour zombie film. It\'d be fine with me also, but the general public wouldn\'t bother with it. Which is sad...
And what is with the new trend of all zombie\'s being fast moving creatures? 28 Days Later, House of the Dead and the new Dawn of the Dead are feature fast moving zombie\'s.
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LIC I bought the us version of versus. The movie is kung fu, gun play-zombie movie. Zombies are nice and slow.
Let\'s hope Romero does not mess with the zombies. There is somthing creepy about a slow moving mass of dead people that are difficult to kill again.