djchameleon

It's pretty funny that our tastes in movies are exact opposites. I do like about half of that list that I shouldnt but ugh Reign of Fire. I went to the theater to see that and felt like asking for my money back. Sucker Punch and Springbreakers I have watched an embarrassing amount of times. From Man of Steel down, I haven't seen or straight up don't like with the exceptions of BvS and The Craft. The Craft is a cult classic.

I disagree with you on the first Silent Hill movie being terrible. The second one, sure I get that. One Shyamalan movie that I have oddly watched so many times is Devil. Everytime I see it randomly playing on a movie channel. I watch it.

What's your beef with Seven?

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djchameleon

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Fame, fortune, power, titties. People say these are the most crucial things in life, but you can have a pocket full o' gold and it doesn't mean sh*t if you don't have someone to share that gold with. Seems simple. Yet it's an important lesson to learn. Even lone wolves run in packs sometimes.

The Batlord

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MicShazam

Not quite exact opposite then, since we do have some common ground after all.

Reign of Fire is a silly movie that takes itself way too seriously, but I feel like it brings its premise to life pretty efficinetly and that the two main characters work well in an over the top sort of way. The worst thing about the movie to me is the incomprehensible airborne action scenes where they try to catch dragons with a net or something.

Devil is one of the two Shyamalan movies I haven't watched, so who knows if I'd like it too. I have my doubts.

Seven is a well made movie I suppose, but it's so balls to the walls determined to be as grim as humanly possible that it shoots well past the sort of thing I like to get out of a movie. I'm generally not a horror movie fan at all, so that places Seven in highly unappealing territory for me. If it was less disgusting and just played more like a regular crime movie, I'd perhaps like it more.

Frownland

lol what do you expect from a murder scene? Pre-packaged semen samples and an embalmed corpse?

I think The Village was a good film for the premise alone.

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MicShazam

Oh come on, you know there's more to the presentation of a scene in a movie than what it plainly depicts. Seven has a deliberately over the top, unsettling, revolting style of presentation. Set composition, camera work, lighting, color filtering, sound design, musical cues and more all feed into this.

Frownland

Generally speaking, how would you describe a real-life murder scene? How about a serial killer's murder scene?

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MicShazam

I have seen quite a few movies featuring various murder scenes/serial killer murder scenes, and none of them had the same style of presentation that Seven does. Seven is over the top and clearly revels in the horror of these rather creative murders. No other similar type of movie I can remember had the same brazen approach to putting grotesqueries on diplay.

Of course homicide is ugly, but there's a difference between a movie being about something and rubbing my nose in it.

The Batlord

What is it with the former Viking countries and being wuss bags?

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