:thumb: stunning film.

I watched these two movies last night, both of which are connected by pill popping and Suicide songs as part of their soundtrack.

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Antibirth

While this had some interesting portrayals of middle America, this one kind of sucked. It was like a Spring Breakers (which I enjoyed), except set in a rundown trailer in the boonies and the movie falls flat on its face with some really stupid plot decisions as an attempt to be horrific. At first I enjoyed the House of 1000 Corpses meets It Follows had sex with Gummo vibe, but it wasn't enough to carry the film. You're probably better off avoiding this one. 3.5/10

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The Place Beyond the Pines

Even though this movie was trying to cash in on the success of Drive and wrote in high speed robbery chases but with a motorcycle instead of a car and ambiguous tattoos instead of ambiguous jackets into a script that made up a lot of the rest of the movie, I still loved it. The camerawork in particular made a lot of the scenes spchincter clenchingly intense. The ending fizzled out a bit in the end but it's very powerful. Very great film and highly recommended. 9/10

The movie was my favorite as a kid. When I saw they had it on Amazon prime I had to play it for my little brother. It was such a wonderful rush of nostalgia sharing my childhood with my brother.

I mean, it also has the added benefit of being a really ****ing good movie.

Lol. That too.

I hated Guardians of the Galaxy 2 and I thought the storyline was a sloppy, pathetic mess. Yeah that's right, I said it.

I'll agree with this of course, but damn, you hated it? Probably one of the funnest movies I've ever seen in my life. At least for a first viewing.

It was funny, sure, but at the expense of story. Nothing is more important to me than story, in the end, and the humour couldn't save it.

I'm such a huge fan of the first one though and that's probably why I'm overreacting. I was so excited for this and had such high expectations and I felt let down in literally every aspect of the film except that it was pretty funny and they did a great job animating Rocket.

Wowzers. I felt strange about it after leaving but to go so far as saying I hated it. I don't think I could do that. The opening scene alone was incredibly memorable.

I mean, I don't think other people should hate it, but I do. There were so many elements of the story and direction that were a tremendous let down. The structure of the story is like some of kind first-draft fanfiction written by an aspiring screenwriter, not an experienced one. Guardians 2 feels like Gunn wrote it in a month, whereas Nicole Perlman was working on the first one for over a year. Rushed, sloppy, and disappointing.

A Man Escaped, decent movie but not really the type of movie I'm into. I liked Au hasard Balthazar, Pickpocket, and Four Nights of a Dreamer more.

Definitely. I think it's a movie I'm going to go back to and watch again. I'm still processing it.

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Really isn't an awful film. Some of it's awful, yes. But this has to be the best one they've made. If they can manage another one in the vein of this campy, quasi-hilarious sequel then I don't see why not.

7/10

Last night I started watching the Descent but the file was corrupted half way through. I was super into it though. Even the completely unexpected jump scares, makin me actually jump, as well as the claustrophobic atmosphere dripping with dread. Gonna finish later after restarting, cuz that's really good stuff I think

The Descent is really good. The sequel isn't half bad either. I watched the second one a few weeks back.

+1 on The Descent. Good ****.

Edge of Tomorrow for the thrid time. Best combination of sci-fi, action, and adventure in the last decade IMO.

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Let's hope Neil Marshall puts as much into Hellboy as he has with a few of his past films. I've always been a fan of his.

Ok, I tried to watch The Human Centipede (because how controversial people pretend it is) and I couldn't get through half of it but not for the reason you think.....



......I couldn't take it seriously, rather more as a dark comedy. It actually reminded me of a less amusing version of this:

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That's because it's garbage

Yep, I agree. It's just controversy surround this really badly shot, scripted and acted atrocity that has given it any attention :rofl:







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I'll go and watch Toy Story or something now, with Slayer in the background :beer:

I can tell you one thing with absolute certainty, horror movies are near impossible to pull off.

Either you're looking at a really over dramatic Frankenstein meets Andrew Loyd Weber slasher bull****

Or you're just looking at gore, that is so physically impossible that the only way you can interpret it, is as absurdity


99% of horror movies I've seen, are in that boat, not many actually legitimately scare or actually psychologically/emotionally effect me at all, it's not a good mark for these "horror" directors :rofl:

It was really good. I don't know if I would personally call it the best, I'd have to think about it, but it would certainly be a contender for this title. And it made me fall in love with Emily Blunt ;)
Anyway, I read somewhere it is the second and not the last manga that Tom Cruise brings to the big screen - I know he's not directing it, but he is behind theses projects - "Oblivion" was the first, it had great visuals but that's about it. Edge of Tomorrow is better imo in every way. And then supposedly, there are other projects like this on the horizon and quite frankly, I can't wait.
Anyone has any info on this ?

You gotta watch more horror movies dude. Have you seen The Witch?

Yes I have, that one is brilliant!! :bowdown:

Have you watched many Korean horror movies?

Expand to international horror. Hit up some Korean and Spanish ones.

Edit: Ah Chio beat me to that rec. I didn't refresh the page.

The Summer of '42 - commercial free on TMC. First time decades. Forgot great of a movie it was. Easily one of the best 'coming of age' movies ever made.

And that last scene between Hermie and Dorothy is equal parts sad and amazingly beautiful. The camera work is amazing and the director having most of the scene be devoid of music or any dialogue was perfect.

O'neill and Grimes' performances are so incredible considering they had to act the majority of the scene with just their eyes and bodies.

How dare you speak evil of The Room. That movie is ****ing amazing in all the right ways.

I didn't, The Room is a so bad it's good film, which makes it great.

The Centipede reminds me of The Room but in an unfunny way, without any charm or anything, just bad acting, scripting and directing.

This is sooooo beyond stupid.

"Girl who thought she was seeing 'Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2' gets a traumatizing surprise."

Is It Follows good or is it some gay ****, cuz I already have it downloaded and am gonna watch it anyway therefore nullifying that question entirely

It's good.

Even if it's a bit overrated that still makes it awesome.

hot take:

the babadook is more overrated than it follows.

the badabook is better, but it definitely has way more people all up on it's nuts.

It Follows is ****ing awesome.

this is why he's better than frownland, folks.

Bitch. You probably just don't undersrand it because it's DEEP.

30 Days of Night is alright but I'm not a strong advocate of them matrix ass vampire homos

Boo! When was the last time you saw vampires as animalistic as the ones in that movie? They were brutal. I love that movie. Pretty sure it was based off of a graphic novel or comic series.

It was. If you've seen the movie you've basically read the comic. There were sequels to the comic, but I lost interest pretty early on after finishing the original.

I don't like how they dress