What's The Latest Film You Have Seen?

The Batlord · 10-13-2017, 09:53 AM

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~~MicShazam~~ · 10-13-2017, 10:57 AM

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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?

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** · 10-13-2017, 11:05 AM

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.

~~MicShazam~~ · 10-13-2017, 11:53 AM

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** · 10-13-2017, 12:02 PM

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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.

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

~~MicShazam~~ · 10-13-2017, 12:06 PM

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

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 · 10-13-2017, 12:08 PM

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

~~MicShazam~~ · 10-13-2017, 12:10 PM

Do you enjoy looking at gruesome murder scenes? I don't. Why would I?

**Frownland** · 10-13-2017, 12:17 PM

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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.

There are plenty, but Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer was a direct influence imo.

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

The atmosphere should match the content, and I think it did that successfully as hell. Do you consider it to be unrealistic?

Also I highly value art that can evoke a strong emotional response and disgust counts. I don't ever want to watch something like Irreversible again, but I can't deny that it's a great piece of filmmaking since it can cut so deep.

I also think you just gotta give less power to your expectations homie.

Chula Vista · 10-13-2017, 12:19 PM

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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.

That's all to drive home just how twisted and demented (and brilliant) John Doe is. Imagine you're a detective working in a big city and you're completely hardened and mostly desensitized to all of the crime and violence you have to deal with on a daily basis, to the point it's pretty much become your norm.

And then Doe comes along and turns everything you thought you knew about crime, motives, violence, pre-meditation, and depravity, and turns everything inside out and upside down.

Se7en is equal parts about Doe and his master plan and Mills and Somerset slowly coming to terms with an evil that is almost beyond comprehension.

Spoiler for You've seen it, right?:

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On the subway today, a man came up to me to start a conversation. He made small talk, a lonely man talking about the weather and other things. I tried to be pleasant and accommodating, but my head hurt from his banality. I almost didn't notice it had happened, but I suddenly threw up all over him. He was not pleased....... and I couldn't stop laughing.

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Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	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. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

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~~MicShazam~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Aug 2015 Location: Aalborg Posts: 7,634	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.

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~~MicShazam~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Aug 2015 Location: Aalborg Posts: 7,634	Do you enjoy looking at gruesome murder scenes? I don't. Why would I?