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Post by necromaniac on Dec 11, 2006 12:16:39 GMT -5
Nah, he's Ed Wood of modern times. His movies are so bad that they are good, and that's why I "love" them. I understand why people are pissed though, House of the Dead didn't even feature a house!
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Post by kal on Dec 11, 2006 21:57:19 GMT -5
Yeah that was a real deal breaker for me, no house, no dice.
Seriously though, Boll to me basically takes any given franchise in gaming (funnily enough House of the Dead, Bloodrayne and Alone in the Dark are favourites of mine so for me everyone of his screw ups cuts deep) and basically rapes it visually and metaphorically as far as I'm concrened..then he request critics who critisise him to box him (because boxing obvious denoates movie knowledge) and proceeds to beat them up (claiming that it was all a PR stunt BEFORE he decides to try and kill them) and when a real boxer comes up..suddenly he won't fight...funny that.
Also his movies have been majorily funded by a German movie tax loophole (essentially) that makes it impossible for him to lose money.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2006 15:48:18 GMT -5
Also his movies have been majorily funded by a German movie tax loophole (essentially) that makes it impossible for him to lose money. That's the main reason I hate him... I have to work hard to get money. He can fuck up all he wants and he still gets a lot of cash. I sure hope karma starts getting to work on his ass, because it's really becoming irksome.
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Post by papersquadcontrol on Dec 14, 2006 1:09:48 GMT -5
Jacob's Ladder, yes! What an amazing film. No other movie that I've seen has portrayed demonic imagery in such a terrifyingly convincing manner. At the same time though, the film accomplishes what many of even the best horror films fail to do, and that is elicit sympathy for the protagonist; I actually cared about Jacob Singer and the anguish he went through. I've read a lot of people complaining about it having a "happy ending" (don't worry, no spoilers), but in fact, I think that a darker ending would go against its message, and by no means is it a typical, tacked-on Hollywood "happy ending." It's a positive ending, but satisfyingly and appropriately so.
Other worthwhile horror films include Don't Look Now, Rosemary's Baby, Spoorloos (The Vanishing), Cure, and Kairo (Pulse), movies that operate purely on mood and atmosphere as opposed to flat-out suspense, of which little is to be found in any of these.
I agree to the directorial greatness of Cronenberg and Carpenter, my favorites of theirs out of those that I've seen so far being Dead Ringers and The Thing, respectively.
On a final note, am I the only one who dislikes Suspiria? That movie is oft-praised as a horror classic, but as far as I'm concerned, the only things it has going for it are the vibrant cinematography and awesome music by Goblin, everything else in it being so amateurishly done that any regard I had for it initially was officially killed off.
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Post by kyouki on Dec 14, 2006 7:15:19 GMT -5
I found Suspiria to be really dull. People seem to like it for the photography and kills.
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Post by MRSKELETON on Dec 14, 2006 13:43:38 GMT -5
i really like this movie evil dead But besides the obvious I'm not that mutch into horror Occasionally i'll watch the gorefest movies (Like the upcoming "Feast") but that's about it.
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Post by vysethebold on Dec 14, 2006 18:57:38 GMT -5
If you like Evil Dead, watch its sequels Evil Dead II and Army of Darkness. They are awesome. Also, if you like those you'll probably like Peter Jackson's Dead Alive. I believe the movie holds the record for the most amount of fake blood flowing on the screen for the longest amount of time (something like 6 gallons/sec for a min and a half). The movie is great fun to watch with friends and Grandma!
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Post by kal on Dec 14, 2006 19:07:12 GMT -5
The sad thing about Evil Dead is that Evil Dead original is just different to everything else, it's not really humour like the others it's just cool.
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Post by MRSKELETON on Dec 14, 2006 19:44:55 GMT -5
I've never seen the second but army of darkness is my favorite out of the three
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Post by vysethebold on Dec 14, 2006 20:26:26 GMT -5
Yeah, Evil Dead II really changed the series. It's pretty funny how the series is revised a little more with every entry. It's like Sam Raimy was never happy with the story.
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Post by Drawesome(Dale) on Dec 15, 2006 17:14:16 GMT -5
Wow it seems us Hardcore gamers share very similar taste in horror films. Jacob's Latter is one of my favirit movies, although I don't consider it pure horror. FUNFACT SPOILER ALERT....................................... The ending to JL originally had Jacobs girl-freind come to is old home when he was sitting in the dark, at one point after talking to him for a short time she put's a cloak over her face and she starts to shake violently Jacob pulls off the cloak and what is underneath is the most frightning thing I've ever seen....A double of Jacob himself is underneath smiling at him symbolizing how she was alway's just a fantasy of his all along(If you remeber the first seen of the film he was masturbating, probaly to her). Then it cut's to the hospital in Nam and closes the same way as the other ending. The test audeince thought that this ending was to depressing so they went with the ending were he meets his son. I personally think they could of done bolth.
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Post by vysethebold on Dec 15, 2006 17:38:41 GMT -5
I think nerds all have similar interests in things outside their biggest obsession. I mean how many of you guys like anime, comic books, horror and sci-fi films, Star Trek/Wars, and root beer all outside of the video game thing. I sure do...
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Post by necromaniac on Dec 15, 2006 18:14:03 GMT -5
^You should start a topic on it
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Post by sirjake on Dec 23, 2006 14:30:53 GMT -5
I'm a horror movie fan but not so much as I thought I would be. I prefer movies that end in a total mindfuck more than horror now (The Usual Suspects, Fight Club, Memento to name a few).
Jaccob's Ladder is my favorite. After hearing that it was the main inspiration for Silent Hill I watched it as soon as I could (Like a year and half later). I also loved Session 9 (Another inspiration for Silent Hill).
One horror movie I saw when I was a kid that stuck out in my mind was Event Horizon. It was a movie set in space where a group of people (It's been ages since I saw it) dock on this ship that had crossed dimensions into Hell and came back. I remember not falling asleep the night I saw it.
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Post by necromaniac on Dec 23, 2006 14:57:14 GMT -5
^Exalts for good taste. I totally forgot Session 9 and Event Horizon. The first is one of the greatest indie movie I've ever seen (Check out The Machinist from the same director) and the later is the second reason why I don't hate Paul W.S. Anderson (the first being the campy but good adaption of Mortal Combat).
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