Prepared to change my opinion, go ahead.Originally Posted by Outlander Systems
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Prepared to change my opinion, go ahead.
It's hard to be a ACLU hating, philosophically Libertarian, socially liberal, fiscally conservative, scientifically grounded, agnostic, porn admiring gun owner who believes in self determination.
Chuck, we miss ya man.
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That creepy sound the cannibals made stuck in my head for a week, and THAT was disturbing AF. Otherwise I liked that movie.
Saw that one a long while back. Hardly scary, just depressing as all hell.
SPOILER-
I was much younger when watching it first time, and couldn't understand why the wife would have killed herself shortly after things went to shit.
Well... I get it now.
Oh well, if you know anything about Warhammer 40k, Event Horizon is simply a documentorial film of a starship getting lost in the warp after its Geller fields failed, with the appropriately predicable madness and insanity befalling the crew and would-be rescuers. Pretty quiet average day for 40k actually...
If you don't know anything about WH 40K, Event Horizon is a classic scifi tale of "new technology malfunctions horribly in the worst possible ways at the worst possible times".
Heaving heard a lot of reviews, I went into it prepped to be skeered, but it was nowhere near as scary as expected. However, there are some parts towards the end some people may find disturbing on a gore/violence/body horror sort of level.
IIRC there are two versions - the "theatrical" version you can see on like Amazon and such, where they edited out a lot of the body horror stuff at the end.
And then an uncensored version if you want the full madness.
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Scariest thing I ever saw at the movies?
Went to see Hostel when it came out, back when I watched tripe like that.
Scariest thing about that flick- was the 12-13 year old girl who sat next to me, laughing maniacally through the whole pic. She acted/sounded possessed & Ive never forgotten it.
But another incident was in other ways..worse.
We went to see Saving Private Ryan the first weekend out...standing room only.
An old gent sat next to me, was by himself. This man sobbed uncontrollably through the whole flick. Had his head in his hands most of the time. He was well old enough to have "been there". I was shaking so bad until I finally couldnt take it anymore...I too wept. I wanted to speak to the man, to ask him, but I just could not. I was jacked up for several days after that.
Thats TRUE horror..knowing what was going on onscreen actually happened..and this man very well might have actually taken part in it.
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Yeah, SPR brought it home for a lot of people. Even some who only knew WWII vets, they finally had some understanding of what it was like for them. For all it's historical inaccuracies, SPR gave most people the first realistic "feel" of what the landing were like.
As for the girl watching Hostel, I hope she was simply a person who never experienced hardship, understood "it wasn't real" and was being entertained by a film. I watch American Psycho the same way, maybe not laughing maniacally, but definitely laughing as it's intended to be a dark comedy. But at the same time, I've watched slasher films (mostly 80s stuff) in mixed company and some of them seemed to be enjoying the films for very different reasons and I've never really associated with them after that.
It's hard to be a ACLU hating, philosophically Libertarian, socially liberal, fiscally conservative, scientifically grounded, agnostic, porn admiring gun owner who believes in self determination.
Chuck, we miss ya man.
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But Steyr...this GIRL was YOUNG. And Im like WHY and HOW are you here alone..in an R rated flick at that? You & I laughing at something as grown men, thats light years from an 12-13 at most year old girl in a theater alone watching something like Hostil. And her laugh....You woulda just had to have heard it. It wasnt EXORCIST level, but not too dang far from it.
Good point on SPR. I wont forget that old fella, for sure.
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So I got myself into the Exorcist when I was 13, even though I'd regret it. But like I said, I'm hoping this was just a girl who didn't know better. When I was that age I loved war movies for the history, the machine guns, the explosions and it was all COOL because I didn't really know anybody close in my life who died in combat. It was at that point, nothing more than entertainment for me and I'd actually get annoyed whenever they put in a human interest story of some kind.
Later my views changed. And I'm sure if I'd have sat through the Deer Hunter next to a Vietnam vet with my 12 year old kid world view and understanding, I might have caused him to worry about what was wrong with me. And again, I'm hoping this was the case with the girl watching Hostel, because there are enough scary f'ers in the world already. Please don't think I don't understand what you are talking about.
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Chuck, we miss ya man.
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I gotcha!
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I don't think it's going to happen, I thought they both sucked, too. I was really disappointed with Eye Wide Shut, but there a few Kubrick films that are suppose to be great that I thought were massively overrated.
Gettin' down innagrass.
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Kubrick can be brilliant. Problem is how he handles abstract ideas. So when it comes to representations of aliens, ghosts, god or things like that, he relies on sometimes bizarre imagery. The result is some think 2001 is profound with it's depictions and to others it's just a movie to watch after you drop acid.
Also his films often don't age well for the same reasons. I can appreciate 2001 and what he was trying to do, but it doesn't have nearly the same impact it did 50 years ago. Similarly A Clockwork Orange was timely and cutting edge when released, now it's just odd hippie / violence porn and most miss the message because we went past the tipping point of the story generations ago. What was once a fanciful representation of what societal violence "could" become was left in the dust by 1980s crips n bloods. It's the same reason films like "Network" have zero impact today, their prophetical warnings have come to pass and the worst case scenario have been standard business for so long we can't even relate to a time when they didn't exist.
Even Full Metal Jacket is almost completely out of touch for most current Marines.
It's hard to be a ACLU hating, philosophically Libertarian, socially liberal, fiscally conservative, scientifically grounded, agnostic, porn admiring gun owner who believes in self determination.
Chuck, we miss ya man.
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