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 Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 12:03 pm
The Terminator series runs so hot and cold for me. They have some craptacular episodes and then they turn it around and have some good ones. And I can't believe they killed Reese off so suddenly. I do like to be surprised.
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Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 12:42 pm
Technologist Tony Stark I've always shied away from directly comparing Alien and Aliens because of how Scott and Cameron were trying to achieve very different things. Alien is this ambient horror film, where the xenomorph is this big scary boogeyman thing that is practically unkillable, and Cameron is all LETS KILL s**t WOO, and turns it into something a lot closer to a zombie flick. Cameron's even more of a whore than Scott is, so it's way less I guess artistically realized and far more camp, but that's what you'd expect from the guy who directed T2. Granted I still love the "they're in the room" scene, where they have the xenomorphs on radar or whatever and they're supposed to be in the same room as the humans when they're actually under the floor. I feel Cameron's film is just as realized as Scott's, just in the degree and way he wanted it to be - which was as a Vietnam action film in space instead of a 2001-ish horror film in space. I mean, Scott's tagline was "In space no one can hear you scream" and Cameron's was "This time it's war". Both accomplished what they boasted plus woo feminism! And they're in the ceiling, actually. ninja
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Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 1:45 pm
Thing is, so many people did "unkillable boogeyman" so much better than Scott. I mean, John Carpenter did Halloween the year before Alien was released. The Xenomorph has it's merits, but Michael Myers it is not. I prefer the type of horror film that uses suspense to scare, but Alien was somewhat generic in that respect. Aliens, on the other hand, was a very well done action film, and a rarity in that the story successfully justified the action, and wasn't merely tacked on to do so.
I liked T2 as well, but that's just the action fan in me speaking. Another sequel that bests its predecessor in my mind, too. The only others that jump immediately to mind are Evil Dead II, Empire Strikes Back and The Dark Knight. Even though it's more of an indirect sequel, I'd probably throw Dawn of the Dead on that list too.
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Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 6:23 pm
See, I'm not a Michael Myers fan - or a horror film fan in general; so I personally "side" with the Xenomorph. Alien and Aliens never really scared me but the Xenomorph it's self I've always found a very interesting scifi creation! I also love the parallels one can make between the Queen and Ripley in Aliens . xd
What about The Godfather II? ninja
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Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 7:24 pm
For me, the original Godfather was just so much better than the sequel. The flashbacks with Vito were fantastic, but the main story completely paled in comparison to the original.
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Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 12:33 am
I'm honestly not sure which film I like more. gonk
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Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 1:56 pm
I've never cared much for slasher films as they generally require little imagination and tend towards grotesque misogyny and absurd moral absolutes. The one good thing I took from the genre was Scream, given that it introduced me to postmodernism. I like my horror to be about things in the way that say Romero's zombie flicks always have some kind of underlying social message whether it's racism, xenophobia, or whatever. Even Snyder's Land of the Dead managed some small commentary about the relationship between fear and consumption in post 9-11 America.
Like the themes of inescapable duty and role reversal in Midnight Meat Train and Versus.
*Shrug.*
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Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 2:37 pm
The irony is that Halloween, the film generally considered to be responsible for the whole slasher phenomena, actually features very little gore (unlike the Rob Zombie remake, which completely missed the point) and used suspense to provide horror. I wouldn't consider myself a big fan of the genre, largely because of the reasons you listed, but I don't need all my media to be intellectually involving. I'm up for a good ol' fashioned slasher flick once in a while. I have a soft spot in my heart for the original Nightmare on Elm Street. Scream too, but that was as much a satire of slasher flicks as it was an actual slasher flick.
Romero's zombie flicks are some of my favorite horror films for sure, though. There's social commentary in all of them, and it's all pertinent to the times. I actually remember writing an essay about the political significance of Dawn of the Dead, though I'll be damned if I can find it now. Snyder didn't do Land of the Dead, though. That one was Romero, and certainly another political one. I mean, the whole movie was basically an allegory to the War on Terror. Snyder's DotD remake kind of missed the point of the original, but was another one of those movies that I can find enjoyment in by turning off my brain. At least you get what you're paying for.
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Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 11:44 pm
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Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 7:36 pm
I finally saw Slumdog Millionaire.
Now to see Doubt...
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Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 3:04 pm
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Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 4:01 pm
Why didn't anybody warn me that downloading WoW would take so long?
Decided to try the 10 day free trial and it's been a good 3 hours.
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Only at 11% and 1.1GB, as we speak.
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gonk
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Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 5:47 pm
It takes time to download the devourer of your soul. gonk
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Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 6:08 pm
Prince Ambrose It takes time to download the devourer of your soul. gonk
But then again, it is called World of War-Crack for a reason.
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Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 6:10 pm
Eh have a few friends that play it. I played for a little bit but I have more fun with CoV. Anybody a hero or villain in here?
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