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Post by
Gone
My friends always get shocked when I tell them I have never seen Ghostbusters.
Post by
Ashelia
So this is a bit off-topic from Ghostbusters, but since this is the general movie thread: can anyone rec me some campy horror and/or thriller films from the 90s-00s?
I'm REALLY into serial killer movies and I am starting to feel like I've seen them all. Ones like Se7en and Silence of the Lambs clearly stand out as classics, but even bad ones like House of Wax entertain me. I've just gotten to the point where I can never find any anymore to watch. I finally started watching Netflix ones for the off-beat ones with good stars that never made much (for some reason Robert Downey Jr is in three of the ones I watched last week)..
I mean, I've even watched Wrong Turn because I was that desperate for a cheap flick to watch. And I kind of liked it. So far the only ones I've had to turn off because they were so bad have been Child's Play 4+ (Bride of Chucky et all, so bad) and The Hitcher remake (really, really dumb).
Post by
gamerunknown
I saw the trailer of Sorority Row, knew that it would be entirely vapid and that I'd love it and it was and I did.
I think there may be a few others discussed on AV Club youtube movie channel but I can't find them any more... They split off from the Onion, then they split off from the AV Club channel. Pretty soon they'll have their own constitutions and territories.
Post by
Gone
So this is a bit off-topic from Ghostbusters, but since this is the general movie thread: can anyone rec me some campy horror and/or thriller films from the 90s-00s?
I'm REALLY into serial killer movies and I am starting to feel like I've seen them all. Ones like Se7en and Silence of the Lambs clearly stand out as classics, but even bad ones like House of Wax entertain me. I've just gotten to the point where I can never find any anymore to watch. I finally started watching Netflix ones for the off-beat ones with good stars that never made much (for some reason Robert Downey Jr is in three of the ones I watched last week)..
I mean, I've even watched Wrong Turn because I was that desperate for a cheap flick to watch. And I kind of liked it. So far the only ones I've had to turn off because they were so bad have been Child's Play 4+ (Bride of Chucky et all, so bad) and The Hitcher remake (really, really dumb).
I actually kind of liked Bride of Chucky...
Seed of Chucky was too much for me though.
Post by
Adamsm
So this is a bit off-topic from Ghostbusters, but since this is the general movie thread: can anyone rec me some campy horror and/or thriller films from the 90s-00s?
I'm REALLY into serial killer movies and I am starting to feel like I've seen them all. Ones like Se7en and Silence of the Lambs clearly stand out as classics, but even bad ones like House of Wax entertain me. I've just gotten to the point where I can never find any anymore to watch. I finally started watching Netflix ones for the off-beat ones with good stars that never made much (for some reason Robert Downey Jr is in three of the ones I watched last week)..
I mean, I've even watched Wrong Turn because I was that desperate for a cheap flick to watch. And I kind of liked it. So far the only ones I've had to turn off because they were so bad have been Child's Play 4+ (Bride of Chucky et all, so bad) and The Hitcher remake (really, really dumb).
190 movies with the tag thriller from the 90's
; I've seen quite a few on that list, so it's actually a really good way to have a look(also has some horror in there).
Post by
Ashelia
Oh that was really useful, there's a lot here I'd like to see. It's really a kick from my childhood, since I was about 8 I would watch these with my mom, and I really just LIKE them. It's the same with King and Koontz books, they are a guilty pleasure.
Post by
Rystrave
I'm an avid Netflix user, but I just read
this
and was saddened. Just about
every single one of these
I just deleted off of my DVR because they were on Netflix. Taken, we do get Starz on demand but you either have be watching TV at the time to catch the movie you wanna watch or you have to set you DVR to do it for you. My DVR only holds so much!
They're saying that because they're beefing up their TV series selection that it makes up for taking these movies out, but I've never been a TV watcher. I have Breaking Bad, Weeds, and Arrested Development on my demand for TV shows, plus those old Saturday morning Nickelodean cartoons I grew up on.
Not too happy about it, regardless. I've had a terrible day, and this just added to it :(\
/thirdworldproblems
Post by
Adamsm
Heh yeah, there's actually a few on there I wouldn't mind watching again; Dark City for one....you know, the movie that helped influence the Matrix(down to sets from DC being used in the first movie) and Inception(Nolan admitted that).
Post by
Ashelia
Heh yeah, there's actually a few on there I wouldn't mind watching again; Dark City for one....you know, the movie that helped influence the Matrix(down to sets from DC being used in the first movie) and Inception(Nolan admitted that).
Yeah I'm thijnking of watching
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0163988/
tonight or something. I remember watching it when I was 11, so I imagine I'll have a way different view (and I don't remember anything except for an ambulance being hit).
Post by
Patty
So, the Hunger Games has 100% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes so far? That's
impressive
. Not that I put much stock in RT, but still... it's encouraging. Hopefully I'll be able to book tickets for the 22nd advanced showings! Looking forward to seeing the Capitol in all of its pantomimal couture glory.
Post by
Morec0
So, the Hunger Games has 100% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes so far? That's
impressive
. Not that I put much stock in RT, but still... it's encouraging. Hopefully I'll be able to book tickets for the 22nd advanced showings! Looking forward to seeing the Capitol in all of its pantomimal couture glory.
What makes me sick, though, is the "Team Peta" and "Team Gale" shirts they'll be making. They're focusing on the love story element of the Hunger Games, which is what I hate most about American cinema.
Post by
Patty
So, the Hunger Games has 100% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes so far? That's
impressive
. Not that I put much stock in RT, but still... it's encouraging. Hopefully I'll be able to book tickets for the 22nd advanced showings! Looking forward to seeing the Capitol in all of its pantomimal couture glory.
What makes me sick, though, is the "Team Peta" and "Team Gale" shirts they'll be making. They're focusing on the love story element of the Hunger Games, which is what I hate most about American cinema.
It's funny you mention that. There's a lot of focus on Gale in the trailers and promotional material, although for the first two books he's a tertiary character, and I always saw quite clearly that Gale was not a romantic option for Katniss, particularly after the 74th Games changed her, and made her so fond of Peeta.
I mean, it's got to the point where some asian posters are labelling Katniss as the "heroine", accurately, and Gale as the "hero", which I find ridiculous. Peeta is definitely more of the hero than Gale, as he's the deuteragonist, and even Finnick arguably eclipses him in the later books.
Until he gets decapitated, of course.
TL;DR - They're really, really playing up to Liam Hemsworth's sexiness factor.
Post by
Adamsm
So, the Hunger Games has 100% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes so far? That's
impressive
. Not that I put much stock in RT, but still... it's encouraging. Hopefully I'll be able to book tickets for the 22nd advanced showings! Looking forward to seeing the Capitol in all of its pantomimal couture glory.
What makes me sick, though, is the "Team Peta" and "Team Gale" shirts they'll be making. They're focusing on the love story element of the Hunger Games, which is what I hate most about American cinema.
Meh let them...anyone who has ever read the books knows how it goes.
Post by
Morec0
So, the Hunger Games has 100% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes so far? That's
impressive
. Not that I put much stock in RT, but still... it's encouraging. Hopefully I'll be able to book tickets for the 22nd advanced showings! Looking forward to seeing the Capitol in all of its pantomimal couture glory.
What makes me sick, though, is the "Team Peta" and "Team Gale" shirts they'll be making. They're focusing on the love story element of the Hunger Games, which is what I hate most about American cinema.
It's funny you mention that. There's a lot of focus on Gale in the trailers and promotional material, although for the first two books he's a tertiary character, and I always saw quite clearly that Gale was not a romantic option for Katniss, particularly after the 74th Games changed her, and made her so fond of Peeta. I felt that Katniss, having grown up with Gale and felt about him the way she had before the Hunger Games, had more of a connection to Gale than she ever had with Peta, even with the events of the Games - but, like I said, I suppose I didn't notice the change in character.
I felt the exact opposite, maybe because I didn't notice the change as I read or for some other reason; I felt that Katniss choosing Peta in the end was only because she blamed herself for what happened to him, and marrying him was the only way she could think of to make up for "her" mistake of getting him captured and tortured the way he had.
So, the Hunger Games has 100% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes so far? That's
impressive
. Not that I put much stock in RT, but still... it's encouraging. Hopefully I'll be able to book tickets for the 22nd advanced showings! Looking forward to seeing the Capitol in all of its pantomimal couture glory.
What makes me sick, though, is the "Team Peta" and "Team Gale" shirts they'll be making. They're focusing on the love story element of the Hunger Games, which is what I hate most about American cinema.
Meh let them...anyone who has ever read the books knows how it goes.
Just urks me that Hollywood's attempting to replicate the foaming-fantasy-frenzy that Twilight kicked off, mostly because it was
Twilight
. That's just my personal opinion, though.
Post by
Patty
I felt that Katniss, having grown up with Gale and felt about him the way she had before the Hunger Games, had more of a connection to Gale than she ever had with Peta, even with the events of the Games - but, like I said, I suppose I didn't notice the change in character.I think pre-Games, Gale and Katniss could have worked splendidly, they are birds of a feather, after all. But Peeta and Haymitch are the only people she can completely open up with, about the Games and what it's done to her. In CF, Kat finally realises that she found love in a hopeless place (my puns are spectacular).
I felt the exact opposite, maybe because I didn't notice the change as I read or for some other reason; I felt that Katniss choosing Peta in the end was only because she blamed herself for what happened to him, and marrying him was the only way she could think of to make up for "her" mistake of getting him captured and tortured the way he had.While her guilt may have played a role, I think it's the fact that by the end of Mockingjay, Peeta'sThe only person she really loves that's left, as Prim is dead (thanks to Gale's plans, being the ultimate Ship-sinker (after all, her and her mother love eachother but are completely different)), and so she feels like she can't let Peeta go as well.
Post by
Patty
So mutant turtles are apparently now aliens.
:p
Post by
Adamsm
So mutant turtles are apparently now aliens.
:p
Great...first Bay ^&*!s all over the Transformers, now he's after the Turtles.....what other thing of my childhood is he gonna rape?
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588688
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Post by
b4xx
Didn't read all 30 pages to see if someone already listed it, but my favourite of the season is definitely
Horrible Bosses
. I love the actors, the dialogues, the jokes, the script, everything. I recommend it very much.
Trailer
Michael Bay WHY? What's wrong with that guy?
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