movies

[Vidor]

Back from "The Master".

That was certainly an experience. It doesn't really have a conventional plot, but "There Will Be Blood" didn't either. But TWBB at least had Plainview's character arc. I'm not sure Freddie Quell even has any character development.

Still, a great movie, PTA on the top of his game. We were maybe one or two minutes late for the start, which always pisses me off.

[Vidor]

For those who have seen it--does it have opening credits? I swear I am tempted to go again just to see the first minute.

[thrill]

For those who have seen it--does it have opening credits? I swear I am tempted to go again just to see the first minute.

It's the same shot of the blue water in the ship's wake that appears later a few times and then Freddy hacking open a coconut, pouring a bunch of gin inside and shotgunning it. Then some dudes wrestle and Freddy molests a sand sculpture of a lady.

[lukethedrifter]

you forgot the part where Freddie is shown wearing his helmet peering into the bright sun over the side of the ship

[JL21]

V/H/S kicked ass. People will [expletive] about how found footage is overdone and blah blah blah, but none of that matters when a movie is well made.

[go birds]

Psyched

[Vidor]

"Looper" is getting strong reviews.

[thrill]

Anyone who said Cabin In the Woods was legitimately good was wrong. That was some campy B [expletive] right there.

[JL21]

Anyone who said Cabin In the Woods was legitimately good was wrong. That was some campy B [expletive] right there.

That was kind of the point, though (and you're probably on to this stuff, so forgive me if I'm over-explaining). It was making fun of every genre of horror and how formulaic horror is these days. Pick a cube for a villain, assemble your cast and make them behave in the genre-accepted ways (the slut, the jock, the nerd, the stoner)... They even poked fun at how formulaic other countries are with the J-horror ghost in the schoolroom.

[thrill]

Anyone who said Cabin In the Woods was legitimately good was wrong. That was some campy B [expletive] right there.

That was kind of the point, though (and you're probably on to this stuff, so forgive me if I'm over-explaining). It was making fun of every genre of horror and how formulaic horror is these days. Pick a cube for a villain, assemble your cast and make them behave in the genre-accepted ways (the slut, the jock, the nerd, the stoner)... They even poked fun at how formulaic other countries are with the J-horror ghost in the schoolroom.

I get it, I'm just not enough into horror to find that funny. Except the part with the unicorn and the merman. I just wish the beginning and middle were scarier, the ending was funnier and then I'd be on board.