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Post by luditesupreme on Sept 25, 2011 0:31:07 GMT -5
i was arguing or ''discussing loudly'' as i like to call it; with a freind about slasher flicks she claimed they were stupid and asked me why people always ran upstairs when they could be running outside and getting away . i said well they could run outside and get away but then there'd be no movie . can you think of any examples where if certain really stupid things weren't done there'd be no movie
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Post by loverofbeers on Sept 25, 2011 2:12:55 GMT -5
Turn it around on her. Bring up romance movies.
I can't cite any examples but Breakfast at Tiffany's, but every romance has a bonehead fucking up a situation that they later seek desperately to fix. And if I'm wrong in my assumption on all the combined plots of this genre, well, oh well. I'm talking out of my ass just like the critics of horror do, I too dislike an entire genre that I refuse to give a chance to and I too am speaking out of total ignorance.
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Post by luditesupreme on Sept 25, 2011 2:33:27 GMT -5
c'mon lob i know you love examples. i know you can do better then evading the question . i didn't make this thread so i could win an 10 year old argument with a chick i hope never to see again . i made it to give you chance expound your horror theories . there are plenty of examples where a horror movies could fall apart . i know you and others can come up with some for the reord i'm pretty sure the chick was a fan of the genre though a casual one
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Post by loverofbeers on Sept 25, 2011 3:32:13 GMT -5
I honestly stared at a blank waiting-to-be-posted "cyber-web-area" for five minutes thinking. Tonight I'm blank. I'll have something manana. That's a tough one my brother.
I argued movies in my head to cite, but the mistakes made perfect sense to me. I like movies.... I believe in the suspension of disbelief for MY personal favored genres. I like how "mistakes" are set-up sometimes, especially in horror.
And I will only admit that I have seen ONLY one other romance, that movie with the "Penis Song" because that ex, the blur, demanded it for months after watching everything I made her "suffer" through and for my putting my furry shadow ahead of her anytime the sun was shining and the waters were flowing.
God, I mean Satan, I mean this next comment as a 37 year old who has been single for three years, I am so freakin' glad I am single. "The Penis Song". Sex makes men watch terrible movies. It was a movie with a few Hollywood divas in it including Christina Applegate, the only one I knew (thank you Fox for providing me with Married with Children in my formative years, I just might have to sue for long-term psychological damages, but thank you again).
I am terrible with divas' names (the titty bar made me intolerant of hot self-absorbed beauties (I call shenanigans often and tell hot women asking how hot I think they are that they are not hot and I don't like when people stoop to fishing for compliments, I really am an ashole a lot in "the real world" and I am continously puzzled why women want to get to know me when I act like a bored asshole, a lesson to the young fellows, call thm on their BS, trust my cantankerous ass, women are saps if you play the game, I quit playing).
Damn short-term memory, back to the thread. Examples.... Okay, I finally got one. Cell phones in modern horror. You always have to address the future victim's cell phone and neutralize it. See Funny Games, Wolf Creek (possible UFO landing zone that never is brought up again), and others I can't make my brain cite at this moment. That is one reason that in this generation so many horror films are made that occur in the seventies or eighties from House of the Devil, The Devil's Rejects, and the remakes of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Can I get an "A" for effort on that answer? Now I need beer number two. You made me think. Must quash brain activity!
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Post by luditesupreme on Sept 25, 2011 3:45:31 GMT -5
suspension of didbeleif is exactly where i wanted you to go . that's what the chick was having a problem with . i'll do another one to keep the ball rolling. i have seen this movie although i don't remember in the movie ''don't go in the basement '' we know someone is going to venture into the aforementioned basement otherwise... drum roll... see name of thread ;then there'd be no movoe
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Post by loverofbeers on Sept 25, 2011 4:21:39 GMT -5
Talking about basements and LOB tangent/ADD time!
If the boys of WYH ever have a "supernatural show" I'll call in with really sad and bad stories about the house at 3200 Harris Park that I lived in back in 1995. The house had a basement. Remember the ghost at the bar I worked in? He was an annoyng and irritating joke to me.
Whatever is in 3200 Harris Park was encountered not by at all by me except in personal loss, but whatever it was, both my roomates, my next door neighbor, a close friend who lived on my block, and two of my closest female friends all told me stories about what was going on in my house.
By now you know I am a good pet owner. Three people moved in. My first pet died six days later, followed by all my two other pets and all my roomates' pets (total about six animals, and a fire, and the sound of windows shattering, and black giggling shapes in front of one my roomates' rooms at night time. I saw nothing, I heard nothing. I only discovered something really bad also buried in a spot in the yard where I buried a pet. Something murderous has lived there for a while. It took me seven years after I lived there at the age 31-32 to believe that I lived in a place with "Shining attributes".
I've lived in fourteen different houses or apartments throughout my whole life. I have worked in many fields in four cities and two states in my life. I have only lived in one haunted and evil house and dealt with one idiot poltergeist at one bar. If it was a life-pattern I would think I was crazy. The crazy part is how severe and rare my ghostly experiences have been.
Me and my freakin' tangents...
Cheers to me dammit, and boo/hiss to that beautiful pre-WWI brick house with a basement at 3200 Harris Park with an appetite for killing, and I think that I do believe! But still skeptical and searching with my good eye closed! Cheers!
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Post by Killer Rob on Oct 2, 2011 22:50:41 GMT -5
I sometimes watch movies that I've already seen and wish that the 'bad guys' wouldn't do the things that they are about to do and ruin a bunch of innocent people's lives. So basically I'm almost preferring that the bad guys not be 'so evil' and that the movie is instead people going about their daily lives because no bad guy stepped in and fucked everything up....course if they did that there'd be no movie!
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Post by wulf on Oct 7, 2011 18:47:09 GMT -5
My dislike of slasher films stems from them just not being frightening. They're just gory and they're vehicle for fear is basically the same as someone jumping out from somewhere and yelling BOO! over and over again. Most seem to be just bland copies of the same formula, the zillions of Friday the 13th and nightmare on elm street movies for example.
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Oct 22, 2011 20:22:02 GMT -5
I think any slasher where it's just a crazy guy or serial killer would be over if the protagonists would just stay in one of the rooms with their gun and kept their back to the wall and then called 911 on their cellphone. But let's be honest there are some real dumbasses in real life so I always just kind of figured that the protagonists in most slashers are just dumbasses which is why they die.
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