I enjoyed this.
― Blind Diode Jefferson (kingfish), Saturday, 24 September 2011 02:57 (twelve years ago) link
I feel bad for that dog
― straight fire beautiful cake (admrl), Saturday, 24 September 2011 06:00 (twelve years ago) link
i saw this on the plane over and fucking loved it
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 15:25 (twelve years ago) link
i love the way it slips actual serious points into the dialogue in a completely casual, natural way. (and also fixes little things that have always bugged me about action films - like the scene when the girls kill the monster instead of being rescued by one of the boys - it's weird, when you see a scene like that you kind of realise how rare it is)
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 15:27 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah I saw this the other day and really liked it.
― dog latin, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 16:15 (twelve years ago) link
This was great
― da croupier, Saturday, 24 March 2012 03:42 (twelve years ago) link
otm
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Saturday, 24 March 2012 06:41 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, really good fun all the way through.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 24 March 2012 07:44 (twelve years ago) link
lol @ Starman talk on this thread - its a somewhat underrated item in the Carpenter filmog that for sure!
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 24 March 2012 09:48 (twelve years ago) link
just awesome
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Saturday, 24 March 2012 15:11 (twelve years ago) link
why wasnt this more of a commercial success
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Sunday, 25 March 2012 03:10 (twelve years ago) link
sorry for british
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 25 March 2012 03:12 (twelve years ago) link
domestically it did ok but doesnt seem to have done anything in the rest of eu, jp, aus etc
so idk how this works in industry terms even if 'ppl' rate it
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Sunday, 25 March 2012 03:15 (twelve years ago) link
imdb feebs have it at 6.8
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Sunday, 25 March 2012 03:16 (twelve years ago) link
lot of people on imdb angry abt the glorification of youthful thugs who would be better shot by george zimmerman, iirc
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Sunday, 25 March 2012 05:49 (twelve years ago) link
it really wasn't that good
― Number None, Sunday, 25 March 2012 05:57 (twelve years ago) link
i'd like to see you do better
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― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Sunday, 25 March 2012 05:59 (twelve years ago) link
I wanted it to be good
― Number None, Sunday, 25 March 2012 06:02 (twelve years ago) link
what were yr problems with it iyo
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 25 March 2012 06:17 (twelve years ago) link
tell them to my HAND
this was a great cool as hell little movie!!
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 25 March 2012 06:27 (twelve years ago) link
Not funny enough
― Number None, Sunday, 25 March 2012 06:38 (twelve years ago) link
like gold is "not shiny enough"
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Sunday, 25 March 2012 06:40 (twelve years ago) link
yeah. I have a feeling this probably worked better for mericans on some exoticism shit
― Number None, Sunday, 25 March 2012 06:46 (twelve years ago) link
thats prob true
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 25 March 2012 06:48 (twelve years ago) link
""south london"" = ""foreign projects"" etc
yee gods, it's a funny, exciting action flick about kids fighting monsters. location and culture are important to the film, therefore important to its appeal, i suppose, but that doesn't necessarily = "exoticism shit". it made more on its opening weekend in the UK than its entire US run.
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Sunday, 25 March 2012 06:54 (twelve years ago) link
I'm glad it did well (Joe Cornish deserves it). I just didn't like it that much
― Number None, Sunday, 25 March 2012 06:59 (twelve years ago) link
It was excellent.
― polyphonic, Sunday, 25 March 2012 07:01 (twelve years ago) link
location and culture are important to the film, therefore important to its appeal, i suppose, but that doesn't necessarily = "exoticism shit". it made more on its opening weekend in the UK than its entire US run
i mean lets not play
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 25 March 2012 07:02 (twelve years ago) link
you see surely how sentence two belies sentence once
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 25 March 2012 07:03 (twelve years ago) link
*one
it did well, though not as well as it might've, largely because those to whom it effectively spoke were those who were prepared for a story for south london, that is to say, not vinton, iowa.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 25 March 2012 07:05 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, but that doesn't mean that those mericans who did dig it were "on some exoticism shit". i just dislike that phrasing, which seems terribly loaded and disdainful.
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Sunday, 25 March 2012 07:09 (twelve years ago) link
it's mildly surprising to me that this has an international audience at all, that kind of setting/humour doesn't usually travel well - can't think of any other instances
― lex pretend, Sunday, 25 March 2012 07:10 (twelve years ago) link
i mean i think the necessary converse (that it wasn't made for "vinton, iowa") means it was made for people prepared for a tale alien to their american experience (neither vinton, iowa nor ny, ny, so to speak), which this surely was in at least a couple of ways.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 25 March 2012 07:12 (twelve years ago) link
and let met clarify when i say "made for a people prepared for a tale alien to their experience" that i just mean that a non-british audience imo is p clearly included in its storytelling
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 25 March 2012 07:13 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, totally. might also appeal to americans with some familiarity with the world outside their front yard. i'd prefer to speak of the curious and/or open-minded than those "on some exoticism shit", which has p clear negative connotation.
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Sunday, 25 March 2012 07:18 (twelve years ago) link
I was kind of being a dick with that phrasing. I just wanted it to be better!
― Number None, Sunday, 25 March 2012 07:22 (twelve years ago) link
i was kind of defending your wanting-to-be-a-dick
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 25 March 2012 07:25 (twelve years ago) link
i don't know, i do that a lot lately, idk
okay, fine, i'm on some exoticism shit. you made me say it. i hope you're happy.
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Sunday, 25 March 2012 07:29 (twelve years ago) link
"exoticism shit" is so condescending to so many parties at once it's kind of amazing
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Sunday, 25 March 2012 07:30 (twelve years ago) link
like i said, i was being kind of a dick. What can i say, i'm drunk
― Number None, Sunday, 25 March 2012 07:33 (twelve years ago) link
it ran for a few weeks here at least, without really having any promo or media attention. the following month Buxton sold out a five-night run of Bug btw!
― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Sunday, 25 March 2012 07:35 (twelve years ago) link
Not really exoticism but some of the "street" dialogue might have sounded a little less like it was written by a middle-class white guy if you're in the US.
It was good, though. The kind of solid action / horror film Britain should be producing more of.
― Une semaine de Bunty (ShariVari), Sunday, 25 March 2012 08:28 (twelve years ago) link
watched this last night, this was great fun. too bad it didn't get more than a superficial release in theaters here, I missed it entirely and never saw an ad for it.
― akm, Sunday, 25 March 2012 15:02 (twelve years ago) link
It did occur to me when comparing the film to Super 8 that I have no reason to assume Cornish has any more familiarity with 21st century council estate life than second-generation hollywooder JJ Abrams has with smalltown midwestern life. But at least Cornish is going out on a limb with something modern rather than faithfully regurgitating '80s Amblin fantasies.
― da croupier, Sunday, 25 March 2012 15:43 (twelve years ago) link
i knew somebody had to make that complaint to which i say
http://www.1065thearch.com/emedia/stl/4/434/43412.jpg
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Sunday, 25 March 2012 15:47 (twelve years ago) link
It did occur to me when comparing the film to Super 8 that I have no reason to assume Cornish has any more familiarity with 21st century council estate life than second-generation hollywooder JJ Abrams has with smalltown midwestern life.
main difference between the two is that attack the block actually worked
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Sunday, 25 March 2012 16:23 (twelve years ago) link
ya tbh if the movie is awesome, "slang accuracy" is pretty low on my list of priorities
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Sunday, 25 March 2012 16:27 (twelve years ago) link