i would say all the scream movies are baseline good, with 2 being the best
3 is the weakest and yet cannot be read in the present as anything but the most anti-harvey weinstein movie ever produced by the weinsteins
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 15:07 (two years ago) link
It's just called Scream, but it's not even a reboot, obviously a sequel, why not just call it Scream 5? The earlier films seemed self-contained enough to be understandable to newcomers.
I thought the 3rd film seemed like they were pissing about, terribly lazy humor
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 17:26 (two years ago) link
They could have called it "Screams." "Scream, Too." "I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream."
Not to mention the fact that the only people that would gaf about the return of Neve Campbell et al. to this particular franchise are old like me. Unless this is one of those franchises that has cross generational appeal?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 17:45 (two years ago) link
This is just the new naming convention. If you wait too many years after the previous sequel, you give it the name of the original so that people don't get confused. And then the sequel after that one gets 'Again' or '-s' or 'Bigger Longer and Uncut' appended to the name.
― Donald Fhtagen (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 18:04 (two years ago) link
yeah both halloween (2018) and candyman (2021) have already done this and i no longer care
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 18:06 (two years ago) link
tbh "halloween kills" is 100x worse than naming a direct sequel to halloween "halloween"
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 18:07 (two years ago) link
Should be "Halloween Slaps"
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 18:20 (two years ago) link
Halloween? Ugh, I Literally Cannot
― Donald Fhtagen (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 18:44 (two years ago) link
Halloween, Halloweezer, Hallowutang
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 18:51 (two years ago) link
hallowed be thy een
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 19:00 (two years ago) link
"Hallow, It's Ween""Hallowe'ens Vs. You'uns."'Ween
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 19:04 (two years ago) link
you give it the name of the original so that people don't get confused.
― Donald Fhtagen (Old Lunch), Tuesday, October 12, 2021 7:04 PM (one hour ago)
But how confused could they be? Is it because numbered sequels aren't as common as they were? They should still probably understand it. Definitely creates confusion when you're tracking down a film or series without knowledge or enough information to tell which one is the remake.
I wish somebody had the guts to add The Remake to their title (I know some low budget films do this). Like Black Christmas, Black Christmas: The Remake and Black Christmas: The Second Remake.
I've heard people talking about studios trying to bury their back catalogue but I don't get how that works with the nostalgia that propels the remakes and presumably you want to keep selling your back catalogue?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 19:45 (two years ago) link
Black Christmas (2006) was stylized as Black X-mas on the poster at least.
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 19:50 (two years ago) link
Half those 00s remakes should have been subtitled The Shitty Remake
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 20:00 (two years ago) link
The new Batman should be called Batman 11: Sixth Reboot or something like that. Do you count the cinema serials and animated films
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 20:07 (two years ago) link
i really think halloween (2018) should've been called "halloween 2 3"
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 20:08 (two years ago) link
Tangential to this fun goofery, I just learned recently that there's an entire book about abortive Halloween sequels. I had no idea they'd had that much difficulty making these things happens.
― Donald Fhtagen (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 20:41 (two years ago) link
I adore the Scream franchise, particularly 2 and 4, and am really stoked about this! (Brad, you're absolutely right in that 4 is a great movie)
― I'm a sovereign jazz citizen (the table is the table), Wednesday, 13 October 2021 16:29 (two years ago) link
Are we talking about Titane anywhere? (I'm not sure if I have anything to say about it, but....)
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Wednesday, 13 October 2021 21:45 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M92WfkWy6fY
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 13 October 2021 22:10 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pgv1P28anlc
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 13 October 2021 22:13 (two years ago) link
Heh, this is from last year but it's pretty funny. It looks like all the original locations, too!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmtCycRHN8E
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 14 October 2021 02:15 (two years ago) link
Titane is definitely the new film I'm most looking forward to
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 14 October 2021 19:22 (two years ago) link
it's a trip!
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Friday, 15 October 2021 21:49 (two years ago) link
Just saw Titane. It’s busy and fascinating, very smart and very strange.The car pregnancy is sorta the tertiary plot point if you can believe it? If it has any grander point it seems to be a pathological desire to avoid moral or ethical judgment when it comes to desire, survival and/or self identification. The director’s post show comment was that “I set out to make a movie about love and I think I succeeded.”― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, September 29, 2021
The car pregnancy is sorta the tertiary plot point if you can believe it? If it has any grander point it seems to be a pathological desire to avoid moral or ethical judgment when it comes to desire, survival and/or self identification. The director’s post show comment was that “I set out to make a movie about love and I think I succeeded.”
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, September 29, 2021
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Friday, 15 October 2021 21:50 (two years ago) link
Story Of The Southern Islet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8sPiWBMLk0
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 17 October 2021 21:00 (two years ago) link
Rewatched "Oculus." What a deftly made spooky movie.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 18 October 2021 02:56 (two years ago) link
Watched "Gaia" and liked it, once past the disliking the female ranger's embodiment of Ebert's Idiot Rule. Nice slow burn, cool visuals, creature comparisons to The Last of Us, would make a good double feature, following "In The Earth".
Also watched "Assimilate", a teen Body Snatchers retread with a good germ of an angle let down by script and F/X, along with "Son", another Andi Matichak horror film. She's the high school daughter in the new Halloween series, but mom to a five year old Rosemary's kid here. Liked the ending, even if the twist was expected.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Wednesday, 20 October 2021 01:00 (two years ago) link
Watched most of the latest "VHS" movie, and once again Timo Tjahjanto sets the standard for over the top body horror and gore in his segment. Not quite as batshit as "Safe Haven," but definitely tests your mettle.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 20 October 2021 20:14 (two years ago) link
Yeah i watched it last night too -- I liked all the segments but the last one was a bit much for me. The way it felt like a video game where the shooter was aiming at me was too ott after the day i had.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 22 October 2021 20:53 (two years ago) link
Chapelwaite has finished now, and it's very good! A strong Salem's Lot adaptation with touches of cosmic horror. It's on something called an 'EPIX' so alternative sources might be needed.
― a hallan shaker loon (dowd), Saturday, 23 October 2021 13:18 (two years ago) link
We watched Titane, not nothing anything about it, just that her first film was Raw. I can't recall the last time I was so tense watching a horror film. I'm still processing it but I think it was amazing in the most horrific way, it's almost two movies. I dunno
― JacobSanders, Saturday, 23 October 2021 13:57 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNFkcXrs_sk
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 23 October 2021 21:46 (two years ago) link
re titane: you'll believe a man can eat a stool
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 24 October 2021 15:29 (two years ago) link
The fireman’s performance was something else
― a hallan shaker loon (dowd), Sunday, 24 October 2021 17:43 (two years ago) link
he's apparently a huge star in francestrangely the lead woman is debuting in this and the director got her off instagram apparently?
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 24 October 2021 18:20 (two years ago) link
apparently apparently
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 24 October 2021 18:23 (two years ago) link
He was in La Haine
― a hallan shaker loon (dowd), Sunday, 24 October 2021 22:39 (two years ago) link
Just watched Saint Maud. That was an incredible film
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Monday, 25 October 2021 00:47 (two years ago) link
broadcast signal intrusion (2021)... what a disappointment. ive always loved the hauntology surrounding signal intrusions. total waste of a film.
― maelin, Monday, 25 October 2021 14:08 (two years ago) link
i dont know where to begin. i actually got angry over how bad it was. transitions from scene to scene made no sense, it was technologically anachronistic and incorrect (dialling up BBS boards on MS-DOS in 1999?). the mystery was entirely uncompelling and characters felt completely void of personality. avoid
― maelin, Monday, 25 October 2021 14:13 (two years ago) link
i watched Lords Of Chaos about the norwegian black metal scene and the church burnings and whilst all the people were portrayed as young kids doing things as if they were simple dares, the casual violence in it was quite disturbing and the kind of thing you'd see in a much more serious film, the suicide, the final stabbing.
(the 11th century stave churches looked wonderful though)
― koogs, Monday, 25 October 2021 15:21 (two years ago) link
i liked lamb btw but fyi it's not a horror movie
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Monday, 25 October 2021 16:13 (two years ago) link
I am halfway through Broadcast Signal Intrusion and am waaaaay disappointed, what a thrown opportunity! It is like watching a student film, so poorly put together.
― Maresn3st, Monday, 25 October 2021 16:53 (two years ago) link
But I have this waiting, which looks more promising.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Scm4N1s7OhI
― Maresn3st, Monday, 25 October 2021 16:54 (two years ago) link
w/ Kyp Malone from Tv On The Radio, no less
― Maresn3st, Monday, 25 October 2021 16:59 (two years ago) link
Looks interesting, but also looks like pure Sci-fi and not really horrific
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 25 October 2021 17:28 (two years ago) link
Hereditary - good movie to watch with your liberal Boomer mom or nah? She likes creepy horror but not too much gore or sex.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 01:44 (two years ago) link
or the VVitch?
(I'm not sure I've seen a newish horror movie since It Follows tbh.)
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 01:45 (two years ago) link
I watched The VVitch with my mom (and my gf and my sister). I think I was the only one who wasn't bored.
― (a picture of a defecating pig) (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 02:05 (two years ago) link