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LOL, not me.
We actually just completed episode 50 of our movie podcast recently, something I'm pretty proud of. I've seen a lot of stuff recently, Arrival and Collateral Beauty, and will be seeing Why Him? next week. But I'll never apologize for watching too many animated or super hero movies. Enjoy what you enjoy, right?Comment
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Finished "Legend of Tarzan" a few days ago. Very forgettable from just about every aspect. Predictable at every turn. Decent fight scenes save it from being a total waste of time.Comment
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Funny you mention that Will. My girlfriend in 1993ish and I were looking for some movies to watch with her parents. She picked Awakenings and I picked Bad Lieutenant. "Harvey Keitel is a great actor!" I said. Well we started watching that first. Needless to say it didn't last long. I was SO embarrassed. Awkenings was great, although I didn't know if the movie made her cry or if a naked Keitel scarred her for life.Isaiah 5:20Comment
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One of the first movies my wife and I watched together was Don Johnson in A Boy and His Dog. It's a deeply weird post-apocalyptic adaptation of a Harlan Ellison short story. Believe it may've been Johnson's first movie.
Not long after that I made her watch Eraserhead.Comment
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The Witch.
This was reviewed above in this thread, but it's new on Amazon Prime. I thought it was time for me to watch it because it's been at the top of a couple of the bigger best-of-the-year horror lists I've seen.
The reason to watch it is because the film is "visually stunning," as the cliché goes. Actually it's more than stunning: the cinematography manages to make it at once beautiful, eerie, and OH MY GOD HIDE YOUR EYES sometimes all in the same scene. The film was apparently exhaustively researched down to the old English cadence the actors use, but you can watch this without caring too much about the plot. This is something of a visual masterpiece, but it's also a perfect illustration of how important pace is in horror films. Like the great The Others, this movie meanders and settles until it doesn't, and then it becomes this humming, insanely creepy skeeve-fest that's just perfectly done.
A technical marvel down to the nerve-jangling music, this is a masterpiece of mood and atmosphere--but beware. It's very disturbing and not your run-of-the-mill horror flick.Comment
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Loved The VVitch. However, the rest of the audience at my Stony Brook theater showing was not so impressed. Heard someone say "worst movie I've ever seen" on the way out. This might be an even more polarizing horror film than It Follows was a couple years back. Although obviously both are excellent and everyone who disagrees with me is just plain wrong.
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It Follows remains the best horror film of the "new" crop.Loved The VVitch. However, the rest of the audience at my Stony Brook theater showing was not so impressed. Heard someone say "worst movie I've ever seen" on the way out. This might be an even more polarizing horror film than It Follows was a couple years back. Although obviously both are excellent and everyone who disagrees with me is just plain wrong.
Still think the best thing about it is its insane score.
Here's one of those top ten lists. I loved The Invitation and really liked Don't Breathe, but of these The Autopsy of Jane Doe sounds most intriguing. Had never heard of it until I read this.Comment
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And another thing about The Witch that's highly intriguing is how they make Christianity--in the historical context of the film--just as dark and desperate and chilling as Satanism. Highly interesting reversal.
The best use of Christianity as a trope since The Wicker Man. (The original, not the Cage version. The original WM remains the horror movie I think about the most when I think about the genre. So strange and crazy and brilliant.)Comment
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From that list I've seen The Witch, The Invitation, Neon Demon and Cloverfield Lane. I've never heard of Autopsy but it does look interesting. Brian Cox + Emile Hirsch sounds like a winning formula. Heard great things about Train to Busan, but I'm so played out on the zombie genre. The Walking Dead has ruined it the same way Twilight and True Blood tried to ruin vampires.Last edited by Catatonic; 12-16-2016, 09:25 AM.Comment
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The Invitation had a good premise, but some of the acting was atrocious and it sort've petered out as it moved towards the (predictable) climax.
The Witch sucked. Recently gave it a re-watch, and ugh. I rate horror movies on their ability to entertain me, and this movie was a slog. It looked pretty and it was obviously made with care, but I found next to no entertainment value in it. Sucks.
The Autopsy Of Jane Doe is gonna be great, probably.
Don't Breathe was an awesome pressure cooker of a movie.
It Follows remains the best of the modern horror movies. Creepy, thought-provoking, well acted, well shot.
The Walking Dead remains the worst drama on television, at least as far as popularity-to-quality ratio is concerned.Last edited by KCKUKFan; 12-16-2016, 11:06 AM.Comment
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