What's The Latest Film You Have Seen?

The Batlord · 11-16-2017, 11:51 AM

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Originally Posted by MicShazam

That's a good observation. I agree that the movie points in a certain direction in more than one way. It's very sexual, in a way. Just like most of H.R. Giger's artwork is. And who hasn't realized what the under side of the face hugger looks like at this point?

Lulz yeah. The xenomorph was far too sadistic in a way that isn't just mindlessly murderous for it to not be seen as a sexual sadist. The best ways to encourage a lifeform to do something from an evolutionary standpoint, whether it be eating, mating, or killing is to make it pleasurable, and that alien clearly derived pleasure from killing. Totally a sexual sadist.

Chula Vista · 11-16-2017, 01:53 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

Yeah, but that scene when *spoiler* the black guy whose name I can't remember dies and then the alien kills the woman with its tail by presumably going up through her torso was so much a rape scene. Even that part where Ripley is going down the corridor with the woman screaming over the intercom for way too ****ing long to not make you feel uncomfortable was def supposed to feel like a rape scene. So physical violation was very much a theme of that movie even beyond just the facehugger.

Yaphet Kotto. Check out the 1978 flick 'Blue Collar' with him, Harvey Keitel, and Richard Pryor. A little bit dated but ****ing intense ****. And all too real even today.

Re: Alien, vaginas, and sex innuendo

This says it all. Ridley was 100% going "there".

The Batlord · 11-18-2017, 02:34 PM

TFW you're reminded of that movie The Ghost and the Darkness and want to watch a horror movie about actual wild animals (lions in the case of that movie) that is legit and not stupid but that movie wasn't that good from what you remember anyway but it was at least based on real events and had Michael Douglas and Val Kilmer and wasn't a CGI ****fest so good enough I guess?

Also tfw you see the tagline for the movie, "Prey for the hunters". God damn it. It can't be THAT bad, right?

bulbasaur · 11-18-2017, 02:36 PM

can't say i've ever had those very particular feelings

The Batlord · 11-18-2017, 02:48 PM

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Originally Posted by bulbasaur

can't say i've ever had those very particular feelings

TFW you want to play Fire Emblem while taking a ****.

Akai · 11-19-2017, 12:28 AM

After the long wait, finally seen the Miike adaptation of the BoTI manga, met every expectation I had and then some

~~Cuthbert~~ · 11-19-2017, 02:34 AM

I watched The Green Mile.

Probably in my top ten films. Really enjoyed it.

Paedantic Basterd · 11-19-2017, 09:42 AM

Re: Alien

I hadn't actually SEEN it until last year, and going into it on the airplane, I figured pop culture had spoiled most of it for me. I knew about the chestburster, I knew about the xenomorph.

I was not prepared for the face-hugger. Easily the worst / greatest creation in the entire film. So glad that it doesn't get talked about enough or it would've been ruined for me too. That thing is absolute nightmare fuel.

EDIT: I also want to add that Alien touched on something REALLY important in horror movies, which is to NEVER show too much of the monster. The instant you can see the thing well-lit, you can see the charade. Alien tried to only show you flashes of the Xenomorph and was better for it, because your imagination did the rest of the work. James Cameron's (spits) Aliens shows you far too much of the creatures and offers you no new horrors. You get sensitized to them. Speaking of "you should never show us too much of the monster or things enter Hokeytown":

And the last thing I watched was It. $2 well spent, but I don't think I need to see it twice. Superb child acting, though.

Chula Vista · 11-19-2017, 09:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Paedantic Basterd

EDIT: I also want to add that Alien touched on something REALLY important in horror movies, which is to NEVER show too much of the monster.

Amen. Couldn't agree more.

**Frownland** · 11-19-2017, 09:53 AM

Beyond the Black Rainbow

Well this was crazy as ****. This borrows a lot of the more bizarre elements from directors like Kubrick, Tarkovsky, Jodorowsky, and E. Elias Merhige (as in: Begotten) and filters it through an LSD and memory soaked filter. Very feverish while maintaining a bizarro ambience. It doesn't always work, but the scenes where it does succeed are some of the most intense and viscerally psychedelic ones I've ever seen. It's a pretty crazy trip, I don't think I could handle it if I was on hallucinogens tbh. 8/10

^That driving screen was put on the screen right before Shabazz Palaces came on.

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11-19-2017, 12:28 AM	#20506 (permalink)
Akai Godless Ape Join Date: Mar 2017 Location: Britannia Posts: 1,255	After the long wait, finally seen the Miike adaptation of the BoTI manga, met every expectation I had and then some __________________ ''To be honest, in my opinion, of course without offending anyone who thinks differently from my point of view, but also by looking into this matter from a different perspective and by considering each and every one's valid opinion, I do believe that I forgot what I was going to say.'' S p o t i f y

11-19-2017, 09:42 AM	#20508 (permalink)
Paedantic Basterd Music Addict Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 5,184	Re: Alien I hadn't actually SEEN it until last year, and going into it on the airplane, I figured pop culture had spoiled most of it for me. I knew about the chestburster, I knew about the xenomorph. I was not prepared for the face-hugger. Easily the worst / greatest creation in the entire film. So glad that it doesn't get talked about enough or it would've been ruined for me too. That thing is absolute nightmare fuel. EDIT: I also want to add that Alien touched on something REALLY important in horror movies, which is to NEVER show too much of the monster. The instant you can see the thing well-lit, you can see the charade. Alien tried to only show you flashes of the Xenomorph and was better for it, because your imagination did the rest of the work. James Cameron's (spits) Aliens shows you far too much of the creatures and offers you no new horrors. You get sensitized to them. Speaking of "you should never show us too much of the monster or things enter Hokeytown": And the last thing I watched was It. $2 well spent, but I don't think I need to see it twice. Superb child acting, though. Last edited by Paedantic Basterd; 11-19-2017 at 09:47 AM.

11-19-2017, 09:53 AM	#20510 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	Beyond the Black Rainbow Well this was crazy as ***. This borrows a lot of the more bizarre elements from directors like Kubrick, Tarkovsky, Jodorowsky, and E. Elias Merhige (as in: Begotten) and filters it through an LSD and memory soaked filter. Very feverish while maintaining a bizarro ambience. It doesn't always work, but the scenes where it does succeed are some of the most intense and viscerally psychedelic ones I've ever seen. It's a pretty crazy trip, I don't think I could handle it if I was on hallucinogens tbh. 8/10 ^That driving screen was put on the screen right before Shabazz Palaces came on. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth.* d e a f b o x

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11-19-2017, 02:34 AM	#20507 (permalink)
~~Cuthbert~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: The Black Country Posts: 8,827	I watched The Green Mile. Probably in my top ten films. Really enjoyed it.