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The Loft

What I thought was going to be a murder mystery turned into the biggest soap opera I've ever seen. I do not recommend watching this movie.

07-06-2015 , 04:22 PM

#14277

PhillyEagles9

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Tabbaker From the look of it I kind of thought that movie might be fun to watch for how terrible it is

07-06-2015 , 07:01 PM

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Mac>DaWade

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looking for great horror film recommendations. I know there are so few, and I’m hoping I’ve neglected maybe some overseas stuff or 70s-80s-90s stuff (or potentially earlier).

To give you an idea of what I like, my favorite horror movies are The Shining, Rosemary’s Baby, Psycho.

I'm meh on the Exorcist in that it's definitely scary (maybe the scariest), but I wouldn't rewatch it. I've never seen Texas Chainsaw all the way through, but the parts I saw I thought were cool/well done. 28 Days Later was awesome, but not that into zombie flicks (though the original Night of the Living Dead is bad-ass).

I tend to dislike the 80s mega-horror franchise stuff (Friday, Elm Street, Halloween), and anything that is too broad (like cornball humor, excessive gore/sexploitation).

I saw The House by the Cemetery by Fulci, which I thought was great despite ****ty acting and a little too much gore for my taste. I'd never seen any Italian horror. The acting and writing is obv sub-par and I hate the dubbing, but the look and sound is very cool. It reminded me a bit of Don't Look Now, which is also along the lines of stuff I like.

I’ve never seen any Japanese horror except for remakes. I'm open to any possible recommendation, as long as it's awesome.

07-06-2015 , 07:15 PM

#14279

ramabranch

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Have you seen Suspiria? is one of my all time favorites from the genre, incredibly artistic as well as scary

07-06-2015 , 07:26 PM

#14280

petesgotaces

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Saw The Dark Knight recently. Very cool. The acting by Heath Ledger was amazing! Can't believe i only just watched this one now. lol

07-06-2015 , 07:48 PM

#14281

All Hail Circe

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Mac>DaWade

28 Days Later was awesome, but not that into zombie flicks (though the original Night of the Living Dead is bad-ass).

Have you seen 28 Weeks Later?

Have you seen " Let the Right One In?"

" The Broken " not really a horror movie, kind of like an "Invasion of the Body Snatchers " style. I enjoyed it but I am not sure if it really got much love over all.

I know you said that you did not enjoy zombie movies but I really enjoyed the " Dawn of the Dead " remake.

I also enjoyed " Who's Next?" but again, not too sure it had a lot of solid reviews. I only saw it one time but I did like it.

" All the Boys Love Mandy Lane "

" 30 Days of Night "

I am just picking some that imo were not really well known. They are not stellar movies but I thought each one had something a little different and were pretty enjoyable.

EDIT: I saw your last comment " as long as it's awesome! "

Then I would skip most of the ones I mentioned LOL.

Still 28 Weeks Later is good ( if you liked 28 Days ) and " Let the Right One In " is pretty awesome IMO! I would check that one out if you have not.

EDIT #2: I also remember liking a movie called " Them " ( originally called 'ils' ) Its a french movie or perhaps it was made in Romania? It has been a little while but I seem to remember enjoying that one as well.

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07-06-2015 , 08:36 PM

#14282

ntanygd760

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Originally Posted by BustoRhymes

First 20 minutes is an excellent short film.

The rest, I agree.

The time travel explanations made me want to plug my ears. Just laughed and waited for the story to move on.

Rotten Tomatoes says 25% or so of reviewers liked the movie. Count me among the 25%.

Ending left me a bit confused though.

Spoiler:

my thoughts on the end

Spoiler:

I liked the movie a lot, acting was a little rough in the scenes the reese character was in. I lost track of how many throw backs to all the movies and the show, going to have to rewatch when it hits DVD and try to find them all.

07-06-2015 , 08:46 PM

#14283

TheCroShow

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Originally Posted by Mac>DaWade

My recommendations

Rec (One of the great uses of found footage)

Hausu (House) Wacky genre twisting Japanese mystery/horror comedy/cult classic

I Saw the Devil (S Korean?) Beautifully gory revenge flick that'll make you feel like garbage in the best way.

Tokyo Tribe - Not really horror but a rap opera with genre moments splashed in. It's ****ing hilarious.

The Guest - A throwback to 70s horror. It's badass, violent and very funny.

You're Next - Same guys who did The Guest. Some decent jump scares, great characters and a ton of comedy.

The Battery - A refreshing zombie flick with a lot of heart and a lot of balls. Follows two baseball loving guys as they explore the world. It's not really about zombies.

Cheap Thrills - Two poor guys take part in dares from a rich couple. It starts out as college frat boy humor but quickly develops into something far more deep, exploring friendship, trust, today's economic climate, etc.

On my phone this app sucks haha. I'll check in later.

07-06-2015 , 09:58 PM

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ntanygd760

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Originally Posted by Minirra

I saw one trailer + the reviews and it looks every bit the wait-for-Netflix movie people figured it would be. How many Sarah Connors and John Connors and Kyle Reeses are we up to between the films and TV show? How many timelines? How long can you keep tapping senior-citizen Arnold and his old lines? (And I say that a fan of Arnold in general). The franchise was already a mess before this.

I'd think that anybody capable of actually making a good Terminator movie today would be just as well off making another sci-fi movie altogether. They could re-adapt "Second Variety," the short story that Terminator seemed to borrow a little from--"Screamers" was a 1995 adaptation but relatively few people saw that. [Who doesn't love murderous robots?] Lots of untapped good stuff out there for the genre.

I will take a shot at listing all the timelines. Anyone else feel free to add any I missed. There really could be an entire thread on the timelines.

Spoiler:

Keep in mind time travel is just a giant can of worms and gets super confusing very quickly but here is my take
- Original Reese doesn't go back, Skynet happens on its own and John Connor also leads the resistance but with no prior knowledge of those things and as skynet is about to lose they send back the original terminator.

2. This is the timeline in the first movie. John now grows up knowing about the machines and these leads up back to the point in time where they know they are going to lose so this time they send one back to 84 and another back liquid one back to kill John, this timeline also speeds up the creation of skynet do to the broken cpu chip and medal arm.

3. This is the 2nd movie timeline. Reese still goes back but John also reprograms a terminator which he would be able to do growing up knowing about them compared to the number 1 timeline. This timeline ignores the 3rd movie, skynet knows they are about to lose again so they send out the other 2 terminators as long as the one we see in T3 trying to kill his lieutenants since he went off the grid once his mom died of cancer.

4. the events in T3 happen and this leads into Terminator Salvation except for the marcus terminator. Skynet managed to kill John in this version and Catherine Brewster sends back the terminator in 3. and that reality Skynet also starts to send back terminators to set up the science behind this. John seeing the marcus terminator decides to send back the arnold one into the timeline that takes place in genisys.

5. In the timeline after genysis John now has access to the liquid terminator so he uses that to send back liquid terminators on their side which are some of the ones you see in T:SCC and since john knows one of the arnold terminators kills him which he learned from the second versioTn of timeline . He chooses to send back the Summer Glau terminator back instead which leads to a T:SCC we don't actually see. skynet then sends them back to even earlier in time so they can wait in hiding.

6- From there the TSCC we saw in the show takes place but splits when they jump like 5 years into the future and then John and the Summer terminator jump forward so far in the future that no one knows who John is. This is where the cliffhanger happened when the show was cancelled. I would think from here john would send back summer again with her knowing what happened the first time around and possibly leads to the actual defeat skynet.

That is all I can think of off the top of my head

07-06-2015 , 11:10 PM

#14285

ramabranch

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Last night watched The Man from Earth after a friend recommendation. It felt very cheap overall (sound mix, image quality, locations) but its a very smart and challenging movie. Feel this could make an excellent play (if its not done yet).

And today just watched Los Lunes al Sol (Mondays in the Sun) a hidden jewel of Javier Bardem from 2002. It was really good and moving but very very sad, didnt expect it to turn out that way. Is a movie based purely on character development that would be a good play as well!. Only thing I disliked was the need of the director to fade to black every transition, making it feel like a TV Movie sometimes.

07-06-2015 , 11:13 PM

#14286

All Hail Circe

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Quote:

Originally Posted by TheCroShow

My recommendations

Rec (One of the great uses of found footage)

You're Next - Same guys who did The Guest. Some decent jump scares, great characters and a ton of comedy.

Yes, REC is also one that I forgot to mention.

You're Next is also the one I meant to type but I called it " Who's Next? " because I always think if they make a sequel, it could be called that

07-06-2015 , 11:19 PM

#14287

Dpc5807

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Dubnjoy000

I actually just watched Time Lapse yesterday... Questionable premise, interesting plot, forgetful ending. Overall disappointing, yet entertaining for a sci-fy buff like me.

Yea pretty much. Not a good movie at all but maybe worth a one-time watch if you enjoy time travel movies.

07-07-2015 , 01:05 AM

#14288

Inland_Taipan

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Mac>DaWade

The Strangers
Sinister
Prince of Darkness
Rec
I saw the devil
Hellraiser
Texas Chainsaw (original)
Insidious
House of a 100 corpses
Funny Games

07-07-2015 , 03:14 AM

#14289

Minirra

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Quote:

Originally Posted by ntanygd760

I will take a shot at listing all the timelines. Anyone else feel free to add any I missed. There really could be an entire thread on the timelines.

Thanks but going to avoid this for now having not seen Genisys. I can think up several offhand.

It's a shame they couldn't make Terminator Salvation work out and get over the time travel gimmick, and into the post-apocalypse era for good. The show got there and was promptly axed too...so it looks like we're back to dicking around LA with the usual suspects once again if the previews are any indication. They're selling "everything has changed" as we see the same characters spouting the old lines, it looks sort of like a remake to me.

07-07-2015 , 03:21 AM

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ntanygd760

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There also spoilers for T:SCC that was on for 2 seasons maybe 6 years ago that got cancelled while they had cliff hanger as the season finale. Still bitter about that

07-07-2015 , 04:08 AM

#14291

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While we are on the horror trend, I am not a fan of the genre, but did get some chills watching Sinister (this most freak the hell out of children!!!). While the script is not great, the narrative ordinary Ethan Hawke was solid - as per usual - and I liked the editing. Worth a watch.

07-07-2015 , 04:21 AM

#14292

didonk

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Originally Posted by Mac>DaWade

You can try:

The Orphanage/El Orfanato

Sleep Tight/Mientras Duermes

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07-07-2015 , 06:40 AM

#14293

runout_mick

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Originally Posted by ramabranch

This is one of my favorite movies.

Considering it had no budget and abhorrent production value, that's quite an accomplishment. Normally I'm pretty shallow, and movies need to be at least a little bit shiny to hold my attention.

07-07-2015 , 07:27 AM

#14294

BustoRhymes

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Quote:

Originally Posted by ntanygd760

I will take a shot at listing all the timelines. Anyone else feel free to add any I missed. There really could be an entire thread on the timelines.

Spoiler:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Minirra

Season one kind of fell off a cliff thanks to the writers strike. They were literally filming without finished scripts. Just LOL. And then the show got renewed for S2 because it was less expensive to renew than replace.

I feel it did finally find its footing in season two and made me a fan. Shame that it didn't get renewed for a third season. I was interested to see what happened. Unfortunately the showrunner said he will never ever reveal his plans for what would have happened in season three

Shirley Manson too

07-07-2015 , 12:33 PM

#14295

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The Man from Earth is entertaining and worth a watch. As others have said, the entire movie is a conversation between a group of people. No big budget effects or any CGI or things like that. Just a long conversation.

07-07-2015 , 02:20 PM

#14296

Minirra

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Automata

I'd never heard of this, just ran across it on Netflix the other day. Made in Spain but it's in English and has familiar B-list actors.

This is probably the most generic and perfectly average sci-fi movie I've ever seen. Not good or bad, just straight down the middle in about every way a movie can be. 75% straight from Asimov, the rest from other well-known movies and cliches.

So humanity is reduced to millions of people after solar flares, they build humanoid robots to try and stop the desert, they fail and are treated like crap. The 2nd Law of Robotics in this film that robots can't repair or upgrade themselves and then it starts to happen and evil corporation wants them shut down.

The average lead (Antonio Banderas) is an insurance adjuster for people's robots, who just sees them as things, and is skeptical about them doing or being anything special...but then things change with things he sees, and eventually leads to having philosophical conversations with robots about their feelings and self-awareness, and how humans are bad and destructive...of course he's wrapped up in this mess and being pursued by evil corporation lackeys...

I'd spoiler tag some of that but you've seen it all before elsewhere. It's watchable but there's nothing standout about it at all. It's a respectable effort for a $15m budget I guess, and there's not really anything groanworthy or outright bad, yet nothing you see and go, "ok that was cool/interesting." I keep coming back to this being dead-center average among movies.

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07-07-2015 , 02:29 PM

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ntanygd760

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Originally Posted by BustoRhymes

Spoiler:

There are many people who believe you are wrong including the T:SCC producer

07-07-2015 , 02:48 PM

#14298

BustoRhymes

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Originally Posted by ntanygd760

There are many people who believe you are wrong including the T:SCC producer

Link? What's the explanation?

07-07-2015 , 03:12 PM

#14299

BustoRhymes

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Originally Posted by BustoRhymes

Link? What's the explanation?

I found some interesting discussion here. I have not yet encountered a convincing explanation for how John Connor could have existed if the initial timeline never occurs where Kyle Reese is sent back and impregnates Sarah Connor. The best someone offered is that Sarah might have slept with someone besides Reese and raised an entirely different person she also named John Connor, leading to the first iteration.

I did appreciate the explanations in the linked discussion on why Skynet would send back increasingly more technologically advanced terminators instead of sending back the most technologically advanced terminator in the first place. Skynet from the future is in essence communicating with the Skynet from an alternate timeline by virtue of its failures leaving their mark on history for the future Skynet to observe and adapt to.

07-07-2015 , 03:37 PM

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ntanygd760

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Yeah, basically Sarah has a kid with a random, names him John and he ends up being the leader of the resistance. Skynet wants to take him out before he was born so he sends Kyle back to protect his mother there for changing her personal timeline and going forward all the other timelines start with Kyle as the father.

Would actually be curious to find out James Cameron's take on the matter

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