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Post by Deeky on Nov 8, 2023 19:59:37 GMT -5
On this day in 1978, the movie "Magic" opened in the U.S., and I still have never gotten around to seeing it. I've seen a few good puppet/doll horrors, but it seems like there's only so many directions they can take things. You know? I recall it being very boring. |
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Post by Deeky on Nov 8, 2023 20:03:32 GMT -5
I've never seen anything from the Saw or The Purge series.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Nov 8, 2023 21:16:38 GMT -5
If I've never played the video game, should I even bother with "Five Nights at Freddy's", the movie? I've never seen a movie based on a video game that made any discernible sense. The trailer does look more promising in that regard than some, but... |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Nov 9, 2023 19:43:34 GMT -5
I have never seen any of the "Human Centipede" movies.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Nov 9, 2023 19:55:12 GMT -5
I've never seen anything from the Saw or The Purge series. I have seen the first movies in the Saw and Hostel franchises and they were actually good (well done thrillers, however you want to put it) - but I have no desire to see the sequels. I've also never seen "A Serbian Film". I can't remember if it was this thread or another, but The Purge movies are guilty pleasures here, like the Final Destination franchise. I know they're not really "good" movie franchises, and they tend to get a little worse with each sequal. I guess I'm intrigued by the premises and potentials for both series? I've brought up The Purge TV-series before, too. I really enjoyed the first season, where they got to explore a variety of stories going on during the same Purge Night over six 45 minute episodes. They got to delve into things deeper than a typical 90-minute movie could, yet it was still intense like a good Purge movie should be.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Nov 9, 2023 20:04:34 GMT -5
If I've never played the video game, should I even bother with "Five Nights at Freddy's", the movie? I've never seen a movie based on a video game that made any discernible sense. The trailer does look more promising in that regard than some, but... I feel like I have, but I'll be damned if any come to mind right this moment.
I did see Nicolas Cage in the Five Nights at Freddies rip-off "Willy's Wonderland" (2021)* and I cannot imagine how it has 5.5 stars on the IMDb.
*Is there a name for those obvious movie rip-offs that pop up prior to the actual big budget movie appearing? I know that The Asylum production company is notorious for a few.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Nov 9, 2023 20:08:03 GMT -5
On this day in 1978, the movie "Magic" opened in the U.S., and I still have never gotten around to seeing it. I've seen a few good puppet/doll horrors, but it seems like there's only so many directions they can take things. You know? I recall it being very boring. That's my thing about it: There are plenty of TV and movie anthology short pieces about ventriloquist dummies that do a splendid job, why should I subject myself to a full-on movie? That said, I did like "Dead Silence" (2007) for sort of poking new "life" into the tired horror trope. |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Nov 11, 2023 21:55:33 GMT -5
I have to confess I will probably catch "Thanksgiving" (2023) in theaters. It looks like standard-issue slasher fare, but I have a weakness for holiday-themed horrors.
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Post by El Santo on Nov 12, 2023 0:14:52 GMT -5
I recall it being very boring. That's my thing about it: There are plenty of TV and movie anthology short pieces about ventriloquist dummies that do a splendid job, why should I subject myself to a full-on movie? That said, I did like "Dead Silence" (2007) for sort of poking new "life" into the tired horror trope. For whatever this is worth, Magic isn't actually an evil dummy movie. Rather, it's more like a 60's-style psycho-horror film in which the psycho is the protagonist, and the dummy is the externalization that he has created for his madness. |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Nov 12, 2023 11:46:11 GMT -5
That's my thing about it: There are plenty of TV and movie anthology short pieces about ventriloquist dummies that do a splendid job, why should I subject myself to a full-on movie? That said, I did like "Dead Silence" (2007) for sort of poking new "life" into the tired horror trope. For whatever this is worth, Magic isn't actually an evil dummy movie. Rather, it's more like a 60's-style psycho-horror film in which the psycho is the protagonist, and the dummy is the externalization that he has created for his madness. Yeah, but that's the story with half of those types of ventriloquist dummy tales. Is it the creepy doll? Or is it in fact a psychotic ventriloquist? Heck, I think it was way back in a 1950's E.C. comic where they did a nice job of switching it up and it was actually a growth on the ventriloquist's arm that could speak and force him to kill. |
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Post by El Santo on Nov 12, 2023 16:28:36 GMT -5
For whatever this is worth, Magic isn't actually an evil dummy movie. Rather, it's more like a 60's-style psycho-horror film in which the psycho is the protagonist, and the dummy is the externalization that he has created for his madness. Yeah, but that's the story with half of those types of ventriloquist dummy tales. Is it the creepy doll? Or is it in fact a psychotic ventriloquist? Heck, I think it was way back in a 1950's E.C. comic where they did a nice job of switching it up and it was actually a growth on the ventriloquist's arm that could speak and force him to kill. Right, but in Magic, there's never the remotest possibility that Fats is anything but an inanimate hunk of wood. |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Nov 12, 2023 17:28:51 GMT -5
Yeah, but that's the story with half of those types of ventriloquist dummy tales. Is it the creepy doll? Or is it in fact a psychotic ventriloquist? Heck, I think it was way back in a 1950's E.C. comic where they did a nice job of switching it up and it was actually a growth on the ventriloquist's arm that could speak and force him to kill. Right, but in Magic, there's never the remotest possibility that Fats is anything but an inanimate hunk of wood. Damn. I'm even more conflicted now. At least its not the usual "Which is it?"-tension, but now I'm wondering what's there without it? Seems sort of duplicitous on the part of the marketers, as I recall the poster and ads prominently featuring a creepy-ass doll (Fats, apparently). I guess like you say, if I just go into it expecting more of a 60's-style psychodrama rather than a "Slappy from Goosebumps" sort of evil doll offering. I can see why Deeky said it bored him. On the other hand, it's hard not to be intrigued by that line-up: Anthony Hopkins? Ann Margret? Burgess Meredith? A slew of great character actors accompanying? I'm leaning towards finally seeing it. |
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Post by El Santo on Nov 13, 2023 7:37:00 GMT -5
Right, but in Magic, there's never the remotest possibility that Fats is anything but an inanimate hunk of wood. Damn. I'm even more conflicted now. At least its not the usual "Which is it?"-tension, but now I'm wondering what's there without it? Seems sort of duplicitous on the part of the marketers, as I recall the poster and ads prominently featuring a creepy-ass doll (Fats, apparently). I guess like you say, if I just go into it expecting more of a 60's-style psychodrama rather than a "Slappy from Goosebumps" sort of evil doll offering. I can see why Deeky said it bored him. On the other hand, it's hard not to be intrigued by that line-up: Anthony Hopkins? Ann Margret? Burgess Meredith? A slew of great character actors accompanying? I'm leaning towards finally seeing it. It's basically a feature-length version of the "Marion Crane at the Bates Motel" section of Psycho, in which Corky (Anthony Hopkins) = Norman Bates and Fats (the dummy) = Norman Bates's mom, except with Norman as both the interloping outsider and the viewpoint character. |
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Nov 13, 2023 10:06:03 GMT -5
Damn. I'm even more conflicted now. At least its not the usual "Which is it?"-tension, but now I'm wondering what's there without it? Seems sort of duplicitous on the part of the marketers, as I recall the poster and ads prominently featuring a creepy-ass doll (Fats, apparently). I guess like you say, if I just go into it expecting more of a 60's-style psychodrama rather than a "Slappy from Goosebumps" sort of evil doll offering. I can see why Deeky said it bored him. On the other hand, it's hard not to be intrigued by that line-up: Anthony Hopkins? Ann Margret? Burgess Meredith? A slew of great character actors accompanying? I'm leaning towards finally seeing it. It's basically a feature-length version of the "Marion Crane at the Bates Motel" section of Psycho, in which Corky (Anthony Hopkins) = Norman Bates and Fats (the dummy) = Norman Bates's mom, except with Norman as both the interloping outsider and the viewpoint character. This is...hard to picture. I'm starting to wonder if, along with movies like THE TOWERING INFERNO, we need to create a category for mediocre-to-lame movies with all-star casts. |
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Post by El Santo on Nov 13, 2023 12:07:53 GMT -5
It's basically a feature-length version of the "Marion Crane at the Bates Motel" section of Psycho, in which Corky (Anthony Hopkins) = Norman Bates and Fats (the dummy) = Norman Bates's mom, except with Norman as both the interloping outsider and the viewpoint character. This is...hard to picture. Okay, so at the outset, Corky is a stage magician whose career is going nowhere until he comes up with a gimmick: Every performance starts out with him just sucking egregiously, and battling with an unseen heckler over it until eventually he snaps and asks the heckler if he thinks he could do a better job; at that point, he charges out into the audience and returns to the stage with Fats, revealing that the heckling was ventriloquism all along, and then dummy and operator squabble their way through a much more convincing show of illusions. Psychologically, though, what's happening is that Corky has built the Fats persona out of every real heckler he ever had to deal with, out of every insecurity and feeling of inadequacy he's ever harbored due to his lack of success, and out of every bad break he ever got when he was just starting out. That makes Fats the seed for and symbol of a deeply dysfunctional alternate personality, which becomes commensurately more so as Corky's career turns around, and he starts attracting favorable attention. At some level, though, Corky understands that that's happening-- so he snaps for real when he's offered a gig as a late-night TV host, and the network's insurance company insists that he undergo a full medical evaluation (which Corky fears might expose the second personality that Fats has grown into). Corky goes on the lam, and retreats to his old hometown, where he reconnects with a woman whom he'd loved but never worked up the nerve to ask out when they were both teenagers. She's already married, but the marriage sucks badly enough that Corky looks like an attractive alternative-- although her husband is naturally going to have things to say about that sooner or later. And when he does, the part of Corky that manifests itself through Fats decides that it has a solution to the problem, just like Ma Bates had a solution to the problem of hussies from out of town trying to come between her and her son. |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on May 2, 2024 10:56:14 GMT -5
As much as I love Halloween, I'm a total weenie when it comes to horror movies. I can watch older ones, but I don't think I've watched any that have come out within the 2000s. I'm considering an all family-friendly Halloween marathon this October, just to change things up. |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on May 2, 2024 11:00:04 GMT -5
I enjoyed "Shawn of the Dead" (2004), but I've never understood how rabid some fans are about it.
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Post by Deeky on May 2, 2024 18:19:19 GMT -5
As much as I love Halloween, I'm a total weenie when it comes to horror movies. I can watch older ones, but I don't think I've watched any that have come out within the 2000s. I'm considering an all family-friendly Halloween marathon this October, just to change things up. You're going to be brutalized by Hocus Pocus. |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on May 2, 2024 19:56:27 GMT -5
I'm considering an all family-friendly Halloween marathon this October, just to change things up. You're going to be brutalized by Hocus Pocus.  What part? I love "Hocus Pocus". Honestly, it did take me years to finally get around to it. I even kind of liked the second one, while most people just shit all over it. |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on May 2, 2024 20:03:16 GMT -5
I've never seen "The Big Lebowski".
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What part? I love "Hocus Pocus". Honestly, it did take me years to finally get around to it. I even kind of liked the second one, while most people just shit all over it.