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Sashar
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posted April 20, 2012 10:22 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Sashar     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Have you seen it?

It was probably the first movie I've left completely satisfied in a long time.

Don't want to give any spoilers for those that haven't seen it, but I have a question for those that have. You know that guy... the one that she stared at through the glass with the puzzle egg?

What sign did the character make you think of?

You see, I don't go for ... well... ANY of that, but there was something about that look in his eyes. Something.

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posted April 21, 2012 09:04 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Aquacheeka     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I agree! I thought it was brilliantly done! Excellent satire, really took aim at common horror movie tropes that we all know. It was very satiating for horror-loving nerds like me

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posted April 21, 2012 09:06 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Aquacheeka     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by Sashar:
You know that guy... the one that she stared at through the glass with the puzzle egg?

What sign did the character make you think of?

You see, I don't go for ... well... ANY of that, but there was something about that look in his eyes. Something.



For some reason I can't remember him right... was he the one sort of huffing and puffing, almost Hulk-like and looking really ****** or am I imagining that?

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Randall
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posted April 21, 2012 10:39 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Randall     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
It is being called one of the worst movies ever made. My friend manages a theatre here, and he said everyone hates it. But I enjoyed it.

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Sashar
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posted April 21, 2012 10:50 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Sashar     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by Aquacheeka:

For some reason I can't remember him right... was he the one sort of huffing and puffing, almost Hulk-like and looking really ****** or am I imagining that?


No he was extremely calm, just looking at her through the glass as she ranted about something. He took a step forward, but no huffing and puffing.

His look almost said to me, "Yeah, I would kill you if I could, there's no doubt about that. It would be painful. But I have my reasons and they are worthy." Sort of a sadistic kindness, with the power, determination, and inner strength to back it up.

That was the scene for me, the one that let me know this movie was awesome.

Whatever that sign is, and/or whatever aspects that cause that... I want to find it and figure out how that translates over to a higher purpose. Because it's hard as heck to find people irl that have the kind of power and inner strength that radiates with me like that. Weird thing to want to find... I know. lol

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Sashar
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posted April 21, 2012 10:57 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Sashar     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by Randall:
It is being called one of the worst movies ever made. My friend manages a theatre here, and he said everyone hates it. But I enjoyed it.


Seriously? I thought it was EXCELLENT... but then again, I have odd tastes. lol

If it's not going well mainstream, it's definitely an instant cult classic.

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posted April 21, 2012 11:14 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Randall     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Loved the irony of the appearance of the merman.

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Aquacheeka
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posted April 21, 2012 12:18 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Aquacheeka     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by Randall:
It is being called one of the worst movies ever made. My friend manages a theatre here, and he said everyone hates it. But I enjoyed it.


Really?? I've only seen good reviews for it in our local papers and the cinemaclock website.

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posted April 21, 2012 12:23 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Aquacheeka     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by Randall:
Loved the irony of the appearance of the merman.


YES!! That was epic! lol


I loved those people with the white masks. How creepy!

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hippichick
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posted April 21, 2012 05:21 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for hippichick     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
My mom got up and left....

Cant wait to see it, was it or her...!!!

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PixieJane
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posted April 21, 2012 08:23 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for PixieJane     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Saw it last night. It was both classic (that is if someone missed a few scenes they'd think it was the tired old formula that was going to be painfully predictable) yet original at the very same time (not so predictable after all--IMO, Whedon outdone himself in his usual subversion of the genre). It also established atmosphere very well (and I'm amazed at how campy it got yet seemed so fresh and new), and just when it seemed it couldn't get anymore intense it radically changes gears and DOES. That ending was epic.

Oh, yes, a quasi-spoiler that only those who have seen it will understand:

"Am I on speaker phone?"

Still, it was a little too intense for me (not that I regret seeing it). But then when growing up I had nightmares from watching Return to Oz (though not The Crow, which I went to when I was 11 IIRC and then snuck in to see it again). And what bugs me sometimes is that I recall how I almost ran out of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) when I was 21 (and I only went because someone tricked me into thinking it was more comedy than slasher) and would've if I hadn't been prevented, yet there were little kids there who didn't seemed to be phased by it at all (in fact, a couple amazed me by seeming BORED).

I was struck by that again as I took the kids to see TCitW, in part to make up for taking them to see Mirror, Mirror which the 9-year-old boy mostly hated and the 14-year-old girl found [barely] ok (I personally liked it). Because the girl has seen Buffy the Vampire Slayer and is now watching it again--currently on season 2--with the boy (who to my surprise is getting into it despite that I thought things like the romantic subplots would bore him) and after watching some pretty horrific movies just before breaking out the Buffy dvds (including 30 Days of Night and Fright Night, the latter written by those who helped write Buffy and it shows) with them loving it (thus showing they can handle terror, gore, and adult topics) I decided to just go in blind with them to see TCitW without seeing it first. I wondered if I hadn't made a mistake as the violence began but they both LOVED it. They want to see it AGAIN (and I don't--for me it works best if you don't know what's about to happen which is why I'm not giving any spoilers here). I get the impression it was like a wild roller coaster ride for them and they didn't even want to watch an ep of Buffy (my suggestion to "wash out the images") as they just wanted to revel in how awesome it was and not let anything detract from it. I told them I'd take them again in a couple of weeks and it does appear we will be getting the dvd.

It's weird...the boy used to suffer horrible nightmares when I first met him but he only rarely has those anymore (despite that I let him watch movies like this since he seems to handle it well), and he said no nightmares last night either. And the girl...when I first met her she was an 11-year-old Hannah fanatic, but she's really into horror now. I suspect her love of Harry Potter which slowly got scarier led to her love to Buffy--which shares many elements in common with Harry Potter--when I shared my dvds with her which has finally made her a horror fan. And I think the movie scared & disturbed me more than it did either of them!

And as for me, I used to be against letting 9-year-olds see graphic horror movies like that (I've slowly changed my views over the years, though I do think many kids--and a few adults, too, for that matter--shouldn't see movies like that). In fact, I let him watch BtVS: The Wish and Dopplegangland a couple of years ago ONLY because I was drunk (this was the only Buffy he's seen until he started watching the series with us recently), but he loved it and seemed able to follow it and I've very slowly allowed him to see more and more intense movies over the last couple of years. I'm still a little amazed at myself for letting him see TCitW with us without prescreening it first (in part because I just trusted Whedon not to have anything truly vile in it like rape or "torture porn"), but I'm glad he loved it as much as he did. I kinda wish I had that psychological fortitude when I was his age (I'm pretty sure that at 9 I'd have had a fit had someone tried to make me watch it and kept my eyes closed through much of it), though I suspect I was much more sensitive to scary movies (and stories) because I had an intense imagination (and I didn't feel safe back then), and I've found having that imagination very useful as well as pleasurable and thus a blessing despite a few unpleasant side effects at times.

ETA: Btw, for those who don't know, Joss Whedon (one of the writers for TCitW) was the creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (and I mean only the series as control of the movie that came years before was taken from him and warped).

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posted April 24, 2012 09:42 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Randall     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Whedon is an acquired taste. Maybe more people will appreciate him more when The Avengers comes out. He wrote it.

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posted May 01, 2012 01:05 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Randall     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Midnight showing of The Avengers Thursday night!

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posted May 01, 2012 01:13 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Aquacheeka     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Personally, I think everything Whedon touches turns to gold.

I feel bad for the young girls kids today. I got Buffy; I got to look to an empowered and intelligent kick-butt young woman for inspiration. Today's young girls get Bella from Twilight, a girl whose boyfriend goes overseas so she decides to curl up and die.

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posted May 01, 2012 04:49 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for PixieJane     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by Aquacheeka:
I feel bad for the young girls kids today. I got Buffy; I got to look to an empowered and intelligent kick-butt young woman for inspiration. Today's young girls get Bella from Twilight, a girl whose boyfriend goes overseas so she decides to curl up and die.

The 14-year-old I took to see CitW was 12 when she loaned me her copy of Twilight. Though I grudgingly admired some ways the story was written (as just one example I saw that it was made to appeal to as many readers as possible assuming you stand it, for example she doesn't "google" she uses her "favorite search engine," she doesn't listen to any specific bands just her "favorite music" which the reader can just imagine as her own, though there were some descriptive scenes I was impressed by that made me think she sat on a beach while describing one, for example), but the only reason I didn't give up on it was because I didn't want to hurt her feelings saying I couldn't stand it. Once the evil vampires showed up near the end it got more interesting and I was able to get through it with a lot less pain. And I can see how it appeals to tweens like her, though not adults given that Edward (and the other vampires) treated Bella like a child (which a tween would be used to and so easily overlooked, and I found Bella so pathetic that I think she deserved it, but adults should have more self-respect than to want to be treated like that, IMO). Nevertheless I thought Bella was a HORRIBLE role model and Edward was--at best--a demeaning stalker (ironically one of my worst vampire nightmares, in a sense, was where I dreamed Edward was stalking me and I couldn't stop him, it terrified me in a way all my other vampire nightmares never could). I much preferred her interest in Harry Potter which had far better role models and promoted the view that children should grow up.

Just a few months prior her mom had gotten me to watch It's a Wonderful Life during the Christmas holidays, and I drank enough brandy-spiked eggnog that I got less than sober. After seeing it I decided she needed to see a Buffy ep it reminded me of and broke out the BtVS ep: The Wish. I went to ask the kids (then 12 and 7) if they wanted to watch it, which I wouldn't have if I'd been sober, and at first both weren't interested (just as they wanted to skip It's a Wonderful Life), but after warning them "you might find it a little scary" they changed their mind. They loved it and I showed them the sequel to it (Doppelgangland). And remembering how well she liked it, and knowing how she loved Harry Potter (which has A LOT of story and character elements in common with BtVS) I asked her if she'd like to see it with me, as I hadn't watched it in a couple of years at least (save the 2 eps during the Christmas holidays of course) and I thought it showed better role models (flaws and all). She did and became a huge Buffy fan and forgot all about Twilight. Some time later I showed her this vid that she loved:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZwM3GvaTRM

Just recently we started watching the show again (we're currently near the very end of Season 2) and the boy is watching it this time (and she's enjoying watching it again, too). I thought all the romantic drama & subplots would bore him but he's in love with it. He's even watched some eps we've seen again, such as season 1 Nightmares (I know he's seen it at least 3 times now), and he thought Buffy using the rocket launcher in season 2 was one of the best scenes ever. I'm amazed a 9-year-old is loving it this well. Makes me wish I could've seen this show when I was 9 as I'm sure I would've gotten something completely different out of it than as an adult, and it would've been right up my alley given that when I was 9 I loved to write fics of children (usually girls) who outsmarted witches, vampires, and fairy tale monsters & curses...

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posted May 02, 2012 10:25 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Aquacheeka     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZwM3GvaTRM

LOL!! ^This^ made me laugh so hard I had to share it on my Facebook


Very cool that you got a little boy into Buffy!

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