There are a few exceptions to this rule
I hope the British version of The Office makes the cut!
Hell, I don't know. If I had wanted schooling, I'da gone to school.
Jayne ,'Ariel'
Buffista Movies 4: Straight to Video
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
Hayden - Oct 26, 2005 6:14:00 am PDT #8268 of 10002
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Glamcookie - Oct 26, 2005 9:24:38 am PDT #8269 of 10002
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
On the scary movies front, I agree with The Blair Witch Project (I found the whole thing scary as shit).
In Scream (which I generally didn't find scary), I was freaked out by the dude in the bathroom stall. I still think about that when I'm in the restroom at work. Another movie that I remember being terrifying was The Last House On the Left.
Ailleann - Oct 26, 2005 9:34:58 am PDT #8270 of 10002
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda
I missed the first five-ten minutes of Blair Witch, so basically all of the exposition. This made 3/4ths of the movie really boring and mildly confusing. The last bit, though... the friend I was with noticed my tension, and at a moment when nothing was happening, he grabbed me and said boo, and I shrieked like... well, like a girl. The running pell-mell down the stairs gave me a nightmare or two.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 26, 2005 9:45:52 am PDT #8271 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
If anyone's really bothered by scary scenes from recent horror movies, I recommend watching the appropriate Scary Movie spoof which will puncture the tension of aforementioned scenes like a needle through a balloon. The most recent one skewered Signs, The Ring, The Others, The Matrix and 8 Mile.
Volans - Oct 26, 2005 10:57:00 am PDT #8272 of 10002
move out and draw fire
Matt speaks the truth. GC mentioned the bathroom scene and all I could picture was the parallel from Scary Movie.
Just watched Finding Neverland. Beautiful movie.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 26, 2005 12:36:45 pm PDT #8273 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
GC mentioned the bathroom scene and all I could picture was the parallel from Scary Movie.
Yeah, the terror pretty much dissipates when you've seen it re-enacted with Shawn Wayans and really tasteless penis sight gags added.
Glamcookie - Oct 26, 2005 1:23:36 pm PDT #8274 of 10002
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
I need to watch it then cause when I'm alone in the bathroom at work, I hurry through my hand washing so the scary mask dude won't get me.
Alicia K - Oct 26, 2005 1:28:51 pm PDT #8275 of 10002
Uncertainty could be our guiding light.
It's been ages since I've seen Se7en. Can someone please whitefont for me how the hooker dies?
Jars - Oct 26, 2005 1:31:42 pm PDT #8276 of 10002
Se7en hooker death - Kevin Spacey dude forces a guy to rape her with a dildo fashioned into a knife.
IIRC. Haven't seen it in a while.
§ ita § - Oct 26, 2005 1:56:06 pm PDT #8277 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Paramount is in final negotiations with Layer Cake director Matthew Vaughn to direct and produce a screen version of Neil Gaiman’s Stardust, about “a young man who promises his beloved that he'll retrieve a fallen star by venturing into the magical realm, where he has to contend with witches, goblins, gnomes, talking animals and evil trees.” One Ring nerds everywhere go on a cloak dry-cleaning frenzy.
Variety article -- to which I can't get, but there you go.