I've seen happy gilmore like 30 times. It's the only adam sandler movie I like but it's fucking funny.

You've seen Happy Gilmore 30 times? It's a funny movie, but I can't see a movie more than 4 times before I get bored of it.

Over the course of a decade. Our family owns a cottage and it's one of the only VHS tapes there. It's just a tradition to watch it.

There was a time in history when my brother and I would watch Monty Python and the Holy Grail every single day after school. Typically when I've seen a movie and absurd number of times it isn't all blitzkrieg like that (I've seen Men in Black probably upwards of fifty times between myself, my brothers putting it on, or it just being on TV since it came out, so that's what? Like fifteen years?) but yeah I've seen plenty of movies a ton. Especially when you're a kid or you have kids around, kids love watching the same thing over and over again.

Donnie Darko is my all time favorite movie and I've probably seen it around 18 times and counting. Others, like Back to the Future and the original Star Wars trilogy, are coming in close. One of the best movies of the past decade, Into The Wild, is also a flick I could watch anytime, beautiful film.

I watched Jurassic Park and its first sequel so many times as a kid. In fact, if I ever had to wait for something and I wasn't at home, I would replay one or the other in my head (with 100% accuracy) until waiting time was over.

Whew... thanks, buddy. I'm gonna check it out tonight.

horror is generally a pretty crappy genre of movie from my experience. Unless it's some classic like it, shining, nightmare on elm street, friday the 13th, evil dead, creature from the black lagoon, scream etc.

I think that horror movies tend to use a lot of gore, violence or murder to scare people, which I think is just annoying. A scary movie, well, is supposed to have a scary plot, and the images of gore usually tend to take away from that plot (if you imagine taking away the gore in a movie, it'd probably be just trash). Movies like the Shining are probably more successful because it does not use much gore.

I like gore if it's really low budget and stuff. I watched this one movie about a pedophile and a retarded kid on holloween night and a creepy mother-of-the-retarded-kid's new boy friend where they all end up dying horrible painful deaths in the end except the mother and retarded kid. Yeah, I forgot the name of the movie, sorry It ruled though. Low budget horror is the best kind.

What?

WHAT?!

IT? Really?

This guy is an idiot.

Imo there's a big difference between horror films and slasher/gore films.

*edit* oh and by the way, Absentia was pretty good. Thanks Emp!

teen slasher flicks are to horror what the latest adam sandler flick is to comedy and straight-to-dvd steven seagal flicks are to action.
I see nothing to indicate that horror's pulp ratio is that much higher than any other genre.

The House of the Devil is pretty great. It takes awhile to really go anywhere, but I think the overall atmosphere is perfect.

*adds oogboog and breeze kneeze to my mental list of people who are simply talking out of their asses*

Horror is crappy unless Tim Curry makes Prince Albert jokes and throws balloons at people. Yup, harrowing.

I watched it for the first time at like 1 AM and I was glued to the screen. It just fucking possessed me and I couldn't stop thinking about it. Sometime I'll eventually do a review for it properly, but damn is that a fucking diabolically good horror movie. Love the atmosphere, love the ambiguity of what's going on right up until the end, love the characters - it's a winner, man. Easily my new best movie of 2011.

There are several. I personally would deem The Descent, The Collector, Martyrs, The Strangers, The Crazies (remake), Jeepers Creepers, The Hills Have Eyes (remake), Frontier(s), Antichrist and A Serbian Film as sure fire horror hits from 00's. I could search harder and find a few more but I think that's a sufficient amount for now. I know you asked for no remakes but damn me if those two aren't worth a gander.

Hatchet, Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon, Feast, Frozen, Trick 'R Treat, Otis are some pretty good ones from the 00's. Don't worry too much about finding new movies though. Just watch The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Over and over and over and over........

All of the movies posted in the last two posts are truly atrocious, except Martyrs. I'll check my collection and deliver you to horror salvation.

Frozen, The Strangers, Hatchet and Trick 'r Treat are all good picks, really dunno why Necro thinks those movies are "atrocious"...can't get behind the Crazies remake though.

Let me single out The Strangers. You enjoyed that movie? I thought it was pointless, terribly acted, and had an unsatisfying conclusion. Also some of the dialogue made me cringe.

Well then call me embarassed. Fucking comedy gold.

Edit: Tried watching Memento the other day. Again. Same reaction.

"Pointless" is a pretty arbitrary complaint to level against a whole entire movie. It was a solid flick. Reminded me of TCM a bit in its atmosphere and execution and though it started out slow, built up into something very tense and creepy. The second act was particularly good. And I liked the conclusion fine. Don't remember any of the dialogue as it's been 2 years since I saw it, but I don't remember that striking me as particularly weak or anything.

''WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS?!'' ''Because you were home.'' URGGHHHH

It wasn't tense and creepy at all. And comparing it to something as classic, and disturbing in atmosphere as TCM is silly, my good sir.

So is calling it flat out atrocious. I went in with low expectations because a lot of people had been bashing it, and came out pleasantly surprised. It's not going to reinvent the genre and there are better movies, but The Strangers is solid. Don't see anything wrong with that line you quoted either, I remember it working perfectly fine with what they were going for.

Necroticism174 is off the deep end, well and truly. There's clearly a point illustrated and that is horrible acts can happen to anyone at anytime for no good reason. You go in for explanations and you are treated with a blank stare and utterly cold reasoning, that is more than effective because that shit happens in the real world. The Strangers is one of the few horror films with a clear cut and paste point. Terribly acted, really? Perhaps you've never walked on the b grade side of horror movies and seen truly shite acting. I didn't find Liv Tyler or Scott Speedman bothersome in the slightest. The conclusion was more than satisfying, I didn't find it predictable and it drove like a dagger through the soul. Empyreal is right on the money with The Texas Chainsaw Massacre comparison, sure there are differences but the feel of TCM is there.

More or less. I can't remember what it was about it that reminded me of TCM really. I just know I watched both around the same time and the vibe was there, or at least, a nice classic horror from the 70s vibe, back when movies didn't need supernatural bullshit or shock and awe torture scenes (cough, Martyrs) to be seen as good. The appeal is pretty much what voluteswarth said, it's scary because it's realistic and could happen to anyone. The line Necro quoted pretty much sums up why it's such a cold, dark film. I should watch it again.

Related to this I also recently watched the original I Spit On Your Grave for the first time - that's a fucking cold-ass, chilling son of a bitch of a movie right there.

Saw this last year at Fantasia and I was bored out of my mind, and I really didn't manage to care about any of the characters. Eh.

Breeze I understand, but I don't see what's so objectionable about what oogboog said in his last post.

Mainly just because he implied that breeze had a point (which he didn't) and that the generalization that horror = gore 90% of the time is just incorrect. Death is almost always involved because... well most people are afraid of dying. I can't imagine that a movie about a ghoul who does annoying but non-lethal things to somebody would be all that riveting.

I watched Memento by Christopher Nolan today. It's a great movie and I would recommend it if you haven't seen it and are a fan of other Nolan films. After I saw it I was just perplexed at the genius of it. It leaves you with a lot of questions.

Really? What kind of questions?

Yeah, I love the movie, but it isn't exactly question provoking, just an entertaining story told in an entertaining way.

Christopher Nolan gained more and more of a tendency to overload his movies with lots of complexities and little subplots and twists, but I just really like the way he did that for especially The Prestige and The Dark Knight, which are two of the most enjoyable and gripping movies I know from that few years. Even when his excesses made the movies exhausting to watch, I still really liked them and admired the hard work that went into them, as well as just straight up loving the flat out intensity of them. It's a shame his ego has started to get the best of him lately...Inception was good but just reeked of showing off, and then TDKR pretty much sucked. Oh well. Nobody makes all good movies I guess.

Reading this made me remember how much I loved this movie... and then I remembered how much I hated the wife subplot. Makes the movie unwatchable unless I skip over those scenes.

what's wrong with you guys and adam sandler? has ANYONE seen punch drunk love? easily, sandler's best role, and the best movie sandler's been in. and the best movie sandler will ever be in

just this scene alone makes it worth the watch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F04Gln02mRI

I've never seen that movie .

Maybe you are looking for something that the genre it's not specialized providing it. Horror it's not just slasher movies, but hell there are tons of them. It's like saying that thrash metal sucks cause the lyrics are not deep enough, when most of thrash fans look for some violent shit and nothing more.

Adam Sandler? what I've seen from it, he reprises the same character in every movie.



Inception was mostly an exercise of ripping off Satoshi Kon's Paprika. Watch it, way better than Nolan's movie.

About TDKR, I saw it again - In fact I saw the whole trilogy again - and I still think it's easily the weakest of the 3. TDK was a little too long and Batman it's almost unexistent. The script it's great, especially Joker's.

Punch Drunk Love is really good.

Flash Point: Well I'm a sucker for modern kung fu movies (though Ong Bak ruined them by being so fucking good that everything seems to be a disappointment now simply because it isn't Ong Bak), and this starred Donnie Yen who kicked all sorts of ass in Ip Man, so I said "Hey why not?". Well I should have looked into it a bit, because it wasn't a martial arts movie at all, it was more of a cop drama with two or three fight scenes. When I watch movies like this, I basically look for mindless, fun, exciting action, which this movie had pretty much none of. The story itself was cliche and uninteresting, and Yen's character was basically a reckless douche who consistently endangers people and neglects his loved ones and learns nothing by the end of the movie. The only person I really cared about was his partner's love interest, and I think that may have just been because she was goddamn adorable. The three fight scenes themselves weren't all that great either, with the first one being a cacophonous mess that was impossible to follow because it was at the beginning and I had no idea who was who, and the next two were just one-on-ones with Donnie Yen basically manhandling his opponents with WWE moves. Not the kind of movie I was looking for, but I guess that was my fault.

An American Werewolf in London: Part I of my new series, Classic Movies I'm Ashamed to have Not Seen in Full by Now. I was interested in this one for a while now, and I'd heard buzz that the practical effects were on par with The Thing, who some may know is my favorite movie of all time. I can't say I quite agree with that claim as, since this is a werewolf movie, most of the gruesome effects happen at night time in very dark lighting. Therefore the only two scenes that really stuck out in that department were the transformation scene and when Jack visits David in the hospital, which from what I understand are the two "classic" scenes from the movie anyway. Those are the only two scenes with interesting visuals happening in a well lit area, and I couldn't help but marvel at just how much effort went in to the makeup and effects. The little fleshy bits dangling off Jack's neck was the little touch that made me realize just how gruesome it all really looked. Which actually brings me to the other thing about the movie I really liked, which was that the comic relief was never overdone and always felt natural. Even though a dormant werewolf is talking to seven zombies in a porno theater, it still felt like everybody was human, they were real people having real conversations, not just hamming it up due to whatever the circumstances were. If you can get me to buy a relationship on screen as a natural one between real people, chances are I'll really get invested and enjoy the movie (see: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles). Overall the atmosphere was good and the story/characters/effects were... well, effective.

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