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The chestburster is so ingrained in pop culture, when I saw it I actually thought it was pretty tame. The stuff with Ash, I had no idea that was coming. It's more prolonged and I think a lot more effective. I think seeing a human(oid) character become inhuman and violent can be scarier than an inhuman monster being violent.
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I saw the chestburster on Spaceballs years before I watched Aliens. Really took the whole impact of the scene away.
 
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Standardized Profile said:
The chestburster is so ingrained in pop culture, when I saw it I actually thought it was pretty tame. The stuff with Ash, I had no idea that was coming. It's more prolonged and I think a lot more effective. I think seeing a human(oid) character become inhuman and violent can be scarier than an inhuman monster being violent.
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I had a similar issue with the shower stabbing in Psycho. It's not scary after seeing so many homages and especially growing up with a Hershey's parody. However, there's a later scene (the sudden kill on the stairs) that took me by surprise.
 
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Villeneuve is an extremely overrated director that makes arthouse movies at blockbuster budgets. I do not get why he gets the praise he gets when the only thing that is good in his movies are his visual effects. His characters are sterile (which makes sex scenes dull and uncomfortable instead of passionate), the soundtrack is typically composed by Hans Zimmer, so I outright hate the music. He's basically a Nolan clone as they both suck the fantastical elements of their IP for gritty, dirty realism. He's the other side of what is wrong with Hollywood as a business: bloated projects, overpaid actors, and undercooked scripts. And unlike capeshit, people think he's a visionary director for following what is essentially the same business model.

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And on the mumbling thing, is it more naturalistic to not hear what actors are saying? This is one of the worst trends in cinema. You end up dancing with the volume button.
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On a related note, I miss memorable character actors; you know, people that aren't particularly attractive, but are still interesting supporting characters. I tend to think of James Sloyan or Andrew J. Robinson or Paul Winfield when I'm referring to this category, actors that when given forehead bumps still give unique performances only they can create yet somehow never overshadow the character. Now, that kind of character actor is in short supply as everyone in movies now look like they're understudies for the leads.

How does this relate? When everyone is mumbling into the microphone, they lose the voices they naturally have, and thus makes them more interchangeable than they were before. I consider it a symptom of a bigger problem with Hollywood actors these days; they're not so great at the craft of acting and the gritty realism trend doesn't make them as glamourous either.
 
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SamTheEagle said:
I had a similar issue with the shower stabbing in Psycho. It's not scary after seeing so many homages and especially growing up with a Hershey's parody. However, there's a later scene (the sudden kill on the stairs) that took me by surprise.
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I had the same experience throughout the film. I always grew up hearing Norman Bates was the killer, so I was surprised when his mother stabs her in the shower and he has to clean it up. Not only was the scene you mentioned a surprise, but so was the reveal that the mother was dead and he was dressing up as her. It makes sense in hindsight, but it's amazing how much assumed knowledge there is.

It's why I wonder about other famous twists like Star Wars and The Usual Suspects and if they'll have an effect on younger people.
 
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Drag-on Knight 91873 said:
Villeneuve is an extremely overrated director that makes arthouse movies at blockbuster budgets. I do not get why he gets the praise he gets when the only thing that is good in his movies are his visual effects. His characters are sterile (which makes sex scenes dull and uncomfortable instead of passionate), the soundtrack is typically composed by Hans Zimmer, so I outright hate the music. He's basically a Nolan clone as they both suck the fantastical elements of their IP for gritty, dirty realism. He's the other side of what is wrong with Hollywood as a business: bloated projects, overpaid actors, and undercooked scripts. And unlike capeshit, people think he's a visionary director for following what is essentially the same business model.


On a related note, I miss memorable character actors; you know, people that aren't particularly attractive, but are still interesting supporting characters. I tend to think of James Sloyan or Andrew J. Robinson or Paul Winfield when I'm referring to this category, actors that when given forehead bumps still give unique performances only they can create yet somehow never overshadow the character. Now, that kind of character actor is in short supply as everyone in movies now look like they're understudies for the leads.

How does this relate? When everyone is mumbling into the microphone, they lose the voices they naturally have, and thus makes them more interchangeable than they were before. I consider it a symptom of a bigger problem with Hollywood actors these days; they're not so great at the craft of acting and the gritty realism trend doesn't make them as glamourous either.
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That is a fascinating point. I had never considered that angle. John Ford films would be lacking a special charm without that style of actor. Perhaps it is why, other than being a good actor, Willem Dafoe is in so many films. There is few like him nowadays.


(mostly) Ditto on Villeneuve. The attempt to make everything as realistic as possible is the absence of style. The same drive that presupposes one to be cynical. It works in Scott's Alien, but Dune I bailed out on in the cinema. There was nothing exotic about it that I liked about the novel. The cinematography bored me and it had none of the energy that makes film so brilliant to watch. And whilst I enjoyed certain aspects of 2049, it was not as enthralling as the original. Ideas it was full of but it was not earnest about any of them. It had ideas because a movie like that needs them, not because it wanted to explore them or uplift the audience into a higher state of feeling. Scott's Paradise Lost influenced Roy Batty and Deckard's confusion with identity may not be fully developed, but I am at least affected but them.

I mean, give me a well-meaning albeit imperfect director like Samuel Fuller. He had vision. His stories are brutal and larger than life. His movies are cheap, even for the time, but you feel his characters and the worlds he has created. He wants his films to make us ask questions to ourselves.
 
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I thought Blade Runner 2049 was a decent sequel. Granted, I've not seen anything other Villeneuve, I'd anticipated any sequel to Blade Runner to be complete shit but was pleasantly suprised by how it took the Deckard is a replicant premise from original's Director's Director's Final Cut and ran with it, and the subtle reference to the Westwood videogame. It has 2 major plot holes I can remember off the top of my head: why bother stalking Rachel's child after about 20 years after it was born, and why bother transfering Deckard to offworld when you can torture him here and now?
 
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Ughubughughughughughghlug said:
I hate Chinatown and whenever I look up why people like it they just sound like wankers.
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I would tell you why some people like it, but I always forget it, Jake.

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Nolan is a hackfraud. While I dislike a lot of aspects of his filmmaking ("high concepts" what if bullets, but backwards ?!), his soundmixing is the worst offender. People usually excuse it by saying he is mixing it specifically for theatres, but even then you cannot understand half of the dialogue because of generic Hans Zimmer music swelling up to unhealthy levels in the middle of the dialogue. Fuck that.
 
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Nolan is a hackfraud. While I dislike a lot of aspects of his filmmaking ("high concepts" what if bullets, but backwards ?!), his soundmixing is the worst offender. People usually excuse it by saying he is mixing it specifically for theatres, but even then you cannot understand half of the dialogue because of generic Hans Zimmer music swelling up to unhealthy levels in the middle of the dialogue. Fuck that.
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And no other director has this particular problem so consistently.
 
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Watched The K__ller tonight, what a garbage ass movie. Clearly a case of the writer trying to write something that was way out of his depth. An expert assassin who constantly fucks up the most basic details.
 
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Watched The K__ller tonight, what a garbage ass movie. Clearly a case of the writer trying to write something that was way out of his depth. An expert assassin who constantly fucks up the most basic details.
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I thought of it more of a comedy while watching. The characters inner anime-like monologue about how badass he is going to execute his next step of his assassin and revenge masterplan and then fucking up was quite funny. But yea, I agree, as a serious thriller it just doesn't work. The cinematography was really good though.

Also: How the hell did Kevin Costner become such a big star back in the day? He is so boring and one-note in every film. While I really like Thirteen Days, his Boston accent is so fucking awful, it's hilarious and takes you out of every scene. Someone on set should've hit him in the head each time he opened his mouth trying to emulate that accent.
 
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Bonesjones said:
Watched The K__ller tonight, what a garbage ass movie. Clearly a case of the writer trying to write something that was way out of his depth. An expert assassin who constantly fucks up the most basic details.
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Agree. The only thing good about that movie was that he actually does kill everyone.

Well, everyone EXCEPT the billionaire who fucked upbhis whole gig and who has the means and motive to do it again only more effectively. Who just gets a warning. Because...I'm not even sure and can't just say "reasons" because it's not even that. It's just that he didn't.

Everything from "I'll take the worst shot possible after passing on tons of better ones after watching out for this guy for days" to "I'll assassinate this giant whose only asset is his size, strength, and prowess at hand to hand combat by getting within one foot of him with a tiny handgun instead of sniping him from the vacant lot across the street or mowing him down with an SMG in his isolated yard."

Just absolutely dumb modern writing. I guess I can give it that it trickled the retardation in small steady doses so I didn't bail on it like most movies. High praise, I know.
 
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