Anyone seen Salem’s Lot? 80s I think. No spoilers but is it scary?
Yeah, not scary no but creepy for the time. Book was better.
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Both based on VERY vague memory.
In The Tall Grass. That was shite too.
Just watched a clip on YT, looks very aged and nothing like my idea of how it looked. That goes with so many films like that though. I remember Children of the Corn being something we talked about as kids but couldn’t picture a single scene.
I realise this goes against my whole argument in the other thread, I was obsessed by horror films as a kid and watched them all as a cousin worked at the local video shop.
I saw Children of the Corn as a nipper and it scared the shit out of me.
Also some film with big radioactive bugs that killed people, freaked me out
Yeah same, Barely remember it though.
In The Tall Grass is a shite attempt at Children of the Corn
Midsommar is a shite attempt at The Wicker Man.
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Ah, not heard of that film anyway. I assumed that about Midsommar though and you confirmed that I don’t really need to see it. I’ll watch it if happens to be on right in front of me while i’m not doing anything but I won’t seek it out. Cheers Kermode.
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More in-depth analysis soon.
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Watched this informative documentary the other day. Interesting and fairly full on “content” wise
I knew she was in the Great Rock n Roll Swindle but that was it
Thought that was called ‘Receptacle’ for a second.
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Yet you’ve managed not to kill anyone!
Kidding obviously, but if you look at that whole “Video nasty” generation there was outcry then and yet it would be easy to say we all turned out alright and didn’t go about shooting up schools…
I just don’t like the blame game that the rags chuck on games/films/music.
Seeing Joker tonight, will report back, if I avoid starting a revolution on my way home.
The hysteria about video nasties was insane. There’s always got to be some kind of moral crisis. Politicians need to look important and moral.
Driller Killer was on the banned list and it is not even slightly scary. It’s just a piss take of NY hipsters
People still get outraged that kids might see something shocking in the cinema, when most teenagers have probably seen a homeless Russian man be murdered with a screwdriver anyway.
Not sure what it is about it that makes me want to see it.
It isn’t really the media hype, that’s just put it on my radar of something that might be worth a watch.
The few snippets I’ve seen, and I try to avoid seeing bits of films I’m interested to see, look well filmed and styled.
I’m not a comic character fan at all.
I did of course enjoy the reruns of Batman in my younger years but I never went out of my way to watch it.
Shall see.
Yeah, I have not killed anyone ha
I don’t think you’re taking in my details or i’m just not putting it across well.
You and I and most people have varied our exposure to many things, had experiences that have coloured our views and outlooks, not everyone has that. They live between very narrow parameters. My point is that games (not so much films because you’re not personally interacting with the medium causing the results) are making death/death very trivial and throwaway. Whether we are affected or whether we can process and handle it correctly does not matter, it just seems a little heavy for it to be this way to me. So i’m not laying blame at games feet, I just think they play a part in the lack of empathy with people.
I remember when I was a kid, probably about 7 or 8, Robocop was the must see film. I remember some kids at school had seen it and they often talked about the guy who had his cock shot off. The thing is, they turned that into a kids cartoon and advertised the toys on the telly.
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You’re putting them across fine and I agree with you for the most part, I was just being facetious.
I also agree a lack of empathy is what detaches murderers, but I personally feel laying anything more than a tiny amount of blame with films/games/music is counterproductive, as World Industries say, censorship is weak as fuck… if there was any kind of ban on violent games/films then they would just go underground and you’d end up with things like the dark web.
I chatted with a mate about this last night before we saw Joker and he mentioned this news story:
Nobody is calling for a ban on Coronation Street…
To stay on topic:
I really enjoyed Joker, Taxi Driver is one of my favourite films ever and this felt like Taxi Driver for a new generation, some criticism of the film has been “It’s not a comic book movie” but it definitely is, it’s got way more nods to the Batman story than I thought it was going to have, and the birth of the Joker character towards the end could have been straight out a comic book, in fact the whole of the last 20 minutes felt like the Killing Joke.
I would really, really like to see this Joker return in a Batman film.
Sudden memories of saying “Bitches, leave”, any time you walked into a room too.
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