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RE: You know what really grinds my gears?: The moaning thread.
August 27, 2014 at 2:24 am
This new spate of 'paranormal horror' movies. I cannot imagine EVER paying $10 to watch one of these movies. They just strike me as so utterly stupid. The trailers are so damned formulaic. Deep voiced man, stupid teenagers, one shot where we pan left, and then pan back right and SURPRISE there's something there that wasn't before!!! Scary!!!
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RE: You know what really grinds my gears?: The moaning thread.
August 27, 2014 at 9:12 am
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Well I don't know exactly what movies you mean, but I am easily terrified so I'm sure I'd think they're scary.
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August 27, 2014 at 9:13 am
Grinds my gears that I don't get to see Losty be terrified.
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August 27, 2014 at 9:21 am
(August 27, 2014 at 9:12 am)Losty Wrote: Well I don't know exactly what movies you mean, but I am easily terrified so I'm sure I'd think they're scary.
Probably the "found footage" genre, which was popularized (if not started) by
The Blair Witch Project. It's been done so many times in so many genres now that the flaws and cliches are what stand out more than anything. The Paranormal Activity franchise has used it through five or six films. I've seen the first four, and they quickly progress from a pretty good idea that is presented fairly effectively to a tired routine that you already saw in the previous films. The first three have an overarching narrative that becomes more interesting than anything that actually happens in the films. But the scares become predictable after awhile.
It's been particularly abused in the "film crew visits a haunted location to debunk ghost story" movies. Those in particular tend to overuse the trick where the camera is focused on a location where everything is normal, pans to one side to find nothing, then pans back to the original location and there is some ghost or creep just feet away. It's a variation on the ploy where a character gets a fake scare ("it was just the cat") and then turns around to find herself face-to-face with the demonic killer. It might make you jump, but after a while it is more annoying than scary, and pulls you right out of the viewing experience.
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August 27, 2014 at 9:27 am
Hmm....I usually watch with my chin on my knees through the cracks in my fingers. So maybe that's why I don't notice as much.
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August 27, 2014 at 9:30 am
(August 27, 2014 at 9:27 am)Losty Wrote: Hmm....I usually watch with my chin on my knees through the cracks in my fingers. So maybe that's why I don't notice as much.
That's adorable. You're so vulnerable to being jump scared that way!
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August 27, 2014 at 9:42 am
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I haven't done this since I was a teenager, but I think the very best way to watch a scary movie is with someone who isn't scared (especially if they're the nice kind who won't scare you bc they think it's funny). Just get under their arm in kind of a ball with your face against their side. Then you just turn into them and hide for every scary part. Yes that's definitely the best way.
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August 27, 2014 at 9:43 am
(August 27, 2014 at 9:42 am)Losty Wrote: I haven't done this since I was a teenager, but I think the very best way to watch a scary movie is with someone who isn't scared (especially if they're the nice kind who won't scare you bc they think it's funny). Just get under their arm in kind of a ball with your face against their side. Then you just turn into them and hide for every scary part. Yes that's definitely the best way.
Oh, well that eliminates any possibilty of watching a scary movie together then~ I would scare you
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August 27, 2014 at 9:58 am
(August 27, 2014 at 9:55 am)Losty Wrote: Mean...I'd still watch a scary movie with you...
Impossible. I'd take up the entire couch. I like to lounge and stretch out.
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