Marvel superheroes

[MRat]

well yeh
ghosts shouldnt be puppets


werent all the monsters in silent hill dancers in costumes?
that was fuckn gret

also i just fucking love stop-motion monsters as in Ray Harryhausen's movies

i want to make stop motion monster puppets but i dont have the material or the knowledge ):

ghosts aint monsters anyway



And silent hill had awesome baddies.


just please, no facking CG shit all over. unless its cloverfield. CG was solid in that.

[wps]

I thought da cg in The Host was nic as well

[MRat]

I thought da cg in The Host was nic as well

ye but it was only cg in little snippets, used like a crutch. CG is best taht way I think, as a support mechanism.

anyway it was nice. and the minimal CG in Guillermo Del Toro (my favourite director folks!) movies always looks good.

[texas]

yeah
guillermo del toro needs to do more horror stuff
he designs all the monsters in his movies, right?

[MRat]

yeah
guillermo del toro needs to do more horror stuff
he designs all the monsters in his movies, right?

Yes he does. Well, in Hellboy he does them with Mike Mignola.

But he draws his entire movie in his sketchbook first pretty much.



Go watch The Devil's Backbone. It's a ghost story and has no monsters, but it has the scariest "jump" moment I've ever experience. The rest of the movie is more ominous than scary.

Still it's so fucking good, possibly better than Pan's Labyrinth.

[texas]

yeah ive seen the devils backbone
i dont like it as much as pans labyrinth but its still better than most movies

[bcube]

pans labyrinth is great.

[rtil]

All Horror movies are gorefests anyway.

what

What horror movie what you seen that isn't gorey? Horror, not thriller. Sure thay're not all Hostel, but loads of blood has always been a key element.

the ring had some gross stuff in it, but no gore

shutter (the original)

bullet ballet

the orphanage

1408 wasn't very gory (or very good, but nonetheless an example)

dumplings was a disgusting concept but not gory

the original 'the eye' was not gory. never saw the american one so i don't know what it's like

pulse (the original) .... not gory

i could go on, but uh anyway i don't know what makes you think all horror films are automatically slasher/gore flicks. plenty of great horror movies that are missing that element

[psi43]

mrat, you're talking about slasher movies, not horror movies.

[MRat]

Sorry... I didn't just mean slasher movies though.


Most of those movies, the old ones, are not what I would consider horror. Dracula, White Zombie, Frankenstein, all those old "Horror" movies aren't gory either, but there is nothing horrifying about them. There is no element of really horror, just suspense, tension, even sometimes sudden fear, but that terror never lasts any real length.


You look at the horror movies being produced now, and the entire purpose is to horrify you, which is why they're horror movies.



Most of the movies you listed are just tension builders, or thrillers meant to fuck with you, but I can't identify and element of horror.


Whatever maybe the genre label is horror, who cares but those aren't the types of movies I was thinking of I'm wrong blah blah

[rtil]

three of those movies actually horrified me

i'm not horrified by gore though , i just think it's stupid

like the hills have eyes remake

that was stupid

[MRat]

three of those movies actually horrified me

i'm not horrified by gore though , i just think it's stupid

like the hills have eyes remake

that was stupid

It was, but I think the intent was the horrify you, whether it did or not.


anyways we were just thinking of different terms. I miscommunicated.


Back to Marvel Superheroes.





I like comic book movies where they do shit it make it a full movie, instead of just fanservice. Rarely happens, and when they do, they usually kill the source material.


I liked Iron Man, Spider-Man 2, Batman Begins, Dick Tracy (Warren Beatty one), Batman Returns, and a couple others. The recent Punisher was neat. I don't really like most Marvel Comics though, so the movies appeal to me even less. I didn't like any of the X-Men movies.

My favourite comic movie is Hellboy.

[Philip K Dick]

the spiderman movies are so fucking corny

[vinexist]

Most movies in general dont interest me. Horror and superhero movies are probably my least favorite genres.
I like comedies, they should make more that dont have ben  stiller or owen wilson...
I like movies like Donnie Darko but i dont know what genre it comes under.

[MRat]

Most movies in general dont interest me. Horror and superhero movies are probably my least favorite genres.
I like comedies, they should make more that dont have ben  stiller or owen wilson...
I like movies like Donnie Darko but i dont know what genre it comes under.

Donnie Darko is a science fiction movie.




Tobey Maguire was probably the worst choice for Peter Parker possible. Parker was never a huge faggot, just a smart awkward guy, probably like most of us here. And of course the movies are corny, Spider-Man is a corny as shit comic. Nothing wrong with that.

Still I despise the first and third ones.

[FG_SPace]

i think tobey maguire isn't the worst choice, hes down there but he does some of the scenes well, or maybe i'm thinking of the scenes where you can't see his face...
anyone see the new Simon Pegg flick about him running or something? looked kinda bad for a comedy
also i just saw Be Kind Rewind and enjoyed it, very silly

[MRat]

Run Fatboy Run is pretty great. It's barely a comedy. It's sort of romantic, but mostly it's good because Simon Pegg is so fantastic at everything he does. I also really like Hank Azaria.


It's not really a genre film.

I love Be Kind Rewind, but the last 10 minutes or so felt like they were entirely in slow motion. I could have done without seeing the whole city outside like that. Pushed it too far, imo. I fucking loved how cheesy that bit where Jack Black is magnetized was though.

[vinexist]

I liked Run FatBoy Run purely for Dylan Moran (Irish guy). He's probably my favorite stand-up, I recommend you go search him on youtube.

[rtil]

spiderman 2 was good that's it

in fact i haven't seen one since spiderman 2

i am actually excited for the batman movie coming out next month though

the joker doesn't look like a goof in facepaint, he looks like a freaking maniac

[MRat]

The Joker has always been an absolute fuckjob in the comics. Right from issue one, which was back when Batman killed people and used guns. Purely psychotic.

Nolan who directed The Dark Knight refers with fondness to The Joker as being like the shark in Jaws. Not so much a human villain, as a force of destruction, like a hurricane that tears through Gotham.

An early review too said similar things. He doesn't have an backstory, doesn't have human emotions, isn't in it for cash. He wants to watch the world burn, nothing else.



Which I think is a really refreshing approach to the character. The last guy like that was Michael Meyers in the original Hallowen, and even he eventually was revealed to be more man than monster.