How do you people feel about jump cares? Sometimes justified? Never justified? Always justified? Would you like to watch a movie consisting of 500 jump scares occurring at 20 second intervals?
How do you people feel about jump cares? Sometimes justified? Never justified? Always justified? Would you like to watch a movie consisting of 500 jump scares occurring at 20 second intervals?
The Princess and the Pilot - B-
Playtime (rewatch) - A
The Hobbit - C-
The Comedy - D+
Kings of the Road - C+
The Odd Couple - B
Red Rock West - C-
The Hunger Games - D-
Prometheus - C
Tangled - C+
Holy shit Capricorn One (1977) totally fell apart by the end. It started off somewhat promising and then just unravels from there, very disappointing.
The Princess and the Pilot - B-
Playtime (rewatch) - A
The Hobbit - C-
The Comedy - D+
Kings of the Road - C+
The Odd Couple - B
Red Rock West - C-
The Hunger Games - D-
Prometheus - C
Tangled - C+
Of the ones you haven't seen and don't plan on seeing, I'd only recommend Whatever Works and Everyone Says I Love You.
Jump scares can be good in my book. The ones in Alien and the The Descentl, for example. Almost every Horror movie has overused them so much it's hard to make one that works with modern audiences.
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) ***1/2
Sweet and Lowdown (1999) ***
Mighty Aphrodite (1995) ***
Celebrity (1998) ***
Midnight in Paris (2011) **1/2
The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001) **1/2
Everyone Says I Love You (1996) **
Scoop (2006) **
Coming to America (Landis, 1988) **
The Beach Bum (Korine, 2019) *1/2
Us (Peele, 2019) ***1/2
Fugue (Smoczynska, 2018) ***1/2
Prisoners (Villeneuve, 2013) ***1/2
Shadow (Zhang, 2018) ***
Oslo, August 31st (J. Trier, 2011) ****
Climax (Noé, 2018) **1/2
Fighting With My Family (Merchant, 2019) **
Upstream Color (Carruth, 2013) ***
Jump scares aren't a bad thing if used properly. Thing is, they're easy to predict now and not used properly.
Best jump scare y'allz?
I could actually make up a list of horror movies with really good jump scares. Several come to mind right now, although I agree that they are overused these days.Quoting Qrazy (view post)
My personal favorite is from Jaws: []
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And everybody wants to be special here
They call your name out loud and clear
Here comes a regular
Call out your name
Here comes a regular
Am I the only one here today?
Right, but why pop music in this one? It was definitely to the detriment of the film. It made what could have been affecting, quiet moments come off as superficial and corny.
Hey KF, Hamlet is a play not a book. Please change your signature accordingly to avoid mass confusion here on MatchCut.
A play printed and bound is a book, Derek. Jesus Christ.:frustrated::frustrated::frus trated:
The play is in a book. I didn't say it was in a novel. My description is correct. Please check the definition of "book" again to avoid mass confusion for yourself.
Hard to beat the classic from Wait Until Dark.
:lol:ritch:
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And everybody wants to be special here
They call your name out loud and clear
Here comes a regular
Call out your name
Here comes a regular
Am I the only one here today?
Upon a rewatch that shot that I thought was pretty cool in Inside Man is actually kind of lame.
The Princess and the Pilot - B-
Playtime (rewatch) - A
The Hobbit - C-
The Comedy - D+
Kings of the Road - C+
The Odd Couple - B
Red Rock West - C-
The Hunger Games - D-
Prometheus - C
Tangled - C+
The Snorricam shot? Spike Lee uses that in a few of his films.
Yeah, I mean I like Snorricam in general I just remember thinking that shot was pretty cool and had a bit of emotional inertia to it in context but now it just seems out of place to me.
The Princess and the Pilot - B-
Playtime (rewatch) - A
The Hobbit - C-
The Comedy - D+
Kings of the Road - C+
The Odd Couple - B
Red Rock West - C-
The Hunger Games - D-
Prometheus - C
Tangled - C+
Ti West's latest, The Innkeepers, functions in part as a virtual meta-defense of the jump scare, and has a few fun ones scattered throughout.
Letterboxd rating scale:
The Long Riders (Hill) ***
Furious 7 (Wan) **½
Hard Times (Hill) ****½
Another 48 Hrs. (Hill) ***
/48 Hrs./ (Hill) ***½
The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec (Besson) ***
/Unknown/ (Collet-Serra) ***½
Animal (Simmons) **
Ezee is this you on icheckmovies?
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Because if it is, holy shit.
The Princess and the Pilot - B-
Playtime (rewatch) - A
The Hobbit - C-
The Comedy - D+
Kings of the Road - C+
The Odd Couple - B
Red Rock West - C-
The Hunger Games - D-
Prometheus - C
Tangled - C+
It's technically a USSR film, but it was made in the Georgian republic within.
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Riddick (David Twohy | 2013 | USA/UK)
Night Across the Street (Raoul Ruiz | 2012 | Chile/France)*
Pain & Gain (Michael Bay | 2013 | USA)*
You're Next (Adam Wingard | 2011 | USA)
Little Odessa (James Gray | 1994 | USA)*
*recommended *highly recommended
“It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.” -- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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What do you mean? As in shot in? Many American films are shot in Canada... that doesn't mean they're Canadian.
Anyway, that aside, I'm sure many of the people on this site have seen a few Georgian films.
The Princess and the Pilot - B-
Playtime (rewatch) - A
The Hobbit - C-
The Comedy - D+
Kings of the Road - C+
The Odd Couple - B
Red Rock West - C-
The Hunger Games - D-
Prometheus - C
Tangled - C+
Whoops. Never mind. i was thinking of a different film. Chukhrai is Ukrainian and that film was shot in Moscow in Russian.
Last 5 Viewed
Riddick (David Twohy | 2013 | USA/UK)
Night Across the Street (Raoul Ruiz | 2012 | Chile/France)*
Pain & Gain (Michael Bay | 2013 | USA)*
You're Next (Adam Wingard | 2011 | USA)
Little Odessa (James Gray | 1994 | USA)*
*recommended *highly recommended
“It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.” -- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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Not me.
But what's holy shit referencing?
That guy has checked the most movies on the site. If he's being honest he's seen 16,000 films.
The Princess and the Pilot - B-
Playtime (rewatch) - A
The Hobbit - C-
The Comedy - D+
Kings of the Road - C+
The Odd Couple - B
Red Rock West - C-
The Hunger Games - D-
Prometheus - C
Tangled - C+
You were thinking of Father of a Soldier I guess?
The Princess and the Pilot - B-
Playtime (rewatch) - A
The Hobbit - C-
The Comedy - D+
Kings of the Road - C+
The Odd Couple - B
Red Rock West - C-
The Hunger Games - D-
Prometheus - C
Tangled - C+
That's the one.
Last 5 Viewed
Riddick (David Twohy | 2013 | USA/UK)
Night Across the Street (Raoul Ruiz | 2012 | Chile/France)*
Pain & Gain (Michael Bay | 2013 | USA)*
You're Next (Adam Wingard | 2011 | USA)
Little Odessa (James Gray | 1994 | USA)*
*recommended *highly recommended
“It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.” -- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
twitter | next projection | criticker | frames within frames
I'm just glad you clarified that it was Shakespeare's Hamlet you are reading. As opposed to Franz Kafka's.
Coming to America (Landis, 1988) **
The Beach Bum (Korine, 2019) *1/2
Us (Peele, 2019) ***1/2
Fugue (Smoczynska, 2018) ***1/2
Prisoners (Villeneuve, 2013) ***1/2
Shadow (Zhang, 2018) ***
Oslo, August 31st (J. Trier, 2011) ****
Climax (Noé, 2018) **1/2
Fighting With My Family (Merchant, 2019) **
Upstream Color (Carruth, 2013) ***
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