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Lessee...
- The "Friday the 13th" movies are all hands down awful and --- their biggest sin --- boring as shit.
- But then only if you watch them alone. Put another person in the room and the switch is flipped; they become sorta morbidly fascinating. One of the best theatrical experiences I had was seeing "Friday the 13th: Part III" with a full audience at a local rep house. (Also, to contradict myself: Part VI works for solo viewing because it's subversively funny next to the other entries in this bullshit series.)
- In that vein, I really do not understand horror fans who have been anxiously awaiting Jason's return since 2009. To watch him do what, exactly?
- People like Wes Craven for the wrong reasons. "Nightmare" is a great movie but a consciously commercial one. Once Craven went down that road, he lost his mojo, although there are flutters of his old groove in "New Nightmare." Meanwhile, "The Hills Have Eyes" is like one of the best punks albums of the 70s and nobody talks about it.
- I really despised that trend (from maybe 2000-2010?) where major and minor studios remade old exploitation movies. Most of em were overproduced and, frankly, had no balls. I mean, ffs, if you wanna do this shit then own it. Don't make exploitation that's tamer than routine tumblr porn and package it for nationwide audiences, because when you do that you've missed the point entirely.
- The 2010s so-called horror movie renaissance is ... lame. I know there are die hard fans out there eating it up and loving every minute of it, but mostly I've been bored (IT: Chapter 2 can go fuck itself). The more money and the wider the audience, the duller this genre becomes.
- My monkey's paw wish is that Batman and James Bond disappear from the culture forever. (Fine, keep whatever is already out there but no new material, please, ffs. Whatever was said, explored, or done around these characters was fully said, explored, and done like 50+ years ago. We don't need, as a culture, to be lashed to this wheel for-fucking-ever.)
- This week I saw 2 new network tv shows that introduced their Strong Female Character by dressing her in a leather jacket and a Ramones tee shirt, which is characterization by way of Hot Topic. I dunno what depresses me more: The absolute laziness of this technique or that it's just another example of mainstream media companies co-opting counter cultures in the lamest way possible. (This isn't really an unpopular opinion. I just wanted to complain about it.)
- I was looking up old DaMU posts for some reason and just re-read most of this thread. Pound for conversational pound, I think it's one of the best, if not the best, on the forum.
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