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14 Apr 2020, 7:16 pm

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Any slasher movie franchise like Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, or Scream.


This. I don't get the appeal of slasher movies.



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14 Apr 2020, 7:19 pm

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14 Apr 2020, 11:14 pm

A Clockwork Orange
Die Hard
Gladiator
The Usual Suspects
Brazil
Full Metal Jacket



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15 Apr 2020, 1:35 am

naturalplastic wrote:
Tw1ggy wrote:
Any slasher movie franchise like Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, or Scream.


This. I don't get the appeal of slasher movies.


Me neither, and I otherwise like horror. I don't mind A Nightmare on Elm Street, though. But overall, I find just plain slasher movies boring. I like the Saw movies because they give you something to think about during the movie, it's not just same old, same old (except for multiple viewings, I suppose).


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15 Apr 2020, 2:13 pm

I think slasher movies are nothing but gore and tits with bad acting, bad writing, and endless incoherent sequels. Plus they always follow the same stupid rule the virgin chick is always the survivor but then later dies in a sequel. I just don' get how these movies end up being so popular. They're garbage and there's better horror movies out there that are true classics like The Shining and Nosferatu. :shrug:



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15 Apr 2020, 5:03 pm

Are there any slasher movies that subverted the formula, where the most sexually liberated character makes it till the end, and all the virgins or inexperienced girls die?



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15 Apr 2020, 5:07 pm

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Are there any slasher movies that subverted the formula, where the most sexually liberated character makes it till the end, and all the virgins or inexperienced girls die?

Can't say I know of any. :?



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15 Apr 2020, 5:23 pm

Call Me By Your Name.

I actually really like that movie, but there are definitely better ones. It usually attracts a lot of attention from the LGBT+ community, but as I said, there are other better ones. And that considering that I'm part of the LGBT+ community.



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15 Apr 2020, 5:25 pm

Ya gotta kill those loose women.

Benchley's novel "Jaws" starts with a young couple making love on a beach, and then the girl goes for a swim, and becomes the first victim of the shark.

And before that every Pearl Harbor movie has to have a couple (a young serviceman, and a party girl) making love on the bluffs of Diamond Head, or where ever, at the break of dawn of Dec. 7 JUST AS that entire Japanese naval air arm is flying by over the water up the entrance to Pearl Harbor. And the Japanese always strafe the couple and turn them into swiss cheese. In real life the pilots wouldn't even be able to see couple having splender in the grass off in their peripheral vision like that, and the couple wouldn't be considered a military asset worth attacking anyway.



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15 Apr 2020, 5:31 pm

Tw1ggy wrote:
I think slasher movies are nothing but gore and tits with bad acting, bad writing, and endless incoherent sequels. Plus they always follow the same stupid rule the virgin chick is always the survivor but then later dies in a sequel. I just don' get how these movies end up being so popular. They're garbage and there's better horror movies out there that are true classics like The Shining and Nosferatu. :shrug:


They always were brutally murdered during sex just before the climax. I think that slasher flicks hitting their peak popularity peak during the 80s when AIDS was a scary new thing was not an accident.

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Are there any slasher movies that subverted the formula, where the most sexually liberated character makes it till the end, and all the virgins or inexperienced girls die?

Liquid Sky was definitely a subversion of orgasm=death formula and a whole bunch of other things.


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15 Apr 2020, 5:34 pm

Well I guess one slasher movie I can think of was Cherry Falls, I saw way back where a serial killer is killing teenage virgins, so all the teens want to loose their virginity, to avoid being the killer's next targets. How does the killer tell though...



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15 Apr 2020, 5:40 pm

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Well I guess one slasher movie I can think of was Cherry Falls, I saw way back where a serial killer is killing teenage virgins, so all the teens want to loose their virginity, to avoid being the killer's next targets. How does the killer tell though...

Perhaps he can smell the ones who aren't wearing underwear? :lol:



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17 Apr 2020, 3:21 pm

The Avengers* (dodges bricks)

It wasn't offensively bad or anything, but everything about it felt like painting-by-numbers to me. Like there was a little list of things that needed to get done, and of standard blockbuster beats that had to happen, and they were ticking them all off in a rather perfunctory way. Most people I know raved about the film, but I was all "eh, it's OK I guess."

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17 Apr 2020, 3:43 pm

I don't like most movies.

I would say almost all movies people generally talk about are overrated.


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02 May 2020, 10:02 pm

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Titanic


Absolutely! What was the whole point of sitting for 3 hours to watch a generic romance unfold?


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03 May 2020, 12:55 am

Some Halloweens were good : 1 , 2 , 4

F13 part 1 , 2 , 3 i liked