ScreaminNormanSmiley
formerly ScreaminNormanSmiley
I cant't respond do Killjoys lack of the understanding of the word prejudice without a infraction. Not being ******ed can be difficult sometimes.
Glass Ass: The OFFICIAL JGlass Thread
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I understand it perfectly. You on the other hand are getting too sturred up over a lousy warning.
ScreaminNormanSmiley
formerly ScreaminNormanSmiley
You really aren't very bright.
ScreaminNormanSmiley
formerly ScreaminNormanSmiley
And it really hurt my feelings.
Mighty NorCal
SHALL WE BEGIN?
JGlass, you know more about mutli-mediaish stuff than I do. Question.
Why dont more major entertainment companies (WWE, NFL, etc) monetize their items, and make them avaiable for ala-carte or yearly fee streaming?Like Netflix, except (presumeabley) without having to pay a third party provider?
The NFL already sorta caught on with NFL Sunday ticket. But you need Direct tv, and a dish for that....Things you dont need with just an internet connection and laptop. I thought of this while realizing I coud stream any game I wanted this weekend, but of how much of a pain in the ass it is to work aorund shitty streams, pop up ads, and all of the all around buffonery that comes with streaming things. Same with RAW, SD, NXT, et all.
Provide me a way to pay for it. Take 100% of the profit for yourselves.
Second, Whatd you think of the Evil Dead remake? I heard from ANYONE that is was just the most brutal, disturbing moving, but so much of the action in it was flat out medically impossible, to the point were it was all pretty laughable and stupid to me.
Were do films have to straddle that line? Can a movie's violence still be disturbing when its such eye-rolling levels of impossible? I may be more attentive to it because im an instructor in battfield immeadiate medical response training (IE when your friend gets his arm blown off, this is what you do!) but I have to think any person on the street knows you dont just simpy tear your own arm off, then proceed to walk around like nothing happened. Etc.
Why dont more major entertainment companies (WWE, NFL, etc) monetize their items, and make them avaiable for ala-carte or yearly fee streaming?Like Netflix, except (presumeabley) without having to pay a third party provider?
The NFL already sorta caught on with NFL Sunday ticket. But you need Direct tv, and a dish for that....Things you dont need with just an internet connection and laptop. I thought of this while realizing I coud stream any game I wanted this weekend, but of how much of a pain in the ass it is to work aorund shitty streams, pop up ads, and all of the all around buffonery that comes with streaming things. Same with RAW, SD, NXT, et all.
Provide me a way to pay for it. Take 100% of the profit for yourselves.
Second, Whatd you think of the Evil Dead remake? I heard from ANYONE that is was just the most brutal, disturbing moving, but so much of the action in it was flat out medically impossible, to the point were it was all pretty laughable and stupid to me.
Were do films have to straddle that line? Can a movie's violence still be disturbing when its such eye-rolling levels of impossible? I may be more attentive to it because im an instructor in battfield immeadiate medical response training (IE when your friend gets his arm blown off, this is what you do!) but I have to think any person on the street knows you dont just simpy tear your own arm off, then proceed to walk around like nothing happened. Etc.
I think it probably has a lot to do with advertising. Advertisers are probably hesitant to endorse that sort of thing because it would limit people from seeing commercials even more than regular television already does. The other part is probably that these companies don't think they'll be able to get enough of a return to justify adding another medium through which you can acquire their content.
That said, I think there is a TV provider these days that lets you pay only for the channels you want, so you could buy like, your NorCal package (Discovery, History, ESPN, etc.), and not pay for anything else. It's not exactly what you're talking about, but it's a step towards that direction.
Didn't subject myself to that garbage. There are very few horror films I would subject myself to these days. I enjoyed The Conjuring well enough, but even that wasn't doing it for me at points.
Walking around after having been dismembered is laughably bad, but I think that's more of an exception than the norm. But I have been taking notice of ridiculous wounds/action scenarios lately. I don't really mind when they take place in fantastic worlds like Speed Racer or Kick-Ass 2 (yeah Sam, I did mention them in the same sentence), but when it happens in what is supposed to be a film in the real world, like The Expendables, I can't help but laugh as Sylvester Stalone tosses a grenade that explodes with the fury of a thousand dying suns.
So I suppose to answer your question, there are films that fall on both sides of that line.
Dowdsy McDowds
Sally was here
When I read this I immediately thought of the end of Saw where the doctor eventually uses the saw on his own foot. The make-up work after the dismemberment is quite eye catching as the doc goes from having been fairly red-faced to deathly pale after his make shift tourniquet doesn't really work.
There's probably a better example that could be used but like I said, Saw was the first one that came to mind for me.
Hulk Hogan's Brother
Stop asking me what I'm gonna do!!!
If you think that the first Saw was bad, wait till you get to Saw 7 or 8. The characters actually perform surgeries on themselves and what not. Really, there was something about replacing your trachea with a fountain pen in one of those.
The first Saw wasn't all shit when you think of it. The movies went to shit once Jigsaw died though.
Mighty NorCal
SHALL WE BEGIN?
you can give yourself a temp trach with something like that, if you took the insides of it out, and broke off the narrow end.
However, if the person then proceeded to engage in combat with heavy working tools, like in evil dead, then no.
Saw was okay up until III, but everything got worse after that, with V being an unbearable monstrosity .
Hulk Hogan's Brother
Stop asking me what I'm gonna do!!!
He did not do that to be fair. But still performing that surgery on yourself successfully when you are trapped underwater sounds preposterous.
And to correct myself, that was Saw V. I haven't seen them all, just 1,2 and 5, but I heard that there were about 7 to 8 of them. 1 and 2 were just about decent, 5 was shit but anyhow there are better horror movies around.
Also, I just saw the 1968 film Rosemary's Baby. It was really good. Anyone seen it?
Blue Chipper
Shapeshifting Humanoid
Of course I have; it's a classic and one of the best satanic horror movies ever made.
Also, Saw I, II, and III were all acceptably good, but the quality of the movies decline by varying levels thereafter.
I'm not even sure Rosemary's Baby qualifies in horror, at least not in the sense that most people would think of it. Present that to someone whose experience of horror is Saw or The Evil Dead or even Friday the Thirteenth, I'm sure they'd feel there weren't nearly enough geysers of blood.
It's psychological horror, really - a film wherein you don't find out the true plot until the last five minutes. It's the slowburn compared to bombardment of The Exorcist (my candidate for greatest horror film).
It's psychological horror, really - a film wherein you don't find out the true plot until the last five minutes. It's the slowburn compared to bombardment of The Exorcist (my candidate for greatest horror film).
Fair enough, but they're two separate approaches to the same goal of creating fear. Rosemary's Baby deals in the fear of uncertainty, a feeling the movie creates until the very last scene, while the Exorcist deals with a fear of the disgusting, which as you said, the film bombards you with throughout the duration of the movie.
Exorcist would likely be third on my list. My first viewing experience of The Exorcist was quite enjoyable as I was in 8th or 9th grade in the basement of my neighbor's house with a bunch of guys and girls, and there were two or three guys that just couldn't watch the movie.
The walk from my neighbor's house to my house took about 3 minutes at a normal pace. I'm pretty sure I finished that walk in about thirty seconds.
Hulk Hogan's Brother
Stop asking me what I'm gonna do!!!
Psychological horror is the best. Saw, Friday The 13th and Evil Dead are gore flicks. Gore doesn't scare me as much as it wants to make me puke. Horror is mostly about the atmosphere anyway, imo.
Also, how is the sequel to Rosemary's baby? It was a TV movie but they can be surprisingly good sometimes.
EDIT: Will watch The Exorcist soon. The exorcism scene is legendary but I haven't seen it classified as a gore flick anywhere.
The Exorcist is absolutely not a gore flick. It's quite disgusting in places, but not in the gore stakes. Well, not really.
The Evil Dead, to give it its proper name, isn't really a gore flick - at least not on the same level as Saw. There's lot of tension and mindfuckery afoot to accompany the, well, dismemberment. So Sam Raimi was summoned to Leeds Crown Court to defend the movie, so what?
Edit:
Possibly my favourite theme ever:
[youtube]8LEWkwvaNcs[/youtube]
The Evil Dead, to give it its proper name, isn't really a gore flick - at least not on the same level as Saw. There's lot of tension and mindfuckery afoot to accompany the, well, dismemberment. So Sam Raimi was summoned to Leeds Crown Court to defend the movie, so what?
Edit:
Possibly my favourite theme ever:
[youtube]8LEWkwvaNcs[/youtube]
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