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Post by kaoru on Aug 4, 2002 11:23:21 GMT -5
That's stupid. Both Slasher and Ring are stupid and ficticious. I mean I never watched Ring but from the description... It's hard to believe that something like that is real. Sometimes we're watching fiction movies but the movies are so... something... that we get the feeling that it might happen. Now TV stuff and such... no. Makes me remind of this movie with Edward Furlong in his teenager-hood years in which he owned a videogame that had this sorta devil inside that posessed his soul and that made him kill people and such. Weird. I had to watch it with small interruptions because there were this absolutely gross bits. Like when the sorta devilish guy appears for the first time and he wants to prove Edward how powerful he is he goes like: "I can do whatever I want. I can appear and disappear in a second." And he disappeared. "I can break my fingers one...by...one" and he started to break his fingers. Of course I had to switch channel. Urgh. Gross. But the whole movie concept was stupid. But yeah, I admit that sometimes we can't avoid feeling freaky and scared to death.
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Post by KoNeko on Aug 5, 2002 3:19:37 GMT -5
Lilg, now do you know why Ring freaked me out so badly?! And yeah, that bit when Saddako climbs out of the well?! ARRRGGGGGHHHH!!! I was so freaked out! Oh, and now that Ring 2 is out on video, silly Neko is trying to get me to watch it with him. Like that's going to happen after I just recovered from the trauma of watching Ring!
Mina, Ring seriously is scary. I can't explain why it's scary, but there is something I can't understand about it which makes it scary. I mean, it's not like, gross or gory or anything, but there is something disturbing about it which makes it scary.
Oh, I watched the Exorcist yesterday on TV. (Lilg, I'm guessing you didn't!) It was weird, in a gross way, but that whole "The power of Christ compels you!" thing just cracked me up- they did a spoof of it in Austin powers. ;D
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Post by Dawney on Aug 5, 2002 6:44:19 GMT -5
Did anyone see "signs"? I saw it the day before yesterday and it was pretty, erm, unsettleing. If anyone saw it, they'd probably know what I mean...
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Post by lilg on Aug 5, 2002 9:21:33 GMT -5
When she climbed out of the well? That was scary but I practically screamed when I saw what happened afterwards! Arggghhh!! Oh is there Ring 2? I'm not really big on sequels but I'll mentioning to my friends, maybe they'll want to watch it. I refuse to watch anything scary by myself. Nope, didn't watch it. Didn't even know it was on and now I'm trying incredibly hard not to think about it. Dawn, I wanted to watch that. Well, more like my bestfriend wants to watch it so I've probably got no choice whether I want to or not Does it have a twisted ending? I have to know! ;D
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Post by Dawney on Aug 5, 2002 10:37:17 GMT -5
It kinda has a twisted ending. Not as much as I had expected/hoped, but its got a few things.
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Post by Sphi on Aug 5, 2002 21:15:47 GMT -5
I saw "Signs" yesterday night. OMG, it was so freaky! The whole night I was so paranoid...keep thinking I saw something move into the bushes from the corner of my eye. But it was a great movie. It was sad at parts, too. And I thought it was a good ending!
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Post by En on Aug 10, 2002 13:54:39 GMT -5
I already raved about why I like the scary-ness of "Signs" over in the Restricted Section. But, yeah, I liked the ending of this film, even though it wasn't a big surprise twist like in Shyamalan's other two films ("Unbreakable" and "The Sixth Sense"). This film was all about how things add up, and how we interpret signs. So it didn't want a surprise ending, though the ending wasn't exactly what you'd expect from the previews, either.
You know what was so amazing about this film? It was scary -- even scarier because it didn't show half of the scary things and also becasue there were funny bits inbetween the scary bits -- but it was really not about the scariness.
If anything, it was about how the father came to terms with his wife's death. How he interpreted the signs in his life: his wife's last words, his son's asthma, his relationships with his daughter and brother, the haunting words of the man whose car hit and killed his wife, the crop circles, their last stand when the invaders came to his house.
Basically there's this idea that if we actually get contact from aliens, we'll have this big cultural revolution because we'll realize we're not the only sentient species (e.g., "Contact" or "2001," or for hostile aliens "Independence Day") -- and it'll be this big "We Are Not Alone" moment for all of humanity, either uniting us against an enemy or inspiring those of us who follow the new alien ways or whatever -- and it'll change the science books and the way we see the universe. And "Signs" is about how believing this idea is missing the point.
This film is about the idea that "we are not alone" -- but it's about whom we choose to be with, when it comes down to a big decision. The family in this film lost its mother, so it had a decision to make -- how to deal with the grief. And it was being attacked by invisible persons making crop circles, so the family had to figure out how to deal with the invaders. And there's this incredibly important moment in the film when the brother asks the father for some comfort in the crisis, and the father says, "There are two kinds of people in the world," and he tells him that either you believe things happen for a reason and that you are not alone, someone is with you, family or God or whatever you believe in; or you believe that everything is just luck, and your survival is 50/50. It's the choice between faith and fear. And in the end, the family chooses faith.
I don't have a very good relationship with any deities right now, nor a particularly close family, except that I love Lumie and my other sister and brothers. But I do love them, and I do believe that I'm part of some good communities. My friends IRL, my work, and TD (yes, I mean that).
So even though I had some very unpleasantly interesting dreams last night involving loud thumps, unexplained things, scary aliens and so forth (interesting enough that when the cat knocked over some boxes at 4am I actually levitated out of bed and landed standing up, then had to get up and read a book for a while so I could start breathing again!), I still feel the same calm I felt when the film ended. I believe in something. Community. And humanity. And whether there are aliens or not, that belief means I'm not alone.
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Post by ronsfan on Aug 10, 2002 15:14:23 GMT -5
*shudders* Ah, I have not seen signs yet, but I have a friend who has, and if you ask me, it sounds scary. Yeah, call me a wimp or whatever...*laughs* My father raised me on scarry movies and they never really affected me until I saw IT when I was ten. It was dark, and I was at my Grandmother's in an old house, and she loved clowns, so they were all over the place, and the movie gave me nightmares forever. I'm one of the freaky doll scared people, give me a chucky film and i freak, give me a nice slasher film, and I am home free. I guess its because I know people out there kll people, but what about the dolls that sit on your shelf growing dust bunnies and whose eyes are always, and somehow never watching you...ah, just thinking about it gives me the creeps.
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Post by En on Aug 10, 2002 15:26:16 GMT -5
Heh. Yeah, ronsfan, the idea of something watching does scare me too, especially something that seems innocuous or innocent. But mostly, films about scary children or toys just make me mad, especially after I read 13th Generation. It's a sociology book about how parenting in the 80's and 90's was negatively affected by Evil Child flicks and may have caused the alienation of an entire generation of U.S. children.
But back to scary watching things... 1984 scared the bejeezus out of me... so did Rear Window (an old Hitchcock flick I dearly love). How can anyone watch so-called "reality TV" and not be terrified by the voyeurism, the control that the prize money and the being watched exerts on the "contestants"? Doesn't anyone remember that "Big Brother" was the euphemistic name of the voyeuristic police branch of the totalitarian dictatorship in 1984? The police branch which was authorized to utterly destroy the lives of any citizen it found guilty, without a trial, of even thinking of the "wrong" things?
yeah... I guess my fears are kind of... strange.
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Post by ronsfan on Aug 10, 2002 15:44:32 GMT -5
1984 scarred you? I love the book! Yeah, i get what your saying about the Big Brother thing...Tommy Knockers....ahhh...scary, oooh, and the shinning...little kid creeps me out
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Post by lilg on Sept 1, 2002 10:23:42 GMT -5
Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I was crazy for even agreeing to watch this horrible movie. What really freaked me out was the fact that it was based on a true story too. It's crazy to think that things that's been portrayed in the movie actually did occur for real. Anyhow, enough about this. Too scared to continue thinking about it.
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Post by Cassandra on Sept 1, 2002 20:47:55 GMT -5
Has anyone seen "The Thing"? If you have, you would understand why I think that's a gross, scary, creepy, mysterious, bloody good movie. *walks out as fast as she walked in*
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Post by KoNeko on Sept 2, 2002 9:39:32 GMT -5
Lilg, be glad you're not at my house now. Neko went and borrowed Ring 2 from the video store and now he is basically forcing me to watch it. Well, not really forcing, but since the computer is in the same room as the TV...
*mumbles* It's a really scary movie...
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Post by lilg on Sept 3, 2002 10:14:22 GMT -5
Oooh, my friends and I are thinking about watching it. So how was it? Is it more scary than the first one? Are there any major twists to it?
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Post by KoNeko on Sept 4, 2002 5:33:37 GMT -5
What? You want to watch Ring 2? YOU?! But... but... it's scary!! Alright, well, I'm a big wuss and you know that so yeah. But nah, Ring 1 was scarier, this one had bits of the story from Ring 1 but from other peoples' perspective. Like, you know how that girl died right at the beginning of Ring 1 when she and her friend were watching TV and the phone rings and stuff? Well, in 2 you get to see what she saw that made her all... catatonic and they put her in a nuthouse. Without giving anything away, she saw Sadako walking through the house and that's why she went nuts. Oh, and then the same thing happens to Yoichi (the little boy). It's not as scary as the first one, because stuff is a bit predictable, but there are some moments of freakiness.
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