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Alright Pack Attack, Aaron Rodgers get me the damn ball

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I wasn't even home. I was playing Magic the Gathering at my buddy's store, which is extremely easy to verify

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bemyn03pxdM

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I wasn't even home. I was playing Magic the Gathering at my buddy's store, which is extremely easy to verify

Yes, and yes, it's very clearly happening

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No Babu Frik. This contest will merely decide 2nd place.

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Dragon66116 posted...

that I matched with on Tinder who's clearly not into me

hey that's all of my matches!

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poorly

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it's all over now

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LeonhartFour posted...

technically there's even a ninth rake offscreen...!

8.5 rakes. They performed exhaustive tests to determine that this was the optimal number.

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SO great that I think it should stay around for a while longer

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It's ok I guess

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RIP this topic

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I like it

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Well, ya know, they don't have to play Alabama, so

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I would definitely count that as haunting/creepy foreshadowing

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Great topic as always

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I'll try TE this time

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Akira definitely has one of the all-time horror endings. Iconic body horror.

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Anagram posted...

I didn't even mean financially, I just meant culturally. The idea that a small town is scared of a shark, so a couple of normal dudes go out to kill it in a boat is the entire movie is so completely unlike modern blockbusters.

It was more concerned with story than constant visual bombardment. Insane.

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Xiahou Shake posted...

A bit surprised "yes" has so many votes. Like, in general, but especially here of all places.

we hate ourselves

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this is comedy gold

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You're asking gamefaqs this

Anyways the answer is "yes"

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I've dreamt of dying in a nuclear blast several times. Must be one of the most utterly horrific things to experience, whether you're killed by it or are far enough away to survive but still witness the mushroom cloud. I remember reading a book in middle school documenting (perhaps fictionally) what various residents of Hiroshima were doing moments before the bomb was dropped. Really puts into perspective the suddenness and unpredictability of it - one moment you're going about your life, working your job, taking care of your family etc, the next moment everything's gone.

This short animated film I think captures the horror and suddenness of it very well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkhNED3-mnI

Jon Bois also made a video about the time there was nearly a third nuclear strike, that has sadly been taken down.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov

I'm dying to watch it but it might be gone forever :(

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https://i.imgur.com/MSGIqwF.png

29/51

EDIT - whoops I realized I've been to North Carolina. 30/51.

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Another reason Midsommar is great - does daylight horror better than anything else I've seen

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LeonhartFour posted...

and as usual Ohio State is the Big Ten's only hope

....Penn St's definitely alive

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I think the pictures they found on one of the girl's phones that were taken 10 days after they went missing was the creepiest part of all that

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Lol

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SwiftyDC posted...

I wish Stan Lee was still here to tell him whatsup.

Lol

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Yeah Emily Carroll is great. I believe I was introduced to her work in a past horror ranking topic, possibly yours. The Nesting Place and His Face All Red are probably my two favorites, of what I've read. I should just get a hard copy of Through the Woods at this point, both her storytelling and art style are a treat.

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Lopen posted...

Like are you trying to argue that nothing that's a sequel to well received movie can be cinema? Because that sounds a lot like what's being argued.

Is Terminator 2 not Cinema due to the success of the first one?
How about The Empire Strikes Back or Return of the Jedi?
How about The Two Towers or Return of the King?
Is Logan not cinema because of the X-Men franchise?

Not necessarily but I think the majority of people would agree that most sequels lose artistic merit somewhat, especially if they're made at the behest of the studio. There are certainly remakes/new entries in a franchise where the artistic quality comes through, Joker being one of them imo.

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scarletspeed7 posted...

Remember that he did have an active hand in the creation of Joker. He clearly isn't indicting the concept of superheroes as a whole, and his position on the safety of the big budget franchise film is a fair position to hold.

Right, he's referring more to MCU. There's much less to risk artistically when you have a massive built-in audience (not that the studio would let anyone take major artistic risks on those types of films). I think he's dead on.

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BetrayedTangy posted...

The first time I saw From Dusk Til Dawn I was like 12 or 13 and was browsing channels. It came up on one of the movie channels

I had a similar experience - saw just the 3rd act on TV, probably in high school, and thought the whole movie was like that. So I kind of got the reverse experience when I finally watched it straight through much later - made the film much more interesting. It really is like 2 different movies.

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That was a cool montage, but I think that type of shot feels too gimmicky a lot of the time, especially in horror films. There are definitely some good, more subtle uses of it in non-horror films, though (Tarantino, Citizen Kane). Seeing 1960s Batman in that video made me smile because of how obviously they rely on dutch angles during scenes in the villains' lair.

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That's really hard Snake, I'm sorry. I had the exact opposite experience with my grandpa on my mom's side - he died pretty suddenly September 2015. Losing someone close to you is terrible no matter how it happens, but to see your grandma fighting through so many medical complications for so long, I can hardly imagine how difficult that would be.

I'm fortunate to still have my other 3 grandparents, but the dread of them passing is definitely there. Hell, I'm pretty petrified of death in general. It's no easy thing to come to terms with.

I can't help but call back to Midsommar again, which really flips the Western perspective of death completely and turns it into this spectacular, morbidly beautiful thing. In a sense it is about coming to terms with death/grief.

Snake5555555555 posted...

I've always the held the belief that horror is one of the best ways of confronting these negative emotions

absolutely

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firaga89 posted...

Roy(Mr. Furious) - Mystery Men

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LinkMarioSamus posted...

I don't like it either

Then why are you asking why others don't like it lol

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Lmao at Florida St boosters pooling money together to pay Taggart's buyout

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Tetsuo is one of those rare movies for me where I'm too grossed out by the premise of it. I tried just watching the opening scene and couldn't even make it a minute.

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"What's so wrong with one company monopolizing entertainment?"

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Yeah Animatrix is cool

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I wish we stayed "ahead" 1 hour year-round. Not a fan of it getting dark at 5pm.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbaCrhV35xM

I caught it for the first time in years when FXX was marathoning all the Treehouse of Horrors in a row a couple weeks ago, and that joke made me laugh pretty hard. Older Simpsons really pulled off the "forget their name" gag expertly. It's definitely one of the best ToH's, I think the only one I like more is the next year's installment (The Shinning, Time-Travelling Toaster, Cannibal Cafeteria). All 3 segments in that one are like, 10/10.

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I like Matrix Reloaded and Matrix more than any Terminator movie. I can't blame anyone for disliking Matrix Revolutions, but the action sequences in Reloaded are insane.

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I thought It 2 was possibly too wacky in terms of the CG monsters - they were a little too cartoonish for me usually. I get what you mean about Pennywise needing to be more "fun" though, It 1 did that waaayy better. They also almost approached the 2nd one like the 1st one never existed. We already got a whole movie with the kids - do we need to flashback to them 20 times? The RedLetterMedia review was pretty on point I thought - it was OK but kind of a mess. It 1 was much better.

EDIT - oh I'm basically echoing the write-up lol

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CedarPointcp posted...

do you think you could ever resort to it?

what, panhandling? I hope not.

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Well I'm glad I didn't nominate the soundtrack or the ending, then, if you were waiting to watch it!

Excellent, excellent analysis. When the opening credits hit in the theater, as the music surged in intensity, my jaw was just on the floor. The long, drawn out camera movement through the crime scene is incredible and haunting. If nothing else, Ari Aster is a visual genius. Also, in retrospect it's really interesting, the polar opposite extremes of Dani's parents dying peacefully, in the dark of winter, and Dani being expected to hold in her grief, versus cult members/visitors dying in spectacular fashion, in the daylight, with cult members worked up into a frenzy they're releasing so much emotion. Maybe recency bias but imo it might be the best movie of the decade. It's an insane ride.

I get why the importance is low, since it didn't have a wide audience and hasn't had time to influence other works, but I think Ari Aster is really important right now in helping the horror genre stay fresh and interesting.

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