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Post by Moonreaper on Jul 28, 2010 21:16:37 GMT -5
Truely!
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Post by hawkeyepierce on Jul 29, 2010 10:38:36 GMT -5
I still have an old VHS player running bravely. Blu-ray sucks...
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Post by Moonreaper on Jul 29, 2010 17:14:45 GMT -5
i dont think horror should be HD or 3-D, it needs to look gritty and dirty.
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Post by necrodemon on Jul 29, 2010 18:19:13 GMT -5
Right on Moonreaper
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Post by Marcus on Jul 30, 2010 8:05:39 GMT -5
I like clean images on my TV, even for horrors. If the image has problems with it's clarity, I find that it makes me more aware I'm watching a film, rather than becoming lost in the story. It's one reason I HATE those "through the camcorder lens" style films like blare witch or cloverleaf (that and they give me motion sickness), as it makes my TV scream "your watching a film".
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Post by hawkeyepierce on Jul 30, 2010 10:53:08 GMT -5
Depends on your own personal tastes ofcourse...and the film your watching! Some films don't really benefit from clarity, the camcorder-style horrors you mentioned (which I don't like either actually  ). I always feel It's a good story that makes it a worthwhile expierence. Couple of weeks ago I watched 'Absolution' with Richard Burton & Billy Connely. It was one of those budget-dvds with fuzzy, really very fuzzy visuals. Despite of this I was so into the story that I forgot i was watching a film. But like I said, we all have our preferences  |
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Post by eloojak on Jul 31, 2010 17:08:10 GMT -5
my tv screamed at me once,it couldn't believe i was wasting my time watching blair witch,it never forgave me and walked out taking the cat 3 days later,i had to go buy a new one,luckily i never tortured this one so it's quite happy .
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Post by Moonreaper on Aug 1, 2010 0:46:34 GMT -5
Wow I cant get over how many people hate that film style. Everyone I talked to about that hates blair witch and cloverfield. I loved those two movies and that style of filming, I do see how one could hate it though. i think it gives it some sort of reality, mabye not cloverfield, but if that was me shit yea I would be filming the whole thing.
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Post by hawkeyepierce on Aug 1, 2010 5:02:31 GMT -5
Well I don't 'hate' it, it's just not the sort of film that gets my engine going. As a film style it's very respectable and inventive! I'm just to darn old-school to really enjoy camcorder style horrorflicks. My idea of a good horror film is Vincent Price with a top hat saying things like "I'm afraid you're dead Mr. Kent..." |
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Post by Werewolf on Aug 1, 2010 13:15:18 GMT -5
I prefered Cloverfield to Blair Witch. But when i saw Blair Witch i went with the expectation i would be frightened to death. Instead i was bored to tears, To me it was so built up it jusrt could live up to it's expectations.
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Post by Moonreaper on Aug 2, 2010 16:49:05 GMT -5
I liked everything about Blair Witch the story behind the film is so inspiring, those kids had no idea that film was going to hit it off. I think it started out as just a college film project then went on to film festivals and so on.
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Post by Marcus on Aug 6, 2010 3:32:24 GMT -5
I'd like to see quarenteed (I think that's the name) where a film crew goes into a quarenteed building only to find out the disease outbreak is actually Zombies!
But like cloverleaf and Blair Witch, it's done in the "camcorder" style, so it'll make me ill to watch it . . . *mutters*.
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Post by keywolf on Aug 6, 2010 5:05:18 GMT -5
I'm avoiding Quarantine since it's another pointless Hollywood remake of an original movie, the excellent spanish film 'REC'.
Even more pointless than usual since not only was REC released less than a year before the remake, Quarantine is apparently a shot-for-shot remake. A monumental waste of time and money considering that REC is also available dubbed into english for those who don't like subtitles...
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Post by hawkeyepierce on Aug 6, 2010 11:08:24 GMT -5
Shot for shot remakes are so dumb! A movie should be a directors unique vision. If this vision comes in remake form, so be it, but if it's not a new interpretation of a familiar tale why bother?
Take 'Dracula' for instance, which was filmed lots 'n lots of times. Imagine a shot-for-shot remake of the Bela Lugosi classic with Robert Pattinson or whatever he is called.
Once again I find myself referring to Herzog's remake of 'Nosferatu', an excellent film because it's more of the same yet SO different.
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Post by hawkeyepierce on Aug 15, 2010 5:01:55 GMT -5
Just to warn you, probably due to so many movies being crammed onto relatively few discs, some people have found that some of these don't play. Unfortunately mine is afftected in this way; 'Paranoiac' doesn't work. Watched all the films in this boxset by now. I'm happy to report that all the films (including 'Paranoiac') played fine! ;D I was extremely pleasently surprised by a film called "Night Creatures" starring Peter Cushing. I can't imagine why I haven't heard from it before. It's one of the best 60s horror films I've seen in the past few years. |
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