Weekend Thread 2/24-26 | Sat #s |Get Out: 12.8 (+18%) Lego: 9.4 (+120%) Wick: 4.2 (+70) (Pg 20)

[RyneOh1040]

3 hours ago, Arlborn said:

What about Split?

this is different because it has such fantastic humor.  like some actual laugh out loud material, while also being a real nail biter.  the pivoting is ridiculous and masterfully done.  haven't really seen that in over a decade or two.

[filmlover]

4 minutes ago, MCKillswitch123 said:

If you care about RT, here's one for ya - Get Out is at a pretty astonishing 122 Fresh, 0 Rotten. 8.3/10 critics average (and 83 on Metacritic), 81% audience score. That is batshit crazy. Not even Mad Max: Fury Road accomplished that.

 

Universal is having a banner year so far, between Split, A Dog's Purpose, Fifty Shades Darker, and now this (and The Great Wall has done great OS, but that's more 2016).

Yeah, they've done pretty well with 5 films over 6 weeks. And their next release is The Fate of the Furious, which will make a fortune of course. Great first third of the year for them.

[JohnnyGossamer]

8 minutes ago, MCKillswitch123 said:

If you care about RT, here's one for ya - Get Out is at a pretty astonishing 122 Fresh, 0 Rotten. 8.3/10 critics average (and 83 on Metacritic), 81% audience score. That is batshit crazy. Not even Mad Max: Fury Road accomplished that.

 

Universal is having a banner year so far, between Split, A Dog's Purpose, Fifty Shades Darker, and now this (and The Great Wall has done great OS, but that's more 2016).

Impressive as hell... But, not Fury Road. Fury Road has an insane 8.6 Average Rating with 358 reviews. And, a score of 90 at Metacritic too.

[grey ghost]

12 minutes ago, CJohn said:

White guilt. His power.

 

I know Schindler's List is one of my favorite movies because I feel responsible for the Holocaust. 

 

Or maybe it's well executed with good storytelling. 

[grey ghost]

7 minutes ago, JohnnyGossamer said:

Impressive as hell... But, not Fury Road. Fury Road has an insane 8.6 Average Rating with 358 reviews. And, a score of 90 at Metacritic too.

 

@Telemachos is hacking other people's account now. 

[ky02121]

31 minutes ago, CJohn said:

White guilt. His power.

[MCKillswitch123]

31 minutes ago, JohnnyGossamer said:

Impressive as hell... But, not Fury Road. Fury Road has an insane 8.6 Average Rating with 358 reviews. And, a score of 90 at Metacritic too.

 

Good point. Though I do still stand w/the 122 Fresh, 0 Rotten thing. I think Fury Road had already gotten its 1st rotten right around here.

 

I THINK. I might be wrong.

 

@filmlover No question that Fast 8 will blow out of proportions, buuuut apparently it's 2 hours and 40 minutes long. That's lunacy to say the least and may alienate the audience a little bit.

 

Btw, Universal also has Despicable Me 3, Atomic Blonde, The Mummy, American Made, and Pitch Perfect 3 slated for the year.

Edited February 24, 2017 by MCKillswitch123

[Lestranger]

 

52 minutes ago, MCKillswitch123 said:

 

I think the seeds for the renaissance were planted all the way back in 2012 w/The Cabin In The Woods, V/H/S, and Sinister. Then it really started in 2013 w/Mama and The Conjuring.

 

I could see that but hear me out. Cabin in the Woods, imo, was deeply indebted to the postmodern horror movement started by Scream. In many ways, we can point to Cabin as the end point of that era. You really can't get more meta on horror than that. What I have seen in It Follows and The Witch, specifically, is a pointed turn away from postmodernism and metanarratives. They are moving much more towards the naturalistic horror of the 1970s. I am thinking Last House of the Left by Craven and I Spit on Your Grave. The Witch especially was incredibly unrelenting and direct, which is why it turned off many viewers. There was no 2nd layer to the story (ala every major horror movie from the last 20 years). It was exactly what is said it was. There are of course various examples of this throughout the last decade, but both It Follows and The Witch were of higher quality and had a bigger social impact than any other examples. 

[Dementeleus]

2 hours ago, WrathOfHan said:

tbh I'm becoming VERY passive aggressive towards Get Out just because it's threatening Split's position on next year's Top 25 list  

 

No it isn't.  

[Rman823]

7 minutes ago, MCKillswitch123 said:

 

Good point. Though I do still stand w/the 122 Fresh, 0 Rotten thing. I think Fury Road had already gotten its 1st rotten right around here.

 

I THINK. I might be wrong.

The fact that Get Out has been able to keep a 100 % score this long is truly incredible. As someone who's been a Peele fan since his MadTv days I'm very happy for him and the movie's success.

Edited February 24, 2017 by Rman823

[Maxmoser3]

46 minutes ago, MCKillswitch123 said:

If you care about RT, here's one for ya - Get Out is at a pretty astonishing 122 Fresh, 0 Rotten. 8.3/10 critics average (and 83 on Metacritic), 81% audience score. That is batshit crazy. Not even Mad Max: Fury Road accomplished that.

 

Universal is having a banner year so far, between Split, A Dog's Purpose, Fifty Shades Darker, and now this (and The Great Wall has done great OS, but that's more 2016).

Universal will have even bigger hits. Split, Fifty Shades, and maybe(depending on the ow) Get Out have a shot at $100 million which a studio has not had at all within the first two months of the year! 

[Maxmoser3]

Although they aren't exactly "real people" but Get Out went from a 81% audience score on RT to a 82% audience score, so maybe word of mouth will help out Get Out and boost people in.

[franfar]

2 hours ago, WrathOfHan said:

tbh I'm becoming VERY passive aggressive towards Get Out just because it's threatening Split's position on next year's Top 25 list  

Can't lose a position if you never recieve one

 

Edited February 24, 2017 by franfar

[Jake Gittes]

1 hour ago, JohnnyGossamer said:

The ones that I'm most anxious to see at the moment that I have yet to see being Autopsy Of Jane Doe, Raw, The Lure, The Eyes Of My Mother and Demon.

 

The last two of those were both... not very good I thought. Demon isn't much of a horror and Eyes of My Mother is just torture porn in B&W. At least they're distinctive I suppose. 

 

Did you see I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House? It's unsurprisingly divisive but I adored every minute of it. Great take on The Innocents-esque dread-building kind of horror. 

[department store basement]

3 minutes ago, franfar said:

Can't lose a position if you never recieve one

 

 

Too bad, it has the #1 position right now lol

[MCKillswitch123]

10 minutes ago, Lestranger said:

 

 

I could see that but hear me out. Cabin in the Woods, imo, was deeply indebted to the postmodern horror movement started by Scream. In many ways, we can point to Cabin as the end point of that era. You really can't get more meta on horror than that. What I have seen in It Follows and The Witch, specifically, is a pointed turn away from postmodernism and metanarratives. They are moving much more towards the naturalistic horror of the 1970s. I am thinking Last House of the Left by Craven and I Spit on Your Grave. The Witch especially was incredibly unrelenting and direct, which is why it turned off many viewers. There was no 2nd layer to the story (ala every major horror movie from the last 20 years). It was exactly what is said it was. There are of course various examples of this throughout the last decade, but both It Follows and The Witch were of higher quality and had a bigger social impact than any other examples. 

 

I actually attribute that more to The Conjuring. Absolutely agree that Cabin was very Scream-ish meta and that It Follows/The Witch were brutally different from your average horror in style. But I think that, without James Wan's old school, no BS approach to a more mainstream type movie, the indie horror that has done so well in breaking out in the last few years wouldn't have been so looked at. But if you disagree, I won't judge.

 

Btw, I used Cabin not as much in the type of horror it presented, but more for the type of buzz it generated, more than any other horror film since maybe The Ring (you could say Saw or Paranormal Activity, but I think those generated more controversy than pure buzz).

[Barnack]

Horror is one of the last if not the last date night genre, it is the most commercial genre currently domestic.

 

Because of that, combined with the possibility of doing them at a low cost, make it not only the only door for new director a lot of the time, but event good director get stuck in it and cannot do something else, even when they want too. So there is a lot of talent involved in the genre right now (we always had good horror output as long as good director were involved, it was simply rarer when they had the choice to do what they wanted instead of just genre movie, and that is true for pretty much every genre).

[department store basement]

3 minutes ago, MCKillswitch123 said:

Btw, I used Cabin not as much in the type of horror it presented, but more for the type of buzz it generated, more than any other horror film since maybe The Ring (you could say Saw or Paranormal Activity, but I think those generated more controversy than pure buzz).

 

I'd say since The Grudge in '04.

[grim22]

I'm just happy that Horror movies are finally getting decent budgets again and not the "made for less than 1M dollars and filmed like found footage" which was basically the only thing being made for years on end.

[WrathOfHan]

16 minutes ago, Telemachos said:

 

No it isn't.  

 

12 minutes ago, franfar said:

Can't lose a position if you never recieve one