Thanks, DB
I like how mellow this MB is, no one ever seems to argue here... that's why I felt bad for arguing something as subjective as general film tastes/reviews. I wanted to 'walk away' from it, but it was like the perfect storm of anti-JP.
But I will say, Ocielz, if that passes for harsh negativity in your world, then you are one lucky person. I basically directed the negativity at myself.
Ricker --- Didn't mean to single you out, didn't realize several of the things I commented on where from you. No hard feelings?
Anyway --- there's not much for me to say, other then I hate everything that Human Centipede stands for. There's just not a single redeeming quality about it. I don't call for ANYTHING, no matter how much I hate it, to be banned/censored... It's just that when I see someone talk about it like it's a good film, I shed a singular tear like the Native American in that old 70's commercial about littering.
And CGI bothers me... especially comparing it to what many feel to be THE pinnacle of practical horror FX in The Thing.
CGI in general is lacking, probably 90% of the time... it looks like a cartoon. CGI in a low budget horror film, which almost always have short post-production schedules? Oh man.... it ain't gonna be pretty. I'm sure you'll see what I mean when the The Thing prequel comes out this week, if you haven't noticed it wildly out of place in a ton of other horror flics in the last 10 yrs.
Surf... I worked in the cutting room for Rob Zombie's Halloween, it was basically me, Rob and 2 other guys for 6 months working on it, once they were done shooting.... so I might be disqualified for speaking on this, but....
I feel RZ's Halloween was a big missed opportunity to take advantage of what JC set up so well in the original. The great thing about Myers was, that he was from a seemingly happy, upper-middle class family, with no reason to snap. The remake bastardized that by putting him in a crummy, white-trashy home with a stereo-typical abusive step dad.
I personally would have preferred Myers in the normal happy family, and instead of his first kill being the school bully who had been picking on him/stalking him... Myers' would kill his best friend out of nowhere. That would have been creepier to me... just not knowing why/how/when this kid was going to snap.
H20 I found to be very boring (took my then-girlfriend-now-wife to see it theatrically back in the day)... It had that 'Scream' era vibe to it... but without the interesting characters that the original Scream had.
The original Halloween I find to be a little over-rated. Slow and monotonous... I love 80's slashers, but of the "Big 3" (Jason, Freddy, Mike)... I find the Halloween series in general to be the least interesting.... Still, love to watch them from time to time though.
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When I saw this trailer as a kid, I was so psyched.... there are two shots in the middle where it shows the body-hopper thing and then immediately cuts to Jason wielding a weapon. I thought it was Jason IN Hell, killing a demon of some sort. Man, was I wrong.
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