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Post by CyberpunkCentral on Jun 23, 2022 8:12:00 GMT -6
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Post by kylor on Jun 23, 2022 8:25:52 GMT -6
Based on the title I was somehow hoping for a new years-spanning Conan the Barbarian franchise based on all of the old books. Well, guess we get this instead.
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Post by CyberpunkCentral on Jun 23, 2022 9:05:30 GMT -6
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Post by kylor on Jun 23, 2022 9:10:10 GMT -6
Looks bleh. These horror movies all have a similar look and style to them. Probably a decent free streamer watch.
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Post by mwynn on Jun 23, 2022 11:41:41 GMT -6
Looks bleh. These horror movies all have a similar look and style to them. Probably a decent free streamer watch. Horror is oversaturated. What more can be done?
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Post by kylor on Jun 23, 2022 11:58:29 GMT -6
Perhaps give it a different style (A bit like Last Night in Soho), try to break the quite clear formulas that are being used across these dreck horrors.
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Post by kingkevzilla on Jun 23, 2022 12:03:44 GMT -6
Looks bleh. These horror movies all have a similar look and style to them. Probably a decent free streamer watch. Horror is oversaturated. What more can be done? Go back to focusing on characters and having a bit of fun? Not make it an all out comedy, or go with the "look how stupid this is, isn't it stupid?" Style. God, I hate that. I'm fed up with the idea or concept over pretty anything else. Like with this, the idea they're going with probable so flimsy that they're trying to hide what the story is.
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Post by mwynn on Jun 23, 2022 12:12:02 GMT -6
Horror is oversaturated. What more can be done? Go back to focusing on characters and having a bit of fun? Not make it an all out comedy, or go with the "look how stupid this is, isn't it stupid?" Style. God, I hate that. I'm fed up with the idea or concept over pretty anything else. Like with this, the idea they're going with probable so flimsy that they're trying to hide what the story is. What is a recent Horror movie that fits this?
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Post by kylor on Jun 23, 2022 12:18:56 GMT -6
There isn't many iconic horror characters anymore. We had Jason with Friday the 13th, Chucky (of course), Michael Myers with Halloween, Freddy Krueger in Nightmare on Elm Street, etc etc. Now horror movies are more interested in trying out a new horror "concept" over having actual scary and memorable characters in them. It's just formulaic, to borrow a term used to describe the MCU.
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Post by kingkevzilla on Jun 23, 2022 12:23:14 GMT -6
Go back to focusing on characters and having a bit of fun? Not make it an all out comedy, or go with the "look how stupid this is, isn't it stupid?" Style. God, I hate that. I'm fed up with the idea or concept over pretty anything else. Like with this, the idea they're going with probable so flimsy that they're trying to hide what the story is. What is a recent Horror movie that fits this? This, Smile, US, Nope, Fantasy Island, Escape Room, Midsummer, Birdbox,The Quiet Place and Rent-a-pal.
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Post by kingkevzilla on Jun 23, 2022 12:29:39 GMT -6
There isn't many iconic horror characters anymore. We had Jason with Friday the 13th, Chucky (of course), Michael Myers with Halloween, Freddy Krueger in Nightmare on Elm Street, etc etc. Now horror movies are more interested in trying out a new horror "concept" over having actual scary and memorable characters in them. It's just formulaic, to borrow a term used to describe the MCU. Yes, exactly my point. The last few horror films that I've seen that have memorable characters are few and far between. There's ones out there like Terrifier, Psycho Goreman, Willy's Wonderland and Let The Wrong One In.
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Post by kylor on Jun 23, 2022 12:31:59 GMT -6
I mean, there was that "Nun" horror film, which looked like it had potential to have an iconic character but it just fizzled out. Guess people wanted Nun of that.
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Post by kingkevzilla on Jun 23, 2022 12:38:22 GMT -6
I mean, there was that "Nun" horror film, which looked like it had potential to have an iconic character but it just fizzled out. Guess people wanted Nun of that. For what it's worth, I like how that movie at least tried to have character and cool setting. When was the last time you saw a big budget Hollywood gothic. All the Conjuring movies tried to have characters.
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Post by kylor on Jun 23, 2022 12:41:09 GMT -6
Yes it was a solid shot at creating an iconic and horrific character. Execution (pun intended) also factors into it. It's all well and good having a character you're trying to make iconic but it's got to have good execution as well. Having an iconic character without a good concept that matches it and having a good concept without an iconic character that matches it won't really work all that well.
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Post by kingkevzilla on Jun 23, 2022 12:49:06 GMT -6
I just realised that we've completely forgot about this movie and been talking about the current state of horror. Shows just how bland this movie looks.
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Post by kylor on Jun 23, 2022 12:50:40 GMT -6
That is pretty barbaric of us to do that.
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Post by Asaemon on Jun 30, 2022 11:58:12 GMT -6
Based on the title I was somehow hoping for a new years-spanning Conan the Barbarian franchise based on all of the old books. Well, guess we get this instead. Same here. I was hoping for a new standard barbarian movie in the mold of Conan.
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Post by kylor on Jun 30, 2022 11:59:47 GMT -6
Next time, baby.
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Post by CyberpunkCentral on Aug 30, 2022 7:36:57 GMT -6
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Post by UltraStar26 on Aug 30, 2022 8:57:51 GMT -6
Saw the trailer for the first time in front of Nope last month, looks OK I guess.
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