Hey Mora...

[Perversion]

Re: Hey Mora...

COME ON, JAMOS....

*** SPOILERS ***
After what the kid had gone through for the entirety of the film, the "bastard in a basket" scene at the end didn't affect you in any way???
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You are not as the rest of us, methinks.

[Adrian Foley]

Re: Hey Mora...

I'd have to go with the original german version of "Funny Games". It's not like makes-you-cry-at-the-end bleak, but definitely fits I think.
*** SPOILERS ***
In the end it's shown that not a single person the two fellows murdered had a chance, even after the mother killed one of the murderers with a shotgun. Number 2 grabbed a friggin' remote control and rewound the film.
Plus there was the 10 minute crying scene after the son gets killed. That much of the same thing can make anyone antsy.
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[Shard]

Re: Hey Mora...

COME ON, JAMOS....

*** SPOILERS ***
After what the kid had gone through for the entirety of the film, the "bastard in a basket" scene at the end didn't affect you in any way???
*** END SPOILERS ***



You are not as the rest of us, methinks.

I didn't get the same read on that scene as you did. *** SPOILERS ***
Just happened to watch the movie this past weekend and if anything it's a happy ending for the kid, or as happy as he was likely to get at least. Daniel Plainview's hatred of himself eventually destroys everyone and everything he touches, whether he loves it or not. The kid's going into business for himself, in a career he loves, with a wife, and is finally separated from the most poisonous aspect of his life.
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The Constant Gardener was depressing as hell. I felt manipulated and shat upon by the narrative. If there's anything redeeming about the movie, I missed it.

[marcus]

Re: Hey Mora...

Elephant and Gummo. The former is a film adaption of Colombine which does a really good job with the characterization and the latter is a surreal movie about a poor white trash area in the aftermath of a tornado. You've got bodies laying on roofs, the protagonists have a job drowning cats and selling the meat to a dude at the 7/11, the protagonists do a mercy killing near the end, and the entire movie is just 90 minutes of depressing and creepy scene after depressing and creepy scene.

[IamPinhead]

Re: Hey Mora...

Movies I find sad are the fifth and sixth "Hellraiser" movies. The fifth, Inferno, is about a detective who opens the puzzle box and as he continues (he's been cheating on his wife and has a coke dealer) to lie and cheat, framing his best friend, everybody he loves or claims to love dies in some horrible manner (his wife and daughter were nailed to a pillar and froze to death). Then he finds out he's doomed to repeat the entire fiasco for the rest of eternity as his punishment. The sixth is about a man who is married to Kirsty Cotton. As his mistresses and best friend are killed, he is slowing losing grip with reality and is framed for all their murders. The entire time he doesn't realize he was cheating on his wife or planned to kill her, and doesn't realize until the very end of the movie that he had been. It's depressing because the series should have ended after Bloodline, and it has an overall feeling of futility and hopelessness. Of course, both characters deserved it but it was still very sad. Another one is Chronicles of Riddick, because everything Riddick cared for is taken from him.

[John Mora]

Re: Hey Mora...

Movies I find sad are the fifth and sixth "Hellraiser" movies. . . . Another one is Chronicles of Riddick, because everything Riddick cared for is taken from him.

Perhaps your horizons could be broadened.

[Perversion]

Re: Hey Mora...

BUT MORA...HE'S PINHEAD!!!!



But seriously, I agree with Mora. Hellraiser...sad? You live in a sheltered filmic world, there, pinhead.


Who is this guy related to or friends with again?

[Jamos]

Re: Hey Mora...

COME ON, JAMOS....

*** SPOILERS ***
After what the kid had gone through for the entirety of the film, the "bastard in a basket" scene at the end didn't affect you in any way???
*** END SPOILERS ***

I didn't feel anything when that happened. A dick being a dick, that is something I already got used to. So it was no surprise to me and had no emotional impact on me. None of the characters connected with me emotionally. As for a movie that did...

Pan's Labyrinth. *** SPOILERS ***
The poor little girl's father is dead and mother married an evil man (which the movie implies that he killed her father to get with the mother in the first place.) Later the mother dies in child birth and even later she is killed off as well. Pretty sad stuff there. While the movie had these mystical creatures in it, if you look more into it, all of the fantasy could have been no more than her mind coping with the harsh reality going on around her. I was probably just reading too much into it, but at the end of the movie she is talking to the phaun, or however you spell it, as that evil man approaches. When he gets there the girl is by herself. Now it most likely disapeared right after talking to her, however if you think about it, it is possible that the phaun was never there to begin with.
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[John Mora]

Re: Hey Mora...

I didn't feel anything when that happened. A dick being a dick, that is something I already got used to. So it was no surprise to me and had no emotional impact on me. None of the characters connected with me emotionally. As for a movie that did...

Pan's Labyrinth. *** SPOILERS ***
The poor little girl's father is dead and mother married an evil man (which the movie implies that he killed her father to get with the mother in the first place.) Later the mother dies in child birth and even later she is killed off as well. Pretty sad stuff there. While the movie had these mystical creatures in it, if you look more into it, all of the fantasy could have been no more than her mind coping with the harsh reality going on around her. I was probably just reading too much into it, but at the end of the movie she is talking to the phaun, or however you spell it, as that evil man approaches. When he gets there the girl is by herself. Now it most likely disapeared right after talking to her, however if you think about it, it is possible that the phaun was never there to begin with.
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Just an evil guy being evil, that's something I already got used to. Didn't connect to me emotionally. :V

[Caciss]

Re: Hey Mora...

Jamos is a guy who thinks he understands things like story and plot and character development, but in reality does not.

[IamPinhead]

Re: Hey Mora...

BUT MORA...HE'S PINHEAD!!!!



But seriously, I agree with Mora. Hellraiser...sad? You live in a sheltered filmic world, there, pinhead.


Who is this guy related to or friends with again?

No. I don't live in a "sheltered" film world, it's just those were movies that came to mind. I've seen quite a few, in fact. But like I said, they were in the forefront of my mind. Which makes plenty of sense since my user name is the main antagonist of every single Hellraiser film.

[highwind]

Re: Hey Mora...

i spent a lot of time in college getting high and watching gummo.

[Jamos]

Re: Hey Mora...

Just an evil guy being evil, that's something I already got used to. Didn't connect to me emotionally. :V

Oh you. *noogies*

Jamos is a guy who thinks he understands things like story and plot and character development, but in reality does not.

An interesting theory, completely wrong, but interesting. Just because I find the movie dry and dull you make that assumption. I can't help that a movie filled with the kind of stuff I like does not meet my expectations. *** SPOILERS ***
The main character being a self-loathing man that hides behind a mask of a good family man. He gradually reveals his true colors as the movie progresses. He abandons his son, kills the guy pretending to be his long lost brother (I can understand why he did it, but damn.), threatens to kill a man just for mentioning his son, gets his some back, but when the boy grows up disowns him and tells him that he was adopted in the meanest way possible, and not to mention humilating a priest then killing him with a bowling pin. While all of that sounds pretty interesting, they did it in a way that couldn't hold my attention. That main guy's voice kind of put me to sleep. The only time that he seems to change the tone of his voice is when he is angry. The movie also seemed to take its sweet time between major events (maybe it just felt that way to me, I don't know.) I can't help it, I tried really hard to like the movie. Didn't work. I'm sure you will get over it.
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[Red Dragon]

Re: Hey Mora...

i spent a lot of time in college getting high and watching gummo.

Is this supposed to suprise us?

[Toaster]

Re: Hey Mora...

i spent a lot of time in college getting high and watching gummo.

why in the world would you do that?