Rave: Getting The Orphanage at home tonight

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JL21 wrote:Some fair warnings, if you want to watch this one...

-it's Spanish. Subtitles. I don't mind but some of youse might.

-It's subtle. There's not going to be a bunch of things jumping out at you; not going to be some crazy slasher; not a lot of blood. If you lean more towards torture porn, maybe this isn't for you. Just sayin'.

It's more in the vein of "The Others", "The Sixth Sense", "Devil's Backbone", or "Dead End". I liked it quite a bit but could see how/why people wouldn't like it.
i liked a lot of those qualities about it.. that it didn't rely on the regular hollywood scares..
but i just a bit disappointed.. you can do the subtle thing much better in my opinion..

"devil's backbone" is a far superior movie.. for me at least..

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Teeth sounds like an old school Cronenberg flick. Obviously the tone is a little different.

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ghostrunner wrote:Teeth sounds like an old school Cronenberg flick. Obviously the tone is a little different.
i hate cronenberg.. yet i can't stop watching his stupid movies

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clement wrote:
JL21 wrote:
clement wrote:I saw it a few weeks ago in the cinema. It's pretty good. But not as good as Pan's Labyrinth. But better than Cloverfield.
It's a different kind of movie than Pan's, right? I'm expecting something more like "Devil's Backbone".
Yes definitely. Pan's is a fantasy film, Orphanage is a smart horror film. More similar to Devil's Backbone than Pan's Labyrinth.

Last night I went to see "Teeth". :D

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JL21 wrote:
clement wrote:
JL21 wrote:
clement wrote:I saw it a few weeks ago in the cinema. It's pretty good. But not as good as Pan's Labyrinth. But better than Cloverfield.
It's a different kind of movie than Pan's, right? I'm expecting something more like "Devil's Backbone".
Yes definitely. Pan's is a fantasy film, Orphanage is a smart horror film. More similar to Devil's Backbone than Pan's Labyrinth.

Last night I went to see "Teeth". :D

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I'm getting this at home tomorrow.
quit bragging herk

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Anyone read Neil Stephenson's Snow Crash? When I saw what Teeth was about, I immediately thought of the leading female's Dentata defense. And that creepy sex scene with her and the crazy murderer guy.

Great book by the way. No, seriously. It features a virtual-reality ninja master pizza delivery guy named Hero Protagonist as the main character. Read it.


ps: I've always known my skills at the forum-topic-derailment, but this is a rare and difficult attempt to derail a derailment!

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