The other day I was going around youtube, and I found a video of one of the deaths from Final Destination 2. I watched it, and relived the reason I love the FD movies.
Then I scrolled down to the comments, and wanted to cry. Because EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM was from some RETARD who said something about "Wow, that's unrealistic. How would he bleed that much?"
Alright, seriously. If you can name one time in the last five years where you went into an R-rated horror film and expected it to be realistic, post a comment here saying so.
rut Slacker Posted 27 August 2009 09:08 PM The other day I was going around youtube, and I found a video of one of the deaths from Final Destination 2. I watched it, and relived the reason I love the FD movies.
Then I scrolled down to the comments, and wanted to cry. Because EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM was from some RETARD who said something about "Wow, that's unrealistic. How would he bleed that much?"
Alright, seriously. If you can name one time in the last five years where you went into an R-rated horror film and expected it to be realistic, post a comment here saying so.
Admittedly I've avoided this particular movie franchise as I don't necessarily care for its depressing fatalistic premise. But I would have to agree with your premise that R-Rated horror shows are not out of necessity reflective of reality, just as most action thriller stunts are not necessarily realistic either. Most movies are based on dramatizations that promote larger than life affects for emphasis and compelling attention getting that should not detract from the movie's enjoyment. I have in a number of reviews, however, tread somewhat inconsistently, been likely to have crossed the line by my insistence on some vague standard of logical believability in the movies I've critized. Neverthless when it comes to horror movies, the insistence on realism is even more difficult to judge as by a horror movie's very nature, a lot of it is based on a fictional, unrealistic premise to begin with. I think one horror movie that played nicely with the realism/horror balance was THE CELL (2004) starring Jennifer Lopez.
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Originally posted by rut: The other day I was going around youtube, and I found a video of one of the deaths from Final Destination 2. I watched it, and relived the reason I love the FD movies.
Then I scrolled down to the comments, and wanted to cry. Because EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM was from some RETARD who said something about "Wow, that's unrealistic. How would he bleed that much?"
Alright, seriously. If you can name one time in the last five years where you went into an R-rated horror film and expected it to be realistic, post a comment here saying so.
I believe that there are unexplainable problems for teenagers with using proper words for describing the lack of rationality in movies where there is no room for realism but only speculations or calculations based on logic.
It is obvious that any movie laking logic will be absurd and will not be able to propose nothing interesting but idotic nonsense, only idotic premises that will look grotesque and not entertaining at all.
Infact such movies as Science fiction, or Horror - thrillers cannot physically have reflections of reality. But on the contrary they require a lot more rationality in ordre to make the premise believable for making them entertaining to wacth and follow the plot.
And the most successeful famous film that has both elements - Science fiction and horror / thriller is obviously THE THING by John Carpenter.
The fact is that THE THING is obviously very unrealistic as any good Sci - Fi and Horro movie should be, becosu eotherwise they would be boring.
But the fact that THE THING plot was made in a very rational way, and any detail was calculated very consciously, makes everything in this fiulm believable thus making it very entertaining for intelliegent viewers.
The problem is that mentally retarded people can watch serious masterpiece THE THING or trash grotesque absurdity like KILLER CLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE, believing that it is the same thing is a very unplausible, but very real and scary situation.
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ALPHAKNIGHT Slacker First Class Posted 02 October 2009 11:33 AM Hide Post quote: Originally posted by rut: The other day I was going around youtube, and I found a video of one of the deaths from Final Destination 2. I watched it, and relived the reason I love the FD movies.
Then I scrolled down to the comments, and wanted to cry. Because EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM was from some RETARD who said something about "Wow, that's unrealistic. How would he bleed that much?"
Alright, seriously. If you can name one time in the last five years where you went into an R-rated horror film and expected it to be realistic, post a comment here saying so.
I believe that there are unexplainable problems for teenagers with using proper words for describing the lack of rationality in movies where there is no room for realism but only speculations or calculations based on logic.
It is obvious that any movie laking logic will be absurd and will not be able to propose nothing interesting but idotic nonsense, only idotic premises that will look grotesque and not entertaining at all.
Infact such movies as Science fiction, or Horror - thrillers cannot physically have reflections of reality. But on the contrary they require a lot more rationality in ordre to make the premise believable for making them entertaining to wacth and follow the plot.
And the most successeful famous film that has both elements - Science fiction and horror / thriller is obviously THE THING by John Carpenter.
The fact is that THE THING is obviously very unrealistic as any good Sci - Fi and Horro movie should be, becosu eotherwise they would be boring.
But the fact that THE THING plot was made in a very rational way, and any detail was calculated very consciously, makes everything in this fiulm believable thus making it very entertaining for intelliegent viewers.
The problem is that mentally retarded people can watch serious masterpiece THE THING or trash grotesque absurdity like KILLER CLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE, believing that it is the same thing is a very unplausible, but very real and scary situation. This message has been edited. Last edited by: ALPHAKNIGHT
I'm pleasantly surprised to see THE THING (1982) as highly recommended horror/thriller movie. This movie probably of all movies that I've ever seen created the greatest, most intense fear of any movie. I can't really say why, but by the time I left the theater in 1982, I was physically shaking with fear. In many ways, the sci-fi depends on logic and reason along with a "fictional" premise as opposed to horror which depends usually on a "supernatural" premise. Science fiction doesn't necessarily however preclude the possibility that the "fiction" may at some point become fact and that's the tantalizing appeal of science fiction because one never knows whether or not what one experiences in a sci fi movie might actual some day become reality. THE THING is an interesting fusion of sci fi and horror (a monster) that is based on the possibility of alien life transformations.
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