Oh great, Mormon horror flick.

[mikbone]

 

[LDSGator]

I love all things horror. This might be good. 

[Phoenix_person]

34 minutes ago, LDSGator said:

I love all things horror. This might be good. 

Are you ready for the Disney Scaryverse?

 

[LDSGator]

2 hours ago, Phoenix_person said:

Are you ready for the Disney Scaryverse?

 

Yup. I saw the Winnie the Pooh horror movie. It was awful. 

[Phoenix_person]

23 minutes ago, LDSGator said:

Yup. I saw the Winnie the Pooh horror movie. It was awful. 

I heard it was extremely bad, and not in a fun way like Sharknado or Velocipastor.

Edited July 2, 2024 by Phoenix_person

[LDSGator]

1 minute ago, Phoenix_person said:

I heard it was extremely bad, and not in a fun way like Sharknado or Velocipastor.

100% correct. 

[Vort]

Danites arise!

[Carborendum]

2 hours ago, Vort said:

Danites arise!

[Backroads]

I might actually watch it, too. 

[mirkwood]

It looks bad to me and I like horror movies.

[Vort]

The kimchee belt is my favorite part.

[Ironhold]

Just looked it up. 

It's A24. 

They have a history of making utterly pretentious and nonsensical "message" movies, like the recent "Civil War" flop that was supposed to be about a modern US civil war but only showed that the production team had no idea how US politics actually worked. 

I doubt it'll see wide distribution, but be prepared to answer questions from people regardless. 

[zil2]

1 hour ago, Ironhold said:

Just looked it up. 

Which one, Return of the Danites: This Time with Seoul or Heretic?

Also, the 1980s called, they want their eyeglasses back.

[Ironhold]

2 minutes ago, zil2 said:

Which one, Return of the Danites: This Time with Seoul or Heretic?

Also, the 1980s called, they want their eyeglasses back.

Heretic. 

A24 has a reputation for making pretentious little numbers that are often so divorced from reality they make Hollywood lawyers jealous. 

In particular, they favor movies that have a "message" of some kind, and will prioritize that over everything else... including the actual plot. They also don't seem to care about who they offend so long as the people they offend are the kids of people that "progressive" audiences don't much care for... like us. Really, if A24 went out of business tomorrow, nothing of value would be lost as the meme has it. 

[mordorbund]

It’s been…. a quarter century(?)…. since God’s Army? Bout time cinema revisited the subject.

[Carborendum]

4 hours ago, zil2 said:

Which one, Return of the Danites: This Time with Seoul or Heretic?

Also, the 1980s called, they want their eyeglasses back.

Heresy!!!  

Those glasses are back in style today.  You have no sense of fashion (says the geeky engineer).

[Carborendum]

5 hours ago, Ironhold said:

Just looked it up. 

It's A24. 

They have a history of making utterly pretentious and nonsensical "message" movies, like the recent "Civil War" flop that was supposed to be about a modern US civil war but only showed that the production team had no idea how US politics actually worked. 

I doubt it'll see wide distribution, but be prepared to answer questions from people regardless. 

Budget of $17 million.  Yeah... sounds really good...

But it was written by the guys who gave us A Quiet Place.

Meh.  Pass.

[Carborendum]

2 hours ago, mordorbund said:

It’s been…. a quarter century(?)…. since God’s Army? Bout time cinema revisited the subject.

That's not what I would call this film.

[Ironhold]

22 hours ago, Carborendum said:

Budget of $17 million.  Yeah... sounds really good...

But it was written by the guys who gave us A Quiet Place.

Meh.  Pass.

Yeah... the same film where we're told that the planet was attacked by aliens who hunted via listening to their prey through newspaper clippings warning us of this. 

The printing presses themselves are loud and need multiple people to effectively run, plus the vehicles delivering these newspapers will make a lot of noise no matter how careful the drivers themselves are. 

That headline was less than 10 minutes into the film, and took me right out of the entire thing.

[Carborendum]

15 hours ago, Ironhold said:

Yeah... the same film where we're told that the planet was attacked by aliens who hunted via listening to their prey through newspaper clippings warning us of this. 

The printing presses themselves are loud and need multiple people to effectively run, plus the vehicles delivering these newspapers will make a lot of noise no matter how careful the drivers themselves are. 

That headline was less than 10 minutes into the film, and took me right out of the entire thing.

Never saw it.  I understood the premise.  And I can't figure out why so many liked it.

You touched on some reasons why the literal story simply didn't fit into my Overton Window of plausible story lines.  But my reasons go even further than that.  No one could figure out that if they were that sensitive to sound that overloading them would be the best weapon?  Instead, they tried to hide and be as silent as possible?

The figurative message is much more understandable.  But this is a terrible analogy for that principle.

[Ironhold]

8 hours ago, Carborendum said:

Never saw it.  I understood the premise.  And I can't figure out why so many liked it.

You touched on some reasons why the literal story simply didn't fit into my Overton Window of plausible story lines.  But my reasons go even further than that.  No one could figure out that if they were that sensitive to sound that overloading them would be the best weapon?  Instead, they tried to hide and be as silent as possible?

The figurative message is much more understandable.  But this is a terrible analogy for that principle.

In real life a number of companies are working with sonic weaponry as a possible "less than lethal" weapon for use in crowd control. 

All it'd take is a few SWAT officers and a couple of armored cars with these devices and they could have stopped the invasion before lunch.

[ZealoulyStriving]

On 7/1/2024 at 4:43 PM, LDSGator said:

I love all things horror. This might be good. 

You should check this out then. She is the wife of the Bishop in the Ward I recently began attending:

https://mercedesmyardley.com/

 

Edited July 5, 2024 by ZealoulyStriving

[LDSGator]

33 minutes ago, ZealoulyStriving said:

You should check this out then. She is the wife of the Bishop in the Ward I recently began attending:

https://mercedesmyardley.com/

 

Thank you for sharing that. I’ll check it out! 

[Ironhold]

OK. 

My local multiplex *will* be getting this movie. 

I'm in a quandary now. 

I will have to see this film one way or another because I'm something of a minor local celebrity and I know that people will eventually ask me about it. 

...But it's a conflict of interest case such that I can't actually do a printed review of it in the paper, and there's no way I can physically stop anyone leaving the screening to explain to them what the film did wrong. 

I have options for what I'm going to be doing as my review that weekend, so that at least is covered. But I still have this movie to deal with. 

[Vort]

5 hours ago, Ironhold said:

OK. 

My local multiplex *will* be getting this movie. 

I'm in a quandary now. 

I will have to see this film one way or another because I'm something of a minor local celebrity and I know that people will eventually ask me about it. 

...But it's a conflict of interest case such that I can't actually do a printed review of it in the paper, and there's no way I can physically stop anyone leaving the screening to explain to them what the film did wrong. 

I have options for what I'm going to be doing as my review that weekend, so that at least is covered. But I still have this movie to deal with. 

You get the opportunity that every movie reviewer craves: Being able to tear apart a truly horrible film scene by scene and unleashing the full wrath of your sarcastic cynical snarkiness upon a truly deserving recipient.