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Buffalo wrote:I was 11 when I saw the first movie, so it kinda felt like I grew up with the characters. The first time watching 3 I was in company, not sure how I kept it together. Blinking a lot and swallowing the lump that kept rising helped.

My brother - called Andy - was the same age as Toy Story's Andy for each the films and was heading off to Uni when the third came out

Wow, that's...pretty weird!

Well, he can't be the only one. It played a part in him crying during the TS3, the big poofter

The Fast & the Furious: Tokyo Drift

Loads of fit women in it, but it's a terrible film.

2/10

Re watched The fly 2

Not as good as the first but I will give it a head crushing, face melting 3/5

Freddy vs Jason.

Oh dear. 1/10

Drinking Buddies - 8/10

Lost a point for the wasted banana at the end. So pointless.

Skippy wrote:Well, he can't be the only one. It played a part in him crying during the TS3, the big poofter

I bet you laugh and point at him then went to the toilet and have a cry yourself there? Did you?

DaddyBrown wrote:Freddy vs Jason.

Oh dear. 1/10

I thought it was fun and somewhat decent.

If you want a truly awful film, watch Jason X.

Jason X has him killing a teenager in a sleeping bag by hitting her with another teenager in a sleeping bag.

It is, quite simply, the finest film of our generation.

Is Jason X the one in space? Awesome movie.

It's also got the nitro-smash kill, which was actually a pretty awesome scene.

Me and Falsey were chatting about Jason X a little while ago, a conversation that started off with us taking the piss out of it but ended with us genuinely wanting to watch it again.

In fairness, unlike a lot of the late 90s/mid noughties horror relaunch attempts, before they started rebooting everything, it simply didn't give a solitary strawberry float. It was completely ridiculous and knew it was and just decided to be really fun (the scene in the hologram Crystal Lake was strawberry floating hilarious). There's a lot to be said for a movie that knows its audience, knows what it wants to do and just strawberry floating does rather than fanny about trying to reinvent everything.

The corkscrew death.

Yeah, it's just on the right side of knowing, without being tedious about it. I'd argue it should be used more as an example of post-modern horror than shite like Scream which has a massive rager for how in the know it is.

I see what you mean but I disagree. Jason X was certainly knowing, but it was more parody than meta. Scream did at least try to subvert the genre tropes as much as it referenced them, whereas Jason X just made fun of itself by turning everything to eleven.

But Scream is strawberry floating terrible.

It's a personal bugbear of mine; cinema that makes a big show of its attempts to subvert the standard conventions. It's why I have such an active and vocal dislike of the French New Wave and in particular the work of Jean-Luc Godard. I saw his film Slow-Motion on Monday and it genuinely might be the worst film I have ever seen.

Dredd has some neat little subversions of the action genre. Dumb & Dumber uses plenty of misdirection in some of its finest gags. Most recently Frozen subverts the standard Disney formula in a rather lovely fashion. They're playful, and I love that.

I love Scream.

Why does this not surprise me?

See, I like Scream. I know a lot of people don't, but I think the way it plays with the genre is more effective than some people give it credit for. I mean, I'm probably biased because when you watch as many horror movies as I do, the barometer of what separates the good from the gooseberry fool does get somewhat skewed. It's not the best; for that you'd need to look at Feast or Cabin in the Woods or Leslie Vernon, but I think as arguably the progenitor of the post-modern horror wave it got a lot right, and made the right points.