Great Movies

[cruelpupet]

I'm watching The Devils Advocate right now...its a great movie

What are some of your favorites?

Whoo HA

[Chinpoko_Mon]

Big Trouble in Little China...

I've already got my pre-order for the DVD... love that movie...

[irwin]

Liar Liar
JFK

[theorangeone]

Goodfellas
Dirty Dancing
Cannibal: The Musical
Evil Dead Trilogy
Spinal Tap

Those are my favorites. I have very odd tastes in movies, and have seen lots and lots of b movies, just for fun.

[hapoo]

:hmm: i think we've already had one of THESE threads too

[ChrisMG187]

damn youngins!

[roboo7]

who cares...mines are

kids
american history X
Pi
Requiem for a dream
shawshank redemption
gummo
ran-havent seen it but i heard its good

movies that are really bad

cube-wtf is the point of this gay movie
belly-need i say more
urban legends-the most predictable movie(the only thing that scared me wuz the damn sudden noise they would have..you kno when its real silent then a bird comes out of no where makin a realy loud noise)

[hapoo]

most new "scary movies" are just startling, NOT scary. To be honest, i've never seen a truely scary movie, they always stretch the truth so much that its not believable. Now suspense movies really get me going.

[revil]

Originally posted by roboo7
cube-wtf is the point of this gay movie

heh. I saw that too. it was a weird mofo movie. but i liked it when they fell for the traps.

[ufcrusher]

There are only three movies which I consider to be truly scary. They are (drumroll please)

1. Night of the Living Dead (Original B/W version)
2. Pet Semetary
3. Pet Semetary II

Now the last two are probably limited to me, but for whatever reason I have never been able to sit through either one. I have to turn them both off because I couldnt handle it.

Other than those, I have never seen a horror movie that actually bothered me, and I have seen a lot of horror movies. If anyone has any horror suggestions toss them up.

[Chinpoko_Mon]

Originally posted by hapoo
most new "scary movies" are just startling, NOT scary. To be honest, i've never seen a truely scary movie, they always stretch the truth so much that its not believable. Now suspense movies really get me going.

I think The Shining is pretty scary... and I've watched it like 10 times... still gets me till this day....

"REDRUM!! REDRUM!!! REDRUM!!!!!!"

[ironchef]

Most horror movies today seem to just be hack and slash. "ah! he jumped! he's got a knife!" that's not scary, really. gore never frightened me so much. made me feel ill... maybe..

Freddy, as silly as it may seem now, was a scary summonabitch. All burnt and pizza-face lookin nasty. Monsters and supernatural are what make a horror movie truly frightening, methinks.

You know what scared me? Jurassic Park. The sound certainly helped.. it was loud as hell. But the thought of that actually happening and placing myself in the situation was a good scare.

Pet Cemetary - good call. Definitely a scary flick. Her sister (was it Zelda or something weird like that?) still gives me the heebie-jeebies. The first part of the mini-series "It" was also scary. That clown was pure evil.

[ufcrusher]

I guess I might be a bit skewed in my view as I saw Exorcist when I was 6 and it didnt bother me. The other supposedly scary movies such as the Nightmare line up, Friday the 13th, Halloween, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, etc. was that they were almost too gory to be real. To this day movies along those lines still make me laugh, with both their absurdity and creative ways of death.

A lot of the classic horror movies did more with sounds and camera angles to make the movies scary than anything else. They used to play on the fears of the public (Jaws is a good example. Its actually only rated PG but to this day some people havent gone swimming since. plus it is responsible for the wholesale blitzkrieg on all shark species)

Other movies such as Piranaha (and Black Piranaha), Alligator, HSSSSSSS, and similar science based horror movies use the fact that eveyone believes in the hidden power of the government, military, and scientist.

I think there is a definite difference between the shock of seeing a flayed and skinned person, which may cause the faint of heart to look away and actually being scared of the movie.

Any other thoughts?

[rum]

OK. Why is The Rock not any of your favorite movies? Thats the best movie of all time. I shit u not! I must have seen this movie at least 30 times, and its still great.

[Edited by rum on 04-06-2001 at 12:11 AM]