Posts by Lawrence Booth2

Look, you see where this is headed? The movie is turning into a GAME—and I’m talking a real video game here

I grab a DVD Final Destination 3 and suddenly I’ve got the power to decide who dies and when... multiple endings... way more choices...

man...

I feel like VHS is basically the last stronghold for true cinephiles... these DivX files have completely sucked the joy out of rewinding... that specific smell of the tape... the sheer hunt for a certain movie

Nowadays, you can grab pretty much anything with just two clicks... which is great, obviously
but there's still this lingering memory of being back in Sweden, waiting on those VHS tapes of Romero's zombie flicks... wondering if the mailman would actually show up, if they'd get damaged in transit, or if I'd even be able to get them to play... you know how it goes... naturally, I’d watch them the second they arrived... one time I scored nearly 100 movies at once... didn't get through them until 2012. 😁

But today? Every kid gets their hands on a Romero film during some mindless swap where they trade 50 DVD for 50 DVD without having any clue what kind of cinema they're actually holding...

And don't even get me started on the future—my entire collection, which I'm currently struggling to migrate over to DVD, will probably all end up sitting on some random thumb drive or a DVD after the whole Blu-ray or HD craze passes

😬 I actually dragged two boxes of old VHS tapes down to the basement last night
I'm officially out of storage space 😬—otherwise, there would have been at least 👍
more.

That was a solid movie 🙂

Honestly, I don't give a damn about the picture quality much

Man, the kind of bootleg copies I've sat through at the local Cinema

Take, say, some series that’s forty years old and gets screened twice a year by habit😁😁😁
The audio... just terrible—and the translation was a total mess😁 but the movie itself is great

I'm not even turning my nose up at DivX rips taken from a beat-up VHS tape
If it's a movie I love and it isn't playing on the local Drive-in theater or available on DVD, I'll watch it

😁 Let's be honest—having attractive women on screen definitely helps boost the ratings
plus you've got that whole sense of mystery mixed with a killer soundtrack 😁

classic cinema rules

Interesting flick 🙂 absolutely stunning to look at

I once caught sight of you stuffing your face with green bell peppers straight out of a cardboard box... I have to hand it to you though, there had to be at least two pounds of those things in there.

Basically, I'm strictly about that DivX life 🙂 though... where would I even track down something like an Indian flick from 1955? 😁

That said, there's nothing quite like a good old DVD when I just don't feel like messing around with subtitle files or whatever... you just pop the disc in and know the audio is going to be solid from start to finish 😁 and the subtitles will actually behave themselves

All such incredible movies 🙂

Any recommendations?

I honestly thought I was the only one who sat through that absolute madness from Kamikaze 😁 Girls

I’d much rather have more Asian content handled by pro translators working directly from the source languages 😁 instead of some messy translation of German subtitles based on the original Korean

Man, I’ve been telling myself I’d finally sit down and watch this for ages

honestly, though—that Chungking Express vibe is just stunning—it’s a total feast for both the eyes and the ears😁

Honestly, I can't pick just one as the best

Lawrence Booth2 😁

Just looking at this from a broad perspective... the first thing that jumps out at me is *Legend of Hell House*... but if you look at other haunted house flicks, they don't really feature deer—just like how Dracula movies or Frankenstein stories don't involve them. Then you've got early Cronenberg body horror, then Hitchcock, then all those different devil movies, demonic possessions, creepy babies... dolls, butchers, maniacs... not to mention the various tropes involving Italians, Spaniards, Australians... and finally the Japanese, Russians, or Mexicans 😁... but honestly, I can't argue against the deer being a factor because there really are just way too many deer popping up. For instance, I can't stop thinking about *Reeker*, which is still pretty fresh in my mind

Amanda Lopez50 said:they're arguing against the idea that high schoolers prefer watching a movie over reading a book—basically claiming it's all the same thing (I mean, who’s actually going to sit down with Anna Karenina when you can just watch the adaptation?), but they're missing the point. These are two fundamentally different mediums. They deserve totally different approaches, and honestly, they leave you with a completely different vibe...

but then again, people absolutely loved watching those terrible adaptations based on books 😬

All I really remember from school is how my teachers used to absolutely trash movies... especially when it came to book adaptations

I honestly think we should be introducing some basic fundamentals...

Just a quick heads-up—we’re strictly talking about one tiny little corner of the horror genre here, which, unfortunately, happens to be the part most people actually know

Honestly, I think Southern Comfort is a pretty terrible movie😁