Allie Kitsune
Crow T. Robot
Always Feelin' Foxy.
HaHa U FaLL 4 LaVa TriK
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Post by Allie Kitsune on Oct 14, 2022 10:05:01 GMT -5
Because if someone on etsy has made a mask or prosthetic for it, some two-bit director is gonna make a slasher film out of it.
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Post by wildojinx on Oct 14, 2022 10:30:15 GMT -5
Robot Chicken was messing with them like every two weeks. Between this and the Pooh movie, I think the RC writers have taken over Hollywood. Kinda like how Scooby-Doo projects were taken over by kids who grew up watching it, then as adults turned into hipsters who hated Scrappy, believed that Shaggy was a pothead and Velma was hot/a lesbian, etc. etc. (5 months ago I'd say the Rescue Rangers movie too, but that ended up being decent, actually...) Thank goodness the Aquaman movie was more than him talking to fish.
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Post by Wolf Hawkfield no1 NZ poster on Oct 14, 2022 15:13:27 GMT -5
I have a much better idea for a horror film.
Dr. Seuss, A. A. Milne, Roald Dahl and other children's authors rise from their graves to brutally murder all these talentless hacks making pointless and stupid edgy R-rated horror films based on their books.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Oct 14, 2022 16:00:26 GMT -5
I have a much better idea for a horror film. Dr. Seuss, A. A. Milne, Roald Dahl and other children's authors rise from their graves to brutally murder all these talentless hacks making pointless and stupid edgy R-rated horror films based on their books. Get on it, Ti West!
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Post by WoodStoner1 on Nov 1, 2022 15:52:37 GMT -5
The Magic School Bus goes to Hell could finally be a real thing! Remove the Bus and make it Caillou going to hell, then we'll talk.
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chazraps
Wade Wilson
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Post by chazraps on Dec 6, 2022 12:49:10 GMT -5
I caught a screener copy and it's honestly so much better than it has any right to be.
Let me be clear, I hate HATE all the post-'Robot Chicken' "let's take this beloved children's property we're nostalgic for and put it in adult and disturbing situations" movies. It's the absolute easiest shit to write and wildly uninteresting and predictible.
'The Mean One' is NOT one of those.
The look / setting / characters is a spot-on parody of the basic cable Lifetime/Hallmark Christmas movies. From the colors to the over-use of sweeping crane shots on the town, to the interactions - it's a purposely dead on send-up. Couple that with a genuine thought and love for the (yes, unauthorized) source material (and an incredibly nuanced detailed performance by the 'Art the Clown' actor in the titular role) and you have a love-letter to the original book and zero-budget Christmas horror in general.
I'm genuinely surprised how much I liked it and definitely recommend it.
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Post by ace on Dec 6, 2022 13:16:26 GMT -5
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chazraps
Wade Wilson
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Post by chazraps on Dec 6, 2022 16:13:01 GMT -5
Fun read, appreciate your dedication to the bit and the last line got an audible chuckle out of me.
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Post by Banjo Is Broken on Dec 7, 2022 3:55:24 GMT -5
Next make a horror movie about someone who murders people while wearing an octopus costume like that kid in Love, Actually.
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BRV
Bill S. Preston, Esq.
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Post by BRV on Dec 7, 2022 13:35:34 GMT -5
I appreciate that the reviews on here are (surprisingly) positive, but I'm struggling to get behind this one. The initial trailer that was released a few weeks back looks not like a B-movie, but like a D-movie. Maybe that's the point, but I'm growing weary of investing time and money in the "this is supposed to be bad!" campy horror sub-genre.
Inevitably, this movie will be compared to "Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey," because both movies took a beloved children's tale and made it a slasher movie. But based on trailers alone, the Winnie the Pooh movie actually looks like it had time and genuine care put into making it look like a quality movie. Sure, the final result might (and probably will) end up awful, but I appreciate that the filmmakers are going beyond the headline-grabbing plot to make the movie appear like a worthwhile viewing. Sadly, I can't say the same so far for "The Mean One."
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chazraps
Wade Wilson
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Post by chazraps on Dec 7, 2022 14:56:00 GMT -5
I appreciate that the reviews on here are (surprisingly) positive, but I'm struggling to get behind this one. The initial trailer that was released a few weeks back looks not like a B-movie, but like a D-movie. Maybe that's the point, but I'm growing weary of investing time and money in the "this is supposed to be bad!" campy horror sub-genre. Inevitably, this movie will be compared to "Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey," because both movies took a beloved children's tale and made it a slasher movie. But based on trailers alone, the Winnie the Pooh movie actually looks like it had time and genuine care put into making it look like a quality movie. Sure, the final result might (and probably will) end up awful, but I appreciate that the filmmakers are going beyond the headline-grabbing plot to make the movie appear like a worthwhile viewing. Sadly, I can't say the same so far for "The Mean One." I will say the look of "The Mean One" is deliberate, but not in a "trying to look bad" way, but rather a "trying to look like a Lifetime/Hallmark Christmas movie" way. The overly-glossy colors, the repeated crane shots of the town, longer than necessary establishing shots, convoluted angles done just to show exactly how much Christmas stuff is in a scene, "why would anyone say that" dialogue that somehow results in romance - it's more of an artistic choice to send-up a flawed sub-genre than something made carelessly in haste or deliberately bad for bad's sake, if that makes sense. I admit, I never saw the trailer (I deliberately avoid trailers when I know I want to see something and really only go out of my way to watch them if it's something that doesn't interest me but comes recommended to win me over) and a few reviews have criticized these aspects for the same reasons you point out, but whereas "Blood and Honey's" aesthetic strikes me as deliberately antagonistic, "The Mean One" looks the way it does for a very specific reason and the care toward its look comes from a more genuine place.
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