by JackRiddler » Wed Oct 10, 2018 12:18 am
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These are just not the sort of things I watch. I like costume films. Historicals & also historical or sociological-type SF. I pray that when the Marvel Universe falls, it will be replaced by the MHU, the Modern History Universe, with crossover plots and some of the same actors appearing in different films.
I realize that many horror premises are no more magical or unreal than most SF premises. It's what you do with them, I guess. Explore a question in a possibly interesting way, or torture some victim and her friends until she's the last one alive? I realize that describes Alien, which I always loved since seeing it in the theaters, but besides a big Vagina Dentata it had a Corporation, Labor, Management, a Computer, and a Bad Robot (revealed in the real climactic scene). It also got increasingly less interesting as the number of humans ran out. Anyway, in a just and reasoning universe the horror genre should have declared victory and wrapped itself up forever at Cabin in the Woods.
I also just realized that in my preferences I've unconsciously described the Kubrickian oeuvre. Saw some hilarious ad copy today about how "First Man" (what a fucking dumb title) does for space what "Saving Private Ryan" did for war. Ah, the immersive experience. I just don't know what I think about war, until I FEEL IT!!! Please! That is so damn embarrassing in a world with Paths to Glory and Full Metal Jacket in it. Come to think of it, watching Dr. Strangelove for the first time is kind of tops for immersive, real-time experience. Also a war film, right? The trailer for Last Man looks like total soap opera crap. I'd be more into an Apollo movie set at JPL. So I should finally watch Hidden Figures, but I fear the American Uplift.
Anyway, to stay on-topic, did we do Uncanny yet? That was so interesting, I watched it a second time the next day to pick up everything I'd missed. I'd love to write a review about what it really was about, but it would require spoilers.
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