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Originally Posted by Ferox13
How dare you pigeon hole me and subject my tastes to some sort of cliched 2 dimensional love of 'these kind' of films. Next you will be using the phrase 'torture porn' in the sentance as my name. Once Again, How dare you Sir!!!!
..and yeah I did really like that film :D
also I think 'baffling' is a great word to discribe The Tall Man (on all levels) - what were they thinking...
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hahaha - You know, you're the reason why I don't say "torture porn" around these here parts (though I will still claim that it's the best phrase to describe the type of horror that I'm trying to attribute it to).
The more I think about
The Loved Ones, the more I like it actually. Having a fantastic climactic reveal like it did elevated it from "those kind" of movies for me. :p
I have a hard time with movies that are pure torture (not a judgement; just a comfort level thing), and this movie had a bit more going on, so I liked it more than, say a
Mum & Dad. Robin McLeavy (Lola) toward the end was really funny; some great direction there as she goes utterly mad.
I think I'd actually go as far to
recommend this movie, sans caveats.
How do you feel about THAT, eh??
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Originally Posted by Posher778
Saw Tall Man recently too. I'm going to rewatch it because I think it was good, I just thought it would be horror. It was certainly just a dark drama.
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Honestly, if he had started out with the dark crime drama tone and kept it throughout I probably would have liked it a lot more. This movie makes me think of
Gone Baby Gone, which handles a very similar message, but does so effectively. I didn't think that
The Tall Man effectively created a dialogue with the audience - The dialogue is,
What is the right answer? How do we address the problem of poor and abused children with a system that doesn't work? - But I don't think that we really saw a broken system or really awful living conditions to build up half of the dialogue. It was just a diatribe on a topic that could have been interesting if done well, but I do not thing it was.
So strange and uneven. Makes me wonder where the movie started before production - there was a clear point that the director wanted to make, but it was just not successful for me.
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Re: Ferox, Roshiq, and Fortunato's buzz about
Mother - Been meaning to watch this for some time and tried it yesterday; wasn't in the mood, so I'll give it another try. I'm going to be honest; I felt sooo much pathos for the mother and son right off the bat that I had a hard time going any further because her just running out of the restaurant when he was clipped by the car broke my heart (and this is before anything really happened!!) - All I can think of was, "It can just go downhill from here. LOOK AWAY." :o Man, when did I become such a pussy???
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Exorcismus (2010)
Pretty awful writing, acting, and directing. Didn't get very far with this one. Didn't seem worth the trouble.