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Jmart
Superman: The Movie
Joined: Fri Oct 22, 2004 8:47 am Posts: 21152 Location: Massachusetts
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Re: It Follows
_axiom wrote: By now Doctor Who and Supernatural blatantly copied It Follows premise for one of their episodes. I do wonder if any other show did it. And isn't it weird to copy a recent movie that's most likely to already be popular with those two fan bases already??? You sure they weren't ripping off The Thing? See what I did there?
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stuffp
Keeping it Light
Joined: Wed Apr 08, 2015 8:06 am Posts: 11204 Location: Bright Falls
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Re: It Follows
David wrote: The Hugh/Jeff character is frustrating. Why not just sleep with a prostitute? Why adopt a false name and act out this faux-sweet-romance (multiple dates) with a suburban girl? Seems time-consuming and unnecessarily complicated considering the circumstances.
And it strains credulity how he knows so much regarding the entity and how "it" operates. I know there is a throwaway line of explanation (the girl he had a one-night stand with, who gave him the curse and whose name he cannot remember, told him everything), but still.
Also, when they come to his real house later in the film, he is highly nervous and says they need to leave because they should not be so close to him lest "it" catch her and revert to pursuing him. Yet he ties her up, stands nearby, and allows the entity to come within around ten feet of them to prove a point for her benefit? Hm.
Oh, and a lot of people seem to assume Jay did not sleep with the dudes on the boat, but my mind went in another direction. She did, but the evil rapidly caught them and returned to her. I do not interpret the ambiguous cut-away as conclusive proof she could not bring herself to do it. Like this post.
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stuffp
Keeping it Light
Joined: Wed Apr 08, 2015 8:06 am Posts: 11204 Location: Bright Falls
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Re: It Follows
Magnus wrote: they should have driven far away and found some massive gangbang. it would have made sense, but lol if only that was in the film
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Thu Feb 25, 2016 11:04 am |
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stuffp
Keeping it Light
Joined: Wed Apr 08, 2015 8:06 am Posts: 11204 Location: Bright Falls
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Re: It Follows
Really really good. It's haunting, and so well made, greatly shot, awesome score. I hate horror movies, but this was more than that. Excellent thriller.
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Chippy
KJ's Leading Pundit
Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 4:45 pm Posts: 63026 Location: Tonight... YOU!
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Re: It Follows
I peed myself.
Also, Stranger Things owes a lot of its nostalgia to this coming first.
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Mister Ecks
New Server, Same X
Joined: Wed Oct 13, 2004 7:07 pm Posts: 28293 Location: ... siiiigh...
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Re: It Follows
I can't seem to see where I reviewed this, but I thought I did.
It Follows is easily one of my favorite horror films. It checks all the boxes for me: it's creepy, the atmosphere is dark without being forcibly so, the "villain" is simple even if the origin is unexplained. The characters are believable. The score is great. Everything works for me.
You can interpret what "it" is however you like, but it's fine just seeing It Follows as being a scary movie about some supernatural force coming to kill you once you're infected with it.
I just love the idea of slow-walking people just constantly coming for you. It's the same reason I love the zombie genre. It feels like it could happen in some way, that some virus infects you and turns you into a brain-eating zombie. Maybe this is a bit less believable, but the simplicity of some dark force in human form always coming for you is scary to me. And I can see why if it doesn't work for you, you'd think this was overrated crap.
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Magic Mike
Wallflower
Joined: Mon Oct 25, 2004 4:53 am Posts: 34876 Location: Minnesota
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Re: It Follows
Yeah it's easily one of my favorite modern horror films.
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