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Chippy
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 Re: RomComs or Horror Flicks: The Final Word No, they don't.
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Harry Warden
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Re: RomComs or Horror Flicks: The Final Word Ozymunkias wrote: No, they don't. The simple inclusion of a twist attempt indicates trying. Rom-coms almost always don't bother including something the viewer doesn't know before seeing the movie.
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Re: RomComs or Horror Flicks: The Final Word Ozymunkias wrote: The last horror film twist that was actually surprising was Saw One. Isnt Saw a torture film?, I dont consider Saw a horror film, so The last horror film twist was.... nevermind I dont remember any horror twist that is surprising. _________________
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Harry Warden
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Re: RomComs or Horror Flicks: The Final Word McSteamy wrote: Ozymunkias wrote: The last horror film twist that was actually surprising was Saw One. Isnt Saw a torture film?, I dont consider Saw a horror film, so The last horror film twist was.... nevermind I dont remember any horror twist that is surprising. is definitely a horror film. It's a torture horror film AKA torture porn as it is derogatorily called.
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Webslinger
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Re: RomComs or Horror Flicks: The Final Word Romcom. At least the bad ones don't have more splatters or "jump" moments (gotta love PG-13 "horror") than I care to sit through.
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Flava'd vs The World
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Re: RomComs or Horror Flicks: The Final Word SPOILER
Saw 1 is barely even a torture film. They don't even show the foot being cut off. It's tame by today's standards.
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Dr. Lecter
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Re: RomComs or Horror Flicks: The Final Word Well, you can guess my pick.
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Loyal
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The Dark Shape
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Re: RomComs or Horror Flicks: The Final Word I'm curious as to what they have in common other than sheep who will see everything one genre pumps out. "Oh, Jennifer Aniston! How cute! Oh, the girl from Wedding Crashers! So cute!" / "Oh, this time the ghost isn't Asian! Awesome! Oh, this time the massacre's in the woods, not in a house! Wicked!"
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Chippy
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Re: RomComs or Horror Flicks: The Final Word The Dark Shape wrote: I'm curious as to what they have in common other than sheep who will see everything one genre pumps out. "Oh, Jennifer Aniston! How cute! Oh, the girl from Wedding Crashers! So cute!" / "Oh, this time the ghost isn't Asian! Awesome! Oh, this time the massacre's in the woods, not in a house! Wicked!" Nothing really. It's just that Joe has a habit of bashing rom-coms all the time. _________________trixster wrote: shut the fuck up zwackerm, you're out of your fucking element trixster wrote: chippy is correct
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Harry Warden
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Dr. Lecter
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Re: RomComs or Horror Flicks: The Final Word Heh, I've seen this before...brilliant stuff. _________________The greatest thing on earth is to love and to be loved in return!
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getluv
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Re: RomComs or Horror Flicks: The Final Word Saw is garbage, and so are the people that watch it.
I don't know, it depends. On one hand, rom coms would be the easier answer. But i'm always far more disappointed by romcoms than horror films. But i think romcoms can be great more often than horror films.
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billybobwashere
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Re: RomComs or Horror Flicks: The Final Word Horror has more potential as a genre (see: The Shining), but there have been more great rom-coms. So I'd go with rom-coms.
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Chippy
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Re: RomComs or Horror Flicks: The Final Word getluv wrote: Saw is garbage, and so are the people that watch it.
I don't know, it depends. On one hand, rom coms would be the easier answer. But i'm always far more disappointed by romcoms than horror films. But i think romcoms can be great more often than horror films. So you expect more from romcoms! Answer solved! _________________trixster wrote: shut the fuck up zwackerm, you're out of your fucking element trixster wrote: chippy is correct
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BK
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Re: RomComs or Horror Flicks: The Final Word The standard formula is a poor excuse by either argument.
Every movie boils down to something general, using that as an argument is a complete failure.
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getluv
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Re: RomComs or Horror Flicks: The Final Word i think the ratio of better movies favours RomComs.
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Re: RomComs or Horror Flicks: The Final Word I'd go with romcoms as they're more easily digestible for me as a moviegoer, probably because of the fact that I've seen so many( I have two sisters). Otherwise, I think the amount of movies of each genre which are above average is about the same for both.
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The Dark Shape
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Re: RomComs or Horror Flicks: The Final Word getluv wrote: i think the ratio of better movies favours RomComs. I think the ratio of cinema classics favors horror movies.
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Re: RomComs or Horror Flicks: The Final Word I also think the ratio of more recent, better films within the genres, favours RomComs.
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The Dark Shape
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Re: RomComs or Horror Flicks: The Final Word I think it really just comes down to personal taste. Both genres are certainly more miss than they are hit.
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