Poll: Twilight honored among "Exorcist" and "The Shining" at Academy Awards
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Hey this list had Little Shop of Horrors, Edward Scissorhands and Beetlejuice in it too. It was a very odd definition of Horror. Basically "Films that we'd never award in a million years that aren't comedies"
Avatar is far easier to explain it with ironiclly since it does such a hamfisted demonstration of it but...BonsaiK said:
Effective movies use certain techniques to appeal to an audiance. For example. Twilight recognises its fan base and does everything it can to appeal with them, pulling the female version of say putting a half nake Megan Fox into a film. Well built males running around, being 'mysterious' and arbitrarily liking nobody but the main character (who herself is a blank slate, Tabula Rasa in which the female members of the audiance can easily copy-paste themselves onto). These are not actions which make a movie good but simply exploits the audience rather than standing on its own merits of good storytelling.
weve all known the oscars have been bullshit for a lonnnnnnnnnnnnng timecanadamus_prime said:
there based more on fan reception rather than directing/acting/writing/whatever talent
I don't get it either. It's not even fantasy, action or romance either. Just overly conservative moralizing that tries to be two popular literature genres and fails at both.Vierran said:
fair enough comment about the Oscars as they can now practically be predicted a month before they're actually awarded.
Because fangirls find a sparkle-fart vampire with extreme self control scary and sexy.AvsJoe said:
OP: The entire reason I found vampires scary when I was a kid because, they lacked self-control and they had the need to brutalize you in order for them to keep going. I saw the movie Twilight, I then turned to Dawn of the Dead for some real horror.
That's a bunch of bull. Twilight is by no means a horror movie. It's a shockingly bad movie which requires no genre for it's categorization of LAME! I hate twilight and it's fans. It's a meld of really bad writing, terrible acting and shite direction. It just needs to die. Seriously. Worst Franchise Ever
thats what they do in the Tate modern..then sell it for $$$$!wouldyoukindly99 said:
really though. really?
Just because it features something that vaguely resembles a horror-creature doesn't make it a horror movie... Casper the friendly ghost isn't counted as horror so why should Sparkles the vampire count?
bit of a discrace, i mean i no its a very popular film and all, but i dont think anyone could really argue that it deserves to be up there with some of those great horror films, and thats not even counting the fact that it most certainly is not a horror film
Which Dawn of the Dead? Romero's or Snyder's? By the way, love the new avatar; too many people have the ZP picture as their avatar on this site.SilentVirus said:
You know what? I can deal with Twilight being considered a horror. I mean, how many of you have gone back and re-watched any of the Frankenstein movies? I was scared to pieces of the classic version when I was a kid but re-watching it a week ago did nothing to me. Neither did the 1910 version or the DeNiro version. These aren't horrors any longer; they're comedies. So, yeah.
Wait, scratch that, there is a massive flaw in that reasoning. There were a couple of scenes in Ferngully that startled me and no one would consider that film anything other than family comedy, especially not horror.
I get an image of Edward's face then Buffalo Bill's dance scene appearing back to back in the montage.