February 10th 2020

[Tiggnutz]

4 day week than 4 day weekend let's get it done

[Ava]

So sleepy.... Did not want to get out of bed.

[DancesWithWerewolves]

Woke up with another damn kink in my left shoulder blade. Fuckballs.

[Tiggnutz]

They are calling Joaquin The Woker

[Reign in Blood]

Bong beat Tarantino for screenwriting, Scorsese for directing and the field in a pretty stacked year for Best Picture. That's a pretty amazing Oscar sweep.

This is where they fucked up. I’m cool with awarding originality, but this better be tits you’re gonna tell me it beats out in writing and direction two of the best to ever do it. I have a strong feeling that when I finally take this Bong rip, I’m not getting that stoned.

[Headhunter]

Bong beat Tarantino for screenwriting, Scorsese for directing and the field in a pretty stacked year for Best Picture. That's a pretty amazing Oscar sweep.

This is where they fucked up. I’m cool with awarding originality, but this better be tits you’re gonna tell me it beats out in writing and direction two of the best to ever do it. I have a strong feeling that when I finally take this Bong rip, I’m not getting that stoned.

I would have given Director to Scorsese, Screenplay to Tarantino and Best Picture to Bong. But that's some legendary shit to beat two of the best and take all the damn awards when it's been 100% English movies winning for damn near 100 years.

[showa58taro]

I think Parasite deserved it. Better across the board than all the others for me.

[Headhunter]

Also cool because horror fans knew Bong long before the general public.

It's been interesting seeing horror as a broad genre go through the process of canonization as we've started to lose most of the legends. It's losing its "otherness" feel and now just becoming part of the collective film narrative. That "Texas Chainsaw" bit at the Oscars was a pretty good reflection of that in my eyes.

[Reign in Blood]

You saying it's becoming mainstream or what?

[Headhunter]

You saying it's becoming mainstream or what?

Hell, it is the mainstream. It's tough to quantify, but I think this is the greatest legacy of Hooper, Carpenter and the rest. Those boundaries are done.

[Reign in Blood]

Just saw Bong's acceptance speech. Dude is cool, he gets it, give him Joaquin's award and all is well.

[Reign in Blood]

You saying it's becoming mainstream or what?

Hell, it is the mainstream. It's tough to quantify, but I think this is the greatest legacy of Hooper, Carpenter and the rest. Those boundaries are done.

It is. At first I didn't like it, but maybe it's because it fucked up all my cool points, now I'm just some other guy who likes Texas Chainsaw. Fuck you assholes, I was gerbering this shit in my huggies, front running bitches.

[zombie]

horror should be like punk rock or metal. there should always be some element of rebellion against the mainstream. i think it loses some of the power if it goes completely mainstream. like the difference between texas chain saw massacre or saw and criminal minds or something. enh... i don't want it to become sanitized. but then i also want it to be more respected on it's own terms. i guess i can't have it both ways.

[Headhunter]

You saying it's becoming mainstream or what?

Hell, it is the mainstream. It's tough to quantify, but I think this is the greatest legacy of Hooper, Carpenter and the rest. Those boundaries are done.

It is. At first I didn't like it, but maybe it's because it fucked up all my cool points, now I'm just some other guy who likes Texas Chainsaw. Fuck you assholes, I was gerbering this shit in my huggies, front running bitches.

That's true. If everyone is getting cooler, are we all becoming less cool? You can't hide good content anymore.

In the end, it sucks that a lot of these icons didn't get the love they deserved from the industry while they were making movies, but they still won. They wanted to be respected as great filmmakers in their own right and they are. Tobe Hooper will be studied in film schools for a long time.

[Headhunter]

horror should be like punk rock or metal. there should always be some element of rebellion against the mainstream. i think it loses some of the power if it goes completely mainstream. like the difference between texas chain saw massacre or saw and criminal minds or something. enh... i don't want it to become sanitized. but then i also want it to be more respected on it's own terms. i guess i can't have it both ways.

Does living in a post-moralistic world hurt the branding of horror, even while increasing its exposure to audiences?

[Reign in Blood]

Maybe Bong will be the one do a terrifying slasher that is really a rumination on the human condition. Sweep all the awards, take horror to the promise land.

[zombie]

horror should be like punk rock or metal. there should always be some element of rebellion against the mainstream. i think it loses some of the power if it goes completely mainstream. like the difference between texas chain saw massacre or saw and criminal minds or something. enh... i don't want it to become sanitized. but then i also want it to be more respected on it's own terms. i guess i can't have it both ways.

Does living in a post-moralistic world hurt the branding of horror, even while increasing its exposure to audiences?

i mean if you're saying that it's harder to push buttons because people just don't care as much anymore, as a whole.. i don't know if i buy that. but i guess it's possible. if that's the case, then horror will die out, unless it can really jar people out of apathy or indifference. or something else does it, that horror can capitalize on. but i don't know if that's even what you're meaning to get at.

[Headhunter]

The total mainstreamification moment of all worlds colliding could have happened two years ago if Get Out won.

[Headhunter]

horror should be like punk rock or metal. there should always be some element of rebellion against the mainstream. i think it loses some of the power if it goes completely mainstream. like the difference between texas chain saw massacre or saw and criminal minds or something. enh... i don't want it to become sanitized. but then i also want it to be more respected on it's own terms. i guess i can't have it both ways.

Does living in a post-moralistic world hurt the branding of horror, even while increasing its exposure to audiences?

i mean if you're saying that it's harder to push buttons because people just don't care as much anymore, as a whole.. i don't know if i buy that. but i guess it's possible. if that's the case, then horror will die out, unless it can really jar people out of apathy or indifference. or something else does it, that horror can capitalize on. but i don't know if that's even what you're meaning to get at.

By post-moralistic I mean there are not people trying to impose moral safeguards against the entertainment we consume anymore. At least not on a wide-scale level the way it used to be. In not having that, does horror lose some of its image? The cult-ness of horror WAS the image, but now it's all widely acknowledged as good respectable shit.

[Reign in Blood]

The total mainstreamification moment of all worlds colliding could have happened two years ago if Get Out won.

Flick's gotta be good for that to happen first.