Yeah. "The Lottery" is just--it's short, classic American horror. That's why I was surprised.
I almost wanted to ask if Frankenstein was American Gothic and Dracula was British Gothic, but I didn’t want to appear stupid.
It was closer to correct than I thought. Thanks!
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@thenomain Tread carefully, Theno, or I will bust out my gender theory analysis of Frankenstein and start waving it around. I mean, I have to do something with the ten pages I wrote on that shit.
@coin and @Roz -- Yeah, that's.... entirely possible. My high school English education was very odd, as my school decided to switch the sophomores' honors class to the juniors' honors class curriculum one year. As a result, we had two grades supposedly studying the same material for one year of overlap and not enough textbooks to go around. Like.... literally, we had sets kept in the classroom and we weren't allowed to take them home. As a result, we ended up reading a lot of things that parents were willing to pay out of pocket for (short, inexpensive novels) or things that were out of copyright that my teachers could make handouts of for us to take home, which is how I ended up studying Paradise Lost at 15 and read "A Man for All Seasons" -- which I've yet to meet anyone else who's ever studied it -- but to this day have only read excerpts of Moby Dick to compare to scenes in the fucking movie. (No, that is not a joke.)
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@aria said in Good or New Movies Review:
@thenomain Tread carefully, Theno, or I will bust out my gender theory analysis of Frankenstein and start waving it around. I mean, I have to do something with the ten pages I wrote on that shit.
Sounds interesting(?)
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@thenomain said in Good or New Movies Review:
I almost wanted to ask if Frankenstein was American Gothic and Dracula was British Gothic, but I didn’t want to appear stupid.
Frankenstein is undoubtedly British Gothic, in my mind, but it tinges on science-fiction as well. Shelley was one of the first sci-fi writers, in my opinion. Frankenstein is a mix of sci-fi and horror, but The Last Man was all science-fiction.
@coin said in Good or New Movies Review:
@aria said in Good or New Movies Review:
@thenomain Tread carefully, Theno, or I will bust out my gender theory analysis of Frankenstein and start waving it around. I mean, I have to do something with the ten pages I wrote on that shit.
Sounds interesting(?)
It's a lot of me rambling while tying in Shelley's loss of her children with the themes of monstrosity and monstrous creation presented in the novel, as related to life being created by a male character using corpse parts -- the antithesis of birth.
I find it hard to classify The Lottery as horror since in my mind it's just pointless drivel.
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It goes without saying that anyone who spoils Infinity War here... let's just say we'll unleash @Ganymede completely on them.
God have mercy on your soul after that because no one else will.
@arkandel said in Good or New Movies Review:
It goes without saying that anyone who spoils Infinity War here... let's just say we'll unleash @Ganymede completely on them.
God have mercy on your soul after that because no one else will.
I GET TO SEE IT AT ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE THURSDAY EVENING AND YOU MOTHERFUCKERS DON'T
Ahem.
There.
That's out of my system.
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
@arkandel said in Good or New Movies Review:
It goes without saying that anyone who spoils Infinity War here... let's just say we'll unleash @Ganymede completely on them.
"For a time, I considered sparing your wretched little planet, Cybertron; but now, you shall witness its dismemberment."
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@ganymede
I love you!
@arkandel said in Good or New Movies Review:
It goes without saying that anyone who spoils Infinity War here... let's just say we'll unleash @Ganymede completely on them.
Tony Stark was dead the whole time.
Bruce Banner has sex with the woman even after he finds out she’s a man.
Natalia Romanova was Star Lord’s dad.
Groot was the name of the sled.
It is frankly impossible to put that many characters in one movie and make it interesting; the various Batman movies keep proving this.
“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
@thenomain said in Good or New Movies Review:
It is frankly impossible to put that many characters in one movie and make it interesting; the various Batman movies keep proving this.
Comparing Batman to the Avengers is folly.
@ganymede said in Good or New Movies Review:
@arkandel said in Good or New Movies Review:
It goes without saying that anyone who spoils Infinity War here... let's just say we'll unleash @Ganymede completely on them.
"For a time, I considered sparing your wretched little planet, Cybertron; but now, you shall witness its dismemberment."
Hawt. Now to lure you in for spehss snek shenanigans. Or something. I dunno.
@auspice said in Good or New Movies Review:
@arkandel said in Good or New Movies Review:
It goes without saying that anyone who spoils Infinity War here... let's just say we'll unleash @Ganymede completely on them.
God have mercy on your soul after that because no one else will.
I GET TO SEE IT AT ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE THURSDAY EVENING AND YOU MOTHERFUCKERS DON'T
Ahem.
There.
That's out of my system.
I get to see it in a movie theater on Thursday night (at around 8PM EST for your guys). 
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Anyone else kind of annoyed the Venom movie looks like will have no connections to Spider-man at all?
Aside from OMG COMICS CONTINUITY the symbiote won't be obsessed with Peter, there won't be a reason for all the spider motifs (logo on the chest, webs), etc.
Also I'm not crazy about using the old copout for the origin story they seem to be using: it was an evil mad scientist CEO who did it.
@arkandel said in Good or New Movies Review:
Anyone else kind of annoyed the Venom movie looks like will have no connections to Spider-man at all?
No, because it looks like a sloppy mess of turds and they can go ahead and keep it well away from the MCU, thanks.
@arkandel
I dislike that it entirely disregards Spider Man. I get they are probably pulling more from the Lethal Protector and other stand alone comic runs Venom had AFTER he decided to stop pursuing Spidey; but an origin story about Venom without Spider Man seems very off to me. One thing I can say about the trailer it looks like they have done the costuming and CGI for actual Venom right though.
On another note....if this odd origin movie does okay at the box office, then there may be hope for a Spidey/Venom crossover movie with the Maximum Carnage storyline. At least that's what the fanboy in me fills his hope jar with.
@jaded Oh sure, they could run Maximum Carnage or whatever (although I bet you Carnage will end up being the generic evil scientist CEO guy from the trailer in the first movie).
But even then there'll be no personal connection. Peter won't feel guilty about the symbiote since, well, he won't have had a hand in releasing it into the world... Venom and Carnage will simply be just... villains to him, same as any other.
I feel it's a missed opportunity. Spidey plotlines work best when there's guilt involved.
@arkandel
I can not disagree with that.
@arkandel said in Good or New Movies Review:
It goes without saying that anyone who spoils Infinity War here... let's just say we'll unleash @Ganymede completely on them.
God have mercy on your soul after that because no one else will.
I GET TO SEE IT AT ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE THURSDAY EVENING AND YOU MOTHERFUCKERS DON'T
Ahem.
There.
That's out of my system.
