"His alarm went off at 6:14:05 AM.... seems like a specific setting."
:D :D :D
It's called "the dark".
I loved the reenactment of what the scene would be like, with Kevin just mumbling. Very much a Tom Servo moment.
It's Jay Leno doing his talk show from home, a year from now.
And provided it can't jump or has a medium sized stride, we WILL catch it!
P.S. Why no ET or Gremlins riffs for the footprints in the powder?
I want to stay in the bed, 'For we are legion and we are comfy'.
Quote from: Blaine on February 11, 2010, 08:37:49 PM
I want to stay in the bed, 'For we are legion and we are comfy'.
Yeah, I loved that line, too.
A lot of my favorites have already been mentioned, so I'll go with "if you listen carefully you can actually hear his balls crawling up into his body" or however it went. LMFAO
Here's something I didn't get. I know they're trying to be funny, not logical. But why did they keep harping at the calling the police option? "Um, yeah, 911? We have a ghost and/or demon in our house." I mean, really, what the hell can the police do? Even if you play it off as an intruder, they come to your house, they find nothing, and then they leave. Am I missing something here that would have made the police a real option or am I just reading too much into a series of riffs?
I think this could be a contender for best opening line of all time:
"Wait. This is a movie?"
"I'll check the mirrors!"
"And then I'll carefully pull into the oncoming traffic."
"Golden Shit"
"It must be the Blair Witch Nuking a Hot Pocket"
As the psychic looks into the camera perturbed,"The expression Micah sees the most..."*
*Or something to that effect. I was laughing too hard to hear it accurately.
Quote from: Tyrant on February 12, 2010, 08:51:33 AM
As the psychic looks into the camera perturbed,"The expression Micah sees the most..."*
*Or something to that effect. I was laughing too hard to hear it accurately.
Yeah, that one was good. :lol:
I need to watch this RT again, there were a lot of good lines in it.
Watching it again, some lines that jumped out at me:
"She doesn't look like someone who owns a home trout lure business."
"How many scarves being nit any given night in San Diego?"
:Kevin mumbles incoherently for a couple minutes, Mike and Crow, er, Bill cut him off. Don't know why but it has me rolling. It's sort of like that humor-picture of a guy imitating a racecar and you see how long you watch it without laughing.
"By the way, COIN NET!"
:the psychic gives Micha the very definition of a "WTF is this guy's problem look": "Micha's used to that look."
"Patronizing smiles. The only kind Micha can hope for."
"The script here said: Micha contines to taunt while girlfriend drops a deuce."
...
Ok. I can't go on. There's too many. This was a great Riff!
-Well that's a first, a prop committing suicide
-It's the sound of the audience simultaneously beating their heads against the wall
Quote from: ShadowDog on February 11, 2010, 09:13:49 PM
Here's something I didn't get. I know they're trying to be funny, not logical. But why did they keep harping at the calling the police option?
Because it would be a proactive action, unlike what the pair was actually doing. Personally, I was yelling at the pair for investigating strange noises in their house without ever bothering to turn the lights on.
Yeah, that was stupid.
But a bigger problem I had, and this is why I hate POV camera movies because this is an inherent problem with the subgenre, all the times the camera was used when there's no way a person would actually use it. Well, okay, let me put it this way, if your girlfriend has vanished from your bedroom in the middle of the night and isn't answering your calls, and you take the time and trouble to bring along your camera, you're a flatout socipath. There were a half dozen cases of this in the movie, most commented on by Mike and Co. It just doesn't work, and you see this in every one of these things. Quarentine, Cloverfield, this one, the horror/fantasy TV shows that do an episode of this. Unless it's a war movie and the camera guy is an embedded trained journalist, there's always going to be a point where the camera shouldn't be on. And if it is, as I said, the cameraguy is a socipath and needs to be locked up.
The only way I think it could work as a genre is if they were helmet mounted cameras used by a bunch of explorers investigating a haunted ship or crashed alien vessel or something. With more than one camera you have an in story reason to be able to edit back and forth. And with it mounted it's not taking up one hand and the people can even forget it's on. That could work. Otherwise, I don't see how.
"The only thing he is worried about is Ed Hardy going out of business"
Quote from: ShadowDog on February 14, 2010, 07:18:53 AM
Yeah, that was stupid.
But a bigger problem I had, and this is why I hate POV camera movies because this is an inherent problem with the subgenre, all the times the camera was used when there's no way a person would actually use it. Well, okay, let me put it this way, if your girlfriend has vanished from your bedroom in the middle of the night and isn't answering your calls, and you take the time and trouble to bring along your camera, you're a flatout socipath. There were a half dozen cases of this in the movie, most commented on by Mike and Co. It just doesn't work, and you see this in every one of these things. Quarentine, Cloverfield, this one, the horror/fantasy TV shows that do an episode of this. Unless it's a war movie and the camera guy is an embedded trained journalist, there's always going to be a point where the camera shouldn't be on. And if it is, as I said, the cameraguy is a socipath and needs to be locked up.
The only way I think it could work as a genre is if they were helmet mounted cameras used by a bunch of explorers investigating a haunted ship or crashed alien vessel or something. With more than one camera you have an in story reason to be able to edit back and forth. And with it mounted it's not taking up one hand and the people can even forget it's on. That could work. Otherwise, I don't see how.
I agree. It's not "suspension of disbelief" when it involves the very format of your movie! And especially one as reality based and familiar to the audience as using a camcorder. Everyone has done that by now, and they know what they would or wouldn't do. Also, as Roeper and Michael Phillips said in their review of Cloverfield: by now everyone knows how to keep the camera kind of steady. Don't overdo the erratic camera movement.
Also, your comment made me think of the great riff in Boggy Creek 2 - We'd like to thank the creature for wearing this helmet cam.
I though the "ghost" from this movie was haunting me.
My bedroom kept ringing, but my other phones would not connect. Turned out that the main unit in the office was unplugged.
I thought a demon was haunting me. Turned out it was just my furnace kicking on.
LMFAO
I wonder how many ghosts haunt people who are either hard of hearing, drunk or high all the time, have their TV on at a very high volume all day and night, or for some other reason just don't ever notice they're being haunted. Mmmm, maybe there's a parody film in this idea. The ghosts keep getting more and more pissed off at being ignored.
Then they drag you out of your bed to get you away from your douche of a boyfriend. Katie should've thanked the demon for doing that.
Quote from: Darth Geek on February 11, 2010, 06:27:53 PM
I loved the reenactment of what the scene would be like, with Kevin just mumbling. Very much a Tom Servo moment.
Hell yes. There were plenty of great riffs in the movie, but that was the funniest bit to me by far. And surprisingly accurate too! "mumble mumble mumble extracurricular mumble mumble mumble"
I am still wondering how they thought showing a person holding a burned photo was "Scarey". Maybe seeing how the photo get up there, maybe showing the footprints appearing in the flour as it happened would have been scarey, but not after the fact.
"SQUEAKUEL!... Damn these Alvin nightmares! I dreamnt that they were back and this time they brought the Chipfunk."
God, that was funny.
Quote from: Bob on February 15, 2010, 11:50:11 AM
I am still wondering how they thought showing a person holding a burned photo was "Scarey". Maybe seeing how the photo get up there, maybe showing the footprints appearing in the flour as it happened would have been scarey, but not after the fact.
The only thing that I gathered from that is that the picture was of her as a younger girl and so it supported the statement that the demon has been 'stalking' her for a long time, plus the burns were in the shape of fingers and that was apparently supposed to not only be obvious, but apparently scare people in its own right.
Neither added anything to the plot, as they'd already said that she'd had this 'visitor' her entire life. If the photo had been found first, then was used to open the dialogue for her to talk about how these things have happened to her her entire life, that would've added something to the plot. Instead it was like if in The Shining when she's trapped in the bathroom, if she said, "oh no! He's probably going to stick his head through the door and make a Johnny Carson reference!" before he hacked his way in and Nicholson's most famous line was uttered. Once you tell an audience something, the act of showing them is a serious let down, particularly if you are trying to build tension or suspense. But even if you reverse the order, if the statement doesn't add something to what is already known, the suspense or anxiety is deflated.
The biggest problem is: she seems of average intelligence. These things have happened her entire life (we were told, over and over). So she waits until she's this old to even consider doing something about it or consulting someone? Not only does that defy her intelligence, but Hell, that is one lazy frigging demon to let years of 'nothing' happen, and not doing anything disturbing enough to get her to actually
do something about her 'problem'.
I'm tired of wasting more thought on this movie than the people who made it did. Thinking about it only pisses me off more.
A favorite of mine that hasn't been mentioned yet was when the Quija board is first introduced "I bet this ends with her kicking the Quija board into the stream".
I don't think the photo was intended to be scary by itself, just show that not only had the demon been following her but it was obsessed with her and wanted her to know it. It was a taunt more than a scare.
"Was that you grunting?", "Or was that me watching my old Sailor Moon DVDs again."
"I wish that wasn't the case!"
"So he shrieked, punched the wall and pushed the chandelier. The demon has ADD."
"I'm over here now! Your butt looks weird when you sleep like that!"
Quote from: Moleman on February 13, 2010, 11:55:08 AM
-Well that's a first, a prop committing suicide
That was one of my favorites.
Also, something to the effect of...
"What? Did a banshee drive a jeep into their house?"
Charles Starkweather had more stable girlfriends.
loved the prop commits suicide joke as well as the line where he is standing there with his left hand out stretched and one of them makes that a certain part of his body in the shot will be getting a lot of use in the future... implying masturbation of course.
Quote from: Darth Geek on February 11, 2010, 06:27:53 PMI loved the reenactment of what the scene would be like, with Kevin just mumbling. Very much a Tom Servo moment.
Hell yes, was gonna post this. My favorite bit, so freakin' hilarious, and so true. ;D
I was expecting a Ghost Busters joke in there, "bustin' makes me feel good". :D
my favorite bit is when they are at the attic entrance and she's saying don't go up there, don't go up there
Mike: " Of course he's not. He's going to do the one rational thing we can all agree that even a brain dead person would do in this situation. Which is to immediately phone the police."
... " Or he's going to go get a ladder... "
I lost it at that point.
Quote from: ShadowDog on February 14, 2010, 07:18:53 AM
Yeah, that was stupid.
But a bigger problem I had, and this is why I hate POV camera movies because this is an inherent problem with the subgenre, all the times the camera was used when there's no way a person would actually use it. Well, okay, let me put it this way, if your girlfriend has vanished from your bedroom in the middle of the night and isn't answering your calls, and you take the time and trouble to bring along your camera, you're a flatout socipath. There were a half dozen cases of this in the movie, most commented on by Mike and Co. It just doesn't work, and you see this in every one of these things. Quarentine, Cloverfield, this one, the horror/fantasy TV shows that do an episode of this. Unless it's a war movie and the camera guy is an embedded trained journalist, there's always going to be a point where the camera shouldn't be on. And if it is, as I said, the cameraguy is a socipath and needs to be locked up.
The only way I think it could work as a genre is if they were helmet mounted cameras used by a bunch of explorers investigating a haunted ship or crashed alien vessel or something. With more than one camera you have an in story reason to be able to edit back and forth. And with it mounted it's not taking up one hand and the people can even forget it's on. That could work. Otherwise, I don't see how.
I agree. It's a completely bizarre POV when the motivation is apparently someone glues the viewfinder to their eye by accident. It's dizzying. it's obnoxious. it's a cheap way to shoot and it looks cheap. even when Micha isn't looking through the camera (inexplicably) then he points it at himself (again inexplicably)
I can understand if the character had some strange occurrence happen and put up some security cams and would review that footage or something, but this handheld FPSPOV is bogus... i'm tired of it.
The prop committing suicide joke was classic, along with the "did a banshee just drive a jeep into their house" joke. I hosted a movie night event for this rifftrax last night, and the last joke had my friends in tears (along with me, too).
I hope the ghost doesn't change all my bookmarks to icarly fanfic, again.