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Post by stinger on Aug 31, 2012 15:03:09 GMT -5
I don't know about Leather but I am!
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Post by Leatherface on Sept 1, 2012 0:51:43 GMT -5
Here's the poster - I think I can see RZ's version of Michael Myers on the top shelf! Are you drooling yet Leather? I could marry you Walking Dead Dude...
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Post by CT on Sept 1, 2012 0:56:04 GMT -5
Looks awesome.
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Post by Leatherface on Sept 1, 2012 1:14:15 GMT -5
I hope it's good, and I wanna see a trailer damn it!
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Post by The Walking Dude on Jan 7, 2013 16:11:17 GMT -5
So has anyone got out to see this yet? I read scathing reviews,but also heard it topped the weekend box office. Probably won't play cinemas here as usual, so I'll be importing the 3D blu as soon as it's available.
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Post by GL on Jan 8, 2013 11:11:12 GMT -5
Actually, I completely forgot about this one being released. I've seen no advertisements for it of any kind, no billboards, no posters, not even a trailer shown during commercials for TV shows and such. I mean literally nothing at all. I never put the trailer up in here because I haven't even seen it. All I've seen is that new Guillermo del Toro one 'Mama' but that's the only genre film I've noticed in the last couple weeks has been getting any promotion at all.
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Post by Jen on Jan 10, 2013 12:47:16 GMT -5
I haven't really heard anything about this, took me by surprise when I realized it was released already. Not online as much anymore, really need to keep up.
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Post by The Walking Dude on Jan 13, 2013 17:16:46 GMT -5
Well I guess it made enough for yet another installment to be greenlit. My guess it will probably be out about this time next year.
Note: I've edited the title to match it's eventual release title. Will add a poll when it hits the home formats.
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Post by HNT on Jan 14, 2013 14:06:43 GMT -5
I haven't heard seen this one yet, but nothing that I've heard about it would lead me to believe that you've made a mistake by not keeping up and paying closer attention to it. It sounds just awful, right down to the absolutely terrible ideal of rebooting the series and casting Leatherface as a typical Michael Myers/Jason Vorhees type slasher villian. I don't think I've heard a dumber idea than that. Take a genuinely good and scary premise and make it stupid
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Post by GL on Jan 15, 2013 11:27:34 GMT -5
Actually, I've never been much for a Leatherface fan for the simple reason that he's not a typical slasher. The original TCM was the very, very first horror film I attempted to watch because of it's reputation as a gorefest right at the time I was getting into those kinds of films, yet as I watched it I distinctly remember feeling, "So, where's the 'massacre?' Where's the chainsaw dismembering? This sucks!" and I came away thinking it was a piece of crap and nearly turned myself off of the genre from there as I didn't find anything of any interest in the film. It wasn't until more body-count-heavy films started crossing my path that I settled into my current enjoyment with the genre, but I always held that lack of killing prowess against Leatherface and the series as a whole. Why should I watch one of these films when a Halloween entry or a Friday the 13th entry by itself kills off more people than this entire franchise as a whole? I've always had that feeling, and honestly give me a film that crosses TCM with Jeepers Creepers 2: strand a school-bus full of teens in the Texas desert and Leatherface puts a chainsaw to all 15-20 of them. Do a film like that and I might think more highly of him.
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Post by HNT on Jan 15, 2013 12:35:32 GMT -5
But, don't you recognize that, despite some of the crappier sequels, the original TCM was a film made to stand on its own and wasn't ever supposed to be a typical slasher? The wackiness of the family and the somewhat realistic tone of it all was the whole point. I find the realism and the distinct lack of supernatural elements and nameless, faceless killers that fill up the other genres to be a plus for this film. Instead of a killer that has virtually no personality, I get a family of misfits that act in bizarre yet understandable ways. Rather than a bunch of nameless and faceless kids waiting to predictably drink beer, smoke some dope, take their tits out, and get butchered, we get a collection of kids that have logical motivations and act in logical ways. To me, at least, this is a much scarier film than any Halloween or F13 film. It works becuase, unlike the other series, this one is vaguely plausible.
That said, I get the distinct feeling that you might enjoy this newest installment, as the idea behind it is to up the bodycount considerably and turn Leatherface into a typical slasher villain.
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Post by GL on Jan 16, 2013 11:25:50 GMT -5
When I first saw it back when I was 15 or 16, the only horror films I knew at the time was Jaws and TCM, though I could recognize several movies by their VHS cover art that I saw at Blockbuster. That was it, I had no knowledge of these movies at all. I was bursting with all my Japanese monster movies and HK kung-fu that were the first films I ever saw and avoided Horror until much later. TCM was my attempt to step into the genre for the first time, I didn't know anything about the sequels or even that there was a franchise in existence at the time, much less knew the historical importance of it (not that the importance means anything to me, it's just a cool nugget of info to know as far as I'm concerned) so I went into it stone-cold blank in terms of horror film knowledge or the cliches of these films. Watching it, not knowing anything beyond the title of the film and a small little blurb from my dad saying that it was one of the most gruesome, gory films of all time, and finding that there wasn't anything of that going on made a severe impression on me to the point of almost denouncing the entire genre as a whole I thought it was so bad. I didn't find it creepy, the family annoyed the hell out of me because all they did was scream and shout at each other, when all I wanted at the time was butchering.
It's called a Chain Saw Massacre, where's the massacre? Only three people, what kind of crap is this? Why isn't anyone being dismembered by the chainsaw, what the hell's going on with this?
I distinctly remember having those exact thoughts going through my head watching it for the first time and it stayed with me. Granted, I've come to know more now and have more of an appreciation for what it accomplished, but frankly as a slasher villain I place him low on the totem pole since he doesn't do enough of that in his films. I still hold that against the films, since others slash, cut and slice people with more frequency in one film than this one does in it's entire franchise. That's not a major selling point for me.
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Post by HNT on Jan 16, 2013 12:35:01 GMT -5
I get what you're saying and it makes some sense to me. For me, the original TCM is one of the few films that never gets old to me. I have rewatched that film, Psycho, Rosemary's Baby, DOTD '78, and NOTLD '68 more than probably any other horror film. I think that the reasons I don't really care about this newest installment, though, is the reason that you might want to look more closely at it. People have been very critical of it, and the main reason is that fans of the series aren't taking well to them making Leatherface a more traditional slasher villian. Sounds like you might be happy about that.
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Post by GL on Jan 17, 2013 11:21:15 GMT -5
Right, you have to understand I'm not the prototypical Horror fan who got into it because my older sibling had a stash that I stumbled upon around 5 or 6 that seems to be the cliched manner of doing so. I honestly thought watching this stuff would damage me psychologically and even spiritually as we lived with my hyper-religious grandmother at the time I was growing up so it was pounded into me about what that does to a person at a young age, all the violence and blood and gore that they featured. Then, when combined with the nightmarish-looking creatures on the front of the cover art, the taglines promising bloodbaths, massacres and tortures really just cemented the impression they were right all along and I stayed away.
It wasn't until after watching more violent fare in other genres that it dawned on me I was fine seeing that stuff and so maybe I should see what the fuss is about with horror, and TCM was the first. I related that story already, so no need to repeat it but that should give you an idea of where I'm coming from now.
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Post by stinger on Mar 5, 2013 15:50:31 GMT -5
I wasn't too impressed by the trailer but this film exceeded my expectations and had some really good gore. I'd give it a four out of five.
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