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I've also looked at autopsy photos and read autoposy reports. It's interesting, I have an interest in true crime and the stories.
Me too....A&E and Bio are channels I watch a lot. The true stuff is fascinating to me - but for some reason the fictional shows are kinda boring...Notorious, American Justice, Cold Case Files, The First 48, and City Confidential are some of my faves. I'm looking forward to that new series on Bio, "Survived". I hope they don't show too many dramatizations.
I agree with you also that no couple should have to do everything together all the time, and that some separate interests are healthy - if a guy doesn't like horror flicks, I can hit the theater alone and watch them. I don't talk to anyone when watching movies anyway - I'm too into the film while it's running so it doesn't make a difference if we go together.
Old Soul - my copy of the Stand is 817 pages and unread, but now the edges are starting to yellow - boy am I old. You're telling me there's more? lol | |
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Posted: 6/20/2009 9:38:01 AM | | I hate horror flicks but know so many women that enjoy them, which is irrelevant I dont think it matters at all...this is one of the worst all time posts | |
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Posted: 6/20/2009 6:26:22 PM | I consider the so-called "chic flicks" the true horrors.
If your date tells you he/she was turned on by "Irreversible", "Baise Moi", or to go all old school, "I spit on your Grave", or "Last house on the Left", that's a red flag.
Saw isn't horror. It's just horrible.
To the poster who brought up "Kalifornia", I think that's the best acting Brad Pitt has ever done. | |
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Posted: 6/20/2009 6:30:19 PM |
I don't think I could be too thrilled with a man who liked watching people die torturous (horrific) deaths as a form of entertainment.
What's he filling his mind with?
And if he says what he watches has no effect on him then ask why Superbowl advertising costs $3 for 30 seconds-- what you feed your mind does make an impact.
You were gold so far until this. To each his own.. | |
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Posted: 6/20/2009 7:01:21 PM | Different strokes for different folks.
Not a horror movie buff, but I wouldn't sneer or look down upon anyone who does watch it.
To some it would be a red flag, to others it would be a godsend to find a match who loves that genre of film. | |
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Posted: 6/20/2009 7:36:28 PM | It's not an inherent red flag for me if a guy likes horror movies. I don't...to me they're boring because there is no plot. Blood guts...if the movie or story is, if it's dependent on blood guts gore for scare or shock value.....I have read/seen autopsy photos and reports. I know I said that before.....if the content/purpose of the movie is just that...then it's a total BORE. I understand and it's totally different tastes.
The only thing that would raise a red flag would be someone who gets off watching snuff films.
Horror films, the few I've seen, they're not well made.....there are things that most people wouldn't notice.
It's DOLLARS....horror movies make box office because they're going for that shock/scare...BOO thing...but if you look at them with a critical eye...most are "B" movies.
To each their own and I wouldn't NOT date someone who was really into horror movies....but it would be understood that I would not be going along.
I love to write, so it'd be great...go by himself or with his horror movie friends...make it an evening have a great night. Writing is a total solo gig...distractions throw me off. I don't answer the phone...the TV is on...but it's white noise or music.
It could be just me, but when I do write I'm "IN" it, the story...living it ...all the scenes all the characters.
Yeah I know...creative people...ehh...go watch your horror movies you don't want me to go along...because I'd see all the blips and really crappy filmmaking. When they cut from one scene to the next and the chainsaw/bloody knife was in the left hand...now the right hand. Or the boots/raincoat....there are so many things that don't get noticed.
If it's a movie I like and enjoy I don't look for those either. Point being, I'd rather be writing....and I realize I don't write well when someone else is around. *sniffle*...writing is very lonely...AKK...oh please, someone feel so sorry for me....
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Posted: 6/20/2009 7:41:52 PM | Cries for bucs.......
Reading is awesome, writing very creative, but doing something like watching a movie together is just so romantic, and then the discussion after, the wine, the small talk, the foreplay, the making love, the cuddling, the coffee in the morning, the sex again..........OK, OK, I have just written my book for tonight..........
OT........There are good movies of all variety, just a matter of finding them together.
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Posted: 6/20/2009 8:09:56 PM | | its pretty obvious the OP hasnt been out to the movies with a female in a long time. if you're all hung up about what women may think of you if you watch scary movies i'd hate to see your DVD collection. let me guess...nothing but disney flicks? | |
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Posted: 6/20/2009 8:16:42 PM | Sharing the time together! Like I said before, it is the company that makes the movie some times.
Has anyone watched Commando on DVD/Blue ray? Check the scene where the Porsche is smashed against a hill/rocks. When Arnold pulls away the Porsche no longer has the smash on its side. There is another part where you can see the wire coming through this guy's pant leg holding him up when Arnold is supposedly dangling this guy over a cliff. That is the kind of stuff that is fun to look for in horror movies or action movies. I can't watch most of the blood and guts unless it is the funny stuff with fake arm squirting or whatever. As I said before, I bury my head until the gross scenes are over.
I watched UP. Don't read if you really want to see this movie. PG and the woman has a miscarriage, has a heart attack before her husband takes her on a trip, woman dies, dogs attack people, a man hits another man with his cane and causes the guy to go off in an ambulance, it is implied that a scientist kills other scientists and explorers, and I could go on. That movie was a horror movie. I found the reality and the fact that others took young children to it disturbing. It looked like a kids' film, good ole Disney flick, I don't believe it was or came close.
I can't share most of the books I read because my reading is work. I think watching a movie is bonding. It is an experience you will have always share with the person you saw the movie with. 2001 Space Odyssey with my dad when I was little. Flint Michigan theater, pretty sure it was a Temple theater. I won't forget the experience and the discussion about it with my dad.
Horror movies etc. you look for the fake stuff to laugh at to break out of the reality of your life. Of course comedies are great. If you can share those laughs with someone, that is a good thing. | |
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Posted: 6/20/2009 8:22:33 PM | The real world scares me more than some made up movie. There are however some movies that can be disturbing, but over the top blood and gore is really just over the top and I just can't relate that to real life. And I do watch horror movies on my own, but I'm not sitting there day in day out doing it!
While horror movie producers do use certain things from real life, it's almost always taken to the extreme so as not to be real. For example, Halloween played on the fear of the whole "stranger murders" that started happening in the 70's, but the real life murderers didn't get back up after being shot.
I love my horror movies for many reasons, but nothing could scare and upset me as much as some crazy fool going into an elementary school and opening fire. Horror movies don't give me that sad heart wrenching terror and shock that real life crimes do.
Womaninprogress, King brought forth a complete and uncut Stand in 1990 vs his 1978 original. The original version had been edited with alot of things taken out. I believe he also added some things in the book to make it more "with the times" such as adding mention of Teenage Ninja Turtles. No characters changed behaviours, but I believe they are doing more things in the new version. He describes it as an expansion. The total page count is 1153. There are also illustrations.
Much like most movies, plays and certain other mediums, one must suspend their disbelief or have an evening of cracking up to a Steven Segal movie LOL.
I know plenty of people who cannot watch horror (men and women alike), and I respect that decision, they can upset some people. It doesn't mean these people are weird to too sensitive, it is what it is and I'd never force anyone to watch or read something they don't enjoy.
As for the poster who mentionned the sex scenes in horror movies. I've done a fair bit of research for fun about the connection between sex and horror. I even had a friend who does not like horror comment that my little "essay" about it was quite interesting. | |
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Posted: 6/21/2009 11:58:42 AM | I enjoy horror movies and actually used to love them years ago. But the current crop of movies cross a boundary as far as I'm concerned. Movies like Wolf Creek, Hostel, etc, that focus on torture, are not true "horror" movies to me. To me, these are movies created by (usually male) directors who seem to "get off" on making torture scenes as real as possible, especially with female victims, like in the recent movie, Captivity.
These movies are truly "torture porn" to me and I refuse to watch them. And honestly, I find it disturbing to date any man who "enjoys" these types of horror movies. I suppose one of the reasons I hate these new crop of horror torture movies, is because real women and children (and some men) are actually being abducted and tortured.
When I go to a movie, I go see it as an escape, not as a reminder of the truly horrible evil that exists in real life. I don't mind a good psychological horror movie (Silence Of The Lambs for example), but these current crop of horror movies, go too far.
If a guy wants to take me a horror movie, that involves a graphic or particularly violent rape scene (like the recent Last House On The Left) or nothing but torture scenes (like Wolf Creek) I would seriously start to wonder if this guy had some secret issues that I should be worried about. But I also have a problem with directors that feel the need to make rape scenes as brutal and graphic as possible in movies now. We know rape is horrible. We don't always need to "see" how horrible it is.
I can handle extreme violence in movies, but some movies are just downright disturbing, and push things too far. I have no desire to pay for a movie ticket for a movie that exposes me to two hours of torture. No thanks. | |
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Posted: 6/21/2009 12:05:47 PM |
Horror films, the few I've seen, they're not well made.....there are things that most people wouldn't notice.
It's DOLLARS....horror movies make box office because they're going for that shock/scare...BOO thing...but if you look at them with a critical eye...most are "B" movies.
Another thing I love about Horror Movies - the imperfections and/or the lack of continuity in them - it's fun to be able to find this stuff in the movie. Horror movie buffs usually like to find "B" films for that very reason. And it's always there somewhere if you watch it closely enough or repeat a scene enough. Good times.
Then again I think all films have some blip in em somewhere that doesn't really measure up when you look closely.... | |
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Posted: 6/21/2009 12:07:52 PM |
Horror films, the few I've seen, they're not well made.....there are things that most people wouldn't notice.
It's DOLLARS....horror movies make box office because they're going for that shock/scare...BOO thing...but if you look at them with a critical eye...most are "B" movies.
Another thing I love about Horror Movies - the imperfections and/or the lack of continuity in them - it's fun to be able to find this stuff in the movie. Horror movie buffs usually like to find "B" films for that very reason. And it's always there somewhere if you watch it closely enough or repeat a scene enough. Good times.
Then again I think all films have some blip in em somewhere that doesn't really measure up when you look closely....
To the poster above me, thanks for bringing up "Wolf Creek". That and "Hi Tension" were two of the best I remember seeing in terms of good slasher flicks, at least the non rated versions of em. | |
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Posted: 6/21/2009 1:08:59 PM | I think every classification of movies has it's B movie area.
Many fans of romances wince at some of the predictable and dry movies of Kate Hudson, Jennifer Lopez and Matthew McConnaghy....yes, I know, spelled wrong.
Comedies.....there are certain stars that ruin movies for many people just because they are in them. A lot of people don't find Woody Allen, for example, even remotely funny. I don't think Jennifer Aniston is particularly funny. Some of the "cutesy" family comedies are definitely B movies, like the "Cheaper by the dozen" group.
And action B movies can be silly.....some of the Stallone ones, for example.
The last Die Hard movie, had great action scenes but they were totally absurd. | |
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Posted: 6/21/2009 1:21:36 PM | | If liking horror movies is a red flag, then I'm screwed (and can see a lot of others would be too). I can't stand chick flicks (with the exception of Dirty Dancing). | |
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Posted: 6/22/2009 6:36:09 AM | I think that "horror" and "slasher" films are being mistaken in this post.
Hammer and Amicus films of the 60's & 70's, as well the Hollywood classics of teh 30's and 40's, are HORROR films.
Scream and Saw and their spawn (or ilk) are SLASHER films. And bad ones at that,IMHO. | |
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Posted: 6/22/2009 7:54:15 AM | I say we like what we like and visa versa. I don't mind some scary movies. The ones with a plot. I don't like the bad ones that's just blood and guts and stupid. I hate the Saw movies they are so dumb watching some dude torture people just to make them to cherish life more. Thats what they boil down to. I didn't like it.
Now I love action and most fantasy and sci-fi movies. But the same goes they have to have a good story line and plot. If it gets too complicated I don't like it. Oh I forgot thats a red flag to most women that we are geeks and nerds for liking these movies woops. It's all good I could care less.
I don't mind the sappy love stories if I'm with someone I just hate them now because it makes me want what I don't have right now a g/f. Romantic comedies are all good as well. I want to see the new one with Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock. It looks good. Sorry not trying to plug a movie lol.
I don't see a taste in movies a red flag people like what they like. Best of luck to everyone  | |
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Posted: 6/22/2009 8:59:49 AM |
Sidewinder154
Why on earth would what kind of movies a person enjoys be a red flag??? That would be like saying that a guy who watches Nascar every Sunday is a red flag. Pfft. I know girls who LOVE horror movies. Now if he was watching some sort of kiddie porn or beastiality movies, yeah...definitely a red flag. But horror movies? Nah......
AGREED!!
i love horror movies old an new..an so do some of the women i know..
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Posted: 6/22/2009 9:12:46 AM | I've said this in another thread, and I'll repeat it here:
I adore scary/slasher/horror movies. The only movie that made me physically sick was a movie called "Rest Stop" it gave me a sickening fear and I think it was because I had recently had an emotional crash because movies like that sexually excite me -- I am being dead serious.
If someone forced me to watch a movie I did not want to see? "Fk you." and walk away, though I will admit I have come to enjoy a few movies regardless of that attitude.. ;) | |
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Posted: 6/22/2009 9:20:07 AM |
Now I love action and most fantasy and sci-fi movies. But the same goes they have to have a good story line and plot. If it gets too complicated I don't like it. Oh I forgot thats a red flag to most women that we are geeks and nerds for liking these movies woops. It's all good I could care less.
See that doesn't bother me. If a guy is really into a type of movie, then he is, it's not a red flag for me. I will go to all types of movies, but admitedly the chick flicks I would rather rent. I like to see effects and interesting sets etc., (Edward Scissorhands) when I go to the theatre, so it's nice to meet someone who will watch everything, but does have a favorite.
Heck, I can't stand country music, but I accompany my friends to see this band. Lots of people go and it's a good atmosphere. Admitedly I usually have to leave because the singer won't stop "ooo oooing" every 30 seconds lol. | |
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Posted: 6/22/2009 9:57:47 AM | | I LOOOOVE Horror movies! Just ask my local Family Video! Good ones, bad ones, all of them! And what's better than watching horror and cuddling up to be "saved" by your SO?? | |
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Posted: 6/22/2009 10:46:38 AM |
I've also looked at autopsy photos and read autoposy reports. It's interesting, I have an interest in true crime and the stories
ME TOO! I actually did crime scene photography one year to pay for college. That was interesting. Going to murder scenes, accident scenes...good stuff. | |
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Posted: 6/22/2009 12:01:10 PM | No way!
I LOVE horror movies. There's nothing better than curling up with my man, munching on some popcorn and having a marathon of bad 70s slashers.  | |
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Posted: 6/22/2009 12:10:05 PM | A chick-flick or romantic comedy probably a better first-date option, but clearly a lot of ladies LIKE scary movies!!!
I like 'em too, but comedies and testesterone-driven action flicks are my first choice (Jason Stathum's my idol lol...a blonde, balding Brit who's rock-hard fit). | |
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