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Post by ramseycampbell on Aug 2, 2015 19:56:43 GMT
Ah, I see.
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Post by ramseycampbell on Aug 3, 2015 11:43:04 GMT
Just to continue our secret discussion for a bit: {Spoiler}The protagonist is in the middle of the pool - a large one. Would the electricity from relatively small appliances reach all that way or be more lethal at the edge? |
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Aug 3, 2015 14:29:53 GMT
Ok, cool! We so rarely discuss physics problems here.
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Post by Dr Strange on Aug 3, 2015 16:36:13 GMT
Just to continue our secret discussion for a bit: {Spoiler}The protagonist is in the middle of the pool - a large one. Would the electricity from relatively small appliances reach all that way or be more lethal at the edge? {Spoiler}I don't know - but there have been cases of people being fatally electrocuted by faulty underwater pool lights. I think (but I am by no means sure) that you would probably need to be "earthed" to get a fatal shock - you'd need to offer the current a route to earth, so maybe you'd be OK just standing on the ceramic tiles in the middle of the pool. This is probably the oddest conversation I've had on The Vault... |
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Post by DemonSpawn on Aug 6, 2015 14:43:11 GMT
I've not posted in here for quite a long time, I'll admit, but for some reason I feel the need to say that I own and enjoy quite a lot of modern horror films. I think there are many good-to-great horror films from the last ten years or so.
OK, so I will grant that there is a lot of bilge, predictable and boring, that clog things up, but so far as I can see this this has been the case for decades. Nothing new in it at all. I've certainly seen my fair share of utterly dreadful, unwatchable even, rubbish from the 60s, 70s and 80s. I'm thinking of stuff like "Attack Of The Beast Creatures" or "Death Bed: The Bed That Eats". Awful, awful films.
I understand that, for many people, their favorite films will be those that they grew up and introduced them to the genre, for many of the same reasons that the same also tends to be true for music and books.
But the statement that there are no good horror movies any more strikes me as demonstrably and verifiably false.
As someone else said, in 20 years time, people in their then 30s and 40s will be moaning and groaning about how all the current books, movies and music were the real deal and far better than the modern rubbish.
It's ok to enjoy what you enjoy. Nothing wrong with that at all. But that is not the same as all modern art being awful. Not at all.
ETA: I also enjoyed "It Follows". I'll grant that it's not going to be everyone's favourite film ever, but the vitriol it receives from certain quarters just strikes me as rather silly, tbh.
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Post by owlofwindward on Sept 12, 2015 1:44:50 GMT
I've not posted in here for quite a long time, I'll admit, but for some reason I feel the need to say that I own and enjoy quite a lot of modern horror films. I think there are many good-to-great horror films from the last ten years or so. OK, so I will grant that there is a lot of bilge, predictable and boring, that clog things up, but so far as I can see this this has been the case for decades. Nothing new in it at all. I've certainly seen my fair share of utterly dreadful, unwatchable even, rubbish from the 60s, 70s and 80s. I'm thinking of stuff like "Attack Of The Beast Creatures" or "Death Bed: The Bed That Eats". Awful, awful films. I understand that, for many people, their favorite films will be those that they grew up and introduced them to the genre, for many of the same reasons that the same also tends to be true for music and books. But the statement that there are no good horror movies any more strikes me as demonstrably and verifiably false. As someone else said, in 20 years time, people in their then 30s and 40s will be moaning and groaning about how all the current books, movies and music were the real deal and far better than the modern rubbish. It's ok to enjoy what you enjoy. Nothing wrong with that at all. But that is not the same as all modern art being awful. Not at all. ETA: I also enjoyed "It Follows". I'll grant that it's not going to be everyone's favourite film ever, but the vitriol it receives from certain quarters just strikes me as rather silly, tbh. Same! I enjoyed It Follows, not as much as I wanted to based on the hype (and I do think that's where a lot of the backlash comes from, a lot of insistence that it was a masterpiece, a work of art, etc), but I do think regardless of how people felt any movie that breaks the predictable pattern of possession movies recently deserves some recognition. I'm also very excited for some recent ones coming out: The Witch, Goodnight Mommy (which looks like an unheimlich-fueled version of The Babadook), and even M. Night Shyamalan's The Visit. But I will admit I enjoy trashy/"bad" horror movies the same as the good ones. |
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