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Alessar
09/15/09

In reply to The io9 Guide To 2009's Fall DVD Releases
Props for featuring Ultraman. I rented the entire original series from Netflix (old DVD set) and I was surprised how much fun I had. I actually had watched the English dub on TV as a wee tot, and for the DVDs I watched with Japanese audio and subtitles. Since the dub was a pretty faithful translation, the stories were familiar. And as an adult I know that in the episode where Ultraman fights what looks like Godzilla, it actually IS the Godzilla suit (so ... I guess it's a cameo? :)
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Allen_Richards
09/13/09

In reply to The io9 Guide To 2009's Fall DVD Releases
I've mentioned on here a few weeks ago that I'd be willing to add more straight sci-fi to my Netflix Horror, Exploit, and Cult cinema new release lists if you guys were going to use them, but never go an answer. I'll throw the idea out there again just in case.

As it stands, I've carried those list out to Nov. As titles are added to the NF database, I'll add them. just click to see what's doin': [www.netflix.com]
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Bill-Lee
09/13/09

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The footage not shown on TV will probably include the bare breasts, bare breasts, and umm bare breasts.
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disatess
09/13/09

In reply to The io9 Guide To 2009's Fall DVD Releases
wheres Ultra -seven dvd set .
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Roklimber
09/13/09

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I have a feeling that the BSG: The Plan DVD will not sell very well.
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frankenstoen
09/13/09

@Roklimber: I won't be buying it - I really loved BSG up until the final episode - but I hated that final hour so much, it has poisoned my love for the series. I watched that finale three times, and with each watching my disgust kept growing. Now I can't stand to watch the series, or listen to the soundtrack, or even think about it. I can't explain it - as much as I loathe the Special Editions of the Star Wars films and as disappointed as I am with the Star Wars prequels I just feel a thousand times more let down by Ronald D. Moore than I ever was by George Lucas. That final hour of BSG negated everything that happened in the entire series.
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Roklimber
09/13/09

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Hah.... UltraMan... I used to watch that when I was a kid.
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Hamslicer
09/14/09

@Roklimber: Try "INFRA-MAN", the movie that all berserk robot/kung-fu action films were influenced by.
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teke367
06/19/09

In reply to 15 Horror Movies That Socialists Could Love
Do socialists like horror movies that lower the bar for suspension of disbelief?

When a possessed talking goat is more believable than the actions of the human characters, you failed. Yes, even for a horror movie, the story was unbelieveable.
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Plague
06/19/09

@teke367: Finally we know where to draw the line on what is believable or not in a horror film.

Thanks.
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HalenPolyhymnia
06/19/09

In reply to 15 Horror Movies That Socialists Could Love
You left off one glaring and amazing movie from this list, Black Sheep. It's a horror film, from New Zealand, about killer sheep. How can it not be awesome? Plus one of the main characters is part of these eco warriors and the entire movie is about genetically engineering sheep.
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Grey_Area
06/19/09

@HalenPolyhymnia: That was a great film, scary and funny! However, environmentalism and fears about GM livestock do not equal socialism. Both maybe espoused by the same yogurt-swilling pinko hippie types but they are not the same thing.
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♠ Final ♠
06/19/09

In reply to 15 Horror Movies That Socialists Could Love
Nigglets, Candyman and Fool, OH MY!

People Under the Stairs, Tales from the Hood and Candyman - ghetto triple threat.
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Alexis
06/19/09

@♠ Final ♠: I had a moment of "white people know these movies exist?" when I saw those. I mean, I tried pretty hard to forget Bones.
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
06/19/09

@Evlsushi: Us white folks got cable. Premium cable.
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06/19/09

In reply to 15 Horror Movies That Socialists Could Love
I Walked with A Zombie is brilliant, even if it is a Carribean Jane Eyre. It was directed by Jacques Tourneur, who directed it while working in Val Lewton's production unit at Universal Studios. Tourneur also directed Cat People and Curse of the Cat People while working with Lewton, and later directed one of the greatest horror movies I've ever seen, Curse of the Demon.
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capnrob
06/19/09

In reply to 15 Horror Movies That Socialists Could Love
Missing one of the classics - understandably, I suppose, 'cos King dissected it at length in _Danse Macabre_ - but, still, _The Amityville Horror_ (original film - I haven't seen the remake(s)) is an economic horror. Home ownership as horror text.

Then there's _Homebodies_ - people about to get evicted to make way for development get a bit testy. And also _Freaks_ - don't take the poor and outcast for everything they've got, otherwise you too can wind up on _The Kids in the Hall_. _The Stuff_ - companies will sell you dangerous consumer goods and there's not a damn thing you can do about it. _C.H.U.D.s_ - the underclass is getting dicked over AND THEY'RE PISSED. _Bad Taste_ - the rich actively want to eat you.

Economic horror, particularly related to homes, isn't a huge genre, but it never seems to go away entirely. I wonder if someone's looked for a correlation between economic horror films and economic trouble.
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Annalee Newitz
06/19/09

@capnrob: I almost included Amityville horror! I didn't realize Stephen king had already talked about the class implications, but it doesn't surprise me. A lot of his books are about class too.

It just so happens that I have written an entire book about the connection between economic horror and economic trouble. It's called _pretend we're dead_ and you can find it on your friendly local Amazon.
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Plague
06/19/09

@capnrob: I don't think Bad Taste is about the rich, more about corporations doing anything for a profit...
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Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip!
06/19/09

In reply to 15 Horror Movies That Socialists Could Love
If you are interested in Neverwhere, read the book. It's not American Gods, but it is very good.
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bookwench
06/19/09

@Belabras: I actually liked it better than American Gods.
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BadUncle
06/19/09

@Belabras: @bookwench: Yeah I thought American Gods was a disappointment, after reading Neverwhere.
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
06/19/09

@bookwench: Me too. For me, it's next best after Good Omens.
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Sam Hawken
06/19/09

In reply to 15 Horror Movies That Socialists Could Love
I'll leave others to hash over the nasty tone of this piece, and just ask a question: since when is NEVERWHERE a horror film?
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Annalee Newitz
06/19/09

@Sam Hawken: to be fair, I did call it out as a miniseries. And it certainly has elements of gothic horror. You can call it horror-fantasy if you like.
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Rasselas
06/19/09

In reply to 15 Horror Movies That Socialists Could Love
Socialism is the lizard-brain hermeneutic of the adjunct professor class, but that doesn't mean these interpretations are unpersuasive. Except for Blade II. That one was sort of a reach.
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Annalee Newitz
06/19/09

@Rasselas: I like how in your criticism of socialism you manage to insult the class background of people who discuss it. Nicely done.
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Rasselas
06/19/09

@Annalee Newitz: That wasn't what I intended -- my point was that although socialism is the reflexive position of a plurality of the analyzing community and has thus gotten a little threadbare on the Internet, where analysis is available by the bushel, the interpretations in the post are interesting. Except for Blade II: Blade and Whistler and everybody talk about how powerful the vampires are and all, but the vampires never seem to rule anybody but other vampires and a small class of wannabes. It's not like the movie shows vampire cities.
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Trystero
06/19/09

@Rasselas: True. On the other hand, at least in the first Blade, vampires are very aristocratic, with pure-bloods lording over "converts." Moreover, they are or consider themselves utterly superior to non-vampires.
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Rasselas
06/19/09

@Trystero: In the first one, Deacon Frost (correctly) calls humans "food," but the other vampires-in-charge don't seem willing to take him up on the possibilities. Maybe a sidelong condemnation of the decadence of hereditary aristocracies?
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Gearhead_42 - Nibbles ate my garage!
06/19/09

In reply to 15 Horror Movies That Socialists Could Love
Where was I when this came out? That was a great book!
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06/19/09

@Gearhead_42: I missed it too but suffered through MirrorMask.
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Gearhead_42 - Nibbles ate my garage!
06/19/09

@♠ Final ♠: I'm impressed. I don't think I made it halfway through that one...
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Oasx
06/19/09

@Gearhead_42: Whats wrong with Mirrormask? :(

Neverwhere Is pretty Awesome though!
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acrobatic rabbit
06/19/09

@Oasx: indeed! although they didn't do it justice in the miniseries.
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bookwench
06/19/09

@acrobatic rabbit: The book was awesome. The miniseries... well, the production values looked better on the static-covered overly-dark VHS bootleg copy I had than they were on the DVD's. Some things are not improved by visual clarity. (Yes, I bought a bootleg VHS copy once. I bought the DVD's as soon as they came out, so eventually I managed to give them their money.)
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
06/19/09

@bookwench: You speak the truth.

(spoilers)

The Great Beast of the Underground turned out to be a cow. Not even a bull, a cow.
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