You know, it's like that with me and foreign horror movies. I feel scrutiny enough because I love horror movies as much as I do, but when I throw in 'foreign', people think I'm trying too hard. I didn't realize sitting on my ass, cuddling my cats, eating a pbj, scratching my butt, and farting, all while watching these films in the privacy of my own home, meant I was trying to look cool. I like a lot of things that aren't mainstream, but that's an example.
I guess I'll go watch another Johnny Depp movie, even though I genuinely don't care to, so people won't think I'm trying to prove my coolness by being 'unique'. I swear it's a sin not to find that guy attractive.
I'm gonna go get sn exorcism performed on me til he's hot.
At the risk of sounding hipsterish, I generally don't like horror movies. The only ones I do like are foreign ones. Asian zombie and vampire films (especially the ones with a sense of humour) enthrall me. They're not technically horror because they're so funny.
The only English-language horror film I can think of that both scares me and enlightens me is a film called Funny Games. It's intelligent, uncomfortable, disturbing, plays with the medium, breaks down the fourth wall, and also has a message. It's also, I later found out, a frame by frame reshoot of a foreign horror movie. :)
Of course I'm happy with you. I've seen your comments. Open-mindedness and intelligence tick many boxes. They make me want to examine your tastes, as opposed to criticise them.
I always thought I gave off arrogant know-it-all impressions.
So thank you.
I have very different taste from most people I know. Actually, the shallowness of how people around me feel toward such others with my tastes, along with criticisms I had gotten in the past, has caused me to mostly shut up about my tastes.
So I'm not sure where to begin. Heh.
That's certainly not the way you came across to me when I first noticed your comments. Although, I get accused of the same thing, so maybe we're filtering the same way.
There are mainstream things I unashamedly enjoy, and those are what I tend to end up talking about with other people (for obvious reasons) but the things I've got the most out of are the things that nobody else has heard of. I've been accused of liking them because they're different. I could argue that people are thinking: "I don't understand that. How could he like it? He must be doing it to pretend he's better than me". As time as gone on, though, I turn it inwards on myself and wonder what I'm doing to give off an air of aloofness.
Is it normal that I had to google what a hipster is?
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You know, it's like that with me and foreign horror movies. I feel scrutiny enough because I love horror movies as much as I do, but when I throw in 'foreign', people think I'm trying too hard. I didn't realize sitting on my ass, cuddling my cats, eating a pbj, scratching my butt, and farting, all while watching these films in the privacy of my own home, meant I was trying to look cool. I like a lot of things that aren't mainstream, but that's an example.
I guess I'll go watch another Johnny Depp movie, even though I genuinely don't care to, so people won't think I'm trying to prove my coolness by being 'unique'. I swear it's a sin not to find that guy attractive.
I'm gonna go get sn exorcism performed on me til he's hot.
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At the risk of sounding hipsterish, I generally don't like horror movies. The only ones I do like are foreign ones. Asian zombie and vampire films (especially the ones with a sense of humour) enthrall me. They're not technically horror because they're so funny.
The only English-language horror film I can think of that both scares me and enlightens me is a film called Funny Games. It's intelligent, uncomfortable, disturbing, plays with the medium, breaks down the fourth wall, and also has a message. It's also, I later found out, a frame by frame reshoot of a foreign horror movie. :)
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I don't really know what a hipster is supposed to sound like, but if you're happy with me, I'm happy with you.
I'll have to check out that movie. TY.
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Of course I'm happy with you. I've seen your comments. Open-mindedness and intelligence tick many boxes. They make me want to examine your tastes, as opposed to criticise them.
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I always thought I gave off arrogant know-it-all impressions.
So thank you.
I have very different taste from most people I know. Actually, the shallowness of how people around me feel toward such others with my tastes, along with criticisms I had gotten in the past, has caused me to mostly shut up about my tastes.
So I'm not sure where to begin. Heh.
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That's certainly not the way you came across to me when I first noticed your comments. Although, I get accused of the same thing, so maybe we're filtering the same way.
There are mainstream things I unashamedly enjoy, and those are what I tend to end up talking about with other people (for obvious reasons) but the things I've got the most out of are the things that nobody else has heard of. I've been accused of liking them because they're different. I could argue that people are thinking: "I don't understand that. How could he like it? He must be doing it to pretend he's better than me". As time as gone on, though, I turn it inwards on myself and wonder what I'm doing to give off an air of aloofness.
for horror* movies
Yeah I love Funny Games. I've only seen the remake as well, not the Austrian original (I may have to see how it compares). Michael Pitt is brilliant.