I got this movie and fully understood it, however its one of worst films I have ever seen. Sloppy film making from start to finish with a predictable ending too. Poor sound poor camera work
I wouldn't even call it Horror come on are you having a laugh?
Director, lets just throw a few random thoughts and nightmares from my youth at the screen, and nick bits from "The Wicker man"
Read the boards, and you will find that this isn't the oscar winning film you obviously think it is.
Finally I have read your CV, You seem to enjoy remakes and not original fair, oh and your a massive fanboy for Prometheus which says it all and sums things up rather nicely.
You're telling me to read the boards--a verb--something you're completely unfamiliar with seeing as I'm not a fan of 'Prometheus.' Evidently, you think by going through my post history without actually reading the posts--that some how equates to me liking it. Yes, to read; clearly a concept you struggle mightily with. Dumbass.
Oh, and just so you know--pulling the whole "Oscar" shtick is about as outdated as calling someone pretentious or a troll. Try harder.
Edward Evans is clearly a complete simpleton. I myself looked at his Message Board history and the fact that he favours Predator 2 over The French Connection, which he gave up on after 45 minutes, is enough in itself to forever discredit his opinions. And what's more, he seems to have named himself after one of the Moors Murders victims. An utter bellend.
Sorry my bad, I got Promethus mixed up with Sex and the City 1 & 2. Oh and if I want your opinion then I will ask for it, guess what I'm not asking as i don't value it or consider it worth looking at.
My advice to you is to stick to commenting on the hand full of movies you have watched (about 3 including the above) and look forward with schoolboy glee to the following remakes you seen to have a keen interest in Robocop, Carrie.
Corpus Vile sums it up simply, so that makes two of us who think and know this is not the arthouse piece you claim it to be.
You posted your thoughts--albeit incredibly stupid thoughts--on a forum that is public domain. I couldn't give an iota of a f-ck if you wanted my opinion or not--I'm going to express it regardless. If you don't want people to take apart your weak, unfounded claims, then don't make stupid threads, you mook.
I don't have the slightest interest in the 'RoboCop' remake, you simpleton. Did I not just point out that you shouldn't browse through someone's post history to try and gauge their interests? Perhaps you should actually READ those posts; you know, that little verb I posted in my last address to you.
Oh ho! Two stupid people don't think it's a good movie. That makes it an objective fact.
I'm stupid because I... have a different opinion than you do? Okay.
Anyhoo, yeah, I thought this was crap. It had a good atmosphere & decent performances, but the film itself was an experimental, incoherent mess that disappeared up its own arse with an ending I considered a middle finger to the audience. Basically, it made no sense and it was almost as if the makers either ran out of ideas half way through their film, or else had no real idea of a coherent plot to begin with. This might have worked as a short, but as a full length feature, it was dire. There seems to be this recent trend for experimental horror films the past six years or so, what with this, YellowBrickRoad, Cherry Tree Lane, Berberian Sound Studios and 36 Pasos, and the only one that worked for me, was 36 Pasos, which is a gem. I thought the rest were crap.
That having said, I'm apparently in the minority with this opinion regarding Kill List among horror fans. A friend of mine loved it and was surprised I disliked it so much. Plenty of posters on the horror board whose opinions I respect also liked it. (Unlike you, I don't think they're stupid for having a different opinion than mine.) And some, like myself, the OP and a handful of others didn't.
Now, this, contrary to your sarcasm doesn't make it an objective fact, any more than your opining that it was great is an objective fact. That's the whole purpose of jawing on a film board- discourse as opposed to arrogant absolutist comments followed by butthurt and ad hominem attacks, which seems to be your style, but considering you've only registered last year, I'll assume that you're new to this whole internet message board thingy and I'll let you find your own way.
"Hey, look at that! She's not crazy, she's being chased by a cheetah!"
Are there any more overused terms on IMDb than "pretentious" or "ad hominem"? I swear, it's like you vapid, anti-intellectuals who've never had an education going beyond the 7th grade see new terms that are completely foreign to your nimble brains and you soak em' up like sponges and spit em' out like they're immediately going out of style. Get a new shtick already, you predictable tardmuscles.
And your complaints for the film are incredibly shallow; so shallow in fact, that it goes for beyond the pit of the jarring, nonlinear format which you accuse this film of. Incoherent you say? Compared to what? A Jodorowsky film? How did it not make any sense? The structure of the film is told through a linear format while simultaneously declining to fill in any gaps. And the film is better that way--it's better because the protagonist has an established relationship with all the characters who appear throughout--obviously linking him to the cultist group that gets him in the end--which ironically is almost a spitting image of a scene in the first act where Jay is carrying his son on his back.
A film isn't incoherent because it doesn't rely on excessive exposition to spoon-feed its audience. This isn't a "midnight movie" we're talking about here. You're just too stupid to understand the narrative context that Ben Wheatley aimed for.
So yes, you're stupid.
P.S. I've been on this forum since 2009. My last account was wiped out for an unexplained reason. Take your shallow, noobistic tactics to a user who's as intellectually challenged as you are, you f-cking dunce.
Uhuh. More ad hominems and whinging, so I'm not gonna bother addressing your first paragraph.
Yes. Incoherent. Compared to say, Day of the Dead, The Exorcist, Brain Damage, Night of the Creeps, Creepshow, The Burning Halloween (goes on for another five hours with lots and lots more films) You get the message now? Yes. Declining to fill in the gaps is what made it... incoherent. (take your time. It'll come to you.)
No, it wasn't a case of needing to be spoonfed. It was a case of the film being incoherent... is this actually computing with you yet?
I've been hear since 2008. Longer than you. Yet I'm a "noob"? Are you sure it's me who's the stupid one here? And you were prolly wiped for being the obnoxious bore you're being now, and somebody got butthurt? You reckon that might be the reason?
Anyhoo, you've given nothing of real substance to back up your opinion besides, whingey ad hominems. Do you have any actual y'know... point to make here? or are you still under the impression that being an obnoxious keyboard warrior is actually fresh and edgy?
Btw, I'm choking on the irony of someone calling another person intellectually challenged, while proactively having to resort to ad hominems, to mask the fact that he can't argue his point with any validity. get back to me when you've finished your emo-esque hissy fit meltdown, and when you actually have a point to make, mate.
"Hey, look at that! She's not crazy, she's being chased by a cheetah!"
FYI, resorting to so called acts of blackening aren't a reflection of one's intellectual prowess, you f-cking nimrod. I call you names because you're stupid; cut and dry.
Yes. Incoherent. Compared to say, Day of the Dead, The Exorcist, Brain Damage, Night of the Creeps, Creepshow, The Burning Halloween (goes on for another five hours with lots and lots more films) You get the message now?
Yes, because 'Kill List' shares the same narrative similitude as those movies. Idiot.
Have you even watched this film or you just stringing together belies of words and flinging them at me in a weak attempt of hoping that they'll stick? For someone who's so curt about my apparent inability to bring forth an argument filled with substance, the genesis of your your entire argument is predicated on uninformative nouns and adjectives, which you loosely throw around as opposed to providing any sense of elucidation to lend your claims credence.
I can at least refer back to my passage of Jodorowsky--a filmmaker notorious for following similar narrative techniques as Wheatley--yet his films are among the most visually striking and narratively provocative pieces of fiction one can sit through. There's nothing remotely incoherent about 'Kill List.' Hell, compared to Jodoroswky's filmography, this film is like sitting through a streamlined, four-quadrant feature made for audiences of all demographics.
You know you're a moron when you're taking a film that has more in common with the likes of Lars von Trier, Nicolas Winding Refn, the aforementioned Alejandro Jodorowsky and John Walters--yet you're attempting to compare its narrative structure to Night of the f-cking Creeps and a horror anthology in 'Creepshow'? Are you kidding me? How f-cking stupid are you? I mean really, how much dumber can you possibly get?
P.S. the "noobistic" comment was to make fun of the fact that you were claiming my posts some how have less validation by me registering here just last year. So not only do you suck at understanding the narrative context of movies like 'Kill List'--but you also have a severe lack of comprehension (maybe this explains why you can't actually flesh out genuine reasons as to why this movie "sucks")--so when you take this all into account, it's remarkably apparent of just how dumb you really are.
Yes it is, for the reasons I pointed out. No, you call me names because I disagree with you and you're apparently incapable of debating coherently, which is probably why you like incoherent films so much.
No, Kill List doesn't share the same narrative similitude to the aforementioned films. Reason being, Kill List has an incoherent narrative, whereas the other aforementioned films... don't. Is this finally kicking in? No?
"Have you even watched this film or you just stringing together belies of words and flinging them at me in a weak attempt of hoping that they'll stick? For someone who's so curt about my apparent inability to bring forth an argument filled with substance, the genesis of your your entire argument is predicated on uninformative nouns and adjectives, which you loosely throw around as opposed to providing any sense of elucidation to lend your claims credence."
Ah... you're funny. And read my original reply to you, in which I gave clear reasons why I disliked it. try to keep up.
I didn't think Santa Sangre actually followed the same similar narrative and that's beside the point anyhoo. Kill List wasn't visually striking.
"There's nothing remotely incoherent about "kill List"" Even funnier...
Actually, I found it nothing like a John Waters flick, nor have I ever found a waters flick incoherent. and I personally find Von Trier a pretentious self indulgent windbag. I thought Antichrist sucked ballz too, and don't even get me started on The Idiots. . Actually, no, I merely assumed that because of your whingey emo little hissy fit, you were actually new to this whole internet lark, as keyboard warriors got stale circa 1999. I had no idea that this is your natural highly strung demeanour, my bad.
Actually, I never said this film sucks, I said that I personally thought it was pretty crap. I then said that my opinion was no more of an objective fact than yours was. You clearly have a rather short attention span, so... try to keep up, as it'll become somewhat boring having to constantly keep you up to speed.
Anyhoo, feel like whinging some more there, cecil?
"Hey, look at that! She's not crazy, she's being chased by a cheetah!"
You do a stellar job of typing up a bunch of words that contain a whole lot of nothing (and this douchenozzle claims I don't provide any substance?)--your ubiquitous cursoriness when it comes to actually having to provide valid reasons as to what makes this film so incoherent--to borrow your lame-duck phraseology--is exactly why it's so easy to use you as a textual punching bag.
No, Kill List doesn't share the same narrative similitude to the aforementioned films. Reason being, Kill List has an incoherent narrative, whereas the other aforementioned films... don't. Is this finally kicking in? No?
I love how you have to take my terms and attempt to shovel them back at me like a snow from a driveway because you're so devoid of articulating a response that goes beyond the simplistically derivative harangue that you repetitiously spew at me. Try coming up with a response that goes beyond "Kill List is incoherent but those other films aren't" Yes, I'm sure someone as intellectually-vapid as yourself can totally understand the symbolic references in 'El Topo.' I'm sure someone of your remedially educated stature is capable of soaking up the religious subtext in 'The Holy Mountain' and putting it together in an adjective that goes beyond abnormal.
I didn't think Santa Sangre actually followed the same similar narrative
No no--not the narrative itself--the structure. Please try to pay attention and keep up. I understand you're not the sharpest tool in the box, so this informative ass-kicking you're receiving may be a bit too convoluted for you to handle--but even the context of my original sentence should've been impossible to misinterpret, you knob.
Kill List wasn't visually striking.
The f-ck it wasn't.
The Librarian sequence.
Fiona waving up at Jay.
The entire cultist sequence--the ENTIRETY of it.
All of those shots were composed beautifully--and viscerally--making it all the more, you know, striking.
You have no idea about what you're talking about. It really does beg one to wonder if you actually ever did watch this film. For all I know, you're probably the sock account for the OP; an idiot who sucks just as hard as you do at coming up with a well articulate and informative rebuttal.
Actually, I found it nothing like a John Waters flick, nor have I ever found a waters flick incoherent. and I personally find Von Trier a pretentious self indulgent windbag. I thought Antichrist sucked ballz too, and don't even get me started on The Idiots.
Wow, you are dumb. I'm willing to bet you've never watched a single John Waters film, let alone understand one.
Actually, no, I merely assumed that because of your whingey emo little hissy fit, you were actually new to this whole internet lark, as keyboard warriors got stale circa 1999. I had no idea that this is your natural highly strung demeanour, my bad.
Don't post stupid sh!t and I won't RIGHTFULLY call you stupid. Plain and simple. I'm not going to be faulted for your inability to function on an even keel with the lest of a moderately educated society, you dumbass.
Actually, I never said this film sucks, I said that I personally thought it was pretty crap.
Those two terms are synonymous with one another in this context, you f-cking nimrod.
How can someone possibly be this stupid?
You are honestly a waste of oxygen. A burden to society. A prime example of what is currently wrong with the educational systems in this world.
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"You do a stellar job of typing up a bunch of words that contain a whole lot of nothing (and this douchenozzle claims I don't provide any substance?)--your ubiquitous cursoriness when it comes to actually having to provide valid reasons as to what makes this film so incoherent--to borrow your lame-duck phraseology--is exactly why it's so easy to use you as a textual punching bag".
Oh man... Um, what was that other phrase you were whinging about, apart from ad hominem? It wasn't... "pretentious", was it? Just wondering, like.
"I love how you have to take my terms and attempt to shovel them back at me like a snow from a driveway because you're so devoid of articulating a response that goes beyond the simplistically derivative harangue that you repetitiously spew at me. Try coming up with a response that goes beyond "Kill List is incoherent but those other films aren't" Yes, I'm sure someone as intellectually-vapid as yourself can totally understand the symbolic references in 'El Topo.' I'm sure someone of your remedially educated stature is capable of soaking up the religious subtext in 'The Holy Mountain' and putting it together in an adjective that goes beyond abnormal."
My God, could you be any more pretentious and full of hot air?
"No--not the narrative itself--the structure. Please try to pay attention and keep up." Ah. So now it's the "structure" and not the "Narrative-similitude"? Do you even remember the windbaggery you come out with in previous posts? The only thing you've shown is that apart from basically unable to articulate your point without screaming hissy fit ad hominems, you're also prone to changing things midway to suit your blathering.
"I understand you're not the sharpest tool in the box, so this informative ass-kicking you're receiving may be a bit too convoluted for you to handle--but even the context of my original sentence should've been impossible to misinterpret, you knob." Uhuh. This from the guy who can't even remember what he posted during this thread? Dear oh dear. Your self delusion is hilarious.
"The f-ck it wasn't." Indeed it wasn't. That's about the smartest thing you've said throughout this entire and way entertaining for me exchange.
"The Librarian sequence". Meh.
"Fiona waving up at Jay". It was a chick waving brah. Hardly earth shattering.
"The entire cultist sequence-- the ENTIRETY of it". Nah. Didn't wow me mate. In fact, that was probably the most annoying part of it, actually.
"All of those shots were composed beautifully--and viscerally--making it all the more, you know, striking." No they weren't, and certainly not akin to El Topo.
"You have no idea about what you're talking about." As opposed to you who thinks Kill List is akin to a John Waters flick?
"It really does beg one to wonder if you actually ever did watch this film". I actually spent money on a cinema ticket to see it.
"For all I know, you're probably the sock account for the OP; an idiot who sucks just as hard as you do at coming up with a well articulate and informative rebuttal". ... Or, I could be someone who simply doesn't agree with you Cecil, has that ever occurred to you?
"Wow, you are dumb. I'm willing to bet you've never watched a single John Waters film, let alone understand one". So to clarify, Kill List reminded you of Cry Baby, Serial Mom, Cecil B Demented, Hairspray and Pecker?
"Don't post stupid sh!t and I won't RIGHTFULLY call you stupid. Plain and simple. I'm not going to be faulted for your inability to function on an even keel with the lest of a moderately educated society, you dumbass". ... Except you've yet to refute what I actually said, Cecil. You've just whinged, like a great big whinger.
"Those two terms are synonymous with one another in this context, you f-cking nimrod". No they aren't, not contextually or otherwise, Cecil. Don't be silly.
"How can someone possibly be this stupid?" Or self delusional.
"You are honestly a waste of oxygen. A burden to society. A prime example of what is currently wrong with the educational systems in this world." And you are without a doubt one of the most entertaining trolls, or better yet entertaining pretentious windbags I've ever come across on IMDB... and I've been posting here four years.
Anyhoo Cecil, I'm sensing you're still in highly strung mode here, so when ya manage to think up an actual coherent argument that doesn't simply have you coming across as pissing your diddies, in an apoplexy of butthurt, then let me know.
"Hey, look at that! She's not crazy, she's being chased by a cheetah!"
>Paraphrase the term "pretentious" before this moron uses it... >moron uses it anyway.
Similitude is synonymous with a model--a model which is also synonymous with a narrative structure--you f-cking imbecile.
Indeed it wasn't. That's about the smartest thing you've said throughout this entire and way entertaining for me exchange.
That's right, instead of actually providing any sort of technological evidence or any argument that could challenge the geometrical alignments of those shots, your accumulation of retorts consists of "meh" and the dreaded "Oh man! I'm so smart I can take a sentence of his and reverse it to a framework that makes it look like it justifies an earlier claim I made." Users who rely on such petty tactics are generally those who have an incredibly narrow repertoire of comebacks. You might want to reach deeper in that shallow bag of tricks you got, dumbass.
The fact that you think you can challenge the composition of someone this talented: http://vimeo.com/13387198 or the direction of someone who is currently one of the most visually appealing directors out of the UK, is remarkably hilarious--and not in a good way. I don't need to rely on fallacies of critical praise or accolades to prove my points either. I can just point to the choices of color palettes, the angles in which the shots are composed, the lenses and environments which they choose to shoot in; so and so forth. But you on the other hand, you don't provide anything. You just loosely throw around degrading adjectives without providing any exposition to help lend your argument credence. You're a pre-schooler, basically.
and certainly not akin to El Topo.
Oh really, which is why most of the violence and blood in 'El Topo' looks dated today, right? Way to walk into a rake, you f-cking nimrod.
I will bet dollars to doughnuts you've never sat through a single Jodorowksy film, let alone understood the visual relevance of any of em'.
As opposed to you who thinks Kill List is akin to a John Waters flick?
So to clarify, Kill List reminded you of Cry Baby, Serial Mom, Cecil B Demented, Hairspray and Pecker?
I was obviously referring to 'Multiple Maniacs' and 'Pink Flamingos'--but I'm sure you've seen those films too, right? Just like how I'm sure you've seen 'El Topo.' But now that you mention it, it wouldn't surprise me if Waters' more mainstream releases found a way to go directly over your head, too.
Except you've yet to refute what I actually said, Cecil.
Denial is generally a pain in the ass for those who waddle between being borderline idiotic and flat out retarded.
Also, INB4 you try and use that sentence as to why to insult me (that's how predictably dull your responses are).
Or self delusional.
No, you're just an idiot.
and I've been posting here four years.
And you've been an idiot for longer than four years, too.
You know you can't argue worth sh!t when you're throwing around terms like "brah" while simultaneously relying on an overusage of emotiocons.
You're about as bottom of the barrel a forum user can get.
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Blah blah waffle waffle what a deeply boring and unoriginal poster you are cecil. Tell me, why do you keep back pedaling here? On the one hand, it has a "Narrative similitude". Then it's "Not the narrative itself--the structure", and now it's "Similitude is synonymous with a model--a model which is synonymous with a narrative structure" Dear oh dear, you just can't seem to live up to your assertions here, what gives?
My god, your second paragraph is even more pompous & pretentious windbaggery, superceded only by your jaw dropping hyprocrisy. My contention was that the film was incoherent, which it was, and which you've yet to refute.
Not the point Cecil, the film is not akin to El Topo. Sorry.
Ah. So on the one hand, it's akin to a John Waters flick, yet when given five counter examples, your response is akin to "Oh I like obviously totally meant his other films apart from those five counterexamples offered!" I'm sensing a pattern here Cecil. Namely you talking $hite, getting called on your $hite and then trying to slither your way outa what you said, after being proven utterly wrong.
Nope. Refute what I said, Cecil. How was the film Kill List not incoherent and nonsensical in terms of plot and story? Wow me, Cecil. Nope, I'm n ot the one hurling ad hominems and getting all whingey, while backtracking on what I said, cecil. Only idiot here appears to be you, I'm afraid.
I use emoticons when unable to take hissy fit hypocritical trolls remotely seriously, Cecil.
Still waiting for you to refute what I said btw.
"Hey, look at that! She's not crazy, she's being chased by a cheetah!"
Perhaps if your education wasn't so substratal you'd actually understand the proper lexicon of the word "similitude." Let's get back to basics for the Layman; I said the narrative structure--key word being structure--you know, the ingredient that decides how linear or nonlinear a story will unfold--is most certainly similar to the works of Jodorowsky and Waters. We're not talking about the narrative content--we're talking about its STRUCTURE. And how does 'Kill List' follow a correlative format similar to those directors' midnight films you might ask? Because the film is told through an unorthodox, nonlinear format. A film being nonlinear doesn't inherently make it incoherent, you vapid, anti-intellectual.
My god, your second paragraph is even more pompous & pretentious windbaggery, superceded only by your jaw dropping hyprocrisy. [] My contention was that the film was incoherent, which it was, and which you've yet to refute.
Yes, providing valid examples that illustrates the strengths of these filmmakers epitomizes pretentiousness.
Do you even f-cking read the stuff you type, or do you just randomly pick and choose from piles of demeaning adjectives to weakly hurl at me in hope that it will stump me?
Durr pretentious.
Durr ad hominem.
Durr incoherent.
Dunce.
the film is not akin to El Topo. Sorry.
You've never watched 'El Topo', how in the f-ck would you know?
Ah. So on the one hand, it's akin to a John Waters flick, yet when given five counter examples, your response is akin to "Oh I like obviously totally meant his other films apart from those five counterexamples offered!" [] I'm sensing a pattern here Cecil. Namely you talking $hite, getting called on your $hite and then trying to slither your way outa what you said, after being proven utterly wrong.
If you were dumb enough to think I was comparing this film to 'Cry Baby' as opposed to say 'Pink Flamingos'--again, in structure--since we both know your stupid ass is outstanding at misinterpreting basic context--then you're even dumber than I thought. But hey, this is from the guy who listed 'Night of the Creeps' and f-cking 'Creepshow' when it came to comparing the tonal elements of 'Kill List.'
Nope. Refute what I said, Cecil. How was the film Kill List not incoherent and nonsensical in terms of plot and story? Wow me, Cecil.
Provide examples of how the film is incoherent and I'll feel free to do so.
Only idiot here appears to be you, I'm afraid.
Yes, so idiotic I need to rely on the same easy-to-paraphrase terms and phraseology.
DURR CECIL AD HOMINEM PRETENTIOUS CONDESCENDING NARCISSIST CECIL DURR.
Get a new f-cking act already, you tired simpleton.
I use emoticons when unable to take hissy fit hypocritical trolls remotely seriously, Cecil.
No, you use an exorbitant amount of emotiocons because you're an obnoxiously derivative moron.
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Nope cecil, you backpedaled and are now twisting yourself up in knots trying to convince me that you weren't backpedaling. Actually, you proactively mentioned its "Narrative similitude" and are now insisting it's not that but "structure". Try to keep up Cecil.
No, sorry Cecil, you've yet to explain precisely why it isn't incoherent. You've just pissed yer diddies some more.
Except you haven't provided any valid examples as both your Jodorowski and Waters comparisons have been well and truly shot to $hit. So try again Cecil. With y'know... valid examples this time.
How do you know I've never watched it? You seem to think I haven't watched Kill List or a John waters film either, yet are effortlessly proven wrong in your Waters comparison.
Lol, more backpedaling and desperate wriggling from you, Cecil. See, you mentioned Waters. I provided five examples of his films, none of which are like Kill List. You then claimed you didn't mean those John Waters films. You realise how pathetic you look here?
I already did provide examples, in my original reply to you. Yet again... try to keep up. (You sure you don't need things "spoonfed" to you btw?)
Lol, cecil cecil cecil... using fancy words doesn't equate to saying anything of any actual substance, surely you know this? You haven't actually said anything at all of any substance. All you've done is whinge, acted all pretentious, gotten catty, had a bit of a meltdown, whinged some more and then tried to wriggle your way outa things after being consistently unable to back up your burblings.
Nope, I use emoticons excessively with you, cuz A) You're impossible to take seriously, as whingey keyboard warrior trolls like you are 10 a penny on the internetz. B) I get the impression they make you even more butthurt, if such a thing were possible.
Anyhoo, anything of substance to contribute? No?
"Hey, look at that! She's not crazy, she's being chased by a cheetah!"
Nope cecil, you backpedaled and are now twisting yourself up in knots trying to convince me that you weren't backpedaling. [] Actually, you proactively mentioned its "Narrative similitude" and are now insisting it's not that but "structure". Try to keep up Cecil.
Your illiteracy went from being amusing to being downright offensive.
Let me explain this again--for a second time--even though it shouldn't require a second time.
Similitude is a model--a model is synonymous with structure--structure coincides with similitude. I explained this already here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1788391/board/flat/207658962?d=207988695#2 07988695; "Similitude is synonymous with a model--a model which is also synonymous with a narrative structure--you f-cking imbecile." I shouldn't even have to be explaining this. Anyone with an education that stretches beyond a f-cking middle school would realize this.
No, sorry Cecil, you've yet to explain precisely why it isn't incoherent. You've just pissed yer diddies some more
I just told you that if you provided examples that go beyond baseless, suppositional adjectives, I would kindly offer up a rebuttal that discredits whatever shallowly callous diatribe you'll inevitably bring forth.
How do you know I've never watched it? You seem to think I haven't watched Kill List or a John waters film either, yet are effortlessly proven wrong in your Waters comparison.
Because you don't understand the correlation between 'Kill List' and other midnight movies.
You didn't refute anything. I later expanded on my Waters citation by providing two examples from his early filmography which follow a narrative similitude as 'Kill List.' That is absolutely, 100% irrefutable fact.
But keep riding that one trick pony since you can't formulate a single confutable thought.
You realise how pathetic you look here?
Not as pathetic as someone textually regurgitating the same tired, one-note routine.
Do you have any idea how easy you are to paraphrase?
INB4 Cecil, ad hominem, pretentious and narcissist. There you go. Try harder, ramrod.
Lol, cecil cecil cecil... using fancy words doesn't equate to saying anything of any actual substance, surely you know this? You haven't actually said anything at all of any substance. All you've done is whinge, acted all pretentious, gotten catty, had a bit of a meltdown, whinged some more and then tried to wriggle your way outa things after being consistently unable to back up your burblings.
What fancy words? I'm not going to be apologetic for taking the initiative to expand my education beyond that of a grade schooler. Perhaps if you weren't so damn retarded you wouldn't have such a hard time understanding what these terms mean. The fact that you can't even understand the basic definition of the word "similitude" is actually quite pathetic.
"The fact that you think you can challenge the composition of someone this talented: http://vimeo.com/13387198 or the direction of someone who is currently one of the most visually appealing directors out of the UK, is remarkably hilarious--and not in a good way. I don't need to rely on fallacies of critical praise or accolades to prove my points either. I can just point to the choices of color palettes, the angles in which the shots are composed, the lenses and environments which they choose to shoot in; so and so forth. But you on the other hand, you don't provide anything. You just loosely throw around degrading adjectives without providing any exposition to help lend your argument credence. You're a pre-schooler, basically."
I challenged you to explain--in detail--what the shortcomings are of Laurie Rose's cinematography, but I never got an answer. What is wrong with the shot composition? What is wrong with the camera choice? What is wrong with the color grading? What are the collective shortcomings?
Everything you're erroneously accusing me of is a prime example of someone contradicting themselves.
I already did provide examples, in my original reply to you. Yet again... try to keep up. (You sure you don't need things "spoonfed" to you btw? [] )
This was your original response: "I thought this was crap. It had a good atmosphere & decent performances, but the film itself was an experimental, incoherent mess that disappeared up its own arse with an ending I considered a middle finger to the audience. Basically, it made no sense and it was almost as if the makers either ran out of ideas half way through their film, or else had no real idea of a coherent plot to begin with. This might have worked as a short, but as a full length feature, it was dire. There seems to be this recent trend for experimental horror films the past six years or so, what with this, YellowBrickRoad, Cherry Tree Lane, Berberian Sound Studios and 36 Pasos, and the only one that worked for me, was 36 Pasos, which is a gem. I thought the rest were crap."
What exactly did you explain? You called a film incoherent, congratulations. You didn't provide a single reason as to why it was incoherent. This would be equivalent to me saying "The movie is so good because of the story." I'd have to give examples that explain what made the narrative so compelling. Examples that go beyond tireless adjectives.
You mistake jeremiad for substance.
Nope, I use emoticons excessively with you, cuz A) You're impossible to take seriously, as whingey keyboard warrior trolls like you are 10 a penny on the internetz. B) I get the impression they make you even more butthurt, if such a thing were possible.
No, you use emotiocons for the reasons I stated previously. You're a generic, poorly educated and unintelligible retard. Your way of compensating for someone blasting you at face value is to repetitiously overuse icons to mask your inability to deal with someone factually pointing out how overbearingly stupid you are.
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No you didn't and mindlessly repeating that you did doesn't make it so.
So because I disagree with you, I therefore don't understand it and haven't watched it? Okay.
Yes I did refute it. Seeing as you need to be spoonfed, I'll spell this out for you again: You said Kill List was akin to John Waters. I gave examples of Waters' filmography. You then blustered that those weren't the Waters' films you meant. And no, it isn't a 100% irrefutable fact. If it was, I wouldn't have been able to prove you wrong with the five examples given. You're... not very bright are ya Cecil?
Tired routine? Your entire exchange has been one note- whingey ad hominems, pompus head up yer arse tone, blustering attempts to wriggle outa things when proven wrong, etc. So again... do you honestly realise how utterly pathetic you look here? Or is ignorance truly bliss?
Yes cecil. Fancy words without any actual substance behind them, which merely has you coming across as a pretentious, pseudo intellectual twat.
Uh, no Cecil. You haven't. You've merely mentioned individual scenes and then asserted they were visually striking and no incoherent... again, without anything to back it up. Tsk tsk.
Nah, your vimeo link doesn't look all that to me, Cecil. Asserting that it's awesome is neither here nor there. Tell me though, what is so stand out about it, apart from being merely solid, as opposed to being genuinely arresting?
Yes, and also mentioned its nonsensical ending cecil. Again... try to keep up mate. I also mentioned how basically it didn't have enough fleshed out ideas for a full length feature and would have been more effective as a short, which imo it would have been. Sorry you disagree.
No, I use emoticons because they're clearly annoying you no end, and it's my way of highlighting how entertaining you are for me, albeit unintentionally.
And Kill List still sucks cecil. Accept it and move on.
"Hey, look at that! She's not crazy, she's being chased by a cheetah!"
No you didn't and mindlessly repeating that you did doesn't make it so.
Providing links; quotes; videos; and insight that goes beyond loosely throwing around the term "incoherent"makes it so.
So because I disagree with you, I therefore don't understand it and haven't watched it? Okay.
You're obviously unfamiliar with Jodorowsky's filmography if you don't think the tonal structure of 'Kill List' bears the same resemblance to 'Santa Sangre', 'El Topo' or 'The Holy Mountain.'
All four films are nonlinear in structure; you remember that word similitude?--that little word that explains the model of something--yeah, nonlinear is the model of these films' narratives.
Dumbass.
Yes I did refute it. Seeing as you need to be spoonfed, I'll spell this out for you again: You said Kill List was akin to John Waters. I gave examples of Waters' filmography. You then blustered that those weren't the Waters' films you meant. [] And no, it isn't a 100% irrefutable fact. If it was, I wouldn't have been able to prove you wrong with the five examples given. You're... not very bright are ya Cecil?
What did you refute? Certainly not the citations of 'Pink Flamingos' and 'Multiple Maniacs.' Those are midnight movies, pal. Along with broadening your education, you might want to broaden your knowledge on the medium of cinema as well.
What five examples did you provide? Five of his mainstream films, despite the fact I wasn't comparing 'Kill List' to those movies in the first place. What was I saying a couple of posts ago about you shoveling the same tired, one-note routine? What was I saying about you being too easy to paraphrase? Just keep circling around the same boring plateau, you mook.
Tired routine? Your entire exchange has been one note- whingey ad hominems, pompus head up yer arse tone, blustering attempts to wriggle outa things when proven wrong, etc. So again... do you honestly realise how utterly pathetic you look here? Or is ignorance truly bliss?
Once again, all your dimwitted ass is doing is taking my words and attempting to reverse them to fit your counterargument. This is what happens when you can't challenge any of the other valid points I've brought forth. Those points being the links and quotes that I provided. Instead of even remotely addressing those you keep reverting to "DURR CECILE AD HOMINEM PRETENTIOUS NARCISSISTIC"
That's literally about the fifth or sixth time I've been able to accurately paraphrase you. That's a prime example of someone being so domineeringly stupid that they can't eloquently put together an argument that goes beyond rudimentary.
Yes cecil. Fancy words without any actual substance behind them, which merely has you coming across as a pretentious, pseudo intellectual twat
Those aren't fancy words, you poorly educated mongoloid. They're standard adverbs modifying verbs--adjectives modifying nouns--so on and so forth. That's what people do when they can actually provide a rebuttal with more than several iotas of credence.
Uh, no Cecil. You haven't. You've merely mentioned individual scenes and then asserted they were visually striking and no incoherent... again, without anything to back it up. Tsk tsk
You made the claim first that the cinematography wasn't good.
HOW? I just challenged you in my last post to list several examples--and once again--FOR THE CHEAP SEATS: What is wrong with the shot composition? What is wrong with the camera choice? What is wrong with the color grading? What are the collective shortcomings?
Either put up or shut up time, pal.
Nah, your vimeo link doesn't look all that to me, Cecil. Asserting that it's awesome is neither here nor there. [] Tell me though, what is so stand out about it, apart from being merely solid, as opposed to being genuinely arresting?
Give examples as to why it's not "arresting"--to use your idiotic phraseology--and then I will once again kindly provide informative reasons as to why Laurie Rose's cinematography is visually striking.
Yes, and also mentioned its nonsensical ending cecil. Again... try to keep up mate. I also mentioned how basically it didn't have enough fleshed out ideas for a full length feature and would have been more effective as a short, which imo it would have been.
The ending coincides with the foreshadowing of Jay carrying his son on his back in the first act of the film. There's a lot of cultist symbolism that is sprinkled in throughout the film which ultimately ties the film together at the end. Can you guess what it is? I mean, with you complaining about having to spoon-feed me (yeah, spoon-feeding me the same tirelessly boring adjectives over and over) one would think you'd be smart enough to understand the linking of it all.
No, I use emoticons because they're clearly annoying you no end, and it's my way of highlighting how entertaining you are for me, albeit unintentionally.
If you need to use an abundance of emotiocons to annoy someone, then you clearly have the mindset of a f-cking delinquent--further proving that I'm dealing with nothing more than a blunderingly cultured moron.
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Nope, providing links and then asserting that it backs up your point when it actually doesn't, again is neither here nor there Cecil.
Well, I don't cecil, particularly Sangre. Sorry. And no, yet more blustering attempts to wriggle your way outa what you said, isn't gonna change what you said, nor is it gonna make you look any less stupid. Except you didn't specifically mention multiple Maniacs or Pink Flamingos, you made a generalised statement on how Kill List was akin to a John Waters flick. Then you were given no less then five examples as to how full of crap you were... then you blustered and backtracked and wriggled and made yourself look really silly.
Ah. So now you mean his "mainstream" films, huh? Yet more wriggling from you cecil. Dude, man tf up and admit your comparison was jaw droppingly wrong and I might have some modicum of respect for you here.
No cecil, I'm merely pointing out how tired, one note and stale your little routine is. It's been done lots of times before by people more eloquent, intelligent and entertaining than you. That having said, you're still way entertaining. Also, I never called you narcissistic. Although now that ya mention it...
Yes cecil, I'm afraid they are merely fancy words, with no substance to back 'em up, which again, highlights what a pretentious pompous windbag you are. You strike me as a shade... what's the word I'm looking for here... narcissistic. I think it sums you up quite well.
No I didn't, I said I didn't find it visually striking or anything especially elevating. Stop being so dishionest cecil, it reeks of deperation.
No, sorry. You gave examples and had your ass handed to you. rewrite history all ya like Cecil.
Again, I found nothing stand out or particularly striking about it. Give me examples of how it is.
No it doesn't tie things up at the end as merely suggesting things and making a half assed attempt at ambiguity does not, I repeat not tie things up cecil. Jeez you're dumb. And it was you who mentioned spoonfeeding... try to keep up cecil.
I would imagine you're very easily annoyed, actually. You are after all having a hilarious meltdown simply cuz I have the temerity to disagree with your pretentious narcissistic burblings.
Again, your self delusion is hilarious, cecil.
"Hey, look at that! She's not crazy, she's being chased by a cheetah!"
Nope, providing links and then asserting that it backs up your point when it actually doesn't, again is neither here nor there Cecil.
And making off-hand, substance-less claims doesn't lend your weak excuse for a rebuttal any credence. I at least provided quotes, videos and a general outline of insight which absolutely goes beyond cheaply hawking uninformative allegations at somebody. How can you possibly be this dumb? Can you please explain to me in great length why your education system has failed you?
Well, I don't cecil, particularly Sangre. Sorry. [] And no, yet more blustering attempts to wriggle your way outa what you said, isn't gonna change what you said, nor is it gonna make you look any less stupid. Except you didn't specifically mention multiple Maniacs or Pink Flamingos, you made a generalised statement on how Kill List was akin to a John Waters flick. Then you were given no less then five examples as to how full of crap you were... then you blustered and backtracked and wriggled and made yourself look really silly.
1.) 'Santa Sangre' follows the same principle of being a nonlinear film, you f-cking idiot. There's a reason why so many people were questioning Fenix's psychological state, and if it served as the catalyst for his Mother being a visual manifestation of his growing disconnection with reality. Hence why he turned out to be nothing more than a ventriloquist. This same exact method can be applied to wondering whether or not Jay was unconsciously aware of giving the cult approval to accept their offering of the initiative. This is called a method of nonlinear storytelling. That is a 100% accurate assessment.
2.) I didn't backtrack, I revised. The fact that I even had to--as I mentioned earlier, I shouldn't have even had to--still gets the point across that I was comparing 'Kill List' to 'Multiple Maniacs' and 'Pink Flamingos.'
You're such an unbelievably shallow and simpleminded twit.
Dude, man tf up and admit your comparison was jaw droppingly wrong and I might have some modicum of respect for you here.
I don't even want a fraction of your respect. I don't care about seeking the adulation from an individual who is so prevalently displaying their lack of common sense in reoccurring fashion.
No cecil, I'm merely pointing out how tired, one note and stale your little routine is. It's been done lots of times before by people more eloquent, intelligent and entertaining than you. That having said, you're still way entertaining. [] Also, I never called you narcissistic. Although now that ya mention it..
Tired, one-note and stale.
Where have I read these terms before? Oh, that's right, when I was using them to accurately paraphrase how devoid of an original thought you are. Yet again, what was I saying about this idiotic clown needing to take my phrases and shovel them back at me like snow from a driveway?
When challenged you're easily exposed as being nothing more than an uninspired blockhead.
No I didn't, I said I didn't find it visually striking or anything especially elevating. Stop being so dishionest cecil, it reeks of deperation.
And you didn't give examples.
Once again, when challenged, you shrivel up and resort to a whole lot of, well... nothing.
No, sorry. You gave examples and had your ass handed to you. rewrite history all ya like Cecil.
I had my ass handed to me? By whom? Not you, I can assure you of that. I've challenged you time and time again to provide substantial reasons and you still haven't. You don't seem to grasp the concept that discrediting someone's work goes beyond loosely throwing around adjectives without expanding them. You're the worst type of idiot that walks this earth. You're not only so oblivious to how insanely idiotic you are--but you also buy into the bullsh!t you're selling. You couldn't hand ass to a pornstar even if you were giving her ass implants.
Again, I found nothing stand out or particularly striking about it. Give me examples of how it is.
I'll give you examples of how it was visually striking when you finally give reasons as to why it wasn't.
When you try to refute the artistic merit of someone's camerawork, simply saying "Well I personally didn't think it was striking" doesn't cut it. I can easily just counter that with "Well I did find it visually striking, so there!"
If only a debate like this could be moderated. You'd be laughed off the f-cking stage and publicly humiliated for your overgrowing ignorance.
No it doesn't tie things up at the end as merely suggesting things and making a half assed attempt at ambiguity does not, I repeat not tie things up cecil. Jeez you're dumb. [] And it was you who mentioned spoonfeeding... try to keep up cecil.
The main character could've been seen as the anti-Christ by the cult, and he could've been tricked into killing people that had sinned according to the occult. As we all know MP's are generally liars and cheaters. Jay ate the rabbit he thought the cat killed; but it was actually Fiona who killed it and then by eating it he was accepting the occult's sacrifice and therefore he unknowingly gave them his consent. I think Jay might've been in on it seeing as it his him who actually gets him literally involved, also he murmurs "thank you" before he is killed and also provides the main protagonist with more dead rabbits. The people in the forest were obviously all mental and wanted to be killed by the anti-Christ (same reason all his hits all said "thank you"). Also, I think his wife was actually crying rather than laughing--or she was just distraught and in a state of shock. That's the dots that I can connect with the so called INCOHERENT symbolism--nonlinear structure and all!
Suck on that, you f-cking moron.
That's more substance than your stupid ass will ever provide, CECIL.
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Off hand substanceless claims? You mean like saying Kill List is like El Topo and John Waters' films? Pray do continue.
No it doesn't. Using a flashback structure does not equate to Kill List, which had precious little structure and was little more than a bunch of random ass scenes thrown together.
Ah. So now you revised? This gets better and better... Yeah but man up and admit you were wrong brah. You'll look far less pathetic.
3rd paragraph yet another whingey ad hominem tinged baw fest, so I won't bother addressing it.
Actually, I just told you that apart from finding it technically competent, I didn't find anything expecially stand out about it. Sorry it didn't register with you cecil.
Yes you did, when you insisted that Kill List was like a John waters film, then got roundly proven wrong, then blustered that that wasn't precisely what you meant.
Uh... you still haven't told me what was particularly special about your link Cecil. You just went off on another whinge.
Hmm. I'm seeing a helluva lot of "could've" here Cecil. As well as "I Think". Oh and there's a "may have" as well.
I thought there was nothing remotely incoherent about Kill List cecil? Yet here you are with your "could've, may have, I think it could possibly have been..." and blah blah blather waffle drone. Kinda contradicting yourself there brah.
So, care to give me the proof that Kill List is 100% unequivocally correct, in regards to your theory on it?
Or will you man up and admit you're merely speculating here Cecil?
No harm in manning up brah.
"Hey, look at that! She's not crazy, she's being chased by a cheetah!"
Off hand substanceless claims? You mean like saying Kill List is like El Topo and John Waters' films? Pray do continue.
How are the comparisons of their narrative structures invalid?
No it doesn't. Using a flashback structure does not equate to Kill List, which had precious little structure and was little more than a bunch of random ass scenes thrown together.
A flashback structure? You're going to have to expand on this. Clearly, you stole that terminology from its Wikipedia page.
The flashback doesn't have anything to do with the symbolism of it. It was a great point for me to raise because the structure of 'Santa Sangre' is told in an intricately convoluted set of events. You don't get the answers until the very end of the film--and even then--you actually have to do a bit of research on Jodorowsky's take on the film to really bring it all full circle.
Now, if you've actually watched 'Santa Sangre'--which you've clearly haven't--but I want to be humored--how is that in any way different from how 'Kill List' is structured? The events in 'Kill List' are streamlined in a relatively linear fashion in contrast to 'Santa Sangre'--but by the film's third act--JUST like 'Santa Sangre'--the film shares the same puzzling anatomy in regard to how its collective form eventually unfolds.
You'll look far less pathetic.
Not as pathetic as you. That I can say is an objective fact.
so I won't bother addressing it.
Don't worry, you haven't addressed anything up to this point, so I'm used to you bowing out.
Actually, I just told you that apart from finding it technically competent, I didn't find anything expecially stand out about it. Sorry it didn't register with you cecil.
No, you explicitly stated the shots I mentioned weren't beautifully--and viscerally composed. Chalking that up to a personal sentiment is as big a copout one can get. You're gonna have to provide valid reasons as to why those shots--as well as the collective film--isn't visually striking.
Yes you did, when you insisted that Kill List was like a John waters film, then got roundly proven wrong, then blustered that that wasn't precisely what you meant.
How did you prove me wrong? All you did was list his most accessible films without providing films like 'Pink Flamingos', which I was obviously referring to, you daft c-nt.
Uh... you still haven't told me what was particularly special about your link Cecil. You just went off on another whinge.
That's right, keep dancing around the challenges.
I said it once I'll say it again: PUT UP OR SHUT UP.
Hmm. I'm seeing a helluva lot of "could've" here Cecil. As well as "I Think". Oh and there's a "may have" as well.
I thought there was nothing remotely incoherent about Kill List cecil? Yet here you are with your "could've, may have, I think it could possibly have been..." and blah blah blather waffle drone. Kinda contradicting yourself there brah.
You mistake a lack of unnecessary exposition for incoherence. But aren't you the guy who's going on and on about having to spoon-feed? Yeah, I think I've posed this question before. Weird.
But what's funny is, I said that that was more substance than you would ever provide and I turned out to be completely right. You see, when I say "I think" or "may have"--that's what I'm choosing to take away from a film that at least had the awareness to lay down the framework of the plot--but also had the courtesy to respect my intelligence to the point that it would allow me to bridge it all together.
Maybe you're just a f-cking idiot who can't piece together unconventional films. That's far more feasible than endlessly bitching about the film being "incoherent."
I've at least given you reasons why the film isn't jarring. I'm now waiting for you to provide reasons why it is. Don't worry, I'll wait.
So, care to give me the proof that Kill List is 100% unequivocally correct, in regards to your theory on it?
Or will you man up and admit you're merely speculating here Cecil?
Well, in the director's commentary Ben Wheatley reveals the wife isn't in on it. So that basically ties up the only loose end one may have had. But that event in itself isn't enough to make the film collectively incoherent.
Yeah brah. What now brah! Sup brah! Jersey Shore brah! I'm f-cking original brah! Watch me be repetitive brah!
Cecil
Brah
Cecile
Brah
Pretentious
Ad hominem.
F-cking uninspired hack. That's exactly what you are.
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nothing wrong in admitting you couldnt understand a movie or its story, happens all the time, except for you it happened in a good movie, which you arent used to watching, so lesson learned.
I wonder whats sadder, the shrine you have erected in your bedroom to the one girl who dated you and was creeped out and never talked to you again. Or the sad hang down that she laughed at? I'm dying to know!!
I can't wait to see 'Sightseers.' I usually hate the combination of comedy and horror--but Wheatley's unique writing patterns makes him an exception to the rule.
His newest film is what I'm most excited for, though. That flick sounds like it's going to be Jodorowsky on f-cking STEROIDS.
Couldn't you boys have just found a pub car park to conduct your pointless 'debate'? I watched Kill List this evening and I'm not sure how I feel about it yet. I'll stew on it for a while, see what I think tomorrow. It'll probably want watching again, but I doubt I'll let you my final opinion. I don't want to get told off - by either of you - for thinking the wrong way.
Sightseers is incredible, absolutely compelling, and hilarious all the same. I commend you for attempting to engage such fools in a debate on a film they both clearly didn't understand and missed the point of. Kill list remains one of my favourite British horror films of the last decade, and has been unfairly under seen. A field in England looks to be unimaginably epic, and I will absolutely be paying to see it.
Listen petal, this may fall upon deaf ears due to your willingness to resort to the very clearest definition of an ad hominem argument (please do look that up to avoid further use), but if you do try and condemn someone as illiterate, at least try to use the correct grammar. You are no doubt are aware of the fact that words that begin a sentence tend to possess a capital letter, but I'm afraid due to the fact that you accuse 'Kill List' of being for illiterates, your misuse of the correct grammar has proved fatal to your cause.
And one last thing, calling people 'blithering retards' is not debating, it is insulting; and not just to me, but to yourself also. Good day.
you're an abject *beep* moron if you think anything from wheatley is worth watching. and it's not writing "patterns", it's writing style, you illiterate *beep*