8-Mile is never a movie I could really get into. I think it's mostly because my little sister is the only person who ever has it playing, and she gets a little hostile while watching it. All I hear is "She's a whiny bitch," or "She's a whore." She does it every single time they come on screen. It's quite disturbing. Eminem seems to act well in it, though. It's got that to its credit. Its really hard to pull a good movie performance out of a rapper.
I also watched Sinister recently. It was a great movie, but it had its flaws. The parts with the Super 8 films were genius. The demon looked like he went to band practice with Kiss after he was finished eating children. It was not very intimidating at all. The only thing that made him remotely unpleasant was the f***ing orchestra sting every time he came on the damn screen. That was the flaw I mentioned earlier: jump scares used improperly.
Now, I would like to discuss a concept that Hollywood still hasn't seemed to grasp just yet. Here goes: startling is NOT the same thing as scary. Jump scares are not scary, and too many of them are immensely irritating. They are startling. Slasher flicks tend to rely almost solely on them, so I tend to avoid the genre altogether. With paranormal movies, it's hit and miss. Some of them only have a couple jump scares early on and rely on scary content and imagery after that. That's the good stuff. Those are the things that you'll remember for a really long time and will give you chills when you think about it a week later. I honestly wish there was a more scary things like that in cinema. To give credit to those who honestly try to make a good scary movie, it is really hard to do. It's a blend of atmosphere and timing and horror elements that really make the horror movie grand. When they are grand, that is. So, next time you're watching a movie of the horror genre, stop and ask yourself, "Is this scary, or is it startling or just gross?" If all you've done is jump, it's not that scary.
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