Welcome to #checkin for Wednesday, October 23, 2024!
Good evening/afternoon/morning everyone and welcome to today's #checkin. Time flies! It's already my last day as #checkin mod for this week! Next up is @Rod Mesa. Weather is a bit colder but still sunny.
Today is National Horror Movie Day and National Slap Your Irritating Co-Worker Day. The latter one sounds fun! Luckily, my coworkers are absolutely okay and no need to slap someone; however, I would rather slap some politicians...
Regardig Horror Movies, I am usually not a fan of such. But there was a pretty okayisch Icelandic movie I recently watched, I remember You. Still had some wtf moment and the end of the movie and need to read up on Wiki to fully grasp the idea behind it...
So today's topic is open! However, you can also talk about who you would like to slap or what kind of movies you can recommend in spirit of Halloween
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Jodi K
in reply to Christoph S • • •Definitely worth a slap. Maybe two.
No irritating co-workers. Or any at all.
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Mark Wollschlager
in reply to Christoph S • • •I have never been a horror fan.
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Joyce Donahue
in reply to Christoph S • • •No co-workers any more so no need. (I did have one who needed slapping. She was a manipulating, bossy narcissist who took over after our immediate supervisor quit and thought she should run everything.)
I don't like most horror movies, but exceptions are
- movies that are very camp, such as Army of Darkness
- 1950's films with bad special effects
- Hammer horror masterpieces from the 60's and 70's... with Christopher Lee or Peter Cushing
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Rod Mesa
in reply to Christoph S • • •Horror? Camp horror, maybe. Comedy horror? You know, anything with Bruce Campbell in it.
Really liked Ridley Scott's "Alien." Was that horror or SciFi? LOVED Jordan Peele's directorial debut "Get Out," and his third film, "Nope." John Krasinski's "A Quiet Place" is another one. Carpenter's "The Thing" is a fave. I think the all-time best is Guillermo del Toro's "Espinazo del Diablo" (Devil's Backbone) in the Spanish version with English subtitles. Fabulous.
Detest horror films of the jump-scare variety, and other trope-filled, formulaic yawn fests. Hate slasher and gore.
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libramoon
in reply to Christoph S • • •GROTESQUERIE Trailer (2024) Horror, Drama
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Coherence - Pelicula Completa Subtitulada
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Scene from THE HAUNTING (1963)
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Muse
in reply to Christoph S • • •THIS is the horror movie you want to watch!
It's an early Aardman short.
youtu.be/mIvQZm8K-yU?si=voB-CA…
Very Creepy Short: Not Without My Handbag
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Cass M 👋🏽
in reply to Christoph S • • •Not very good with horror. Suspense or bloody type.
Was volunteering to serve lunch at the library today. I wanted to slap the people protesting the men's shelter now that is no longer run by a group of elderly church women with no accountability😶
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Richard
in reply to Christoph S • • •Yea no. I don't want to talk about work.
Actually I do. This evening I noticed there was a gripper arm (dunno what they're called - they're for grabbing things that are out of reach) in a corner.
I'm sure there's a perfectly normal and boring reason for it to be there.
Naturally me being me I started wondering... Like, should you be at work if your pieces parts are so toxic that you need a gripper arm to hold them while taking care of business? Or, are you really so busy you need to pass notes under the stall door to your personal assistant?
Otherwise, everything's just peachy ;P
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Lisa Stranger
in reply to Christoph S • • •Not into horror. My first bf took me to a horror flick for one of our dates. I was in the bathroom when the chainsaws and fake green guts happened. Nobody's happier about that than I am. My late sister was into that stuff too. Nope nope nope. Real life is scary enough.
I'm FB friends with that ex now lol. He's good people. We just weren't a good match.
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Griff Ferrell
in reply to Christoph S • • •Out grew horror in my late twenties, nothing scared me. Some of the new stuff looks from the trailers looks legitimately scary
Just no interest, meh
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Karl Auerbach
in reply to Christoph S • • •For me the scariest movie remains the 1983 TV show "Special Bulletin". It's essentially only available via YouTube since Warner withdrew it from circulation.
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1983 television film directed by Edward Zwick
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Carsten Raddatz
in reply to Christoph S • •I watched "A quiet place" last night. Oh man, tremendously well done. Without any explanation of the tough backstory, very few minutes after the film starts you know everything about it, more than your imagination could have made up before starting. Psychologically well done. I think it was a hit on festivals too.
Not without my handbag, that one is good too!
One of you here said, at one point, "Alien" or that genre should never have been invented. Who was that again? I know fir sure it made a strong impression on me, when I was maybe 11 or so, and Betamax and Video2000 (oh the futuristic naming) was still a thing. But the franchise has been less and less surprising each interation.
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Carsten Raddatz
in reply to Christoph S • •A slap, I'd give a few. But only the soft kind to co-workers because stuff I tend to want to improve, those ideas sit around too long before, after a slap, people get moving. But this is the good kind.
The many slaps I'd want to give a customer's IT dept for a balls-up on their side would receive. A lapse which cost us dearly in terms of hours. I conducted dozens of hours over the last two weeks dealing with the falllout of their accidental mismanagement. My favourite tool would be the RITA -- The Reliable Internetwork Troubleshooting Agent (as per RFC 2321) many times over until the problem is done away with on their side.
I'm not a slappy person, so what I do is teach people and go like "you fix your sh*t, I'm happy to wait" and keep masking the mood with blobcats.
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Lisa Stranger
in reply to Christoph S • • •any annoying clients, maybe?
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in reply to Christoph S • • •I'm still trying to get Mr. Stranger to watch it for the first time... which is darkly hilarious, because so many of our conversations are him citing a movie line or situation and me saying "I haven't seen that". But by the time I tried to give him a frame of reference for Brawndo etc., too much of the content was becoming reality. He also found it puerile. This is a guy who has slogged through some of the densest novels known to man—multiple times!—but he can't make it through Idiocracy. And lest he be unfairly branded a snob, one of the movies he cites is Up Periscope 🙄
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Karl Auerbach
in reply to Christoph S • • •@Lisa Stranger - Has he watched "Dogma"? It is not readily available; the Weinsteins hold the rights and have blocked distribution on streaming services and the DVD version is no longer for sale from Warner. But it's a really fun film...
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Lisa Stranger
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I don't think so.
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