The Conjuring - wow

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Holy cow. I just watched me a movie. At home. Alone. In the dark. Holy ****
Anybody seen the Conjuring? My neice told me today on the phone it was a good movie so tonight I kicked back and watched it. It put me back online to lighten up a little so I can go to sleep. Just wow. That was one intense movie.
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  • Yes seen that a few months ago. I loved it. Made me jump more than a few times. Bit of a disapointing ending I thought but really good spooky film overall.
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    • Hmmm, I think I'll just stick with comedies!
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  • Scarier because based on a true story. That ain't no true story I wanna get anywhere near!

    Don't get too cosy HeySal cos the sequel's coming atcha soon! 'Conjuring 2' Gets a Release Date
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    • I love it when they say "Based on a true story". What that means is "Based on a story someone told someone else, and said was true".

      I have a friend that is still convinced that "dramatic re-enactments" are the real event being filmed, and not just based on what was said.
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  • Sequel? I guess they found some sucker to buy the house, huh?
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  • Except for a couple of scenes, I didn't think the movie was scary at all. I like my horror stuff to have a basis in reality. Like the Saw series or being thrown in a pit full of snakes.

    And how dumb are those people? If they knew there's a spirit trying to get them that shows up the same time every night, why would they sleep in separate rooms?

    Some of my Christian (Catholic) friends were scared to death. They lost me at exorcism, however.
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    • That's where you and I differ. I don't like "slasher" type horror fiction at all. I like a good story about the supernatural - Poltergeist, Omen, Fantasm, etc. To me it's the story that makes it good - not the truth value. I didn't know The Conjuring was based on a true story until it was mentioned in the thread. I just enjoyed the story. If I wanna see real life true scary crap and wildly bizarre forms of dementia, I can go downtown places like Detroit or Chicago. I watch movies to escape reality, not to observe it.


      "Based on" can be pretty loose. Is it a fact or part of the screen play that events were so wild that the church would agree to an exorcism? Events have to be both verifiable and pretty intense for the church to step in. As for the interpretation of events, yeah, that varies from philosophy to philosophy.

      Very strange occurrences do happen in real life. To be so skeptical as to think that wild things do not ever happen is not skepticism - it's completely closed minded. Figuring out why they happen is another story. Demons? Dimensional rifts? The particular person's imagination or an accidental ingestion of a chemical that produces hallucinations? Can we really be sure we know what is poppycock and what is a very solid real event? I'm not gonna try to judge that one. I haven't that much arrogance. In my lifetime, I've seen many "skeptics" shaken very hard by strange events that happen to them. It only takes a minute to completely change a belief system.
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  • I watched the trailer a few days ago and that was enough for me to not be able to sleep right for about two days.

    I still want to check it out though.
  • Yeah I think this was a fantastic movie, even if it did leave me sleepless for a few nights

    Alex
  • I managed to watch the movie in broad daylight. No way I'm gonna try to watch a movie like that at night
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    The Conjuring - wow

    Holy cow. I just watched me a movie. At home. Alone. In the dark. Holy **** Anybody seen the Conjuring? My neice told me today on the phone it was a good movie so tonight I kicked back and watched it. It put me back online to lighten up a little so I can go to sleep. Just wow. That was one intense movie.