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Originally Posted by dicconzane
But surely you can't define the genre by whether or not it achieves its objectives otherwise you would have no such thing as a bad horror film? You can say a film was well done and badly done without having to redefine its genre. Just because Signs didn't achieve the atmosphere that alien did doesn't mean its goals were not the same just how well it achieved them. Like all other genres you get good and bad examples but you wouldn't say that should redefine the genre otherwise a poorly done remake of the same film would have to be reclassified. Plus this would make it even more subjective since I cannot think of a film that truly chilled me for a long ime so by that token there would be no horror films of recent years. Something I think most would disagree with.
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Sorry, i'm real crap at explaining what i mean :(
I wouldn't call Signs a horror movie, to me it's pure science fiction, so it was a bad example to use, again my apologies, but if it is classed as a horror movie, then by not achieving it's objective i'd say "yes, it's a bad horror movie". I'm not saying redefine it's genre, or that it's a bad movie, because i enjoyed it, only that in my opinion it isn't horror
There are very few movies that have scared the pants off me, and most of them when i watched as a teenager, the only one since then has been The Descent, as i have gotten older and have more 'life' experience fewer things on the screen freak me out, which would mean that even by my own definition horror movies fail miserably, however, i can still say that something was a great movie or a bad movie, whether it scared me or not, i have long since given up on finding a movie that will truly terrify me so i suppose i should say that if i enjoyed it it's a great movie, which is a different thing entirely
Even though movies have lost the power to scare, for the most part anyway, i can still see how they spook others, my brother, for example, couldn't watch The Ring all the way through he was so freaked out by it, when he told me how much it had spooked him i knew straight away which part of the movie had done it, just because it didn't frighten me doesn't mean it was a bad movie, it just means that, for me, it didn't reach it's objective, i still enjoyed it though
Still not sure i've explained what i mean very well, sorry