« Reply #4 on: February 15, 2010, 03:03:22 PM »
True on the part that newer movies due to technological advancements tend to showcase their monster and show a bunch of gore. But gore never the fear part. Hiding the monster is a way to build suspense but there are others. For example Cloverfield, a nonhorror genre movie, clearly showcases the monster about halfway in but you couldn't care less as you are so involved with the characters them selves they could be running from a 50ft PMSing women and it would still be a movie worth watching.
My beef is trading away fear for lame crap. Like the shared pain reaction thing our brains do that make us flinch when a torture-porn hacks off someone's leg or startling the audience with someone jumping out of the darkness. You could have replaced the guy with Winny the Pooh and still have generated that effect and if you could touch your eyeball and get dozens of people's eyes to water up. It's just not the same thing. And never slide jokes into suspense scenes, a Freddy-worm toking it with some high schooler ruins everything you could have been building up to for the last hour of show time. No puns, no jokes, and hell no to lampshading jokes. Scream is a failure and only gets watched as a comedy film.
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Tiers explained in 8 sentences. With examples!
[spoiler]Tiers break down into who has spellcasting more than anything else due to spells being better than anything else in the game.
6: Skill based. Commoner, Expert, Samurai.
5: Mundane warrior. Barbarian, Fighter, Monk.
4: Partial casters. Adapt, Hexblade, Paladin, Ranger, Spelltheif.
3: Focused casters. Bard, Beguiler, Dread Necromancer, Martial Adapts, Warmage.
2: Full casters. Favored Soul, Psion, Sorcerer, Wu Jen.
1: Elitists. Artificer, Cleric, Druid, Wizard.
0: Gods. StP Erudite, Illthid Savant, Pun-Pun, Rocks fall & you die.
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