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Households old enough to be nostalgic about one are old enough to have kids into the other.

@dramypsyd Is there an occasion for the watching? It's not quite halloween yet, so are you a horror enthusiast or there is a specific purpose in the watching?

@dramypsyd as a non-enjoyer of horror, I'm oft annoyed how many recs I get in the other direction, especially on platforms with no mechanism for expressing disapproval

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(Yes yes I know some old recipes for mapo tofu don't require doubanjiang)

@dramypsyd Oh yeah, totally similar things. Saw? Paw? Who can tell the difference? Is there a difference?

@dramypsyd Polish Netflix has Saw I, II, III, IV and VI; but no V for some reason.

@dramypsyd wait what?? Shocked you’d be into something like saw.

@dramypsyd Same amount of torture, yes

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@dramypsyd Some people were trying to make "Saw Patrol" happen when a Saw and a Paw Patrol movie came out on the same day in 2023. I thought it didn't work, but maybe it kind of did a little?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbenheimer#Comparisons_and_legacy

@dramypsyd One is a psychologically disturbing body horror about the distortion of flesh and bone at the hands of an animal.... and the other is Saw.

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Perhaps the algorithm (that they probably call AI now) thought a poorly pup had a saw paw?
Actually, I'd watch Bungle Pups as well!

@dramypsyd yeah, tracks for me. Any parent will tell you Paw Patrol is an experience of being trapped in a place that doesn’t make sense against your will, it’s just that in this case it’s a toddler who’s trapped you there.

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It’s the same thing if you already SAW Paw Patrol. Get it? SAW like the movie Saw. 🤣
I’ll see myself out🫤

@DrSuzanne Oh I love horror movies. My current working theory is I’m gonna feel anxious anyway, and when I’m watching horror I can project my anxiety into a fictional story and distract myself from, you know, all the real things there are to be anxious about

@dramypsyd I love horror movies too, but body horror just seems disturbing rather than scary and I can't get into it. A low creep out tolerance on my part, I believe.

@DrSuzanne Understandable! I do cover my eyes for parts

@ike I saw Saw the Musical last night

@dramypsyd I had no idea that was a thing!

Personally, I loved the Saw movie but I think for reasons most people don't:

I assume that most people who really like it are horror enthusiasts and like the violence, tensions, creepiness, etc. But what I really liked about the movie is the social experiment / psycho analytical tests that reveal the character's true personality.

Most horror movies are shallow, but Saw has some interesting depth that I'd never seen in a horror movie before.

@ike @dramypsyd The classic, enduring horror movies have that sort of thing, though often about different topics. For example, Alien is *strongly* anti-capitalist. It’s not even subtext. “Priority One. Insure return of organism for analysis. All other considerations secondary. Crew expendable.” is literally text on a screen in the movie. The horror comes from the idea that some faceless corporation decided to risk their lives without even telling them.

I’m not personally a fan of the torture porn aspects of Saw. In the “show people who they really are” subgenre, I prefer The Thing.

@bob_zim @dramypsyd Oh please tell me more about The Thing's social experiments?

@ike @dramypsyd It’s not intentional experimentation inside the movie, but the result is similar: isolate people, apply severe stress, and show who they really are. In The Thing, this was done by Lancaster and Carpenter (writer and director). In Saw, it’s moved into the framing. Like the difference between a narrator who isn’t a character, and a character narrating the movie as if telling the story after the fact.

@bob_zim @ike Now I’ve got to go watch The Thing

@VictimOfSimony and that’s the real horror: the unending passage of time

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