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A place to talk about movies--Old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.

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Frankenbuddha - Jul 12, 2004 5:18:08 pm PDT #268 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

You know,other than The Last Unicorn when I was 5, I can't think of any movie that's truly scared me. I just don't think my brain is built for horror movie appreciation.

Seeing SUSPIRIA at 13 pretty much covered me on anything else, horror-wise. Disturbed happens - Selected bits of Cronenberg, IRREVERSIBLE, and TROUBLE EVERY DAY all have squicked me out at various points, but for out-and-out terrifed, nothing has equalled that first Argento experience. Once bitten; forever jaded. Only movie that ever put me under the seat at the movie theater.

The original film of THE HAUNTING did spook the crap out of me when I saw it at 10, though.

Steph L. - Jul 12, 2004 5:22:10 pm PDT #269 of 10001
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated

Not that Stan Lee would hyperbolize or anything.

Stan Lee on The Simpsons is one of the funniest things EVAH.

Jessica - Jul 12, 2004 5:27:28 pm PDT #270 of 10001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

I just saw the new Manchurian Candidate, and it didn't suck at all. The way the storytelling's been updated from Cold War paranoia to War On Terror paranoia is very successful, I think. And Meryl Streep is just amazing. She has by far the most difficult role, and she just nails it.

I'm curious to see what the varying reactions will be, from both fans of the original and people coming to the story new. I found it very difficult to judge the pacing, because I wasn't waiting to find out what would happen. I was waiting to find out what would happen differently, and so there were sections in the middle where I wanted the story to just unfold already. But it's possible someone who didn't know the original movie wouldn't have felt that way.

Frankenbuddha - Jul 12, 2004 5:30:47 pm PDT #271 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Jess, whitefont if you have to, but I'm really curious - how do they justify the title?

Frankenbuddha - Jul 12, 2004 5:33:57 pm PDT #272 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Oh, and I'm also curious - did you see/what did you think about Truth About Charlie? I rather liked it myself, and thought the original was far LESS sacrosanct from remake than TMC (although maybe it's the casting of CHARADE that had people resenting the remake).

Scrappy - Jul 12, 2004 5:35:22 pm PDT #273 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Jess, do they keep the creepy incest-yay vibe?

Jessica - Jul 12, 2004 5:37:46 pm PDT #274 of 10001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

Well (waves goodbye to film cred once again), I've never seen Charade. So I liked The Truth About Charlie, but since I wasn't mentally comparing it with the original, the answer to your question is Not Applicable.

The title of the remade Candidate refers to Manchurian Global, a bigass eeeeeeevil multinational corporation.

(Not much of a spoiler -- it's mentioned within the first five or ten minutes of the film.)

[eta: Robin, yes. Hell yes, in fact.]

P.M. Marc - Jul 12, 2004 5:38:48 pm PDT #275 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Robin, I love that you asked what I was going to ask.

bon bon - Jul 12, 2004 6:44:25 pm PDT #276 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

I didn't see the original Manchurian Candidate, but I am stoked for my boyfried Liev. I love you Liev.

§ ita § - Jul 12, 2004 6:49:48 pm PDT #277 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

::comforts James Franco::

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