Stephen Dorff would have been my gateway to the movie, but I've seen a Uwe Boll movie before. Never, ever again.
If the apocalypse comes, beep me.
Buffy ,'Selfless'
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Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 21, 2005 6:17:25 am PDT #8104 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Kevin - Oct 21, 2005 6:20:31 am PDT #8105 of 10002
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Some of the review quotes to it are great..
"The three stars have seen better days, but I'd like to think they could still do something classier and more dignified than this. Like gay porn." -- Rob Vaux, FLIPSIDE MOVIE EMPORIUM
"Alone in the Dark doesn't even deserve the indignity of going straight-to-video" -- Christian Toto, WASHINGTON TIMES
"Saying Uwe Boll’s Alone in the Dark is better than his 2003 American debut House of the Dead is akin to praising syphilis for not being HIV." -- Nicholas Schager, SLANT MAGAZINE
Strega - Oct 21, 2005 7:30:36 am PDT #8106 of 10002
I saw it! It was fantastic! It has the most wonderfully random sex scene, and Christian Slater seems to live in a lamp warehouse, and there's a security guard giving the performance of his life, and at the end the captions and the narration seem to be describing entirely different endings. It's also educational, like when Slater says, "Nowadays we can't remember why we valued gold in the first place." It's so true. My favorite character was the guy who was in charge of guarding the perimeter.
And the DVD has a trivia pop-up feature that will tell you all about H.P. Lovecraft. If you can make it out, because the text & background colors were both very dark. So it's a really nice feature if you're a masochist. But I suppose that's true of the entire movie.
Kevin - Oct 21, 2005 7:32:43 am PDT #8107 of 10002
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Strega, you should start MoviesWithoutPity.com...
alienprayer - Oct 21, 2005 12:17:51 pm PDT #8108 of 10002
Conservative, n. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others. -Bierce
Plus, the opening credits have an explanation VO/text scroll that goes on for what seems like about 1/2 the movies total running time.
Kevin - Oct 21, 2005 12:19:55 pm PDT #8109 of 10002
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
alienprayer, yeah, I noticed that one. Plus they don't seem to really have that much to do with the film.
I've only seen the first half hour so far. I keep falling asleep.
alienprayer - Oct 21, 2005 12:51:34 pm PDT #8110 of 10002
Conservative, n. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others. -Bierce
I reccomend investigating your DVD player, to see if it has a random track setting. When a movie begins to irritate me, I just put it on random.
This usually helps me tough it out, but I don't think I made it all the way through Alone in the Dark. I remember that the scroll/VO was even funnier the second time round, because it seemed like the movie was apologizing for giving Tara Reid expository dialog.
I find this all more rewarding than reading Burroughs.
Kathy A - Oct 21, 2005 3:35:42 pm PDT #8111 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I just saw Good Night and Good Luck. An excellent film, well told and wonderfully shot. I just realized that it was probably the most verbally intensive film I've seen in years (unrelieved by anything remotely physically active), but the intensity onscreen more than balanced all the talking. Highly recommended!
Jars - Oct 22, 2005 7:45:35 am PDT #8112 of 10002
Wah! The Dakota Fanning Bot is going to be voicing Coraline in the animated movie. As if it wouldn't be freaky enough anyway.
Theodosia - Oct 22, 2005 7:49:17 am PDT #8113 of 10002
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Capote was very good. Not only was Philip Seymour Hoffman very good -- and not just as a flashy Oscar-bid role, but the supporting actors, particularly the guy who played Perry Smith, were just fabulous. Not to mention the mise en scene, which definitely portrayed the era so well.