Strega, you should start MoviesWithoutPity.com...
Mighty fine shindig.
Mal ,'Shindig'
Buffista Movies 4: Straight to Video
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.
Kevin - Oct 21, 2005 7:32:43 am PDT #8107 of 10002
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
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.
Volans - Oct 23, 2005 1:54:46 am PDT #8114 of 10002
move out and draw fire
So I was looking through some screencaps from horror movies, and there were a couple that gave me a frisson, reminded me of the fear reaction I had watching the movie. I didn't want to spend time looking at THOSE as the image still scares me.
(FTR, they were the girl crawling out of the TV from The Ring, and the little boy from The Grudge 2. )
I don't think those are the scariest image for me though - I think that award goes to the shadow-shape coming up to the surveillance camera in Ju-On.
I put to you, therefore, a Halloweeny quiz: What's the scariest image from a movie for you?
Theodosia - Oct 23, 2005 2:51:17 am PDT #8115 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"
One that will stay with me to my deathbed: Dorothy looking into the Wicked Witch's crystal ball, when Aunt Em's face turns into the Witch's.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 23, 2005 6:06:25 am PDT #8116 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
My top 20 or so scary images would be from Eraserhead, with the leads being Jack Nance spitting out that giant wormlike thing into a puddle, and that horrific mutant baby thing.