'Serenity'
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.
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.
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!
Wah! The Dakota Fanning Bot is going to be voicing Coraline in the animated movie. As if it wouldn't be freaky enough anyway.
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.
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?
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.
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.
In the last few minutes of The Blair Witch Project, when you see Mike standing in the corner. Don't ask me why, but just thinking about that scene freaks me out.
Chris Nolan talks, mostly about Batman.
... this was the tricky thing to really try and nail with Batman Begins as opposed to previous incarnations?is the difference between him and a common vigilante, the Punisher or Charles Bronson in Death Wish
The Shining. There are about 10 scenes that screw with me, but the one that's getting me right now is the boy tricycling down the hall, and turning the corner to see the ghost twins. *shiver*
The girl coming out of the TV in The Ring is definitely a good one.
Carrie's closeup in the prom climax, after the blood falls and right before hell breaks loose.
The first glimpse of the alien in Alien.