Cordelia ,'Storyteller'
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.
There was a recent-ish remake of Dawn of the Dead, as well as Romero's Land of the Dead (4th in his series of Dead movies).
Resident Evil 2
The Ring
The Ring 2
The Grudge
(and also the American release of Ju-on: the Grudge, the Japanese film it was a remake of...)
Dark Water
Freddy vs. Jason
(hey, a ghost and a zombie!)
On the TV front, there was that UPN show Haunted a couple of years ago, and Brimstone a good bit before that.
Just got back from a screening of Tristan +Isolde, which BF is reviewing. It was baaaaad. It was attractive people with paper-thin characters suffering while being lovingly photographed. I told BF it was the OC in Leather tunics. However, if I was 13 years old, I think I would love this movie--due to the many male model types brooding and striding about, and the tragic love, which is expressed not through craxy passionate sex, but through slow motion kissing in close-up with backlighting.
Can anyone think of recent genre movies that featured zombies, ghosts and just about any characters who are kinda sorta life-challenged?
I don't think anyone has mentioned this yet, but Peter Jackson's THE FRIGHTENERS definitely goes into the good dead vs. the evil dead.
Actually, Jackson's DEAD/ALIVE, although not so much with the good dead, makes up with double-extra zombie & mom issues.
Man, way to harsh on The OC.
Just got back from a screening of Tristan +Isolde
Ha! Complete with plus sign, like that other Romeo & Juliet. Are there any drag queen sidekicks and gunplay?? Anybody dance around the room to Freddie Mercury? I would think up an example of funny anachronism from that Richard Gere Lancelot movie, but I can't think of a single funny thing about it.
NO anachronisms, unless you count the reading of a John Donne poem, which wasn't, of course WRITTEN YET. @@
Nothing will ever top the use of the Mozart Requiem to close out Elizabeth. Well, something no doubt will, and then I'll complain about it.
So the "love potion" wasn't Rohipnol?
1. Dogma
2. Constantine
3. The Final Confliect: Omen III
4. South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut
5. Devil's Playground