Mal ,'Shindig'
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the result of my 9-year LOTR obsession is that when I see Richard Taylor or Grant Major in the credits, or PJ says "I had Christian Rivers do up the storyboards" I feel like they are my friends, or at least people I know.
I totally get this. When Richard Taylor was up getting the Oscar for effects for King Kong, I was all "Gumby's back!" Then wondered why I hadn't been invited for the afterparty with the fans like LOTR.
Of course, how old was Christian Rivers when The Frighteners came out? Seventeen? It's not a corporation; it's a fraternity. Once you've joined, you're in for life.
On the downside, imagine if you were a Kiwi and had a falling-out with Wingnut/Weta/Jackson/his posse. You'd have to move to a different country to work again!
I love The Frighteners. Totally underrated movie, I think. It's got that fun tonal shift from horror comedy to regular horror halfway through the movie. Few people have even heard about it, but I'll bet more people now because of the Peter Jackson connection.
Having just been subjected to (okay, I did occasionally laugh like a drain) Meet The Feebles, I'm thinking I need to reciprocate with The Frighteners. I was gonna go with Heavenly Creatures, but that I've seen before.
This is devastating. Jennifer Dawson, whom some of y'all might remember as a TT poster and others might know as Matt Zoller Seitz's wife, died suddenly yesterday of unknown causes.
How horrible and how sad.
Good Night and Good Luck
Thoroughly enjoyed this as well, and I have no Clooney love.
None, at all? Or just platonic.
Watched The Frighteners last night (10th Anniversary DVD). It was actually a pretty good movie. One or two "but how...?" points, but some good writing and some good performances. Awesome work by Michael J. Fox. And R. Lee Ermey!
That movie (which I didn't see until last year) convinced me that Jackson is really an excellent director of acting, not just possessed with remarkable casting ability (which I thought after seeing LotR). I never thought that Michael J. Fox was capable of really fine acting--even in Back to the Future, his strength was in his physical performance. But Jackson got him to really dig deep and do an excellent job.
C is for Cookie -- V for Vendetta parody trailer. With Sesame Street characters. So very wrong on so many levels.