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.
Why couldn't Giles have shackles like any self-respecting bachelor?
Xander ,'Beneath You'
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Polter-Cow - Apr 28, 2006 6:39:21 am PDT #1566 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
§ ita § - Apr 28, 2006 6:47:37 am PDT #1567 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
Hayden - Apr 28, 2006 7:12:16 am PDT #1568 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
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.
sumi - Apr 28, 2006 7:21:35 am PDT #1569 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
How horrible and how sad.
Glamcookie - Apr 28, 2006 10:59:56 am PDT #1570 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Good Night and Good Luck
Thoroughly enjoyed this as well, and I have no Clooney love.
erikaj - Apr 28, 2006 11:04:04 am PDT #1571 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
None, at all? Or just platonic.
Kathy A - Apr 28, 2006 11:07:00 am PDT #1572 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
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.
Jessica - Apr 28, 2006 11:08:31 am PDT #1573 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
C is for Cookie -- V for Vendetta parody trailer. With Sesame Street characters. So very wrong on so many levels.
P.M. Marc - Apr 28, 2006 11:11:32 am PDT #1574 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
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.
Clearly, you didn't watch the Family Ties where Alex gets dumped by the commie liberal love of his little neo-con life.
ShutupIwas12.
Kathy A - Apr 28, 2006 11:12:51 am PDT #1575 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I did see the "very special episode" where his friend was killed and he went through therapy. Even then, all I could think was "Emmy Bait episode!!"