On another note: Dave White defends Uwe Boll
[T]he complaints usually follow along predictable lines: Boll’s movies are poorly written; based on video games; cheaply produced; full of well-known, sometimes Oscar-winning actors slumming to get a check paid out in Euros; make little narrative sense; and feature plots that include zombie massacres at raves on remote islands, scientific experiments performed on orphans, breast-implanted archeologists, floating eyeballs, Sapphic vampires and blood orgies.
I don’t know what kind of movies you like, but they had me at “zombie massacre.”
Of these, I've only watched I Walked With A Zombie, The Seventh Victim and Cat People. Colour me excited!
I am also excited on your behalf. Like Frank I own the box set as I've been a Lewton fan since forever.
The sleeper in there might be Body Snatcher, which has: (a) a fantastic performance by Karloff; (b) some fascinating grey moral dilemmas; (c) is genuinely scary and creepy in places.
I'm also a fan of the Seventh Victim for it's proto-goth protagonist and it's ending.
S and I just finished watching
Waitress,
Which was beautiful and sweet and heartbreaking as a movie, and also very sad-making and difficult to watch, because of poor Adrienne Shelley. There's a bunch of special features on the DVD that I want to watch, but I can't. I'm too broken.
So it turns out
Juno
actually
beat
I Am Legend
at the box office this past weekend, despite being in a little over half as many theatres. It made $15.9 million, putting it at #2. Criminy. It sure is a hit.
It's a massive hit. However many weeks into release, and this weekend it made more money than Serenity did on it's opening weekend (plus change).
And it's still not out for another month here. Wah.
The sleeper in there might be Body Snatcher, which has: (a) a fantastic performance by Karloff; (b) some fascinating grey moral dilemmas; (c) is genuinely scary and creepy in places.
Was that Wise's first movie as director, or was that Curse of the Cat People?
Curse of the Cat People was Wise's first movie as director.
Didn't he co-direct with someone else?
Didn't he co-direct with someone else?
I think he took over the production of Curse of the Cat People from somebody else who wasn't working out.
He had been an editor for a long time. (He worked on Citizen Kane.)
He worked on Citizen Kane.
And more infamously The Magnificent Ambersons - he was in charge of the editing of the film after it was taken away from Welles.
