Speaking of which, remember how I was curious about the 80s film version of Something Wicked This Way Comes?
Well, it's not bad at all.
Oh, I know!
Great cast: Jonathan Pryce as Mr. Dark is perfect. Pam Grier as the Dust Witch is less obvious but works very well. Jason Robards is fine as the father. The whole thing looks great. But they replace the scene in the book where the Dust Witch attacks the boys via balloon (presumably because it was too expensive to film) with an invasion of tarantulas. Lots and lots of them.
And that, right there, is why I'm disappointed in the movie. Otherwise, I think it's a wonderful version of one of my favorite books. Jonathan Pryce as Mr. Dark is
wonderful.
But the Dust Witch did NOT need to become some sort of spider queen.
Maybe they were giant dust mites?
On my second Inception watch, I noticed a certain musical allusion in the main theme, but yeah. Hearing it broken down like that is nuts.
As for Ariadne's token, the French call the bishop "le fou," meaning the fool or court jester. IOW, the one who has full license to tell the king unpleasant truths. Also, Ariadne's Thread is a logic strategy, and it is used among other things in computer chess games.
Y'all don't want to know how long I've spent googling shit related to this movie.
Better than Marmaduke, right?
ita, they could reanimate Marlon Brando and I still wouldn't see that movie.
was Arachnophobia a well-done horror movie?
I'm not much for horror movies, but I heard good things about
Arachnophobia
so I rented it on DVD a few years after it came out. I remember the horror/scary parts mostly being over the top enough to be funny. Sort of like how the gory parts of
Shaun of the Dead
were gross but laughable.
