John Carpenter's The Thing holds up really well. Of course, part of that may be that I haven't seen it since it was originally released, when I was 12. But *damn*, those are good effects.
Everybody dies, Tracey. Someone's carrying a bullet for you right now, doesn't even know it. The trick is to die of old age before it finds you.
Mal ,'The Message'
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Atropa - Sep 05, 2010 3:54:31 pm PDT #11107 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
beekaytee - Sep 05, 2010 3:59:08 pm PDT #11108 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
But *damn*, those are good effects.
I can remember the sound of the wire going into the petri dish of blood as if I had seen the movie today, much less, a decade ago. Seriously good effects.
Typo Boy - Sep 05, 2010 4:43:07 pm PDT #11109 of 30000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Never liked the Jerry Cornelius novels. Wonder if I'd "get" them more in movie form, even if flawed.
Polter-Cow - Sep 05, 2010 4:54:48 pm PDT #11110 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
John Carpenter's The Thing holds up really well. Of course, part of that may be that I haven't seen it since it was originally released, when I was 12. But *damn*, those are good effects.
Jilli, I saw it for the first time a few months ago, and I felt the same way.
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 06, 2010 3:43:07 am PDT #11111 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Oh, that cicada-ey sound the creature makes when changing and its screams when burning are the most horrifying sound effects I've ever heard in a movie.
Though Melanie Griffith singing in the Viva Laughlin pilot may outdo them...
sumi - Sep 06, 2010 6:02:12 am PDT #11112 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!
Though Melanie Griffith singing in the Viva Laughlin pilot may outdo them...
Another reason for me to be thankful that I didn't watch.
ION, I looked up the casting for that new Katherine Heigl movie and discovered that she was cast as Stephanie Plum in the movie adaptation of One for the Money.
Really?
Although, Daniel Sunjata as Ranger is an excellent idea and as much as I like Jason O'Mara he is not at all what I thought of when I imagined Morelli.
Theodosia - Sep 06, 2010 6:52:56 am PDT #11113 of 30000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Re John Carpenter's The Thing, it was evidently the tradition at the Antartica pole station that after the last plane of the winter took off (leaving them isolated for the next 4+ months), the staff would gather in the mess hall and watch The Thing together.
Laga - Sep 06, 2010 10:14:17 am PDT #11114 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
In an emergency, a netflix envelope makes a great coaster.
Atropa - Sep 06, 2010 12:33:29 pm PDT #11115 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Jilli, I saw it for the first time a few months ago, and I felt the same way.
I realized that I really *hadn't* seen it since the first time, so while I knew the broad outline of the story, I had forgotten a lot of the details. When the hot-wire-in-the-dish scene happened, I jumped back and shrieked.
Oh, that cicada-ey sound the creature makes when changing and its screams when burning are the most horrifying sound effects I've ever heard in a movie.
I've got to agree. Man, the sound design for that film was just amazing.
Speaking of movies I haven't watched since I was a pre-teen, there is a part of me that wants to rewatch Poltergeist. Then I remember the not sleeping for three days after I saw it, and I think maybe this is not such a clever plan.
erikaj - Sep 06, 2010 1:44:51 pm PDT #11116 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
Katherine Heigl is not ethnic. She's okay, but she's no Stephanie Plum.