Giles ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
I am so late to the party, and I have no one to blame but myself. I've read a lot about This Film Is Not Yet Rated and heard a lot of the anecdotes in it, but not actually seen it. Watching it now, and it's ten times as fascinating as I'd imagined. Why do I wait on this shit?
However, I wish they'd labelled all the movies as they showed them, just in case, you know. For making up my own mine purposes, yeah.
They were all put out on VHS. Not sure about DVD.
They're newly available on DVD... as a box set of every single episode.
Rather expensive, of course, considering how many episodes there were.
as a box set of every single episode.
It had no supernatural elements for the first six months, and it was a year before Barnabas Collins showed up. So that's a long stretch of late sixties soap opera before you get to the good stuff.
For anybody that's interested, I'd recommend the movie for which I can provide the link.
Why did they add the supernational elements? Ratings ploy? Or did it fit into an already weird show?
I'm gonna hafta see this.
Has anyone seen the mistakes tapes? All bloopers that were actually aired--so many shots of crew members walking by on the set, forgotten lines, boom microphones....
Why did they add the supernational elements? Ratings ploy?
Probably. The creator, Dan Curtis, was probably the most important horror producer in television history between Rod Serling and...I don't know, Chris Carter or Joss (depending on how horrific you categorize them).
Curtis also created The Night Stalker and Trilogy of Terror (with Karen Black and the Zuni fetish doll), and Burnt Offerings and did tv movie versions of Frankenstein, Jekyll and Hyde, Dorian Gray, Dracula, Turn of the Screw.
Night Stalker . . . damn, such a good show.
Night Stalker
My brain makes this, alternately, Horshack the Night Stalker, or Rorschach the Night Stalker.
Or occasionally Kolache the Night Stalker.
He has no dignity in my eyes.
Philistine.
I went to see This Means War after work yesterday, and am left wondering if it was meant as a parody or if the screenwriters are 23-year-old frat brothers who fantasized about being James Bond growing up and don't consciously realize they're in love with each other.
You do know they say they filmed three resolutions to the movie, right? I don't think there's anything unconscious there.
However, if you write this movie where so can even vaguely reasonably put three endings on it, that might just mean there's no overwhelming evidence leading up to any of the endings. And that's exactly how I felt at the resolution of this one. Like, oh! We were leading up to this? I forgot!
However, up until then, I found it harmless eye candy fun.