The Gorgon is on Shudder this month, one of my favorites (extra points for Doctor Who #2, Patrick Troughton)
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I'm annoying with Galaxy Quest since I'll say the lines just before they happen and laugh histerically.Galaxy Quest
I think I have you beat with Escape from New York, but I also say the dialog in character.
Watched a great Italian Hitchcock-like thriller last night, The Fox with a Velvet Tail (a.k.a. In the Eye of the Hurricane 1971.) Gold digging lovers preying upon a wealthy woman and her jet set husband, but it was done so darn well, it's one of the better Italian genre films I've seen recently. And it ended on a great note...
Of course, if you watch these kinds of thrillers (not quite giallos), Jean Sorel is always cast as a cheating lover. So I knew where he stood the moment he came into frame (not that I minded. Sorel was a babe back then.
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Prior to The Fox... though, I made the mistake of watching the absolutely crap counter-culture tinged Clay Pigeon (1971) again. You know it's bad when Telly Savalas is the best thing about the movie. He was so cool and slick a la Kojak (and thankfully not the O.T.T. hilarious he is in most Italian/European movies he appeared in during the period.) Robert Vaughn was stink-o-rama as the villain, but not as bad as Steve McQueen wanna-be Stern (who failed epically as he always did.) Pulling this off an old drive led to my Halloween viewing this year, and spurned me to watch the above film so ultimately a good thing. Sort of...
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"The Tale of The Princess Kaguya". Based on Japanese folklore, this is a breathtaking movie, and my favorite of 2017. Every frame looks like a painting. It is made up of some very mature themes which anyone can relate to IMHO.
I think the more I say about it, the stupider I'll probably sound, so here's a short clip from the movie instead...
Cheers
I think the more I say about it, the stupider I'll probably sound, so here's a short clip from the movie instead...
Cheers
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I watched the Mummy this weekend, my expectations were rather low, given the poor reviews and very low rotten tomato rating.
Overall, it was ok, I got glimpses of what it could have been throughout the movie, but it seems the director wanted more CGI and less story telling. More laying the groundwork for a dark universe and less suspense and horror. The potential for a great movie was there, but they completely misfired.
Russell Crowe as Henry Jekyll was horrible performance, or more accurately as he portrayed Mr. Hyde, it was laughable at best.
Overall, it was ok, I got glimpses of what it could have been throughout the movie, but it seems the director wanted more CGI and less story telling. More laying the groundwork for a dark universe and less suspense and horror. The potential for a great movie was there, but they completely misfired.
Russell Crowe as Henry Jekyll was horrible performance, or more accurately as he portrayed Mr. Hyde, it was laughable at best.
I have to say this was one of those movies I saw released and figured I'd give it a wide berth.
I knew it was a major flop, but yet something about having a female as the monster and how they'd do that intrigued me. I was under no illusion, that it may be a bad movie. I think it had some glimpses of being a good movie such as the scene in the airplane (the whole scene, not just the wild spinning part).
I haven't seen the movie, just a few shots of that scene, but I haven't seen the movie, just a few shots of that scene, but I did catch a little 'making of' short about that scene, and they actually used a zero-G aircraft, no CGI, it was a practical effect (apparently there were a few injuries too).
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Tears of the sun.
Watchable Bruce Willis was movie. What Mrs AFB would describe as a boys film.
Watchable Bruce Willis was movie. What Mrs AFB would describe as a boys film.
I'm glad you managed to find something enjoyable in it, just don't expect anything else for a good long while. Bride of Frankenstein is on indefinite hiatus, and it'll probably be five years before they attempt to relaunch anything.
I know the rather poor showing of this movie put a damper on future dark universe movies. What I don't get is why create a bride of frankenstein movie before a frankenstein movie in the first place?
It's probably that they already had a moderately bankable star (Jolie) attached so they didn't want to take the chance that scheduling conflicts would push it out of its release window. The problem with the Dark Universe, beyond it being a franchise that no one asked for and did not put in the time to build up goodwill for one, is that it seems to be being made, squarely against genre, as an actions film series. I understand the reasoning, of course. Horror films have a dedicated but niche audience and unless you're Jason Blum, who alone seems to be able to make a semi-coherent film for under $50mn, or you're that once-in-a-generation classic (like The Exorcist or Blair Witch Project), horror films don't make money. I know that people will immediately take issue with that and point to IT but that's not a horror film. It's a coming-of-age drama with a supernatural antagonist. You can see a more traditional performance of horror in Happy Death Day, which front-loaded very strongly, enough to knock BR2049 to the third spot, and then took a -76% header in its second weekend. Summer tentpoles are action films, and those are the only sort of films that can generally recoup the necessary multiplier of $200mn ($125mn PB and $75mn P&A) budget. I get the reasoning on paper, and I get the numbers, but it doesn't work. Monsters don't generate fear in the context of a real world setting; compared to an utter tragedy like Las Vegas, what can a vampire or reanimated human madlib really do? Rubbish brand imaging and positioning.
Major flop, yeah, so much so that the studio decided to place their B&W film reincarnations on hold due to the poor performance.
Powerful stuff eh? This is the one movie I could not bring myself to watch all the way through, after I realized what was going on.
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That film devastated me the first time I viewed it, and it still gets me choked up at times even today. To me it's the most poignant film that Ghibli ever produced.
