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Post by luditesupreme on Jul 6, 2012 5:33:21 GMT -5
i loved prom night growing up and i purposefully stayed far away from the remake
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Jul 6, 2012 6:25:48 GMT -5
Well I didn't even know there was an original and the remake's trailer really got me man. I watched it with one of my best friends and man we thought it sucked.
What drives me nuts is you'd think we'd be able to do better today with better technology and the ability to get away with more stuff than you used to.
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Post by loverofbeers on Jul 6, 2012 9:48:00 GMT -5
Before this last weekend, I had no intention of ever watching either version. I saw an article yesterday on Dread Central I might start a thread about. Simply, should Jamie Lee Curtis be considered Scream Queen royalty, or is she a bit of a snob toward the genre now. I know she did those sequels to Halloween but they were big budget affairs. I'm leaving that topic alone for now.
Just watched The Jerk a comedic masterpiece by Carl Reiner and starring the comic genius of Steve Martin and the ever so cute Bernadette Peters. He "was born a poor black child".
Here's some sweetness instead of gore. Enjoy.
LOB-8
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Post by loverofbeers on Jul 6, 2012 9:58:01 GMT -5
Jake, I have come to believe that it is the director and his/her crew that can make a movie good regardless of budget, CGI and other technologies, and other factors. I'm positive you agree. Yeah, I give it to the directors, actors, music writers/composers/selectors, and most of the crew behind the cameras, mikes, and lighting and so on.
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Post by loverofbeers on Jul 6, 2012 9:59:01 GMT -5
Imagine Steven Spielberg or Michael Bay having directed The Wrestler instead of Darren Aronofsky.
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Jul 6, 2012 18:39:56 GMT -5
I've come to believe that too , but it kind of drives me nuts when they've got so much at their disposal.
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Post by luditesupreme on Jul 6, 2012 22:51:41 GMT -5
the answer to your jamie lee question lob is yes to both . she is snob toward the genre but she will always be scream queen royalty . you don't have to like something to have made an impact upon it b.she did come back to the genre after years of being away fromthe genre . i seem to remember hearing that she's in semi retirement now. looking back y6ou can't blame the woman for wanting to expand the scope for her career
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Post by loverofbeers on Jul 6, 2012 23:07:55 GMT -5
LS, you talked me into starting a new thread.
Jake, I've noticed that overall the best horror comes from outside the major studio system and are low-budget. Some like TTCM, Evil Dead and Evil Dead II, Night of the Living Dead, Phantasm, The Hills Have Eyes, Friday the 13th, Halloween, etc., are picked up by smaller or larger producers or studios and pushed. Some die on the vine.
Hollywood-made horror that rocks is rarer to me, but we have Alien, The Thing, The Cabin In the Woods, Drag me to Hell, The Shining, Exorcist, Psycho, Jaws, the new Dawn of the Dead, and The Devil's Rejects to name a few.
And the success of the big money ones I would once again give to the directors, actors, and crew.
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Post by loverofbeers on Jul 7, 2012 2:19:51 GMT -5
Just watched a reallly good b-war movie. Pacific Inferno from 1979 produced by and starring Big Bad Jim Brown. The credits give a shout out to Don Cornelius, Hugh Hefner, and Richard Pryor among many others. The message of the movie was the foolishness of war in general and racism in the armed services. The plot centered around American deep-sea divers in Japanese captivity after the fall of the Philippines. The first few minutes really were impressive, so here they are.
Drinking an extremely tart, dry, and unenjoyable Dogfish Head Festina Peche (Neo-Berliner wheat beer with peach juice). All the sugar fermented out. Not for me. From Milton, Delaware. Cheers! anyway.
LOB-8 EDIT, quote my governor, "Oops", LOB-9.
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Jul 7, 2012 8:56:49 GMT -5
Watched Tobe Hooper's classic The Texas Chainsaw massacre which is a great film. They got everything about this film right and the whole family, particuarly Gunnar Hansen does a great job portraying Leatherface. It's all so believeable and as in real life shows you the problems of using a chainsaw as a weapon as Leatherface learns. The ending is so awesome, that trucker stuns him and gets the hell out. That final shot with Leatherface erupting in rage during the summerset is creepy.
Then I watched Wes Craven's The Hills Have Eyes for the first time, I felt that this was a really good movie and liked the fact it was a whole bunch of crazies in the desert better than mutated monster hillbillies. Also don't mess with a German Shepard's mate, man that dog looked ferocious during that closeup of it charging that one guy. My dad's not really a horror fan ,but he always liked this one because it was plausible. The people playing the evil family do a great job and the ending with the man losing his shit was done really well, the fade to red and silence worked really well.
After that I watched John Carpenter's Halloween which is a great movie that helped start off the horror slasher. Now while I really like this one, I'll admit I actually thought Zombie's was better. I remember as a kid for the first time how scary that ending was, they knock him off the balcony with the whole cylinder was awesome and then showing he could be anywhere really got to me when I first watched it. I still think The Thing is Carpenter's best film though.
Finally I watched The Exorcist by William Friedkin for the first time. I'd seen bits and pieces ,but never the full thing and was glad to find that it deserves it's reputation. This movie does just about everything right and scared me quite a few times. Especially that one face near the end they show just once is the scariest of it all for me though. Even the ambiguity of that final shot that despite everything that's happened it could still be out there.
JAS-18
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Post by loverofbeers on Jul 7, 2012 18:39:03 GMT -5
In one sitting, you watched three of my all time favorite horror films (there still is An American Werewolf In London, The Thing, Night of the Living Dead, The Wicker Man, The Devil's Rejects, and The Shining on my list of what I consider the best).
I am so glad that you typed up my own thoughts on The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, you climbed in my head there.
And truth be told, The Exorcist is the only horror film I have trouble watching 'cause it scares me. And I'm a heathen atheist! Those faces are scary and Reagan doing the "spider walk" or stabbing herself with the cross, not to mention the head turning scene, hey even the noises in the attic, all these aspects get me. And Ellen Burstyn is the best actor/actress that I have ever seen. She sustained a life-long back injury filming The Exorcist, and she kicked my ass like nobody else has during the last fifteen minutes of Requiem for a Dream.
Sir, you are the man. You brought it today. I toast you with a newly opened can of PBR. Cheers!
Dog will hunt.....
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Jul 7, 2012 19:22:14 GMT -5
Yeah Friedken sounds like a mad genius with some of the techniques he used during the making of The Exorcist. See the crazy people in the desert has always kind of gotten me because I've had to deal with those kind of people before.
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Post by loverofbeers on Jul 7, 2012 21:30:21 GMT -5
Just watched one of my favorite comedies, Cheech and Chong's Up In Smoke (1978). And it has a cameo by Tom Skeritt. Fun freakin' times, I smiled over and over again.
LOB-10, First geeeaaar.....
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Post by loverofbeers on Jul 8, 2012 6:27:58 GMT -5
Somehow I was never able to get past the first few minutes of Blazing Saddles. Damn that was foolish. This movie made me snorck out loud, laugh, smile, and toast the screen. Mel Brooks, no kidding here, has balls the size of grapefruits for tackling what he did in this film.
I loved the cast. So many show stealers including Mel Brooks, Madeline Khan (at her absolute sexiest), Slim Pickens, the star Cleavon Little, and finally the show stealer of show stealers in this movie, Gene Wilder. I forgot how great he was at his prime.
If somebody had told me that this was Mel Brooks directing a Warner Brothers cartoon western-style, all Looney Tunes and Merry Melodies-like with a racy, progressive, and adult sense of humor, I would have seen this a long time before this very early morning.
Drank a Pabst Blue Ribbon (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) 24oz can while watching Up in Smoke. During Blazing Saddles I drank a beer brought from Blue Lake, California to me by a decade-long customer and friend, a barley-wine, vintage 2010, from The Mad River Brewing Co. Thanks Tim and it went down way too easily. Damned Barley-Wines!
Now Drinking a Lagunitas Lucky 13 Anniversary Alt. I love this brewery from Petaluma, California. This very special Cheers! is for Gilda Radner. Thank you for it all.
LOB-11
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Post by luditesupreme on Jul 8, 2012 6:59:13 GMT -5
the screen was written by richard pryor lob so that alone says something ; although i haven't seen it since i was young and don't remember it very well
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