[noisereductions]

love him. You know that. I have like everything he's done. That I can find anyway. Including tv movies etc.

[demonrail666]

Although none are outright favourites (besides maybe The Hills Have Eyes) I don't think I've ever seen a bad Craven movie either. I've seen bad movies by Carpenter, Romero, Cronenberg, etc, but never Craven (with the possible exception of Serpent and the Rainbow, which I do sort of think is pretty much indefinsible).

[tw2113]

is the pilot to Twin Peaks considered a movie given that it's quite long?

[TheDom]

Wild At Heart
& The Last Picture Show

wild at heart made me laugh so hard. leave it up to lynch to get a good performance out of cage (well at least in terms of cage standards)
last picture show i watched at school & it made me sad as fuck

[deflinus]

Originally Posted by tw2113

is the pilot to Twin Peaks considered a movie given that it's quite long?

i would say so. and a damn good movie. the way it ends scares the shit out of everyone

[TheDom]

& the way you guys talk about films (atsonic, demonrail, noisereductions & all the regulars in this thread) makes me want to quit my whole life & just watch movies all fucking day

[RdTv]

Theater: ''Tron Legacy''

Home: Rifftrax for ''Jurassic Park''

[demonrail666]

 

Body Double (8/10)

Atsonicpark has given me the De Palma bug so I gave this another watch. Loved it. Craig Wasson and Mellanie Griffith are both fantastic. I loved the whole day-to-day life of the actor thing, at the beginning (I love movies about movies) and Dennis Franz was great as the exploitation director. And what a brilliant soundtrack! Something I'd like to get if it was ever released. I could've probably done without the Frankie Goes to Hollywood interlude but it wasn't that big a deal.

I suppose the real problem with a film like this is gauging how enjoyable it would be for anyone who couldn't identify the various Hitchcock references. The same as trying to gauge how enjoyable Scream would be for anyone who'd never seen a slasher movie before. Personally I think both films do stand up in their own right but it's undeniable in the case of Body Double that knowing my Vertigo from my Rear Window did sort of help.

[deflinus]

Originally Posted by RdTv

Home: Rifftrax for ''Jurassic Park''

that specific rifftrax was hilarious. they should do more with weird al

[noisereductions]

demonrail, I'm gonna agree w/ Dr Eugene. Yr on fire.

[noisereductions]

Originally Posted by tw2113

is the pilot to Twin Peaks considered a movie given that it's quite long?

why watch this when you can just watch Sandwich Guy?

[Dr. Eugene Felikson]

 

A definite favorite of mine. Showed it to the gf, since she hadn't seen it yet. She loved it as well. This one is so eerie, and the use of shadow is excellent. Awesome framing in many of the shots too, oh an the brunette (Tanya Roberts?) is such a babe!

[noisereductions]

Tourist Trap is HILARIOUS!

[TheDom]

watched Pierrot le fou & all I can say is wow
I know I didn't even get half of it & I'm not even sure if I even like it yet but I can't stop thinking about it. Gonna wait a little & rewatch.

[Pelle]

Grown Ups.

Pretty OK, I like adam Sandler.

[atsonicpark]

joe:
please watch angst and last house on dead end street and night train to terror. They were made for you, basically.

Did you know JEEPERS CREEPERS 2 was made by the guy who made POWDER who also made CLOWNHOUSE who was a child molestor? he molested the kid from CLOWNHOUSE. the kids' family had CLOWNHOUSE's dvd recalled. DVD copies ended up going for $200. I think it's on dvd again for real.

TOURIST TRAP has a genuinely great atmosphere. One of the best, especially for a non-Italian-horror-film.

DEMONRAIL: Yeah, Craven isn't the worst director ever, I'm just not a big fan, and people like Tobe Hooper and Romero definitely are HORRIBLE directors, so Craven is way better than them definitely. Hooper never made a great film, CHAINSAW MASSACRE has a wonderful atmosphere at least and is quite good, the only one I'd reccomend (though LAST HOUSE ON DEAD END STREET is way better. JOE, PLEASE WATCH LAST HOUSE ON DEAD END STREET ASAP.)... but the rest of his output is horrid. I mean, wow. Romero? Ugh. I LOVE Dawn of the Dead. I quite like Martin and I think Bruiser is underrated. But I'm not a huge fan of the rest (Night of the Living Dead is beyond criticism, basically; but Day is boring, Land sucks, and Diary of the Dead is probably the worst mainstream horror movie ever made). Carpenter has made plenty of bad films (VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED?!) but he has made ESCAPE FROM L.A./New York and THEY LIVE, two of my favorite films ever. Can't forget BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA. Actually, now that I think about it, my favorite film by him is definitely IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS. if you want to see a GREAT, albeit quite strange horror film, see that one. What's a "bad" Cronenberg film you've seen? I love all his films. Aside from FAST COMPANY. I think you said you don't like RABID, right? I'm not huge into Cronenberg anymore, but his atmospheres are always incredible, DEAD ZONE and VIDEODROME and THE BROOD and STEREO and CRASH and NAKED LUNCH and the underrated (yeah, I think it's underrated) A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE... love him. <3

Glad you decided to DePalma it up. See BLOW OUT and DRESSED TO KILL next. I've give BLOW OUT a 10/10, DRESSED an 8/10. PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE is probably his most brilliant film, though. BODY DOUBLE is his least popular film, probably, next to any he did about Mars or Wars (see what I did there?). I hadn't seen much Hitchcock when I saw it the first time. Now that I've seen some Hitchcock, I think the references are brilliant and hilarious, not distracting. I love the dVD I got of BODY DOUBLE at Big Lots - $3, and on the inside, it had a story about the movie being really really unpopular. Melanie Griffith is GREAT in this movie .

Why did that one chick throw her panties away?!

tw2113:
TWIN PEAKS pilot is a movie. You know why? Because I used to own the TWIN PEAKS pilot vhs! Which was presented as a 90 minute movie. BTW, has anyone seen this vhs version versus the gold box version? they changed the music, completely! The original version didn't have all the badalamenti stuff, it's almost like they have "filler" music for a lot of the scenes. The music was COMPLETELY different -- it had LOTS of flanger, lots of phasing, lots of drone.

The pilot is a movie just like FIRE WALK is a movie. In fact, the pilot is a movie, if simply because it wasn't on the original DVD because someone owned the movie rights to Mark Frost's Tiwn Peaks movie.

THEDOM:
And so, your obsession starts. Wow, man, it's so weird, how you felt about Pierrot is how I felt. I didn't know if I "got" it all but it haunted me for a while. Now I definitely "get" everything -- it's a pretty easy film to understand/follow once you see it a few times, there's just a LOT to take in. It's basically just aseries of self-referential vignettes. It was kinda like EVERYTHING Godard had done up to this point, and kindaa hinted at what he was about to do.

[atsonicpark]

 

gods of the plague - 8/10

 

underground - 4 stars, apparently.

[Dr. Eugene Felikson]

I'm on it, Cooley. And yeah, I knew about the Clownhouse guy.

Oh, and to TheDom...

You should definitely check out Alphaville. I'm still working my way through his massive filmography, but it's my favorite of what I've seen.

[demonrail666]

 

Collateral (7/10)

On a purely technical level I can barely find fault with Michael Mann's directing here. None of Miami Vice's pointless plot diversions or the occasional sags found in Heat. Jamie Foxx is also (predictably) perfect. The obvious problem (equally predictably) is Tom Cruise (who I've made no secret in the past of really liking). He just doesn't work here, at all. The film needed someone weightier, less boyish - weird for a guy approaching middle age. It's maybe not so much a problem with Cruise so much as the current crop of eligible Hollywood actors. It's lacking someone like a James Caan (whose performance in Thief would've been perfect for a film like Collateral). The only person available right now who I think would've pulled it off is Daniel Craig, but he's now too tied up with the whole Bond thing, I guess. As it stands, Cruise does OK, atleast until the film's climax on the train, when he seems to transform into a kind of midget T-1000.

As an aside, can I be the only one who thinks the people behind Bond have really missed a trick in not recruiting Michael Mann for one of their pictures? He's absolutely perfect for the franchise, especially with Craig currently in the Bond role.

Originally Posted by Dr. Eugene Felikson

oh an the brunette (Tanya Roberts?) is such a babe!

Tanya Roberts is great. The B-movie Marilyn Monroe. Easily beautiful enough for the A-list it just never seemed to happen for her. Her filmography is quite depressing; made up largely of straight to video erotic thrillers, low budget horrors, sub Conan fantasy stuff and some tv sitcom slots. She was briefly a Bond girl but that's about as big as she got. It'd be nice to see someone like Tarantino recruit her for something, so he can do for her what he did for say Pam Grier.

 

[noisereductions]

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to demonrail666 again.