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Going to see Killing Joke at 10 tonight. Seems very much like a love it or hate it film.
Halloween was the highest grossing independent film of all time up until The Empire Strikes Back in 1980. It was one of the first instances of a 'sleeper hit'. The film was critically panned until it got a glowing review from Roger Ebert and it became an overnight success. I watched a documentary about it. I know that Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street were also important for the Genre, but Halloween got the ball rolling.
Don't get me wrong, i'm not disputing it as a good horror film, I just don't believe that it was the one that started the craze. Halloween, is more of a horror thriller hybrid, with plenty of stalking from the shadows. Friday The 13th more or less forgoes the stalking, and goes straight for racking up a body count.
Is that even technically a slasher film? Hard to say.
By doing the split the filmmakers were able to give breathing room to an epic conclusion of a novel on screen, and boy do they. It's something else to see all the kids from Philosophers's Stone onward all grown up and fighting by Harry's side. You've got a final battle coming that'll dazzle you, and every single revelation you've been dying to have wrapped up for you, including what is going on with Snape, will be answered and then some! Hold on to your seat, as you might fall off during this final ride!
1) Afraid I'm only going for Carpenter's theatrical ones this time. I won't be watching Someone's Watching Me this time and that sounded weird when saying it out loud. :)
2) The Killing Joke sounds like a very polarising movie. I wonder how I'm going to respond to it...
3) I have read essays, books and more on the subject of slasher films and to be honest, Halloween is never not a massive part of the whole thing. Psycho, Texas Chain Saw, Black Christmas, ... all get mentioned, but Halloween is considered the first big one in nearly all documentaries etcetera as well. Hell, even the biggest slasher essay of them all, Kevin Williamson's Scream script, included too many Halloween references to be merely incidental. I too, however, believe that F13 displays more of the features commonly expected from a slasher film. I also think that many of the Halloween sequels, from number 4 onwards, were working from the F13 template and not the other way around. But I guess it's one of those discussions of DN being the first Bond film or GF being the first 'true-to-formula' Bond film. I'm a DN kinda guy myself and I guess I'm also in favour of giving Halloween the extra honour of being the godfather of all slashers, if not the first true slasher itself. Like Caesar wasn't the first emperor of Rome but Augustus wouldn't have been either if it hadn't been for Caesar. And some say Tiberius was the first true emperor. Semantics, nothing more. :)
4) Harry Potter won't release me from his grip so I'll be going through DH 1 and 2 in one long viewing I reckon. At least the nice little boxset with all 8 films in it is an indulgence most fans didn't have back in the theatrical days of Potter. I won't have to wait a full year, ha! :D
5) Texas Chain Saw is, if we're to believe Hooper himself, one of the most misunderstood films of all time. We tend to think of it as a gruesome horror film, he wants us to see it as a comedy on the one hand and a satire of Americans and their blind meat consumption on the other. Anyway, masked killer, check. Final girl, check. Silly kids making poor decisions, check. Yeah, it's halfway into slasher land. But not quiet. I truly think this film is much more a product of that nihilist horror output that began with Night Of The Living Dead and also spawned The Last House On The Left and others. Slashers are like candy but then soaked in blood. TCM, at least IMO, is a hard R five course meal, served by anti-vietnam war guys with a message. Halloween is a stalker film, Carpenter's artistic attempt at an urban Suspiria. F13 is the ultimate date movie for tweens in 1980. Three completely different films IMO, but still branches of the same tree.
6) I won't be covering the other Halloween films (except for 2) in this Carpenter retrospective. He co-wrote the sequel and only produced Season Of The Witch and that's about it, no matter how in love I was at age 10 with Danielle Harris (and still am with grown-up Danielle Harris.)
7) I love Halloween much more than I love Halloween 2. The sequel has its merits, but barely does anything with Laurie and makes weird decisions overall. With the killer still on the loose and his major target in the hospital, how come there's barely any staff, no cops and hardly even any lights on in that hospital? Horny nurse in hot tub? Yeah, I like that moment too. And when the pounding score kicks into NA - NANA - NA - NANA when Michael begins his final slow march towards Laurie, crawling on the floor, I'm never not super excited. But I still prefer the build-up of the original, the flawless mood setting, the acting, ...
...I loved it. Absolutely loved it. The Batgirl prologue wasn't amazing, but I enjoyed what I got; I'm glad we got to see more of Barbara as a person. The actual adaptation of the comic was pretty much perfect for me. This is definitely top tier Batman in my rankings. The story I've loved for years finally brought to film. The whole voice cast was terrific - particularly Hamill. Maybe his best Joker performance ever. Conroy, Strong, and Wise were also amazing as Bats, Babs, and Jim. What a movie. I'm proud to say I'm in the camp that loved it.
It was okay, nothing really special. Pierce was really good in it, not to mention pretty badass.
I am honestly surprised by the negativity. I really was impressed. The creative choices didn't bug me; it's a one-off Batman story, after all.
I'm glad you liked it!
In fact I only watched it because of the discussions on here about it.
And on the evening, I watched "Il Compagno Don Camillo", the last movie of the series with Fernandel (the less said about the following one, the better, methinks). I've seen it a lot of times, but it's still as good as ever, even if it's (once again) not as good as the first two ones.
Standard slasher thriller, a little disappointing as The plot sounded very interesting.
Not a fantastic film or something that leaves you in an awe. But, it's a one-time enjoyment Luc Besson-style action thriller with some interesting ideas (that I liken to the television series Chuck a lot, but without the comedy and the humour. Just the opposite). Kevin Costner as usual proves just how brilliant of an actor he is. And the rest of the ensemble cast perform their own respective jobs excellently as well. I can't help but think that the main villain was an homage to Raoul Silva, however. From head to toe. All that's missing was the craziness.
@DaltonCraig007, if you haven't seen this film, you are going to enjoy the hell out of it.
I watched Open Range last night, as good I had remembered but.....I cried twice! interesting as I saw it on release 13 years ago and it had no effect but now I cried twice. Perhaps being a father changes you? It was a great illustration to me that movies don't change but the way you perceive them does.
The gunfight is superb but the ending a little sticky, I wondered if Costner or Duval should had died (perhaps by saving the other - underlining their friendship), leaving the other to rebuild their lives with Button as their new partner.
Either way, this movie is so overlooked, say the words Western and Costner and people say "Dances with Wolves" but Open Range is a truly great Western IMHO
A good film and shows Cruise as really cool bad ass.