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.....how... I don't understand.
I absolutely adored it :-). It's a movie that doesn't hand over answers to you on a big silver plate. It's like good literature. It takes a few more reads and a few more discussions to appreciate the deeper meaning of the film :-).
By the way, did anyone notice in the remake that Quaid was reading Casino Royale while travelling to work in the beginning?
Worth watching the original Conan, even if it is just for poleduris's incredible score!
One of my favourite soundtracks!
:) Yes, it was great. Still smiling just thinking about it, and already recommended it to friends who like weird and unusual stuff like that.
The Shadow (1994)
No matter how many times I watch this film, I still love adore it. When I say that this is my favourite comic book film, I say that without any sense of irony. It has a cast that bigger comic book films would kill for, a beautiful score (especially '<a href="
A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984)
I'm more of a Friday The 13th fan, but I tip my hat to Wes Craven for creating such a genius method for Freddy to get to his victims.
The Shadow is a very underrated film, @MajorDSmythe
I remember seeing it at my local when it first came out. I think I was the only one in the cinema!
Great cast. Alec Baldwin is very good in the film ably supported by the gorgeous Penelope Ann Miller.
Also has a great Jerry Goldsmith score and some clever SPFX.
Must of died a death at the box office!
Glad someone is sane enough to agree. Wasn t it The Spy Who Loved Me?
Overall, I found it to be a very enjoyable spy thriller with a small mixture of escapism. Still had a struggle in liking the new Douglas Quaid character, but the film is indeed by far superior to Arnold's version. Some even went to say it's closer to the source material than the 1990 film adaptation ever was.
I think we'd only recently seen Aliens on VHS and were both blown away by that and thought that TR paled in comparrison, also Verhoeven's previous film Robocop was far superior.
No knocking Goldsmiths score though, more memorable than the actual film, not seen the remake like the Robocop one but might have to check it out. I always though Recall was quite a great idea but I just don't buy Arnie in the role and for it to work you need someone who can convince and actually be able to act not just crack heads. The idea of it being a spy film sounds far more intriguing to me.
For the first time in a while the Wife and I stuck Frighteners in the Blu ray player, I have to say yes it's dated a little and Jackson's wicked edge has been blunted when it comes to Bad Taste and Brain Dead but this for me was the last time we saw the old Jackson on the screen.
Think Fox is really great here and Jake son of Gary Busey makes a suitable psycho nut case, also WETA's EFX are great for the time. The wacko FBI agent might push it too far as times but all in an entertaining 2 hours.
I'll take this over King Kong and those Hobbit films anyday of the week, still enjoy the LOTR trilogy but after that with the exception with elements of his flawed Lovely Bones adapatation PJ seems to have lost his soul to Hollywood not unlike Guilmero Del Toro.
I prefer the original due to the charisma of the stars, Goldsmith's incredible score, and the pulp 'B' picture aspect to the whole thing. When Quato comes out, Goldsmith is on fire. "Open youooooor miiiiind!"
I have never had anything against the series on the whole, but my loyalty lies in Crystal Lake. Best ANOES film? I would call it a draw between the original and New Nightmare, while the latter has the best Freddy. That redesign works for Freddy much better than what he looked like in previous films.
I believe that it flopped, though by how much i'm not sure. I read somewhere that while not a hit on theatrical release, the film earned it's money when it was released on video, to the point where a straight-to-video sequel was considered.
I've always enjoyed it myself, as much as one can a modern horror, and was actually surprised at how clever some of the story elements were, like the pills all the kids take to stay awake and away from Freddy. I also found myself caring more for the cast of characters than most horror line-ups I'd seen before.
It's getting a re-watch from me sometime during this Halloween season, although it's a period of time I give almost exclusively to Michael Myers.
*In a recent interview, within the last month or two, Hodder still wants to put the hockey on for one last time.
As I am sick of summer and gearing up for the Halloween season I thought I'd pop in this BBC version of the Stoker classic. Arguably the truest version of Dracula put on film- or video as the case is here in some scenes. Closer to the book than the Coppola version with a stronger cast for the most part. The biggest difference is that Dracula (Louis Jourdan) remains the same in appearance throughout. He looks like Kamal Khan with fangs. Jourdan gives an extremely understated performance with the authority of a calm father about to punish his child. A very suave, oily and creepy Count. Interestingly enough Christopher Lee had done a version under the same title by Jess Franco and was made up to look the way the character is described in the novel- white hair long mustache, dressed entirely in black, growing younger as the story progressed. Had Lee's Count from that film been featured here, this probably would be the most faithful version of the novel.
Sue Vanner plays one of the Count's brides.
I know Bogart for example did a monster movie of sorts where he was a scientist or something or other that seemed interesting, but for the life of me I don't remember the name of it. Why do I think it has an "X" in the title?
A vezry enjoyable movie all around. Probably even the best movie I've seen this summer (best movie I've seen this year was "Civil War", if you must know). Loved every bit of it, and so did the audience. Frankly, why this was slagged even before its release, I will never understand.
I love film history of horror cinema. Particularly from the 30s -70s.
I always liked the Universal monster films from the 30-40s. As far as fun compared to today's films, Bride of Frankenstein always holds up and has a great performance by Karloff as the Monster. Little known fact- the Jack Pierce make-up worn by Karloff, Lon Chaney, Bela Lugosi and Glenn Strange when they played the part in those films was actually "sky gray". Most film history books will describe it as variation of green, but those still living who saw it on the set all described it as a dull gray color. Glenn Strange noted that when the Abbott and Costello film was made, Universal was under different ownership and the color was changed to silver. There's rare color footage of Karloff- under the lights he kind of looks greenish but in fact was gray. Karloff is great. He's as much the definitive cinematic Frankenstein Monster as Connery is Bond. Easily. Same with Lugosi in Dracula. Dracula, though is more of an acquired taste in the sense once the location changes to London, the film is basically a filmed play. I love it, really. It's like seeing cinematic history- no effects, no fangs, just a rubber bat on a wire. Great sets and costumes, and iconic performances. By the later Lon Chaney and John Carradine Dracula interpretations the bat transformation effects were more impressive.
The Hammer Film Productions brought back these characters from the 50s through the 70s. Started their own franchise with Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy and so forth. Using Gothic sets, Technicolor and British cast members they reinvented these characters bringing their own twists. Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee became the baby boomer generation's top horror stars. I love those films- even the ones that aren't so great.
Vincent Price did some cool films in the 50s and 60s as well: House of Wax, House on Haunted Hill, are all fun. In 1968 he did an amazingly violent graphic film called The Witchfinder General, he hunts witches and tortures people. Pre Saint Ian Ogilvy is the young hero. It's also known as The Conqueror Worm.
Psycho and Night of The Living Dead hold up to today's films. So many movies since then have been influenced by those.
Oh you know, everyone had to get their wieners in a twist because it's a remake of an 'untouchable' movie.
I loved it too- it doesn't hold a candle to the original of course. And it's not as if they erased the old movies from existence (that honor goes to Terminator Genisys, lol)
I hope it gets a sequel-- I've heard many yes's and no's on whether that's still happening
I've yet to do that for horror films outside of the Halloween period, but I'll have to make time for it some day soon, if only to get more wise to the history of film in its many forms throughout those early decades.
We had the best time, it is my No 2 movie of this year after Civil War. It is that good.
I'll have to give it a watch when it gets on blu. Something to see with my nephews and niece when they come over.
Me, too. I'll focus a ton of noir or horror over a period of time. Summer of '99 I pretty much only brushed up on my noir-Mitchum, Richard Widmark, etc. I've been a fan of classic horror since I was a kid. I can pretty much watch noir, thrillers and monsters all year round, whereas westerns, for example I only seem to be in the mood for during the summer.