What movie did you last watch? - Page 19

FenrisQueen · 12-04-2004, 10:00 PM

hmmm.... I know this is bordering on cliche, but I saw Gypsy 83, and actually liked, mostly cause it has like softcore straight and gay porn...both yummy... and after that I saw Edge of Seventeen, and I was like freaking crying I was laughing so hard, because i had no idea they were done by the same guy and set in the same town. Damn, I'm good. And Kett Turton was hot. He had the retro Robert Smith thing going on, and he was working it.Damn, I love a good gay role.

Hunter · 12-05-2004, 09:27 AM

Edward Scissorhands lol, what can I say, Johnny Depp is seriously sexy.

Jane13 · 12-05-2004, 10:56 AM

I think that was his best role, hunter, though he has a lot of good ones...

Anyway, I just saw "Blood Drive". Fangoria magazine had a contest for short horror films, and this is a dvd of the winners. I think it's worth taking a look.

Loy · 12-05-2004, 02:37 PM

A few I've watched/rewatched recently

"Big Trouble In Little China"-"Look, all I know is that I'm driving, and I drove over or through this LoPan guy, and he walks away like it's nothing!"

Fury-Most people think of Brian DePalma as being a great director because he was friends with the 70's Movie Brats (Scorcese, Spielberg, etc). However, this is wrong-DePalma's movies are crap, and don't believe anything else. However, this doesn't mean that all of his films aren't fun to watch ("Scarface", "The Untouchables"), or that there aren't moments of brilliance ("Sisters", "Dressed To Kill").....I'd never seen "The Fury" before, and am not sure what I think about a shirtless Kirk Douglas raging onscreen for most of a film, but I do know that DePalma's films aren't so bad when he's ripping off somebody other than Hitchcock. Plus, I think this is the only film with "Exploding Cassavetes", but I could be wrong.

"Dig"-A documentary about the rivalry between the Brian Jonestown Massacre and the Dandy Warhols. The doc shows the preening ego clashes, the backstage drama, and the cycle that any band has to go through. What the doc doesn't do, though, is convince me that neither band sucks (which, by the way, they do), and because of this little problem, I couldn't give a shit less about them...I think I just handed in my "hipster" card.

"Merchant Of Four Seasons"-Rainer Werner Fassbinder was one of the greatest directors ever. He made over 40 films (along with numerous stage plays, radio shorts, and TV shows...aside from the occasional acting gig in other peoples films) in a period of 13 years before they found his bloated, burnt out husk. Why don't you know his works? I don't know. All I can say is that it's your fault if you don't, since his stuff's been getting remastered and released on DVD on a fairly constant basis. "Merchants" is about a returning soldier whose return is unwelcome by his family. He tries to make a better life, but his lack of intellect, combined with his illusions of how life should be, conspire to prevent this from happening. Fassbinders films wouldn't exactly be confused with "happy", but his films, inside all the artifice (his films tend to be a weird alagm of Brecht and Sirk), contain a bitter truth that's stunning. And we're just as slack-jawed as the group who, at the end, just sit there and watch the protagonist (literally) drinks himself to death.

AlKilyu · 12-05-2004, 09:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Loy

A few I've watched/rewatched recently

"Big Trouble In Little China"-"Look, all I know is that I'm driving, and I drove over or through this LoPan guy, and he walks away like it's nothing!"

Loy...this is the greatest cinematic piece ever.

How do ya do ma'm? Henry Swanson's my name, and excitement's my game!

AlKilyu · 12-12-2004, 07:34 PM

Friday we (Manimal, EPS and I) watched Assault On Precinct 13. I liked it alot, I thought it was a great movie. The soundtrack, as is the case with most John Carpenter films, ruled.

Saturday night we watched The Thing.

*sigh*

I love that movie. One of the best horror movies ever. Pure genius. EPS got to see it for the first time, and like all of us, marveled at how great the special effects were before CGI. It's overused now and just makes your eyes roll. This flick, man...the gore and creatures in this should have won an Academy Award.

Hunter · 12-12-2004, 07:59 PM

Amelie, the soundtrack rocks in it's old fashionedness, the storyline's beautiful, it has just enough lack of reality to be curious, and it has Audrey Tautou to draw me away from the subtitles so that I have very little idea of what's being said.

drinnen · 12-12-2004, 08:56 PM

Liquid Sky -- Anne is perfect in both roles.

winged_dreams · 12-13-2004, 07:12 AM

I watched a movie called EasyRider, which is some crazy hippy movie with a depressing ending.

Deadhymn · 12-13-2004, 07:24 AM

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I watched a movie called EasyRider, which is some crazy hippy movie with a depressing ending.

hey, great job recognizing the meaning of the film there, winged_dreams. That was brilliant.

Deadhymn · 12-13-2004, 07:29 AM

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Friday we (Manimal, EPS and I) watched Assault On Precinct 13.

Yet another film in the "being-remade-but-shouldnt-be" lineup.

AlKilyu · 12-13-2004, 07:43 AM

We know...EPS was on the couch with a laptop and looked up who was going to be in what role. I myself think Gary Sinese should be Napoleon.

Deadhymn · 12-13-2004, 07:49 AM

from what i hear, they're leaving out the whole "chest exploding exit wound ice cream" scene, so who fucking knows what the writer came up with as a trigger for the rest of the film.

AlKilyu · 12-13-2004, 08:04 AM

Just looked it up for myself...looks like Ethan will play the role of the cop...Fishburne the 'Napoleon' character. It will be in Detroit, not L.A., and on New Years Eve during a snowstorm. Instead of "James Wood's little girl getting blown away" it will be Fishburne as a "mobster and cop killer" and the gang is replaced with bad cops trying to kill him so he can't testify against them.

All I have to say is "Do you have a smoke?"

12-13-2004, 09:50 AM

Cops assaulting a Police station?

good gawd man... that's thinner than Paul Walkers front wheel drive Eclipse running ten seconds in the 1/4 with street tires, a 16G turbo and Naawwwwwwzzzz!!!

Loy · 12-14-2004, 12:01 AM

Hmmmm.....a lot of complaining about remaking a film that was already a remake (I'm sorry...."reinterpretation") of another film.

That's right, "Assault On Precinct 13" is a reworking of Howard Hawks "Rio Bravo". No less than Carpenter himself has said so many times.

Now, here's one of those instances where the remake is better than the original because "Assault" has A-more violence, and B-less John Wayne. This automatically makes it the better of the two (however, having Ricky Nelson, Dean Martin, and Angie Dickinson does push "RB" up quite a few notches past "tolerable", and Walter Brennan pushes "RB" into "fucking cool" territory).

All in all, I'd suggest you guys checking out Howard Hawks' films. You'll not only see why he's so revered by a lot of film-makers out there (Carpenter, who also remade "The Thing", but he's also loved by all the 70's movie brats, the French New Wave directors, and many many more directors whose names would probably bring about a lot of blank stares), but you'll also see a lot of really really cool films (and in almost every genre out there, from the gangster "Scarface", to the screwball "Bringin Up Baby" and "His Girl Friday", to the sci-fi "Thing From Another World" to the noir "The Big Sleep" to the epic "Land Of Pharoes" to the western "El Dorado"...god, I could just go on and on...)

AlKilyu · 12-14-2004, 08:05 AM

Oh I know it's a remake of Rio Bravo.

"Thing From Another World" (remade into "The Thing") strayed from the original "whodunnit" novel, so I prefere the remake. Besides, Matt Dillon (James Arnez) is a monster? Do you think Ms. Kitty would bang a radioactive monster? I think not!

Walter Brennan rocks btw. He's how hardcore I am; I have a couple of his recordings. Couldn't really sing, you could say he was one of the pioneers of rap. Just listen to "Old Rivers" sometime...

Deadhymn · 12-14-2004, 09:31 AM

the only reason im complaining is because Horror (not that precinct is truly horror..) movies these days are ALL remakes. TCM, Dawn of the Dead, Toolbox Murders, Amityville Horror, just announced Evil Dead is to be remade as well. What im pissed about is, there are a lot of really good stories out there in novels or from writers that are getting turned down, that would make awesome ORIGINAL movies. Steve Niles save us all....

AlKilyu · 12-14-2004, 09:56 AM

Well in the cases of DotD, TCM, and even Toolbox Murders (how have you seen that already?) they are different enough to be original. Heh...when they remade Psycho they did it shot-for-shot. Wow that blew.

I put no faith in the Evil Dead remake rumours. At least I hope not...

Deadhymn · 12-14-2004, 10:00 AM

Doubt not the words of Raimi himself....

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0434020/

AlKilyu · 12-14-2004, 10:23 AM

Trust not imdb.com.

Not saying they aren't thinking about it, but I think the fan backlash, as well as being distracted by all the other projects might kibosh this.

Loy · 12-15-2004, 03:41 AM

Al-haven't heard any of Brenanns fine warbling, but I own William Shatner's cover of "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds"...my friend uses it whenever he wants to clear the club out (well, that or Buddy Holley, since most goths don't understand the genius of Buddy Holley, and by most goths I mean the ones that go to clubs and make you feel like you're in the middle of a peyoted-up x-treme "Blind Date" episode while also trying not to look THAT desperate after being turned down 20 times that night, which is about 98% of the scene here).

And fear not about the "ED" remake....I've checked a few sources, and it's just a rumor. (And certain people have said "no way" as far as being involved)

Deadhymn-ummm, almost every movie being pumped out nowadays is a remake....hell, Tarantino's made a career out of ripping off other films, and I don't hear anybody bitching about it. If you can name me one original Hollywood film not made by Wes Anderson, Charles Burnett, Nancy Savoca, or Martin Scorcese, please let me know.

Deadhymn · 12-15-2004, 08:53 AM

Loy - Can you please tell me what Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure is a remake of? I know I know...The Time Machine right?

If you choose to look at every film as a remake, thats your decision. Seems kind of like a loose argument to me though. Sure you can stretch it out and say that Fight Club is a remake of Drop Dead Fred (both had imaginary friends...) but do you really have to? Sure there are no more original ideas. And the word remake is certainly open to interpretation, since the english language somehow became pliable to fit any given situation (Clinton), BUT influences are one thing. Remakes are another. I can name a SHITLOAD of movies that arent remakes. But I cant name a SINGLE film, even by Scorsese, that doesnt show its influences.

AlKilyu · 12-15-2004, 09:23 AM

deadhymn...not everyone has seen that movie...heh you might wanna edit that and use another example...

Deadhymn · 12-15-2004, 09:36 AM

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deadhymn...not everyone has seen that movie...heh you might wanna edit that and use another example...

Im hoping it will spark curiosity, so that others may revel in its glory.

Up next on the remake schedule...The Fog, The Blob, House on Sorority Row, House of Wax, Amityville Horror and Mutant.