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What MOVIE(s) have you been....seeing? watching?
Now, The Lair of the White Worm... I have a very vivid memory of watching a scene of this movie when I was 12 or 13. There is this guy who walks into the hall of a mansion, in broad daylight and suddenly this vampire rushes at him of nowhere. I got so freaked out by that scene, couldn't sleep for weeks. Like really traumatized. And I didn't know the name of the movie or anything else about it.
About 5-6 years later, I watched the whole movie without knowing that that scene was there, and it was really silly, but when that scene came up, I got freaked out again.
I watched it again in a few years, and it was just silly, but I still found that scene to be a big highlight. It is so simple and straightforward and has lots of energy to it.
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Oh yeah man, that is one of the legendary made-for-TV movies. I remember watching it when it first aired, I loved it! It has that great cut of a scythe coming down on somebody and then SPLAT - jelly on a plate. I love that movie, it's unusually effective horror for a TV movie, and I think it totally stands up with the horror cinema of the period.
I have never seen any Friday the 13th film. It's kind of a "thing" at this point that I haven't. I was flipping through the on demand service we have and they are all on there. I thought about watching the first one...but nope, then I'd break like 35 years of not seeing them.
Oddly, I went as Jason one year for Halloween.
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Oddly, I went as Jason one year for Halloween.
Odd, indeed. For some reason this just makes me very happy
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It doesn't concentrate on the human elements to the point where the monster fights are an after thought, the human elements are suitably cheesy and don't take themselves seriously. Its over the top, in what you'd expect from a kaiju flick.
As honest trailers described it: " its so dumb its awesome or its so awesome that its dumb".
I hate charlie hunnam though. He could have been dropped. But even then, his ham fisted performance follows a lot of tropes for the genre.
Pacific rim 'gets' it. I cant wait for the sequel.
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Tobey Maguire turns in the best performance of the film, and Dicaprio does a good job as well, but something about the movie is still a bit off.
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However, if you live in Atlanta, this movie takes on a whole new dimension. I knew every single location. I was rolling in the opening scene where hey rob a bank...and although the editing hides it, they really just go right around the corner to get away. Like, one block. They talk about and go to Bacchanalia, chef Annie Quatrano's masterpiece restaurant. They hit I-85 and I-20. They go up around Perimeter Mall. A lot of it is shot around the Fairlie-Poplar disctrict by Georgia State University. Local newsman Morris Diggs is in it. And Octane Coffee, we go there all the time! I had no idea they shot there!
It was all not quite as much fun as unexpectedly seeing the fabled Big Chicken in an obscure Italian zombie film shot in Atlanta, but I loved seeing my hometown represented and represented well.
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On the smaller screen I got to appreciate nuances of Hardys performance more as well, maybe cuz I wasn't as blown away by the visuals.
If I had to make a short list of top five movies that have to be experienced in a theatre, this would be on it
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Ancient_of_MuMu wrote: I just saw Blade Runner 2049. I don't understand the love this is getting as it is similar in quality to Tron: Legacy. I may even forget I saw it in a couple of years time.
I saw it yesterday and have the opposite reaction. I keep thinking about it, and different scenes and moments that were cool and meaningful, and I’m eager to see it again. May be the best completely unnecessary and unwarranted sequel ever.
I haven’t seen Tron: Legacy, though, so no basis for comparison there. But I suspect these two films don’t really belong in the same conversation.
Speaking of CGI shaming, though, Rogue One (and presumably Mountain Between Us) deserves even more of that kind of shaming after seeing what BR: 2049 accomplishes in one pivotal scene. Amazing.
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