Comments that which don't warrant a thread

[bob_barron 0]

Dennis Hopper's been killing it this summer with Elegy and Hell Ride.

[HollywoodSpikeJenkins 0]

I saw Uncle Buck in theaters. Nothing out of the ordinary.

 

Thanks for killing my dream.

[RedJed 0]

Quite possibly the dumbest movie news I've heard in a long time....

 

** EVIL DEAD THE MUSICAL: Producer Don Carmody is in negotiations with Sam Raimi to adapt stage play EVIL DEAD THE MUSICAL into a 3D movie reports Screen Daily. Conceived by George Reinblatt, Christopher Bond, Frank Cipolla and Melissa Morris, the camp stage interpretation of Raimi's cult classic horror trilogy was originally mounted in Toronto and Montreal and has since gone off-Broadway. Bond and choreographer Hinton Battle will co-direct the 3D film version which they hope to shoot in Toronto next Spring with some of the original cast. At the moment however serious rights issues still need to be resolved. (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)

 

---No fucking way am I supporting anything Evil Dead without Campbell and Raimi involved. The 3-D spin sounds interesting, but it's still basically doing a remake to Evil Dead, only as a musical (are you fucking kidding me?). Talk about fucking ridiculous.

[King Kamala 0]

Evil Dead: The Musical had a successful Off-Broadway run about two years ago. I mean it's Evil Dead so its obviously tongue in cheek.

[RedJed 0]

Evil Dead: The Musical had a successful Off-Broadway run about two years ago. I mean it's Evil Dead so its obviously tongue in cheek.

 

That's fine and dandy, but that doesn't mean they should turn it into a feature film/remake/whatever the fuck they are thinking.

[King Kamala 0]

I don't know. I'd much rather have that than a straight up remake without Campbell or Raimi. And let's face it, neither one of them are going to have much involvement with a remake.

[Gary Floyd 0]

If you actually decide to rent "Postal", do it with the director's commentary on. I swear to God, Uwe Boll is certifiably insane.

[bob_barron 0]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080912/ap_en_mo/people_ebert

[USC Wuz Robbed! 0]

On tonight's episode of Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, they did a restaurant in Long Island, and of course, Long Island's own Mick Foley appeared for the grand re-opening.

 

edit: And he was completely unacknowledged by the show or Ramsay. The "star guest" was Dee Snider, and I guess Foley was portrayed as an ordinary friend of his who came to eat too. He was shown maybe three or four times, but never mentioned.

[Boner Kawanger 0]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080912/ap_en_mo/people_ebert

 

This guy, Siskel Ebert, seems pretty cool. That's like going to an auto convention and punching out Eddie Chrysler.

 

Before anyone points out that neither of these men exist, this is an inside joke for bob.

[King Kamala 0]

 

The Crash TV series trailer I mentioned earlier. Looks like it has the subtlety of a jackhammer.

 

Dennis Hopper still kills me in this. Why the hell is he doing a Starz original series?

[Ted the Poster 0]

On tonight's episode of Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, they did a restaurant in Long Island, and of course, Long Island's own Mick Foley appeared for the grand re-opening.

 

edit: And he was completely unacknowledged by the show or Ramsay. The "star guest" was Dee Snider, and I guess Foley was portrayed as an ordinary friend of his who came to eat too. He was shown maybe three or four times, but never mentioned.

Oh good, someone else noticed it. I thought I was going frigging crazy.

[Lil' Bitch 0]

The Crash TV series trailer I mentioned earlier. Looks like it has the subtlety of a jackhammer.

 

Ugh. That looks awful and this is coming from a bigtime Crash movie fan...

 

Reminds me of when they decided to make a series out of the movie, Dangerous Minds.

 

Dennis Hopper still kills me in this. Why the hell is he doing a Starz original series?

 

A.) He's a workaholic

 

B.) He needs the money

 

C.) To give the show credibility

 

D.) All of the above

[luke-o 0]

An Evil Dead Musical film would be good for a laugh. But a 3D movie? Thats just weird.

[Guest Tzar Lysergic]

The commentary for the Spinal Tap DVD is the funniest fucking thing in the world.

[Jingus 0]

"I think it's on Ebay!"

 

 

So, having just watched Blood Feast, can anyone tell me why some horror fans cherish the "cult classics" of Herschell Gordon Lewis? Yeah, it's gory stuff in an era when they didn't do gore. But aside from that, it's nearly Ed Wood bad in terms of acting, writing, directing, and everything else.

[Black Lushus 0]

Come on Jingles, no one watches horror for the acting and story!

[Jingus 0]

I do, when it's good. But it wasn't just the acting and the story: it was also the dialogue and the camerawork and the music and the sets and the continuity errors and the awful staging and the general incompetence all around. I don't mean like a Friday the 13th "not very good", I mean a Mystery Science Theater "UNBELIEVABLY FUCKING HORRIBLE".

 

What is the attraction of gore, anyway? I've never understood that. Some people don't give a shit if a movie is good or bad, they just want to see wall-to-wall blood and guts. Seems like an awfully grim and antisocial reason to watch movies.

[godthedog 0]

one could say the same thing about kids who watch old warner brothers cartoons. a big part of the fun is that it's not real. for that matter, what's the attraction of rollercoasters? do people who like rollercoasters like getting that feeling in the pit of their stomach like they're about to die because they secretly have an urge to die? an awfully grim and antisocial method of entertainment.

 

anyway: maybe it was because my expectations weren't too high, but i really enjoyed 'burn after reading'. definitely one of the coens' funnier movies, everybody in it is obviously having a lot of fun, and the humor is all based in the characters and layered ironies of the plot. it's exaggerated, but in an understated kind of way (like clooney's character's obsession with running, or how malkovich's character will never let go of the drink in his hand, even when there's an intruder in his house). maybe the funniest i've ever seen brad pitt, and that's saying a lot.

 

my only problem with it was that it had a rushed "who gives a shit" ending that lacked a real denouement. i know that was intentional, but still...it's a weird sensation to have the dark comic intricacies start piling up and gaining momentum, and then just to stop everything abruptly.

[Black Lushus 0]

What is the attraction of gore, anyway? I've never understood that. Some people don't give a shit if a movie is good or bad, they just want to see wall-to-wall blood and guts. Seems like an awfully grim and antisocial reason to watch movies.

 

 

I'm with you on this take...that's why i don't watch horror movies. Gore for the sake of gore does nothing to interest me. Now toss in a good actor, good plot, something that will genuinely give me a scare, then we can talk.

 

Look at a movie like Poltergiest...minimal gore, aside for the very poor effects of a guy tearing his own face off, but just good and scary all the way around.

[At Home 0]

What is the attraction of gore, anyway? I've never understood that. Some people don't give a shit if a movie is good or bad, they just want to see wall-to-wall blood and guts. Seems like an awfully grim and antisocial reason to watch movies.

 

 

I'm with you on this take...that's why i don't watch horror movies. Gore for the sake of gore does nothing to interest me. Now toss in a good actor, good plot, something that will genuinely give me a scare, then we can talk.

 

faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaag

[Black Lushus 0]

oh?

[At Home 0]

Nah, I'm kidding. I don't like gore for gore's sake movies either, unless it's just humorous. Like Evil Dead.

[Ravenbomb 0]

A lot of people I know who watch horror movies for gore are the same people who complain about big hollywood blockbusters being all about special effects. What the fuck do they think gore is?

[Black Lushus 0]

Nah, I'm kidding. I don't like gore for gore's sake movies either, unless it's just humorous. Like Evil Dead.

 

oh the Evil Deads certainly get a pass.

 

There was another one that got amusement out of me...Dead Alive I think it was called? I had only seen it once.

[Jingus 0]

I don't mind it when there's some kind of point to it. There are movies which would probably be worse if you took out the gore. Stuff as base as Dead-Alive and noble as Schindler's List come to mind. But I've never understood the appeal of gore when it's just there with no purpose to it. While I think it's bad for a filmmaker to run away from depicting violent content as being, y'know, violent, I think it's also easy to go too far the other way and just throw around karo syrup because it's a horror movie and that's what people expect. To me, the stuff generally tends to look unpleasant if not downright nauseating, so I much prefer there actually being a point to it being there rather than just being thrown in because that's what creepy convention-haunting fanboys demand for their buck.

[Black Lushus 0]

I have to sorta take that back actually...if it's Freddy or Jason, I'm all for it! Though, that can probably pass as humorous stuff like Evil Dead, maybe?

[Jingus 0]

Yeah, used for comedy is one possible way. Though it can certainly misfire and be not funny at all. To me, this gets me thinking of Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, which was almost like a perfect storm of all the negative fads in the current horror movie. Now there's a "horror" movie which is not even the tiniest bit scary, and worse, it doesn't even seem to be trying to scare you. It's just a repetitive series of scenes in which people get captured, mocked, tortured, maimed, and killed. It isn't remotely scary. It's too much a hollow exercise in empty-headed style to bear any resemblence to real-world violence, so they can't claim that they're holding a mirror up to life or anything like that. Calling the characters "cardboard" would probably be overly charitable, so it's not like there's any story arc or protagonists whose fates we care about. And the "humor" is so cruel and takes its lazy cheapshots at such easy targets that I never laughed once. But nevermind all that, cuz it's got GORE! Lots and lots of people being wounded and tied down and carved up with sharp objects and screaming over and over and over again before they finally get their "mercy killing". Yet there are probably lots of Fangoria types out there who really loved this movie cuz you got to see that one dude strapped down on the table with his arms sliced open the whole time. What's the point? Why do we need this shit?

[Gary Floyd 0]

Nah, I'm kidding. I don't like gore for gore's sake movies either, unless it's just humorous. Like Evil Dead.

 

oh the Evil Deads certainly get a pass.

 

There was another one that got amusement out of me...Dead Alive I think it was called? I had only seen it once.

 

"Re-Animator" and "Return of the Living Dead" deserve a pass as well.

[Black Lushus 0]

I have not seen Re-Animator.