Comments that which don't warrant a thread

[Nighthawk 0]

This is partially to do with Halloween 2007, but I'm going to mostly talk about other slashers, so it's better in here.

 

I think I'm beginning to see one of the discrepancies between the "loved it" and "hated it" group. You either want to see movie slashers humanized or not. Personally, I always thought "The Shape? That guy butchered his sister when he was a kid. That's not a shape, or unflinching evil, that's someone with deep psychological issues. Let's talk about that."

 

Jason Voorhees makes a lot of sense, too, especially when you consider all 11 movies. Ok, so people picked on him at camp because he was retarded and deformed, and the only one who gave a shit was his mother, so when he sees her get killed, he's just over the edge, kill forever. Pamela Voorhees makes sense too, what with the whole allowing her son to be killed. This is the series where "You fuck: you die." makes the most sense. The character who is most interesting is Tommy Jarvis. From the end of Friday the 13th 4, him becoming the new Jason is an interesting idea. That's where they wanted to go, but the audience shat on it, so they didn't. A remake shouldn't happen, but when it does, they should focus on Tommy Jarvis.

 

Freddy was the bastard son of a hundred maniacs, so that's a good story.

 

Leatherface is the best, because he is basically just this psychotic Baby Huey. Like, him in the original movie, his motivation is basically "Why are these people here? Why are these strangers I don't understand in my world, and what are they doing?" He's pretty much scared. He kills because he honestly doesn't know any better. That's one of the things that sucked about the remake, they gave him motivation. Michael Myers always had that, but Leatherface didn't. That's just who he is, it's all he's ever known.

 

If you want a genuine, unflinching psychopath who is crazy for no reason except that it's fun and he can't stop himself, that's Patrick Bateman. He is pure evil. Hannibal Lecter is sort of like that too, if you ignore all the crap Thomas Harris put out to make money. Bateman is obviously sicker than Lecter, though.

 

Watch the movie Fun sometime. It's about two teenage girls, and they are one of each. It was a good five years before Columbine, but echoes it quite a lot. Eric Harris was a psychotic madman (madkid?), and the other guy just sort of tagged along.

 

I don't think pure, remorseless evil for no reason exists in real life. Dig deep enough, there's always a reason.

[justsoyouknow 0]

Patrick Bateman is an amazing killer. The part in the book where he kills the hobo had my mouth open.

[King Kamala 0]

The Wire Season Four is coming out on DVD on December 4th for a reduced price of $60 (Still way too damn expensive but slightly less damn expensive than usual). And Season Five premieres on January 6th.

[Black Lushus 0]

That's HBO for you, overpricing their shit. Guess they have to make up for those high production costs somehow. Can't wait for season 5!

[King Kamala 0]

Yeah I guess. Last year around the holiday season, Best Buy had all three seasons of The Wire on sale in a package for $120. While $40 isn't very cheap for an average show, it's about half the usual price of The Wire. Should have picked that up. Hopefully, they'll have a similar deal this holiday season. Need to have this show on DVD but for $60-$80 a set...no thanks.

[Epic Reine 0]

IMDB confirmed today that Jenna Fischer (Pam from The Office) is officially single again. Any stunning bachelors?

[Karnage 0]

I just watched Kickin It' Old Skool on DVD and the deleted scenes had Roddy Piper reciting his bubble gum line to Jamie Kennedy's character in a nightclub. The scene also had Erik Estrada, John Ratzenburger and Emmanuel Lewis too.

[Nighthawk 0]

I saw the latest Harry Potter movie the other day. I'm sure there was a thread about it, but it's been out a long time, and I don't know where it is, so I'll just say here that it was really good.

 

The reason I waited so long was that I couldn't find anybody to go with me. I do know some people who would have, but I could never get the scheduling right, so finally I was like "This has to be the last week it's going to be showing. Fuck it, I'll go by myself." Which I did. And I was glad I did. (When I'm alone, it's ok to cry.)

 

You know what my complaint is? Same problem I had with the casting of Hermione has been repeated with the casting of Luna Lovegood. The girls are too pretty. Hermione is written as plain and Luna as weird looking, but they're just pretty little girls. And Cho Chang, who is written as beautiful, is just some random ass Asian chick. What the fuck? Dudley is growing up to look like Nick Frost. I was very impressed with Helena Bonham Carter, and continually so with Ralph Fienness. The set design was also jaw dropping. Good flick.

[MarvinisaLunatic 0]

I got a kick out of these screencaps of the Russian version of Married With Children

 

 

 

Article on the "new" hit show in Russia

[MrRant 0]

I'm not sure how to feel about that.

[Black Lushus 0]

Kellinski looks pretty good...I'd probably hose Peggyovich if I were drunk.

[Corey_Lazarus 0]

Milky, I saw The Host. It reminded me a lot of why I dislike most "progressive" rock/metal: just when it starts hitting a stride, it decides to change its pace and style. I'm not asking for a simple monster movie, because outside of a handful of Godzilla flicks I can't stand simple monster flicks. But I am asking for some common sense, and the movie wasn't sure if it wanted to be a comedy, a horror, a melodrama, or an action flick. And unlike what we've received from other flicks across the ponds (Britain's Shaun of the Dead, which I think actually set the bar way too high for horror/comedy/etc. crossover flicks, for one), there was never enough of what was good before they changed the pace entirely. I was watching a weird film version of an Opeth album: there'd be a good lick to build something up, then a monstrous riff would come in, and then it would go in another direction altogether...only for the monstrous riff to return, and then change into some awkward jazz-like breakdown. Maybe not the best metaphor/simile/comparison, but it made sense in my head, and might make sense to you after a read or two.

 

I decided to grab DVDs of Carpenter's The Thing and In the Mouth of Madness not too long ago, trying to get all of his Apocalypse trilogy, but then I forgot what the other film was. I want to say that it was Escape From New York, but I'm not 100% sure. Either way, I need to make my girlfriend watch In the Mouth of Madness if she wants to see how a psychological horror is done 100% correctly.

 

Also, Bateman has a reason to kill. It's not a sympathetic reason, like Jason Voorhees or Leatherface, but it is a reason nonetheless: the world he lives in has drained him of all human emotion, made him into a caricature of himself, and in his struggle to fit in with the power elite he has lost his humanity, causing him to dig into further depths of sexual depravity and sadistic, murderous lust. He's the only 100% unsympathetic character Ellis has created, as even Clay (Less Than Zero), the trio of Sean, Paul, and Lauren (Rules of Attraction), Victor (Glamorama), and the fictional hyperbole of himself (Lunar Park) have emotional feelings. The only character close to Bateman in Ellis's universe is Bryan Metro, a rock star from a short story in The Informers. Then again, this doesn't warrant a post here, but I got onto an Ellis tangent.

[MarvinisaLunatic 0]

Time Magazines 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time (In Alphabetical, not numerical order)

 

24

60 Minutes

The Abbott and Costello Show

ABC's Wide World of Sports

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

All in the Family

An American Family

American Idol

Arrested Development

Battlestar Galactica

The Beavis and BUTT-Head Show

The Bob Newhart Show

Brideshead Revisited

Buffalo Bill

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

The Carol Burnett Show

The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite

A Charlie Brown Christmas

Cheers

The Cosby Show

The Daily Show

Dallas

The Day After

Deadwood

The Dick Van Dyke Show

Dragnet

The Ed Sullivan Show

The Ernie Kovacs Show

Felicity

Freaks and Geeks

The French Chef

Friends

General Hospital

The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show

Gilmore Girls

Gunsmoke

Hill Street Blues

Homicide: Life on the Street

The Honeymooners

I, Claudius

I Love Lucy

King of the Hill

The Larry Sanders Show

Late Night with David Letterman (NBC)

Leave It to Beaver

Lost

Married... With Children

Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman

The Mary Tyler Moore Show

M*A*S*H

The Monkees

Monty Python's Flying Circus

Moonlighting

MTV 1981-1992

My So-Called Life

Mystery Science Theater 3000

The Odd Couple

The Office [American]

The Office [british]

The Oprah Winfrey Show

Pee Wee's Playhouse

Playhouse 90

The Price Is Right

Prime Suspect

The Prisoner

The Real World

Rocky and His Friends

Roots

Roseanne

Sanford and Son

Saturday Night Live

Second City Television

See It Now

Seinfeld

Sesame Street

Sex and the City

The Shield

The Simpsons

The Singing Detective

Six Feet Under

Soap

The Sopranos

South Park

SpongeBob SquarePants

SportsCenter

Star Trek

St. Elsewhere

The Super Bowl (and the Ads)

Survivor

Taxi

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Twilight Zone

Twin Peaks

The West Wing

What's My Line?

WKRP in Cincinnati

The Wire

Wiseguy

The X-Files

Your Show of Shows

 

Uh..yeah.

 

I dont think MTV, the Super Bowl and Sportscenter belong on the list, and Im surprised that the original Law and Order didnt make it..but whatever..

[DrVenkman PhD 0]

I can't believe Corner Gas airs on American television as of today. That wacky WGN.

[Nighthawk 0]

I don't really see Bateman as a product of his environment so much as commentary on it. Bookwise at least, there's some evidence of him being born, not made.

[Epic Reine 0]

Mr. Woodcock looks god awful. Billy Bob is such a great dramatic actor (Sling Blade, A Simple Plan, The Man Who Wasn't There) but I guess the success of Bad Santa has gone to his head.

[King Kamala 0]

I really don't see how Mr. Woodcock is different than School for Scoundrels, looks like he's playing the exact same character except he's playing off of Seann William Scott instead of Jon Heder

[luke-o 0]

What no Heroes? Or That 70's Show?! Boo!!

 

On the plus side, The Twilight Zone made it on the list

[2GOLD 0]

 

Bruce Campbell has dropped out of the Bubba Ho-Tep sequel and the character is "dead to him" according to IMDB. Guess that is one less film on my list of films to see in the future. I traveled to NYC to see the first one at midnight so it's kinda disappointing to hear Don and Bruce couldn't see eye to eye.

 

Back to BURN NOTICE and whatever movie role Sam Raimi will give him for Bruce.

[King Kamala 0]

So they're still making it without Bruce? That's lame. The only person who they could cast to replace Bruce that wouldn't disappoint me would be Kurt Russell and I doubt anybody of his caliber would do a sequel to a semi-popular cult movie.

[Failed Bridge 0]

watched Flushed Away today and it was actually a real enjoyable movie.

[Obi Chris Kenobi 0]

Bruce Campbell has dropped out of the Bubba Ho-Tep sequel and the character is "dead to him" according to IMDB. Guess that is one less film on my list of films to see in the future. I traveled to NYC to see the first one at midnight so it's kinda disappointing to hear Don and Bruce couldn't see eye to eye.

 

Man, that's sad news. What's the story behind that? The First Movie was amazing on all levels, totally really unexpectedly good.

[Ravenbomb 0]

I wish Angel had made the list, but MST3K is the best show ever and it made the list, so it's all good I guess.

 

 

My school is showing a screening of The Seventh Seal tomorrow and I get in free since I'm a student. Hooray.

[2GOLD 0]

Bruce Campbell has dropped out of the Bubba Ho-Tep sequel and the character is "dead to him" according to IMDB. Guess that is one less film on my list of films to see in the future. I traveled to NYC to see the first one at midnight so it's kinda disappointing to hear Don and Bruce couldn't see eye to eye.

 

Man, that's sad news. What's the story behind that? The First Movie was amazing on all levels, totally really unexpectedly good.

 

Apparently there were creative differences between Don and Bruce that they just could not resolve. So Bruce dropped out of the film and moved on. That is all either side is really saying.

[Gary Floyd 0]

I saw "Dragon Wars" last night. It's not completely horrible, but it's still not good.

 

Oh yeah, three movies have been added to 2007 Horrorfest (which goes on Nov 9th-18th): "The Deaths of Ian Stone", "Nightmare Man", and "Mulberry Street" (which I've heard good things about)

[Nighthawk 0]

I saw Dragon Wars tonight, and I'm going to say it was completely horrible, but still a good time. I'll own the dvd.

 

I also experienced probably the absolute nerdiest moment of my life, in this one scene where they're in a restaurant and the guy says to the girl "Let's get outta here." or something like that, and I say "Let's go, Shoshanna!" as a Simpsons reference and my friend said exactly the same thing at exactly the same time, and we celebrated this by doing a two fingered high five and yelling "GO TEAM VENTURE!" Yeah, when that was over I decided I should probably jump in front of a truck as soon as I left the theater.

[Brocklock 0]

I just watched Black Sheep. It's not the Chris Farley movie, but a 2007 movie about mutated sheep that end up killing all the locals in Australia. It's comic gold since when the sheep bite the townspeople, they end up turning into half man/half sheep mutations. Plus, their are enough sheep fucking jokes to go around for the whole family.

 

This is a really goofy, yet fun as shit movie. Everyone should watch it stoned or drunk to complete the experience when it hits video soon.

 

Dragon Wars looks like it will be a fun movie to watch fucked up on something and make fun of with friends.

[BlackFlagg 0]

Just saw a commercial for Moonlight, there tag line apparently is "Only in LA can a vampire be a good guy." Gee, wonder where they got that idea?

[RedJed 0]

I got stoned off my gourd today and went to Dragon Wars. By god, I dont think I've had that much fun at a movie since Snakes on a Plane. Over the top effects (actually pretty well done) and one of the most craptasticly acted films I've seen in quite some time. But it all so over the top and ridiculous, I loved every minute of it. I ended up histerically laughing at the end even though I dont think that was the intention.

[Nighthawk 0]

I thought the ending was terrible. Where the hell was he? Outworld?

 

But on the plus side, Robert Forster blabbering on about god knows what.