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Post by Rorschach on Aug 11, 2009 21:30:37 GMT -5
So, I just made another blind buy. I believe it was Rorschach who was praising Feast earlier on in the thread, so I took a chance and ordered it. It certainly sounds like an interesting and highly unpredictable premise, so I look forward to its arrival. I haven't seen any of the series but from what I've heard, the first movie is good, the second movie is horrible and the third movie is better than the first. Let me know how it is and I might check it out too. That's a pretty accurate statement, but the third film...I'm not going to spoil a damn thing for anyone, but it has a DOOZY of a twist at the end that is either going to make you do a spit take, or piss you off to no end. All in all, though, I am glad they had the good sense to stop at three, and not drag the series needlessly on like SAW.
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Post by erisi236 on Aug 11, 2009 22:35:38 GMT -5
I liked Feast 2 much more then 3 which was basically Feast 2.5 given it's length and plot. 2 certainly went for the massive amounts of fluids Troma Films approach, but it still worked. Had some great violence and boobage as well.
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Post by Rorschach on Aug 12, 2009 0:15:15 GMT -5
I liked Feast 2 much more then 3 which was basically Feast 2.5 given it's length and plot. 2 certainly went for the massive amounts of fluids Troma Films approach, but it still worked. Had some great violence and boobage as well. That is true enough, but 2 is enough of a departure from 1 where I could see someone who liked part 1 hating 2. My personal take was that they just got better as they went on. I thought that 2 built upon the groundwork of 1 while amping things up to, you are right, a very TROMA like level. 3 really is basically the end of 2, stretched to feature length. The only real knock I could give the series is that as it goes on, and the more you see of the creatures, the more fake they look. But to me, since I love TROMA and their incredibly fake creatures, it wasn't such a bad thing. I overlooked it, since I was so in awe of the crap going down on screen.
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Post by mysterydriver on Aug 12, 2009 0:36:58 GMT -5
FD bothers me because they're giving away ALL the damn kills in the trailers for it! JEEMINY CROW....at this rate, I'll have seen the damn movie twice before it even comes out. Normally, giving things away in the trailers IS a pet peeve of mine, but this is even WORSE in this case, since a lot of the appeal of the FD films is how the kills take you by surprise. I thought the same thing. They seem to be saying "Look at this...just imagine how awesome it'll be in 3-D!" Giving away some plot to sell the visual aspect, I suppose...but I completely agree that they're getting ridiculous with it. 3-D isn't that enticing to me and I basically know what's happening now. While I feel it's mostly that, I think it is a reference to Ghost of Frankenstein as well... At 2:20 Of course, I could be wrong. But, it's either a coincidence or a reference.
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Post by andrew8798 on Aug 12, 2009 15:51:37 GMT -5
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Post by The QC Loser on Aug 12, 2009 16:13:48 GMT -5
FD bothers me because they're giving away ALL the damn kills in the trailers for it! JEEMINY CROW....at this rate, I'll have seen the damn movie twice before it even comes out. Normally, giving things away in the trailers IS a pet peeve of mine, but this is even WORSE in this case, since a lot of the appeal of the FD films is how the kills take you by surprise. I thought the same thing. They seem to be saying "Look at this...just imagine how awesome it'll be in 3-D!" Giving away some plot to sell the visual aspect, I suppose...but I completely agree that they're getting ridiculous with it. 3-D isn't that enticing to me and I basically know what's happening now. While I feel it's mostly that, I think it is a reference to Ghost of Frankenstein as well... At 2:20 Of course, I could be wrong. But, it's either a coincidence or a reference. For the FD deaths, isn't that one of the things the movies always do is have the person going to die one way only to have them barely escape it only to die another way right away or later? I figured they were showing all the "close calls" in the trailer.
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Post by erisi236 on Aug 12, 2009 16:41:54 GMT -5
I liked Feast 2 much more then 3 which was basically Feast 2.5 given it's length and plot. 2 certainly went for the massive amounts of fluids Troma Films approach, but it still worked. Had some great violence and boobage as well. That is true enough, but 2 is enough of a departure from 1 where I could see someone who liked part 1 hating 2. My personal take was that they just got better as they went on. I thought that 2 built upon the groundwork of 1 while amping things up to, you are right, a very TROMA like level. 3 really is basically the end of 2, stretched to feature length. The only real knock I could give the series is that as it goes on, and the more you see of the creatures, the more fake they look. But to me, since I love TROMA and their incredibly fake creatures, it wasn't such a bad thing. I overlooked it, since I was so in awe of the crap going down on screen. I'll also add that the "this is how you save a life" baby scene in part 2 is one of the most amazing, sickening, outrageous, funny, terrible ect ect thing I've seen in quite some time. 2 and 3 both certainly stray away a bit from the 1st one in that the 1st one seemed about 70% serious 30% comedy, while 2 and 3 went the reverse.
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Post by andrew8798 on Aug 12, 2009 17:43:44 GMT -5
Update on the Motel Hell Remake
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Post by andrew8798 on Aug 12, 2009 19:11:31 GMT -5
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Post by andrew8798 on Aug 12, 2009 19:16:13 GMT -5
Update on The Legend Of Boggy Creek Remake
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Post by andrew8798 on Aug 12, 2009 20:07:40 GMT -5
You know I forgot there was a Poltergeist Remake in the works
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Post by thump on Aug 12, 2009 20:28:04 GMT -5
Been gone forever... You know, I missed a few weeks and then the idea of catching up on all the posts became too daunting. I kept putting it off until I had time to read most of them. Well, that's never going to happen. I apologize if I repeat anything I missed in the last thread.
Anyway, I'll pipe in on Cemetery Man. At one point it was my favorite movie ever. I don't hold it in such high regard now, but I still love it (in fact, I don't think there's been a better Italian horror movie since). It was the only great Italian horror movie I got to see when it was a new release and still a big deal (Fango thought it was going to catch on more, too).
Manuel De Sica's score is my favorite part. What a fantastic job he did. Film geeks might remember his father directed The Bicycle Thief and Umberto D among others.
Great to see you guys still going at it. Hopefully life doesn't get in my way so much in the future!
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Post by GuyOfOwnage on Aug 12, 2009 21:25:54 GMT -5
Been gone forever... You know, I missed a few weeks and then the idea of catching up on all the posts became too daunting. I kept putting it off until I had time to read most of them. Well, that's never going to happen. I apologize if I repeat anything I missed in the last thread. Anyway, I'll pipe in on Cemetery Man. At one point it was my favorite movie ever. I don't hold it in such high regard now, but I still love it (in fact, I don't think there's been a better Italian horror movie since). It was the only great Italian horror movie I got to see when it was a new release and still a big deal (Fango thought it was going to catch on more, too). Manuel De Sica's score is my favorite part. What a fantastic job he did. Film geeks might remember his father directed The Bicycle Thief and Umberto D among others. Great to see you guys still going at it. Hopefully life doesn't get in my way so much in the future! Glad to see you back. We thought you had vanished off the face of the earth.
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Post by Lick Ness Monster on Aug 12, 2009 22:48:01 GMT -5
Oy...remakes much? Motel Hell: The original movie was definitely one of those "lightning in a bottle" things. While technically not a very GOOD movie, per se, it was undeniably fun to watch because of the sheer nuttiness of Rory Calhoun and the whole lighthearted tone of the thing. If they just try to gore up this remake and make it more out and out "scary" I see colossal fail. Blair Witch: INSTANT collective the second a group of theater patrons sees this trailer. The backlash against the original movie was so severe that the flick has practically become a punchline since, and no matter what they spend on it, I don't foresee it getting its budget back. Poltergeist: Now, this one could actually work, at least for me (as Takashi Miike said, everybody in the audience is diferent). I've never really been a big fan of the original Poltergeist, mainly due to the fact that I didn't give a damn about any of the characters when they were placed in mortal danger. The fact that they had to satirize the "ex-hippies turned suburban" parents did little to endear them to me, and I just found the kids to be grating rather than cute. At any rate, there's loads of problems with the original movie that they could reasonably try to rectify and improve on with a remake, which should be the goal of any remake. Boggy Creek: Ah, go ahead. It's not like the original movie's a horror classic, or anything. All I know is Old Man Crenshaw better be involved. ;D Lastly, welcome back Thump. We actually had a conversation in the last thread about what happened to you.
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Post by DSR on Aug 13, 2009 0:41:31 GMT -5
Blair Witch: INSTANT collective the second a group of theater patrons sees this trailer. The backlash against the original movie was so severe that the flick has practically become a punchline since, and no matter what they spend on it, I don't foresee it getting its budget back. Boggy Creek: Ah, go ahead. It's not like the original movie's a horror classic, or anything. All I know is Old Man Crenshaw better be involved. ;D Yes, I'm with you on Blair Witch. That movie was a piece of s***, and I'm glad its mired in obscurity. Hopefully the sequel goes Direct-To-Betamax. And I only know Boggy Creek from the MST3K episode "Boggy Creek 2: The Legend Continues." And I recall that episode being particularly boring, despite Mike and the bots cracking jokes. Like you said, the "franchise" is no classic, so let's see them go nuts on this remake. Oh, and earlier today I finally finished Crystal Lake Memories. It's a fun book, and I like the bits about the production and the fans' response to the movies and stuff. But its funny how a bunch of the people involved with these flicks look (or looked) down on these "little horror movies" because they're actors or whatever and they want to be taken seriously. And its because of Friday the 13th that these people are remembered at all, y'know? I know horror cinema's always been looked down on by mainstream culture. But it's kinda funny (and a little upsetting) to see the people that made some films I really liked act as if the thing was beneath them. Granted, it wasn't all that big of a deal in the book, and they often talk of how grateful they are to have the fans that they have. I dunno... I would sorta kinda maybe like a definitive retrospective book dealy on A Nightmare on Elm Street, though.
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Post by Lick Ness Monster on Aug 13, 2009 10:09:33 GMT -5
Yes, I'm with you on Blair Witch. That movie was a piece of s***, and I'm glad its mired in obscurity. Hopefully the sequel goes Direct-To-Betamax. Oh, and earlier today I finally finished Crystal Lake Memories. It's a fun book, and I like the bits about the production and the fans' response to the movies and stuff. But its funny how a bunch of the people involved with these flicks look (or looked) down on these "little horror movies" because they're actors or whatever and they want to be taken seriously. And its because of Friday the 13th that these people are remembered at all, y'know? I know horror cinema's always been looked down on by mainstream culture. But it's kinda funny (and a little upsetting) to see the people that made some films I really liked act as if the thing was beneath them. Granted, it wasn't all that big of a deal in the book, and they often talk of how grateful they are to have the fans that they have. I dunno... I would sorta kinda maybe like a definitive retrospective book dealy on A Nightmare on Elm Street, though. I'll admit that I have a copy of Blair Witch sitting on my DVD shelf. And I'll also admit to being freaked out by it when it first came out (I was 16 at the time). And I'll ALSO admit to being extremely pumped up for the sequel, and extremely disappointed when it sucked harder than Monica Lewinsky (bad joke, I know). Heh, true story - I actually went through this whole " Blair Witch RULEZ" phase during my sophomore year of high school. I carried around the comic book, the official scrapbook and talked about the lore of the thing to any unfortunate soul who would listen, and generally, was an even bigger loser than I am now. ;D I look back on the movie now (and definitely the way I was then in my fandom) in a way that I believe the Twlight fangirls will look back on their own fictional universe that they are slavishly devoted to - just a really embarrassed "man, what was I thinking?" As for the book, I know I mentioned it somewhere else (a long time ago), but I thought the same thing while reading Cystal Lake Memories. Yes, it does get a little disheartening reading page after page of people who really have no business trashing the movies that gave them their fifteen minutes of fame in the first place, but on the other hand, it's kind of heartening (if that's even a word) when the more "name" people in the book (Crispin Glover, Kevin Bacon and Corey Feldman come to mind) actually praise the thing. If anything, Feldman comes across as the big-time acting cheerleader in the book - well, with the exception of Kane, of course.
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Post by Jiren on Aug 13, 2009 10:37:16 GMT -5
I still like Blair Witch project.
But on the Remake topic, It's just getting stupid now.
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Post by Lick Ness Monster on Aug 13, 2009 10:39:10 GMT -5
I'd also like to add, DSR, that the Curse of the Blair Witch mythology that comes with the DVD is actually WAY better (and creepier) than the movie itself.
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Post by Jiren on Aug 13, 2009 10:41:51 GMT -5
I'd also like to add, DSR, that the Curse of the Blair Witch mythology that comes with the DVD is actually WAY better (and creepier) than the movie itself. That's true. I love faux documentaries (Last Broadcast, Spinal Tap, Rise of Lesley Vernon)
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Post by DSR on Aug 13, 2009 15:00:07 GMT -5
I'd also like to add, DSR, that the Curse of the Blair Witch mythology that comes with the DVD is actually WAY better (and creepier) than the movie itself. Yeah, I remember watching Curse of the Blair Witch on Sci-Fi around the time the movie was coming out, and really digging it. Then I get to the theater and...nothing happens for 90 minutes. It was quite literally a complete waste of time. Supplemental stuff can be as awesome as the day is long, but ultimately the movie has to stand on its own. I'm not gonna buy a picture of a guy taking a dump just because I like the frame the picture came in, ya dig?
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