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Post by tap on Feb 27, 2010 21:08:46 GMT -5
www.digitalspy.com/tv/interviews/a205273/rob-zombie-csi-miami.htmlWhile I'm not keen on SMZ being cast in this (because all that does is give his detractors ammo, but I also grow tired of Kevin Smith and Tim Burton casting their wives also into so many projects as much as Zombie does), I hope RZ can show what he can do VISUALLY, because I've always thought he's been a good director, when it comes to creating interesting images and how those images relate to one another. Writing? No, he's not very good at that at all, and I can admit that. But I don't think he should be slagged off outright either. As for getting involved earlier in the creative process? Sure, why not, makes sense for the director to be involved in that capacity, but only if he focuses on crafting stories instead of hashing out the minutiae of the script.
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Post by theryno665 on Feb 27, 2010 22:12:43 GMT -5
So I just got done watching Thirst, the vampire movie from Oldboy director Park Chan-Wook, and I'm not 100% sure if I liked it. It's a good movie but it's really long; 2 hours and 15 minutes isn't too bad but I swear it feels longer. And I don't think it explores the vampire mythos as well as other movies but when it does, it does it well.
Basically, the story is centered around a priest who dies after submitting himself to an incurable disease in an effort to help the study and treatment of it. But his death doesn't last for long as he's inadvertently infused with vampiric blood which also helps fights off the disease, leading many to believe him as some sort of miracle worker due to the fact that he's the only one to ever "survive" the disease. When he's doing his rounds of blessing the sick who believe he can perform miracles on them, he runs into a childhood friend and ends up falling in love with his wife, who is stuck in an unhappy loveless marriage as they live with his mother. The priest has to deal with his carnal desires and his thirst for blood all under the shadow of his religion while the woman wishes to run off with him, away from her boring life.
Of course, things get out of hand...but it takes a long time for the movie to get there. I started to get pretty bored with it during the first hour, so I took a bit of a break, but when I came back the movie started to get really interesting again. If they had tidied up the first hour a bit, it might've worked a lot better. But if you can get past the first hour, it makes for a pretty good movie.
I can't really comment on it as a vampire movie as I'm not a huge fan of them. I wouldn't really consider it a horror movie but there's a few scenes of gore and violence that worked, even if sparingly used. If you're a Park Chan-Wook fan, I might suggest it but compared to the rest of his movies, the only one I can really put Thirst over is Lady Vengeance. That's not really a knock against Thirst though but a credit to the rest of his work.
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Post by mysterydriver on Feb 27, 2010 22:49:48 GMT -5
Okay...who is brave enough for this one?
The trailer alone has my head stuck in a Battlefield Earth-like tilt.
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Post by Lick Ness Monster on Feb 27, 2010 23:04:40 GMT -5
Once again, I'm way too tired to bore everyone to tears with a long review, so a few brief thoughts on Shutter Island (imo, it IS a horror film because it's primary directive is to scare the audience). Watching it was very similar to the experience I had when watching The Reaping. Like, almost word for word. It was SO GOOD for so long, but as DiCaprio unraveled the strange, eerie mystery of the Ashcroft mental institution and the web just kept getting more and more tangled, it became painfully obvious that there was really only one explanation that the screenwriter could give us for all of this randomness. And just like The Reaping, the final thirty minutes REALLY went off the tracks. It's a fallacy that a lot of movies with the "deep mystery/twist ending" formula have. The mysterious portions of the movie are fascinating, but once we know the big secret, we just feel cheated. A shame, too, as Leo is electric in it once again, and there's more than a few moments of gut-wrenching tension. It's also got one of the most effective musical scores of any movie I've seen in a long time, but that third act...man. ** 1/2 out of ****. Okay...who is brave enough for this one? The trailer alone has my head stuck in a Battlefield Earth-like tilt. Yeah, that's... I can't really muster up words for that one, mysterydriver.
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Post by Rorschach on Feb 28, 2010 4:56:43 GMT -5
Since others are posting reviews, I guess I'll get off my duff and throw one of my own in here, too. Carriers (2009) Directed by: Alex and David Pastor Starring: Chris Pine, Piper Perabo, Lou Taylor Pucci, and Emily Van Camp. Imagine you are in a world where a deadly disease has decimated mankind, and you and your small group of fellow travelers are essentially wandering the barren highways together, searching for other survivors and or a safe place to batten down and ride out the end of days. The rules are very simple...stay clean, stay healthy, and stay alive. You break them, you're DONE. Whatever this disease is, it doesn't screw around, and once you catch it, there IS no cure, and it doesn't take long for it to kill you. In the very good 2009 film Carriers , our intrepid group consists of college boy Danny (Pucci), his school friend Kate (Van Camp), his brother Brian (Chris Pine, showing excellent chops here,) and his brother's girlfriend Bobbi (Piper Perabo, turning in an excellent acting job herself in this film). We meet the foursome as they roll along the deserted highways of the Southwestern US, headed for what they hope is safe harbor on the Mexican coast. One of the first things you'll notice about Carriers is that for a post apocalyptic film, it really doesn't embrace the FALLOUT3 or MAD MAX type of apocalyptic wasteland scenario...no, in this film, rather than being overrun by mutants and raiders and such, everything is just....empty. Which strikes one as being totally fitting, and more than a little reminiscent of the equally excellent opening of 28 DAYS LATER, wherein Cillian Murphy awoke to a world where he seemed to be the last man alive. Such is the case for our core group, as they chat and banter with each other to cover their own unease at not seeing another living body within a thousand mile radius of them. One knock against the trailer for this film is that it makes Carriers look like a zombie, or monster movie. It's not. It's more akin to 28 DAYS LATER's opening bits or the opening bits of I AM LEGEND than anything else. The premise is not so much that of our heroes fighting off zombies or the infected....but of them being able to make hard choices and live by the rules they have set for themselves. Ah yes, the "Rules". See, Brian, the group's de facto leader, has formulated a plan to deal with any encounter with ANY other living human: stay a good distance back, cover up with mask and gloves, and carry spray bottles full of bleach and cans of Lysol with you to disinfect anything you might have to touch....not to mention a loaded handgun in case the person becomes "difficult". In other words, take NO chances under ANY circumstances. It's not long before these rules are put to the test, as the group runs into a man named Frank (Law and Order's Christopher Meloni, in a very understated and powerful turn in it's own right) and his young daughter who are stranded beside their SUV in the middle of the road. Here's where things get interesting, as this film starts to show us the layers and nuances to these main characters. Brian, ever the cold-hearted pragmatist, wants to either keep driving around the stalled SUV, or shoot Frank outright and raid his car, disinfecting and taking whatever supplies might be found therein. Danny has issues with this mercenary plan however, and would rather stop and listen to what Frank wants. All this is moot, however, as soon as Bobbi sees Frank's little daughter poke her head out of the back of the SUV. Bobbi DEMANDS that Brian stop and help Frank...and Brian almost does it before Kate (ever the eagle eye, and with what we find out is a heart as cold and tuned to survival as Brian's own) yells out that the little girl is infected and bleeding through her surgical mask. THAT seals things, and Brian roars around Frank and off the side of the road, badly damaging his car in the process and taking a nasty shot to the driver's side windshield from a pipe Frank was concealing up his sleeve. So we see that of the four, Brian (and Kate) seem to have the keener survival instincts, and Danny and Bobbi are the more soft hearted of the bunch. This dynamic amongst the group will shift and turn throughout Carriers runtime, leaving you truly wondering who WILL survive and what it will cost them to do so. This really is a wonderful and quietly stunning film that makes you do what so FEW horror movies do in this day and age: identify with, and actually honest to God sympathize with the main characters. Pine's Brian IS an asshole, and he IS brutally honest about his goals, but you come to realize that he is that way for a reason, and in this new post virus world, his "don't trust ANYONE" attitude and aggressive behavior might be what it takes to survive; Danny's intellect and medical skills and Kate's sharp eyes are assets, and Bobbi is like the mother of the group, the glue that holds it together. These four great young actors really do make you feel for them, and feel THROUGH them, effectively rendering such a believable family unit that when one of them DOES fall ill, it hits you with a jackhammer shot to the gut, and you really do sympathize and feel for the others in the group who have to go on without them. That's not to say that Carriers is perfect, because it is not; it has flaws in it, it has a few plot holes, and that damn misleading trailer is one of the biggest strikes against it, IMO. If you go into this expecting a zombie infection run amok, you're going to be disappointed and let down. But if you go in with the knowledge that you're getting a character driven drama set in the aftermath of an extinction level plague....you're going to be as drawn in to it's plot and story as I was. The direction is excellent, the acting is outstanding, and all in all, Carriers is as worthy a purchase as ANYTHING that has come out on DVD this year. **** out of five.
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Post by Nr1Humanoid on Feb 28, 2010 5:42:23 GMT -5
45 A NIGTMARE ON ELM STREET FREDDY'S LONG ARM In this sequence, early on in the first movie, we have never seen Freddy Krueger's face yet. All we know of this lurking bogeyman is his blade fingered glove and his deep, malevolent voice. Tina is having a nightmare in which she explores the house's backyard. Cue Freddy, the childslaying Bastard Of 100 Maniacs. Extending his arms to a length that would assure him a place between the sticks in any football team, Krueger advances, painfully scraping his blade along a corrugated iron wall. "Please God..." breathes Tina, prompting Freddy to raise one deadly glove. "This," he grins, "is God." Splat.
44 ROSEMARY'S BABY HE HAS HIS FATHER'S EYES Mia Farrow raped by the Devil. That's the premise behind this fabulously spooky adaption of Ira Levin's acclaimed novel. The story so far; Mia's husband has secretly made a deal with their neighbours (who are Satan worshippers) in order to get his career going and the deal involves his wife giving birth to the Anti Christ. So, once Mia's little one is born she is ushered in to see it for the first time. "Aw, he has his fathers eyes," gushes one of the surrounding hordes as Mia sets eyes on her newborn child and screams with terror. And we don't get to see a thing.
43 HELLRAISER FRANK'S RESURRECTION Did you know that household accidents can resurrect the dead? Larry Cotton soon discovers this fact after snagging his hand on a nail. Blood drops down onto the floorboards, beneath which the skeleton of his half brother Frank is hibernating. Absorbing the red stuff, Frank slowly rises through thye floor in a decidedly icky sequence, done with good old 80's latex and jello. "It's very much of its period," writer-director Clive Barker said. "I suppose now you'd do it with CGI, but I'm not convinced it would be better. Actually, that scene was not in my original script. We only filmed it after the film company gave us some more money to enhance the movie."
42 THE BIRDS THE CLIMBING FRAME Tippi Hedren's character has a sly fag outside the local while she waits to collect a little girl from school. Behind her, a flock of crows gradually gathers on the climbing frame in the playground, as if they know that the children will soon be coming out to play...Scriptwriter Evan Hunter recalled, "This scene was shot as I wrote it. I wanted to get the contrast between the innocence of the children's voices in the background and the malevolence of the birds. We have already seen the birthday party attacked and we know that the birds are dangerous...So when they start to mass, we know there will be trouble. It was beautifully shot to build the audience's apprehension."
41 NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD THE LITTLE GIRL ZOMBIE Trapped in a house besieged by zombies, mother Helen Cooper (Marilyn Eastman) goes down into the basement, only discovers that her daughter Karen is munching on her dead husbands arm. Backing away in horror as her undead daughter lurches forward, she trips and falls. The little girl picks a pointy edged trowel off the wall and repeatedly stabs mommy to death. Little Karen was played by nine year old Kyra Schon, the daughter of Karl Hardman, co-producer of the film and also her on-screen dad. She recalls, "The arm goo was someone's leftover meatball sandwich from lunch. They pored some Bosco (chocolate syrup) on it to make it look bloody."
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Post by Lick Ness Monster on Feb 28, 2010 10:25:37 GMT -5
Since others are posting reviews, I guess I'll get off my duff and throw one of my own in here, too. Carriers (2009) Directed by: Alex and David Pastor Starring: Chris Pine, Piper Perabo, Lou Taylor Pucci, and Emily Van Camp. Imagine you are in a world where a deadly disease has decimated mankind, and you and your small group of fellow travelers are essentially wandering the barren highways together, searching for other survivors and or a safe place to batten down and ride out the end of days. The rules are very simple...stay clean, stay healthy, and stay alive. You break them, you're DONE. Whatever this disease is, it doesn't screw around, and once you catch it, there IS no cure, and it doesn't take long for it to kill you. In the very good 2009 film Carriers , our intrepid group consists of college boy Danny (Pucci), his school friend Kate (Van Camp), his brother Brian (Chris Pine, showing excellent chops here,) and his brother's girlfriend Bobbi (Piper Perabo, turning in an excellent acting job herself in this film). We meet the foursome as they roll along the deserted highways of the Southwestern US, headed for what they hope is safe harbor on the Mexican coast. One of the first things you'll notice about Carriers is that for a post apocalyptic film, it really doesn't embrace the FALLOUT3 or MAD MAX type of apocalyptic wasteland scenario...no, in this film, rather than being overrun by mutants and raiders and such, everything is just....empty. Which strikes one as being totally fitting, and more than a little reminiscent of the equally excellent opening of 28 DAYS LATER, wherein Cillian Murphy awoke to a world where he seemed to be the last man alive. Such is the case for our core group, as they chat and banter with each other to cover their own unease at not seeing another living body within a thousand mile radius of them. One knock against the trailer for this film is that it makes Carriers look like a zombie, or monster movie. It's not. It's more akin to 28 DAYS LATER's opening bits or the opening bits of I AM LEGEND than anything else. The premise is not so much that of our heroes fighting off zombies or the infected....but of them being able to make hard choices and live by the rules they have set for themselves. Ah yes, the "Rules". See, Brian, the group's de facto leader, has formulated a plan to deal with any encounter with ANY other living human: stay a good distance back, cover up with mask and gloves, and carry spray bottles full of bleach and cans of Lysol with you to disinfect anything you might have to touch....not to mention a loaded handgun in case the person becomes "difficult". In other words, take NO chances under ANY circumstances. It's not long before these rules are put to the test, as the group runs into a man named Frank (Law and Order's Christopher Meloni, in a very understated and powerful turn in it's own right) and his young daughter who are stranded beside their SUV in the middle of the road. Here's where things get interesting, as this film starts to show us the layers and nuances to these main characters. Brian, ever the cold-hearted pragmatist, wants to either keep driving around the stalled SUV, or shoot Frank outright and raid his car, disinfecting and taking whatever supplies might be found therein. Danny has issues with this mercenary plan however, and would rather stop and listen to what Frank wants. All this is moot, however, as soon as Bobbi sees Frank's little daughter poke her head out of the back of the SUV. Bobbi DEMANDS that Brian stop and help Frank...and Brian almost does it before Kate (ever the eagle eye, and with what we find out is a heart as cold and tuned to survival as Brian's own) yells out that the little girl is infected and bleeding through her surgical mask. THAT seals things, and Brian roars around Frank and off the side of the road, badly damaging his car in the process and taking a nasty shot to the driver's side windshield from a pipe Frank was concealing up his sleeve. So we see that of the four, Brian (and Kate) seem to have the keener survival instincts, and Danny and Bobbi are the more soft hearted of the bunch. This dynamic amongst the group will shift and turn throughout Carriers runtime, leaving you truly wondering who WILL survive and what it will cost them to do so. This really is a wonderful and quietly stunning film that makes you do what so FEW horror movies do in this day and age: identify with, and actually honest to God sympathize with the main characters. Pine's Brian IS an asshole, and he IS brutally honest about his goals, but you come to realize that he is that way for a reason, and in this new post virus world, his "don't trust ANYONE" attitude and aggressive behavior might be what it takes to survive; Danny's intellect and medical skills and Kate's sharp eyes are assets, and Bobbi is like the mother of the group, the glue that holds it together. These four great young actors really do make you feel for them, and feel THROUGH them, effectively rendering such a believable family unit that when one of them DOES fall ill, it hits you with a jackhammer shot to the gut, and you really do sympathize and feel for the others in the group who have to go on without them. That's not to say that Carriers is perfect, because it is not; it has flaws in it, it has a few plot holes, and that damn misleading trailer is one of the biggest strikes against it, IMO. If you go into this expecting a zombie infection run amok, you're going to be disappointed and let down. But if you go in with the knowledge that you're getting a character driven drama set in the aftermath of an extinction level plague....you're going to be as drawn in to it's plot and story as I was. The direction is excellent, the acting is outstanding, and all in all, Carriers is as worthy a purchase as ANYTHING that has come out on DVD this year. **** out of five. That's certainly a very good cast they have there. Despite all the bitching I've done in the past about Star Trek, I'll admit that Pine was very good as Kirk, and Perabo is gold in pretty much anything she's in (even Lost and Delirious, a.k.a. the Korean film Memento Mori except not as good). Sounds like an excellent film.
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Post by mysterydriver on Feb 28, 2010 14:53:58 GMT -5
During a random IMDB search for Danny Trejo (since he pops up in about 70% of what I watch), I found and remembered Predators which is now completed.
The cast is interesting in my eyes.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Adrien Brody as Royce, a Steve McQueen-type
Topher Grace as Edwin, a small unassuming man who is formerly one of FBI's most wanted Danny Trejo as Cuchillo, a Mexican enforcer from a drug cartel who has twin uzi strapped to his back
Laurence Fishburne as Noland, a survivor of past hunting parties
Alice Braga as Isabelle, a tough-as-nails woman armed with a sniper rifle and speaks French
Oleg Taktarov as Nikolai, a frightening, Russian bear-of-a-man, armed with a four barrel, gas powered, rotary machine gun
Walton Goggins as Stans, a San Quentin prisoner with a shaved head, a scorpion tattoo on his neck and armed with a prison-made knife
Mahershalalhashbaz Ali as Mombasa, a Sierra Leon death squad member who's not afraid of death.
Louis Ozawa Changchien as Hanzo, a Japanese Yakuza enforcer
Derek Mears ... Predator
Brian Steele ... Predator
Carey Jones ... Predator ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Humans: Brody, Grace, Fishburne, and Trejo are all recognizable names. Brody and Grace might get a few "Huh?"s from the viewing audience, but I think they're capable.
Braga (Who has broken the Michelle Rodriguez tough girl streak) was Anna in I Am Legend
Taktarov is a former UFC fighter and played Oleg in 15 Minutes. He DEFINITELY fits the "big as a bear" requirement.
Goggins was Detective Shane Vendrell of The Shield[/]
Ali gained fame on Crossing Jordan and The 4400 television series. He also played Tizzy in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Changchien is an up-and-coming actor who seems promising and should be well equiped to play the silent Yakuza assassin.
Predators: Steele is common to playing big monster roles in films. He's been in Relic, Doom, Men in Black 2, Terminator: Salvation and The UnderworldTrilogy
Mears is the "new" Jason Voorhees, already showing his "vicious" side in the remake.
Jones is...um...a make-up and special effects guy. I'm guessing he's tall. ~~~~~~~~~
So...after all that...let me just say:
I'm excited for this movie.
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Post by DSR on Feb 28, 2010 17:29:15 GMT -5
That's certainly a very good cast they have there. Despite all the bitching I've done in the past about Star Trek, I'll admit that Pine was very good as Kirk, and Perabo is gold in pretty much anything she's in (even Lost and Delirious, a.k.a. the Korean film Memento Mori except not as good). Sounds like an excellent film. I liked LOST AND DELIRIOUS a great deal, actually. When I read the plot synopsis, I was expecting your usual Skinemax offering, but I wound up getting wrapped up in the character Perabo played. At least it was a more engaging picture than COYOTE UGLY.
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Post by andrew8798 on Feb 28, 2010 17:51:28 GMT -5
On her Twitter feed earlier this evening, actress Milla Jovovich announced that the first trailer for the fourth installment of the "Resident Evil" franchise, Resident Evil: Afterlife, will be premiering at the end of April in front of New Line's remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street. The first 3D installment of the action-horror series is scheduled for September 10.
The actress also mentioned that she's signed on for a role in Abe Silvia's indie comedy Dirty Girl with William H. Macy and Juno Temple, who will be playing Jovovich's daughter. According to Jovovich, "it takes place in the early 80's and its a comedy about two teens who run away from home leaving their dysfunctional parents freaking out."
She's scheduled to shoot that sometime later this month.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2010 18:35:27 GMT -5
That's certainly a very good cast they have there. Despite all the bitching I've done in the past about Star Trek, I'll admit that Pine was very good as Kirk, and Perabo is gold in pretty much anything she's in (even Lost and Delirious, a.k.a. the Korean film Memento Mori except not as good). Sounds like an excellent film. I liked LOST AND DELIRIOUS a great deal, actually. When I read the plot synopsis, I was expecting your usual Skinemax offering, but I wound up getting wrapped up in the character Perabo played. Which is the exact reason why I was disappointed in it.
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Post by Rorschach on Feb 28, 2010 18:37:16 GMT -5
On her Twitter feed earlier this evening, actress Milla Jovovich announced that the first trailer for the fourth installment of the "Resident Evil" franchise, Resident Evil: Afterlife, will be premiering at the end of April in front of New Line's remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street. The first 3D installment of the action-horror series is scheduled for September 10. The actress also mentioned that she's signed on for a role in Abe Silvia's indie comedy Dirty Girl with William H. Macy and Juno Temple, who will be playing Jovovich's daughter. According to Jovovich, "it takes place in the early 80's and its a comedy about two teens who run away from home leaving their dysfunctional parents freaking out." She's scheduled to shoot that sometime later this month. Urgh. If there is ANY long running film franchise in desperate need of a reboot with an ENTIRELY new team attached to it, RESIDENT EVIL would be it. Buggered up almost from the get go (ok, the first one was decent, but after that.....YEESH!) by Anderson and the increasingly Jovovich centric plots of the films, this franchise has almost ZILCH to do with the game series that inspired it anymore. It would be like if the first Spider-Man movie had featured Spidey in a supporting role, and then the next films in the franchise focused solely on the exploits of Gwen Stacey, cub reporter....with occasional shots of Spidey swinging by in the background. By the fourth film, Gwen has been granted super powers of her own on the level of the Incredible Hulk and Ms. Marvel combined, and we no longer even get GLIMPSES of Spider-Man. Seriously, for fans of the game series, THAT'S how it feels when we see these Jovovich/Anderson abortions. It's not even close to being RESIDENT EVIL anymore...it's the freakin' Milla Jovovich Power Hour as directed by her baby-daddy Anderson. Maybe after this latest film bombs (in 3D!), we'll get that reboot.
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Post by andrew8798 on Feb 28, 2010 18:59:22 GMT -5
You do know there is going to be a reboot after this one but Anderson is the one that is doing it
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Post by Finish Uncle Muffin’s Story on Feb 28, 2010 19:03:18 GMT -5
My girlfriend and I couldn't agree on what movie to see last night - Shutter Island or The Crazies...
So we saw both.
It was my first "double feature" per say other than Grindhouse.
I enjoyed both movies, but I felt that Shutter Island was obviously the better film by far. The Crazies could become one of my favorite "guilty pleasure" movies. Hey - at least it wasn't as bad as Legion.
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Post by Rorschach on Feb 28, 2010 19:09:54 GMT -5
You do know there is going to be a reboot after this one but Anderson is the one that is doing it Film execs: "So hey guys, guess what? We're gonna TOTALLY reboot the RESIDENT EVIL franchise!" RE fans: YAY! Film Execs: "Yep, and we're bringing back the EXACT SAME GUY who f****d it all up and pissed you all off so badly last time! Aren't you just so stoked you could crap a solid gold statue of Milla Jovovich? " RE fans: ......... Film Execs: "Seriously...we need a solid gold Milla. That's going to be the big villain the real Milla fights in the next one...so if you could get started on that....it'd be great." ;D
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Post by andrew8798 on Feb 28, 2010 19:12:02 GMT -5
Love them or hate them the series does make money. I like the first two but didn't care for the last one
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Post by Rorschach on Feb 28, 2010 22:41:38 GMT -5
Love them or hate them the series does make money. I like the first two but didn't care for the last one Yes, there is that, and though I cannot knock those who do enjoy them, as a huge fan of the game series, each time one of these comes out and continues to ignore the rich mythology of the game series in favor of giving Milla more screentime and more ridiculous powers (seriously....she's like a Terminatrix by this point) I cannot help but feel slighted and insulted.
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Post by Nr1Humanoid on Mar 1, 2010 10:43:31 GMT -5
40 GHOST SHIP BLOOD BATH AT THE BALL The "slice and slide" death has come into vogue in recent years. 13 Ghosts, Cube, Resident Evil and Underworld are just some of the films in which a character is bisected or diced, but (in true Tom and Jerry style) they remain intact for a few seconds before literally falling apart. The opening of Ghost Ship, though, goes sickeningly further. A whole dancefloor of seafaring partygoers are chopped in half by a taut wire that slices horizontally across the whole deck. All exept a little girl over whose head the wire passes. Instead she watches as all those about her slowly disentregate into a bloody mound of mauled limbs and torsos. Shame the rest of the film is so dull.
39 THE EXORSIST THE SUBLIMINAL FACE Subliminal images can be pretty powerful. One blink and you've missed them. Even the late Norris McWirter realised this when he tried to sue Spitting Image for flashing a picture of his face on a Page Three girl for a split second. Most people don't even conciously notice this scene from the Exorsist. While Father Karras is walking up the stairs from a subway, having a vision of his mother, there's a single frame spliced in with this terrifying ghostly face. The new version of the movie inserted the face at various other points but less is more, we say.
38 LOST HIGHWAY THE GUY WITH THE PHONE In David Lynch's most frustratingly opaque film (Mulholland Drive? Pah!) the most scary and bizarre scene occurs when BIll Pullman finds himself at a party and is approached by a man wearing white face makeup. The bloke explains that he is at the party and also at Pullman's house. Eh? He then produces a mobile phone and Pullman calls his own house, and the man - incredibly - answers! But what's become scarier in hindsight is that the actor wearing the whiteface is Robert Blake, the Baretta actor who is currently on trial for the murder of his wife.
37 THE EVIL DEAD CHERYL'S POSSESSION A bunch of kids has unwittingly resurrected a demonic force. Two of the girls play an ESP game, with one holding up the cards and the other trying to guess what the card is. Their friend Cheryl sits with her back to them, staring out of the window. Then she starts calling out the cards, one by one, guessing each one correctly. As the others stare at her in disbelief. Cheryl turns round, revealing a grotesquely, demonically possessed face. Levitating into the air, she dementedly cackles, "Why have you disturbed us, awakened us from our ancient slumbers? You will die!...One by one, we will take you."
36 THE THING THE BLOOD TEST There are grosser scenes in John Carpenter's the Thing, (the bit where the doctors arms are bitten off when a huge, toothy maw appears in the chest of the guy he's defibrillating springs to mind) but the blood test is the most edge-of-the-seat moment. We know one of these guys has to be the Thing. And the only way to find out who is by a blood test. So the end of the scene is pretty much a given: someone is going to go all amorphous and gooey and gory and nasty on us, but that just means that each time Kurt Russell puts that red-hot needle in the blood sample the tension is ramped up. Until finally....Eaaaaarrrrrrggghhhh!
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Post by GuyOfOwnage on Mar 1, 2010 15:18:04 GMT -5
I just got this poster in the mail today - the F13 mark in me just couldn't resist...
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Post by Welfare Willis on Mar 1, 2010 15:21:29 GMT -5
You know looking at that poster I just realized how much smaller jason's neck was in Freddy vs Jason.
It makes Jason look a tad skinny.
Maybe I'm just overthinking this though.
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