Good excuse for me to post my favourite ever youtube review:
i hate this movie, it's the must ridicilous movie ever. do not watch it. a man is bleeding and have seen dead body's but he go's to a resturang and then die in a toilet. and the ''devil'' look like a octopus and when a man who died later saw that ''devil'' he just '' what is that'' and didn't run away like a normal human would do and he go to a dead body who was he's lover and just ''what have you done to him'' that's say much of what the movie will turn out like. DONT SEE IT YOUR WASTE YOU TIME
― emil.y, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 15:58 (twelve years ago) link
hahha
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:01 (twelve years ago) link
Some people find a dirty mattress skidding itself down a giant slide at an abandoned amusement park from the turn of the century incredibly unnerving.
lol this is prolly the most what-the-what moment in the entire film, aside from that extra at the water fountain
is there any other film that exploits the terror of being completely cut off from the world around you? so simple but so effective. the way those moments increase in duration over the course of the film establish a claustrophobic rhythm of helplessness and impending doom.
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:02 (twelve years ago) link
To be fair the trailer tries to sell this very awkwardly and is also spoilering like hell. Glad I didn't saw it beforehand.
Watched it about a week ago, too late to vote for, would probably end up somewhere in my Top20. Even thinking about giving it a second viewing soon on projektor & decent audio system but have to work out how to deal with the constant screaming beforehand. Neighbours will object surely.
― the europan nikon is here (grauschleier), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:02 (twelve years ago) link
YES. ALTHOUGH WAY WAY TOO LOW.
Mine was one of the #1 votes for Possession. Watching it is not unlike going into one of those carnival spook house rides expecting "scares" and slowly realizing that whoever made the damn thing was a lunatic and really isn't that concerned with preserving your physical or mental well being. Truly unnerving, truly brilliant. And Adjani (as my quote indicates) is an absolute revelation.
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
Possession was absolutely agonizing to sit through. Two hours of screaming, wallowing, and psychic pain. That said, it is an achievement of some sort. Unlike anything I've ever seen. More of a "respect" than "like" movie for me.
― circa1916, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
I read and the ''devil'' look like a octopus and follow it in my head with "and the microphone smells like a beer!"
― it was a dark and stormy genitals. (Phil D.), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:10 (twelve years ago) link
HELLO. I AM SAM NEILL. I AM VERY TENSE. WOULD YOU LIKE A NICE CUP OF TEA?
― emil.y, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:10 (twelve years ago) link
Of course, once you've sat through it once, then the political text does come out more. The first time it's all ARGH SCREAM TENSE DEVIL LOOK LIKE A OCTOPUS.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:12 (twelve years ago) link
(I love this film, in case you can't tell. I'm just also more than aware of its ludicrous side.)
Possession sounds like it rises to Fulci levels of what the fuck batshittery.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:14 (twelve years ago) link
Those Carnival of Souls stills are beautiful! COS gets to me in a very weird, dreamlike way, like a cross between Meshes of an Afternoon and Eraserhead.
― Soccer mom, hopeless and lost, in utter despair (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:14 (twelve years ago) link
and beyond
xp
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:15 (twelve years ago) link
Poll Behind-The-Scenes: There was a point early on in voting when it seemed Possession was going to be a top 10'er. Then it dipped way down. Then it rebounded and landed here.
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:17 (twelve years ago) link
ha, was that your preserve-in-amber moment?
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:19 (twelve years ago) link
More of a "respect" than "like" movie for me.
imho it's easier to love than respect. it's too stupid to respect in spite of having v good things in it.
― jed_, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:20 (twelve years ago) link
Questions to be answered after the rest of the results are revealed.
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:23 (twelve years ago) link
Possession's insanity frequently falls on the side of funny too, purposefully I imagine. I like the scene (from the screen cap actually) when they're having this brutal argument in the streets and a truck comes rolling through with cars on the back that come unleashed and go smashing across the street. They stop arguing and Sam Neil just walks off and kicks a soccerball around with some kids for a moment.
― circa1916, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:24 (twelve years ago) link
haha.
― jed_, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:25 (twelve years ago) link
Recorded "Possession" off TCM a few weeks back. Haven't watched it yet, but reckon I will tonight. LTROI is amazing. Let Me In almost as good.
― Fas Ro Duh (Gukbe), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:25 (twelve years ago) link
I still haven't seen LTROI (which I will rectify) but I really enjoyed Let Me In
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:26 (twelve years ago) link
i "respect" it for being so aggressively out there and unique, not for being "smart" or whatever. it's definitely art of some sort.
xposts
― circa1916, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:26 (twelve years ago) link
QUOTES
― circa1916, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
Is the recommended-quality version of CoS streaming/available for download anywhere for European people too, without fiddling around with proxies? I really doubt this clusterfuck of license negotiations will be solved during my lifetime.
― the europan nikon is here (grauschleier), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
Possession's insanity frequently falls on the side of funny too, purposefully I imagine.
Yeah, I mean some of that stuff is just outright goofy at first. Like Heinrich's wild gesticulating while he's talking to Sam Neill. But after a minute or so of that, it feels like the product of a diseased mind. There's so much stuff like that in there, these offhand moments where the tone shifts without reason and it momentarily feels like the tension is letting up a bit but, when considered in the larger context, it's just...disturbing.
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
This is rocketing to the top of my must-see list. Plus that screencap!
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
yeah I'm def going to check this out
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
The best thing I can recommend re: watching Possession for the first time is go in blind. The less you know, the better. Alternately, see it how I first saw it: post-LTR breakup, drinking Jamison straight from the bottle. Oddly appropriate.
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:37 (twelve years ago) link
I really, really wish I didn't have anything to do right now because I would totally rewatch Possession right this very minute. Oh, well. Nighttime is the right time, anyway.
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:40 (twelve years ago) link
Hopefully I will not have cause to see it post-LTR breakup, so I'll just be careful to skip any future discussion of it.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
"I'd be LYNE if I said I ever dreamed this movie would place this high!"
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22. JACOB'S LADDERAdrian Lyne, USA, 1990(565 points, 17 votes, 4 first-place votes)
this movie is fun but really it does not make any goddamn sense at all― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, November 18, 2008 3:27 PM (3 years ago)http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v48/w1nt3rmut3/GarfieldJacobsLadder.gif― Dan I., Tuesday, November 18, 2008 2:48 PM (3 years ago)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v48/w1nt3rmut3/GarfieldJacobsLadder.gif― Dan I., Tuesday, November 18, 2008 2:48 PM (3 years ago)
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
jacob's ladder one of the few movies i found genuinely frightening
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:43 (twelve years ago) link
FOUR first place votes?!
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:44 (twelve years ago) link
(Yeah, my head spun a little bit from that one too.)
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:44 (twelve years ago) link
great movie.
― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:45 (twelve years ago) link
HUH.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:45 (twelve years ago) link
Boo.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:47 (twelve years ago) link
one of those first place votes was me
this is my favorite movie of all time
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:47 (twelve years ago) link
that said lol @ four first places
― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:47 (twelve years ago) link
Boo. Jacob's Ladder, the Boondock Saints and Donnie Darko of its time.
(I might be exaggerating a little)
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:48 (twelve years ago) link
omg I love Jacob's Ladder
sent me wayyyy down the rabbit hole on Project 112 and MKULTRA and all that creepy irl mindblowing shit too, which was a nice bonus
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:48 (twelve years ago) link
Hot dog, I'm happy to see this. When it comes down to my very top few votes, it ends up being the movies that serve well as horror films but also just plain move me. And JL is just filled with crushingly sad scenes. So beautifully shot, and what a great balance between a drama with extremely believable/sympathetic/complex characters and total surrealistic nightmare.
― The Thnig, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:48 (twelve years ago) link
~controversial~ poll result
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:48 (twelve years ago) link
I love that Garfield
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:49 (twelve years ago) link
I stand by my original comment. The "it was all a dream"-style ending always struck me as cheap and lazy, not to mention nonsensical
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:49 (twelve years ago) link
Jacob's Ladder is one of those movies where all the disturbing visuals and odd atmospheric things under the surface stuck with me for days after first seeing it, much like The Shining or Exorcist
― some dude, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Wednesday, May 23, 2012 12:47 PM (2 minutes ago)
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:51 (twelve years ago) link
xpost Shakey I usually hate those endings but I disagree on this one. In JL they pull you soooooo deeply into his life, into his paranoias and hallucinations that the ending is almost a relief, somehow? I dunno, it really moved me. And scared the BEJABBERS out of me too.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:51 (twelve years ago) link
it fascinates me a little that Lyne made this movie in the middle of a 10 year run in which his other movies were 9 1/2 Weeks, Fatal Attraction and Indecent Proposal
― some dude, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:52 (twelve years ago) link