Nic Cage IS... Carrie
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:33 (twelve years ago) link
hey guys, all of these movies are good
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:33 (twelve years ago) link
what nonsense, next thing you're gonna tell me xmas trees and presents are pagan
xp to shakey
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:33 (twelve years ago) link
you eat jesus for fuck's sake!
love this
― The Thnig, Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:34 (twelve years ago) link
imagine Nic Cage scraping his face off in a remake of "Poltergeist"
MY FACE MY FACE MY FACE MY FACE MY FACE
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
What's gonna be in the top 3? The Shining, The Thing, what else? Has The Exorcist placed?
― a parker full of poseys (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, May 24, 2012 8:33 PM (1 minute ago)
Alien. and hostel 2.
― I want L'interieur chicken, not Hausu chicken (jjjusten), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
sounds like it woulda been a cool snappy comeback in grade school
oh yeah? well you eat JESUS
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
i haven't seen the remake, but nicholas cage can pierce the actorly veil and be truly frightening in a way that nobody in the original wicker man could be (out of propriety? dignity?)
well in the original you can be sacrificed by pagan partiers for being a pious dude, in the remake you can be sacrificed by a man-hating cult led by Ellen Burstyn just for being a nice guy trying to help out an ex. So I guess it's scarier since so many of us are nice guys who just want to know how it got burned, how it got burned, how it got burned.
― da croupier, Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:36 (twelve years ago) link
Maybe this poll will surprise all of us and Return of the Living Dead will be #1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS23CWl4lUE
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:36 (twelve years ago) link
also rosemary's baby has one of those scenes where the protagonist plays with scrabble tiles to glimpse the horrible truth -- via anagrams! i know it's a played out trope by now but here, it really gets across the pitch of paranoia and grasping helplessness
― judas, a homo (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:37 (twelve years ago) link
More scared by the notion that there are people who refuse themselves pleasure their whole lives. And then they die.
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:37 (twelve years ago) link
And I'm one of them.
i think of rosemary's baby as being, thematically, less about the helplessness of a woman to determine her fate, as by the inability of the present to escape the past. the threat is the old world, old people, "expert wisdom" and secretive tradition. the building symbolizes this as much as its residents. it's ultimately about corrupt age consuming naive youth.
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:38 (twelve years ago) link
"...as about the inability of the present to escape the past."
dangit
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:39 (twelve years ago) link
this may be because you are a dude
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:39 (twelve years ago) link
hahahahahaha!hate to break it to you but we're all la lechera socks
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Thursday, May 24, 2012 3:30 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark
Seriously though, emil.y TOTALLY 100% OTM -- she said everything I would have said if I hadn't been riding my bike home from work (only she said it much better and with fewer irritating exclamation points than I would have)
― game of crones (La Lechera), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:39 (twelve years ago) link
Hellraiser and Wicker Man are like the far ends of the pleasure spectrum.
― The Thnig, Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:39 (twelve years ago) link
omg lol Eric I misread that as 'people who refuse to pleasure themselves their whole lives'
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:39 (twelve years ago) link
xp to contenderizer - Maybe, but it speaks to me way more specifically on the level of "nobody believes something horrible is happening to you, little lady, let me call an abusive dude to come pick you up." I'm not even trying to argue that this is the theme of the movie (I don't think it's purposeful at all, actually) but that for me, that's where the horror originates.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:41 (twelve years ago) link
I have similar things to say about The Shining.
carl agatha otm
― judas, a homo (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:43 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, lol, that's a good point. carl agatha otm, too. i do relate to the film that way, the frustration of the protagonist in not being taken seriously, and i suppose that it doesn't have to be one theme or the other. they reinforce each other, really.
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:43 (twelve years ago) link
The title even hints at how Rosemary is just a nice, warm, but ultimately unimportant vessel in the eyes of the Satanists. It ain't called Rosemary.
― The Thnig, Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
age, expertise and the old world = ways in which authority is claimed by someone other than rosemary
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:45 (twelve years ago) link
Poll too fast!!
- Happy with today's results.
- Love Rosemary and even her babby, too
- I wish I had time to participate in fussing about TWM, but: LL OTM and Thnig, too.
- Eric, Pillbox, you guys rock. <3 the gifs! <3 U guys
― Pita Malört (Je55e), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:48 (twelve years ago) link
I LOVE YOU AND GIFS AND GUYS AND BABBY
3-minute gap
in this thread i think that means I killed the thread
― Pita Malört (Je55e), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:52 (twelve years ago) link
oh, the suspense! ...HAS VANISHED
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
Was sort of hoping the idea of me pleasing myself would've sustained the thread while I'm on my train ride home.
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:54 (twelve years ago) link
Ya it's been like 50m since last post wtf I'm outta here
― a parker full of poseys (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:54 (twelve years ago) link
i always lol @ that cheerful old lady at the end of rosemary's baby who gleefully raises her glass and toasts a chirpy "Hail Satan!", as if she were toasting her grandkids graduating college or something. then there's the Japanese Satanist who's more concerned w/ his camera than anything else (lol 1960s racial stereotypes).
― Boris Kutyurkokhov (Eisbaer), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:55 (twelve years ago) link
ugh this thread is so dead *removes bookmark*
HAHAHA INTENTIONAL PUN OH I KILL MYSELF
HAHAH I DID IT AGAIN LOOOL
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:56 (twelve years ago) link
Lol "pleasuring"
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:56 (twelve years ago) link
meantime -- SNUBBED
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1NWXq7Hy90
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:56 (twelve years ago) link
Fans of The Wicker Man, any of you read The Dark Is Rising YA novels by Susan Cooper? The Greenwitch, in particular, taps into the same vibe, along the lines of what emily was talking about. Great novels!
Also calling the pagans in TWM hippies is ignant
― oh jeez. I can feel myself quicken. (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:57 (twelve years ago) link
VP and his wife were rather merry Satanists in that film, weren't they?!?
― Boris Kutyurkokhov (Eisbaer), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:57 (twelve years ago) link
plz note: i didnt call them hippies, i called that particular scene hippie dippie nonsense
― I want L'interieur chicken, not Hausu chicken (jjjusten), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:58 (twelve years ago) link
La Valse'nt Price
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:59 (twelve years ago) link
i always lol @ that cheerful old lady at the end of rosemary's baby who gleefully raises her glass and toasts a chirpy "Hail Satan!", as if she were toasting her grandkids graduating college or something.
That woman is EDNA FROM THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW!! I fell out of my chair and ROFLed and died when prim old Edna said "Hail Satan!"
― Pita Malört (Je55e), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:01 (twelve years ago) link
idgi -- what is nonsensical or hippie dippie about it? she is seducing him, he is failing to be seduced.
― game of crones (La Lechera), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:01 (twelve years ago) link
AT HIS PERIL
"you're lying! you witches, you're lying! you're lying, you're lying!"
― judas, a homo (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:04 (twelve years ago) link
jjjusten, wasn't calling you out in particular.
I wonder if TWM sucked for some people becasue they were reacting to the islanders in the context of neo-paganism.
― oh jeez. I can feel myself quicken. (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:04 (twelve years ago) link
(i've never read those books, btw)
― game of crones (La Lechera), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:07 (twelve years ago) link
i dont want to get that much into it and i havent seen it for a while but she is iirc seducing him through song and some sorta awkward modern dancing
― I want L'interieur chicken, not Hausu chicken (jjjusten), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:08 (twelve years ago) link
again i want to get the movie because i trust yall, maybe i should just fast forward through that scene
― I want L'interieur chicken, not Hausu chicken (jjjusten), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:10 (twelve years ago) link
you should make a jjj edit that has that scene taken out maybe
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:11 (twelve years ago) link
also does the remake actually replace the huge burning wicker dude with a HEADPIECE FULL OF BEES
― I want L'interieur chicken, not Hausu chicken (jjjusten), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:12 (twelve years ago) link
― game of crones (La Lechera), Thursday, May 24, 2012 4:01 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Guys, I'm going to reverse my opinion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIac4nKaAy4
While the movie is supposed to be about old-school religion, I feel like these people are less likely to throw me in a bog than slip me a couple tabs of acid.
― oh jeez. I can feel myself quicken. (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:13 (twelve years ago) link
My mom saw the remake (with the bees) and had no idea about the original, and at some point I mentioned to her that friends of mine (LL and The Thnig) went to some of the locations where parts of the movie took place and she was like "The movie where they killed Nicolas Cage with BEES??!?! WHY would anybody do that???!?!?"
― carl agatha, Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:14 (twelve years ago) link