The Dawn of the Dead remake is a lot better than any of the recent horror remakes I can think of.
― bill magill (milo z), Thursday, 14 July 2011 22:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah, DOD remake is pretty fun and it's quite unlike Snyder's subsequent films. Best opening credits sequence of modern times too.
― Number None, Thursday, 14 July 2011 22:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah, the opening scene of the DOD remake is brilliant. don't think the rest of the movie really lives up to what the opening promises, though. failure to follow-through on zombie-baby chestbuster kind of broke my heart.
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Thursday, 14 July 2011 22:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
belly burster, w/e...
re the yodelling: eurovision, of course.
1:20 in
― ledge, Thursday, 14 July 2011 22:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
i really want to like this but.. there's a shaggy funkiness to carpenter's movie that goes beyond kurt russell and which seems.. well, not in evidence here. everybody has great hair, for god's sake! in an antarctic research station!!! in the 1982 movie there was this kind of crass bonhomie, pot smoking, everybody a little nutty, as you would be. it's funny how sequel peeps will architect everything down to the nth degree as far as plot and set continuities go but then just throw hairstyles out the window, and the look of the movie, too. why not match the cinematography as well as the plot? why's it all got to be this ultra-contrasty shiny wetness?
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 14 July 2011 22:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
like, the research station looks positively tasteful. it would not be. it would be dirty and drafty and cold and the lighting would suck.
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 14 July 2011 22:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
Man, no good will come of this. Why don't they ever remake bad movies and make them better? Why must they remake classic movies? I can name a million on-paper solid horror films that could be better.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 14 July 2011 22:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
I just find interesting how all these awful remakes (no wait, they're calling them reimaginings), for all their excess and ultra graphic violence, look like highly sanitized, disinfected versions of the original movies.
― Ste, Thursday, 14 July 2011 22:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
okay, so tracer OTM. especially about the "shaggy funkiness" and dirty, careless, human lived-in-ness of carpenter's research station. also the lack of oddball personality, both in the cast and the cinematic style.
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Thursday, 14 July 2011 22:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
lack of (apparent) personality in this new version, i mean.
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Thursday, 14 July 2011 22:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
yep. this movie is POINTLESS
― Ste, Thursday, 14 July 2011 22:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
you might even say it's lacking a certain.... SOMETHING
― i hate it when rats eat my bushels (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 14 July 2011 22:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
y'all should go and see the troll hunter instead, if you want quirky gritty original norwegian horror. well more comic fantasy than horror but anyway, it's good.
― ledge, Thursday, 14 July 2011 22:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
the original is playing in LA tomorrow on a double-bill w/ cronenberg's 'the fly'
― jesus and mary chapin carpenter (donna rouge), Thursday, 14 July 2011 22:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
trollhunter is fun
― ＤＥＨＵＭＡＮＩＺＥ ＹＯＵＲＳＥＬＦ ＡＮＤ ＦＡＣＥ ＴＯ ＢＬＯＯＤＳＨＥＤ (Princess TamTam), Thursday, 14 July 2011 22:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
this trailer is like what happened to elaine's hair over the course of the seinfeld run.
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 14 July 2011 22:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
seeing trollhunter on sunday. excited!
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Thursday, 14 July 2011 23:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
oooh I hadn't heard about trollhunter - i wanna see it!
― (｡◕‿‿◕｡) (ENBB), Thursday, 14 July 2011 23:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
It worries me that there's not a scene in the trailer (except for vehicle falling into crevice in the ice) that doesn't seem to be a lift from Carpenter's movie. And there seem to be very few Norwegians.
― not bulimic, just a cat (James Morrison), Thursday, 14 July 2011 23:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
I don't think I even want to watch the trailer after these reactions.
― (｡◕‿‿◕｡) (ENBB), Thursday, 14 July 2011 23:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
The trailer itself isn't bad! It's just impossible not to be cynical about this movie.
― Rachel Puppetry (latebloomer), Friday, 15 July 2011 00:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
a few details (such as the black & white dog chewing his enclosure) suggest that it's going to be a straight-up remake, but who knows. maybe it's just the dog that escapes at the end to complete the chain...
it's a direct prequel. but it's basically a remake anyway, i.e. the same basic events happen.
it's a pre-make!
― Rachel Puppetry (latebloomer), Friday, 15 July 2011 01:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
surprised that term hasn't caught on yet
― Rachel Puppetry (latebloomer), Friday, 15 July 2011 01:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
Bailed out on the trailer halfway through. First of all, can we FUCKING GET RID OF THE PSEUDO-GREGORIAN CHANTERS THAT INDICATE "UNKNOWN SCARY SHIT FROM THE ANCIENT PAST"
Zero suspense, no indication that this movie is even supposed to be scary.
Trailer for the original 100% better...
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 15 July 2011 02:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
The Fog has my favorite Carpenter trailer.
― ephendophile (Eric H.), Friday, 15 July 2011 02:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
The Fog is the most underrated Carpenter. Scared the poop out of me when I was little.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 15 July 2011 03:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
did you get your poop back
― Rachel Puppetry (latebloomer), Friday, 15 July 2011 03:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
John Carpenter stole my childhood poop, and now I will never get it back.
The Thing: "Man is the warmest place to hide."The Fog: "What in the living hell is out there?"
Now these, my friends, are tag lines.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 15 July 2011 03:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
The Fog, the scene near the start with the guys on the boat. Fucking superb shit.
― Ste, Friday, 15 July 2011 08:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
I guess i don't have very high expectations for this prequel, but that trailer looks alright.
― Kerm, Friday, 15 July 2011 12:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
i'm sure this will be terrible, but i still got chills in the first ~20 seconds of the trailer just because i love the original premise so much. show me an antarctic research base and i'm set, i'll watch you even if you're a prequel to alien vs predator.
― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Friday, 15 July 2011 16:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
whoa, this just seems masochistic (if true):
Annual viewing on "The Ice"
The Thing is typically viewed by members of the winter crew at the U.S. South Pole station after the last flight out (usually in a double-feature with The Shining). [31]
― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Friday, 15 July 2011 16:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
Might as well, otherwise people would be making inevitable requests/references to it for the next six months.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 15 July 2011 16:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
masochism kind of goes w/the territory
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Friday, 15 July 2011 16:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
Just re-read Ebert's old review. He misses the point on a couple of fronts. One, he complains about the lack of characterization, but the fact that these characters remains so vivid to us today is surely because of the way Carpenter drew them; most films today, I leave not knowing half the characters' names. Two, he complains that the dudes would have benefited from the buddy system, but how so? If Ebert was paying attention, it's introduced way, way early that someone may have already been Thing-afied by way of the Norwegian dog wandering around. The buddy system would not have helped.
Anyway, re-watching again tonight, this movie is just tight.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 16 July 2011 02:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
With this and Blade Runner, 1982 seems like some kind of high point of special effects. It's essentially all been downhill since then.
― Number None, Saturday, 16 July 2011 14:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
I think it's spiritually significant that I was born in 1982. It's one of the best years for genre movies ever.
― cave duel (latebloomer), Saturday, 16 July 2011 15:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
ET, Blade Runner, Poltergeist, Dark Crystal, Conan/Beastmaster, Star Trek II, Tron ...
Plus a host of other touchstones: Porky's, Fast Times and . Diner, Liquid Sky, Fitzcarraldo, Fanny and Alexander, Sophie's Choice, Tootsie, The Verdict, White Dog, 48 Hours, First Blood ...
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 16 July 2011 15:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
Ruddy hell, seeing it written down like that...what a year for films.
― that mustardless plate (Bill A), Saturday, 16 July 2011 16:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah, it was really something in my memory, a lot of things happening all at once.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 16 July 2011 16:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
Also, Road Warrior came out the very end of December 1981, so I'd count that in there, too.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 16 July 2011 16:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
Right, I was ten years old in '82 so only saw ET in the cinema, the rest on VHS over the next few years. Given that the space shuttle has been retired, couldn't those funds now be reassigned to a u&k time-machine-building project to get us back there? deadly srs.
― that mustardless plate (Bill A), Saturday, 16 July 2011 16:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
the thing is on telly right now! there is literally nothing wrong with this film
― mark s, Monday, 22 August 2011 22:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
you've got to be fucking kidding
― Countdown to Alma Cogan (Noodle Vague), Monday, 22 August 2011 22:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
\o/
― mark s, Monday, 22 August 2011 22:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
£%$
― mark s, Monday, 22 August 2011 22:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
there is literally nothing wrong with this film
― mark s, Monday, August 22, 2011 6:02 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark
otm
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i_qxQztHRI (Princess TamTam), Monday, 22 August 2011 22:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
i think the early silhouette is norris's: which means his heart-attack is
1: genuinely faked to take norris-thing out of the firing line2: real in the sense that a thingified norris has norris's bad heart3: "real" in the sense that the thingified norris can give itself a heart-attack as a ruse
haha at the diff between 1 and 3
who gets into the blood cupboard? copper and garry are both proven non-things, judging by subsequent events -- unless copper too is already a thing when his arms get bitten off and he's faking death? (but his body gets tested, doesn't it...)
can the thing in one body recognise other things in other bodies? everyone in the film assumes yes, but maybe no? maybe it's only as aware as the body it's hiding in
― mark s, Monday, 22 August 2011 23:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
double OTM
― satisfying punishment for that thing he said about lesbians (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 22 August 2011 23:20 (1 year ago) Permalink