Color Of Night was on TV in Spanish when I was flipping channels the other night
― da croupier, Friday, 25 May 2012 11:54 (eleven years ago) link
I have not seen Cat People. Should I?
― owenf, Friday, 25 May 2012 12:30 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i kinda liked that movie, even though it's a bit unrealistic, but the acting from the leading actors was very nice, ruben blades is a great sidekick, and overall it is atmospheric with it's music score, that's what i like in erotic thrillers, when the music is atmospheric in correlation with the scenery of L.A
― ram bond, Thursday, 21 June 2012 07:32 (eleven years ago) link
HOW DID I MISS THIS POLL????!?!?
― homosexual II, Friday, May 25, 2012 12:37 AM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
when I got to the "6 months pass..." break my first thought was "why have I not seen any mandee posts by now?"
― mississippi joan hart (crüt), Thursday, 21 June 2012 07:36 (eleven years ago) link
why did the genre come to an end lately????
― ram bond, Thursday, 21 June 2012 11:12 (eleven years ago) link
I just said this on the gay thread but Wild Things has to be the most convoluted "film" ever created.
― alan is more upset (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 04:18 (eleven years ago) link
It's basically a farce disguised as an "erotic" "thriller" and has more plot twists than every Hitchcock film combined and ugh jeez it's so ridiculous
― alan is more upset (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 04:19 (eleven years ago) link
It is like Showgirls-level ott/melodramatic/weirdly acted. I mean, "My daughter does NOT get raped in Blue Bay", what???
― alan is more upset (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 04:22 (eleven years ago) link
Like is this regarded as being in the same canon as Showgirls? Why is this not Showgirls-level notorious?
― alan is more upset (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 04:23 (eleven years ago) link
Also pathetic how there's all this nonstop lez action and then when they get to the Bacon/Dillon part that is SO SO FUCKING GAY they just pass it off as like two totally straight dudes just hanging out/being naked/saying things like "why don't you hang around and kick back for an extra day" you know nbd no homo
― alan is more upset (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 04:36 (eleven years ago) link
Wild Things is def the connoisseur's choice here
― recordbreaking transfer to Lucknow FC (seandalai), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 11:58 (eleven years ago) link
It isn't. Because it's not as much a masterpiece as Showgirls.
― the new dire homonomoreboobsativity (Eric H.), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 11:59 (eleven years ago) link
Stevie everything you're hating on is being done v v deliberately by Wild Things. It's directed by John McNaughton!
― ¥╡*ٍ*╞¥ (sic), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 13:01 (eleven years ago) link
and it's really not like people don't KNOW that Wild Things is a ridiculous movie
― some dude, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 13:03 (eleven years ago) link
I saw it in the cinema and we laughed so much that a guy who was not there to enjoy it in the same way got up and left
― ¥╡*ٍ*╞¥ (sic), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 13:06 (eleven years ago) link
This poll was so long ago I forgot what I voted for! I thought I had voted for Jade but obviously not.
― LISTEN TO THIS BRAD (Nicole), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 13:34 (eleven years ago) link
I'm not hating! It just, I don't know, didn't seem deliberate in its boring cliches (look, a rowdy classroom! You can tell its rowdy because someone is throwing a paper airplane!) and stuff. I know nothing of the director. It just felt like it was supposed to be dramatic/thrilling in adult way and not a comedy but who knows. I enjoyed it.
― alan is more upset (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 14:03 (eleven years ago) link
Wasn't Bill Murray in this?
― to welcome jer.fairall, pie is served. (jer.fairall), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 14:08 (eleven years ago) link
But it seemed to take itself seriously though
Also the DVD I picked up for 99c is pan & scan and they did THE WORST job of panning. For fucking real half the film looks like a Jim Blashfield animation.
― alan is more upset (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 16:33 (eleven years ago) link
xp yeah which just added to the wtfness
Wild Things is AWESOME watched it the other night actually. so much fun.
― the alternate vision continues his vision quest! (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 16:39 (eleven years ago) link
wearing a hat!
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 16:41 (eleven years ago) link
I think the only thing it takes "seriously" is the class warfare angle. the Bacon/Dillon thing is BLATANTLY super-gay! part of the joke is how both of them are total amoral pervs!
love McNaughton
― the alternate vision continues his vision quest! (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 16:41 (eleven years ago) link
Of course it's blatantly super-gay but it was just frustrating that someone somewhere was like "okay just NO KISSING OR TOUCHING bcz that would weird people out"
― alan is more upset (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 18:39 (eleven years ago) link
I'm going to rewatch it soon and maybe I'll have a diff approach but idk maybe I just went into it wrong or it's more deadpan than I realize or something *shrug*
― alan is more upset (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 18:40 (eleven years ago) link
y'know, I've never seen Basic Instinct. how bad is it.
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 14 June 2018 21:06 (five years ago) link
kind of amazing Body Double got zero votes, I'd probably rate that over Dressed to Kill these days
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 14 June 2018 21:08 (five years ago) link
basic instinct is classicgotta see it!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 14 June 2018 21:23 (five years ago) link
never been able to find a copy of Poison Ivy tbh
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 14 June 2018 21:27 (five years ago) link
try your local blockbuster
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 14 June 2018 21:28 (five years ago) link
Other thread on these monuments of the filmic arts:
'An erotic thriller'
― too gashly (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 14 June 2018 21:33 (five years ago) link
lol xp
Also,
I love Jade, but any movie starring Caruso should be disqualified from being "erotically thrilling".
= truth bomb
― i am updating my User Agreement and Privacy Policy (rip van wanko), Thursday, 14 June 2018 22:32 (five years ago) link
never seen Basic Instinct either, but somehow have read most of two different Ezterhaus books
― kelp, clam and carrion (sic), Friday, 15 June 2018 04:12 (five years ago) link
wait, 80s/90s erotic thrillers... and no "Hot Spot" !!??
https://forgottenfilmcast.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/the-hot-spot-1.png
― AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 15 June 2018 08:01 (five years ago) link
As for De Palma, it's almost 90s but "Femme Fatale" was one silly movie (and the main action took place in the street I used to live in !)
― AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 15 June 2018 08:04 (five years ago) link
I saw Body Double for the first time recently, it's really good fun, particularly the Frankie Goes to Hollywood section, which makes no sense at all but is really fun/sleazy.
― Neil S, Friday, 15 June 2018 08:14 (five years ago) link
yeah the film def ratchets the insanity up a notch for that sequence
― Οὖτις, Friday, 15 June 2018 15:42 (five years ago) link
o_0 @ the credits on Hot Spot: The Hot Spot is a 1990 American neo-noir film directed by Dennis Hopper and based on the 1952 book Hell Hath No Fury by Charles Williams, who also co-wrote the screenplay. It stars Don Johnson, Virginia Madsen, and Jennifer Connelly, and features a score by Jack Nitzsche played by John Lee Hooker, Miles Davis, Taj Mahal, Roy Rogers, and drummer Earl Palmer.
― Οὖτις, Friday, 15 June 2018 15:43 (five years ago) link
To the best of my recollection, only one erotic thriller was made in the 1980s and it was Crimes of Passion.
https://cdn2.bigcommerce.com/server5000/yshlhd/products/4857/images/126890/full.crimesofpassion-1sh-41702__56612.1512008766.1280.1280.jpg
― mick signals, Thursday, 21 June 2018 02:05 (five years ago) link
We need more erotic thrillers like this. The world's a crazy place. Instead of Star Wars: Nerd Wars 12 and Marvel's Spandex Heroes or whatever the fuck's out there now.
― funzone76, Thursday, 21 June 2018 03:04 (five years ago) link
crimes of passion is totally bugfuck iirc
― topless from 11am (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 21 June 2018 08:35 (five years ago) link
I remember Bound being a very bad and not sexy Coen bros pastiche with comedy mafioso bad guys.
I'd add Red Rock West, one of the classic 1990s "let's get something from the video store with one of the Twin Peaks girls" movies.
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 21 June 2018 11:12 (five years ago) link
The Wachowskis did Bound immediately before The Matrix
― Neil S, Thursday, 21 June 2018 11:16 (five years ago) link
It is terrible, the wachowskis are incompetent
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 21 June 2018 15:09 (five years ago) link
that is not true!
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Thursday, 21 June 2018 15:18 (five years ago) link
Red Rock West was great. There were a good handful of neo-noir flicks at the time. RRW and Kill Me Again, with Joanne Whalley-Kilmer, stood out. Slam Dance was good one, too.
More germain to this thread, Caroline at Midnight is one I haven't seen on DVD yet. Mia Sara and "Wings"' Tim Daly.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Thursday, 21 June 2018 15:19 (five years ago) link
basic instinct is essentially verhoeven remaking vertigo with a joe eszterhas script, it's awesome and upsetting. doesn't quite reach the peak of art trash that showgirls does but that's a precarious peak anyway
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Thursday, 21 June 2018 15:21 (five years ago) link
basic instinct is overdue a critical reassessment imo
― topless from 11am (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 21 June 2018 15:23 (five years ago) link
Michael Douglas dancing in a disco in a sleeveless tank top is an indelible image
― Neil S, Thursday, 21 June 2018 15:28 (five years ago) link
Whatever it's worth, it's an incredibly entertaining movie
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 21 June 2018 16:04 (five years ago) link