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[Movies] Talk about the last movie you saw 2: Electric Threadaloo
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Huh. I just realized something about Back to the Future.
When we first see The Deloreon, Doc controls it remotely. He sends Einstein (the dog) in the car and uses a remote control. Except it's something that's never used again throughout all three movies
For a series that's full of little eggs and callbacks (Twin Pine Mall and One Pine Mall) and so many Chekov's Guns, this is actually a little surprising.
When we first see The Deloreon, Doc controls it remotely. He sends Einstein (the dog) in the car and uses a remote control. Except it's something that's never used again throughout all three movies
For a series that's full of little eggs and callbacks (Twin Pine Mall and One Pine Mall) and so many Chekov's Guns, this is actually a little surprising.
I actually had the date set for his three months, but my wife informed me it would be petty to point it out. I disagreed, but obeyed the non-verbal yet strongly implied instruction not to say anything.
But yeah, people still love it. Fuck, I could pop the Blu-Ray in today, but I'm trying to stick with horror stuff for this last week of October. Speaking of which ...
Alien: I'm surprised it's been so long since I last watched this, yet it's been several years. Watching it again allowed me to appreciate just how lavishly they recreated the movie's style in Alien: Isolation, and clarifies in my head that Prometheus actually is a pile of shit. Come to think of it, all of the Alien movies have had good directors (main series, not AVP), so it seems like the strength can live and die with the script. This movie remains superb. I didn't realize until this viewing just how little screentime the titular character has in its adult form.
Bonus treat: my wife knew nothing about the xenomorph life-cycle before watching last night, so that was cool.
One thing I love about Alien, upon repeat viewings, is all the times you actually can see the Alien, just hanging out in the background. It's not even hidden, it's in plain sight, but because it looks so odd your eye doesn't see it unless you know to be looking for it.
Based on different points in the movies, I'm thinking the xenomorphs have a lot of dormant periods.
Wife and I watched Aliens tonight. Her opinion on the first was that it was good, but not her thing; this one she really liked. I didn't realize until this viewing that the series' most quoted lines come from this movie. Unlike Alien where there was a bunch I'd forgotten, I remembered this one pretty much beat for beat. Great movie. While the cleaned-up DVD for Alien felt like it sort of hurt the movie since you can see things really well, this one it only helped. The Alien Queen looks amazing and being able to make out so many details of the superb design and animatronics makes the movie even better.
It's a shame the last good Alien movie to come out was released when I was a baby. At least the video game feels like a proper entry in the series.
Crimson Peak
Damn good movie, because Del Toro knows how to make a damn good movie. It's visually jaw-dropping and incredibly well directed. There are some shots that really impressed me.
To be honest, I think I did the right thing by going into it without the expectation of it being a horror movie. Because, as they say early in the film about the main character's story, "It's not a ghost story. It's a story that happens to have ghosts in it." To be honest, I didn't mind because the main story was interesting enough. All the main cast turned in some great performances.
So yeah, two big thunbs up on this one.
Damn good movie, because Del Toro knows how to make a damn good movie. It's visually jaw-dropping and incredibly well directed. There are some shots that really impressed me.
To be honest, I think I did the right thing by going into it without the expectation of it being a horror movie. Because, as they say early in the film about the main character's story, "It's not a ghost story. It's a story that happens to have ghosts in it." To be honest, I didn't mind because the main story was interesting enough. All the main cast turned in some great performances.
So yeah, two big thunbs up on this one.
Crimson Peak
Easily the most modern Victorian Era film to modern Victorian Era.
Seriously though, damn good film.
Easily the most modern Victorian Era film to modern Victorian Era.
Seriously though, damn good film.
Alien
It's a great movie, incredibly well-shot, and has some of the most iconic scenes in sci-fi.
But dear Christ, the pacing on it is glacial. I was already tired, but I actually dozed off a few times and barely missed a thing.
It's a great movie, incredibly well-shot, and has some of the most iconic scenes in sci-fi.
But dear Christ, the pacing on it is glacial. I was already tired, but I actually dozed off a few times and barely missed a thing.
Yeah, it's not a movie for when you're tired. What surprised me on re-watching is just how fast things escalate once the movie hits the dinner scene. I wonder if that was on purpose.
Tonight we watched more goodies from my adolescence--The Terminator! The original and my favorite of the series. This movie has some very 80s beats to it, but really holds up. Actually, it's better than I remember, and the print clean-up actually improves things instead of showing glaring issues. Some effects are dated, but for whatever reason it still works for the movie; I love the future scenes. The whole movie's fantastic.
I don't think I've watched this since I was 12, because I couldn't have forgotten Dick Miller and Lance Henriksen being in it unless I didn't know who they were.
You're probably the first person I've met that likes the first one better than Salvation.
From what I hear, the people who worked on that movie were fucking unprofessional.
What kind of horrible people are in your life?
What are you guys talking about? There are only two Terminator movies. It ended with T2: Judgement Day.
yes, you did.
He's baaaa-aaaack!
It's this cool thing they used to do with movies called building atmosphere. It's alright if you don't recognize it, few movies do it anymore.
Speaking of atmosphere, for Halloween, I watched The Babadook. While the ending is kind of a wet fart, I loved the tension and atmosphere. It managed to be scary without relying on jump scares.
Though, despite what I said about the ending, it really did punctuate the "Grimm's fairy tale" setup.
Hey, I wasn't the one complaining about it. We just watched it the first Alien a week ago and I was gripped the whole way through.
I know about atmosphere; I mean that the movie throws its pacing entirely to the other end of the spectrum once the dinner scene happens. Probably because I most often saw it with commercial breaks that I didn't remember just how fast the problems and deaths snowball. Honestly, watching it recently was probably the scariest I've watched it because the facehugger really is a horrifying concept. I almost like it more as a natural animal than what the comics and later Prometheus turned it into (a biological weapon).
In ant case, I tend to gravitate towards movies from that era more than ... I don't know, the 90s and beyond? Something changed around the decade shift from 80s into 90s, both in the way a film looks and were made, and it's been difficult to replicate the way things used to be done.
The original Conan the Barbarian is my best example of this, because I can't figure out why that movie feels so different from anything else I've seen.
If you want to see a movie that takes its time to make sure its atmosphere and mood are set in each scene, watch The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly*, which I say was my favorite movie of all time until Mad Max: Fury Road, but I really need to watch it again before I keep saying that. Maybe I'll watch it today; it's been way too long and I fucking adore that movie.
*not recommended for sleepy Nicks
EDIT: So why do people hate the ending to The Babadook? While the way it gets there in the climax is weak, I really liked the situation as it was in the final scene of the movie.
Absolutely. Especially when there are so many scenes where there's very little dialogue, the music speaks for the movie and it's glorious.
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I think that was an intentional choice. The Babadook is more or less a monster representing what a child fears and that is kind of how a child would imagine a monster would sound.
Even the first Alien movie heavily suggests they are a biological weapon, since the eggs are first encountered loaded like bombs in the bay of the space jockey's ship.
Yeah, it's all there, but nothing's made absolute until years later.
Wow, I completely misinterpreted that as a snark towards Nick, and was just wondering what he did to deserve getting his nose bitten off
I'd like to mention that out of the 205 songs on my phone, 21 of them are the Morricone OST from that movie, from an Italian import CD I hunted down and bought just so I could have it.
--Patrick
I took the Babadook to be grief.
I didn't take it like that. I know the whole "dozing off during a great movie" is probably sacrilege to some people. Believe me, I still believe Alien is an amazing movie. I like the slow build. You get to know where they work (and thus, what the alien will work in), you get to know the characters, and it all has this great, slow build.Wow, I completely misinterpreted that as a snark towards Nick, and was just wondering what he did to deserve getting his nose bitten off
Which is why it's exactly the kind of movie I shouldn't watch when I'm tired.
My dad used to judge a movie based on whether it passed "the stay-awake test." Little did I know he only had this for the shitty movies my sister and I dragged him to when we were kids.
Nice. The import version is worth it just to get the full version of Il Trio.
In recent years I've thought of the movies we each had him seen when it was one of our choices and I feel so bad.
We saw Jumanji four times because of me. Each time it was my turn that summer, Jumanji. It's a fun movie, but it's no Mad Max and doesn't need four theatrical screenings. Stupid fucking child-me.
In theaters? Heck no. I mean, it's a fair enough movie, and if you have it on DVD (or VCR, at the time, I guess), I can understand, but going to see it 4 times? Cripes; even that summer there were other, at least as entertaining movies around suitable for kids.
Looking over things, I was wrong about summer; it was December 1995. The only kids movie that came out in January following was Duston Checks In, a shenanigans movie starring an orangutan. I could've chosen that, so I didn't do too bad.
On the other hand, Toy Story had released a month earlier. I remember picking seeing that a second time, which I could respect, except it was sold out.