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Tony (Tony) Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.140.118.61
| Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - 12:12 am: | |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8IGJjukTzc |
Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b
Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 213.106.77.123
| Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - 07:42 am: | |
I used to love Moviedrome. |
Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 92.8.23.208
| Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - 09:05 am: | |
Mind you, Cox lost me with his hostile introduction to Witchfinder General in that series. |
Stevie Walsh (Stephenw)
Username: Stephenw
Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1
| Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - 12:16 pm: | |
Never missed it but I have to agree with Ramsey that I found his views frequently infuriating. For me that was part of the fun. Same goes for Mark Kermode. But isn't that the point of giving one's own honest opinion? |
Joel (Joel) Username: Joel
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45
| Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - 01:38 pm: | |
It depends. How much do we need the honest opinion of a div? |
Tony (Tony) Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.140.118.61
| Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - 01:46 pm: | |
'Div - someone who knows what is right without knowing why. From 'divination'' - Lovejoy. - Lovejoy. It doesn't matter who the opinion is from, but that it interests us and makes us see things afresh. Too man people have disliked Witchfinder General for us to dismiss those views. I have mixed feelings about it - does that mean people might be half impatient with me? I think to go off a critic for a few things they say that we disagree with it frankly not quite right. I mean I used to be that way myself, but then realised I'd end up like Rhys Hughes, the only man in step. I dunno - maybe that's a good thing. Who knows. |
Tony (Tony) Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.140.118.61
| Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - 01:47 pm: | |
But to keep things nice, Cox used to make me watching the films with more intent and thought, and for that I am eternally grateful. It should happen with every film. |
Joel (Joel) Username: Joel
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45
| Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - 02:07 pm: | |
Tony, I was thinking of Kermode, not Cox. Though occasionally it's the other way round. |
Tony (Tony) Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.140.118.61
| Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - 02:32 pm: | |
Oh, I'm not crazy on Kermode. |
Stevie Walsh (Stephenw)
Username: Stephenw
Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1
| Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - 04:26 pm: | |
I've met and spoken to and even briefly argued with Mark Kermode and he came across as charmingly approachable and rather self-effacing in a playfully arrogant kind of way. He sometimes gets a bit too excited for his own good and frequently talks complete rubbish but, hey, don't we all at times? He also has the largest hands of any human being I have encountered! |
Stevie Walsh (Stephenw)
Username: Stephenw
Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1
| Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - 04:28 pm: | |
Ha! The penny just dropped! |
Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 92.8.28.188
| Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - 10:37 pm: | |
"Too man people have disliked Witchfinder General for us to dismiss those views." I should have thought the issue is how valid the views are, not how many people hold them. And are they really so homogenised? |
Stevie Walsh (Stephenw)
Username: Stephenw
Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 86.24.62.55
| Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - 11:42 pm: | |
Well I consider it one of the best 20 or so horror films ever made and Vincent Price gives by far his best performance in it. The sense of period is astonishingly convincing and unrelentingly brutal. If Reeves had made only that one film he would still be talked about, imho. |