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     Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
Just watched the Pang Bros. first Hollywood venture, and really enjoyed it (sorry Huw!). Great acting (particularly by the young lead actress, who was bloody superb), a semi-decent screenplay, some nice direction...and a lot of integrity. The latter is the key word for me with genre films. Flawed, yes, but most films of this type are. The bottom line is that it was creepy and done with care. I liked this a lot. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.184.136 |
Noooooo! Sorry, Zed - much as I agree with you about films on the whole, I still think this is a stinker. I much preferred the Pangs' Re-Cycle, made around the same time. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
But it had things crawling across the ceiling, Huw. Crawling across the ceiling. Brrr...  | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
So did Exorcist 3. The old woman crawls across the ceiling behind the cop (George C Scott). Great moment in a great film. Brad Dourif was fantastic, telling the old priests murder like that was so much better than showing the death could have been. Then of course there's that 5 minute long corridor scene which probably breaks every rule of film-making but which was worth the price of the movie, just to see that one scene. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
So my point is that things crawling accross the ceiling is good. I just got carried away with how good I thought Exorcist 3 was. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
And I agree with you completely, mate. :-) | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.167.124.223 |
Exorcist 3 was brilliant. I didn't expect that to be so good. The corridor scene is a classic and great performances. I wasn't too fond of The Messengers to be honest. It had some good moments...but it was dissapointing I thought. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
You see, I went in expecting The Messengers to be shite, so was pleasantly surprised when it wasn't. I tend to do that all the time now - steer clear of reviews and watch films with zero expectations. | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.167.124.223 |
Well I did so to, and for the first half I was enjoying it, and it was genuinly creepy in places- but I thought it fell apart at the end. I just saw The Day The Earth Stood Still- because I kind of ignored the bad press- and the bad press was right. | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.167.124.223 |
That Keanu really has one face- and agin he chooses the right roles to have 'that' face in, but still...But Zed some of those scenes in the shed were realy, really effective- wished there was more meat in the story. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.129.23.231 |
Day the Earth Stood Still was disappointing. Sad, too, because so much of it was pretty good. I was actually quite excited by it for a long time. But ... it dropped the ball, then kept dropping it till it couldn't pick it up again. One bloke in the audience - five minutes from the end - harrumphed at one po-faced cheesy moment too many and walked out. He got a better film than I did for hanging on till the end. I like Exorcist 2, too. (Btw wish the guy who made The Core would make an Omen film - that pigeon scene is class!) | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 204.104.55.242 |
'Harrumphed at one po-faced cheesy moment too many and walked out.' Tony during a screening of Coppola's Dracula, they had turned the volume way up, far too loud, and during the scene where blood explodes onto Mina's bed, literally twenty or thirty people just walked out, and people kept leaving. It was great to hear the score so loud, it was over the top just like the film was- but I've rarely experienced people leave screenings. | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
The most walkouts I ever observed in a cinema were during the first British showing of Salo at a London Film Festival in the seventies - bunches of people left at several points in the film. Only Inland Empire can compete in my experience. People left during Bergman's A Passion and Edward Yang's Yi Yi, both (like the Lynch) at the Cornerhouse in Manchester. In the case of the selfish prats who made their displeasure audible during the latter films, good riddance to them. Alas, elsewhere people stayed to jeer at Dreyer's Gertrud and Bergman's Shame. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.121.214.11 |
Only time I've ever walked out of screening taht I've paid to see was Batman and Robin - one of the worstr films ever. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
I experienced mass walkouts during Cronenberg's CRASH. Over half the (quite substantial) audience had gone by the halfway point. For the record, I liked the film a lot. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 85.158.137.195 |
I did too, although I've never bothered to see it since its firs cinema release. | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.253.174.81 |
Same here - there were lots of walkouts during CRASH, I liked it a lot, I've never seen it since, and it was bloody weird driving home afterwards. Other movies I've seen in Bristol that were graced with walkouts included the original TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (they should have realised what it was like by the time of the re-release) and SAW - that quite deliciously horrible bit where that unfortunate young lady with the steel trap on her head has to cut the key out of that even more unfortunate young man. I have never walked out of a film, but BATMAN & ROBIN did make my eyes burn | ||
| Jonathan (Jonathan) Username: Jonathan Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.143.178.131 |
I walked out of a film called High Art, it was mainly due to the shoddy quality of the print but it did look like a pretty dreadful movie too. | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.167.124.223 |
Yes there were a couple of people who walked out of Cronenberg's crash as well here in Copenhagen. I enjoyed the film- my friend thought I was derranged for suggesting to him that we go see it when we came out of the theatre. We did not drive home. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.21.22.37 |
"The most walkouts I ever observed in a cinema were during the first British showing of Salo at a London Film Festival in the seventies - bunches of people left at several points in the film." I saw the restored (?) version of this in the late nineties. Nearly walked out of it, not because I was shocked, but because I found the film tedious. The only instance I have ever felt people actually squirm and cringe all around me was the paedophile father-son confession in HAPPINESS. An alazing bit of cinema, that. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.21.22.37 |
amazing, even  |