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     Giancarlo (Giancarlo) Username: Giancarlo Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 85.116.228.5 |
I saw SPLICE last night. I enjoyed it two thirds. I felt let down by the Creature turning into a buck, a disturbing Angel becoming just another monster! | ||
| Giancarlo (Giancarlo) Username: Giancarlo Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 85.116.228.5 |
By the way of personality shifters, as watching telly I chanced upon Michael Caine playing the Jekyll/Hide character. I suppose it is a TV movie. The ambience is good but Hide seems a rip off a Frankenstein movie. Imo, the Tracy/Bergman version of the old story is still the best rendering. "Mary Reilly" is a nice taking in the change of perspective but far from being a classic. T. Fisher's, from Hammer, version is intriguing but its dorian-grayish inspiration makes me double minded. I confess to a soft spot for "Doctor Jekyll and Ms Hide". Not a great one but I like its bluish Victorian atmosphere. | ||
| Giancarlo (Giancarlo) Username: Giancarlo Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 85.116.228.5 |
Cordelier/Opale is the French counterpart to the Jekyll/Hide story in Jean Renoir's flick "Le Testement du Docteur Cordelier", Jean-Louis Barrault playing the evil side of the good doctor in a very original way, like a disjointed clown generating comical yet deeply disturbing effects. | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.68 |
I liked the Renoir too, Giancarlo! But my favourite is still the Mamoulian. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.31.8.83 |
I read Mary Reilly in its novel form and found it quite pointless, really. Unless I missed something. | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.253.174.81 |
The Mamoulian is probably the best but I've rather a soft spot for Victor Fleming's 1941 version with Spencer Tracy and Ingrid Bergman myself. We've got the Terence Fisher version on the shelf but I've never seen it. Unlike Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde which is loads of fun for all sorts of reasons. | ||
| Kate (Kathleen) Username: Kathleen Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 86.142.147.219 |
Can I lower the tone by saying I'm a huge fan of the musical? I saw it on (off) Broadway in New York with Sebastian Bach in the lead. "Evil has never looked this good" indeed. Yum! Alas, for some bewildering reason they cast David Hasselhoff (!) in the version shot for DVD. Bless him, he tries, but... well. The Hoff.  | ||
| Giancarlo (Giancarlo) Username: Giancarlo Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 85.116.228.5 |
Yes, I forgot about Mamoulian's version casting Fredrich March, upon which I can't comment because I saw the movie ages ago and it's often superimposed to Fleming's rendering in my memory. As to the female Hyde, I was of course referring to Roy Ward Baker's flick "Doctor Jekyll and Sister Hyde", casting Ralph Bates and Martine Beswick, nothing to do with David Price's poorly comedic "Doctor Jekyll and Ms Hide". | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77 |
I've just watched SPLICE and thought it was bloody excellent - one of the best films I've seen this year. Funny, transgressive, creepy, shocking, audacious, and wonderfully entertaining. MILD SPOLIER Unlike Giancarlo, I thought the ending was very fitting - it's telegraphed right at the start, so doesn't come as a suprise or a let-down. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 220.138.160.238 |
I liked it too, Zed. It was a bit Cronenbergian in its theme, and in the way certain scenes were shot, I thought. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77 |
I agre, Huw - the director even states in the extras that Cronenberg's early stuff was a big influence. It had that same squelchy sexual vibe, I think. | ||
| John Forth (John) Username: John Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 82.24.1.217 |
Watched this last night and really enjoyed it. Pleasingly... wrong is the best way I can think to describe it. And ballsy in the way that too few creature features are these days. Also, a nice alternative to the usual 'happy-happy-joy-joy' depiction of child-rearing in movies. The Cronenberg influence was clear straight from the credits, which reminded me of THE FLY. THE BROOD looked to be a key touchstone as well, though. |