| Author | Message | ||
     Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.148.96.124 |
Anyone wanna watch this tonight, 10.20? Compare notes? | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.143.25 |
Sorry, Tony - didn't know it was on. One of the 'funny' channels or a terrestrial one? | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.12.126 |
So what do you think Tony?... Awesome or what?... There's one scene in here, where I fantasize myself being Donald Sutherland... and no, it ain't the end, either...  | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.13.199 |
One of my favourite stories by Daphne Du Maurier. I can never watch that first scene in the film though. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.148.96.124 |
Ah, didn't watch it. I have seen it, but not for years. Watched Final Destination 2 in the end and while it was fun I nodded off, only to wake to the sound of the menu music going on, and on, and... Horrible that, actually. | ||
| John_l_probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.208.214.33 |
Tony - I have just rewatched 'Hostel' for the first time since I saw it at the cinema and it's still bloody great! The last half an hour, apart from the odd hiccup,is wonderfully suspenseful, and this time I had more of a chance to listen to Nathan Barr's score which integrates itself superbly. And it's a sexy horror movie as well - something sorely lacking in these post 1970s times | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
I agree, Lord P. I've watched Hostel several times now, and still love it - despite its flaws. | ||
| John_l_probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.208.214.33 |
And it has got as lot of flaws that you don't notice on first viewing but it marks Roth as someone to keep an eye on. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.249.255 |
"...to keep an eye on." [wicked giggle]   | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
The midget wasn't scary. Immortal words. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
I just like to trash things. Pah? Heaven? it was shit in my dad's pants. The sinking of the Titanic? I barely realised it was. World war 2? I wondered what that banging noise was. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.9.167 |
SPOILER ALERT Yeah, Albie, but... it's so utterly absurd, it is kind of scary. Donald Sutherland (yes, the actor: this absurdity punctures the film itself) gets knifed by a crazed midget in the last frame. It's the unseeable spectrum of comedy... it's so distantly lost there, it nearly touches the other side of horror... it's so unquantifiable, you either laugh, or mock, or scuttle away.... | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
The sex scene did all these things to me...and to itself. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.149.134.59 |
The sex scene – radical in its use of abrupt cuts to suggest the intrusion of the outside world into the characters' thoughts – prompted a lot of foolish press speculation that Christie and Sutherland might actually have 'done it' on camera. As if there were no such thing as acting. Which reminds me of a famous anecdote about the BBFC... When David Lean, in the early 1960s, was forced to cut a scene in which a couple were merely talking in bed together, he went to see the BBFC to ask why it was obscene for a married couple to be shown sharing a bed. They told him that what the audience saw was an actor and an actress who were not married to each other, but were in a bed together. At the other end of the spectrum, did any of you see 9 SONGS? I loved the concert footage (especially BMRC and Primal Scream) but thought the 'real sex' was stupid and pointless – bad drama and bad cinema, a publicity stunt that potentially harmed the medium. Mind you, the guy playing the boyfriend could have a future in porn. He had all the right attribute. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.149.134.59 |
BRMC, sorry. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 85.158.139.99 |
Ah, Black Motorcycle Rebel Club! I saw NINE SONGS and thought it a load of piffle, although as you say, Joel, the music stuff was good. SHORTBUS was uninteresting as well. Every time I read that such and such a director has included a 'real' sex scene in a film, I usually assume that the film is deficient in other ways and that this is a desperate attempts to get bums on seats. I see no real reason most of the time for a couple (or more!) to actually have sex on screen - AI NO CORRIDA notwithstanding - the folk in the film are pretending everything else; why not that too? | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.67.91 |
Joel-you have an email :>) | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.244.67 |
The blind medium rubbing her breast was good too. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.77.198 |
Has anyone read Du Maurier's original tale? It's almost disappointingly humdrum compared to the film version, with an odd last line: [SPOILER] "What a damned stupid way to die." What, killed by a psychotic dwarf? Hmm. Ridiculous, innit? | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.149.134.59 |
It's not that bad, Gary. The subtext of du Maurier's story is brought to the surface in Roeg's film, but it's all there in the original text – you just have to read between the lines. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.67.91 |
Yeah - lay off Daphne she has enough trouble with pesky mysteries to solve. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
Only Du Maurier I've ever read was Rebecca. I was looking forward to it but I've never been so disappointed by a book. Irritating self-centered bint marries into wealth and privelege and proceeds to whinge for 350 pages and only stops whinging when she finds out her husband's a murderer and she actually has a damned good reason to do so. What a load of rubbish | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.148.96.124 |
I wasn't struck with Don't Look Now the story. After the film it felt flat, flippant. |