It's a movie, fictional. Probably closely based on real events though. It's basically one young man's odyssey through various horrors of war, some on the outskirts of the war itself and then he becomes a soldier and experiences it right up close and personal.
Think I'll be watching Carnival of Souls tonight: The whole thing is on Youtube for free if anyone is interested. I find it eerily compelling.
Next up—I Walked With a Zombie: And Cat People, the 80's remake with Nastassia Kinsky and Malcolm McDowell: Based on the original, which was made by the team of Jaques Tourneur and Val Lewton who also did I Walked With a Zombie.
Tonight it's Mulholland Drive and The Shining. Probably the other way around—after Mulholland I'm too wiped out emotionally to watch do anything else.
The Batman trailer actually makes me really want to see it. I can't stand Nolan's Batman films or the following DC Uni films, but this movie looks like my kind of vibe. It has a Dredd feeling about it.
You know I don’t think I’ve ever watched two feature-length movies back to back. One is enough to digest.
Im trying to get in the halloween mood by watching horror thrillers. Someones In Your House (slasher film)..... I wanted to like it but it has so many inconsistencies and undeveloped characters and motivations. Apparently is was based off a book.... Nocturne (blumhouse thriller). I've gotta watch this again because, by the end of it, i was confused. Its a psychological thriller about a music students descent to madness, but i missed the trigger of it. Madres (blumhouse thriller) THIS WAS GOOD! And sad, too, because its based on whats really happening. A young couple moves to a part of california so the husband can work as a migrant farm hand. The wife is American born and raised (her parents are from mexico) and the husband immigrated from mexico when he was in his 20s. The wife is pregnant and doesnt speak spanish so she cant really communicate with the other women but she basically gets the gist of it: shes the only one who is having a baby and the other women dont like her for it and the fact that shes Americanized. Her not knowing the language even drives a rift between her and her husband. Anyways, things start happening to her and she finds that in this town, it ONLY happens to pregnant hispanic women.... every hispanic pregnant women either loses their baby, dies, or just goes missing. In the city, she was a journalist, so she goes hunting for the reason why. (If you watch this movie, read the ending scrawl ) Took a break from slashers and psychological thrillers to watch Queen, a coming of age movie about a quiet, dutiful punjabi woman who essentially gets left at the alter by her fiance who thinks shes too old fashioned and too conservative for him, who studied in London and has experienced the world. So she packs up and goes on her honeymoon to Paris to learn how to stand on her own and to experience the world. (Lol, you can tell i was bored yesterday )
I tend to pause and get up and do other things (usually checking in here) maybe several times through a movie. So watching 2 can take like 4 to 5 hours. Also if I notice interesting things going on in a movie then I have to come in here every few minutes and write notes for a possible analysis. This provides frequent breaks.
Just watched Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, produced by Francis Ford Coppola, and about to start on his Bram Stoker's Dracula. In both movies the costumes, wigs and makeup play a major role (in fact for Dracula he seriously wanted to not have any sets, just a black stage and let the lavish costumes stand in for a set). I was really struck by the underlying idea that the creature was a split-off part of Dr. Frankenstein, his unholy and preternaturally strong will manifesting itself physically. Notably, that dark will leaves him suddenly the very moment the creature comes alive, and for the first time he becomes aware of what an abomination he's created. It's like a Jekyll and Hyde thing, only he quite literally projected it into the homunculus he's created to house it. But even after ridding himself of it in that unorthodox manner it continues to haunt him and ultimately destroys his life. Next up is Dracula.
I like me a fantasy film matinee on the weekend, so I’m watching The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, but it’s pretty shit to be perfectly frank.
I used to love the old BBC version when I was a kid. I know I saw the update, but I can’t recall anything memorable about it besides Tilda Swinton...
Just watched Old. I won’t say it was bad, it just wasn’t very good. I wonder how good the graphic novel is.
It’s one of the few I don’t remember, but I suspect it had far more charm and sense of magic than the film.
Guess I always liked the premise that you could walk into a wardrobe and virtually all time stops. I don’t know if you’re willing to look into the sequel movies based on your impression of the first one. If you enjoyed watching Lord of the Rings, then you shouldn’t really have many issues with those. They’re almost similar. Also there’s different cast, and the kids have grown up some. If you haven’t got anything else better to do, I would look into those.
I love the LotR films but tLtWatW felt very small-scale in comparison. I may try them if I see them going for cheap / free anywhere.
Yeh you should. Then you could review them all on here and let us know if they were any better than the first one.
Watching The Graduate. Not sure how many times I’ve seen this film but I never grow tired of it. Hoffman has never been better and Bancroft never looked sexier. I love the ending, and the fact it may look like a typical fairy tale finish on the surface, but in the closing seconds we see that slight doubt creep over Benjamin and Elaine’s faces.
They're all fun movies; I don't think the sequels were significantly better or worse than the first (maybe a little worse if my memory serves). They're for children so they're not particularly deep, but they are pretty ok adventure movies.
