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Post by Digi on Oct 21, 2020 3:08:31 GMT
Spooktober: Day 1-10 {Spoiler}Spooktober - Day One: The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
Spooktober - Day Two: Dawn of the Dead (1978) Dracula (1931, English version)
Spooktober - Day Three: Dracula (1931, Spanish version) The Thing (1982)
Spooktober - Day Four: The Man Who Laughs (1928) Frankenstein (1931)
Spooktober - Day Five: Day of the Dead (1985) The Mummy (1932) The Blair Witch Project (1999)
Spooktober - Day Six: The Invisible Man (1933) The Witch (2015)
Spooktober - Day Seven: The Black Cat (1934) Land of the Dead (2005) Wolf Creek (2005)
Spooktober - Day Eight: The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) Ghostbusters (1984) -- my 300th movie of the year!
Spooktober - Day Nine: Dracula's Daughter (1936) Happy Death Day 2U (2019) The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
Spooktober - Day Ten: Son of Frankenstein (1939) Scream (1996) The Conjuring (2013)
Spooktober - Day 11: The Invisible Man Returns (1940) Diary of the Dead (2007) Spooktober - Day 12: The Invisible Woman (1940) Ghostbusters II (1989) Rosemary's Baby (1968) Spooktober - Day 13: The Mummy's Hand (1940) Friday the 13th (1980) Sinister (2012) Spooktober - Day 14: The Wolf Man (1941) Let the Right One In (2008) Spooktober - Day 15: The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942) Survival of the Dead (2009) Spooktober - Day 16: The Mummy's Tomb (1942) The Hills Have Eyes (2006) Spooktober - Day 17: Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943) Spooktober - Day 18: Son of Dracula (1943) The Birds (1963) Spooktober - Day 19: The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944) Suspiria (1977) Spooktober - Day 20: The Mummy's Ghost (1944) Underworld (2003) Midsommar (2019) The Babadook (2014) Yeah I wasn't feeling particularly motivated to do any adulting today...
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Oct 21, 2020 3:31:13 GMT
Spooktober: Day 1-10 {Spoiler}Spooktober - Day One: The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
Spooktober - Day Two: Dawn of the Dead (1978) Dracula (1931, English version)
Spooktober - Day Three: Dracula (1931, Spanish version) The Thing (1982)
Spooktober - Day Four: The Man Who Laughs (1928) Frankenstein (1931)
Spooktober - Day Five: Day of the Dead (1985) The Mummy (1932) The Blair Witch Project (1999)
Spooktober - Day Six: The Invisible Man (1933) The Witch (2015)
Spooktober - Day Seven: The Black Cat (1934) Land of the Dead (2005) Wolf Creek (2005)
Spooktober - Day Eight: The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) Ghostbusters (1984) -- my 300th movie of the year!
Spooktober - Day Nine: Dracula's Daughter (1936) Happy Death Day 2U (2019) The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
Spooktober - Day Ten: Son of Frankenstein (1939) Scream (1996) The Conjuring (2013)
Spooktober - Day 11: The Invisible Man Returns (1940) Diary of the Dead (2007) Spooktober - Day 12: The Invisible Woman (1940) Ghostbusters II (1989) Rosemary's Baby (1968) Spooktober - Day 13: The Mummy's Hand (1940) Friday the 13th (1980) Sinister (2012) Spooktober - Day 14: The Wolf Man (1941) Let the Right One In (2008) Spooktober - Day 15: The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942) Survival of the Dead (2009) Spooktober - Day 16: The Mummy's Tomb (1942) The Hills Have Eyes (2006) Spooktober - Day 17: Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943) Spooktober - Day 18: Son of Dracula (1943) The Birds (1963) Spooktober - Day 19: The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944) Suspiria (1977) Spooktober - Day 20: The Mummy's Ghost (1944) Underworld (2003) Midsommar (2019) The Babadook (2014) Yeah I wasn't feeling particularly motivated to do any adulting today... The Babadook was filmed in my hometown- someone I know worked on that movie behind the scenes.. Outside shots are a real house, everything inside is a sound stage .
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Post by timegirl on Oct 21, 2020 4:13:55 GMT
Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 2
My mom picked this one out since since she liked the first one. It’s a cute enough supernatural take on the High School Musical formula, with a nice if somewhat heavy handed emphasis on acceptance. The songs are too auto tuned for my taste, but the energy was infectious.
Phantom of the Paradise
Wonderful cult classic horror musical satire with brilliant songs a chilling performance by Paul Williams and one brilliant characters! Love the split screen visuals as well!
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Post by polly on Oct 21, 2020 5:17:05 GMT
Phantom of the Paradise Wonderful cult classic horror musical satire with brilliant songs a chilling performance by Paul Williams and one brilliant characters! Love the split screen visuals as well! Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home - I'm always kind of torn on this movie. It's certainly more lighthearted and relaxing than the first three. It's genuinely funny - "Double dumbass on you" has been a common utterance in my family since I was a kid. I like that the entire cast has their own spotlight moments throughout, as they did in III, so it's appealing for the camaraderie. I'd rank it third out of the TOS films overall. But I think I'm more lukewarm on it than most. If I'm not going through the series in order, I don't know that I'd ever choose to watch it over II or VI or even First Contact. There are too many little nitpicks and plot holes that bug me, and on subsequent viewings familiarity has bred a modicum of contempt. I appreciate the lack of a Khan-rehash villain, and that the whale probe is truly alien and unknowable. But, I just prefer something a little more Star Trek than futzing around in 1986, you know? - How come this movie gets a pass for recycling the V'Ger idea and doing it goofier? - How come the Federation council has Star Trek III footage as evidence? Including shots from outside the ship. Where were those cameras? - How come the probe is vaporizing the oceans when it wants to talk to the whales which live in the oceans? - How come when the probe powers down all the ships there's still life support and gravity and stuff? - How come they couldn't just scan the planet for humpback lifesigns and beam them up instead of going to the aquarium at all? - How come nobody bumped into the cloaked ship? Golden Gate Park should be very busy on a nice day, but it's deserted because the movie needs it to be. - How come they seem perplexed by money, even though money was a thing on TOS? If the Federation doesn't use money by TVH, then they switched a couple decades ago at most. - What happens if the probe comes back? Just two whales with one offspring are not genetically viable to repopulate, unless you just clone them in perpetuity. - What about the communicators and other assorted crap they left behind? Enterprise did a whole episode about how that could contaminate a culture. - Why does the Klingon ambassador vanish from the movie after the opening scenes? Shouldn't he be pissed off Kirk got a slap on the wrist? It's not like he could have left Earth since all the ships don't work. I'll be okay in a minute.
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Oct 21, 2020 10:30:48 GMT
"Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice" is on tv now.
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shutupbanks
Castellan
There’s a horror movie called Alien? That’s really offensive. No wonder everyone keeps invading you.
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Post by shutupbanks on Oct 21, 2020 12:32:21 GMT
Phantom of the Paradise Wonderful cult classic horror musical satire with brilliant songs a chilling performance by Paul Williams and one brilliant characters! Love the split screen visuals as well! Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home - I'm always kind of torn on this movie. It's certainly more lighthearted and relaxing than the first three. It's genuinely funny - "Double dumbass on you" has been a common utterance in my family since I was a kid. I like that the entire cast has their own spotlight moments throughout, as they did in III, so it's appealing for the camaraderie. I'd rank it third out of the TOS films overall. But I think I'm more lukewarm on it than most. If I'm not going through the series in order, I don't know that I'd ever choose to watch it over II or VI or even First Contact. There are too many little nitpicks and plot holes that bug me, and on subsequent viewings familiarity has bred a modicum of contempt. I appreciate the lack of a Khan-rehash villain, and that the whale probe is truly alien and unknowable. But, I just prefer something a little more Star Trek than futzing around in 1986, you know? - How come this movie gets a pass for recycling the V'Ger idea and doing it goofier? - How come the Federation council has Star Trek III footage as evidence? Including shots from outside the ship. Where were those cameras? - How come the probe is vaporizing the oceans when it wants to talk to the whales which live in the oceans? - How come when the probe powers down all the ships there's still life support and gravity and stuff? - How come they couldn't just scan the planet for humpback lifesigns and beam them up instead of going to the aquarium at all? - How come nobody bumped into the cloaked ship? Golden Gate Park should be very busy on a nice day, but it's deserted because the movie needs it to be. - How come they seem perplexed by money, even though money was a thing on TOS? If the Federation doesn't use money by TVH, then they switched a couple decades ago at most. - What happens if the probe comes back? Just two whales with one offspring are not genetically viable to repopulate, unless you just clone them in perpetuity. - What about the communicators and other assorted crap they left behind? Enterprise did a whole episode about how that could contaminate a culture. - Why does the Klingon ambassador vanish from the movie after the opening scenes? Shouldn't he be pissed off Kirk got a slap on the wrist? It's not like he could have left Earth since all the ships don't work. I'll be okay in a minute.
III is better than IV is a hill I would die on as well. TVH is funny and a time travel movie which forgives everything, I guess.
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melkur
Chancellery Guard
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Post by melkur on Oct 21, 2020 14:04:17 GMT
So far today:
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald - A little long in places, but that was alright, I guess?
The Snow Queen 3: Fire & Ice - Pleasantly surprised, consider me pleasantly surprised...
I'm doing some more overtime at work today, though might have some time when I get back to watch another.
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Post by tuigirl on Oct 21, 2020 16:43:21 GMT
Phantom of the Paradise Wonderful cult classic horror musical satire with brilliant songs a chilling performance by Paul Williams and one brilliant characters! Love the split screen visuals as well! Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home - I'm always kind of torn on this movie. It's certainly more lighthearted and relaxing than the first three. It's genuinely funny - "Double dumbass on you" has been a common utterance in my family since I was a kid. I like that the entire cast has their own spotlight moments throughout, as they did in III, so it's appealing for the camaraderie. I'd rank it third out of the TOS films overall. But I think I'm more lukewarm on it than most. If I'm not going through the series in order, I don't know that I'd ever choose to watch it over II or VI or even First Contact. There are too many little nitpicks and plot holes that bug me, and on subsequent viewings familiarity has bred a modicum of contempt. I appreciate the lack of a Khan-rehash villain, and that the whale probe is truly alien and unknowable. But, I just prefer something a little more Star Trek than futzing around in 1986, you know? - How come this movie gets a pass for recycling the V'Ger idea and doing it goofier? - How come the Federation council has Star Trek III footage as evidence? Including shots from outside the ship. Where were those cameras? - How come the probe is vaporizing the oceans when it wants to talk to the whales which live in the oceans? - How come when the probe powers down all the ships there's still life support and gravity and stuff? - How come they couldn't just scan the planet for humpback lifesigns and beam them up instead of going to the aquarium at all? - How come nobody bumped into the cloaked ship? Golden Gate Park should be very busy on a nice day, but it's deserted because the movie needs it to be. - How come they seem perplexed by money, even though money was a thing on TOS? If the Federation doesn't use money by TVH, then they switched a couple decades ago at most. - What happens if the probe comes back? Just two whales with one offspring are not genetically viable to repopulate, unless you just clone them in perpetuity. - What about the communicators and other assorted crap they left behind? Enterprise did a whole episode about how that could contaminate a culture. - Why does the Klingon ambassador vanish from the movie after the opening scenes? Shouldn't he be pissed off Kirk got a slap on the wrist? It's not like he could have left Earth since all the ships don't work. I'll be okay in a minute.
I absolutely adore ST IV. It comes from a time when I was a) a teenage Trekkie and b) had my own whale adopted with a whale saving organisation. When I visited my US relatives in New England, we of course did a cruise to visit said whale (we did not see my whale, specifically, but we saw "a" whale, which is good enough I guess ).
The scene where the bird of prey hovers over a Norwegian Whaling ship still remains one of my favorite Star Trek scenes.
However, you mention some valid points and some of the plot holes I have noticed even back in the day on first viewing. I still have a very soft spot for this movie.
I also did read the novelisation and it at least makes a small effort to bridge some of the plot gaps. More or less successfully I might add.
The novelisation also has some of the deleted scenes which explain a few things - for example, how Sulu gets his hands on a helicopter and it also has Spock high on some sweet that is an intoxicant for Vulcans. This is why he made the rash decision of jumping into the pool with the whales to communicate. When Kirk tells Spock off for his behaviour, Spock apologizes for being high, but also adds that Kirk had handed out the sweets and did not give Spock the time to check the ingredients on the wrappers.
For the whales, there is apparently a very convenient cloning project on some Federation planet on the way already and the whale scientist is going to join up in the future and they are going to re-start a population.
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Post by polly on Oct 21, 2020 19:14:51 GMT
III is better than IV is a hill I would die on as well. TVH is funny and a time travel movie which forgives everything, I guess. I don't know if III is better, but it's certainly more of a Star Trek movie. IV deserves more criticism than it gets though. Being funny is exactly the excuse I usually hear. I also think the financial success of this movie somewhat poisoned the well for later Trek films because it proved to the bean-counters you can make money off the Star Trek name even if it's not very Trek-y. I absolutely adore ST IV. It comes from a time when I was a) a teenage Trekkie and b) had my own whale adopted with a whale saving organisation. When I visited my US relatives in New England, we of course did a cruise to visit said whale (we did not see my whale, specifically, but we saw "a" whale, which is good enough I guess ).
The scene where the bird of prey hovers over a Norwegian Whaling ship still remains one of my favorite Star Trek scenes.
However, you mention some valid points and some of the plot holes I have noticed even back in the day on first viewing. I still have a very soft spot for this movie.
I also did read the novelisation and it at least makes a small effort to bridge some of the plot gaps. More or less successfully I might add.
The novelisation also has some of the deleted scenes which explain a few things - for example, how Sulu gets his hands on a helicopter and it also has Spock high on some sweet that is an intoxicant for Vulcans. This is why he made the rash decision of jumping into the pool with the whales to communicate. When Kirk tells Spock off for his behaviour, Spock apologizes for being high, but also adds that Kirk had handed out the sweets and did not give Spock the time to check the ingredients on the wrappers.
For the whales, there is apparently a very convenient cloning project on some Federation planet on the way already and the whale scientist is going to join up in the future and they are going to re-start a population.
Well, I never went so far as to adopt a whale, but I have a lot of affection and respect for animals, so I understand the feeling there. That awful bit at the aquarium with the whale-butchering footage I always close my eyes. It's horrid. The BOP scaring the crap out of the whalers is a great image, silly or not. I did read a fair bit of the novels when I was a kid because we didn't have the VHS tapes, but I don't think IV was one of them. But those little tidbits do cover up some of the holes. Having said that, you shouldn't need a novelization for the movie to make sense, so my complaints stand.
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Post by Digi on Oct 21, 2020 19:58:26 GMT
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home - I'm always kind of torn on this movie. It's certainly more lighthearted and relaxing than the first three. It's genuinely funny - "Double dumbass on you" has been a common utterance in my family since I was a kid. I like that the entire cast has their own spotlight moments throughout, as they did in III, so it's appealing for the camaraderie. I'd rank it third out of the TOS films overall. But I think I'm more lukewarm on it than most. If I'm not going through the series in order, I don't know that I'd ever choose to watch it over II or VI or even First Contact. There are too many little nitpicks and plot holes that bug me, and on subsequent viewings familiarity has bred a modicum of contempt. I appreciate the lack of a Khan-rehash villain, and that the whale probe is truly alien and unknowable. But, I just prefer something a little more Star Trek than futzing around in 1986, you know? - How come this movie gets a pass for recycling the V'Ger idea and doing it goofier? I don't think it's recycling V'Ger specifically, it's just the common dangerously advanced robot/AI trope, which Trek had already used in TOS too. The most direct comparison is Nomad in The Changeling, but there's also a fair case to be made for the M-5 automation AI in The Ultimate Computer- How come the Federation council has Star Trek III footage as evidence? Including shots from outside the ship. Where were those cameras? Yeah fair, that's been a nitpick of everyone's for as long as I can remember - How come the probe is vaporizing the oceans when it wants to talk to the whales which live in the oceans? They don't really say how much it's vaporizing, though. I realize I'm splitting hairs here, but even vaporizing, say, half a cm from the very surface of the ocean would seem like a staggering amount for landlubbers like us. For whales it might be like someone pounding on the door.- How come when the probe powers down all the ships there's still life support and gravity and stuff? It didn't power stuff down completely though. That bit where the Indian captain (not sure he ever got a name) makes his distress call to Starfleet Command, he says that power supplies were drained and they were functioning on reserve power only. So they still had some electricity...just, instead of having a power plant, they were operating on batteries, effectively.- How come they couldn't just scan the planet for humpback lifesigns and beam them up instead of going to the aquarium at all? Wild guess on my part: the bird of prey is an alien scout ship. Its sensors may not be programmed to identify 'primitive' life forms with any specificity. Or, it's a scout ship basically, right? Would the people who programmed its sensor database have bothered to program an alien 'primitive' life form that's been extinct for over 200 years?- How come nobody bumped into the cloaked ship? Golden Gate Park should be very busy on a nice day, but it's deserted because the movie needs it to be. Yeah that's a giant hole haha you know what else cracks me up about this though is the Sulu story that we don't really see after he scouts out the helicopter. So he...breaks into either an airport or an airbase, steals a military-grade helicopter, flies it over the city and then hovers over the transparent aluminum place to pick up their wares, flies out to the park, hovers in the park in the middle of the city lowering these giant boxes and having them disappear beneath him, and then...what, lands it in the park and climbs up into the bird of prey? There were NO military or police chasing a stolen chopper around San Francisco?! - How come they seem perplexed by money, even though money was a thing on TOS? If the Federation doesn't use money by TVH, then they switched a couple decades ago at most. Yeah kind of a problem eh? I mean Trek has never, ever been consistent about money, but still.- What happens if the probe comes back? Just two whales with one offspring are not genetically viable to repopulate, unless you just clone them in perpetuity. Cloning seems reasonable enough. We know that Earth had a Eugenics War, so they must have a pretty advanced understanding of genetic engineering 300 years later. I don't think it's a huge stretch to imagine they can clone them and make minor alterations to avoid genetic defects from inbreeding.- What about the communicators and other assorted crap they left behind? Enterprise did a whole episode about how that could contaminate a culture. Yeah that is annoying, it stands out like a sore thumb to me every time!- Why does the Klingon ambassador vanish from the movie after the opening scenes? Shouldn't he be pissed off Kirk got a slap on the wrist? It's not like he could have left Earth since all the ships don't work. He doesn't vanish, he's at the trial at the end.I'll be okay in a minute.
/nerd alert
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Post by polly on Oct 21, 2020 21:08:18 GMT
- How come this movie gets a pass for recycling the V'Ger idea and doing it goofier? I don't think it's recycling V'Ger specifically, it's just the common dangerously advanced robot/AI trope, which Trek had already used in TOS too. The most direct comparison is Nomad in The Changeling, but there's also a fair case to be made for the M-5 automation AI in The Ultimate Computer- How come the probe is vaporizing the oceans when it wants to talk to the whales which live in the oceans? They don't really say how much it's vaporizing, though. I realize I'm splitting hairs here, but even vaporizing, say, half a cm from the very surface of the ocean would seem like a staggering amount for landlubbers like us. For whales it might be like someone pounding on the door.- How come when the probe powers down all the ships there's still life support and gravity and stuff? It didn't power stuff down completely though. That bit where the Indian captain (not sure he ever got a name) makes his distress call to Starfleet Command, he says that power supplies were drained and they were functioning on reserve power only. So they still had some electricity...just, instead of having a power plant, they were operating on batteries, effectively.- How come they couldn't just scan the planet for humpback lifesigns and beam them up instead of going to the aquarium at all? Wild guess on my part: the bird of prey is an alien scout ship. Its sensors may not be programmed to identify 'primitive' life forms with any specificity. Or, it's a scout ship basically, right? Would the people who programmed its sensor database have bothered to program an alien 'primitive' life form that's been extinct for over 200 years?- How come nobody bumped into the cloaked ship? Golden Gate Park should be very busy on a nice day, but it's deserted because the movie needs it to be. Yeah that's a giant hole haha you know what else cracks me up about this though is the Sulu story that we don't really see after he scouts out the helicopter. So he...breaks into either an airport or an airbase, steals a military-grade helicopter, flies it over the city and then hovers over the transparent aluminum place to pick up their wares, flies out to the park, hovers in the park in the middle of the city lowering these giant boxes and having them disappear beneath him, and then...what, lands it in the park and climbs up into the bird of prey? There were NO military or police chasing a stolen chopper around San Francisco?! - How come they seem perplexed by money, even though money was a thing on TOS? If the Federation doesn't use money by TVH, then they switched a couple decades ago at most. Yeah kind of a problem eh? I mean Trek has never, ever been consistent about money, but still.- What happens if the probe comes back? Just two whales with one offspring are not genetically viable to repopulate, unless you just clone them in perpetuity. Cloning seems reasonable enough. We know that Earth had a Eugenics War, so they must have a pretty advanced understanding of genetic engineering 300 years later. I don't think it's a huge stretch to imagine they can clone them and make minor alterations to avoid genetic defects from inbreeding.- Why does the Klingon ambassador vanish from the movie after the opening scenes? Shouldn't he be pissed off Kirk got a slap on the wrist? It's not like he could have left Earth since all the ships don't work. He doesn't vanish, he's at the trial at the end.
/nerd alert Hey, nerd alerts are what we do around here! I get that a mad computer is far from new in Star Trek, but we have an unfathomable, super advanced probe of unknown origin rolling right up to Earth's doorstep, easily disabling every ship it encounters, and threatening the imminent doom of mankind unless it gets an answer from exactly the right source. That to me is just a little too specific for something you did only three movies ago. Even TMP is too close to "The Changeling" but that's another kettle of marine life. Yeah, I guess there's a lot of ocean to vaporize, but the probe showed no signs of ever stopping until it got a response. I don't get the sense that it was punishment for not being answered, more like a phone continually ringing...so on that we agree, I just think it's a bit of a design flaw. I remember the Indian captain's message about emergency backups, but with regard to the above point about just continuing on vaporizing, it doesn't seem like it's that discriminating. If it can power down the warp core or whatever, why not drain the batteries too? Just to be nice? If it wanted to be nice and it can pick and choose, why not knock the weapons systems offline and leave everything else alone? Fair point that the BOP probably wouldn't know what to look for when it comes to whales. Although, when they were identifying the whalesong early on, Spock pulls up information on humpbacks from the ship's computer, so maybe it does have more info than we'd think? Granted, it's not like Wikipedia pages come with gene samples or anything. Yeah, Sulu's chopper theft is apparently something scripted but abandoned because George Takei had run a marathon and couldn't do the stunt. Still a bit of a hole there for sure. Many improbable things have to happen. The easiest explanation for the money thing is that they demonetized sometime between TOS and TNG, which is fine. TNG and onward having characters that don't understand it makes sense 80+ years later. But the movie era, even if they demonetized, the characters are old enough to have used money previously. I wonder if Enterprise ever made reference to money? Yeah tuigirl said the novel referenced that they'd clone the whales. Fair enough, but a single line in the movie to explain that would've cost nothing. "Cover it with a line," as Terrence Dicks used to say. And uh... I must've overlooked the Klingon ambassador being there at the end. My bad.
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Post by Digi on Oct 22, 2020 4:12:47 GMT
Spooktober: Day 1-20 {Spoiler}Spooktober - Day One: The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
Spooktober - Day Two: Dawn of the Dead (1978) Dracula (1931, English version)
Spooktober - Day Three: Dracula (1931, Spanish version) The Thing (1982)
Spooktober - Day Four: The Man Who Laughs (1928) Frankenstein (1931)
Spooktober - Day Five: Day of the Dead (1985) The Mummy (1932) The Blair Witch Project (1999)
Spooktober - Day Six: The Invisible Man (1933) The Witch (2015)
Spooktober - Day Seven: The Black Cat (1934) Land of the Dead (2005) Wolf Creek (2005)
Spooktober - Day Eight: The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) Ghostbusters (1984) -- my 300th movie of the year!
Spooktober - Day Nine: Dracula's Daughter (1936) Happy Death Day 2U (2019) The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
Spooktober - Day Ten: Son of Frankenstein (1939) Scream (1996) The Conjuring (2013)
Spooktober - Day 11: The Invisible Man Returns (1940) Diary of the Dead (2007)
Spooktober - Day 12: The Invisible Woman (1940) Ghostbusters II (1989) Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Spooktober - Day 13: The Mummy's Hand (1940) Friday the 13th (1980) Sinister (2012)
Spooktober - Day 14: The Wolf Man (1941) Let the Right One In (2008)
Spooktober - Day 15: The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942) Survival of the Dead (2009)
Spooktober - Day 16: The Mummy's Tomb (1942) The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
Spooktober - Day 17: Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)
Spooktober - Day 18: Son of Dracula (1943) The Birds (1963)
Spooktober - Day 19: The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944) Suspiria (1977)
Spooktober - Day 20: The Mummy's Ghost (1944) Underworld (2003) Midsommar (2019) The Babadook (2014)
Spooktober - Day 21: The House of Frankenstein (1944) Hereditary (2018)
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melkur
Chancellery Guard
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Post by melkur on Oct 22, 2020 11:58:45 GMT
If by 'watched Borat this morning' you mean "did I skim-through certain too cringeworthy-for-words", yes, this morning I did indeed 'watch Borat'...
Over lunch I've watched 'The Snow Queen 2: The Snow King', which is fair enough for a 79minute animated film.
I'm going out for my daily walk shortly, but am planning on watching the new adaption of 'The Witches' at some point later today.
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Post by relativetime on Oct 22, 2020 18:36:42 GMT
Yesterday I watched The Wolf Man and The Horror of Dracula. I had a blast with both.
The Wolf Man is more of a tragedy than a straight up horror movie and it really does a great job making you feel for Larry. Lon Cheney Jr. and Claude Rains are riveting - I’m certainly eager to see more of Rains in The Invisible Man. I was a little worried this film was going to be a bit TOO dated at first - the whole first couple of scenes between Larry and Gwen were very cringe - but it was very easy to just be absorbed into the story besides those few scenes.
The Horror of Dracula is just fantastic. I like the twists this film made to the original story. The pacing is just great - there’s never a moment that feels dragged out or uninteresting. It certainly helps the film as two of the greatest actors of a generation - seriously, every second Peter Cushing or Christopher Lee were onscreen was absolutely electric. I feel like I could have done with more lines from Lee, but I guess I can rest assured I’ve got some sequels to look forward to that’ll satisfy that need!
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Post by number13 on Oct 22, 2020 21:53:03 GMT
Yesterday I watched The Wolf Man and The Horror of Dracula. I had a blast with both. The Wolf Man is more of a tragedy than a straight up horror movie and it really does a great job making you feel for Larry. Lon Cheney Jr. and Claude Rains are riveting - I’m certainly eager to see more of Rains in The Invisible Man. I was a little worried this film was going to be a bit TOO dated at first - the whole first couple of scenes between Larry and Gwen were very cringe - but it was very easy to just be absorbed into the story besides those few scenes. The Horror of Dracula is just fantastic. I like the twists this film made to the original story. The pacing is just great - there’s never a moment that feels dragged out or uninteresting. It certainly helps the film as two of the greatest actors of a generation - seriously, every second Peter Cushing or Christopher Lee were onscreen was absolutely electric. I feel like I could have done with more lines from Lee, but I guess I can rest assured I’ve got some sequels to look forward to that’ll satisfy that need! 'Dracula: Prince of Darkness' is (for Lee) a completely silent film - apart from the occasional vampiric hiss. Not one single line - but his presence remains electric in every scene.
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melkur
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Post by melkur on Oct 22, 2020 22:38:32 GMT
The Witches (the new remake) - I will admit that I haven't read the book or seen the other film adaption, after watching this, I'll happily give them a shot at some point!
Kajillionaire - There we go, hands down the best film of 2020. I went in almost completely blind ("crime comedy" is all I knew) & completely and utterly loved it!
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Post by christmastrenzalore on Oct 22, 2020 23:07:41 GMT
The Witches (the new remake) - I will admit that I haven't read the book or seen the other film adaption, after watching this, I'll happily give them a shot at some point! The Witches was a favourite growing up. Very fun and creepy.
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Post by melkur on Oct 22, 2020 23:20:21 GMT
The Witches (the new remake) - I will admit that I haven't read the book or seen the other film adaption, after watching this, I'll happily give them a shot at some point! The Witches was a favourite growing up. Very fun and creepy. I have heard that, yes. Considering that I've just seen this one, it'll probably be a little while before I get round to watching it, but it's certainly on the list!
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Post by timegirl on Oct 23, 2020 0:34:18 GMT
Paperhouse
Just rewatched this movie last night! It’s like a combination of Coraline and Fear Her ( the good bits) with very eerie atmosphere. The same story was also adapted into the equally creepy Escape Into Night.
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Post by Digi on Oct 23, 2020 5:17:29 GMT
Spooktober: Day 1-20 {Spoiler}Spooktober - Day One: The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
Spooktober - Day Two: Dawn of the Dead (1978) Dracula (1931, English version)
Spooktober - Day Three: Dracula (1931, Spanish version) The Thing (1982)
Spooktober - Day Four: The Man Who Laughs (1928) Frankenstein (1931)
Spooktober - Day Five: Day of the Dead (1985) The Mummy (1932) The Blair Witch Project (1999)
Spooktober - Day Six: The Invisible Man (1933) The Witch (2015)
Spooktober - Day Seven: The Black Cat (1934) Land of the Dead (2005) Wolf Creek (2005)
Spooktober - Day Eight: The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) Ghostbusters (1984) -- my 300th movie of the year!
Spooktober - Day Nine: Dracula's Daughter (1936) Happy Death Day 2U (2019) The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
Spooktober - Day Ten: Son of Frankenstein (1939) Scream (1996) The Conjuring (2013)
Spooktober - Day 11: The Invisible Man Returns (1940) Diary of the Dead (2007)
Spooktober - Day 12: The Invisible Woman (1940) Ghostbusters II (1989) Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Spooktober - Day 13: The Mummy's Hand (1940) Friday the 13th (1980) Sinister (2012)
Spooktober - Day 14: The Wolf Man (1941) Let the Right One In (2008)
Spooktober - Day 15: The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942) Survival of the Dead (2009)
Spooktober - Day 16: The Mummy's Tomb (1942) The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
Spooktober - Day 17: Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)
Spooktober - Day 18: Son of Dracula (1943) The Birds (1963)
Spooktober - Day 19: The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944) Suspiria (1977)
Spooktober - Day 20: The Mummy's Ghost (1944) Underworld (2003) Midsommar (2019) The Babadook (2014)
Spooktober - Day 21: The House of Frankenstein (1944) Hereditary (2018) Spooktober - Day 22: The Mummy's Curse (1944) Evil Dead 2 (1987)
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