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12-17-2018, 03:29 PM | #22511 (permalink) | |
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I need to watch that movie again. I'd seen it a few times around the time it came out when I was a kid (it was a movie to make me scared to go to the bathroom) but a few years ago I watched it for the first time since the 90s and was surprised by just how much of a stylistic statement it was. I guess you could call it a horror movie, but it felt more like Coppola crafting something he just thought was cool as all ****ing **** than anything else.
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12-17-2018, 03:31 PM | #22512 (permalink) |
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Yeah, the atmosphere and style is where a lot of the enjoyment comes from. I think it works very well as a story though. Even if some of the acting is on the cheesy side. Most of it, in fact.
But the story still works very well and there's just so much to look at. If watched in the dark, with good volume to let the soundtrack do it's thing, it's quite an experience. This time, I noticed so many things I never noticed before. So many small details and effective ways of transitioning scenes or tying things together thematically. I've got a whole bunch of favorite scenes as well. That chase near the end where the sun is going down as they race after Dracula's carriage gives me goosebumps! |
12-17-2018, 03:32 PM | #22513 (permalink) | |
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12-17-2018, 03:36 PM | #22514 (permalink) |
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I have seen it, but it's a long time ago. I thought it was interesting, but I don't think I appreciated it 100%. Can't remember it too well, but watching the main character go downhill has what carried the movie. Might be worth to watch it again. Something about a failed screenwriter. Some early scenes about a theater production are coming back to me just now, but it's all a bit of a haze.
I also watched Twixt a couple years ago. His post-big budget status is very evident in the special effects and such, but it was an enjoyable film with a fun little ghost story and some good characters. Cheesy for sure, but more my kind of thing than Tetro was. |
12-17-2018, 03:45 PM | #22515 (permalink) |
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Probably gonna rewatch Dagger of Kamui tonight
Wonderful beautiful crazy flick, I'm seriously surprised more people haven't made gifs out of the spastic visuals
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12-17-2018, 03:59 PM | #22516 (permalink) | |
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A while ago I remember talking to Mondo about gore movies and he recced me Braindead and I was like, "This is a Power Rangers gore movie" as a dis, and he asked me what I was looking for and I was too lazy to respond. But now I'm saying that I want a gore movie that looks naturalistic and makes you uncomfortable to watch. A movie where if a parents' rights group said the director was acting out serial killer fantasies you'd be hard pressed to argue their point. I just want to see guts that feel like a real person's insides are being splattered and not in a fun way.
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12-17-2018, 04:03 PM | #22517 (permalink) | |
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Have seen Audition and I need my over-the-top gore more over-the-top. Good movie though.
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