Movie Club discussion thread

[Sansa Stark]

I fell asleep during it but my boyfriend stayed up watching it

He said I didn't miss anything and that it was really boring


Basically his summation was thus:

"The guy,showed these people a bunch of pictures, and he blew them up and he said to them 'CAN YOU SEE THE BODY' and no one saw the body I guess. Then he did a lot of pacing, it sucked. Nothing really happened"

[djchameleon]

Originally Posted by Plum

I fell asleep during it but my boyfriend stayed up watching it

He said I didn't miss anything and that it was really boring


Basically his summation was thus:

"The guy,showed these people a bunch of pictures, and he blew them up and he said to them 'CAN YOU SEE THE BODY' and no one saw the body I guess. Then he did a lot of pacing, it sucked. Nothing really happened"

this is the same boyfriend that loves watching wrestling a male soap opera?

tbh, this movie was about as painful as pulling teeth but it's my first viewing of it. I felt like it dragged on a bit in certain parts. I seemed to pick up near the end and tended to symbolize more through certain scenes. For instance, I'm still trying to figure out what the director was trying to show by having him go to a gig where the people aren't dancing much except for two people at the back of the room.

Also, I noticed that he was going against the grain, he was going to the back of the room and fighting to get to the back through all the rigid stiff people. I'm pretty sure there was some significance to that scene but I haven't figured it out yet. When I saw the mimes in the ending scene it finally clicked a bit. i didn't understand why they were there at the beginning of the movie but I guess they were there to show that being in his world as a photographer it is better off to use his imagination and let reality take a back seat.

At the end of the movie he finally comes to the realization that what happens in his imagination is much more better and interesting than the real world could ever offer. He accepts this realization by throwing back the ball to the mimes.

I'm pretty sure upon future viewings I will see more that I missed out this time around.

[RandyMarsh]

Didn't give it a fair chance, switched it off after about 20-30 minutes and went to bed. It really wasn't pulling me in at all but I might give it another watch, not really my kind of movie tbh.

[Ska Lagos Jew Sun Ra]

Candidate 2: The Haunting (1963) by Tore

The Haunting (1963) - IMDb

"Dr. Markway, doing research to prove the existence of ghosts, investigates Hill House, a large, eerie mansion with a lurid history of violent death and insanity. With him are the skeptical young Luke, who stands to inherit the house, the mysterious and clairvoyant Theodora and the insecure Eleanor, whose psychic abilities make her feel somehow attuned to whatever spirits inhabit the old mansion. As time goes by it becomes obvious that they have gotten more than they bargained for as the ghostly presence in the house manifests itself in horrific and deadly ways."

It is supposedly the world's spookiest movie, yet I haven't seen it! It's something I'd like to remedy one of these days.

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Link coming whenever Dankstra has the time to supply it. Feel free to watch it before hand, and stat discussion if you will.

[Ska Lagos Jew Sun Ra]

Ask Dankstra for links. (His request as mod that I don't host them in threads).