Posts by quietdriver3

Carol Rodriguez3 said:TOTAL FILM IS SHUTTING DOWN!!!

Maybe they should just lower their expectations a bit?

If they just dropped that fancy glossy paper, scaled back the size, and cut some of the niche sections—like those film school columns which aren't really 😉 anything special anyway—I guess half their problems would be solved.

And honestly, I don't think dropping the price by five bucks would kill demand... there isn't much competition out there to begin with, I suppose.

I mean, if Bruce Campbell was in every single movie, there probably wouldn't be any bad films out there...

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it's kind of the same thing with villains; if Alan Rickman played the antagonist in every action flick, movies like XXX wouldn't have been such garbage

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you could probably make the cheapest movie in the world just by casting Bill Murray or some guy like Pajtonovac; I guess you'd just put them in chairs in an empty room and film their faces...

and boom, you've got a movie, 👍 👍

but now... honestly, I can't think of a single movie that would've actually been better with different actors, maybe something will come to me later🤔

rapidorca22 said:Oh yeah, I definitely jumped out of my seat a couple times while watching it too 😁

Same here, honestly,

just as I was trying to shift around to let out a fart

Keith Morris9 said:I think what quietdriver3 is getting at is that Romero's Night of the Living Dead was a total game-changer for horror. It’s just so different from most horror movies back then—it doesn't rely on those overly stylized sets or dramatic lighting. It feels more like a documentary, you know? Like, shooting on location and having things like the radio and newspapers play such a huge role in the story... and thematically, it feels like it draws from stuff outside the horror genre, maybe something like Ford's Lost Patrol or Stagecoach.

don't go getting all worked up about it

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you can tell who actually knows their stuff 🙏

restlesseagle15 said:😍 god, I love you, but it isn't real

surreal, maybe?

restlesseagle15 said:you have no idea what you could do with me.

yeah, seriously, I was actually gonna ask if you come with any instruction manuals or something? 😉

restlesseagle15 said:whether you'd knock me out or... well, whatever else that word implies, which basically means the same thing here 🙄 🙄

nah, I'd just fill you with joy... 😁 😁

in name only

restlesseagle15 said:What kind of movie? That's just a song to you...👍

a song about a movie

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Sandra King86 said:👍

I mean, there’s some really good material here. Have you guys ever actually had the chance to read the original Grimm stories?
Not those romanticized Disneyesque versions or the ones in picture books, but the real deal? You know, the stuff about incest, evil mothers, severed limbs, all that barbarism... man, I'm hoping this movie leans into all that.

of course 👍

those old fairy tales don't really have much to do with the stories we heard as kids. They come from somewhere dark (no, I don't mean 🙄 ) and they flirt with horror, in the way people back then used to understand it.

honestly, those old tales seem almost made for Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam & whoever else

it just reminded me of that Neil Jordan film, Wolf Society (not the other way around), which was such an interesting retelling of Little Red Riding Hood—lots of sex, orgies, wolves 👍 he he

Jose Miller17 said:...I mean, I think he's clearly decided to end things pretty soon...:-( 😁

Yeah... I guess that would be his ultimate parody of life, wouldn't it? 😁

Jose Miller17 said:..so I was just poking around online a bit, and it looks like that movie is actually finished too...😲..

I mean, you're totally right about heading out in September

but

but still

that would mean two Gilliam movies in a single year... I don't know if the world can handle that much😲 ???

Jose Miller17 said:...so, here comes the next 'Tideland'... :-)

oh man, yeah! that is gonna be freaking awesome 👍

I mean, I just hope they actually get it filmed, just let them film it 🙏 !!!!!!!!!

Jose Miller17 said:...anyway, I don't really see what the big deal is about just admitting it... just suggest a movie and a spot ----> . man, kids these days have such fragile egos... 😁

or maybe they're just trolling 😉

Jose Miller17 said:Heh, looks like I've found another one of those Gilliam fans here😍...

And apparently, if what I'm reading today is true, we might be seeing some stuff from the Grimm brothers soon too👍

ironcrane7 said:Yeah. I actually rewatched both of them recently, and even though the original is great, I think the remake actually hits harder. It’s almost like a completely different movie altogether, you know? Even if that final sequence is basically identical... I guess it just feels like its own thing.
The first version is basically a lightweight thriller—it’s very much a textbook Hitch movie, really. It feels super stylized and lighthearted too. You've got all the classic ingredients: espionage, a chase that spans the entire country, plenty of suspense, some clever red herrings, a witty protagonist, and a villain who’s just incredibly charismatic. Honestly, it's just top-tier entertainment.
I guess *Remake* is pretty much like a lot of those later Hitchcockian flicks... you've got that classic chase and suspense vibe, mixed in with this deep dive into male-female dynamics. In the first version, the characters felt kind of like they were just moving parts to drive the plot along, though I think maybe only the Peter Lorre character actually feels like a real person. But then, in the second version, the whole focus shifts toward family and marriage. The way Doris Day and Jimmy Stewart interact is actually really tense—there's this underlying struggle for dominance hiding right underneath all that bright Technicolor gloss. It almost feels like a sequel to *Rear Window*, if you consider moving the setting to some wholesome Midwest town. Only, instead of being wholesome, the family is totally displaced and starts falling apart almost immediately. This time around, though, the real test is his level of commitment.
It’s a great movie, honestly... and I guess that remake was totally justified too.

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Ethan Perez97 said:I mean, those Italian directors basically took huge inspiration from Romero. Just look at what Dario Argento did with Dawn of the Dead for the international market.

well, his version is honestly kind of a mess,

I feel bad for anyone who only saw that one, because they’d probably think the whole movie is just a joke or total garbage (that was unfortunately the version that aired on local public TV a few years back)

analogcobra31 said:I’d love to keep arguing, but... NOLD 68' is one of my favorites too, and not just for the creature features. I won't go against those movies, no matter how much people try to chat me out of it.

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analogcobra31 said:Regarding the comment below, Argento might have remade an American film, but we have to remember that Americans just remade his Suspiria, which should be hitting theaters soon.

my point was just that almost every zombie movie made after '68 follows Romero's blueprint, especially after '78 and Dawn of the Dead 😉

Jose Miller17 said:12 Monkeys—I mean, what can you even say? Terry Gilliam... I still remember just feeling so confused and totally disbelieving when I walked out of the theater. It’s completely subjective, I guess, but maybe it's actually my favorite.

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Just remembered I didn't mention Brazil earlier🙏

No, look, maybe just throw a title my way so I can actually believe you🙂

I honestly can't think of anything even remotely like that

Quote: Romero said:I mean, you can't really call it a brand new genre when all the ideas are just being recycled from older zombie movies. It’s all there—that sense of suspense and that claustrophobic atmosphere you get from Hitchcock's work, mixed with those practical effects style from Roger Corman, and so on. It's basically just the genesis of all the genres we have now.

Man, you’re talking about abstraction here, but I guess you could say the Lumiere brothers basically invented every single genre too, just because everyone uses a camera to make movies now.

I guess I’m mostly talking about the actual plot stuff... you know, the whole mythology behind the zombie. Like that constant hunger for human flesh, those raw animal instincts, or that mysterious plague or contagion that starts everything. And then there's the whole thing where they only die if you destroy the brain, plus all those crazy apocalyptic consequences that follow. Just the core elements of the genre, I suppose.

Alexander Lee34 said:🙂 I mean, I guess maybe...

It's just something I was thinking about, I suppose. 🙄

restlesseagle15 said:Go ahead, knock me out, baby.

I guess I’d just rather get you pregnant.

or die tryin'

restlesseagle15 said:I guess there's something about those Philadelphia streets... just a certain vibe, you know? Maybe it's nothing, but they always felt a bit different to me.

And... here we go again, back to talking about movies. 😁

analogcobra31 said:The zombie genre is basically as old as horror itself, it just really stepped into the spotlight alongside other subgenres back in the sixties. It felt like it fit the vibe of the sixties better, I guess. But the roots go way back into Roger Corman's work, Hitchcock's stuff, and other older movies and genres too.

I mean, George Romero is pretty much the spiritual father of the modern zombie genre. He brought these ideas and motives to those films that are still going strong today, and honestly, everyone still imitates them.

Maybe you could name at least one zombie movie from before Night of the Living Dead that actually has all the elements you see in modern z-films today? (It feels kind of silly to even write out the word 🙄 anymore, haha)

analogcobra31 said:Faces of Death can be seen as either a documentary or a horror film, but there aren't any actors, at least not in the part I watched. There's this guy talking about his job in the police department, like a forensic specialist. You see autopsy footage and stuff. There are tons of sequels, though I only saw one, and I wasn't really a fan.

I don't know about the sequels, I was just talking about the first one.