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Post by OffTheBoatPsycho on Mar 10, 2018 5:24:35 GMT
My junior high in the 80's gathered us all in the gym and they projected Creepshow on a big screen for us. Very cool, and a fond memory. I loved "The Crate" the most, but the whole movie is great fun. 'The Crate' is the best. There isn't a bad segment in 'Creepshow'. The bits with Tom Savini as one of the garbage men and Tom Atkins as the abusive father that tie the stories together are just as good.
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Post by OffTheBoatPsycho on Mar 8, 2018 14:21:04 GMT
No thanks. Even he must realize he was a last resort stop-gap appointment. He came in to steady the ship and avoid relegation. He has more or less achieved that and admitted that it's all about forgetting this season and concentrating on the next. For Everton that means bringing in another manager. Who should replace him I have no idea.
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Post by OffTheBoatPsycho on Mar 7, 2018 21:09:48 GMT
Think about it. Memorial Day (kickoff to summer) until Labor Day (end of summer) when the beaches start to get packed. Can have a group of college kids going up to Amity for their last summer who plan on going to college up in Boston that Autumn. One by one bathers get picked up every week. Not only a giant Great White Shark hunting the beaches of New England - but you've got characters to get invested in on a weekly basis. Yay? or Nay? Big 'Yay' for me - love summer, beaches and sharks All I can say is that I didn't think they could make an award winning multi-season tv show out of 'Psycho' but they managed to pull it off and did so quite well. So yeah, I would be interested.
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Post by OffTheBoatPsycho on Mar 6, 2018 23:11:34 GMT
I think Carrie in the novel merely had some pimples was not overweight. Basically homely and nothing some make-up and a smile along with some nice fashionable clothing could not fix. The whole religious domineering mother was what made her what she was. I agree with how there is 'Hollywood Ugly'. Slap a pair of glasses on a model and we're supposed to see them as ugly. thank you. as I said earlier: chunky =/= overweight. she had penchant for chocolates but again, as I said... these are two characteristics that I would not choose for carrie... she is supposed to be almost neglected. not poor but lived very simply. where did she get the $ FOR enough chocolate to make her even a little chunky. I would have written her as almost emaciated. Her mother did provide her with desert which Carrie did decline as it gave her pimples. Her Mother said it was God's way of chastising her. Carrie was clothed and decently fed but browbeaten by her religious mother and her extreme views was the real abuse. Though she was locked in her closet for spells and was not fed and watered. Those cases were infrequent enough though for Carrie to become emaciated.
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Post by OffTheBoatPsycho on Mar 6, 2018 22:13:14 GMT
Too pretty to play the role I know some said. But Carrie was pretty but just not able to pretty because of her mother. Not bad casting just not as good in the role as Sissy Spacek. If you're gonna bring up The Shining's original novel, it should be pointed out that Carrie in its novel is supposed to be overweight, acne ridden, and whom "no one would call attractive". Chloe Moretz looks like someone you'd cast as Sue or Chris. Wendy is a completely different character in Kubrick's adaptation. Less the perfect goddess and more the battered housewife that would realistically stay with an alcoholic child abuser like Jack. The Carrie remake made no such modifications for the Carrie character. IIRC, no one even really knows about her mom. They cast a pretty blonde girl simply because, let's be honest, when is the last time you saw a conventionally unattractive actress leading a Hollywood movie for idiot teenagers? It's disgusting, cynical, and shallow, and I can't believe people still defend it. I think Carrie in the novel merely had some pimples was not overweight. Basically homely and nothing some make-up and a smile along with some nice fashionable clothing could not fix. The whole religious domineering mother was what made her what she was. I agree with how there is 'Hollywood Ugly'. Slap a pair of glasses on a model and we're supposed to see them as ugly.
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Post by OffTheBoatPsycho on Mar 6, 2018 6:07:50 GMT
Best actor, Best picture, best director, best original screenplay. Not bad as the Oscars don't usually give too many nods to the horror genre. All won Oscars The Exorcist Silence Of the Lambs ALIEN/ALIEN Sleepy Hollow Rosemary's Baby The Fly Misery Black Swan An American Wearwolf in London Jaws The Omen Bram Stokers's Dracula Whatever happened to Baby Jane Phantom of the Opera Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde You do know that you have backed up the fact that horror movies don't get major Oscar noms usually. Silence of the Lambs, Black Swan, Misery, Jaws, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, Sleepy Hollow are arguably not horror films at all.
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Post by OffTheBoatPsycho on Mar 6, 2018 5:23:30 GMT
Robert De Niro in Kenneth Branagh's 'Frankenstein'? Despite the make-up he just looked like Robert De Niro which was kind of distracting. Then of course you had John Cleese also as I thought at any moment he was about to do the funny walk.
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Post by OffTheBoatPsycho on Mar 6, 2018 4:55:22 GMT
Shelley Duvall in 'The Shining'? Going by the book she looked nothing like how she was described and the character of Wendy in the book seemed much stronger than Wendy in the film. Duvall seemed like a scream queen blubbering and crying. Bad casting or bad writing and bad character development?
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Post by OffTheBoatPsycho on Mar 6, 2018 4:51:10 GMT
Chloe Grace Moretz in Carrie (2013). Too pretty to play the role I know some said. But Carrie was pretty but just not able to pretty because of her mother. Not bad casting just not as good in the role as Sissy Spacek.
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Post by OffTheBoatPsycho on Mar 6, 2018 4:46:33 GMT
Keanu Reeves in 'Dracula'. If bad acting and bad accents count.
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Post by OffTheBoatPsycho on Mar 3, 2018 19:46:07 GMT
Good grief. But hey, at least it was an excuse for breakfast beers. Yeah, it's a bit of a damning indictment on Dyche. Even more so on Big Sam I reckon. Wouldn't surprise me if Dyche was in consideration as replacement come the end of the season.
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Post by OffTheBoatPsycho on Mar 3, 2018 18:37:13 GMT
Can't believe I got up 0630hrs to watch that. If you need to stop a rut then play Everton. Scored than one goal, ended a losing streak at 11 games and if I'm wrong I apologize but according to one of the pundits I may have misheard Burnley have failed to win after going one down under their current manager. Either way I want this season to quickly end. www.theguardian.com/football/live/2018/mar/03/burnley-v-everton-premier-league-live Good grief. But hey, at least it was an excuse for breakfast beers.
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Post by OffTheBoatPsycho on Mar 3, 2018 17:36:24 GMT
WOW. Burnley actually scored more than 1 goal in a game. Let's have a parade. Can't believe I got up 0630hrs to watch that. If you need to stop a rut then play Everton. Scored than one goal, ended a losing streak at 11 games and if I'm wrong I apologize but according to one of the pundits I may have misheard Burnley have failed to win after going one down under their current manager. Either way I want this season to quickly end.
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Post by OffTheBoatPsycho on Feb 26, 2018 20:39:47 GMT
Sheesh, I wonder what he would say if he supported Everton. At least Arsenal are always in with a shout at silverware.
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Post by OffTheBoatPsycho on Feb 25, 2018 2:06:03 GMT
I agree. I thought just another 'Bad Seed' type film. Didn't see her being and adult woman coming at all.
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Post by OffTheBoatPsycho on Feb 25, 2018 2:01:31 GMT
Anyone seen this? Trailer looks suspect, but then it's based on a lackluster and fairly incoherent novel. Saw it in the 80's. I read a few of his books as a teen. The 'Rats' books weren't bad and 'The Fog'. Watch it out of curiosity and you never know going in with low expectations you might think it not so bad. I didn't like it and not planning on a re-watch.
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Post by OffTheBoatPsycho on Feb 23, 2018 5:23:01 GMT
Christine was a great book. Was a bad movie though. Don't know why people like it. Keith Gordon played a decent Arnie Cunningham. The FX were not bad. Good music. A couple of decent bad guy characters from the book. A couple of scary moments from Christine and her headlights. If you would say Christine was a haunted car the film didn't really go in to why the car was haunted. The background was sadly missing and Roland LeBay. Same as The Shining and the haunted hotel film adaptation and the background of Jack Torrance.
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Post by OffTheBoatPsycho on Feb 18, 2018 2:22:27 GMT
Another take on the book is not a bad idea. The 1989 adaptation is quite good but there is definitely room for improvement. I think Fred Gwynne as Judd is one of the best cast characters in any SK film adaptation.
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Post by OffTheBoatPsycho on Feb 11, 2018 19:57:46 GMT
The book is better than the film (it could hardly be worse) but it is one of his worst books (of the ones I've read so far). I think Christine is one of his worst, too. I think Arnie Cunningham is one of Kings best characters.
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Post by OffTheBoatPsycho on Feb 11, 2018 3:39:59 GMT
Goes for the film also. When I heard he was doing a sort of zombie novel I was over the moon. Picked it up and started out really good. Then just got weird. Rebooting and all that. Maybe he was trying a new zombie concept. I don't know. I'm posting because I was thinking of giving it another try so just hoping to here other thoughts on Stephen Kings 'Cell' novel and movie.
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