Post by hi224 on Dec 5, 2017 0:50:27 GMT
We had a thread like this on the classics board a few months ago; I wrote the following:
How about African adventure pictures?--in the King Solomon's Mines mold, I mean.
No one makes true swashbucklers any more--Pirates of the Caribbean notwithstanding--and they're probably the films I've had the most fun watching. (I've got a real weakness for anything pirate-, musketeer-, knight-, swashbuckler-related.)
Westerns, definitely.
Mysteries, in the real fair-play sense. What's the last cinematic mystery actually to have clues--The Last of Sheila? Let's hope Branagh's Murder on the Orient Express changes that. [EDIT: it's a decent movie, but it didn't change that.)
Ghost stories, as distinguished from general "horror." The Others was probably the last actual example I can remember.
No one makes true swashbucklers any more--Pirates of the Caribbean notwithstanding--and they're probably the films I've had the most fun watching. (I've got a real weakness for anything pirate-, musketeer-, knight-, swashbuckler-related.)
Westerns, definitely.
Mysteries, in the real fair-play sense. What's the last cinematic mystery actually to have clues--The Last of Sheila? Let's hope Branagh's Murder on the Orient Express changes that. [EDIT: it's a decent movie, but it didn't change that.)
Ghost stories, as distinguished from general "horror." The Others was probably the last actual example I can remember.
I agree too many haunted house films are derivative, even if an effective atmosphere is created we have a paper thin plot.