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Post by wmcclain on Apr 9, 2017 0:01:52 GMT
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Post by wmcclain on Apr 9, 2017 0:04:23 GMT
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Post by forca84 on Apr 9, 2017 15:16:12 GMT
I read he is producing another "Piranha" film set in Japan. Granted he won't be directing it. But it gave me warm feeling. Big fan of the "Piranha" franchise.Big fan of Corman's films.
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Post by wmcclain on Apr 15, 2017 1:44:44 GMT
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Apr 17, 2017 2:22:04 GMT
His 50s and 60s output are my favorites as well as some of the films he produced in the late 70s (Targets/Death Race/Piranha/Battle Beyond the Stars).
Sounds like he has hit the skids with the newer films as he needs to rebuild his lost fortunes.
I watched The Intruder a while back--thought it ok, but I suspect over time it will be regarded less and less, especially if cities continue to go the way of Detroit, Chicago, and Baltimore. South Africa films will be even more awkward if President Zuma carries out his threats against the white minority. Not even a speech by Morgan Freeman will be able to gloss it over.
His Poe film cycle are my favorites.
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Post by wmcclain on Apr 17, 2017 11:48:53 GMT
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Post by wmcclain on Apr 17, 2017 11:51:24 GMT
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Post by wmcclain on Apr 17, 2017 11:53:01 GMT
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Post by wmcclain on Apr 17, 2017 11:54:30 GMT
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Apr 23, 2017 0:54:28 GMT
Granted-at the time the Intruder was daring regardless of misgivings I have with the approach (though similarly, Hammer did one "message" movie themselves, Never Take Candy From A Stranger which I think is most deserving of new attention given the theme of child abuse and powerful coverups).
The Intruder was ignored for decades so it is understandable it would get new attention especially as most of Shatner's and Corman's resumes are dismissed as genre fodder.
But I think it also reflects the growing disdain for genre work as serious, this is a big shame.
It is sort of like saying, "well yeah we made a lot of alien and monster movies, but you know we did this one slice of life film so we are respectable."
I dont like that attitude. Not blaming Corman or Shatner, but the climate of film respectability today.
Asylum deliberately makes garbage--they admit that they regard genre films as stupid and immature, while Corman and others working in low budget genre films in their heyday did not have that attitude. It was taken seriously.
And none of this "giant shark-bat vs giant snake-slug" farce.
I watched the trailer for Sharktopus and it is a shame how bad it looks compared to the old Piranha or Death Race 2000.
And the audiences for them tend to be people who want to laugh at the movie, not buy into the fantasy. That's sad.
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Post by gunshotwound on Jun 11, 2017 2:46:04 GMT
I am a huge fan of Roger Corman. Petrolino I love your top 30.
If you ever get the chance to see X-The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963) do so. It is a very good movie. I saw it when it was first released. Saw it again on TCM about six months ago during their October Halloween festival. Hi gunshot. I watched 'X : The Man With X-Ray Eyes'. I was interested to learn that Roger Corman originally conceived the story to be about a jazz saxophonist with an unhealthy appetite for hard drugs but this idea was scrapped. He came up with a new story and brought in Robert Dillon and Ray Russell (both associates of filmmaker William Castle) to write the screenplay. Ray Milland was his first choice for the role of Doctor James Xavier so he was delighted when he signed on to make the picture. Corman makes great use of dissolves, overlaps, superimpositions and optical effects in conjunction with a mobile camera; he says he took some of these visual ideas forward with him to make 'The Trip' (1967). 'X : The Man With X-Ray Eyes' is pure fantasy cinema with a tragic dimension and I enjoyed the hell out of it. Thanks for the recommendation. "Somebody once wrote that I must be obsessed with vision because sunglasses appear in so many of my pictures and they may well be right because how else would I have gotten the idea to do a picture about somebody with x-ray vision?"
- Roger CormanThe dvd commentary track with Roger Corman is a nice bonus. Hi petrolino, I am very glad that you enjoyed X-The Man with the X-Ray Eyes. I wish I had recorded it when it was on TCM but I didn't. I still use my trusty vcr/dvd combo. The dvd part doesn't work anymore.
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Post by bravomailer on Jul 9, 2017 1:47:54 GMT
It was great that Coppola put him in the Senate hearing scene in Godfather 2:  |
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Feb 25, 2018 6:43:06 GMT
The Corman Fantastic Four isn't too bad--dramatically it is well done just cheap. I prefer it to the 2000s version.
The casting is actually pretty good.
I think the guy doing Doctor Doom captures the personality well.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2018 22:18:19 GMT
My favorite of his is The Masque of the Red Death followed closely by The Fall of the House of Usher. The latter I saw twice on a big screen. I had already seen it once on a small b/w tv. HoU is one of only two or three films I have ever seen that gave me gooseflesh. When I was in grade school, if we had a three or four day weekend coming up before the holidays, they would assemble us all in the auditorium to watch a movie. Two of them were the ones I just mentioned and I remember once we were shown Swiss Miss with Laurel and Hardy. Masque made me a huge Poe fan. I have read all of his works since.
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Post by plasma on Apr 25, 2018 16:53:25 GMT
Most Corman films are pretty fun, even if they are basically "shlock" (entertaining shlock that is). A particular favorite of mine is The Intruder with Shatner. Compared to all of his other films, it shows a more mature side, dealing with themes of racism and trust. Also it's The Shat's best performance.
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Post by plasma on Apr 28, 2018 2:42:26 GMT
Most Corman films are pretty fun, even if they are basically "shlock" (entertaining shlock that is). A particular favorite of mine is The Intruder with Shatner. Compared to all of his other films, it shows a more mature side, dealing with themes of racism and trust. Also it's The Shat's best performance. 'The Intruder' is a gem. They risked life and limb to make it. Have you seen 'Von Richthofen And Brown' (1971)? It's a war fiction and an aviation drama, produced by Gene Corman and directed by Roger Corman. No I haven't, but I'm familiar with it. I have his seen Frankenstein film, with John Hurt and Raul Julia, which was his attempted comeback at directing (it's the last film he's directed to date). I found it to be a mixed-bag. It's interesting to note that with his later directed 60's films, before he concentrated sorely on producing, he seemed to be trying to get away from the horror shlock, that made him popular, and attempt more dramatic films like The St. Valentine Day's Massacre and The Trip, with varying degrees of success. |
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Post by The Herald Erjen on Apr 28, 2018 3:25:51 GMT
Some of my favorite films were ones of his.
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Post by The Herald Erjen on Apr 28, 2018 17:24:08 GMT
Some of my favorite films were ones of his. Do you enjoy Roger Corman's science-fiction, fantasy & horror movies? They're my favourites overall because I watch a lot of those genres generally. Yes, although he had a reputation for not spending a lot of money, they were still worth watching. |
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Dec 19, 2018 16:05:00 GMT
Roger Corman's contributions to the movie and entertainment industry can't be measured.
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Dec 19, 2018 22:00:44 GMT
I listened to the audio commentary he did for House of Usher.
Quite interesting.
I watched a couple of the biker films he did also--one with Peter Fonda--they say Easy Rider was a project AIP missed out on but was it really considered for them? Seems to me that it was part of the major studio initiative to overtake the independent studios in the B movie domain.
If AIP had released it, would probably have far less attention (like Dillinger).
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