That pretty much sums it up, Muskie. I can say that I've watched it. That's all.
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Imprint - (episode from Masters Of Horror)
A while back, I bought the blu-ray 4 disc set of the Masters Of Horror series (season 1) and have been watching an episode every few weeks. I like most of them until I got this one. This episode was extremely disturbing. After I watched it, I googled the episode and found that Showtime refused to air this episode so it was never broadcast in the US. I need eye bleach.
A while back, I bought the blu-ray 4 disc set of the Masters Of Horror series (season 1) and have been watching an episode every few weeks. I like most of them until I got this one. This episode was extremely disturbing. After I watched it, I googled the episode and found that Showtime refused to air this episode so it was never broadcast in the US. I need eye bleach.
I watched Pet the other night. It was weird and more than a little creepy. The kind of movie that leaves you pretty unsettled. It's not amazing by any means but...well, I can't seem to forget it.
Oh, I also watched Mr. Brooks and enjoyed it more than I expected. I loved the ending but won't spoil it here.
Oh, I also watched Mr. Brooks and enjoyed it more than I expected. I loved the ending but won't spoil it here.
I've watched that one a few times and thought it was a decent movie too.
It was so panned that I only watched it because it was free, I was bored, and I had nothing else going on but it really hooked me. They left room for a sequel but I don't think it did well enough to get one.
So what you're saying is that it left an imprint on your mind?
Guardians of the Galaxy Part II. It was great to see Kurt Russell again (have loved him since the Disney days) but this film wasn't as good as the first. Maybe it was because it focused so much on Starlord. Don't get me wrong, I love Chris Pratt but I'd like to see more of Drax and Gamora's backstories, especially with Nebula in most of the movie. The sisters sub-plot really would make a great film in itself. I loved Mantis, the actress who played her did an superb job. I also enjoyed Rocket and Baby Groot but they are CG so the voice actors have a lot to do with that. Of course, the next Marvel film is set up with a cookie during the end credits.
Just finished watching Death Note with my son. We both LOVED it! Somewhat predictable, but somewhat not. I loved the guy that played Light (Nat Wolff), and Willem Dafoe as well. I thought "L" was great, and didn't even mind the girlfriend. I think it helped that I was watching it with a 15-year-old who was getting a kick out of it. As I watched, I figured it was based on a book, but didn't know until it was over, that it was a manga book. I've never read any manga, but I'm considering getting this (these?) books. Just loved the story and the way the demon was portrayed.
I want to see Death Note. It was an anime, as well. That's how I first noticed it - at Sakura Con with my daughter we saw lots of cosplayers. I asked about it because the costumes were cool (one of them had the book). I'd like to see the anime, too.
Rough Night - women behaving badly comedy as girls' reunion weekend goes wrong
American Made - Tom Cruise as likeable drug-smuggling pilot and CIA patsy
Logan Lucky - humorous caper movie. Not sure the reasoning all works, but good fun
American Made - Tom Cruise as likeable drug-smuggling pilot and CIA patsy
Logan Lucky - humorous caper movie. Not sure the reasoning all works, but good fun
Don't Come Knocking (2005) Sam Shepard, Jessica Lange
Sam Shepard plays Howard Spence, an actor (fed up with his life) that leaves a movie set in the middle of filming and goes on a road trip to visit places from his past. I liked it.
Sam Shepard plays Howard Spence, an actor (fed up with his life) that leaves a movie set in the middle of filming and goes on a road trip to visit places from his past. I liked it.
I just rented a cure for Wellness. I am just so disappointed. I heard that it was a good movie. I did not feel the same way.
The preview looked interesting. Thanks for the heads up, arista. As someone who needs to occasionally get their scare on, I've been watching some M.R. James adaptions on the tee vee, on youtube, via the firestick. ($40 at Walmart. For me it's been a great investment.) I've never read James, but I think I will now. Last week I watched, Whistle And I'll Come To You done by the BBC in 1968, and I still ain't right! Beautifully done, and the ending was to me, terrifying. Should I re-watch it? Yes I should!
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Hey I didn't even know they made MR James adaptations. Used to read his stories as a teen. Thanks man!
The Mummy, with Tom Cruise. Jeez, this was rubbish. Utter rubbish. Even worse than Dracula Untold. Universal Studios is desecrating the legacy of their classic Monsters with these cheap cash-grabs. I hope they don't ruin the Gill-Man next. Tom Cruise is the least of what's wrong in this film (and I like Cruise's films). At least I still have my 75th anniversary DVD collections of the old b&w films. "Dark Universe" my big toe...
I believe you! The Brendan Frazier mummy movies were not classic or even classy, but they were at least fun. And did no damage to the Universal films. They were fun entertainment and put butts in seats. Man, Frazier has about as much chance at helming a film these days as one of us!
Psycho 2 (1983, Richard Franklin)
Hadn't seen it in ages. It just came out on blu-ray from Arrow Video. There are loads of extras, including commentary by writer Tom Holland, a 45 minute talk with Holland and Mick Garris, 20 minute audio interview with director Franklin, and a lot of extras which are more like snippets: interviews with Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles etc.
There is also a fun feature, which is an electronic press kit made for radio stations, which consists of interview fragments from Hitchcock, Perkins etc. with promotion for the film in between. You can play it over the film, it does get a bit repetitive (like watching tv-spots of films there is a lot of repetition), but I'll gladly sit through it, just to hear Hitchcock alone. In the end Hitchcock wasn't a big talker, he has these famous quotes (everyone knows them), but he repeated them often. There are still some things I never heard though.
Also Arrow blu-rays and dvd's always come with beautiful little booklets with great photos, academic viewings of the film, and further interviews (or an excerpt from a book in this case).
MAJOR SPOILERS from the film from now on:
Even though I like the film, the story feels contrived to me. First of all, if you were the psychiatrist of Norman Bates and you got him free, would you deliver him right to the place where all the bad things happened. Yet his doctor delivers him personally at the door and leaves him there, even though the first thing Norman sees is someone in the window.
Then he gets a job in a diner. He works for mrs. Spool. Now as it turns out at the very end mrs. Spool is his REAL mother and mrs. Bates whose body he kept all these years was his aunt. Yet she doesn't seem to show any emotion at all seeing her son after all this time - of course that would have given too much away, but it's strange in retrospect that she can just work with him as seemingly strangers.
Mary, a girl working also at the diner, stays with Norman at his mansion, but it turns out she is the daughter of Lila Crane (now called Lila Loomis, probably because she married Sam Loomis - but no word about him in the film, so I wonder why they took the trouble of renaming her). Lila uses her daughter to try to get on Norman's nerves and have him turn homicidal and commited again - so not only does she want to risk more murders, but she also exposes her daughter to the danger.
In the end, the movie is a reversal of the first: in the first you think it was Mother doing the killing, but it was Norman. Here it seems Norman is driven to murder again, yet it was his REAL mother who was on to Mary and Lila. The last contrivance being that she didn't warn her son earlier, but let him get (nearly) insane again first.
Now this all sounds like I'm terribly critical of it, but I like the film. It just doesn't hold well together. What I love is that while the first film is mainly set at the motel, the second takes place mostly at the mansion. It is the same mansion from the first film and many of the people who worked on it the first time came back, experiencing strong memories of course.
Perkins and Meg Tilly are great and suit the film well. It looks beautiful on blu-ray - you can often see now when matte shots are used, but they give it a painterly quality at times - there is a beautiful wide night-shot outside the diner.
There is a good score from Jerry Goldsmith and some fun gore moments (brief, in keeping with the original). There is also a 'cameo' from Hitchcock shortly after his death: look at the closet to the right when Perkins first shows Tilly Mother's room early on - there is a silhouette of Hitch, a fitting tribute.
So despite the story problems, a fun sequel overall and a great release.
Hadn't seen it in ages. It just came out on blu-ray from Arrow Video. There are loads of extras, including commentary by writer Tom Holland, a 45 minute talk with Holland and Mick Garris, 20 minute audio interview with director Franklin, and a lot of extras which are more like snippets: interviews with Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles etc.
There is also a fun feature, which is an electronic press kit made for radio stations, which consists of interview fragments from Hitchcock, Perkins etc. with promotion for the film in between. You can play it over the film, it does get a bit repetitive (like watching tv-spots of films there is a lot of repetition), but I'll gladly sit through it, just to hear Hitchcock alone. In the end Hitchcock wasn't a big talker, he has these famous quotes (everyone knows them), but he repeated them often. There are still some things I never heard though.
Also Arrow blu-rays and dvd's always come with beautiful little booklets with great photos, academic viewings of the film, and further interviews (or an excerpt from a book in this case).
MAJOR SPOILERS from the film from now on:
Even though I like the film, the story feels contrived to me. First of all, if you were the psychiatrist of Norman Bates and you got him free, would you deliver him right to the place where all the bad things happened. Yet his doctor delivers him personally at the door and leaves him there, even though the first thing Norman sees is someone in the window.
Then he gets a job in a diner. He works for mrs. Spool. Now as it turns out at the very end mrs. Spool is his REAL mother and mrs. Bates whose body he kept all these years was his aunt. Yet she doesn't seem to show any emotion at all seeing her son after all this time - of course that would have given too much away, but it's strange in retrospect that she can just work with him as seemingly strangers.
Mary, a girl working also at the diner, stays with Norman at his mansion, but it turns out she is the daughter of Lila Crane (now called Lila Loomis, probably because she married Sam Loomis - but no word about him in the film, so I wonder why they took the trouble of renaming her). Lila uses her daughter to try to get on Norman's nerves and have him turn homicidal and commited again - so not only does she want to risk more murders, but she also exposes her daughter to the danger.
In the end, the movie is a reversal of the first: in the first you think it was Mother doing the killing, but it was Norman. Here it seems Norman is driven to murder again, yet it was his REAL mother who was on to Mary and Lila. The last contrivance being that she didn't warn her son earlier, but let him get (nearly) insane again first.
Now this all sounds like I'm terribly critical of it, but I like the film. It just doesn't hold well together. What I love is that while the first film is mainly set at the motel, the second takes place mostly at the mansion. It is the same mansion from the first film and many of the people who worked on it the first time came back, experiencing strong memories of course.
Perkins and Meg Tilly are great and suit the film well. It looks beautiful on blu-ray - you can often see now when matte shots are used, but they give it a painterly quality at times - there is a beautiful wide night-shot outside the diner.
There is a good score from Jerry Goldsmith and some fun gore moments (brief, in keeping with the original). There is also a 'cameo' from Hitchcock shortly after his death: look at the closet to the right when Perkins first shows Tilly Mother's room early on - there is a silhouette of Hitch, a fitting tribute.
So despite the story problems, a fun sequel overall and a great release.
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You know Gerry, we must be kindred spirits. I LOVED both Psycho 2 & 3. (You like 3?). And when I get a free afternoon I will read your 3500 word post in it's entirety! Kidding. I does have a free afternoon and will likely read it as the evening goes on, in 1200 word chunks. This was only 3 years after Hitchcock's death, but it seemed decades removed from the master. Tony Perkins was so much fun as Norman here. He was fantastic! And Meg Tilly smelled like a cheese sandwich.
Damn, I'm liable to bust this out on my firestick tonite! Perkins was actually a very good director. I don't really considered them sequels to Psycho. Only Hitch could have done that. And he never would've.
Generally, since she had a daughter, you'd assume she had a husband. Certainly during the period Lila Crane was child bearing age. And it would've stretched believability to the point of breaking to think a woman as hot as Vera Miles would have stayed single her whole life! The suitors would have been showing up at her door with bouquets of flowers & boxes of candy from dawn 'till dusk! Somebody get me a time machine!
