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In Reply to: top 10 Horror films? posted by Mike on January 30, 2000 at 14:15:03:
Oklahoma
English Patient
Steel Magnolias
Drop Dead Fred
Sound of Music
Seize the Day
Death Becomes Her
Xanadu
Forest Gump
Titanic
Dangerous Liasons... I think you've got the idea. The real horror is that there seems to end to this tripe. It's like the typical monster that won't die. This polution just multiplies faster than any malignant cancer.
I agree. I think the Mask should be on top of that list. The true horror is the fact that many will actually watch them...I once had a boss - a true idiot. That was back during my HP days. He was hell-bent on renaming the project we were working on - he joined it while already underway and with a decent name. His mind of a five-year-old could not fly any higher than to borrow names from the Teenage Ninja piece of shit. According to him there was logic to the character's names and he would gladly spend time educating us. At the pinacle of that team building excercise was a group viewing of that movie - all during normal working hours of course, in one of the Hewlett-Packard new super-well-equipped conference rooms. By that time I already kissed him goodby so I have not seen the movie. It still strikes a chord in me whenever I hear that name...
Often, you boss can be your worst horror...
one should not feel that a movie is "too long". maybe because i was expecting something else more technical or something rather than a boy meets girl 3 plus hour drama without any real complexity.
Totally unbelievable characters and a general feeling of a made-for-tv
special.
While I certainly can understand someone finding redeaming values in the Private Ryan (although I disagree with that), the Titanic is totally hollow. It is basically the 1998 (or 1999, whatever...) Cleopatra. It was simply made because it could be made - grandiose and idiotic.In essence it is like someone with loud voice and no brains - he screams loud but there is nothing in that scream, just the air pressure. It represent the rather regrettable state of the today's Hollywood ability to produce nothing but nothing for a lot of money with good financial return. It is a completely dull and dumb spectacle, one that is surely expected to draw a good crowd, though. Like someome dropping his pants in the town square.
To think that once that place was capable of producing movies with content, message, good acting, just plain fun, for petew's sake!
Agreed on Titanic and Private Ryan too. Just the usual big budgets stuff. Sort of like a big merger of companies (really often a merger of CEO egos rather than sound business strategy - I refer only to a few very large ones which have since been or will soon be dissolved - the brokers (read, investment bankers) will make money at the dissolution and at the merger. Not that I have a problem with that of course. I just make sure that I am in the money one way or another.I think too often the public falls for hype but hey, ultimately they are there to be entertained and if they feel entertained, I guess they have received what they paid for just like the story that is sold to Wall Street by the company or is it the other way around sometimes. Satisfaction is in perception and perception is subjective and deceptive too. Does it really matter if we lived in or are living in "the Matrix" to borrow from another recent movie (BTW, I liked "Matrix" even though you and many others did not, maybe because I am a sucker for sci-fi and because I am starved of good sci-fi, I will settle for anything I guess).
Saw the Ronin yesterday as per your recommendation. It gave my surround speakers a better workout than even Matrix. Whew. I loved the car chases too.
Another flop which I rented twice was Ishtar, just because i love seeing different countries etc. Still it was goofy - the cover on the VHS makes me want to take it home.
Wish they invested in movies about Africa etc. But then I would not be alone when I went to these countries.
It could've been better if the actors tried a bit of scene stealing playful comradery. The inevitable consequence of such tactics is bigger than life presence whose tension the grips the audience for a couple hours straight.The director seemed like he was filming a documentary for PBS rather than an action-drama. But, it's still better than 90% of what's out there.
Although, I nearly wet my paints laughing during their obligatory "behind the scenes" schtick. The concern expressed about shooting guns in a convincing trajectory when the film used a cutaway view was hilarious. Maybe I was supposed to see this before the actual film. Then, they worried about the case scenes being authentic enough. Is it me, or isn't this film about the interplay among mercenaries as they're forced to depend on each other in an untrustworthy business? These old world gimmicks are just as hokey as CG. Just because these gimmicks are older doesn't make them a classic. Braveheart is comparatively modern & it's a classic.
Why not talk about Robert De Niro & Jean Réno? I still can't look at Jean Réno without remebering his problems with American coffee in Godzilla. De Niro OTOH constantly reminds me of everything he's done.
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