I know it's not a new release or anything, but I watched The Green Mile for the first time last night.
Wow.
I cried like a baby. It was so fucking good, even better than the book (or at least equal). That hardly ever happens.*
*Fight Club is the only other example for me.
Um, yes. I think it may be the most I've ever cried during a movie. Wore me out. I have the book in my posession and will read it at some point this summer.
Originally Posted by feverishparade
Completely random statement - Hook is one of the most underrated movies ever.
Fucking yes it is!
I LOVE Hook! And I just bought it on DVD.
Peter and Rufio's bitchfest is brilliant - probably my favorite part. I think Peter calls Rufio a nearsighted gynocologist at one point.
Completely random statement - Hook is one of the most underrated movies ever.
Fucking yes it is!
I LOVE Hook! And I just bought it on DVD.
Peter and Rufio's bitchfest is brilliant - probably my favorite part. I think Peter calls Rufio a nearsighted gynocologist at one point.
"You lying , flying, spying ultra pig!
You lewd-crude-rude dude, bag of prechewed food, dude!
i don't think it makes any difference that neville is black but i wish will smith wasn't playing him. i don't like him so much.
*GASP*
ok now that I'm over that lol
I saw the movie first. Then my sister got me the book (that had some of Matheson's other works in it). I liked the movie when I saw it, then I read the book (which seems like more of a novella to me) and I didn't like the movie much anymore. I mean... it's really good movie... as long as they don't try to call it the same thing as the book (which they did). They completely ruined the whole concept that Matheson was going for. I read that he made them take his name off of Last Man on Earth because he was so pissed at the way they destroyed his story.. don't want to give anything away but you should definitely read it if you haven't. He was a genius.
This movie ahs always held a special place in my heart, especially since I had to leavee my beloved California behind. I think it's a great movie (maybe not scary, but good anyway). It's got a great setting and a "cool" group of villains and all the fun anybody could ever want.
Despite the double-Corey, I think of it as a classic....but today...I saw...
They are making a sequel. As a matter of fact it is a bad b-movie remake masquerading as a sequel. The head vampire even sort of resembles a young Keifer, Corey Haim is back as the vampire hunter, and to follow the origianl story line, its a pair of siblings (this time brother & sister) who move to the made-up city, who get caught up with the vamps and one of them turns vampire.
It looks awful, but I may see it anyway...just so I can adequately hate it. What do you guys think?
I love vampire movies ^.^ The Lost Boys is one of my favourites, there only going to destroy it with this stupid sequal.
Im gonna have to go ninja on there asses
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You burn prettily-Corwin of Amber
^ I had to set my own hair on fire because of that mia/susannah, you must see it, quickly.
Before i set my head on fire again sai.
If you love me, then love me-Susan of mejis See the turtle, aint he keen? All things serve the fucking beam-Eddie of NewYork
You burn prettily-Corwin of Amber
i loved the novella. i have it in print and on my ipod. i was absolutely beside myself when (in the novella) neville
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found the dog and convinced it to come and be "friends" with him. then when it died i thought my heart would break.
i know why they gave him a dog for the movie, to make it more dramatic for him
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when it got attacked and died
but still the whole point was that there was no one else for him to relate to.
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i still cried when his dog died in the movie though.
now then, as for the zombies. in the book, they were vampires. it was made very clear that there were two types, and that they were vampires. i understand that with the advent of computers, it would be much easier for neville to find things out (especially since he's now some big time army doctor) but why turn them from vampires to zombies? i didn't really get that.
i was really disappointed with the ending of the movie. the whole point was missed in my opinion. don't get me wrong, i still bought the dvd - and i still watch it. but the whole drama
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of him being found by the second type of vampire (and a new version of that type that could survive in the sun), the wife of one of the ones he had killed, of him being sacrificed
was lost. and if any of you watched the alternate ending - well that was just ridiculous.
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having it turn out that the zombies only broke into the lab because the alpha male wanted the alpha female back, having neville realize that they were still capable of love and attachment, having him wake up the alpha female, having them be reunited and then just go away, puuuleeeze. these are vicious animals. yes, they have a sense of the pack, but they are still predators for the love of the turtle.
okay, that's my dollar's worth. but really, the story is absolutely amazing. and to think of when he wrote it? god that man was *way* ahead of his time.
What's with all these pointless sequels? First Donnie Darko, and now The Lost Boys?
Off - topic - What part of California, Ves?
I grew up in the Central Valley, a kind of small town in the middle of everything. I spent A TON of summer days in Santa Cruz (where the original was filmed).
Back on-topic--I agree, I cannot see what a straight-to-video sequel has to offer any one besides a minimum wage salary for Corey Haim for a few months. The song did it's work on me, too, though. For a brief second I almost allowed myself to get excited...
I really enjoyed the film. I haven't read the story, but I feel like it is more dramatic if he starts out with the dog rather than finds in along the way.
I think there were a lot of deeper places they could have gone with the film, though and I sort of wish they had.
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Like his "relationship" with the mannequins. I feel like that they could have really explored a lot with his absolute aloneness that seemed to be leading to total insanity.
There was that and a lot of other things I felt they could have madea little more moving. However all & all I thought it was good. I am interested to read the book now, though.
Last edited by Ves'Ka Gan; 06-04-2008 at 05:19 PM.
Reason: spoiler tags
I don't know how I feel about this. It looks like a big ball of cheese, but so was Lost Boys I and I loved it. I LOVE cheese under the right circumstances.
Couple of points:
BOTH Coreys are back
The guy who played the other Frog brother is back
The lead vampire looks like Keifer Sutherland because it is his half brother
It'll take a lot more than words and guns,
A whole lot more than riches and muscle.
The hands of the many must join as one.
And together we'll cross the river.
I really enjoyed the film. I haven't read the story, but I feel like it is more dramatic if he starts out with the dog rather than finds in along the way.
I think there were a lot of deeper places they could have gone with the film, though and I sort of wish they had.
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Like his "relationship" with the mannequins. I feel like that they could have really explored a lot with his absolute aloneness that seemed to be leading to total insanity.
There was that and a lot of other things I felt they could have madea little more moving. However all & all I thought it was good. I am interested to read the book now, though.
Well, if I think of the movie as just a movie with no bearing on Matheson's novel, then I like it. If I think of it as an adaptation, then I cry as I did over I Robot and Starship Troopers, both of which I can enjoy as long as I pretend they have nothing to do with Asimov or Heinlein.
Neville having the dog, however, offsets the "absolute" loneliness he endured. In the book, Neville truly was alone, which is why finding the dog was so important. In the movie, he never was truly alone. There was always another living, breathing being he could relate to - even if it was not human.
I still prefer The Omega Man. It is infinitely closer to the novel. Infinitely.
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Reason: Typos. Le psi.
It'll take a lot more than words and guns,
A whole lot more than riches and muscle.
The hands of the many must join as one.
And together we'll cross the river.
I really enjoyed the film. I haven't read the story, but I feel like it is more dramatic if he starts out with the dog rather than finds in along the way.
I think there were a lot of deeper places they could have gone with the film, though and I sort of wish they had.
Spoiler:
Like his "relationship" with the mannequins. I feel like that they could have really explored a lot with his absolute aloneness that seemed to be leading to total insanity.
There was that and a lot of other things I felt they could have madea little more moving. However all & all I thought it was good. I am interested to read the book now, though.
Well, if I think of the movie as just a movie with no bearing on Matheson's novel, then I like it. If I think of it as an adaptation, then I cry as I did over I Robot and Starship Troopers, both of which I can enjoy as long as I pretend they have nothing to do with Asimov or Heinlein.
Neville having the dog, however, offsets the "absolute" loneliness he endured. In the book, Neville truly was alone, which is why finding the dog was so important. In the movie, he never was truly alone. There was always another living, breathing being he could relate to - even if it was not human.
I still prefer The Omega Man. It is infinitely closer to the novel. Infinitely.
I second this. The movies are good by themselves.. as adaptations they suck the big one. And after reading the novella I was miffed about Neville already being prepared for research and stuff as a doctor. But I thought the mannequin thing was GENIUS! It really touch me when
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after Sam died he went to the mannequin that he had a crush on and begged her to talk to him.. I CRIED!!
Wait! Both Coreys are in it? I think that might even make it worse, IMO. I mean, come on...has anyone seen Corey Haim lately?
When will they learn to leave well enough alone?
Oh, I'm with you. I can't stand Corey Haim. Feldman, though, seems to laugh at himself these days, and that's good. I like him better now that he's not taking himself so seriously.
Again, I'll reserve judgment for now.
Besides, Tom Savini is in it.
It'll take a lot more than words and guns,
A whole lot more than riches and muscle.
The hands of the many must join as one.
And together we'll cross the river.
I second this. The movies are good by themselves.. as adaptations they suck the big one. And after reading the novella I was miffed about Neville already being prepared for research and stuff as a doctor. But I thought the mannequin thing was GENIUS! It really touch me when
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after Sam died he went to the mannequin that he had a crush on and begged her to talk to him.. I CRIED!!
i know what you mean
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about the mannequin. when he was driving along and the mannequin that belonged outside the dvd store was in the wrong place i actually spoke out loud and said "what the fuck?" then when he was yelling at it and telling it if it was alive it better say something i was thinking is he just really starting to lose it or is someone fucking with him. then i realized it was a trap.
i thought someone was trying to contact him or something say they were trying to find him because they missed him and wanted to get his attention. then he stared walking towards it after shooting it, and i saw the hole. I'm like oh, shit! it's a trap!
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I cried like a baby. It was so fucking good, even better than the book (or at least equal). That hardly ever happens.*
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