Siskel said this was NOT campy?
1984 must have been a very different time.
shareSiskel was an awful critic. The guy did not even like Field of Dreams and rarely gave a thumbs up to a movie.
share'Siskel was an awful critic.'
So is Ebert.
I don't think it's campy at all. It's an excellent movie, and it has an atmosphere of dread, no real humor in it.
shareI enjoyed it as an average run of the mill slasher film. The idea that it was controversial had compelled me to watch it. It did in fact have some "original" killings in it, mostly the antler scene. The action scenes were good, as well as the climax. SNDN 2 is enjoyable just because its so bad its hilarious. However, the remaining three films are atrocious and god awful. Part 3 holds only an OUNCE of enjoyment if any, and part 4 and 5 are just plain painful to watch, for me.
shareexactly I agree with you. it's one of the most harrowing and disturbing films I've ever tolerated. I mean I was petrified and disturbed to a level and deepness that was so overpowering that I had to make myself finish it. it has such a strong atmosphere of dread and it is a completely straight faced slasher film and that's one of the things which is so great about it. it takes all the material so seriously, completely seriously. if it was not done in a serious way it wouldn't be disturbing.
sharei've never understood people saying this is a comedy or a dark comedy. i mean i don't think anyone, even a twisted, jaded, cynical, dark humored person could find this a comedy or funny. the most horrible things happen in this film and they don't make those things funny in this film. and the tone and atmosphere almost always of dread like you said and this film feels so dark and cold and stark.
shareit takes all the material so seriously, completely seriously. if it was not done in a serious way it wouldn't be disturbing.
I just saw it for the first last night and, while it's serious to a point, there's also a wink of black humor here & there, as well as some light camp, such as the toy store owner & his female contemporary, as well the bossy shrimp stock manager. Plus the sequence with Denise & Tommy is a veiled spoof of romantic trysts in slasher flicks. Then there's the sled beheading.
It's done in such a way that the viewer can take it all serious if they choose and there's nothing wrong with doing so. That's how I take "Mommie Dearest." But it doesn't negate that there are touches of intentional amusement. share
I liked Gene, especially when he'd make Roger mad and get the vein in his forehead throbbing.
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Well to be fair, "Field of Dreams" is an awfully corny movie that tries to manipulate the emotions..nobody would call that film a masterpiece..
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Well to be fair, "Field of Dreams" is an awfully corny movie that tries to manipulate the emotions..nobody would call that film a masterpiece..
The Academy did.
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Exactly; "Nobody." Anyone who takes the Academy seriously must have difficulty thinking for themselves. They are also quite gullible to believe that the Academy's decisions are not based on profit and Hollywood politics. It is all a big joke in fact.
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Exactly; "Nobody." Anyone who takes the Academy seriously must have difficulty thinking for themselves. They are also quite gullible to believe that the Academy's decisions are not based on profit and Hollywood politics. It is all a big joke in fact.
I can already tell by your signature that you probably think our whole government is a joke so I won't spend any time on the Academy opinion(not worth it). I just thought it was very backwoods of you to say "nobody" thought that was a masterpiece but I can see you're just trolling.
So never mind.
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Your signature reads "that's my corn out there! You guys are guests in my corn!" And you are are calling ME 'backwoods?' Okay. And when i said "nobody" I meant "nobody with any respectable level of intelligence..
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Your signature reads "that's my corn out there! You guys are guests in my corn!" And you are are calling ME 'backwoods?' Okay. And when i said "nobody" I meant "nobody with any respectable level of intelligence..lol. My signature is a quote from the movie you clearly haven't seen: Field of Dreams. It figures you haven't seen it. Credibility terminated.
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"Field of Dreams?" Am I supposed to be impressed that you have seen a Hollywood mainstream blockbuster like that? If you are impressed by that artless drivel than you are easily impressed. Now if you had quoted a line from Tarkovsky or Kurasawa or Bertolucci, that would mean something. but you are obviously just another uncultured American slob with low standards. YOUR credibility cannot be terminated, as it never existed to begin with. Now grab your self a bucket of chicken and turn on that football game.
have a drink twat-
Helmut Berger, "Mad Dog Killer"
Am I supposed to be impressed that you have seen a Hollywood mainstream blockbuster like that?
No.
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