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What have you been smoking? Olivia was way hotter.
Noooooo. Is that why The Shining is playing during the Halloween season?
Usually we think of this bear suit -- http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5qaxh8kvr1qkbh78o2_400.gif
Yea.
I was reading the Unhinged thread today, so finally saw the trailers which are pretty much alike. My nineteen year old daughter was visiting last week and went to the movies with her friends. She saw the Unhinged trailer and thought it was a violent and mindless movie. Thus, I decided to skip it when we went by the movie theater while shopping and she told me about it. After she left, I thought I go see Tenet or or something else. There really isn't something else at this moment.
I saw the Tenet trailers earlier and then read about it and the people were saying and posting that it was not understandable with the the confusing story and the audio was hard to hear. After reading both of their threads on moviechat, I decided to go see Unhinged.
I just checked and there was an article saying that Unhinged is promoting itself as less confusing than Tenet haha.
I would've enjoyed more of a "Here's Johnny!" scene.
It's a really low budget horror movie that somehow became a franchise.
Besides the cheapness, one of the things that make no sense is how Michael Myers becomes the boogeyman. Dr. Sam Loomis should've suspected something while Michael was his patient. All he could find out was that Michael was dangerous to his family and community. That sounds like an insane patient. As to the Shape, it could be explained by the man behind the mask versus the various actors with faces or voices of Myers. There's nothing supernatural about Michael until he is. This film should've never made franchise status, but John Carpenter got lucky with his music, Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasance, and spray painting a William Shatner mask.
I'm not invested in Lalo's fate. He's mentioned in BB and Saul Goodman is still plenty scared of him, but we do not see him involved in cartel business in BB while the other Salamancas are involved, so something probably happens to him in BCS.
The characters most people care about are still Kim (who seems to be breaking bad in trying to put something on Howard), Nacho (who seems to want to get out of the life with his father), Gene (in his new life), and Mike. Yet, we know what happens to Mike in BB. We still see Gene in the future, but no Kim and Nacho. Nacho seems to be headed for execution by Lalo and maybe his father, too, in order to set him up.
We don't see Kim in the future, so something dramatic must happen to her unless she's a BCS MacGuffin for BB. That would trivialize a main character of BCS, so I can't see that happening.
Kim isn't in BB nor Gene's future, so it appears she is the one most likely to die after Lalo and Nacho. We just don't know for what reason. Compared to BB, there isn't as much killing in BCS but the drug wars are still heating up. Lalo would still be the enemy of Gus Fring and Juan Bolsa. Lalo would most want to get Nacho, Juan Bolsa, and Gus. It's obvious why the last episode in season 5 was go good. The Something Unforgivable episode holds clues as to what will happen and the motivations of the characters for season 6.
Will you check her room to see?
Tim Burton is overrated and sucks. His only two good movies were Batman and Sweeney Todd.
Maybe the actress said no to a nude scene. I remember seeing her back.
I was at the mall yesterday at Regal Theaters and found out there's a 40th anniversary showing coming. Kubrick's films look great on the big screen even tho I don't think this one's IMAX. The thing is it's 155 mins long. Would you go see this again on the big screen? The blood-o-vator scene would be awesome and freak me out. I couldn't be caught in a gush of blood like that.
I saw the Miami ending. Dexter died in a shipwreck. Part of what I liked about the series was that it was in Miami.
If they're going to bring it back, then I hope it's more gritty and serious. Maybe they move it to Los Angeles. No more Mr. Nice Guy and his relationships. Dexter is a serial killer and the police want to get him dead or alive. He can't work for the police again, but the police find in a strange way that he's helping clean up the city of its murderers. Some people think he's a hero.
Did they call it a "zoo" in the movie? We don't know exactly what happens to Bowman and his pod. Nor know that it was aliens. It is pulled into the vortex of colored lights, which I thought was controlled by the large monolith orbiting Jupiter. This would be the third encounter with the largest monolith yet.
We sorta think we know what happened to the apes and their monolith because it was in the past, but didn't know what happened with the second one. The film was made in 1968, so it was in the near future that the US landed on the moon. With them, there was a mysterious ear piercing sound that engulfed them. Those in the know were hiding their discovery of the evidence of other worldly intelligence. I think this was key for the time and what people thought about any discovery as such and what would the government or governments do.
It also pulled us into the more future in that there was third one discovered. This would be in our future now as we haven't gone to Jupiter or even Mars yet, i.e. human landing.
What I'm getting at is this movie has aged and it has aged well. The movie still leaves it to the viewers for their own interpretations unlike the book. It's still a gripping and thought-provoking movie. How it was done, who it inspired, and what happened to sci-fil and space films afterward is still being talked about today, not just Kubrick's film story. All of it is pretty mind blowing (to use a idiom from the late 60s haha).
Lol. She was "shotgunned."
I think the Terminators were programmed to follow someone's orders, i.e. T-1000 Skynet, and Model 101 John Connor from the future. We see this right off the bat with the T-1000 when he used the police scanner to look for John Connor. At the end, we find the Model 101 does not obey all the commands of John Connor as a teen. T2 continues to explain both of these machines.
The movie isn't like the book. It has a far different ending. I'm not sure if I can say they're close. It is and it isn't.
If humans are to reach Mars or Jupiter, then likely we won't be able to live there. We may not be able to get off this planet unless we find a monolith.
>>Indeed. No vampires, werewolves or monsters. Elisha Cook's magnificently freaked-out homeowner in HOHH keeps ranting on about the ghosts in the house -- but we never see any ghosts; all the killings are done by regular humans.<<
Elisha Cook's acting creeped me out especially his talking head at the beginning. He thinks there are ghosts in the house from childhood because his brother and others were murdered there. He's the type who believes in ghosts. However, his guests seem to know more about the house than he.
>>The casting of the beautiful babe in a B movie like HOHH is interesting to me. Hazel Court has the figure for the statuesque beauty(Price's hated and adulterous trophy wife), but she doesn't quite have the FACE for the part. A mean comment, I know, but we watch these actors closely. Ms. Court never made it to "the major leagues" where the real beauties were in Hollywood.<<
Hazel probably didn't make the major leagues because of her acting. She had the sexy looks and body, but her screen time was limited. There was that weird champagne bottle gun scene and she casted Mr. Price aside with her looking off in the distance and snide comments. Maybe Vincent Price ad libbed that scene by shaking the champagne bottle and airming it at her. In the next moment, nothing happens when he opens the bottle.
>>A true "scream queen." That said, the younger brunette woman in HOHH rather screams and screeches on a continual, irritating basis.<<
She basically screamed throughout the movie probably as cue for the audience to scream. The best one was with the caretaker woman when she appeared out of nowhere and she skated off into another room. Those were a couple of crazy, bizarre William Castle scenes. It worked for his movie for screams and laughs.
I've read about the shower murder in the book. It's a throwaway murder as "Bloch took only 2 1/2 sentences to describe the killing, which ends with Norman lopping off Marion’s head." This sounds more gore and grotesque as well as shocking. How do we bring that to the screen? I think most of us would just play it straight and try to capture the shock of the moment.
The one public fight I saw leading to a stabbing and killing was at a dance and while the fight lasted for minutes and even went up to the stage and knocked over some of the band members, it was the knife that was pulled out and stabbing took very short time. The fight was over after that. What was shocking was all the blood that poured out onto the stage and then onto the floor. The suspect was long gone after it.
Hitchcock was onto another world. He wanted to do it <i>impressionistically</i>. He thought the shower scene was the key scene in the movie. I don't know if you've seen 72/58 which is a documentary about the shower scene. It's very interesting and shows not only how the impressionism was achieved, but what was behind it. This impressionism is also shown in other Hitchcock scenes.
https://www.dispatch.com/entertainmentlife/20171029/5-little-known-facts-about-psycho-shower-scene
It goes to mention that a little kid who's been allowed to watch HOHH and those other Mystery Science Theater 3000 or Creature Features movies were not allowed to see Psycho. With my generation, I think it was The Exorcist that scared us out of our wits as well as scarred us for life. They even had a refrigerated theater to chill us as we watched. I don't think I've seen it again during Halloween season.
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You missed the point.
Why did Bill even go there? Why does Victor Ziegler/Red Cloak, the cult leader, even throw an orgy party after his own? The movie doesn't really have much of a story except how one rich NY couple treat their sexuality with each other. Most of the time, these sexual fantasies are not mentioned and goes away. This one is mentioned and it's becomes all in Bill's head. He has a dream and now it won't go away like the symbolic mask he sees on his pillow.
When I first saw the movie, I thought it had a weird plot that veered away from the book and great cinematography, but didn't understand it. Stanley Kubrick "was" a great director and film maker probably until he did Barry Lyndon. The Shining wasn't something that made sense of the material. I though Kubrick could be brilliant in his directing and cinematography, but behind the scenes we saw that he was a tyrant and his actors hated him. Anyway, if one didn't understand him, then The Shining became an incredible bore despite all of the images.
Afterward, people began to explain the things in the film and then we began to understand what was happening. Kubrick fans started to piece the movie together and it became a great masterpiece. Who would have thunk it after reading the book and watching the movie?