Quote: Nil Putters @ November 28 2010, 6:05 PM GMTQuite. It's gonna involve the Swedish (was it) team that ended up hunting the dog in the opening shots, joined by an American lady scientist. It could be ok, but I expect it'll be shit and only make the Carpenter version look better still.
I can't see the point of it. They all die. So it's just going to be waiting for them to die.
True, unless some studio exec cops out and wants a happy ending 'we didn't see in the original'.
Quote: Gavin @ November 28 2010, 6:15 PM GMTI can't see the point of it. They all die. So it's just going to be waiting for them to die.
Like United 93 then.
Quote: chipolata @ November 28 2010, 6:21 PM GMTLike United 93 then.
Were there any shape changing aliens in that one?
Quote: Gavin @ November 28 2010, 6:15 PM GMTI can't see the point of it. They all die. So it's just going to be waiting for them to die.
Do you see the point of living, Gavin? We all die. So it's just a matter of waiting for everyone to die, isn't it?
Quote: Nil Putters @ November 28 2010, 6:20 PM GMTTrue, unless some studio exec cops out and wants a happy ending 'we didn't see in the original'.
Urgh... Retcon stuff in fab.
Origin - Generic in the Extreme.
Appleseed: Ex Machina - Dull and Generic
Open Water - It was alright, nicely shot.
Sometimes the fun is working the route to the known conclusion
United 93 was electrifying and had me literally rivetted
As for the Thing, they'll never replace Kurt Russell, Stan Winston or 1980s beards.
It is what is.
Albiet the original one from the 50s was good.
The Wicker Man
Edward Woodward gets better in every scene, by the end he's on fire.
Quote: don rushmore @ November 29 2010, 1:51 PM GMTThe Wicker Man
Edward Woodward gets better in every scene, by the end he's on fire.
Boom-Tish.
Watched Hancock last night. Watchable, but nothing special. And, as ever when Jason Bateman's in a film, he was the best thing in it.
Quote: chipolata @ November 30 2010, 11:11 AM GMTWatched Hancock last night. Watchable, but nothing special. And, as ever when Jason Bateman's in a film, he was the best thing in it.
It had a good first quarter then just descended into more of the same.
John Carpenter's Vampires. Schlocky fun - schlun. Although not nearly as schlun as it should have been.
I wonder why Carpenter has been so ropey for the last twenty years, he made some genuine classics in the seventies and eighties. Maybe he just ran out of steam. I see he has his first film in years coming out soon.
Quote: Matthew Stott @ December 2 2010, 9:43 PM GMTI wonder why Carpenter has been so ropey for the last twenty years, he made some genuine classics in the seventies and eighties. Maybe he just ran out of steam. I see he has his first film in years coming out soon.
I sometimes think horror is a young man's game. The smart horror directors - Peter Jackson, Cronenberg, Raimi - move on and do different types of movie. The ones who stick with horror - Carpenter, Craven, Romero - tend to get stuck in a rut making increasingly irrelevant tat.