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Oh joy we've a plethora of Hollywood remakes headed our way. Confirmed by Tom Cruise in interviews for what will surely be a dreadful remake of The Mummy (clearly Universal never learned from the last time). Johnny Depp as the Invisible Man (WHY???), Mr. Hyde, Dracula, The Wolfman, and Village Of The Damned. For goodness sakes Hollywood just leave the classics alone dammit.

 

Also I am still torn regarding Alien: Covenant. Now it's out I've heard some good things about it but mostly 'it's a good modern take on Alien'. In truth that description doesn't fill me with confidence.

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On 5/25/2017 at 7:13 AM, RelentlessOblivion said:

Also I am still torn regarding Alien: Covenant. Now it's out I've heard some good things about it but mostly 'it's a good modern take on Alien'. In truth that description doesn't fill me with confidence.

I went to see it the day it came out, and really enjoyed it. Not as good as Prometheus, but then I didn't expect it to be so wasn't disappointed.

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Have you checked out the new season yet?

 

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Ah fuck yes! Really enjoying it..on episode 7..you seen it all yet?  I'm upto where Diane just seen 'Coop'...you seen 'Lost Highway' ? while were talkin Lynch..kinda obsessed with that film...and Lynch in general :D 

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Have you checked out the new season yet?

 

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Ah fuck yes! Really enjoying it..on episode 7..you seen it all yet?  I'm upto where Diane just seen 'Coop'...you seen 'Lost Highway' ? while were talkin Lynch..kinda obsessed with that film...and Lynch in general [emoji3] 

 

Yes, it was cool to finally see Diane, and it figures it would be Laura Dern since she's kind of a Lynch veteran. I'm loving the new season, it keeps with the weirder aesthetic of Fire Walk With Me, but with modern touches. I'm a big Lynch fan, with Mulholland Drive being my favorite, but Lost Highway is up there. That guy with the lipstick and white face is legitimately creepy.

 

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Yes, it was cool to finally see Diane, and it figures it would be Laura Dern since she's kind of a Lynch veteran. I'm loving the new season, it keeps with the weirder aesthetic of Fire Walk With Me, but with modern touches. I'm a big Lynch fan, with Mulholland Drive being my favorite, but Lost Highway is up there. That guy with the lipstick and white face is legitimately creepy.

 

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Yeh ..Robert Blake! Thing that fascinates me also with Lynch is his use of colour. He really knows how to set a mood. I may watch Mulholland again later actually.

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I picked up a copy of Being John Malkovich last week. It was good to see it again. I'd forgotten about the scene where Lotte is tied up in the cage with her chimpanzee, and seeing the rope around Lotte's wrists causes the monkey to have a flashback to his parents being captured in the jungle. The set up for that was so unexpected. It's such a great movie.

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On ‎7‎/‎7‎/‎2017 at 9:21 AM, morbidspectre said:

I picked up a copy of Being John Malkovich last week. It was good to see it again. I'd forgotten about the scene where Lotte is tied up in the cage with her chimpanzee, and seeing the rope around Lotte's wrists causes the monkey to have a flashback to his parents being captured in the jungle. The set up for that was so unexpected. It's such a great movie.

I haven't seen this all the way I must check it out again..

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So I went to see the new "IT" movie last night and thoroughly enjoyed the experience. I was already a fan of the book but was left cold by the initial film offering despite enjoying bits of it at the time.  Thankfully the dark and macabre atmosphere of the book is captured brilliantly this time around and the child actors in the movie are nothing short of superb being helped by a really good script.  I didn't find the film scary particularly (I don't actually enjoy most horror films for the scary aspect of the experience) just really dank in it's atmospherics.  The sense of there being something very rotten in Derry and a large portion of it being due to human's ignorance was delivered perfectly.  The gore was gory and the effects as expected but I don't want to be scared by a horror film, I want to be disturbed by it on a more personal level and "IT" - although not a complete resounding success in that regard - delivered on that in the main.

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1 hour ago, MacabreEternal said:

So I went to see the new "IT" movie last night and thoroughly enjoyed the experience. I was already a fan of the book but was left cold by the initial film offering despite enjoying bits of it at the time.  Thankfully the dark and macabre atmosphere of the book is captured brilliantly this time around and the child actors in the movie are nothing short of superb being helped by a really good script.  I didn't find the film scary particularly (I don't actually enjoy most horror films for the scary aspect of the experience) just really dank in it's atmospherics.  The sense of there being something very rotten in Derry and a large portion of it being due to human's ignorance was delivered perfectly.  The gore was gory and the effects as expected but I don't want to be scared by a horror film, I want to be disturbed by it on a more personal level and "IT" - although not a complete resounding success in that regard - delivered on that in the main.

I saw it too, and I liked it.  I can't decide whether or not it was better than the one from the 90s, though.  I guess I will just have to wait until I see the sequel before I pass a final judgement.

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I was having a look through my movie collection earlier today. Goodness me is it sorely lacking. There are far too many films I don't own among them movies I thought I owned. Jaws, The Usual Suspects, Memento, Rocky, Fight Club, Scarface, The Godfather, how do I not own any of these?

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