Movie Thread

[Rapeculture]

Just finished the 1941 Wolf Man. It felt to me like what the Mummy was in 1999 - a kind of flamboyant, schlocky horror romp. I was a bit split on Chaney Jr - he doesn't really look or act like a leading man, but those droopy sad eyes do work in his favor, at least.

I might enjoy it then. I like the 1999 version of The Mummy. For all its schlockyness, it was good time in the theater.

Jewess Rachel Weisz in her prime was a legend. Van Helsing was better though.

Agreed on both counts.

[CuckTurdginson]

I liked Parasite quite a bit. Of Bong Joon-ho's movies, I've only seen Snowpiercer but I found Parasite to just be enrapturing every step of the way.

[Guest]

Just finished the 1941 Wolf Man. It felt to me like what the Mummy was in 1999 - a kind of flamboyant, schlocky horror romp. I was a bit split on Chaney Jr - he doesn't really look or act like a leading man, but those droopy sad eyes do work in his favor, at least.

Cheney Junior as the Wolfman worked for me. For one thing that's one of those movies that works primarily because of the actors involved. The cinematography on that movie as kind of blase, certain shots remind me of TV blocking. Lon Chaney Jr has the slightly pudgy, aging every man with a happy-go-lucky personality in a can do attitude is likable enough. When he's bitten by a werewolf in his life is ruined you feel bad, because you like him and when you start to fall apart because he realizes he's turning into a monster that kills people he really sells it. Compare him to Benicio del Toro in the remake directed by Joe I Don't Give A fuck Johnson who's written as a miserable person at the beginning of the film who becomes an even more miserable person who turns into a werewolf. That and the fact that the movie didn't know if I wanted to be an action movie or Friday the 13th style slasher.

[Guest]

18 years later and Midway's effects look worse than Pearl Harbor's.

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

Jewess Rachel Weisz in her prime was a legend. Van Helsing was better though.

Mummy '99 was a delightfully pulpy romp I could watch all day. Van Helsing on the other hand isn't quite my jam. I think the movie got a bit too silly for me, what with the steam-powered assault crossbow and Dracula's real castle residing in some fuckhuge cavern that could probably take all of New York City. A bit less would've been more imo.

[Rushy]

Jewess Rachel Weisz in her prime was a legend. Van Helsing was better though.

Mummy '99 was a delightfully pulpy romp I could watch all day. Van Helsing on the other hand isn't quite my jam. I think the movie got a bit too silly for me, what with the steam-powered assault crossbow and Dracula's real castle residing in some fuckhuge cavern that could probably take all of New York City. A bit less would've been more imo.

I never saw Van Helsing, but having heard of the plot, I don't get why they stuffed all the monsters in one movie. Surely it would've been more profitable to just do schlocky remakes of all of their movies? I'd dig an action-focused 90s Dark Universe.

[CuckTurdginson]

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Stephen King claims that the upcoming Doctor Sleep 'partially redeems' Kubrick's "The Shining." A ringing anti-endorsement if I've ever heard one.

[Rushy]

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Stephen King claims that the upcoming Doctor Sleep 'partially redeems' Kubrick's "The Shining." A ringing anti-endorsement if I've ever heard one.

he's saying it because it retcons the plot points from the Shining that contradicted his book

[Rapeculture]

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Stephen King claims that the upcoming Doctor Sleep 'partially redeems' Kubrick's "The Shining." A ringing anti-endorsement if I've ever heard one.

he's saying it because it retcons the plot points from the Shining that contradicted his book

Apparently not all of them. Because doesn't the Overlook Hotel burn to the ground in the book? It's still standing in the Doctor Sleep movie.

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

If I remember correctly, it actually blew the fuck up because the boiler went apeshit. That was in fact one of the reasons they needed a janitor during off-season: to keep dat shit in line.

Also
>supposedly redeeming a movie that needs no redeeming in the eyes of literally everyone but you

This movie will tank.

I never saw Van Helsing, but having heard of the plot, I don't get why they stuffed all the monsters in one movie. Surely it would've been more profitable to just do schlocky remakes of all of their movies? I'd dig an action-focused 90s Dark Universe.

Maybe they wanted to borrow a bit from that League of the Extraordinary Gentlemen movie. Or they followed the logic of a lot of video games set in a specific time period or mythology: Cram as many famous characters and monsters from that period/mythology in there.