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Post by Flying Monkeys on Jan 19, 2024 13:10:06 GMT
Yes, this is brilliant film-making. Took me a while to realise, but did you notice that every shot (apart from close-ups) is perfectly symmetrical? Watch out for it, it's beautiful to behold. Meh. He is just ripping off Kubrick. No fucking way! Kubrick is a hack - this is brilliant! |
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Post by Flying Monkeys on Jan 19, 2024 13:11:08 GMT
To be fair, she did mention the original. I know but I would still place the John Carpenter movie above the 2011 version. Way above. |
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Post by hugsfromlv426 on Jan 19, 2024 13:12:32 GMT
Meh. He is just ripping off Kubrick. No fucking way! Kubrick is a hack - this is brilliant! Wes Anderson is the: Worst. Director. Ever. Quirky does not equal good. |
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Post by Flying Monkeys on Jan 19, 2024 13:21:13 GMT
No fucking way! Kubrick is a hack - this is brilliant! Wes Anderson is the: Worst. Director. Ever. Quirky does not equal good. And you're putting Kubrick forward?? Have you seen A Clockwork Orange? That is the: Worst. Film. Ever. Absolute travesty of the book and completely amateur student-level film-making. Junky does not equal good. |
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Post by abbey1227 on Jan 19, 2024 13:23:54 GMT
I really enjoyed Polar :D  |
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Post by hugsfromlv426 on Jan 19, 2024 13:24:23 GMT
Wes Anderson is the: Worst. Director. Ever. Quirky does not equal good. And you're putting Kubrick forward?? Have you seen A Clockwork Orange? That is the: Worst. Film. Ever. Absolute travesty of the book and completely amateur student-level film-making. Junky does not equal good. |
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Jan 19, 2024 13:32:05 GMT
Strange. I always went for "warm" movies on cold, snowy days. Lawrence of Arabia, The African Queen, Bridge on the River Kwai, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. And the snowy movies on hot summer days. The Hateful Eight, Doctor Zhivago, The Shining.
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Post by Flying Monkeys on Jan 19, 2024 13:41:00 GMT
And you're putting Kubrick forward?? Have you seen A Clockwork Orange? That is the: Worst. Film. Ever. Absolute travesty of the book and completely amateur student-level film-making. Junky does not equal good. That stuff is the only good thing he's done. The first half that is, and it's only because of R. Lee Ermey, not Kubrick. And the second half shows his lazy film-making perfectly: Ever notice how all of the exterior shots in the second half are shot from a low angle so you can't see much background? Absolutely cheap cunt - this guy is no Coppola who actually went into the jungle. |
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Post by mikemonger on Jan 19, 2024 15:51:26 GMT
Probably the best of the "found footage" format movies. |
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Post by mikemonger on Jan 19, 2024 15:54:44 GMT
'The Thing'While I may be in the minority here, I've always liked 2011's "The Thing" more than the 1982 John Carpenter classic. The new version serves as a cross between a prequel and a remake that, like the original, fosters a continuous sense of tension and paranoia broken up by the occasional adrenaline-filled body horror. When a spacecraft and alien bodies are discovered buried in ice in Antarctica, a team of scientists converge on an isolated outpost to research the otherworldly visitors. While the group initially believes the organism died in the crash eons ago, the alien life-form breaks free of its icy prison and attacks. Though they manage to kill the creature, an autopsy reveals that its cells began to copy those of its human victims. Paranoia spreads like wildfire among the crew as they fight to survive against a creature that assumes the shapes of its victims. hugsfromlv426 They suggest the shitty 2011 version of The Thing instead of the awesome 1982 version?!?!? This is the worst list ever. While I agree that the '82 The Thing is the far superior movie, I think the '11 version gets a lot of unfair hate. They did a great job of explaining and integrating the events at the Norwegian base into what the Americans found. |
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Post by hugsfromlv426 on Jan 19, 2024 17:14:38 GMT
They suggest the shitty 2011 version of The Thing instead of the awesome 1982 version?!?!? This is the worst list ever. While I agree that the '82 The Thing is the far superior movie, I think the '11 version gets a lot of unfair hate. They did a great job of explaining and integrating the events at the Norwegian base into what the Americans found. Yes, they got it to match up well, but it was still a much inferior movie. |
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Post by primethefirst on Jan 19, 2024 18:40:18 GMT
The only scene in the 2011 film that almost worked was when the two-face thing is going down the hallway in search of people.
They screwed up royally by adding those Childs and McCready clones.
And making the Norwegian camp so internationally diverse--as if an American woman was going to be going there.
Also because they decided to switch to cgi for much of it--the alien was changing way too fast--like the helicopter head-split.
In the 1982 movie it had to take a few moments to prepare for a change--the weird breathing (a sound effect borrowed from the 1978 Invasion of the Body Snatchers).
The Carpenter film ran out of steam by the Palmer thing. IMO Carpenter was too willing to let Rob Bottin's FX run the show--and there could have been more suspense by relying on the viewer's imagination more. He said he hated doing that--if there was a monster--show it all the time---but I think that detracted from the spook factor. The creepiest moments were not the thing scenes--it was when they are looking at McCready's shack in the dark etc.
I think the best acting moment is when the Norwegian guy is shouting about the dog.
"Se til helvete og kom dere vekk. Det er ikke en bikkje, det er en slags ting! Det imiterer en bikkje, det er ikke virkelig! KOM DERE VEKK IDIOTER!!" This translates to: "Get the hell outta there. That's not a dog, it's some sort of thing! It's imitating a dog, it isn't real! GET AWAY YOU IDIOTS!!"
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