I'm sure many of you know this, but the director of Longlegs, Osgood Perkins, is the son of Anthony Perkins, aka Norman Bates. I think that lends some extra fun subtext to his work as a horror filmmaker. I think he's developing a nice little unique filmography too, with The Blackcoat's Daughter, I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House, and Gretel & Hansel. I can see how these slow and moody films aren't for everyone, but I've liked all of them to varying degrees. I very much like The Blackcoat's Daughter and recently re-indulged in the visuals of Gretel & Hansel on Scream Factory's new 4K disc.
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MasterMastermnd
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Haven't seen any of his others yet, but they've all looked interesting. Wasn't about to miss a Nicolas Cage horror movie. Cage reminded me of this guy I saw at my local fair one year when I was a kid. He wore a dress shirt and slacks with long hair and his face completely covered in green facepaint and he kept asking me if I "wanted to go for a taxicab ride" and was following this other girl around and touching her hair. I had forgotten all about him, then not five minutes after Cage's first scene I thought "the green guy!"
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That sounds like you barely avoided some serious lifelong trauma... I hope that The Green Guy managed to turn his life around and didn't end up in prison. Maybe he was just going through a rough period... Could happen to the best of us.
From now on I'm going to be very cautious when someone offers me "a taxicab ride".
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I could see his "taxicab," it was just an old van. Just interesting how everything about that guy was perfectly pitched between being horrifying and so bizarre you almost laugh. That's what Cage was going for with Longlegs and I think he pulled off admirably, this very Lynchian quality where the more bizarre (and bizarrely humorous) it gets, the more unnerving it ultimately ends up being. Like the scene with Leo scrubbing the floor in FWWM, or Dennis Hopper throughout all Blue Velvet. Crazy that something so ineffable and uncanny is something I can point to having experienced for real haha
What Cage's performance boiled down to for me...that unexpected element that makes it all work to a pitch perfect degree...was a shocking amount of restraint. Which sounds like a wild thing to say, but restraint seemed to be the key to the performance within the film.
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I really loved longlegs. The theatre that I went to was pretty dark and actually made the movie more atmospheric
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I think that Longlegs is still not playing where I live. However, Arcadian is, and that film also sounds promising (another Cage horror), so I might go see it first.
Before that, I'm planning on watching Logan today (I've never seen any Wolverine film), and then Deadpool & Wolverine tomorrow. Deadpool has always been silly, but fun, so there was never any real doubt if we would go see the new film or not.
Before that, I'm planning on watching Logan today (I've never seen any Wolverine film), and then Deadpool & Wolverine tomorrow. Deadpool has always been silly, but fun, so there was never any real doubt if we would go see the new film or not.
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Ekorren
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Longlegs is finally arriving here in Sweden, end of August. Looking forward to it, even though some reviews are tempering my expectations at this point.
Saw Late Night with the Devil, was fun, but oddly enough a movie that I think works best watched on a TV rather than in the cinema. Maybe even a CRT one.
Saw Late Night with the Devil, was fun, but oddly enough a movie that I think works best watched on a TV rather than in the cinema. Maybe even a CRT one.
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I would say how much someone likes Longlegs might depend on how much they enjoy a narrative bait and switch in the film which I won't spoil.
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Watched Logan yesterday: certainly one of the best superhero films that I've ever seen. But, ironically, what makes it so good is how different than your regular superhero flick it is. If only it had fewer action scenes... People were praising it so much that I kind of imagined it would be an existential drama without any villains or action scenes whatsoever - but then it wouldn't be a superhero film.
In any case, kudos to James Mangold and Hugh Jackman.
Now I'm dreading a bit the change in tone I'll see in Deadpool & Wolverine today.
In any case, kudos to James Mangold and Hugh Jackman.
Now I'm dreading a bit the change in tone I'll see in Deadpool & Wolverine today.
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Dom
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Yeah, you kind of have to treat the entire Fox X-Men series as several parallel, intersecting realities. The Logan of Logan I tend to assume is the one from The Wolverine, X-Men Origins: Wolverine and the original trilogy before Days of Future Past altered the timeline. So Logan is kind how things would have played out. Or perhaps it isn't!
I have to take the series for the mess that it is. Deadpool, meanwhile, is something I treat as a kind of 'sidestep' series, akin to a 'computer virus' that occasionally warps reality.
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Has anybody watched Midnight Run? It’s one of my favourite comedy movies. Midnight run has been a huge inspiration for Deadpool and Wolverine
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Ergh.
May I suggest this is in and of itself a spoiler for those like me who know nothing about the film.
I really hate when someone tells me a movie is going to have a twist. Because then I sit the entire movie waiting for it. If I didn't know, I wouldn't expect it, no matter what it is.
I couldn't really get into Logan. I just thought it was needlessly depressing and not very entertaining. It didn't work for me.
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I'm not talking about a twist, per se. It's just a different movie than you think you're gonna be seeing.
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Funny story on this. When I was a teenager getting into Twin Peaks the series wasn't readily available. Many have forgotten how mistreated the series was for years re: home release. There was an out of print VHS of the European version of the Pilot, an out of print VHS set of the show on poor quality tape, an out of print DVD of the first season without the Pilot in any way, shape, or form, an out of print DVD of Fire Walk with Me, and an out of print laserdisc of Fire Walk with Me which, iirc, advertised itself as "widescreen" and what that meant was it was the fullscreen version of the film but with black bars posted over the top and bottom of the frame.
I got into Peaks through Lynch in general, stumbling across Mulholland Drive one night on cable and then looking him up on IMDb and realizing he'd made The Elephant Man, The Straight Story, and most importantly Wild at Heart. Saw all as a kid and loved them, but seeing Wild at Heart at 10-11 because it had the lady from Jurassic Park in it sparked my trip into outre cinema. I lived on a farm with no Internet so I had a friend in town torrent the first season. I watched that first season, then didn't ask him to do the rest as it was finally announced that season two was getting a legitimate release. I figured I could wait. My mom, for my birthday, got me a movie on DVD which turned out to be one of my favorites: Bob Roberts, a political satire with Tim Robbins and Ray Wise. I was digging into the special features on the DVD, which used to often have biographies for the principal cast. I clicked on Ray Wise's and it said like "Ray Wise, most famous for killing his daughter on Twin Peaks, has had a long and storied career." Didn't really change anything, knowing didn't make season 2, episode 7 hit any less. It's still in my opinion the most stressful episode of television ever filmed, despite the increased violence and stuff on tv today. But that's the story of how the Bob Roberts DVD spoiled the driving question of Twin Peaks in the few months before I started season two!
I got into Peaks through Lynch in general, stumbling across Mulholland Drive one night on cable and then looking him up on IMDb and realizing he'd made The Elephant Man, The Straight Story, and most importantly Wild at Heart. Saw all as a kid and loved them, but seeing Wild at Heart at 10-11 because it had the lady from Jurassic Park in it sparked my trip into outre cinema. I lived on a farm with no Internet so I had a friend in town torrent the first season. I watched that first season, then didn't ask him to do the rest as it was finally announced that season two was getting a legitimate release. I figured I could wait. My mom, for my birthday, got me a movie on DVD which turned out to be one of my favorites: Bob Roberts, a political satire with Tim Robbins and Ray Wise. I was digging into the special features on the DVD, which used to often have biographies for the principal cast. I clicked on Ray Wise's and it said like "Ray Wise, most famous for killing his daughter on Twin Peaks, has had a long and storied career." Didn't really change anything, knowing didn't make season 2, episode 7 hit any less. It's still in my opinion the most stressful episode of television ever filmed, despite the increased violence and stuff on tv today. But that's the story of how the Bob Roberts DVD spoiled the driving question of Twin Peaks in the few months before I started season two!
Jordan Cole
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Oh my goodness.
The worst is the Buffy complete DVD set. It's how me and three other friends watched the entire series. The menus pop up and they are often all spoilers for the four episodes on that disc. I started looking away and trying to press play without looking. Which led us, I think, to actually skipping an episode and not knowing about it for a few weeks.
The worst is the Buffy complete DVD set. It's how me and three other friends watched the entire series. The menus pop up and they are often all spoilers for the four episodes on that disc. I started looking away and trying to press play without looking. Which led us, I think, to actually skipping an episode and not knowing about it for a few weeks.
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I've been rewatching my precious blu-rays and, almost as a form of healing, had almost forgotten about the bad prior versions.
Am I remembering wrong, or was it season 2 in particular that always got the worst treatment? I believe the VHS of the first season were far better quality than 2's, given that 2's crammed more episodes per tape. Then on DVD there was that whole whacky licensing kerfuffle that meant we never got a standalone release until right before the Gold Box set came out, anyway, and so season 2 was unavailable on DVD for ages. And of course season 1 on DVD was missing the Pilot.
You could get evil geniuses together and prompt them with "devise the cruelest treatment of this TV show on physical media" and get more humane results.
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