*edit: nvm there was already a post on the movie, my bad. forgive me my brethren.
Mar-10-2015 04:50
Jon_Snow
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The other day someone recommended whiplash.
I recently stumbled across an obscure Australian movie from the 80s called "Hightide". It's a bit of a chick flick but I still liked it. Only thing I didn't like was the sound track.
Mar-10-2015 12:01
Lews
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Watched 'Map to the Stars' by Cronenberg the other day. It had plenty of good Cronenberg stuff - bathroom humour, incest, immolation, suicide, blood, etc - but wasn't overly great. I think the whole trope of how fucked up Hollywood is is rather old hat at this point. Hard to really do much new with that. Still, it wasn't a terrible film.
*edit: nvm there was already a post on the movie, my bad. forgive me my brethren.
Prefer this version of the movie.
Mar-11-2015 13:07
Paradox Lost
In This Twilight
Registered: Aug 2007
Location: San Francisco
Just got back from "It Follows," and it deserves much of its praise, though certainly not any of the associated hype. There's a great deal to appreciate from a movie-making perspective: it's crafted with an eerie surrealism that surrounds each frame from beginning to end, and is both written and shot with a great deal of suspense (some of the tightest, smoothest cinematography I've ever seen), but I found it just plods and meanders from scene to scene without ever firing off. I'm happy to say it mostly avoids the modern cliches of the genre, but I think it's ultimately scary ideas that make for a scary movie, and the ideas here are just too shallow and vague to ever flesh out into something terrifying.
That's not to say it's in any way a shallow movie; you're going to hear all kinds of interpretations, and mine is that it's about the perils of sexual maturation, but it never achieves the depth that's necessary to support the film in a satisfying way. That said, it has a terrific, homage-laden original score that should appeal to some of the original soundtrack enthusiasts among us (SYSTEM-J, I'm looking in your direction):
From watching the trailer I get the notion that it will be one of those movies that purposely eludes what "It" is and gives you an anti-climatic ending...but damn the music is cool. I'll see it just for that.
This reminds of the creepy atmospheres John Carpenter's music creates.
Originally posted by Syntonic
From watching the trailer I get the notion that it will be one of those movies that purposely eludes what "It" is and gives you an anti-climatic ending...but damn the music is cool. I'll see it just for that.
This reminds of the creepy atmospheres John Carpenter's music creates.
That's exactly what I thought, but it was surprisingly upfront and specific about the "It" as a definable threat, even if the nature of the threat itself is left undefined. And yeah, the score has Carpenter all over it, particularly the first few tracks. Check it out over at Bandcamp if you haven't already:
