Movie Thread

[nocera]

I watch so many horror movies that are "true stories" that I pretty much discount such claims from the get go.

Now? Yes, obviously. But when Fargo was one of the first and people absolutely bought into it.

[AuthorTony]

I watch so many horror movies that are "true stories" that I pretty much discount such claims from the get go.

Now? Yes, obviously. But when Fargo was one of the first and people absolutely bought into it.

A little movie called Texas Chainsaw Massacre would like a word with you.

[nocera]

I watch so many horror movies that are "true stories" that I pretty much discount such claims from the get go.

Now? Yes, obviously. But when Fargo was one of the first and people absolutely bought into it.

A little movie called Texas Chainsaw Massacre would like a word with you.

That’s why I chose my words carefully and said one of the firsts.

[PFiDC]

It's not even one of the firsts though. It's been schtick since at least the 70s. Mostly low budget horror but it wasn't new in 1996.

[AuthorTony]

I still remember when Blair Witch Project came out and was selling itself as real footage of actual events. I'd been spoiled, but I had my mother convinced it was real... until 2 days before it came to local theaters when she saw an Entertainment Tonight show segment interviewing the actors. I was so pissed.

[nocera]

Fargo felt as if it had credibility in its claims. That’s why people bought into it. This wasn’t some 70s slasher movie. It was Best Picture.

Blair Witch was another that felt legit just because of the amount of work they put into the mythology. That original website was awesome. I was convinced.

[PFiDC]

Same. I fell for Blair Witch hard even though it was filmed in what was basically my backyard. When I was watching it (I had discovered a week or so earlier it was fake) I was like, you ain't lost. Longdrafft Road is right over there. ****, you're basically sitting in my paintball arena...

[nocera]

Blair Witch also has one of the more interesting DVD commentary tracks. The way they wrote and shot that film is unbelievable.

[tifosi77]

Guy I worked with at my first job got to travel to film festivals and such for meetings with music supervisors and whatnot. He saw Blair Witch ahead of all the hype at Sundance. The screenings were set up in what amounted to more of a room than a theater, a dozen or so people at a time, and there were no seats. When you entered, they gave you a sheet of paper with the notable events of the Elly Kedward timeline (iirc, it was like a witch haunting event every 50 or so years going back to the 1700s). That's it. Then they showed you the movie without any further context or setup, and there was no discussion after the screening.

He came back from Utah scared sh**tless. lol

A few months later, some friends and I went to Palm Springs for a weekend getaway, and someone got a bootleg video copy of the movie. I, too, was scared sh**tless. There were like 20 of us in a 2-bedroom condo, and bed space was first-come-first-serve; I was in the first car to arrive, so I was sharing a bed with my friend Becki (no hanky panky). Just as I drifted off to sleep, she snorted-snored right in my ear, and I had a heart attack and died. That sucked.

Anyway, a couple weeks later, I pranked my coworker who had seen the movie in Utah. I spent a couple days building half a dozen of those stick figure scarecrows things, and I hid them all around the guy's office. Took him like 2 weeks to find all of them. The first one I hung from the door frame, so as he opened the in-swinging door it pushed the scarecrow out of the way and it fell down sort of in his face, and that remains one of my proudest moments as a prankster.

[dodint]

Cruel Intentions really got out ahead of the step-sister porn genre, eh?

[Dickie Dunn]

Cruel Intentions really got out ahead of the step-sister porn genre, eh?

**** yes it did

[eddy]

Nice little double feature yesterday afternoon. Pacific Rim and Hunt for red october.

PR is always good. This movie basically makes me feel like a little kid everytime I watch it and I love it. Probably my favorite 4k disc if you want to see what your system can do.

Red october was terrific. My favorite part was the switch from Connery talking russian to his own voice.

[NTP66]

I watched Hunt for Red October yesterday on BBC, as well.

[Dickie Dunn]

I love a good accent switch. Costner abandoning his English accent in Robin Hood is a personal favorite.

[nocera]

I also enjoy Balle Berry's Storm from X-Men to X2.

[Gaucho]

Nice Freudian slip there, mate.

[nocera]

I also enjoy Halle Berry.

Fixed?

[tifosi77]

Red october was terrific. My favorite part was the switch from Connery talking russian to his own voice.

John McTiernan has a directorial tick where he transitions characters speaking one language to another mid-scene. In HFRO it's the scene where the Kommissar (who, amusingly, is called Putin) is reading the sub-quote by Robert Oppenheimer and he switches from Russian to English on the word 'Armageddon'. In the 13th Warrior, the Arab gradually learns Norse on his journey with his captors, and that's shown by their conversations gradually going from all Norse, to every few words being English, to eventually they are just speaking English all the time.

[eddy]

Red october was terrific. My favorite part was the switch from Connery talking russian to his own voice.

John McTiernan has a directorial tick where he transitions characters speaking one language to another mid-scene. In HFRO it's the scene where the Kommissar (who, amusingly, is called Putin) is reading the sub-quote by Robert Oppenheimer and he switches from Russian to English on the word 'Armageddon'. In the 13th Warrior, the Arab gradually learns Norse on his journey with his captors, and that's shown by their conversations gradually going from all Norse, to every few words being English, to eventually they are just speaking English all the time.

Yeah, it worked fine, it was just a little jarring hearing Connery's transition that it gave me a good chuckle

[eddy]

[Gaucho]

Joni Mitchell appeared in Scorsese's Rolling Thunder Revue.

[eddy]

It's in black and white now?

[nocera]

Zack Snyder's schtick is so boring. It's like he's constantly plagiarizing himself.

[nocera]

The **** is this?

[Gaucho]