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Let the Right One In - Brilliant. Certainly the best vampire film I've ever seen.

yamiiguy wrote:Let the Right One In - Brilliant. Certainly the best vampire film I've ever seen.

Better than Fright Night? The Hunger? Innocent Blood?

That's a mighty tall order.

Lazario wrote:

yamiiguy wrote:Let the Right One In - Brilliant. Certainly the best vampire film I've ever seen.

Better than Fright Night? The Hunger? Innocent Blood?

That's a mighty tall order.

I'd say so. There's also a remake called 'Let Me In' that in theatres right now. I think film critic Mark Kermode described the relationship between them perfectly by saying that the original is a movie about children that just happens to feature vampires while the remake is a movie about vampires that just happens to feature children. I'd say that 'Let the Right One In' is the best film to come out of 2009 (or 2008 if you want to be picky). 'Let Me In' seems unnecessary and doesn't seem to fully capture the magic of the original but it is still a good movie.

EDIT: Maybe I should have said that it's my favourite movie that features a vampire as it isn't a vampire movie as such. In fact I'd find it difficult to recommend it as a horror. It's certainly not scary or at least it wasn't to me but it was a damn good film.

yamiiguy wrote:

Lazario wrote: Better than Fright Night? The Hunger? Innocent Blood?

That's a mighty tall order.

I'd say so. There's also a remake called 'Let Me In' that in theatres right now. I think film critic Mark Kermode described the relationship between them perfectly by saying that the original is a movie about children that just happens to feature vampires while the remake is a movie about vampires that just happens to feature children. I'd say that 'Let the Right One In' is the best film to come out of 2009 (or 2008 if you want to be picky). 'Let Me In' seems unnecessary and doesn't seem to fully capture the magic of the original but it is still a good movie.

EDIT: Maybe I should have said that it's my favourite movie that features a vampire as it isn't a vampire movie as such. In fact I'd find it difficult to recommend it as a horror. It's certainly not scary or at least it wasn't to me but it was a damn good film.

I haven't seen it yet, but for some reason I'm not too eager.

I've been let down so many times since The Blair Witch Project with hyped up films, I could write a book. Especially the more ambitious they are and the more people say they're better than any film of the subgenre (vampire, slasher, zombie - etc) they've seen.

I'd definitely recommend it. But don't go into it expecting a full on horror. There are very few horror scenes and the film focuses on the relationship between the characters. The worst thing that could happen is that you don't like it. Perhaps a rental or viewing through *cough* other means *cough* before you purchase (or don't). The English dub of 'Let the Right One In' is terrible, watch it with subtitles.

Lazario wrote:

yamiiguy wrote:Let the Right One In - Brilliant. Certainly the best vampire film I've ever seen.

Better than Fright Night? The Hunger? Innocent Blood?

That's a mighty tall order.

While I loved The Hunger, Fright Night didn't impress me all too much. I still have to see Innocent Blood, though.

PeterPanfan wrote:Fright Night didn't impress me all too much.

Glad I'm not alone.

A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) 5/10 - while the original is no masterpiece, this movie was complete crap. This has to be the worst Platinum Dunes remake thus far (and that's saying something). I love you Jackie Earle Haley but you're a terrible Freddy. There was just soo much wrong with this soulless remake that I feel I could write a book.

jpanimation wrote:

PeterPanfan wrote:Fright Night didn't impress me all too much.

Glad I'm not alone.

A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) 5/10 - while the original is no masterpiece, this movie was complete crap. This has to be the worst Platinum Dunes remake thus far (and that's saying something). I love you Jackie Earle Haley but you're a terrible Freddy. There was just soo much wrong with this soulless remake that I feel I could write a book.

I never wanted to see that remake.

Innocent Blood is an amazing movie. And probably at the top of my Top Ten horror movies of all time.

Pleasantville (1998)

Saw it once before, but it was great to see it again. A modern masterpiece, both comedy and drama, a bit preachy at times, maybe, but above all an ode to all what's good and worthwhile in life. And the best warning against Conservatism I've ever seen.

Millennium- Part 2: The Woman Who Played With Fire (2009)

Second half of the tv version of this movie. All in all it was exciting; it makes better use of the characters and their backstory than did the first film. I just wished Blomkvist and Salander would've been acting as a duo, like they did in the first installment. Eagerly awaiting part 3 --more for the characters than the story, really.

Paranormal Activity 2: 8/10

Not bad, but definitely not as good as the original. Had some scary moments, but the best part was the way it tied together with the first movie. [/b]

PeterPanfan wrote:While I loved The Hunger, Fright Night didn't impress me all too much. I still have to see Innocent Blood, though.

Glad to see I'm not alone on The Hunger.

If Fright Night has a significant flaw, it's that the special effects get very out of hand (though they even out in the final confrontation scene - Billy Cole's meltdown on the stairs is legendary!) and the characters are written to be very old-fashioned. But that was the trend in the early-to-mid 80's. Look at all the films they did around that time that were like parodies of old teen exploitation flicks (Strange Behavior, Class of Nuke 'Em High, Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II, The Blob remake, Critters 2, Nightmare on Elm Street 4, Friday the 13th Part 6, Deadly Friend, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, Night of the Comet, Slugs, and on some level the characters in the first Friday the 13th).

It seems when it comes to 80's vampire films, people's hearts either belong to Fright Night or Near Dark (well, there's The Lost Boys too but that feels a lot more Hollywood than either of these movies). If Fright Night didn't do it for you, I'd suggest you see Near Dark immediately.

dvdjunkie wrote:Innocent Blood is an amazing movie. And probably at the top of my Top Ten horror movies of all time.

It's in my Top 20, that's for sure. An absolute masterpiece (Netflix has the full original version - almost 5 minutes longer than the DVD edit - on Watch Instant).

yamiiguy wrote:The English dub of 'Let the Right One In' is terrible

I never watch foreign films in English (learned my lesson the hard way on Bio Zombie). Although... it sure didn't help Haute Tension (piece of crap!).

Make Mine Music

Well, aside from Tangled (which I'll let slip as it hasn't technically come out), I can safely say that I have now seen every animated feature produced by Disney (well, WDAS)! By 2006, I had seen every other animated classic that I had yet to see, but I'd always had trouble with this one. It was never released on DVD in the UK, and of course the US version ashamedly had "The Martins and the Coys" taken out and wasn't worth the hassle of blowing a good £10-20 on importing it. The only other options would be to either try and source an extremely rare UK rental VHS copy from the 80s (unedited), source the less rare yet ultimately pointless UK VHS from 2000 (sadly edited like US edition - interestingly I almost bought it back in 2001) or import the Scandinavian DVD (unedited, but quite expensive). However, some dear old soul put up the film on YouTube. Normally I'm against watching whole films on YouTube (because it's piracy and they're chopped up into parts), but I gave in and had a gander.

Well, it probably works better than Melody Time based on the overall fact that it features more entertaining segments than its follow-up, but it's still not perfect. It is generally really uneven, probably more so than any of the other package features, jumping from animated storytime to experimental animation, and featuring such an odd array of musical styles that didn't really flow together. Make Mine Music also features a lot of badly drawn, rushed human caricatures, and some of the segments just look ugly based on this fact. The worst appear in "Casey at the Bat", which I generally consider the worst overall; it's uninteresting, hard to follow and generally obnoxious. My dislike for it probably also derives from the fact that I'm not interested in baseball. Some of the more abstract pieces also don't work; "Two Silhouettes" is absolutely pointless, and "After You've Gone" was a bit bland. Then there were the middling segments. "Blue Bayou" was fine but definitely worked better as "Clair de la Lune". "The Martin and the Coys" was fun but forgettable, as was "Johnny Fedora and Alice Blue-bonnet" (I'll agree with Luke's review in finding the concept of hats having eyes just weird).

Needless to say, there are some real gems throughout the film. "All the Cats Join In" is fun and captures the spirit of youth, and "Without You" showcases some interesting animation effects. My two favourite pieces are actually two that I probably have a bias towards due to having watched them both quite a bit as a child. "Peter and the Wolf" is excellent, a fun little fairy tale with classic music and nice characters, along with an appropriate Slavic look. "The Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met/Willie the Operatic Whale" is a good round-out to the film, and features better human animation than much of the rest of the film. I also liked the opening and end credits sequence to the film, like a book opening, only with a cinema screen at a Broadway theatre as the means of bookending the picture.

Overall, I liked Make Mine Music, but I'd only really be willing to watch certain segments again. You can tell that all these segments were only slapped together to create a cheap yet major theatrical release to help get the studio into a better financial situation, and it's naturally better to go watching it remembering that circumstance.

Lazario wrote:

PeterPanfan wrote:While I loved The Hunger, Fright Night didn't impress me all too much. I still have to see Innocent Blood, though.

Glad to see I'm not alone on The Hunger.

If Fright Night has a significant flaw, it's that the special effects get very out of hand (though they even out in the final confrontation scene - Billy Cole's meltdown on the stairs is legendary!) and the characters are written to be very old-fashioned. But that was the trend in the early-to-mid 80's. Look at all the films they did around that time that were like parodies of old teen exploitation flicks (Strange Behavior, Class of Nuke 'Em High, Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II, The Blob remake, Critters 2, Nightmare on Elm Street 4, Friday the 13th Part 6, Deadly Friend, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, Night of the Comet, Slugs, and on some level the characters in the first Friday the 13th).

It seems when it comes to 80's vampire films, people's hearts either belong to Fright Night or Near Dark (well, there's The Lost Boys too but that feels a lot more Hollywood than either of these movies). If Fright Night didn't do it for you, I'd suggest you see Near Dark immediately.

Does The Hunger not get a lot of love?

If you've seen it, how is Fright Night Part II? It's not on Netflix, so I don't see myself watching it this Halloween season, but the first was decent enough for me to want to see a sequel.

And I'll definitely see Near Dark and Innocent Blood, too! (And The Lost Boys, which I still have not seen).

The Woman in the Window (1944)

I was all ready to write a glowing, raving review about it, giving it 5 out of 5 stars, when I came at the end... and could not believe my eyes! Never was a film so hurt overall by its ending... and never was an ending this bad. After investing myself for over 100 minutes in an excellent crime story, I've got to find out that everything was just a dream?! They had the perfect ending for the story, and then they ruïn it this way! Terrible how a great director like Fritz Lang had to bow to the Hollywood tradition of the 1940's to not allow an unhappy ending.

I saw a free screening of For Colored Girls last night. Such a powerful film. It deals with life, relationships, being a woman. Amazing. Even if you're a man, I'd recommend this film. But for women, please do go see it.

10/10

Really powerful stuff. It is really sad that there are actually people who are so blinded by their faith that they can't see the benefits of diversity in the world. I like to believe that God accepts people as they are, and as long as they love him, their neighbours, and are good people, they will be good in God's eyes.

Coolmanio wrote:

10/10

Really powerful stuff. It is really sad that there are actually people who are so blinded by their faith that they can't see the benefits of diversity in the world. I like to believe that God accepts people as they are, and as long as they love him, their neighbours, and are good people, they will be good in God's eyes.

This is seriously the only Lifetime movie I like, and I love it. I've recommended it to several people during my coming out process. My friend who didn't know whether or not to accept it watched this, and we're even closer now!

Goliath wrote:Pleasantville (1998)

Saw it once before, but it was great to see it again. A modern masterpiece, both comedy and drama, a bit preachy at times, maybe, but above all an ode to all what's good and worthwhile in life. And the best warning against Conservatism I've ever seen.

I missed this, but I too love the movie. To me it's all about chaos and order. You definitely need order so everything gets carried out. But also need a little chaos in the form of pursuing dreams, looking at the world in a different way and being radical in your ideas.

The thing is that not a lot of people see this. My friends keep saying that is mainly a popcorn flick. I disagree. The story puts a lot of effort into its plot and character development. You have issues of inner conflict and tradition, people that are trapped in a world that wants them to behave in a specific way and two kids with issues trying to destroy that perception of life. How can THAT be a popcorn film?

Transformers is a popcorn film. Pleasantville ain't.

Jackass 3D.

It was gross, disgusting, idiotic, and hilarious. I liked it. It's Jackass but in 3D and it's awesome.