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Hey, it was a Saturday Morning Cartoon. It's not that precious.
I had fun with it. Maybe some people wanted it to be Serious and Dark and Gritty. Meh Whatever. I like bright flashing lights.
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I had fun with it. Maybe some people wanted it to be Serious and Dark and Gritty. Meh Whatever. I like bright flashing lights.
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Stephen King's Sleepwalkers
Totally non scary...... There's a bit of gore, incest, more gore, lots of cats..... Some cats caught in traps..... And fire...
Basically the story of mother and son who are Sleepwalkers who are basically shapeshifters who live off the lifeforce of people they capture. Like vampires. Thee movie starts with the police at a house where they have previously stayed. They find the body of a dead missing girl who looks mumified. She's had all her lifeforce sucked out of her leaving a dessicated husk type body.
Anyway they move to a new town and mummy is starving. So she sends the son off to school to find a new body to feed on..... But I think the son was genuinely in love with the girl and didn't really want to kill her. Enter the role of mummy who in her own twisted way has manipulated son... They dance every evening and bonk each other it would seem.. So that's where the incest comes in. Being alien type creatures it's OK.
Cats are their mortal enemy and the scratch of cats is the only thing that can kill these creatures. So every time they move house hordes of cats find them and gather around the home.
One thing that did bug me is why the mother was too damn lazy to go hunt her own prey.. She could hvae found a virginal young man to seduce but the story didn't want to go this way. Why they needed a virginal girl is beyond me. I never read the book.
Anyway it was a passable film of King's work..... The Stand is his best film adaptation.
For this one 5/10
Totally non scary...... There's a bit of gore, incest, more gore, lots of cats..... Some cats caught in traps..... And fire...
Basically the story of mother and son who are Sleepwalkers who are basically shapeshifters who live off the lifeforce of people they capture. Like vampires. Thee movie starts with the police at a house where they have previously stayed. They find the body of a dead missing girl who looks mumified. She's had all her lifeforce sucked out of her leaving a dessicated husk type body.
Anyway they move to a new town and mummy is starving. So she sends the son off to school to find a new body to feed on..... But I think the son was genuinely in love with the girl and didn't really want to kill her. Enter the role of mummy who in her own twisted way has manipulated son... They dance every evening and bonk each other it would seem.. So that's where the incest comes in. Being alien type creatures it's OK.
Cats are their mortal enemy and the scratch of cats is the only thing that can kill these creatures. So every time they move house hordes of cats find them and gather around the home.
One thing that did bug me is why the mother was too damn lazy to go hunt her own prey.. She could hvae found a virginal young man to seduce but the story didn't want to go this way. Why they needed a virginal girl is beyond me. I never read the book.
Anyway it was a passable film of King's work..... The Stand is his best film adaptation.
For this one 5/10
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RustyAngel73
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stuck with the flu last couple of days so movie watching is the go
Saw Shawshank Redemption again last night, probably for about the 10th time now
Always shed a tear when Brooks is in the Park hoping Jake (not me, the crow he raised in jail) would stop by and say hello
Followed that watching Saw
Saw 5 is due out later this month I think
I can't wait for Saw 5. I saw it advertised on a bus, think it's released either the 24th or 30th (big difference I know but I've seen both dates advertised).
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Ravenau1
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I'm interested in what your criteria for judging that it's a passable adapation of his work is if you've never actually read it? But it might be a little hard considering that it's never been pulished
I would disagree with The Stand, however. It's one of my fav King books (after the Dark Tower series) but I thought the adaptation was woeful.
I think that The Shawshank Redemption (which was made from King's 'Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption') is the best film adaptation.
Edit: I do believe that the magnificent Clive Barker is supposed to be in Sleepwalkers somewhere, but I wasn't able to spot him.
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I'm interested in what your criteria for judging that it's a passable adapation of his work is if you've never actually read it? But it might be a little hard considering that it's never been pulished
I wasn't aware it had not been published as a book. I had assumed most of the films were in some way taken from books..
My criteria is that anything that doesn't bore me senseless and make me laugh like Children Of The Corn did deserves a mark above 5/10
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Ravenau1
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It's funny how things just don't translate well from print to film. Children of the Corn was a genuinely creepy story, but an incredibly silly film, I agree.
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Flightplan
I had reservations about this one. But seeing it in a bargain bin with Vantage Point and a ton of others I got them on a 3 movies for $30 promotion..
Anyway Flightplan is a movie starring the most excellent Jodie Foster. She rocks.
The mvoie starts with Foster mourning the death of her husband and having to view the body at a mortuary. They seal the coffin with a special electronic lock to put it on a plane. The plane too is special it's a brand new plane with a brand new design.
Now I'm not too sure how far the movie makers had thought of this but the plane reminded me a lot of the new Airbus A380 in that it is a full two deck design with masses of room onboard for walking and lounges and stuff.
The plane is our setting. Jodie Foster's character is an aeronautical engineer dealing with propulsion systems. She had a hand in designing the engines of this fictitious plane. The movie starts with her and daughter boarding the plane. They settle into their seats and watch stuff being loaded onboard on the ground, stuff including the coffin containing her dead husband.
She takes a nap and when she awakens finds her daughter has gone missing, the only evidence being a lone teddy bear. She tries to get the attention of the crew but they do not believe her, and there is no record of her on the passenger list. She causes a lot of comotion and gets arrested by an air marshall on the aircraft. He tries to help her but as the movie progresses we learn that he had a hand in vanishing the daughter. He has an ally in one of the flight attendants. The captain comes down to talk to her and this was a neat surprise in the movie as Sean Bean played the plane's captain.
I won't say any more because it would gve the whole thing away. The movie does start slow but towards the end it really picks up pace and is tense, and exciting. The ending was great, and we get great closure.
I loved it 7/10 and 8/10 for Ms. Foster's performance.
I had reservations about this one. But seeing it in a bargain bin with Vantage Point and a ton of others I got them on a 3 movies for $30 promotion..
Anyway Flightplan is a movie starring the most excellent Jodie Foster. She rocks.
The mvoie starts with Foster mourning the death of her husband and having to view the body at a mortuary. They seal the coffin with a special electronic lock to put it on a plane. The plane too is special it's a brand new plane with a brand new design.
Now I'm not too sure how far the movie makers had thought of this but the plane reminded me a lot of the new Airbus A380 in that it is a full two deck design with masses of room onboard for walking and lounges and stuff.
The plane is our setting. Jodie Foster's character is an aeronautical engineer dealing with propulsion systems. She had a hand in designing the engines of this fictitious plane. The movie starts with her and daughter boarding the plane. They settle into their seats and watch stuff being loaded onboard on the ground, stuff including the coffin containing her dead husband.
She takes a nap and when she awakens finds her daughter has gone missing, the only evidence being a lone teddy bear. She tries to get the attention of the crew but they do not believe her, and there is no record of her on the passenger list. She causes a lot of comotion and gets arrested by an air marshall on the aircraft. He tries to help her but as the movie progresses we learn that he had a hand in vanishing the daughter. He has an ally in one of the flight attendants. The captain comes down to talk to her and this was a neat surprise in the movie as Sean Bean played the plane's captain.
I won't say any more because it would gve the whole thing away. The movie does start slow but towards the end it really picks up pace and is tense, and exciting. The ending was great, and we get great closure.
I loved it 7/10 and 8/10 for Ms. Foster's performance.
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ghetto.x
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Really? It was cute and all... animation was great. But I got soo bored haha.
Guess those animated types of films aren't my thing, especially when they hardly talk.
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I still haven't seen Wall E yet..... But I did get to muck around with a big remote control one.
Prozium
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I started to get bored when they were in the space thing just doing stupid stuff... but that's it. Oh and the ending annoyed me.
He should of died
Ooh! I know someone who had one of those
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I started to get bored when they were in the space thing just doing stupid stuff... but that's it. Oh and the ending annoyed me.
He should of died
Ooh! I know someone who had one of those
Had????????/ What happened
I had two robo raptors but one got slightly run over by a car
Prozium
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Stardust
A near perfect fairy tale.. This was one of the three movies I had recently got thanks to a bargain bin.. Wow I thought it was just brilliant. The story of a young man who tries to woo the woman he thinks is the love of his life. He promises to bring her a fallen star, which they both see coming down to Earth...... In the movie stars look at us and are real living beings and one comes down to Earth in the form of Yvaine played by Claire Danes.....
And much adventure ensues with witches, and pirates in a flying ship as the young man and his star are pursued by one and all.
7/10 for me.
A near perfect fairy tale.. This was one of the three movies I had recently got thanks to a bargain bin.. Wow I thought it was just brilliant. The story of a young man who tries to woo the woman he thinks is the love of his life. He promises to bring her a fallen star, which they both see coming down to Earth...... In the movie stars look at us and are real living beings and one comes down to Earth in the form of Yvaine played by Claire Danes.....
And much adventure ensues with witches, and pirates in a flying ship as the young man and his star are pursued by one and all.
7/10 for me.
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rara
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I watched Edward Scissorhands and Batman Returns last night, a Tim Burton weekend obviously.
Edward Scissorhands never fails to make me sob like a baby everytime
Edward Scissorhands never fails to make me sob like a baby everytime