Yay the Librarian movies are at the top of my roomie's netflix queue!
Danger's my birthright.
Buffy ,'The Killer In Me'
Buffista Movies 6: lies and videotape
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Laga - Jan 29, 2008 7:52:50 pm PST #3796 of 10000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Polter-Cow - Jan 29, 2008 8:01:02 pm PST #3797 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I just watched The Fly ! That was certainly a gross movie. Good old corrosive vomit! But it was cool to see 1986 special effects. The Brundlefly looked like a real monstrosity, tangible and sickening. If they did it now, it'd be all CGI.
Also! I had no idea that "Be afraid. Be very afraid" was from this movie! It was so weird to hear it in its original context.
I always thought the movie was about a guy who immediately becomes a fly-monster and starts terrorizing everyone, but that's just because that's how it's always parodied.
Cashmere - Jan 29, 2008 8:04:51 pm PST #3798 of 10000
Now tagless for your comfort.
My dad saw the original when he was in high school. He drove a bunch of friends to see it and later that night when he was driving home (his parents lived on a farm), a giant horse fly flew into one of the open windows.
He was so freaked out and scared that all he could do was lay on the horn until his mother came out of the house and to rescue him.
Theodosia - Jan 30, 2008 2:15:28 am PST #3799 of 10000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Jeff Goldblum absolutely makes the remake worth watching, even if it's gory and depressing. I think it's perhaps the most undersung/underappreciated horror roles ever.
Jon B. - Jan 30, 2008 3:34:31 am PST #3800 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I always thought the movie was about a guy who immediately becomes a fly-monster and starts terrorizing everyone, but that's just because that's how it's always parodied.
That's how it was in the Vincent Price original. Except for the terrorizing part. IIRC, he's more of a misunderstood monster, a la Frankenstein's.
Frankenbuddha - Jan 30, 2008 3:34:53 am PST #3801 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Jeff Goldblum absolutely makes the remake worth watching, even if it's gory and depressing. I think it's perhaps the most undersung/underappreciated horror roles ever.
Both him and Geena were awsome in that. The first half plays almost like a geektastic romantic comedy, and then it gets icky and very very sad (or is that sad and very very icky?).
If they did it now, it'd be all CGI.
With Cronenberg, you never know. He believes in texture when he does those sorts of effects. Though he made some stellar (as in almost undetectable) use of CGI in A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE, so who knows.
DavidS - Jan 30, 2008 5:51:51 am PST #3802 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
P-C, in interviews Cronenberg did around the release of The Fly he talked a lot about his father's death from cancer, and that it was (for him) a metaphor about loving somebody who's physically falling apart in horriffic ways.
Polter-Cow - Jan 30, 2008 6:39:07 am PST #3803 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Yeah, I read about the metaphor, and I felt smart for getting that from the movie.
I expected Ronnie to recoil in horror the first time she sees Brundle as he's begun to change.
Instead, she hugs him.
Frankenbuddha - Jan 30, 2008 6:49:37 am PST #3804 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Instead, she hugs him.
When I saw that in the theater back in the day, this got almost as much of an audibly revolted response as some of the later, seriously gross stuff. Granted, the sounds of revulsion were pretty much nonstop for the last 10 minutes of the movie, so that had it beat for duration.
Glamcookie - Jan 30, 2008 8:39:21 am PST #3805 of 10000
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
He was so freaked out and scared that all he could do was lay on the horn until his mother came out of the house and to rescue him.
This is adorable! I remember when I saw the Blair Witch Project with 2 friends (GF wasn't interested) and had to drive home alone, I had to stop for gas and was totally freaked out. It was late and no one was around. I iz a scaredy-kat!