Miscellaneous Movie Musings

[SzczerbiakManiac]

Ug, that's an awful name.

I guess my next question is, are these movie going to be "Disney scary" (a la the Haunted Mansion attraction) or genuinely scary (horror film)?

[Cadaverous Pallor]

If it says Disney on it, I don't expect it to be scary, by any measure.

[Alex]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

If it says Disney on it, I don't expect it to be scary, by any measure.

Considering I occasionally get email from parents upset that I didn't warn them in my reviews about thing they thing are too scary or intense for children in the movies Disney is already making, I think you'd be surprised.

But if it isn't scary or intense by any measure then del Toro is being wasted. Certainly a possibility.

[CoasterMatt]

The only scary Disney products have "Princesses" or "Fairies" in the title.

[Alex]

9 was visually quite a treat.

The ending was thought provoking but as Lani and I discussed it after the fact it seemed to fall apart so now it seems faux though provoking but maybe I missed something.

Unfortunately, much of the 80 minutes is just a sequence of chase set pieces and really rather dull.

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Unintentionally watched La Matriarca (The Libertine) a 1968 Italian sex romp comedyish thing. A young window finds the apartment her husband kept for the fun kinky sex you just don't have with your wife and decides she wants some of that too and the rest is an exploration of various kinks and fetishes until she finds her own. Comedically bad dubbing, attractive actress. Not much worth watching.

Definitely not Johnny Depp's The Libertine which is what I'd thought I put on my Netflix queue.

[flippyshark]

Originally Posted by Alex

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Unintentionally watched La Matriarca (The Libertine) a 1968 Italian sex romp comedyish thing. A young window finds the apartment her husband kept for the fun kinky sex you just don't have with your wife and decides she wants some of that too and the rest is an exploration of various kinks and fetishes until she finds her own. Comedically bad dubbing, attractive actress. Not much worth watching.

Based on your plot description, I just may have to be the judge of that.

[innerSpaceman]

Originally Posted by Alex

Definitely not Johnny Depp's The Libertine which is what I'd thought I put on my Netflix queue.

Consider yourself fortunate for the mistake. Even if your incorrect choice were the second worst movie EVER made.




As for Tarantino's I.B., it's my hands-down favorite movie of the year, and I didn't for an instant feel any sort of revenge-fantasy. I'm a jew, and that wasn't an inkling's part of the fun for me. I have no idea if that was even supposed to be part of the movie's pleasures. I found so many besides that, I don't even care if it misfired on that particular score.

[LSPoorEeyorick]

I get the sense that del Toro is not one to give up his own creative vision. Even if it's not horror, he does creepy very well. And I'd be down with something dark and visionary like Haunted Mansion (ride, not movie) even if it wasn't strictly "horror."

[Ghoulish Delight]

Finally saw Inglorious Basterds last night.

It left me a little conflicted. On the one hand, it's a great movie, Tarantino doing what he does best. Reminded me in pace and story telling of Jackie Brown, one of my favorite and often under appreciated Tarantino films. Can't say a bad thing about it as a movie.

But I still don't like watching Nazi movies. Even if it was fantasy Nazi slaughter pron. The serious Jew-hunting scenes just depress me, and I can't even delight in the fantasy slaughter 'cause, well, it didn't happen that way, it never could have happened that way, and no amount of fantasizing changes that.

Not that I spent the whole movie crying over the Holocaust or anything, but I just found myself unable to indulge in the feeling of vengeance the movie was trying to illicit.

[Gemini Cricket]

They're prepping for Indy 5

I just let out a Charlie Brown-esque "Auuuggghhh!" just now.