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It's definitely a cut above--or more like an entire autopsy above--most other Christmas horror. But like a lot of great '90s flicks, it often gets lost in the shuffle, a consequence of being "born" in an era so rich in great movies.
Not exactly, but you are barking up vaguely the right galaxy. On the 2nd party, anyway.
Didn't read it, eh?
And those years gave us this, that, TWINS OF EVIL, BLOOD FROM THE MUMMY'S TOMB, VAMPIRE CIRCUS, CAPTAIN KRONOS: VAMPIRE HUNTER, FRANKENSTEIN & THE MONSTER FROM HELL--a lot of great work.
Yeah, it's a classic. "Late" Hammer gets kicked around a lot by purists but the truth is the studio made some of its best horror pictures in the period.
Neither are great but IN THE LINE OF FIRE is at least somewhat more original (even if the last moment, which, one supposes, was supposed to be chilling is actually laugh-inducing). They're most just paint-by-numbers Hollywood flicks, ITLOF being the sort of blatantly commercial thing Eastwood does to get the studio to pick up the tab on some passion project of his own (in this case, i paid for A PERFECT WORLD--a MUCH better movie than either of these).
<i>This is well written and I enjoyed this read.</i>
Thanks--I try.
<i>It's funny how people see what they want to see rather than what is obvious before them. It seems as though this guy wanted to see the oppression and interpreted simple things in that context.</i>
It seemed to me as if he took the one scene, entirely removed from the context of the film, misread it rather badly, then tried to reinterpret the film to fit that misreading. I found this to be a very strange exercise.
<i>It's been a while since I've seen this, but does she know that?</i>
She knows she's a Replicant, and she'd just seen what Replicants can do to Deckard (Leon had just pulverized him right before her eyes).
<i>And even if she does, does it occur to her in that context?</i>
It's a real question. Until a little earlier in the movie, she'd believed herself to be an ordinary woman. It doesn't really impact the reading of the scene but it's unacknowledged by Simpson, who presents Deckard--who also knows she's a Replicant--as overpowering her.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-5pEx_MWwg
It's a great, great movie, one of the best of its generation. On some days, I may pick VIDEODROME to top it but there isn't really much point in that--it's definitely one of Cronenberg's absolute best.
But if one is looking for remakes that outdo the originals, pickings get very slim after THE FLY, THE THING, TRUE GRIT and THE MALTESE FALCON.
The CODA cut is galaxies better than the theatrical cut, and it's sort of a mini-film-school in how minor changes and editing choices can make a major difference on the impact of a movie.
Pretty much. A top political priority right now has to be to undo this decision and fix this court, and it's a big enough thing that nearly everything else needs to take a backseat to it.
The entire series is available on DVD. The original run of sets began with Barnabas' introduction, then the 2nd filled in the show up to that point.
It was syndicated many times. The Sci-Fi Channel--back when it was still called that--ran it for years. May still run it.
I'm not old enough to have seen it in its original run but I got hooked on it in re-runs when I was a kid (which was also on after school). I've definitely come to appreciate it even more.
lol. You misspelled "Mahk."
The same guys did the same thing with Superman a few years later with that animated series: powering him way down.
Yes, and one can get even more specific and point to MASK OF THE PHANTASM as the high-point of this particular experiment. BTAS was a happy confluence of talent just creating a great, great show.
Yeah, when I first saw it--before I noticed the timestamp--that's what I thought too.
Wish I'd seen this when it was current. Fisher is a fraud and a clown, and it's hilarious that DOOM PATROL, which had a fraction of the budget Snyder was allowed to burn, had a Cyborg that put his to shame. Fisher probably just made up the part about Johns gloating over this--that's how he rolls--but if, by some chance, it is true, it's earned.
Social media is still filled with it constantly, though I suspect part of it--beyond the really fanatical Clinton cultists, I mean--is a product of slow news periods.