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Well, if you can think of a better way to feel good about yourself than to sit your fat ass down on your couch and watch a classic movie that people like Jim Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger created and find tiny insignificant stupid flaws to fixate on as if they didn't know what they were doing and you yourself know better, I'd love to hear it.
I just re-watched it, probably seen it four times now since it came out. Struggling to recall any indication of Henry stealing...
EDIT: OK, I was hung up on money. (It was the topic, after all.) He did snatch part of a guy's sandwich. But it was a spur of the moment thing, not a habit or a means of daily survival.
It was eventually discovered, Yamaoka sourced it from a relatively common sound library CD published in the mid 1990s.
For the most part, I loved the OG SH2 voice acting. Resident Evil basically established the idea that survival horror voice acting was not to be taken too seriously, and I'm guessing they were keeping that in mind when making the classic Silent Hill games. I really doubt the SH2 director was trying to get award winning performances out of the cast. IMO most of them did a fine job, relatively speaking. So many dialogue lines from that game have lived rent free in my brain for almost 25 years now, bona fide classics.
The only exception was Angela. Her voice actor sounded like a retarded alien who had come to earth and listened to humans speaking English for less than 5 minutes and was trying to imitate them from memory a year later. She was far beyond "intentionally off-putting and odd," the performance was just plain AWFUL. That actor played Claudia in SH3, and she was quite good in that role. I suspect the SH2 director told her something like "this Angela character should be nervous, unsure of herself and on edge at all times," and the best she could come up with was crap like, "This, uh, this, um, this ~tOwN~... there's something wrong with it." The Angela actor in the new remake is so, so, soooo much better.
I played the SH Collection version on PS3 when it came out, but I don't think I ever got around to checking out the updated voice actors. In fact, I think my experience with that butchered version of SH2 was so bad that I never even bothered playing SH3, so I never heard those updated actors either.
I'm a bit of a Bukowski fan, but yeah I'd agree he's definitely overrated by many. A pathetic alcoholic loser POS who had the ability to tell 'slice of life' stories in an entertaining way. It boggles my mind that anyone would enjoy his poetry. But hey, he still achieved more in life than I or any of you ever will.
There was a scene that focused on that aspect of her, here's your "I Paid Attention to the Movie" gold sticker.
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It's one of Robert Eggers' trademarks, doing things that are from the period of the movie he makes. The official title of his first movie is "The Witch." But the official logo for the movie is "THE VVITCH." And the only reason is that in the 17th century it was common practice among printing press typesetters to use two Vs to make a W. Eggers discovered this when he was researching the movie and he thought it was "neat."
Likewise, The Lighthouse takes place in 1890 so he decided to shoot it in the aspect ratio "moving pictures" were generally shot in back in those days. To him it makes his movie feel "more authentic." Safe to bet he was well aware plenty of people would think, "I don't care why he did it, it just looks stupid." He simply doesn't give a rat's ass what those people think.
1. It wasn't for nothing that the movie went out of its way to point out that Thomasin had recently hit puberty and was biologically a young woman. Witches are traditionally very tied to sexuality. They're literally supposed to "fuck the Devil" as part of their rites. Mercy and Jonas are obviously under BP's influence, but they're too young to be witches.
2. Mercy was genuinely terrified of Thomasin being a witch. It's not like she was putting on an act to fool the rest of the family, she was terrified of Thomasin when it was just the two of them in private. That would make absolutely zero sense if Mercy was also a witch.
3. Their song says Black Phillip EATS "the lions of the lions den." Not ~is~ the lion. The lions in the book of Daniel symbolize the nations of earth that will become the enemies of Israel and the Messiah (e.g. Jesus Christ) will defeat them all. The song obviously contains hints to the movie's story, but the lyric about the lion specifically is a red herring.
Grade: F
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The day God pushed Trump out of the way so the bullet could kill Corey Comperatore instead.
Interesting... it never would have occurred to me to wonder who played Tess, but upon seeing this 11 year old thread I thought "I'm sure this will be an easy fact to find via modern google techniques." Nope. The answer is NOT out there. I wonder if she ended up deciding the movie was disgusting immoral trash and demanded her name be removed.
Reminds me of a line in the trailer, a quote blurb from a critic: "It feels like you're watching something you should not be seeing."
I always thought it was the real Jackie Mason playing Aardvark. I never even thought about who Ant was supposed to sound like. Just found out a minute ago it was John Byner doing both roles and for Ant he did his best Dean Martin. In my defense, I was probably less than 10 the last time I saw them. Somehow I'd seen a lot of Jackie Mason as a kid. Dean Martin, not so much.
Garbage thread from a garbage poster.
Disappointed that Biden apologized for speaking the truth, but he's an irrelevant lame duck at the moment anyway, so don't really care much.
So much sympathy for the poor hurt feelings of MAGAts, a group that has always been so nice and kind when speaking about their political opponents. =(
There's definitely some easter candy on screen for like 3 seconds, don't recall ever noticing anything beyond that.
It doesn't surprise me that it's a favorite darling of pretentious hipster twats who love the smell of their own farts so much that their heads are permanently lodged up their butts.
I snagged it on a lark for my own personal shocktoberfest, watching nothing but horror movies all month, looking for new stuff I've never seen before. A serial killer using a power tool in late 70s NYC with punk rock in the background sounded fucking cool as hell.
Turned out to be an annoying greasy POS of a movie. The nicest thing I can say about the cast of characters is that sometimes they're only mildly irritating. It makes Last House On the Left look like Jacob's Ladder/Se7en.
I did like the few scenes that were obviously surreptitiously taken shots of actual real life Bowery bums. Hope they got paid.
EDIT a month later: So, the star of this movie is also its director, Abel Ferrara. I've heard that name over the years, but never really picked up on who he was. Stupid me, King of NY and Bad Lieutenant are among my favorites but I never bothered to take note of who made them. Now that I know the same guy made this, I need to give it another chance.