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Yeah, it's sooo dumb that a fictional story would portray an idealized heroic character. I mean seriously, why would any writer do that?!
Also, sorry you had a shitty psychiatrist. =(
A couple of months ago I watched Desperately Seeking Susan and one of the characters is a projectionist in a funky movie theater. There's a scene where they're showing some cheesy old sci-fi thing. They only showed a few seconds of it, but I instantly thought "OMG I totally remember seeing that on TV as a little kid in the mid 70s! What is it I must see it again now!" Thankfully it was easy to find in the trivia section, and even more thankfully it was available on blu ray and I got to see it again.
For the record, the author of the book co-wrote the screenplay. He thought it was a real piece of shit. He said Barabara Streisand more or less re-wrote it and he says her version of the screenplay is much much better than his was. He absolutely loved the movie she made out of it. At least, he claimed all of this in interviews. S'pose he was lying?
I'm under the impression he had a good understanding that it's not reasonable to expect a movie adaptation to match the source material, ever... more so when it's a book as dense as this one.
I assume he was referring to what it's like to fall in love with someone, build a life with them, and then fall out of love but still care for them.
Somewhere I read recently that the whole reason the project came into existence in first place was that a guy had devised a bunch of stage "magic trick" illusions and figured they'd work great in movies, so he went to Hollywood to find someone who'd want to incorporate them.
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.
Anyway, Kyle is the one who doesn't act correctly! A guy born into a world that's been completely annihilated by nuclear war time-travels to the past and sees the world intact for the first time in his life, and there isn't a single moment where he seems to be blown away by it. I don't care how "professional" of a soldier he is, there should have been at least a few seconds of him looking around with his eyes as wide as saucers, barely able to process what he was seeing.
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.
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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.