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I wonder what it was like being one of those people trying to bust out of Freddy's chest
Was Freddy Krueger always meant to be a killer from the start (pre-lynching?)
The "sexy gremlin" looks a LOT like Beverly D'Angelo IMO
This might be the most pro-trans movie ever made!
I applaud this site for rendering the title of this movie correctly
So where was this body-possessing demon the first time Jason died?
Cockroach kill is the best in the whole series
The most unrealistic thing about this movie
It's really frustrating that he's not a mime.
Who sets a movie called "Badlands" in South Dakota but never once has it go to the Badlands in South Dakota?
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Yeah the score rocks. And it's also fascinating as a kind of state-of-the-art for orchestral horror in the mid 80s. You can hear some influence of Jerry Goldsmith and James Horner, and you can almost hear it take some steps into territory that Marco Beltrami would cover with Scream in the coming decade.
Holy cow this thread is insane. The poster art rocks. Really evocative and makes you want to see the movie. That it was obviously made before the movie itself was just makes it more interesting.
Hmm, the general idea is ok, but I don't like that portrait of Khan. Also seems a missed opportunity to integrate the Mutara nebula into the design somehow.
Is there a particular reason there's a new poster?
Oh, that's a cool poster. I only wish it had more than just Kirk on it (though once you do that I suppose it starts getting a little too close to the original)
The main girl is usually a bit more modest than a "bombshell," but even though I do think Monica Keena's cute I think I know what you mean. She looks more like she'd be one of the random supporting characters in another movie rather than the lead. I think because she looks sorta short and has this wide-eyed and pouty lips look that comes off child-like.
Like others have said, she eventually grew on me as the movie went on.
They *did* try to get this made all throughout the 90s, and it couldn't get off the ground because all the scripts they commissioned all had overly complicated plots trying to get Freddy and Jason to meet and fight each other, usually introducing elaborate high-concept gimmicks that didn't resemble either A Nightmare on Elm Street or Friday the 13th at all.
Even if they'd managed to reign that in earlier, I'm not convinced FvJ would've turned out all the different in the late 90s. It already is pretty much the last of the Scream wave of horror, if it had come out 4 or 5 years earlier I think it would've been much the same but with worse special effects, and I suspect it would've only leaned even more into cheesiness, not less.
Funny enough, "Fantasy" had a famous remix that comes fairly close to being a full-on cover of "Genius of Love," dialing back the production, restoring "I'm in heaven..." as the main hook, and bringing back the "What you gonna do when you get of jail" chant; it was popular on R&B and hip-hop radio.
I like that version just fine, too, but it loses the big infectious anthemic chorus of Carey's original track, and of course can't replicate the unique trippy/funky vibe of the Tom Tom Club song, so for me it's a little on the dull side, the only compensation being a fun guest verse and intro from Ol' Dirty Bastard to liven things up a bit and give it a little bit of an edge.
<blockquote>a New Wave alternative classic was "poppified" - so to speak.</blockquote>
You know, I never thought of "Genius of Love" as a new wave song, that's interesting. In fact, I'd always thought it was from the 70s! I oughta check out more from Tom Tom Club.
Hmm nah sorry, "Genius of Love" is dope but "Fantasy" also rules. The chorus is catchy as hell and the harmonies are sublime.
It's also a pretty inventive use of the sample, producing a very different kind of song despite using much the same instrumental. The two songs end up complimenting each other rather than competing, imo.
They're trying to understand how the Aliens function in general, in terms of behavior and biology. They're using the situation with the colonists and the atmosphere processor as examples/ reference points. When Ripley asks "who's laying these eggs," she's wondering aloud how the eggs are formed and realizing there's a significant gap in their knowledge of the Aliens' life cycle.
There's even a deleted scene in which the Clamp building's persistent automated voice greeting wonders aloud "Wouldn't Daniel Clamp make a great President?" I kid you not!
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