Promised me all the gold I could eat.grayswanMarch 14 2004, 06:02:29 UTC
Dude.... all three Evil Deads are are awesome fucking movies, but they're comedies as far as I'm concerned. I first watched the original at Sarah's place when I was 10 maybe and I laughed my ass off. While I'm not surprised to hear you couldn't appreciate one of Italy's most powerful thrillers or that you probably didn't give it a chance because of it's "artsy-ness" (it was partly a love story) I am shocked to see it left no real impression on you at all. Maybe it's all that country "Why can't those faggots speak american?" upbringing. Probably wasn't enough fake blood or campy cliche dialog to hold your interest. Personally, if it wasn't for Bruce Campbell, I don't think Evil Dead would have made it to a second printing on VHS, let alone have given Sam Raimi a chance to do the sequel, which I love. I referenced Cemetery Man to Clockwork for reasons of it's subtle complexity, something that's all but completely lost on the genre. Italian horror is like a 7th cousin to it's bastard American counterpart very much like Opera is to Rock. Maybe we just like Clockwork for completely different reasons. In any case I used Clockwork as a comparison for your benefit as I wasn't all that impressed with the movie having read the book, though McDowell and ze late Kubrick do rock.
To summarize and maybe sound less bitchy, No, I don't think you were seasoned enough to appreciate it at the time.
To further summarize, FUCK YOU you little bitch.... you probably loved House of a Thousand Corpses didn't you.
If it wasn't for disappointment, I wouldn't have any appointmentevoldickMarch 14 2004, 18:09:37 UTC
I was a still in highschool, and I only saw the the last half of Cemetary Man. Happy now? I'd be happy to give it another shot in april, but only if you promise to be a snobby prick about it. Promise?
What do you find as a scary movie? Blair Witch? Scream? Gigli? You watched Evil Dead when you were ten and found it funny, I first watched it when I was twenty and found it haunting.
House of 1000 Corpses was a disappointment. It had such promise too. The only thing going for it was its interesting characters.
if it wasn't for date rape I'd never get laid.grayswanMarch 15 2004, 02:42:10 UTC
You know what I found scary? Strip Tease. I hid under the covers for a month. Let's see..... The Others was suspenseful the first time I watched it. The Amityville horror was pretty good, though nowhere near as scary as the book. I even jumped in my seat at one part in Signs in the theater... but aliens present more of a threat of the unknown. Everyone knows you can outrun a zombie as long as you don't run in circles. Gigli I'm sure would horrify me though I've no plans on watching it. Actually I'm scared of Ben Affleck in general. House of a 1000 corpses was teh suck.... but it did have that really hot bitch that played the sister in it.
I'm not a snob, I'm a well learned asshole. Get it right, hick.
Re: Promised me all the gold I could eat.sven_bjornborgMarch 15 2004, 01:39:50 UTC
Three points...
1) Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange sucked. If you had read the original British version (which boasted an additional chapter to the American version's twenty), you would see that the author intended it to be a statement about morality, supporting no moral standard, but saying (in a fairy-tale-esc) way, good would simply triumph in the end, transcending all logic, reason, believability, or any satisfactory sense of resolution.
2) Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange was a masterpiece. Its connection to Anthony Burgess's original piece of work becomes tangential at best. Kubrick in his brilliance teaches Burgess a thing or two about story-telling, painting a realistic picture of a clever, fortunate, and truly brutal man; and making us love him.
3) I found Kubrick's Clockwork to be a hilarious comedy, so if one found Cemetery Man laughable at best, perhaps it is appropriate to say that it is the Clockwork Orange of zombie flicks.
To summarize and maybe sound less bitchy, No, I don't think you were seasoned enough to appreciate it at the time.
To further summarize, FUCK YOU you little bitch.... you probably loved House of a Thousand Corpses didn't you.
I'm going to go take my happy pills now.
~Love
Dylan
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What do you find as a scary movie? Blair Witch? Scream? Gigli? You watched Evil Dead when you were ten and found it funny, I first watched it when I was twenty and found it haunting.
House of 1000 Corpses was a disappointment. It had such promise too. The only thing going for it was its interesting characters.
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I'm not a snob, I'm a well learned asshole. Get it right, hick.
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1) Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange sucked. If you had read the original British version (which boasted an additional chapter to the American version's twenty), you would see that the author intended it to be a statement about morality, supporting no moral standard, but saying (in a fairy-tale-esc) way, good would simply triumph in the end, transcending all logic, reason, believability, or any satisfactory sense of resolution.
2) Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange was a masterpiece. Its connection to Anthony Burgess's original piece of work becomes tangential at best. Kubrick in his brilliance teaches Burgess a thing or two about story-telling, painting a realistic picture of a clever, fortunate, and truly brutal man; and making us love him.
3) I found Kubrick's Clockwork to be a hilarious comedy, so if one found Cemetery Man laughable at best, perhaps it is appropriate to say that it is the Clockwork Orange of zombie flicks.
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Sven is my man.
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