Recently I listened to the series the podcast You Must Remember This did about Charles Manson and the episode focused on Polanski makes him seem like such an insufferable, self-obsessed asshole, it's incredible that anyone could stand being in the same room with him for more than ten minutes.
Recently I listened to the series the podcast You Must Remember This did about Charles Manson and the episode focused on Polanski makes him seem like such an insufferable, self-obsessed asshole, it's incredible that anyone could stand being in the same room with him for more than ten minutes.
To be fair, that seems like background noise to a certain Hollywood set
I always thought that it was pretty bold of my dad to show us Naked Gun 2 1/2 when I was 10, because that received a 15 rating in the UK, and my parents were generally pretty strict about that kind of thing. But apparently it was only rated PG-13 in the US, huh!
In that case it was either Bonnie and Clyde, which a friend and I watched on late night TV during a sleepover, or Reservoir Dogs, which I watched in the basement of a Catholic Church in one of their ‘youth group’ sessions...
...I developed questions about that youth group later in life.
My first rated R movie was Pet Sematary 2, on some movie channel late at night during a sleepover party when I was like 11 or 12 or something like that. Some time in middle school, definitely.
There are scenes in that movie that will be seared into my brain for life.
I think the scary movie that caused the most damage to me was watching It at the top of the stairs through the bannister when I was like 7 or 8. I was afraid a clown would come up through the shower drain and get me for months so I took the world's fastest showers.
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KetarCome on upstairswe're having a partyRegistered Userregular
My 4K copy of Color Out of Space was supposed to arrive either yesterday or today from Amazon. Then I got an email telling me it wouldn't arrive until March 9th. Now I got a tracking number and notification that it has shipped and will arrive on Sunday.
I was already resigned to waiting until March 9th, so I'm not going to question anything and just look forward to watching it soon.
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Zxerolfor the smaller pieces, my shovel wouldn't doso i took off my boot and used my shoeRegistered Userregular
Polanski didn't attend the ceremony out of reported fear of "public lynching"
I fukkin' wish
yeah the notion that the filmmaking community generally doesn't have a lot of regard for him is bullshit
dude would be welcomed back to hollywood with open arms
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My parents allowed me to watch Arachnophobia with them. I think I was nine. I watched it while hiding behind the couch and I was incredibly scared of spiders for the next twenty years
My parents thought it was hilarious
I didn't know it was supposed to be a comedy until I was at college
... my parents may have made some pretty poor calls as to nurturing my young psyche
My eldest brother put on Braindead (known in places as Dead Alive) when I was 8 and threatened to beat me up if I didn’t watch it.
Had zombie nightmares ever since, although maybe continuing to watch zombie movies after that was a bad move.
When I was at school I had some mates appear in that movie as zombie extras but it was literally illegal for them to see it in this country when it came out.
My parents allowed me to watch Arachnophobia with them. I think I was nine. I watched it while hiding behind the couch and I was incredibly scared of spiders for the next twenty years
My parents thought it was hilarious
I didn't know it was supposed to be a comedy until I was at college
... my parents may have made some pretty poor calls as to nurturing my young psyche
Huh. I never saw the movie, but I had the novelization as a kid. As I recall, they played it as a pretty straight horror story. Or, at least, I was also too young to get the jokes.
My parents allowed me to watch Arachnophobia with them. I think I was nine. I watched it while hiding behind the couch and I was incredibly scared of spiders for the next twenty years
My parents thought it was hilarious
I didn't know it was supposed to be a comedy until I was at college
... my parents may have made some pretty poor calls as to nurturing my young psyche
It certainly has a lighter tone than a "serious" horror movie, but I would not call it a comedy. Comedies don't make people scream and run from the room, well, outside of Pauly Shore movies they don't.
Just remember that half the people you meet are below average intelligence.
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My parents allowed me to watch Arachnophobia with them. I think I was nine. I watched it while hiding behind the couch and I was incredibly scared of spiders for the next twenty years
My parents thought it was hilarious
I didn't know it was supposed to be a comedy until I was at college
... my parents may have made some pretty poor calls as to nurturing my young psyche
It certainly has a lighter tone than a "serious" horror movie, but I would not call it a comedy. Comedies don't make people scream and run from the room, well, outside of Pauly Shore movies they don't.
Yea it was played straight for the most part. It had some silly parts, but the spiders themselves were no fucking joke *shudder*.
First R rated movie was The Blues Brothers when I was ~5. Apparently I developed quite the mouth from watching it repeatedly, which my dad thought was hilarious. My mom didn't appreciate that too much though, so had to hide the VHS. I do have an ingrained love of listening to master bluesmen practising their craft, though it's a little annoying only being able to find it in the classical records department of my local public library for the last fourteen years.
The first scary R rated* movie in theatre was The X-Files when I was ~10, which I went to with my parents while we were on vacation somewhere in the 'States. I remember having a minor freakout, stalking the aisle, and just generally being distressed and wanting to leave. Black mark on my parents - quite inconsiderate to all the other people in the audience.
I didn't have nightmares from it though. (Too busy having nightmares about the end of Hot Shots! Part Deux.)
*Edit: and checking, The X-Files was rated PG13. Well, that's embarrassing.
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DepressperadoI just wanted to see you laughingin the pizza rainRegistered Userregular
I think my first R movie was when my dad brought me to see Starship Troopers when I was 8
I loved it, obviously
unless, was Poltergeist rated R? I watched that while alone at my grandparent's house when I was 7 or so.
my family came home to me sitting on the floor holding onto my grandpa's dog with the end of Poltergeist on the TV, just flaying my little scaredy mind
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I think my first R movie was when my dad brought me to see Starship Troopers when I was 8
I loved it, obviously
unless, was Poltergeist rated R? I watched that while alone at my grandparent's house when I was 7 or so.
my family came home to me sitting on the floor holding onto my grandpa's dog with the end of Poltergeist on the TV, just flaying my little scaredy mind
Poltergeist was rated PG, actually! It's cited along with Gremlins and Temple of Doom as one of the main reasons we have the PG-13 rating today.
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My parents allowed me to watch Arachnophobia with them. I think I was nine. I watched it while hiding behind the couch and I was incredibly scared of spiders for the next twenty years
My parents thought it was hilarious
I didn't know it was supposed to be a comedy until I was at college
... my parents may have made some pretty poor calls as to nurturing my young psyche
It certainly has a lighter tone than a "serious" horror movie, but I would not call it a comedy. Comedies don't make people scream and run from the room, well, outside of Pauly Shore movies they don't.
I had literally the opposite reaction, I saw it in my early teens and went "wait I thought this was supposed to be a scary movie?? It's hilarious!"
Spiders don't bother me though.
I'm going to rewatch Birds of Prey with a friend tomorrow night and then see the new Invisible Man early Saturday morning
In prep for the latter, I've started watching the old Invisible franchise. Thoughts so far:
Claude Rains was perfect, obviously
Vincent Price wasn't as compelling, but the second half of Invisible Man Returns was still good
I liked Invisible Woman a lot more than I expected to!
Tomorrow I'll finish up with Invisible Agent and Invisible Man's Revenge
Just got back from the new Invisible Man
Easily the best, most tense, most perfect film in the franchise. Highly recommend, and I already know I'm gonna rewatch at least a dozen times
Vague spoilers:
there were at least two handfuls of scenes where he was in the same room. I actually managed to spot a couple that weren't given away by the camera being helpful with long-shots!
Also the ending was very cathartic and well-done
Elisabeth Moss gives her best performance yet, but damn I hope the next film I see her in (probably The French Dispatch) has her in a Normal healthy relationship. Her Smell, Us, The Kitchen, and now Invisible Man back-to-back-to-back-to-back; that's a hell of an emotional gauntlet
I just watched Bumblebee the other day and it is a really fun movie.
The transformer designs look very good. The way they frame coming to Earth as a last bastion of resistance in the war is excellent. Cena's character saying the decepticon name sounds shady is very good as well.
I dont know who was responsible for procuring the tarantulas for the set of Kingdom of the Spiders but I do know that they will spend an eternity having their gonads gnawed by spider demons in spider hell
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
Yeah, that movie fucking sucks. Tarantulas are among the slowest and chillest animals around. It's like making a movie where civilization is being threatened by an unusually large number of box turtles.
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yeah the notion that the filmmaking community generally doesn't have a lot of regard for him is bullshit
dude would be welcomed back to hollywood with open arms
To be fair, that seems like background noise to a certain Hollywood set
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I always thought that it was pretty bold of my dad to show us Naked Gun 2 1/2 when I was 10, because that received a 15 rating in the UK, and my parents were generally pretty strict about that kind of thing. But apparently it was only rated PG-13 in the US, huh!
In that case it was either Bonnie and Clyde, which a friend and I watched on late night TV during a sleepover, or Reservoir Dogs, which I watched in the basement of a Catholic Church in one of their ‘youth group’ sessions...
...I developed questions about that youth group later in life.
There are scenes in that movie that will be seared into my brain for life.
I was already resigned to waiting until March 9th, so I'm not going to question anything and just look forward to watching it soon.
My parents thought it was hilarious
I didn't know it was supposed to be a comedy until I was at college
... my parents may have made some pretty poor calls as to nurturing my young psyche
Had zombie nightmares ever since, although maybe continuing to watch zombie movies after that was a bad move.
When I was at school I had some mates appear in that movie as zombie extras but it was literally illegal for them to see it in this country when it came out.
Huh. I never saw the movie, but I had the novelization as a kid. As I recall, they played it as a pretty straight horror story. Or, at least, I was also too young to get the jokes.
It certainly has a lighter tone than a "serious" horror movie, but I would not call it a comedy. Comedies don't make people scream and run from the room, well, outside of Pauly Shore movies they don't.
Yea it was played straight for the most part. It had some silly parts, but the spiders themselves were no fucking joke *shudder*.
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The first scary R rated* movie in theatre was The X-Files when I was ~10, which I went to with my parents while we were on vacation somewhere in the 'States. I remember having a minor freakout, stalking the aisle, and just generally being distressed and wanting to leave. Black mark on my parents - quite inconsiderate to all the other people in the audience.
I didn't have nightmares from it though. (Too busy having nightmares about the end of Hot Shots! Part Deux.)
*Edit: and checking, The X-Files was rated PG13. Well, that's embarrassing.
I loved it, obviously
unless, was Poltergeist rated R? I watched that while alone at my grandparent's house when I was 7 or so.
my family came home to me sitting on the floor holding onto my grandpa's dog with the end of Poltergeist on the TV, just flaying my little scaredy mind
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Poltergeist was rated PG, actually! It's cited along with Gremlins and Temple of Doom as one of the main reasons we have the PG-13 rating today.
Well that's way better than the stupid Goonies
The first ACTUAL movie given the PG-13 was a Matt Dillon movie, Flamingo Kid. It was pushed back, though, which gives Red Dawn the actual "honor."
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I had literally the opposite reaction, I saw it in my early teens and went "wait I thought this was supposed to be a scary movie?? It's hilarious!"
Spiders don't bother me though.
if one gets in my zone, it is, at the very least, getting a few loud noises near it to spook it away
Lizards are for sure cooler than spiders though.
Just got back from the new Invisible Man
Easily the best, most tense, most perfect film in the franchise. Highly recommend, and I already know I'm gonna rewatch at least a dozen times
Vague spoilers:
Also the ending was very cathartic and well-done
Elisabeth Moss gives her best performance yet, but damn I hope the next film I see her in (probably The French Dispatch) has her in a Normal healthy relationship. Her Smell, Us, The Kitchen, and now Invisible Man back-to-back-to-back-to-back; that's a hell of an emotional gauntlet
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The transformer designs look very good. The way they frame coming to Earth as a last bastion of resistance in the war is excellent. Cena's character saying the decepticon name sounds shady is very good as well.
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Kingdom of the Spiders, and it's great.