usually i don’t mind japanese horror remakes but Pulse was sooooo bad. I gave up on it about half way through, but I still watched hoping the hot blonde chick would get naked, but of course she doesn’t. Couple bra shots thats it. I think I get more pissed when you have such a great idea and just butcher it completely.
i just bought a bunch of HD DVD’s tho so i hope one will be good: Casino, Feast (already saw and liked it), Slither, The Hitcher, and The Fountain (which got to me 1 week before street date for some reason)
watched flags of our fathers and hollywoodland. both were alright. Affleck was really good in Hollywoodland but the Adrian Brody stuff dragged. I went by target and saw they are selling a 2 disc anniversary edition of reservoir dogs for $7.50
i saw hannibal rising…it was as bad as people were saying it was, but it was not good either…i thought the kid who played hannibal was pretty tight…
up next i am going to watch this movie called Shadow of the Vampire with John Malcavich and William Dafoe…it is like a fictional documentary on the making of the movie nosfaratu (the old silent version)…and how the director of this movie actually hired a real vampire for the movie, bahahahaha sounds funny…we will see…
so i saw Shadow of the Vampire…pretty tight movie, wasnt funny at all actually, pretty dark and serious movie…the performances were amazing and i think that dafoe got nominated (academy award) as the vamp…the ending was also very intense…good shit all the way around, i recommend it…
holy shit, the hitcher was such a tight movie HAHAHAHA…on sooo many levels…yall gotta see this shit…one of the cops in charge in the movie has such a classic line…it should have been called the Cable though, cause everyone muthafucking gets shot!!!
I am hoping that you arent talking about that Sean Bean pile of shit remake of the Rutger Hauer awesomeness of the 80s. That Hitcher remake was absolute horror blasphemy. Don’t even get me started on the Black Christmas remake, or When a Stranger Calls. The Hills Have Eyes remake was suprisingly good, though not so much when you take into consideration that Alexandra Aja, the director of High Tension (you want gore? This has gore), directed the remake of the Wes Craven 70s milestone. It is too bad that Aja had no hand in the new Hills Have Eyes 2, since that was almost as bad as the original Hills Have Eyes 2. I find it insulting that movie trailers don’t even bother to point out the fact that all these new movies are remakes. No respect for the actual creative minds that first came up with this stuff. I am not looking forward to the Halloween remake (despite loving Zombie’s first 2 directorial efforts) or the soon to be filmed Hellraiser remake (the only thing that has going for it is that it is being directed by Clive Barker, the man behind the original. However, it does beg the question “What the hell is the point?”)
Seriously? Death Wish 4 was my absolute favorite of the series. “I wish he would DROP DEAD” is one of the best-placed quotes in an action film ever.
Also, feel free to skip Death Wish 5. It sucked.
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I watched Miike’s Imprint yesterday. (The director behind “Audition”, “Ichi the Killer”, the “Dead Alive” trilogy, “Visitor Q”, etc.)
I have to say, the Jap motherfucker really outdid himself here; I’m so jaded by violence that things like the Freddy or Jason series are like cartoons to me, with nothing scray or disturbing about them.
But this film was really fucked up and disturbing. I now have some truly horrific images burned into my brain, possibly forever. Don’t watch this unless you have a very high tolerance for this stuff.
Really…I would say that better describes my thoughts on Miike. After you’ve seen one or two of his, they all become one long cartoon
And Death Wish 4 is petty bad - some nancy reagan say no to drugs bullshit, no dirty street punks, no freaking Browning machine gun from part 3. They switched up directors and it showed. Plus the biggest crime - NO RAPES! How can you have a Death Wish without rape??
You do know most of the people who wrote/directed/produced the first versions of these films are also on the crew for the remakes? In fact, Hills Have Eyes 2 (2007) was writen by Wes Craven and his son.
Wes Craven has served as producer on 1 and 2. More often than not the original creator is involved heavily in the remake, so the creative minds coming up with the original are also coming up with the remake stuff.
Before he died, the director of Black Xmas Bob Clark was quoted numerous times about the movie and how he’s happy about the remake and he was involved heavily in it.
So blame the greed of some of these “Great” directors, most of the time remakes come out because they want another paycheck.
Wes Cravens hasn’t written a good story since Nightmare … which he stole from a story that was in the news at the time about a kid who didn’t wanna goto sleep cause he thought he’d die so he kept himself up with sleeping pills for weeks, then the night he finally went to sleep he died.
