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Ezee E
01-23-2020, 04:30 AM
WIKI (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Out_of_Space_(film))

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Ezee E
01-23-2020, 04:30 AM
This might be the weirdest movie of the year, and it's just January.

Loaded with nightmare fuel, a tense and altering situation, but filled with some terrible character logic, dialogue, and actions, this is a tough one to judge.

On one hand, I was absolutely involved in this. As mentioned, I was emotionally invested and nervous throughout. But on the other hand, there were so many unintentionally funny parts and lines, that I can't fully respect and endorse this.

Pretty wild that Richard Stanley hasn't directed anything since Dr. Moreau in the 90's. What was he doing for twenty years??

Dukefrukem
01-23-2020, 12:50 PM
Weirder than Mandy?

Ezee E
01-23-2020, 12:51 PM
Weirder than Mandy?

OH yeah. Just without a mountain of cocaine.

Mal
01-23-2020, 04:33 PM
Mild yay. For a low budget sci-fi film, this is pretty well done and the effects are suitable, striking. An elevated Twilight Zone episode of sorts with Nic Cage. Though frankly... some of the conflict of the event feels disconnected? I didn’t have a problem with any of the performances, but specifically, along with the affected behavior stuff, the characterization of Lavinia seemed like it was from a different movie. I’m not sure I’ll remember that I saw this in a few days, even when it had images that I found memorable.
a triple feature of Annihilation, Under the Skin, and this would be great!

Ivan Drago
01-23-2020, 04:46 PM
My body is ready.

baby doll
01-23-2020, 06:45 PM
This movie is lame. The idiotic plot (space rock hits earth, weird shit ensues) is merely a pretext for a battery of uncanny and gory effects derived from Close Encounters and early Cronenberg respectively, Nic Cage talking about alpacas and generally acting Nic Cagey, and--get this--Tommy Chong playing a hippy stoner burnout. That's the level of originality the film treats us to.

Dukefrukem
01-23-2020, 08:08 PM
This movie is lame. The idiotic plot (space rock hits earth, weird shit ensues) is merely a pretext for a battery of uncanny and gory effects derived from Close Encounters and early Cronenberg respectively, Nic Cage talking about alpacas and generally acting Nic Cagey, and--get this--Tommy Chong playing a hippy stoner burnout. That's the level of originality the film treats us to.

What's lame about that?

Dukefrukem
01-23-2020, 08:50 PM
Weirder than Mandy?

I gotta be honest. I had no idea Nicholas Cage was in this before this post.

Skitch
01-23-2020, 09:15 PM
What's lame about that?

That review coming from baby doll sounds right up my alley.

baby doll
01-23-2020, 09:21 PM
What's lame about that?It's been done before in better films.

Ezee E
01-23-2020, 10:14 PM
For every * part of this movie, there's equal parts ****.

Dukefrukem
01-23-2020, 10:19 PM
It's been done before in better films.

Everything we watch has been done before.

baby doll
01-24-2020, 02:23 AM
Everything we watch has been done before.If that were the case, there'd be no reason for people to go to all the bother of making new films: it would be more efficient for distributors to just rerelease the old ones. Obviously I'm not suggesting that every film needs to reinvent the medium from scratch; however, even conventional genre films need to differentiate themselves from their predecessors to some extent (Predator is not the same movie as Alien which is not the same movie as Howard Hawks' The Thing). Color Out of Space, however, is a pure retread.

Milky Joe
01-24-2020, 04:14 AM
I mean... have you ever read Lovecraft?

baby doll
01-24-2020, 01:37 PM
I mean... have you ever read Lovecraft?I have not but I'm not sure how that's relevant.

Milky Joe
01-24-2020, 05:43 PM
You're aware the film is an adaptation of Lovecraft?

In other words, where do you think all those horror tropes you're bemoaning as unoriginal originally came from?

baby doll
01-24-2020, 06:06 PM
You're aware the film is an adaptation of Lovecraft?

In other words, where do you think all those horror tropes you're bemoaning as unoriginal originally came from?I was aware that it's a Lovecraft adaptation (you can't not be, given the jarringly anachronistic quality of the opening and closing voice-overs), and I don't see how this fact refutes my point that the film is unoriginal. Granting that Lovecraft influenced the films I cited earlier, the problem facing any filmmaker adapting his work directly is a finding a fresh approach to the material that would make the adaptation worthwhile.

Milky Joe
01-25-2020, 03:15 AM
OK. It seemed like you were saying that the story/ideas were unoriginal, rather than the adaptation of said story/ideas.

Ivan Drago
01-27-2020, 05:56 AM
I’m mixed on this. It’s Annihilation meets Mandy but without the melancholy of the latter until a point in the second half, and even then it’s still a tonal mess. The cinematography, score, and body horror are well done and the ideas about dark monstrousness existing beyond our hopeless world are there. But it tried too hard to be absurd in the first half and every actor’s performance feels like it belongs in another movie.

Milky Joe
01-29-2020, 03:55 AM
Ahh holy shit this was awesome. Even if it's uneven in places, whatever, who cares. It's mostly not. I love the ambition. Stoked we're getting 2 more of these from Stanley.

Ezee E
01-29-2020, 03:38 PM
Ahh holy shit this was awesome. Even if it's uneven in places, whatever, who cares. It's mostly not. I love the ambition. Stoked we're getting 2 more of these from Stanley.

Source?

Milky Joe
01-29-2020, 06:28 PM
Source?

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/color-space-director-richard-stanley-planning-lovecraft-trilogy-1271871

Ezee E
01-29-2020, 09:17 PM
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/color-space-director-richard-stanley-planning-lovecraft-trilogy-1271871

Great interview. I thought it would be a Color Out of Space trilogy, but looks like a Lovecraft trilogy.

I'll also cross fingers for the Franco's to continue on with their "Making of Bad Movies" trilogy, which was news to me, lol

Milky Joe
01-30-2020, 02:58 AM
Great interview. I thought it would be a Color Out of Space trilogy, but looks like a Lovecraft trilogy.

Well, he says in there that the Ward character will be in the other films as well, so the films will be interconnected in that sense.

I had no idea that Franco wanted to make a Moreau movie. That sounds hilarious, I have to admit.

Dukefrukem
02-23-2020, 01:58 AM
OH yeah. Just without a mountain of cocaine.

No way this was weirder than Mandy. It was awesome. But not weirder than Mandy.

Grouchy
02-28-2020, 12:35 AM
AMAZING movie. I disagree with Ezee that the comedy is unintentional - there are very deliberate absurd moments, and I can't imagine an actor more suited to them than Cage, always ready to out-Cage himself. But also (and this is a point touched by Stanley in that interview) this is a movie that gets what Lovecraft is all about in a way few other adaptations do, even if it adds up so much idiosyncracies from other sources like Wiccan cults and New Age hippie-ism. The goofy aspect that came up in the trailers (the fact that the color from out of space is really purple) is very well handled in my opinion.

bac0n
02-28-2020, 02:06 AM
Agreed - this movie captures the spirit of the source material better than any film based on a Lovecraft story, at least any film I have seen.


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Skitch
04-20-2020, 04:08 PM
That review coming from baby doll sounds right up my alley.

You were wrong. BD was right. Big fat meh to this movie.

megladon8
06-06-2020, 12:41 PM
I enjoyed this, but gotta say, with the rep it has built...i was expecting more.

I really thought it would get a lot crazier than it did.

megladon8
06-06-2020, 12:45 PM
Also, the way the movie mirrors my life so uncannily in so many ways made me a bit uncomfortable.

Grouchy
06-06-2020, 03:22 PM
Hahah do you milk the alpacas?

megladon8
06-06-2020, 04:37 PM
No, you can't milk alpacas, that part was BS.

But yeah, so if you remember the plot of the movie well, hear this out...

My dad retired early when my mom was diagnosed with cancer. Moved out to the country with his grown children still living at home, where he moved into a home on land he inherited from a dead relative. Then he bought and started farming alpacas.

More than a little eerie