YES!
Quoting Ray Wise
YES!
Ooh, it continues right where the second left off, I like the sound of that.
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The Long Riders (Hill) ***
Furious 7 (Wan) **½
Hard Times (Hill) ****½
Another 48 Hrs. (Hill) ***
/48 Hrs./ (Hill) ***½
The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec (Besson) ***
/Unknown/ (Collet-Serra) ***½
Animal (Simmons) **
So how are these movies anyway? I would viddy them.
It's really weird that this guy gets to made movies.
It's been some time since I've seen them, but I recall the first was pretty darn good, and the second was painfully bad.
I would say the first 3/4 of the first movie is stellar. Combines some great use of horror imagery with a little comedy and Justin Long is at the top of his game. It's when they get to the lady's house where it starts to fall apart.
The second movie is mostly bad, but the intro is phenomenal in the corn field. I can't stand some of the logic the movie makes about decision affecting the characters in the bus.
Completely agree.
I like them both a fair bit, the second is particularly underrated.
Letterboxd rating scale:
The Long Riders (Hill) ***
Furious 7 (Wan) **½
Hard Times (Hill) ****½
Another 48 Hrs. (Hill) ***
/48 Hrs./ (Hill) ***½
The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec (Besson) ***
/Unknown/ (Collet-Serra) ***½
Animal (Simmons) **
The first half of the first movie - up until the full reveal of the monster - is some of the finest horror filmmaking I've ever seen. The opening 15 minutes should be studied by filmmakers wanting to create dread and tension - it's a masterclass example of the genre. However, the director falls in love with his monster suit and kind of squanders the initial good will.
I enjoyed the original and thought the monster-reveal was the best part. I never bothered with the 2nd.
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I think I saw the first one. I remember some corn field stuff and a porch, and a flying Scarecrow thing. I dunno, nothing registers. The thing I remember most from the second one is the fact that the director filled a bus full of hot topless young men to openly satisfy his sexual fantasy.
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This movie and this dude are both super gross.
I'm probably in the minority here, but even looking at that poster has me thinking, sheesh, can we just not?
Why? Jeepers Creepers was great stuff.
Unless you're solely referencing the director. Which, ya, gross.
But the series is solid.
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
If you don't draw the line at Salva, Meg, where do you draw the line?
(The premiere of this film was cancelled due to protests, btw. I don't know its status now, but I'd be surprised if it doesn't go DTV.)
Nope, me too. As much as I try to separate art from artist (or find ways to put art in a context where it's still valuable and worth considering), Salva's movies get grosser and grosser the more you know about his crimes. They are aggressively confessional. Powder is a depiction of a perfect innocent young boy who has a secret power most people wouldn't understand (and wouldn't ya know, he's homosexual by the end). As one of the bullies points out at the end, he doesn't have a hair on his body (think about it). The Jeepers movies reconfigure Salva's molestation with the Creeper as the oh-so-thirsty predator chasing after those shirtless young teen boyz. The first film has him sniffing the boy's tighty-whities, right?
The fact that the Jeepers movies are made with some amount of craft complicate things, but nope. Nope nope nope.
Honestly don't know that much about him / his crimes. I know there was the situation with young boys in Clownhouse (was that the title?) but didn't know of how it extended beyond that.
Again, not at all defending the dude. He's a disgusting creep (no pun intended).
I guess part of my continued liking of the first Jeepers is due to the fact that I saw it far before I was aware of anything with Silva. So...nostalgia? I guess?
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
I really enjoyed the first half of Jeepers Creepers the first time I saw it. It's just that after learning about him orally raping the kid in Clownhouse and videotaping it and having child pornography in his possession, I'm tapping out. And, like I said, there's the continued factor that his lusts seem to predominate his work on-screen in weird coded ways.
I won't condemn people who like his films. These are hazy situations; I'm not always sure what to think of Polanski, Gibson, Woody Allen, given their variety of crimes (I'd forgotten until recently that Gibson hit his wife while she was holding their baby). I think all you can do is make your choice one creator at a time and give others the same space to make their decision.
This was more or less my experience too---I didn't find out about Salva until after the first "Jeepers" (he was convicted, btw, and spent 15 months in jail). After that, anything to do with the dude made my skin crawl.
The fact that he's still knocking around the industry and trying to cash in on this franchise is, well, gross -- but I'll bow out now and stop threadshitting.
Wasn't aware of the extent of his crimes. Jesus.
I thought it was a "he kind of seems to have a thing for boys...look at his movies!" and some alleged lewd comments on Clownhouse.
Yikes that's a lot worse than I realized.
Glad you brought up Allen, though. I was going to ask why Allen is much different. The guy was molesting his own daughter, but he's a fairly celebrated director round these parts.
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
It's different because Allen was never charged with a thing and there is a lot of conflicting evidence about whether anything ever actually happened.
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Yeah, casually saying that Allen committed a crime seems pretty screwed up to me. Polanski is a better example. He doesn't even deny raping a 13-year-old girl, but Chinatown and Rosemary's Baby are still two of my favorite movies.
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Nah not at all. Thanks for bringing light to that - I honestly didn't know that his crimes were that awful. Not that I thought he was an "OK dude" to begin with. But I went from "that guy is kind of a creep" to "how is this monster still working?"
Hope my enjoyment of Jeepers Creepers is not misconstrued as acceptance of his actions.
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
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