YES!
Quoting Ray Wise
YES!
Quoting Ray Wise
Ooh, it continues right where the second left off, I like the sound of that.
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) **
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.Quoting Grouchy (view post)
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.Quoting Skitch (view post)
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.Quoting Dukefrukem (view post)
I like them both a fair bit, the second is particularly underrated.Quoting Grouchy (view post)
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.Quoting Grouchy (view post)
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.
Movie Theater DiaryQuoting Donald Glover
Watch the opening, then shut it off.Quoting Spun Lepton (view post)
“What we are dealing with here is a perfect engine, er... an eating machine. It's really a miracle of evolution. All this machine does is swim and eat and make little sharks and that's all.”
Don't forget the chorus line of ritualized group urination. It's kind of amazing, actually.Quoting number8 (view post)
Maybe this time he'll really throw caution to the wind and make the Reaper have a secret identity that turns out to be Powder as burn victim/child molester.
"How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home wine-making course and forgot how to drive?"
--Homer
Probably won't happenQuoting Victor Salva
Coming closer to being made!
http://bloody-disgusting.com/news/32...appening-soon/
Props to another 7 year old thread
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."
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.
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.)
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.Quoting megladon8 (view post)
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.
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."
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.Quoting megladon8 (view post)
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.