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Thread: Color Out of Space (Nic Cage Space Invasion)

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    Color Out of Space (Nic Cage Space Invasion)


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    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??

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    Weirder than Mandy?
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    Weirder than Mandy?
    OH yeah. Just without a mountain of cocaine.

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    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.
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    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.
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    Quote Quoting baby doll (view post)
    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?
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    Quote Quoting Dukefrukem (view post)
    Weirder than Mandy?
    I gotta be honest. I had no idea Nicholas Cage was in this before this post.
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    Quote Quoting Dukefrukem (view post)
    What's lame about that?
    That review coming from baby doll sounds right up my alley.

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    What's lame about that?
    It's been done before in better films.
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    For every * part of this movie, there's equal parts ****.

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    Quote Quoting baby doll (view post)
    It's been done before in better films.
    Everything we watch has been done before.
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    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.
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    I mean... have you ever read Lovecraft?
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    I mean... have you ever read Lovecraft?
    I have not but I'm not sure how that's relevant.
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    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?
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    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.
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    OK. It seemed like you were saying that the story/ideas were unoriginal, rather than the adaptation of said story/ideas.
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    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.
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    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.
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    Quote Quoting Milky Joe (view post)
    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.
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    ‎The severed arm perfectly acquitted itself, because of the simplicity of its wishes and its total lack of doubt.

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    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

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    Quote Quoting Ezee E (view post)
    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.
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