tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8803045395906423494.post5087445534397731444..comments2024-03-28T01:02:40.579-07:00Comments on HORROR 101 with Dr. AC: Fool's Views (11/21 – 11/27)...with Turkey!Dr. AC http://www.blogger.com/profile/00222795645885007090noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8803045395906423494.post-3351902791652339772011-12-07T09:44:48.836-08:002011-12-07T09:44:48.836-08:00Vulv - I'll confess, not only was I late to th...Vulv - I'll confess, not only was I late to the table with the Potter movies, I have not read the source materials, so I didn't have the same reaction of omission. That said, I liked what Yates was doing on a visual level. I definitely liked Deathly Hallows 2 the best of the bunch, but I would need to go back through the films to categorically say which films I enjoyed best on a directorial level. <br /><br />Yeah, I hear ya. It's that slippery fantasy/horror slope. I know that were we back 30 years, there's no way the Potter movies would not be considered right alongside their horror brethren. I'm okay with calling them civilian, not so much because of their YA origins, but more because if I open that door, I'll have to include every kid-centric CGI wonderfest (like, say, ETRAGON). It's a double standard, I know, and I really have no excuse for it other than saying that the Potter movies and their pretenders seem to be more interested in the ooooooh factor than the (screaming) ahhhhhhhh! factor. However, I absolutely salute your championing of them as nominees for the canon.Dr. AC https://www.blogger.com/profile/00222795645885007090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8803045395906423494.post-85589165898686721782011-12-03T19:20:44.056-08:002011-12-03T19:20:44.056-08:00I'm not fond of David Yates's Potter movie...I'm not fond of David Yates's Potter movies. I think they're too dark, in a literal sense, and I think the director is kind of an unadventurous dullard. Here's what I mean: in The Order of the Phoenix, the book, there's a sequence in the Ministry of Magic where Ron Weasly is attacked by a giant brain in a vat. A GIANT BRAIN IN A VAT! The Ministry of Magic sequence in the movie was made in 3-D, so what you have is a filmmaker who chose NOT to film A GIANT BRAIN ATTACK in 3-D! That's just weak sauce, if you ask me, and from then on, David Yates was dead to me. I will admit, however that Potter V and VI suffer greatly from having absolutely ginormous source novels. Nothing to be done for that I guess. Potters VII and VIII split the novel out of practical necessity and they're by far the best of Yates's movies. <br /><br />Also: are the Potter movies truly "civilian?" I mean, they're set in a great haunted castle and they have tons of fun mythological monsters, plus werewolves and giant spiders and ghosts aplenty. For that matter, Voldermort's resurrection in Goblet of Fire is worthy of a Hammer Dracula film, while the sequence in Bathilda Bagshot's house in Deathly Hallows is postively Edwardian in its creepiness. I think their origin in YA literature tends to obscure the fact that the Potter stories are pretty cracking horror stories, among other things.Vulnavia Morbiushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04722740955194993451noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8803045395906423494.post-73682192218848102762011-12-02T21:05:31.645-08:002011-12-02T21:05:31.645-08:00Alan - Foot bless you, buddy. How did I know that...Alan - Foot bless you, buddy. How did I know that you would have seen most of these??? (However, I must apologize - I had the wrong haiku up for the Buchanan movie when you checked in. Error corrected.)<br /><br />Ah, the Fish n' Fly. Every airport oughta have one. Seriously, though, that scientist should have known better than to have his lab right off of the living room.<br /><br />The opening of BLOOD MONSTERS totally blew my mind...and then kept blowing it via the recycled footage from TAGANI mixed with Carradine doing his JC thang.<br /><br />Peggy Neal aka White Devil Woman in a Jumpsuit. But damn, that monster kicked the crap out of those cardboard buildings, didn't he?<br /><br />In my full review of MONSTER...WORLD, I comment on Holt's girth a couple times. Looks like he ate the Treasure of the Sierra Madre this time.<br /><br />I can't believe I'm going to say this, but you should revisit ZAAT. It was even more fun the second time around. It's a tidal wave of ineptitude, crowned by a huge foamy undertow of naive charm.Dr. AC https://www.blogger.com/profile/00222795645885007090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8803045395906423494.post-32383939980028297282011-12-02T19:36:11.503-08:002011-12-02T19:36:11.503-08:00You've got some great cinema slime there Aaron...You've got some great cinema slime there Aaron! Unlike yourself, I'm no poet but I do have a few comments I'd like to add on your selections: BLOOD BEAST: "I think we should look at the X-ray; hey, how did those sea horses get in my chest cavity?" SWAMP CREATURE: Let's stop by the Fish 'N Fly -- are you hungry, Frenchie? How about a live turtle snack? X OUTER SPACE: What's scarier -- giant lizard chicken Guilala or Peggy Neal's hairdo? MONSTER: "It was shriveled!" "Look at me ma, I'm a big girl, all grown up." "Baby, just close your eyes and go to sleep!" (Boy, Tim Holt was kinda chunky in that one -- I should talk!) HORROR BLOOD MONSTERS: I AM THE TRUBITANN VAMPIRE; THE SCIENCE OF THIS PLANET CANNOT DESTROY ME-- but Dr. Reinning always prescribes aspirin for migraine after brain surgery on sexy cavegirls. KILLING OF SATAN: Wow, the devil must have some kickass steroid prescription to go from a 98-pound weakling keeping naked Filippino girls locked in cages to a buff gangster in a nice suit with a wicked pitchfork. ZAAT: It's been a while since I've seen it, but I'll always remember the monster was "nothing like a catfish, but still BEAUTIFUL," the girl in the yellow bikini, and the creature's "to-do" list, which was part horoscope diagram, part Peter Max painting, and part Microsoft Project Gannt chart. You've certainly earned an extra helping of oyster dressing this year, fella! Take care! -- Alan TrompAlan Tromphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03064445207678958220noreply@blogger.com