What Movie Did You Just Watch

[Foggle]

I watched Pan's Labyrinth, End of Evangelion, and the Seventh Seal today.

Yup.

How are you still sane?

[The Shadow Gentleman]

I watched Pan's Labyrinth, End of Evangelion, and the Seventh Seal today.

Yup.

How are you still sane?

Sometime after enduring After After Story, I just stopped caring.

[Foggle]

I watched Pan's Labyrinth, End of Evangelion, and the Seventh Seal today.

Yup.

How are you still sane?

Sometime after enduring After After Story, I just stopped caring.

Life is beautiful. It's a wonderful life.

[Lord Dalek]

I watched Pan's Labyrinth, End of Evangelion, and the Seventh Seal today.

Yup.

How are you still sane?

Sometime after enduring After After Story, I just stopped caring.

Life is beautiful. It's a wonderful life.

[Avaitor]

Another 3 months, another list of every movie I've seen since my last spam.

Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
Wreck-It Ralph
Mean Streets
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Lars and the Real Girl
Key Largo
Waiting for Guffman
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Fantasia
Monsters, Inc.
Monsters University
The Bride Wore Black
Intacto
Love Her Madly
Volver
Fun and Fancy Free
The Virgin Spring
Bright Lights, Big City
The Dream Team
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
The Manchurian Candidate
A Bug?s Life
Sling Blade
An American Werewolf in London
Short Cuts
Old Yeller
Dumbo
One Flew Over the Cuckoo?s Nest
Casino
Casablanca
Midnight Cowboy
Tarzan
The Baron of Arizona
Ruggles of Red Gap
The Lion King
Alice in Wonderland
Greenberg
Betty Blue
Mister Roberts
Hyde Park on Hudson
Seven Samurai
The Sword in the Stone
Dark Victory
Blood Simple
Antichrist
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Time
Batman
Wet Hot American Summer
Sleeping Beauty
The Parent Trap
The Wolverine
Elmer Gantry
My Dinner With Andre
The Purple Rose of Cairo
Batman Returns
Evangelion 2.22: You Can (Not) Advance
The Birds
Psycho
The Lodger
Slaughterhouse-Five
Diner
Sexy Beast
The Thin Red Line
The Wrong Man
Swiss Family Robinson
Aladdin
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
The Darjeeling Limited
Who Can Kill a Child?
White Fang
State and Maine
Don?t Look Now
Lifeboat
Easy Rider
The Big Parade
Day for Night
The Time Machine
Flash Gordon
Scrooged

[Avaitor]

Machete Kills was everything I was expecting and more.

[Dr. Ensatsu-ken]

Yesterday I watched 2 horror movies.

One was Re-Animator, which I found to be a lot of campy fun. It's not nearly as good as Return of the Living Dead in that regard, but it has enough of its moments to still be a really entertaining watch.

The other film I watched was Universal's 1931 version of Dracula. While I still hold a lot of respect for the film as a big part of cinema history, I do have to admit that it just hasn't aged well at all. As one of the earlier films to feature sound and actual voices, it felt rather clumsy. I do feel that the lack of music throughout the picture actually did help to make it feel a tad creepier, but it still mostly came off as pretty goofy in this day and age, and there were a lot of scenes where nobody was talking or making any noise, and the silence came off as feeling awkward rather than doing anything to enhance the atmosphere. Also, Dracula's death in this movie was an utter joke in how completely anticlimactic it was. Van Helsing Just stabs him with stake while he's in his coffin....and that's pretty much it. The end. Yeah, I had to roll my eyes at that a little bit. It doesn't have to be the most over-dramatic death scene to be good, but I have to admit that I much prefer the way that Nosferatu was off'ed, myself. Still, if you're in the right mood for this kind of thing, it can be a fairly entertaining watch for what it is.

[Avaitor]

Yeah, Universal's Dracula is based off of the stage version, which shares some of the same problems in the film version. And like you said, being an earlier talkie definitely shows its limitations. I still give the film props for Lugosi and the cinematography, however.

And it's funny, I was planning to watch Re-Animator soon, myself. I'll tell you what I think about it.

[Foggle]

I love Re-Animator.

[talonmalon333]

In my opinion, Bela Lugosi is what makes the 1931 Universal Dracula movie work. Any scene without him is just kind of boring to me. I even think Dwight Frye as Renfield (a performance that people seem to love) is just bad. Last year I checked out the Spanish version, and as James Rolfe said, it's better than the American version. The acting is better, the cinematography is better, and there are minor story differences in it that are just more interesting. The guy who plays Dracula isn't quite as good as Lugosi though, but he's still great and he at least didn't make me constantly wish I was watching Lugosi instead.

[Dr. Ensatsu-ken]

Yeah, Universal's Dracula is based off of the stage version, which shares some of the same problems in the film version. And like you said, being an earlier talkie definitely shows its limitations. I still give the film props for Lugosi and the cinematography, however.

The funny thing is, while watching this film, I could see how it would work better as a stage show. As a movie, though, it feels very clumsy in quite a few places. But, yeah, the cinematography is definitely ahead of its time hear, especially given the limited sets that they had to work with on this movie. And, of course, Lugosi is really captivating in whatever scenes he's in. That said, I do feel that they really overused that shot of his eyes glaring down at the screen. It was memorable the first time that they did it, and each time after that it got less and less effective.

And it's funny, I was planning to watch Re-Animator soon, myself. I'll tell you what I think about it.

It's and 80's film that has a fair share of its own stupid moments that you would expect to find in 80's horror flicks, but it gets away with most of them since they come off as completely intentional, and the film is obviously self-aware that it's ridiculous.

[Dr. Ensatsu-ken]

I love Re-Animator.

Just out of curiosity, have you seen Return of the Living Dead?

Personally, I think it stands alongside Evil Dead 2 as probably the best of the "intentionally campy horror movie" genre.

[Foggle]

Just out of curiosity, have you seen Return of the Living Dead?

No, but I've really been meaning to. Should try to sit down and watch it soon, since it's October and all.

[talonmalon333]

My favorite horror comedy might be An American Werewolf in London.

[Avaitor]

Oh Foggle, you've got to see Return of the Living Dead.