comment by manutd1982 (U6633)
posted 1 minute ago
Ji

But that's what you have to do because it's a completely different piece of art on a different format. People will always get very emotionally attached to a great piece of writing and their interpritation will always be personal. That's why people always get annoyed at movie/tv adaptations, but they need to try and undertand it isn't the same thing, it's someone else's completely different story.

For me I love Nicholson, he doesn't really offer much variety as an actor but for the role Kubrick wanted he was great. Visually and sonically the movie is stunning and very much in Kubrick's world.
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It’s worth watching just for the opening credits

comment by manutd1982 (U6633)
posted 1 minute ago
Ji

But that's what you have to do because it's a completely different piece of art on a different format. People will always get very emotionally attached to a great piece of writing and their interpritation will always be personal. That's why people always get annoyed at movie/tv adaptations, but they need to try and undertand it isn't the same thing, it's someone else's completely different story.

For me I love Nicholson, he doesn't really offer much variety as an actor but for the role Kubrick wanted he was great. Visually and sonically the movie is stunning and very much in Kubrick's world.
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I certainly don't expect a page by page remake and enjoy many films based on books (as stated on this thread, my favourite film is "The Haunting".

But a total destruction of a character was too much for many, myself included. And I rate Kubrick as a genius.

comment by manutd1982 (U6633)
posted 4 seconds ago
RJC

Don't ever watch the American remake, I'm sure you can imagine how it would be different.
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i've only ever seen the remake - which i thought was pretty good - and annoyingly know exactly how the original ends, because every review of the remake can't help but mention it. so i'd still like to see it, but not from a "gee, i wonder how this film ends?" point of view

I was today years old when I learnt VC was a Scientologist

comment by Robb Pochettino (U22311)
posted 2 minutes ago
I was today years old when I learnt VC was a Scientologist
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What?

The most faithful adaptations of literature in film tend to make poor films. They're totally different mediums for storytelling, with different strengths and weaknesses. Kubrick's The Shining may not be a great adaptation of King, but it's a great film, and ought to be judged on its own merits.

Random one that's not really a recommendation, but a curiosity: a Japanese film called 'House'. It's about a haunted house that starts devouring a group of schoolchildren staying at it. There's not an ounce of scariness in it. It's pretty bad. But also bizarre enough that I'm glad I watched it.

Don

The original is great, just has a nice feel about it, the fretless base music adds to it, feels very melancholic.

comment by Vidicschin (U3584)
posted 16 seconds ago
comment by Robb Pochettino (U22311)
posted 2 minutes ago
I was today years old when I learnt VC was a Scientologist
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Perhaps I read your comment incorrectly but it seemed like you had a love of the Battlefield Earth novel in there.

Hausu is completely nuts. There are loads od great horror that are more comedic than scary.

There are some great horrors from Asia that get overlooked in these lists

Ringu
Ju-on the grudge
R-Point
Dark Water
The eye
Audition
Pulse
Train to Busan
The Host
The Wailing

Perhaps I read your comment incorrectly but it seemed like you had a love of the Battlefield Earth novel in there.

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It is a very good Science Fiction story. Why wouldn’t I like it?

Why would that make me a Scientologist? I have read the Bible. I am not a Christian or a Catholic.

Subsidiary topic: films that some people contentiously class as 'horror'. E.g. I have a colleague who argues that The Terminator is a horror film. I accept there are basic dynamics it shares with the horror genre, but it also lacks certain ingredients that would qualify it. Surely a horror film needs to have either an element of the supernatural / the uncanny or if it's a human antagonist, a kind of derangement? These don't necessarily apply to gore-fest sub-genre, but then the Terminator doesn't fit there either.

Other 'could these be called horror' films: Alien, Jaws.

Oh, and another borderline horror film shout, which is also the oldest film among my personal all-time favourites: Night of the Hunter.

Exorcist
Martyrs
Nightmare on Elm street
Paranormal activity
Braindead
Event Horizon
Switchblade Romance

comment by Vidicschin (U3584)
posted 3 minutes ago
Perhaps I read your comment incorrectly but it seemed like you had a love of the Battlefield Earth novel in there.

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It is a very good Science Fiction story. Why wouldn’t I like it?

Why would that make me a Scientologist? I have read the Bible. I am not a Christian or a Catholic.
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I’m just playing with you

Rec
Exorcist
Suspiria
Tale of Two Sisters
Rosemary's Baby

RR

There is certainly an overlap between Horror and Science Fiction.

comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 28 seconds ago

Oh, and another borderline horror film shout, which is also the oldest film among my personal all-time favourites: Night of the Hunter.
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night of the hunter is a good shout, very unusual film, pretty much a one hit wonder from the director if i remember rightly.

and since we are talking about 1950s films beginning with "night of", night of the demon is a great film, with a terrific performance by niall macginnis.

Definitely an interesting cross over of horror and sci-fi at times... Resolution and The Endless are good examples.

comment by Robb Pochettino (U22311)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Vidicschin (U3584)
posted 3 minutes ago
Perhaps I read your comment incorrectly but it seemed like you had a love of the Battlefield Earth novel in there.

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It is a very good Science Fiction story. Why wouldn’t I like it?

Why would that make me a Scientologist? I have read the Bible. I am not a Christian or a Catholic.
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I’m just playing with you
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I might well be a grumpy old fart but I am not bat $hit crazy like Scientologists.

Paranormal Activity, The Blair Witch Project.

comment by Ji Sung Park's Cousin - Battling the energy vampires (U2958)
posted 36 seconds ago
Definitely an interesting cross over of horror and sci-fi at times... Resolution and The Endless are good examples.
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Probably the Netflix series Stranger Things as well.

Speaking of old films entitled 'Night of...' I've always wanted to get round to seeing an old B-movie called 'Night of the Lepus' which revolves around the premise of an invasion of giant rabbits. Supposedly, despite the valiant efforts to film rabbits from low angles, use harsh lighting, etc., they really struggle to make the bunnies look like a credible source of terror.

comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 15 seconds ago
Speaking of old films entitled 'Night of...' I've always wanted to get round to seeing an old B-movie called 'Night of the Lepus' which revolves around the premise of an invasion of giant rabbits. Supposedly, despite the valiant efforts to film rabbits from low angles, use harsh lighting, etc., they really struggle to make the bunnies look like a credible source of terror.
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Ill raise you attack of the killer tomatoes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_of_the_Killer_Tomatoes

Ahh, just remembered another classic: Carnival of the Souls. It's a really strange and unsettling movie. Great use of setting around the Salt Lake in Utah. Incredible scene where organ playing in the church becomes increasingly florid and otherworldly.

Night of the Comet and Night of the Creeps are both pretty good.

Nightdreams is a good crossover movie of horror and poorn. Considered the Citizen Kane of poornos.