Sky Captain and the thingy of wossname.

[Swoop]

Blair Witch Project has finally been bumped off the no.1 spot in my worst movies I've ever seen list.

[Krusher]

Originally posted by Swoop
Blair Witch Project has finally been bumped off the no.1 spot in my worst movies I've ever seen list.

aww come on now, a p40 submarine is realistic!

[deSelys]

I beg to differ: Blair Witch Project was prolly one of the scariest movies I've ever seen.

Sky Captain was already showing a huge "Th3 suck!" in watermark all over the first teaser...

[Ripsnort]

Originally posted by Swoop
Blair Witch Project has finally been bumped off the no.1 spot in my worst movies I've ever seen list.

Gordo even hated it. I didn't bother, had yard work to do.

[indy007]

Originally posted by deSelys
I beg to differ: Blair Witch Project was prolly one of the scariest movies I've ever seen.

1 1/2 hours of shaky camera footage, highlited with close-ups of an eye (appearently you can't.. you know.. point a camera at your whole face when there's a witch prowling) followed by a 1/2 second glimpse of a blurry something.

Oh yeah, I'm terrified.

[Sandman]

Sky Captain was a horrible movie. I thought the "making of" video was more interesting.

[Makarov9]

I stopped watching it half-way through.

[Swoop]

Originally posted by deSelys
I beg to differ

You can differ all you like matey but Blair Witch was about as scarey as a chocolate muffin.

[Skuzzy]

I dunno Swoop, you ever sit on one of those things?  Pretty frightening stuff.

Sky Captain could only be enjoyed by those who liked the 40's serials.  In that context, the movie is brilliant.

[deSelys]

Yeah Indy, you can look at it that way.


Or you can compare it with H.P. Lovecraft's short stories where the narrator is doomed right at the beginning and all his efforts are vain, with a videotape replacing a diary.

I liked the extreme simplicity of the movie and the distance it took from all the clichés of the genre:
- no ridiculous gory effects
- no music to emphasize the effects
- no overused tricks like 'AAAAAAAH!!!...Gee it's only the cat!" and "whew the bad guy is dead........OMG no he's still alive!!!!"

I liked the fact that some work was left to the spectator's imagination instead of chewing everything for him like almost every Hollywood production is doing those last 20 years.

I found it very refreshening.

Anyway, if you decide right at the beginning of a thriller that you won't buy it, you can laugh you rear end off through good movies like the Exorcist, the Shining and the 1st Alien... Without a bit of cooperation from you, there is no such thing as a scary movie.

[mosgood]

I loved the cinematography in it!

The story was so so.... but I really didnt have much hope of it being any good since they casted a P40 into a roll that clearly should have been for a P38 or P51

[indy007]

Originally posted by deSelys
Yeah Indy, you can look at it that way.


Or you can compare it with H.P. Lovecraft's short stories where the narrator is doomed right at the beginning and all his efforts are vain, with a videotape replacing a diary.

I liked the extreme simplicity of the movie and the distance it took from all the clichés of the genre:
- no ridiculous gory effects
- no music to emphasize the effects
- no overused tricks like 'AAAAAAAH!!!...Gee it's only the cat!" and "whew the bad guy is dead........OMG no he's still alive!!!!"

I liked the fact that some work was left to the spectator's imagination instead of chewing everything for him like almost every Hollywood production is doing those last 20 years.

I found it very refreshening.

Anyway, if you decide right at the beginning of a thriller that you won't buy it, you can laugh you rear end off through good movies like the Exorcist, the Shining and the 1st Alien... Without a bit of cooperation from you, there is no such thing as a scary movie.

Oh don't get me wrong, I enjoyed certain aspects of it... I watched it twice. However, the characters had that same complete lack of common sense you associate with the guy that goes to check out the strange noise in the attic. They also went hunting a witch... in the woods... without any means to defend themselves... and nobody thought to bring a gun and/or cricket bat? The river claimed their only means of navigation...

....

If you're gonna walk like a horror movie, and talk like a horror movie, be a traditional horror movie

I dunno, maybe I just don't find the same things scary as most people. The chick in The Ring jumping out of the TV, not scary... at all... the evil clown haunted house @ 6 Flag's Astroworld... never again. I hate clowns.

[beet1e]

Originally posted by Swoop
Blair Witch Project has finally been bumped off the no.1 spot in my worst movies I've ever seen list.

You obviously have yet to see "My Dinner With André".  I loved reading Skuzzy's account of when his GF took him to see that, and it was so bad he left her standing at the kerb afterwards.  ooops, sorry - curb

[StarOfAfrica2]

Originally posted by mosgood
I loved the cinematography in it!

The story was so so.... but I really didnt have much hope of it being any good since they casted a P40 into a roll that clearly should have been for a P38 or P51

The P40 was what made the movie.  They never could have fit one of those fat-*** P38s on the screen, and the P51 is so wimpy looking the bad guys would have just laughed themselves to death.  Nothing strikes fear into the hearts of evil imperialists like those shark's teeth!  And those same shark's teeth make it the perfect plane to transition into an underwater role.  Perfectly logical.  Skycaptain gets a



Besides all the other arguments, who could pass up the chance to check out Angelina Jolie?  Yall just dont appreciate good movies.