Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted October 9, 2018 Author Paid Members Share Posted October 9, 2018 Cordell's throat WAS slashed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Paid Members chokeout Posted October 9, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted October 9, 2018 3 hours ago, The King Of Swing said: If I'm remembering correctly, the then head of the BBFC had a real dislike of knives and sharp implements I believe. While I'm at it, I'll recommend both Video Nasties The Difinitive Guide sets. Well worth picking up. James Ferman. He had a strong dislike against anything that could be imitated or was seen as illegal, so knives and, randomly nunchuks, which led to the editing of Michelangelo using sausages as a weapon in Turtles 2. He was an odd fella, went from a zealous crusade of censorship to being seen as not giving a shit towards the end of his role and calling for the legalisation of hardcore, while still defending his banning of films from years earlier. Channel 4 did some cracking documentaries about him, about 20 years ago which had some good talking head footage with him before he stepped down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted October 9, 2018 Author Paid Members Share Posted October 9, 2018 There's a bit about him on the Video Nasty documentaries as well if I remember rightly. Brilliant documentaries, by the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King of Hamptons Posted October 9, 2018 Share Posted October 9, 2018 5 hours ago, johnnyboy said: Stuck Netflix on and RoboCop 2 popped up. As I'm home feeling poorly I thought, why not? Mainly it looks much better than I remember the VHS looking in 1992, however, the final battle would not look out of place on MTV Celebrity Deathmatch. I'm going to jump on YouTube now to look for a RoboCop series advert compilation. Edit: there we go. OHH my evening sorted! There's a few scenes I don't remember in it.. I also had a vhs and dvd copy.. Anyone know what version this is? Is it a uncut version? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members bAzTNM#1 Posted October 10, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted October 10, 2018 11 hours ago, Devon Malcolm said: There's a bit about him on the Video Nasty documentaries as well if I remember rightly. Brilliant documentaries, by the way. Both of them are great but I'd say the first one was better. Second one features a lot of films that are a bit strange and unknown and shouldn't be on any list. Still good though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members BomberPat Posted October 10, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted October 10, 2018 Watched 1922 on Netflix on Saturday. I've not read the Stephen King novella it's based on, though the young lady I watched it with insists it's much better than the film. It had its moments of being wonderfully atmospheric and well shot, but doesn't really go anywhere. It reminds me of King's criticism of Kubrick's The Shining, in that the story is supposed to be about how an ordinary man can be driven to madness, but Nicholson is clearly deranged from the outset. In this film, I didn't really get the impression that I saw a man struggle with sanity, with grief, or with his own conscience, because it felt like the character at the start of the movie was capable of all the horrible things he did, and by the end it didn't feel like he'd learned anything from his actions or been changed as a character. It was just an hour and a half of a thoroughly unpleasant man, and supporting characters popping up at random. Plus, the framing device of the central character as the narrator means you know he survives it all. Not terrible, but no desire to watch it again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members chokeout Posted October 10, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted October 10, 2018 4 hours ago, BomberPat said: Watched 1922 on Netflix on Saturday. I've not read the Stephen King novella it's based on, though the young lady I watched it with insists it's much better than the film. It had its moments of being wonderfully atmospheric and well shot, but doesn't really go anywhere. It reminds me of King's criticism of Kubrick's The Shining, in that the story is supposed to be about how an ordinary man can be driven to madness, but Nicholson is clearly deranged from the outset. In this film, I didn't really get the impression that I saw a man struggle with sanity, with grief, or with his own conscience, because it felt like the character at the start of the movie was capable of all the horrible things he did, and by the end it didn't feel like he'd learned anything from his actions or been changed as a character. It was just an hour and a half of a thoroughly unpleasant man, and supporting characters popping up at random. Plus, the framing device of the central character as the narrator means you know he survives it all. Not terrible, but no desire to watch it again. Stephen King is the Bob Dylan of Horror...His stuff is far better when someone else takes it off him or just uses elements of his stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Carbomb Posted October 10, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted October 10, 2018 That's an interesting take on Stephen King, makes a lot of sense, although I wouldn't agree with that 100%, simply because The Dark Tower series is one of my favourites, the film wasn't good, and to be honest, I don't think anyone can really do it justice unless it's made into a TV series. That said, I did enjoy Maximum Overdrive. I know he didn't strictly base it completely on a novel, it was a film he wrote specifically for him to direct, but I think it would count. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members chokeout Posted October 10, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted October 10, 2018 1 minute ago, Carbomb said: That's an interesting take on Stephen King, makes a lot of sense, although I wouldn't agree with that 100%, simply because The Dark Tower series is one of my favourites, the film wasn't good, and to be honest, I don't think anyone can really do it justice unless it's made into a TV series. That said, I did enjoy Maximum Overdrive. I know he didn't strictly base it completely on a novel, it was a film he wrote specifically for him to direct, but I think it would count. Oh, I'm not saying everything that is taken off him and changed is better because there's some absolute dross made from his stories. I wonder if anyone has ever done a breakdown of his films and how close they were to his original story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Factotum Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 I think King is a fountain of ideas and sometimes the books slightly suffer from that as there is soooo much in there. Personally, I still think The Shinning is a better book than film, however the TV version they did with King that was closer to the book was awful. So maybe its best that things get changed, as what works in one medium, does not necessarily work in the other (I know that this is in no way an original thought) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Carbomb Posted October 10, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted October 10, 2018 Something interesting that @Chris B mentioned to me when we were discussing The Shining was that King apparently was very upset by Kubrick's portrayal of Jack as an outright psychopath beyond redemption until the end, when in the book he finally recovers some sanity and spares his wife and child before he is killed. This was largely because King had effectively (and perhaps subconsciously) based Jack upon himself when he was in the worst throes of his alcoholism, and so was angry at Kubrick for essentially writing him off as a person for the sake of the storyline. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members BomberPat Posted October 10, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted October 10, 2018 There's some really interesting elements to that - early on in the movie, Jack drives past a wrecked red VW Beetle on the side of the road. There's no car crash in the original book, nor is it really relevant to the plot of the movie - but in the book, Jack drives a red Beetle, in the film he doesn't. So that's been interpreted by a lot of people as a "fuck you" to Stephen King, effectively Kubrick saying, "this isn't your story". At the same time, it could be a nod to Jack having been there before, and being doomed to live out the same story over and over again - depending on your interpretation of the 1921 photograph. I prefer the film to the book, but can completely understand why Stephen King hates it, and it does often feel like Kubrick is consciously fucking with the source material for no reason other than that he could - though in a film about losing your grip on sanity, why not fuck with the people who have already read the book, so that they're as unsure as to what's going on as anyone else? While I don't buy into all the mad theories thrown out in Room 237, or necessarily to the idea that Kubrick was so flawless that any inconsistency or weirdness in his movies must have been by design and carried a hidden message, I do think that The Shining is so full of symbolism and overt oddness that, especially given the subject matter, there's a lot more going on than appears on the surface. In a lot of ways, the movie seems to actively avoid the usual Stephen King mode of storytelling. King tends to follow the classic modern horror mode of storytelling, wherein he starts by establishing normality, then introduces one element of abnormality, and gradually expands from there. The movie starts at full intensity, and pretty much never lets up from there. At no point do you ever suspect that anything you're watching is happy and ordinary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 Stephen King was better when he was coked up to the eyeballs. Under The Dome was an awful read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members chokeout Posted October 10, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted October 10, 2018 3 minutes ago, BomberPat said: While I don't buy into all the mad theories thrown out in Room 237, or necessarily to the idea that Kubrick was so flawless that any inconsistency or weirdness in his movies must have been by design and carried a hidden message, I do think that The Shining is so full of symbolism and overt oddness that, especially given the subject matter, there's a lot more going on than appears on the surface. It's been discussed on here before, probably in this thread, but the levels people think Kubrick went to on that film are insane. I totally agree that there's loads of symbolism and intentional oddness in there but the theories about the layout of the Overlook really annoy me. From a technical point of view they've tried to make a set that looks bigger than it is but people screaming that there's walls to nowhere or the layout doesn't make sense...that's how sets work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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