Admit It--You Hated This Horror/SF/F Classic

Re: Admit It--You Hated This Horror/SF/F Classic

feeds@yuku.com (scotpens) — Wed, 02 May 2012 22:04:49 PST

Grant wrote:As far as I know it isn't thought of too highly, but I've always felt that way about the HAPPY ending of The Last Voyage, with Robert Stack helping Woody Strode onto the lifeboat.I like THE LAST VOYAGE. I'm a big fan of Andrew L. Stone's films...
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Re: Admit It--You Hated This Horror/SF/F Classic

feeds@yuku.com (Grant) — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:41:14 PST

ryanbrennan wrote:It always chokes me up when John Merivale hands his sleeping son to Honor Blackman and reassures her everything will be fine. We know it's not going to be fine, he knows it, she knows it, she knows he knows, and he knows that she k...
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Re: Admit It--You Hated This Horror/SF/F Classic

feeds@yuku.com (scotpens) — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 08:05:45 PST

Rick wrote:. . . I thought, with the exception of one really phony CGI shot, the boat looked great. And Gloria Stuart made me tear up, I'll admit. Computer-generated effects have progressed so dramatically in the last 15 years that I find many of the FX ...
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Re: Admit It--You Hated This Horror/SF/F Classic

feeds@yuku.com (Rick) — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 04:57:15 PST

Gah...I've put this off for ages because the TITANIC hatred seems so widespread, but... I like it. I recognize some major faults, notably Billy Zane's character (and probably the performance too, though I'm not sure what else he could have done with...
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Re: Admit It--You Hated This Horror/SF/F Classic

feeds@yuku.com (Zombie Dad) — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 03:07:58 PST

Carl Eyesnheart wrote: That being said, everybody who honsetly liked TITANIC when they saw it for the first time raise your hand. I know I liked it. Maybe not best picture material, but the best picture rarely is the best picture. But I was happy to see...
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Re: Admit It--You Hated This Horror/SF/F Classic

feeds@yuku.com (Wich2) — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:00:21 PST

Well, it didn't work for me. And you have to work REALLY hard to make one of the most intrinsically dramatic events in human history corny & boring!

Re: Admit It--You Hated This Horror/SF/F Classic

feeds@yuku.com (Victor Frankenstein) — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:31:06 PST

"Candy coated tragedy"....wow. Sad, but well said, Carl.

Re: Admit It--You Hated This Horror/SF/F Classic

feeds@yuku.com (Carl Eyesnheart) — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 00:44:53 PST

Victor Frankenstein wrote:It sure seems weird to think about getting excited to see Titanic in 3D. I can't fathom thinking "I can't wait til 9/11: The Movie comes out in 3D!" I stood in an arcade not too long ago staring in disbelief at the game in fron...
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Re: Admit It--You Hated This Horror/SF/F Classic

feeds@yuku.com (kcor) — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 19:32:38 PST

PhantomXCI wrote:ghoulkid wrote But at the top of my list of classics that I don't like are VERTIGO,MARNIE,ROPE and STRANGERS ON A TRAIN. I'm with you on this one. I was a huge Hitchcock fan during the '70s. VERTIGO was out-of-circulation [....
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Re: Admit It--You Hated This Horror/SF/F Classic

feeds@yuku.com (emoore7) — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 23:06:26 PST

Carpenter's The Thing

Re: Admit It--You Hated This Horror/SF/F Classic

feeds@yuku.com (scotpens) — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 21:23:58 PST

^^ Back in its heyday, Mad magazine did a wonderful send-up of The Sound of Music called "The $ound of Money." Sample lyrics: I'm not singing now, I am pre-recorded I'm just mouthing words I have sung before And how does it feel to be singing nothing...
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Re: Admit It--You Hated This Horror/SF/F Classic

feeds@yuku.com (hermanthegerm) — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:14:35 PST

Elisabeth wrote:I disliked MARY POPPINS and absolutely DESPISED SOUND OF MUSIC... Both were too tame, and too danged SWEET for me. I like VICTOR/VICTORIA, though... and I get a kick out of two Television Cinderellas going merrily off the rails...(VBEG...
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Re: Admit It--You Hated This Horror/SF/F Classic

feeds@yuku.com (Elisabeth) — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 06:04:13 PST

I will always remember that scene, because those characters were the same age as my grandparents. Because ANTR was not filled with nude painting scenes, sex in steamed up cars and an artificial love story, you could concentrate on the REAL story....The P...
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Re: Admit It--You Hated This Horror/SF/F Classic

feeds@yuku.com (Monsterpal) — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 05:30:18 PST

John Merivale, star of two cinematic classics: A NIGHT TO REMEMBER and CALTIKI.

Re: Admit It--You Hated This Horror/SF/F Classic

feeds@yuku.com (ryanbrennan) — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 02:31:30 PST

It always chokes me up when John Merivale hands his sleeping son to Honor Blackman and reassures her everything will be fine. We know it's not going to be fine, he knows it, she knows it, she knows he knows, and he knows that she knows he knows.&nbs...
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Re: Admit It--You Hated This Horror/SF/F Classic

feeds@yuku.com (Wich2) — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 01:28:25 PST

>For my money, the best movie about the Titanic is still the 1958 British production A Night To Remember.Read More

Re: Admit It--You Hated This Horror/SF/F Classic

feeds@yuku.com (horrorfilmx) — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 22:11:29 PST

scotpens wrote:For my money, the best movie about the Titanic is still the 1958 British production A Night To Remember. The FX are primitive by today's standards, of course, but picture is faithful to historic fact with little dramatic embellishment and n...
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Re: Admit It--You Hated This Horror/SF/F Classic

feeds@yuku.com (scotpens) — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 22:05:44 PST

Mora wrote:The thing I really hated about "Titanic" was that for the interminable length of the picture the only two people the film really focused on were Jack and Rose. Virtually everyone else was secondary so that when the big ship sank all aud...
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Re: Admit It--You Hated This Horror/SF/F Classic

feeds@yuku.com (Mora) — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 20:28:50 PST

The thing I really hated about "Titanic" was that for the interminable length of the picture the only two people the film really focused on were Jack and Rose. Virtually everyone else was secondary so that when the big ship sank all audiences could really...
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Re: Admit It--You Hated This Horror/SF/F Classic

feeds@yuku.com (Victor Frankenstein) — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 17:25:47 PST

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Admit It--You Hated This Horror/SF/F Classic

feeds@yuku.com (Jonatwork) — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 08:48:03 PST

I'm not talking about AVATAR or BATTLEFIELD EARTH--I'm talking about classic films 'everybody' loves in the SF/horror/Fantasy field that you just DO NOT LIKE.I mean, come on, it's no big deal if you don't like FRIDAY THE 13th PART 5--some love it, others ...
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