FILMS MADE TO ENTERTAIN...

[George Clarke]

I'd like to hear peoples views on what they think is an entertaining film. Peronally, I believe film was invented to create the likes of fantasys and dreams - to entertain and step out of the real world. Too many serious, true-life and factual stories are made nowadays and the idea of watching a movie to escape reality is becoming thin. Speed Racer rocked!! It was the first film I've seen in a long long time that allowed me to forget about real life... Give me some more please :-)

[Scott Wood]

Don't think for one minute that Fritz Lang didn't mix "M" like that completely on purpose. I know what you mean.. Sharp, unnecessarily noisy (but not unnecessary) breaking long periods of near silence. Sound pictures were very young at that time, and while most people were using this new opportunity to simply film stage productions, Lang saw the sound mixing itself as another tool to use to enhance his picture. Absolutely brilliant. How is it that Peter Lorre isn't more of a cult figure of classic cinema? I'd put his face up there with the greats.

Marx brothers, of course! I don't know how I forget that shit. Yes Marx brothers, yes. Absolutely. It's impossible to catch every single joke or quip on the first few viewings of one of those pictures. They didn't care about comic timing (with their wordplay at least)... Their goal was to cram so many jokes into their short period of time as possible. Not everything worked of course, but good lord those were good times.

"Sin City" is more valid if you look at it differently. I'll let you figure that one out. Unless you give up, in which I'll tell you what's up about it.

The shadow dancing of Touch of Evil is something I'll never forget. There was about five years in between when I first saw that film and when I second-saw it... In that time, I had forgotten the story, and all I remembered about the picture was a camera that didn't cut as much as it did follow, and shots of people in rooms with their shadows hopping about on the walls like the flames of a fire.

I DID specify "Beowulf 3-D" so that should tell you. But I believe that we share an unhealthy and irrational love of Christopher Lambert. "Fortress" man. I'm telling ya. I love "Fortress."

As for Sean Connery.. Uhh. Yeah. "Medicine Man" was brilliant! NOT!

[Josh Darling]

"Mean Guns" Ice T and Christopher Lambert in the same picture! Why it didn't take home an Oscar is beyond me. I mean the talent right there.

As far as "Sin City" goes, it's the comic book made into a film, 100% devitive, i'ts what Tarintino does best... Man steals more then Kenith Lay did. I'm sorry I mean to say "Pay's Homage to" *

Petter Lorre is my homeboy, and time I got a problem I ask myself "What would Petter Lorre do?"

So my question still stands BeoWulf 3d" did they retyouch the Lambert version? cause that would be ill.

Medicine Man is an important film... If MST3K ever makes a comeback they'l need it.

[Scott Wood]

Think of "Sin City" in its original form, however.

Frank Miller creates a comic that is intended to be a film. His influence is doubtlessly the film noirs of yesteryear, but its subject matter is so extreme it could never actually exist in the form he would have wanted for it. Rodriguez enters the picture, and everything comes full circle. Unlike Zack Snyder, Rodriguez ensures that Miller gets the credit he deserves for what is essentially Miller's film.

If anything in this situation is derivative of anything else, it's Miller's original work of classic film noir.

[Carlos Antonio Leon]

NOW WE' RE TALKING!!

To Josh: your comment about far right wingers, and all that crap they bring in, is soooooo properly laid out! AMEN!
I too am pretty angry at the lack of tolerance our society tends to display these days....so let's keep making horror movies in which such mentality is brutally attacked by Zombies, Vampires, Psychos, and you name it!

[Josh Darling]

It's just weird to me that I don't see the "dangers" of homosexuals. Homosexauls male and female have been realy nice to me. Christains have told me I'm going to hell because I don't believe in their deffination of "God" but I can't believe in a God that makes anything "evil," and remember the great film maker in the sky makes EVERYTHING. I can believe in ignorance but not "evil" peoplle might be ignornant, but not evil. But I think an edjucated person can love whoever and love isn't evil. But though how are ignorant will do acts of hate.

Zombies I think are best symbol of thoughlessness and violence, they are the right wing.

[Jason Pitt]

Don't get me started on religion, Josh. I apologize to anyone who may be offended, but organized religion, in any form, contains undeniable fallacies, and promotes the ignorance you speak of. It is for this reason that I choose not to subscribe to any form of said religion. Intolerance is the basis of all battles, and it seems to be the flavor of the week, every week, for those promoting their religion.

That being said, and seemingly slightly off topic for this board... I do appreciate films such as Monty Python's "Life of Brian", and Kevin Smith's "Dogma" (and I understand that I may be in the minority that support 'Dogma'). Both films take an entertaining approach to their subject matter, and make light of the inconsistencies that are inherent within the tenets of Catholicism.

Now these movies have a little more going on under the suface to be classified as 'made simply to entertain', but I do find both brilliantly entertaining in their own right.

[George Clarke]

Dont get me started on religion Josh and Jason... I am from Belfast after-all!! I may have to make a film about it! ;-)

[Carlos Antonio Leon]

Yes!!! let's make a film about it....I'm with Jason on that DOGMA was such a joy because of the irony it uses to signal hypocresies regarding "holier than thou" attitudes...plus, I love that Alanis Morrisette could be GOD....and Salma Hayek an angel!!....there's so much to point out about religion's "cherry picking" attitudes such as using the "bible" (actually the old testament) in which Leviticus labeled homosexuality as an abomination but then few paragraphs later it puts same label on eating shellfish, touching the skin of a dead pig (playing American Football anyone?), cutting the hair around the temples, wearing garments made of two different threads (ie. cottom and polyester), planting two different seeds in the same field (ie. corn and soy), and it goes on and on and on...but it's curious (homophobic maybe?) that out of those abominations the ONLY one that keeps coming back as such is the one against homosexuals...I guess lay people dont eat shrimp, oysters, or ham and they dont cut their hair or play football!!!!

Too much for double standards!!!

[Josh Darling]

Well, I think the biggest one is "Thou Shall NOT KILL" and then 4 pages after that "Thou shall not suffer a witch to live." being a direct decendand of Rebecca Nurse (the one from the Crucibal or rather the one that that character is based on) that kind of cuts close to the bone. But then again it should with any person that loves freedom, so I guess that is a lame reason for me.

It's funny because one of the things I've realy learned in my "spirtual" journey is that religion and spirtuality are apples and snakes... Totaly diferent but one is offering the other and it can't deliver. God, Jesus, Allha, Shiva, The Great Unkown, is something that is there for people to go find themselves (or if they so choose to not believe in.)

But Dogma and Buerocracy have nothing to do with that "power" or "source." I believe in a "God of Love" I don't like putting a name ona the higher power but to make things easy I'l use the word "God" and it loves, and it loves life and there is no way that THAT God (which is mentioned in all religious texts, there is aloving God somewhere) has any hate for anything it has created, Man, woman, Gay, straight, Tranzgender, believing in it or not.

Oh yeah, Selma Hayke is a better candidate in my book for "God" mostly cause at one point she did nude sceens.

As far as double standards go, how's about a straight man directing a horror film with a gay protaginist (and lead actor) talking his tranzgender friend (and actor) into letting him kill her to get her into the right body. That's my next short.

Polyester IS the greatest material EVER!

[Josh Darling]

didn't you already... in a way?

[Carlos Antonio Leon]

hahahahaha....that's hilarious....