The one thing that I really noticed were the scene transitions. Theywere quite something! And given this must have been all done analoguejust impresses all the more. The whole misunderstandings and increasingfear and paranoia that overcomes the protagonists is really wellportrayed. There’s just a lot of great scenes in this one. And really Ionly noticed now as I write about this. I might have been not thatenthusiastic right after the film ended, but now I kind of wanna watchit again.
I like old sci-fi movies like this. The special effects and Carpenter’saesthetic just have something about them. The over-the-top villain withhis over-the-top car. All the “modern” computer graphics. Just great.And I enjoyed Carpenter’s music, too! The story and movie itself mightnot be just my cup of tea (anymore), though. But it’s certainly bad-ass.
This might have been a bit too long, but other than that, there’snothing not to like. Another murder mystery, that could have only beensolved by the great Hercule Poirot. The funny dialog and quirkycharacters make this worthwhile alone already. And as a whole Icertainly can not not recommend it.
This is one of those movies where actually not that much is happening.Like an anti-blockbuster. It’s subtle, a little philosophical. And allabout the conversations and characters. It’s funny and serious at thesame time. With wonderful performances of all the actors! First andforemost of course the one of Harry Dean Stanton. But it also remindedme how much I enjoy David Lynch as an actor.
Beautiful!
My good friend Bastian Allgeier has been a guest of the Shoptalk Show with Dave and Chris again. Fun episode to listen to.
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Yep, I liked this! It was partly quite disgusting – more so than most horror flics I’d say – but I won’t complain about that. But it had great humour and a pretty original story I’d say. And it has this meta level and “maybe play with the timeline/references to the past” thing going on (which you only really notice at the end and in the credits), which I don’t know if this made a whole lot of sense, but I’d try to find out and watch the movie again. Bonus point for Chelsea Wolfe soundtrack.
Totally forgot about the platform for a while. I had reasons not to be on it back then, but now Vero seems less broken than things like Instagram.
So, I am on Vero to post photos. Let’s connect!
Reply via EmailDuring beyond tellerrand in Berlin the ZDF has been in the house and followed Janis McDavid before, during and after his talk.
You can watch the short clip in the ZDF Mediathek and maybe you spot yourself in the film ;)
Reply via EmailI have been in Brighton after a long time for the very first time. The last dConstruct has taken place after it was announced for 2020 already and I have some impression in photo form here for you.
Reply via EmailWe celebrated 10 years of Smashing Conference in Freiburg last week. I have taken some photos and uploaded them here.
Reply via EmailThe Planck is the only computer keyboard I use now. I do not want to – nor can I – use a standard keyboard anymore. My MacBook Pro’s keyboard that I’ve used for years? Of no use: the staggered keys, the size (way too big!), the low key travel, the non-customisability. Everything’s alien now.
I recently dusted off an old Raspberry Pi and installed Samba to serve all the movies we have on two external hard drives on our local network.
Meh. I know this is a cult classic – and that’s why I wanted to see it –but I didn’t like it that much. I appreciate the story, but I felt theexecution was lagging. I couldn’t easily follow the plot. After readingthe Wikipedia article on it, I noticed that I think I understood most ofwhat happened. But certainly not everything, and it was more work thanentertainment.
After the two previous not-that-great instalments of this franchise,this was again very good! Jason is just evil, menacing and capable, thekills are much more creative again, it has suspense, great stunts andoverall fantastic humour. On to part 5…
A beautiful film! I would’ve probably liked this even better as a teen.But I’ve just now watched this. Still somehow things felt somewhatfamiliar.
I did only see the German dubbed version, so I think it’d be worth it toat some point see the original.
At first I thought: ah, this seems a little too silly and old-school; doI really want to watch this? But then it convinced me more and more.
It’s pretty scary stuff. Plus super-violent and splattery. And thatending!! Old-school effects galore!
Remarkable film. Didn’t regret this at all!
