What's your favorite scary movie?
Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
>"American Beauty" was scary because it
>was so close to possible.
Now see, the thing which made that one not work for me is that Mena Suvari
is so not beautiful - in my eyes she didn't possess one single quality
which would be likely to drive a man to the edge, and the point of
distraction, to which we were asked to believe her character drove Kevin
Spacey's. Unless the whole point was that it was so in his own mind that
she could have been a cyclops and had the same effect, in which case it was
waaaay too subtle.
However, speaking of reality-based movies which will scare you (or at least
disturb you), and also speaking of movies which one thinks are really good
but nobody else seems to have heard of them (which I did in my penultimate
post to this thread), have you seen "Hardcore", with George C. Scott?
*Really* disturbing, especially for someone who has a daughter. Actually,
one of the subplots in "Traffic" closely tracks "Hardcore", now that I
think of if.
Anne
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Brian Connors
shed...@stop.mail-abuse.org (Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.) wrote:
> Judith wrote:
>
> >"American Beauty" was scary because it
> >was so close to possible.
>
> Now see, the thing which made that one not work for me is that Mena Suvari
> is so not beautiful - in my eyes she didn't possess one single quality
> which would be likely to drive a man to the edge, and the point of
> distraction, to which we were asked to believe her character drove Kevin
> Spacey's. Unless the whole point was that it was so in his own mind that
> she could have been a cyclops and had the same effect, in which case it was
> waaaay too subtle.
Yeah... Mena's not ugly by any means, but I just can't get excited about
her. I mean, out of all the American Pie girls, she's got to be at the
bottom for raw physical attractiveness, though she does have a deeper
screen presence than most of them (of course even Shannon Elizabeth is
more than the sum total of her breasts -- she did pretty well in Jay and
Silent Bob Strike Back).
> However, speaking of reality-based movies which will scare you (or at least
> disturb you), and also speaking of movies which one thinks are really good
> but nobody else seems to have heard of them (which I did in my penultimate
> post to this thread), have you seen "Hardcore", with George C. Scott?
> *Really* disturbing, especially for someone who has a daughter. Actually,
> one of the subplots in "Traffic" closely tracks "Hardcore", now that I
> think of if.
How about Arlington Road? I've only seen part of it, but it has one of
the most crashingly surreal (not to mention depressing) endings I've
ever seen, at least until Star Wars III...
/Brian
Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
>and "Dead Zone"
Ohmygawd yes!! That is a GREAT unsung movie!! Isn't Walken great in it???
Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
>Romper Stomper - an old Russell Crowe pic - just scary to think that
>poeple like that actually exist.
Ugh - in the "people like that actually exist" department, I can't stand,
or bear to watch, "Raising Arizona", which inexplicably most people seem to
think is an hilarious movie. :-(
blake murphy
Mitchell, Esq.) wrote:
>
>>Romper Stomper - an old Russell Crowe pic - just scary to think that
>>poeple like that actually exist.
>
>Ugh - in the "people like that actually exist" department, I can't stand,
>or bear to watch, "Raising Arizona", which inexplicably most people seem to
>think is an hilarious movie. :-(
>
>Anne
>
well, i'm hard to please, but i thought 'raising' was pretty funny.
but then, i don't have any kids.
your pal,
blake
Greg Zywicki
I have kids, and I still think Arizona is hilarious. The only evil
person in the whole movie is Nick Cage's jerkweed boss, and he's
clearly meant to be evil. The rest are just flawed.
Of course, no movie with the "Crawdad" dialogue could be taken as
anything but humor.
Greg Zywicki
"We would eat sand."
"You would eat sand?"
"We would eat sand."