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Post by dread on Nov 11, 2010 23:47:25 GMT -5
In 2005 Denise Crosby played a single mother in Tobe Hooper's 26th attempt to prove to the world that Texas Chainsaw Massacre wasn't a fluke, the sadly wasted Mortuary.
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Post by Derrick on Nov 12, 2010 0:51:38 GMT -5
In 2005 Denise Crosby played a single mother in Tobe Hooper's 26th attempt to prove to the world that Texas Chainsaw Massacre wasn't a fluke, the sadly wasted Mortuary. I never considered THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE to be that good of a movie anyway. And hasn't it been accepted that Steven Spielberg actually directed POLTERGEIST, the only other movie Hooper is known for? The only other thing I've seen Denise Crosby in that I really enjoyed her performance was a low-budget action/sci-fi flick called ELIMINATORS that plays like a superhero movie, what with four characters, a pilot, a cyborg, a ninja and a scientist (Crosby) teaming up to fight a mad scientist.
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Post by dread on Nov 12, 2010 1:42:42 GMT -5
I actually like TCM 2 better than the first one.
The Spielberg thing is a popular myth. He did, however, do most of the second unit on that film.
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Post by Eddie Love on Nov 12, 2010 6:59:23 GMT -5
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Post by james on Nov 12, 2010 7:12:04 GMT -5
I'll stump for Hooper's The Funhouse. And the first TCM sequel (also Hooper) is a lot of fun (intentionally).
James
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Post by Derrick on Nov 12, 2010 10:32:42 GMT -5
I actually like TCM 2 better than the first one. The Spielberg thing is a popular myth. He did, however, do most of the second unit on that film. I dunno...that's a myth I'm kinda inclined to believe since there's not a single blessed thing Hooper has done since then that even remotely shows the same creativity and style that I saw in POLTERGEIST. But then again, Albert Pyun directed the magnificent THE SWORD AND THE SORCERER (which had more Robert E. Howard in it than the Schwartzenegger Conan movies) and spent the next 20 years of his career producing crap.
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Post by james on Nov 12, 2010 12:47:40 GMT -5
I dunno...that's a myth I'm kinda inclined to believe since there's not a single blessed thing Hooper has done since then that even remotely shows the same creativity and style that I saw in POLTERGEIST. Derrick, I'll counterargue that there's more of Hooper's sensibility in at least some parts of Poltergeist than Spielberg's, to my eyes - particularly in the (sometimes vicious) tone, some of the imagery and the way some of the "scare moments" are set up. (This is even more clear to me if I consider Poltergeist and The Funhouse, Hooper's previous film, together). However, the initial premise was (reportedly) Spielberg's, although he did hire Hooper, considering that the latter's sensibility was better suited for the film. I don't know the truth about who made what, but I suspect that the film is result of Hooper's style (the mood, tone and scares) with Spielberg's input and ideas, some of which overload the movie - the elaborate special effects, especially. These are my least favorite parts of the movie. I mean, everyone remembers the simple scene with the puppet under the bed more than the elaborate SFX sequences, yes? Like Desmond wrote, Spielberg did direct (or at least supervise) some (maybe all) of the effects sequences. James
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Post by Derrick on Nov 12, 2010 13:01:09 GMT -5
LIFEFORCE is quite plainly put: totally batshit insane. I actually saw this during it's short theatrical run here in New York. When the movie was over, nobody moved or said anything for a couple of minutes after the end credits as if everybody was saying to themselves; "What the cuss WAS that we just saw?"
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Post by Eddie Love on Nov 12, 2010 19:06:10 GMT -5
LIFEFORCE is quite plainly put: totally batshit insane. I watched LIFEFORCE on MGM-HD this summer, and I confess I loved it. It looked just spectacular. And, no -- I'm not talking about the abundant, fulsome nudity. Okay, maybe I am -- but also all the great, colorful outer space scenes. I may be wrong, but it's one of the first ALIEN rip-offs, but it rips off stuff that none of the other rip-offs do. They all, starting with GALAXY OF TERROR, just do the spam-in-a-can oily space-station thing, but this has more of a 50s scfi-fi vibe. Plus, other movies are all like "We can't let this thing get back to Earth!", but here they do and there are big scenes of urban mayhem and destruction. Plus, there's a great cast with guys I love like Frank Finley and Peter Firth.
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