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MystryssRavynDarque
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posted on 13/6/2005 at 06:45 PM
Metropolis
1) There is a really cool scene with the seven deadly sins as statues and a
grim reaper statue. The Reaper statue keeps swinging his scythe and it
kicks soo much ass.
2) The mad scientist made me think of Christopher Lloyd, so there must be
something to this whole mad scientist look. He has a most kick ass looking
robot chick. This film has amazing special effects for the 1920's.
3) It almost bankrupted the UFA.
4) Reportedly one of Adolf Hilter's favorite films. (taken from IMDB)
5) Brigitte Helm (Maria/The Robot) refuses to talk about this movie and
deines that she was ever in it. (taken from IMDB)
[Edited on 6/14/2005 by MystryssRavynDarque]
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experience of being alive." -Joseph Campbell
Metropolis is a FINE film! I think I like Cabinet of Dr. Calagari better,
but Metropolis has a darker meaning in it's imagery and story line, whereas
Cabinet is a surreal horror fantasy. Am I the only one who still gets
chills watching the original "nosferatu"?
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dead-cell
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posted on 13/6/2005 at 09:25 PM
Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb
1) Its a classic. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Peter Sellers in multible
roles. A political satire about nuclear war. Need I say more.
2) Never seen a political movie more truthful about government(s).
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MystryssRavynDarque
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posted on 14/6/2005 at 12:26 AM
Bettie: I actually have The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari waiting for me in the
living room. It is just a matter of time before....bwahahaha.....I watch
it.
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think that's what we're looking for. I think what we're looking for is
the
experience of being alive." -Joseph Campbell
It's amazing, you'll love it, but you have to pay close attention to the
plot, it's very off kilter which makes it so wonderful (aside from the
imagery...woah)
I'd love to see Tim Burton remake it. I really think he's the only
director with the imagination to do it true.
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MystryssRavynDarque
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posted on 14/6/2005 at 09:48 PM
Isn't he one of the only directors with imagination?
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think that's what we're looking for. I think what we're looking for is
the
OH no, not by far, there are several talented directors out there, it's
simply that Burton posesses an unusually creative imagination that takes
the ordinary and skews it to create something unbelieveable out of the
believeable, and seems to ME the only director out there who could properly
capture and retain the integrity of Mernau's original visions. Burton is
like watching a Mernau film with a high budget, and Mernau is like watching
a turn of the centry Burton. When you take into effect the IMPACT of his
movies, you realise that as a silent film, plot lines are rather limited to
miming and occasional printed intersections of dialogue to give you a
general idea of character and story line, yet he does this without spoken
words but through spectacualr vision of body language and visual sets and
motion. "Nosferatu" was fantastically Hi-Tech for it's time in the special
effects dept, and many of his techniques used in that film by simply
stopping, slowing down, or speeding up the film are spectacular in their
simplicity and STILL give me goosebumps (especially the scene in which
Count Orlock rises from his coffin after the lid displaces itself, and the
ghastly hunched, long fingered shadow creeping along the mast of the ship
taking the monster to America). His films are RIDDLED with analogies and
social statements, especially Metropolis, where the rich a elite play in a
high rise eden which is in turn run by deadly subteranean human and
mechanical slave labor, while a more sinister plan unfolds amongst the rich
and the poor of a super race of mechanical beings (ie: neitzche and
hitler's supermen).
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EyeCandyRayce
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posted on 15/6/2005 at 10:17 PM
Lain 1-4
1. Because death isn't really the end and teenagers are killing themselves.
Because the internet is a real world that is linked to the world we all
live. Because the main character wears a school girl uniform. There are
hackers, drugs, dance clubs, moody moments, long artistic silences and
alter egos living on the wired (net). And finally because the main
character is trying to figure out just who she really is and finds out she
is everything and nothing at all.
2. Because most other anime out there now days is crap. (Don't tell my
daughter, the anime fanatic that I said that)
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posted on 28/8/2009 at 03:52 AM
Creep
1) The main character (girl in yellow dress) couldn't be killed.
2) Metro monster - original!
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posted on 19/9/2009 at 10:10 PM
Return to Oz
1. It's full of monsters and severed heads. All the fun colors are gone.
All the songs are gone. It's one of the darkest and most disturbed stories
I've seen. It even starts off with a child getting electro shock therapy.
Also starring Faruza Balk
2. For once, they keep all the twisted disturbing images in a children's
story. And no dance numbers.
The Call of the Cthulhu
1. Filmed by the H.P. Lovecraft historical Society, and it features
everybody's favorite Great old One.
2. It's done as a silent movie, forgoing all the tricks and digital
wizardry that makes a lot of movies suck these days. It's actually pretty
much on the mark when it comes to transferring from book to film.
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