How can you not like the cinema??
Drive is definitely a cinema/home theatre film. I could imagine my mind wandering during those long scenes if I wasn't so immersed in the whole thing.
Indeed. In the same way I don't know how anyone can have an opinion on a film after watching it on a flight.
Quote from: SA Chris on January 12, 2012, 02:35:35 pmIndeed. In the same way I don't know how anyone can have an opinion on a film after watching it on a flight.Ok, discount my scathing review of Transformers: Dark of the Moon. I saw it on the plane. It's still horseshit though
I hate the multiplex cinemas. The whole concept and set up makes me feel like a guinea pig in a lab. Horrid places. Impersonal. And then there's the films... So I don't go. And if I want to see mainstream films I watch them at home, most often with friends. On the other hand, independent cinemas can be different, and having one of the best student cinemas and one of the best indy cinemas in the country doesn't hurt, for those of us in sheffield.
We've got both of those (Troll Hunter / TTSS) to watch too, I am not at all sure about Troll HUnter but apparently it's better than most people expected it to be / so bad it's actually quite good.
What the old Belgian film "Man Bites Dog" was to serial killers, this does the same for troll hunting.
I'm hoping it has fewer scenes as uncomfortable as those in Man Bites Dog.
No fear there. It's a similar premise but an opposite effect to Man Bites Dog. To me, the mundanity in MBD accentuated the horror (this could be happening near you, the setting is everyday and I am a potential victim).
Strange really that MBD hasn’t been subject to a Hollywood remake. I guess shaky-cam gore-pr0n like Saw, Hostel etc might be a legacy, though those films are perhaps more the bastard off-spring of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
I was hoping to watch Troll Hunter with the wife, I'm not sure she could stomach MBD.As you probably know, that was the original title, "It's happening near you". I agree with all of the above. I found it all quite uncomfortable to watch, with the film crews increasing involvement and the fact that Benoît Poelvoorde creates a serial killer with whom I found myself liking and at times, sympathising with.I think it would be a very difficult re-make. The shear horror of some scenes (the rape and murder of the couple in their home) aren't really Hollywood fodder.
Are you a soldier? Good soldiers get fucked to death!
I didn't know that about MBD's original title - good knowledge! Re a remake being too horrible for Hollywood... that didn't stop them with Funny Games, which was pretty disturbing. Just imagine.. Man Bites Dog starring the cast of Glee! They should start filming now, maybe wait until after remaking Irreversible as a Tom Hanks vehicle!