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Dark City
The blend of film noir, science-fiction, and psychological thriller that is this phenomenal movie will forever hold a place in my top 3 films of all time. Oh, and Richard O'Brien is too fucking creepy as Mr. Hand (lol@South Park). There's little more that really needs to be said about DC. Just...if you haven't yet seen it, do so. It will not disappoint. P.S. Jennifer Connelly FTW. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within The oft-maligned black sheep of the Final Fantasy franchise has, since the day I saw it in theatres, been among my favourite movies. GFF is no stranger to the fact that I'm not at all a fan of the FF games, nor even of Squaresoft in general, and I think the fact that the movie strayed so far from the tradition of the games is one of the primary reasons I enjoy it so much. I liked that they wrote it to appeal to those who had not played the games, and I appreciated the fact that while certain scenes were reminiscent of the games (ATV chase through the hangar/Escape from Vector and/or Midgar, Outer-space smooching to FF8 spaceship cockpit, etc.), they didn't slap the audience with "YOU WON'T GET ME UNLESS YOU PLAY THE GAME. ...NOW GIVE SQUARE YOUR MONEYS." While the characters may have fallen victim to the Uncanny Valley (wiki it, basically nonhuman entities which appear too human are perceived as being entirely fake and unrealistic), but after a while I learned to ignore the unnatural qualities of the people and appreciate the visuals as a larger whole. Even now, 5 years after its release, the film does impress with its visuals. Not necessarily on a technical scale, but certainly on an aesthetic one. I can't think of a single shot in the movie that wasn't interesting or possessed of at least some eye-catching detail. Oh, and Elliot Goldenthal is a god. Myriad works of David Lynch, namely Eraserhead, Mulholland Drive, and Lost Highway I'm not counting Twin Peaks here simply because it's a series, and this thread is technically for standalone feature films. Still, these three have plenty of mind-rape material, and I am of the camp that believes weird-ass inexplicable shit can, in fact, be intelligent and thought-provoking, if only because so much is left open to interpretation. Blue boxes and keys, ladies living in radiators, weird sperm-worm things, the world's creepiest baby, and one guy in dire need of a tanning salon all come together to form visually intriguing, psychologically disturbing, and something-something-ing (gimme a fucking break, it's 3 AM) masterpieces that will never get old. Please note that I have deliberately avoided mentioning the lesbian scenes in Mulholl...oh, fucknuts. A NEW CHALLENGER HAS ARRIVED! Silent Hill You know, two years ago I hated survival-horror games because I always found the pacing (and that damnable RE control scheme) hair-pullingly frustratingly slow. A friend introduced me to (okay, twisted my arm into playing) Silent Hill 3, and while at first I found it "okay," a later play-through got me hooked. Flash forward 2 years, my survival horror collection is missing only Fatal Frame 3. Having gotten that out of the way, I went into SH with high expectations but also with an open mind. I know better than to expect a perfect game-to-movie adaptation, as the last time a movie was pixel-perfectly faithful to its source material was FF7:AC and we all know how THAT turned out. However, major character and plot liberties aside, SH succeeded in capturing the atmosphere, themes, and aesthetic of the games with mind-boggling accuracy. For a series that is so heavily centered on creating a pervasive feeling of tension, Hill format-shifted to the silver screen quite gracefully, and maintained virtually all of its signature "dead world" desolation and "otherworld" morbidity. With the exception of a few scenes involving Chris, the pacing of the movie is perfect. It seldom drags or grows boring, and the Otherworld scenes are fleshed-out (no pun intended) enough to be convincing and, well, fucking creepy. Yeah, this movie scared me. I can't remember the last time a movie...oh, wait, Aliens, Newt and Ripley trapped with the face-huggers in Medlab. Okay, and that was when I was 8 years old. In SH, when Rose was confronted by the ash babies and the Janitor, I actually felt like I wanted to get the hell out of the theatre. It was awesome. I saw it 4 times, it got better every time, and I'm making one more exception to my MPAA boycott and I am snatching up any and all basic, extended, director's cut, whatever versions of the DVD that are released. Jam it back in, in the dark. It is not my custom to go where I am not invited. |