TorontRayne said:
Since five people have talked shit and compared me to Malkavian,here is my reply.
Ah, well, don't take things too seriously.
And Kotario is The ReDeemer.
As for the Cube, Queen of the Damned, Butterfly Effect, and Alien vs. Predator being on my top ten; here is an explanation.
Queen of the Damned- Ok it didn't have any well known actors, so most people ditch it right off the bat. Then it didn't have Tom Cruise, so everyone was like " this movie is gonna suck ass" so they didn't watch it. Plus on top of that, the true Anne Rice fanboys were mad because Lestat had black hair instead of blonde. Ok now, disregard all of that bullshit.
Actually I was just looking through a book that catalogues the best horror and they like Queen of the Damned too.
But they had crappy taste in films so don't count on them.
When I went into the theaters I expected a decent vampire flick(probably not faithful to the books), but in my opinion it was one of the best vampire movies ever....2nd to "Interview with a Vampire". The soundtrack blew me out of my seat. I almost creamed my pants when Akasha toasted every vampire in the club.Lestat's acting really impressed me, and everything built up to that moment when Lestat was taken by Akasha. The story was pretty faithful to the book.... it just left a lot out.I stand by my decision. I love this fuckin movie.
Ok, a good vampire film might be Shadow of the Vampire. That was probably the last really good vampire film. I didn't have that many complaints about Interview with a Vampire as it stayed close enough to the book.
My problem with Anne Rice is that she's turned the Vampire archtype into a homoerotic goth soap opera. Lestat, who is an enjoyable villian in the first becomes the hero in the second book in the series. Sorry but Anne Rice, who got her start writing erotica, has done way to much to ruin the horror genre to get my respect.
A better film, Dracula 2000. The Hunger is also a pretty decent vampire film. Bram Stoker's Dracula- by Francis Ford Coppala is better. At least it had Anthony Hopkins- "She is the Devil's Concubine!"
Butterfly Effect- I guess this one just has a personal place in my heart, since I watched it with my wife before we got married. It was the first movie we both liked. Does anyone else have a movie like that? It really reminded me of how choosing certain paths in life can take you down a whole different course. I liked the different realities that the main character went through. I mean think about it. If you made a different decision in life, an important one,where would you be? That concept facinates me. Would this ever make anyone elses top ten list? No. Do I care? No. Next.
Then you should watch Sliding Doors which considers the same issue but when life takes a minor variation simply because a girl missed a subway train.
Ok, this is a matter of personal taste and you have a personal story. Romance, etc. That said, more people have given that film the thumbs up. Perhaps its worth reconsidering.
Cube Trilogy- I don't give a flying fuck what anyone says about this series; It friggin kicked ass. I loved the fact that the cube would always move ,and you never knew who would die by some crazy contraption. I stated earlier that Cube 3 appealed to me because it tied up some loose ends, and someone spouted out some smartass reply, but I stick by it.
Utterly unknown to me. I keep thinking Sphere- which could have been a better movie than it was.
AVP- Ok. I admit I chose to rashly on this one. I watched it a couple of days before I made the thread. Sue me. The movie does in fact suck dick.
My brother liked it too, but he also liked National Treasure and Kingdom of Heaven- so I wouldn't go by his tastes.
Reasons for disliking this film. Take two franchises- Predator (and I liked Predator 2 more than Predator 1) and Alien (which I think still had legs even at Aliens 4), and kill them both with a single movie. Sequels is a bad idea. But take two sequels and butcher both by placing them both on a frozen Antarctic island where all the people who once lived there strangely disappeared (- Antarctic monsters goes back to Lovecrafts' At the Mountains of Madness, but was perhaps best done in John Carpenter's The Thing), make it so that the Predators have this game with the Aliens on Earth (despite the fact that all the Aliens films deal with the idea of keeping the Aliens away from humanity as they would destroy humanity) add in Lance Henrikson (the Android that keeps coming back in the Alien films and then kill him off in the film.
Oh, badness.
A better film might have done this simply by moving the story line up a couple of hundred years, put some marines (as in Aliens) on a planet where you have Predators and Aliens facing off against each other. Actually that probably would have sucked too.
Movies based on video games is selling to the lowest denominator. Fun for beer and popcorn perhaps, but otherwise?
A good horror film?
As for some of the other choices people made:
Clockwork Orange- A pretty kick ass movie....I just didn't consider it true sci-fi.
One might also call Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind- in which humans can selectively erase memories and struggle to stop that erasing from happening,
or Vanilla Sky/ Open your Eyes, where one has dreams while in deep hybernation- as not science fiction.
But that wouldn't make much sense.
Birds- I love Hitchcock. I love Birds. I just don't like the two together. Birds was alright, but Psycho is better. Vertigo is even better. That makes it better,better.
I wouldn't think of Vertigo as horror, but more as a mystery. In contrast-
Birds- Ecology turns the table on mankind- has been done way to many times. Think giant squids, killer bees, man eating sharks. For example Deep Blue Sea, is very much a horror film.
Psycho- one might call this a mystery as the story centers around the strange disappearance of a missing girl. But to do so would ignore the strange existential elements (water going the wrong way) that Hitchcock incorporates. One might think of this as a ghost story as well, in which a man in haunted or possessed by the ghost of his mother, but the ghost is psychological. But Psycho falls into the psychological horror category. Texas Chainsaw massacre could be a version of this. Silence of the Lambs as well. Is Silence of the Lambs horror or something else, and if something else, what? A mystery?
Back to the Future- I should have picked that one! I loved BTTF. Part three sucked though.
BTTF is totally sci-fi.