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What MOVIE(s) have you been....seeing? watching?
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It's basically the same premise as the original film, but less interesting, with worse special effects.
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Josh Look wrote: I finally got to watching Jodorowsky's Dune. Fascinating story for sure, and I feel the movie does its best to give you an idea as to what thing thing would been like. Jodorowsky's passion is still evident today, 40 years after the fact, and even though it certainly wouldn't have been Dune, it's easy to be swept up in his vision. There's a bit with him where he really expresses his frustration over the movie not being made and it is absolutely powerful. But then the film goes on to explain what the pop culture landscape might have looked like if it had been made. A world without Star Wars, Alien or Blade Runner? That's practically the holy trinity to me, I'm not sure that's a world I'd want to live in.
The documentary certainly made a good argument about Jodorowsky's Dune storyboard influencing the scenes of many scifi movies that followed with those side-by-side comparisons.
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Watched Bone Tomahawk...it was really quite good, I think most folks here that can stomach some grisly violence will enjoy it. It's very much a character-driven Western in no small part influenced by The Searchers with Kurt Russell in the lead role as sheriff of a small frontier town. Matthew Fox in an unexpectedly good role as a dandy with a shady past. Patrick Wilson as an actual cowboy. It has a stately, measured pace that is no hurry to get where it's going and it spends plenty of time on scenes with stylized dialogue to develop the characters.
However, it is totally a horror movie. Won't go into spoilers, but I think Tom Chick said it best that these four characters "descend" from a Western film into a horror film. There's not a whole lot of gruesome stuff, but when it hits, it hits HARD because it's reserved. It goes a little over the top, I think, but the impact is quite harsh. Some really well done terror sequences.
It's definitely indebted to some of the weirder, more fringe Eurowesterns (like Massacre Time or Four of the Apocalypse), but it's far better written and produced.
Also, the director somehow managed to wrangle Sid Haig and Sean Young into the same picture.
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Last week I saw Dear Zachary. Don't watch it.
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And I crush on Emily Clarke as much as the next guy and everything, but I still can't bring myself to sit through that.
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