Comments on: The Bigger Picture: Nothing to Fear

By: Arend_Anton

Arend_Anton — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 07:40:35 +0000

Thanks for reading, Baby.

Note to Jon Cummings: If you want to avoid loony conservative comments, cleverly disguise your political rants within a different subject heading.

By: Arend_Anton

Arend_Anton — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 03:40:35 +0000

Thanks for reading, Baby.

Note to Jon Cummings: If you want to avoid loony conservative comments, cleverly disguise your political rants within a different subject heading.

By: Arend_Anton

Arend_Anton — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 02:40:35 +0000

Thanks for reading, Baby.

Note to Jon Cummings: If you want to avoid loony conservative comments, cleverly disguise your political rants within a different subject heading.

By: Baby

Baby — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 20:21:28 +0000

Yes and the annoying thing is that irrational fear/s have driven our foreign policy for years, intelligence based risk appraisal rocks!

By: BobCashill

BobCashill — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 16:09:08 +0000

I think the subtitling would be more of an issue if you'd already seen the film. I have the disc, but, story of my life, haven't watched it. It's worth a try anyway, before the U.S. remake comes. (Though it will be produced by the back-from-the-dead Hammer Films, which reminds me that Christopher Lee has been knighted, a royal seal of approval for horror.)

By: Arend_Anton

Arend_Anton — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 16:04:29 +0000

I've been wanting to watch “Let the Right One In” for a while now, but I keep hearing about problems with the subtitling.

By: BobCashill

BobCashill — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:20:27 +0000

“The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” (its proper title, not to be overly pedantic) knocked me for a loop when I first saw it at college. Still does. While visceral to a degree, the power of suggestion (lacking in the remake) fills in the rest of the blanks. (The DVD bungles that chase sequence by dampening down the sound effects. I've always felt sorry for the two actors; there were no stunt doubles, and the filmmakers lacked finesse, so the blood, pain, and confusion in that scene is very real.)

I'm a big fan of horror, traditional (Universal monsters) and contemporary (“Let the Right One In” is a stellar example, though I've read that the DVD, curses, has dumbed-down subtitles.). I'm not a big fan of the moralizing, say, of the “Saw” movies, though it's an interesting wrinkle, and it's too easy for the genre to fall back on 9/11-related imagery. I don't scare too easily, and it's not the reason I attend; what I find most compelling about the genre is how the best films hold up a funhouse mirror to our anxieties and force you to take a long hard look.

By: DwDunphy

DwDunphy — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 12:45:39 +0000

The majority of horror films are aimed at effects junkies versus people who like to have their psyche mucked with. Some of the movies I consider the most horrific hardly show the violent acts (RE: Psycho from 1959 (?) got past the overseers but is now considered a light R) but what is most associated with the genre now has buckets of gore and creative dismemberment.

The visions of slaughter don't horrify me as much as they sicken, so really, it's a matter of having the definition of “horror movie” corrupted over the past 30 years, if anything,