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Oct. 8th, 2011 11:00 amUpdate on the kindle: I called the SAM lost and found this morning and they did indeed find it. So when I go in for more movies today, I can just pick it up!
I am amazingly relieved.
So now I can talk about yesterday's movies, most of which I had seen before. Haunted Palace is always lovely, because Vincent Price is always lovely and because the movie is gorgeous - I still want the titular palace. And Mr Price's dressing gown. (One of the audience members did say irritatingly disparaging things after it ended, but he appears to be one of those guys who never grows out of the tendency to try to be the smartest and most jaded person in the room, so to hell with him.)
Re-Animator is a lot of fun in a room with lots of other people, and on a big screen. That one drew the biggest crowd yesterday - there were maybe 15 for Haunted Palace but 30 or 40 for Re-Animator. And in the row in front of me was a woman who had quite obviously never seen it before and seemed to be having a really great time, which was pleasant to watch. Total crowd-pleaser, everyone had fun. Man, but I love that stupid film.
The last movie of the night was Die Farbe, and there were only about 10 of us in the audience. This was the only one yesterday I hadn't seen and I'd heard some good things about it, so I was looking forward to it. Alas, I was greatly disappointed. It is, as the title indicates, a German adaptation of The Colour Out of Space and, oh dear gods but it's boring. It's black and white and trying so hard to be "artistic", with long lingering boring still shots of houses or trees or grotesque pears. There's a forgettable (and boring) framing narrative that never really pays off but the bulk of the film is a very straight retelling of the original story. It's not a bad adaptation, the actors do a fine job, and there are a couple of moments that start to capture some of the creepy wrongness of the original setting (there's a wonderful giant wasp at one point, for example) but the majority of the film is just so dull. It does do the one thing that I've sort of wanted in an adaptation of Colour Out of Space, which is to film in black-and-white except for the titular color, in order to properly represent the idea that this is a color that's not of this world, that's indescribable in human terms. Unfortunately, Die Farbe chooses to do this by making the color a neon pinkish-purple which is just so ridiculous that it doesn't work at all. (Me, I would try to keep it as close to black-and-white as possible. Maybe a dark blue or green or, yes, purple that's almost but not quite right. That would be effective, I think.) And that just makes me sad, because it's a good idea but done so badly and in such a boring movie. So disappointing.
Today is Dunwich Horror, which is awful but enjoyable, and Whisperer in Darkness, which I've seen clips from and have great hopes for.
I am amazingly relieved.
So now I can talk about yesterday's movies, most of which I had seen before. Haunted Palace is always lovely, because Vincent Price is always lovely and because the movie is gorgeous - I still want the titular palace. And Mr Price's dressing gown. (One of the audience members did say irritatingly disparaging things after it ended, but he appears to be one of those guys who never grows out of the tendency to try to be the smartest and most jaded person in the room, so to hell with him.)
Re-Animator is a lot of fun in a room with lots of other people, and on a big screen. That one drew the biggest crowd yesterday - there were maybe 15 for Haunted Palace but 30 or 40 for Re-Animator. And in the row in front of me was a woman who had quite obviously never seen it before and seemed to be having a really great time, which was pleasant to watch. Total crowd-pleaser, everyone had fun. Man, but I love that stupid film.
The last movie of the night was Die Farbe, and there were only about 10 of us in the audience. This was the only one yesterday I hadn't seen and I'd heard some good things about it, so I was looking forward to it. Alas, I was greatly disappointed. It is, as the title indicates, a German adaptation of The Colour Out of Space and, oh dear gods but it's boring. It's black and white and trying so hard to be "artistic", with long lingering boring still shots of houses or trees or grotesque pears. There's a forgettable (and boring) framing narrative that never really pays off but the bulk of the film is a very straight retelling of the original story. It's not a bad adaptation, the actors do a fine job, and there are a couple of moments that start to capture some of the creepy wrongness of the original setting (there's a wonderful giant wasp at one point, for example) but the majority of the film is just so dull. It does do the one thing that I've sort of wanted in an adaptation of Colour Out of Space, which is to film in black-and-white except for the titular color, in order to properly represent the idea that this is a color that's not of this world, that's indescribable in human terms. Unfortunately, Die Farbe chooses to do this by making the color a neon pinkish-purple which is just so ridiculous that it doesn't work at all. (Me, I would try to keep it as close to black-and-white as possible. Maybe a dark blue or green or, yes, purple that's almost but not quite right. That would be effective, I think.) And that just makes me sad, because it's a good idea but done so badly and in such a boring movie. So disappointing.
Today is Dunwich Horror, which is awful but enjoyable, and Whisperer in Darkness, which I've seen clips from and have great hopes for.
