Amnesia

[opabinia]

bottleimp said,

You're calling Q[uarantine] "good?" Are you nuts? Have you lost your memory? Beach house!

North Carolina! Brownies!

INTERMINABLE first act where nothing happens.
Meh second act, with some good surprises.
DUMB AS HELL third act leading to the LAME ending.

BAH I SAY


Oh, man. You're totally right. The lady and I watched El Orfanato together -- that's when we freaked out. We just skimmed through REC this evening, noting some differences that made it creepier than Quarantine. I couldn't remember when we saw Q. Faulty memory serves a movie critic poorly!

You know what killed Q? You're supposed to care about a protagonist, so that when shit goes down, you're invested. We hated the protagonist. In REC, she's much closer to likeable.

sephardic and I think Q and REC may have been filmed in the same building. The lighting and storyboards are practically the same. Sound effects, plot details, and general mayhem seemed scarier in the Spanish one, though.

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[panzerkunst.livejournal.com]

Now that they are supposedly remaking "Let The Right One In" for audiences who can't handle subtitles, let's see how they mess THAT one up.

As far as caring about the protagonist, one review I read for "District 9" didn't like it for that reason, as the main character wasn't exactly sympathetic towards the "prawns" before he started turning into one.

[lepidosiren.livejournal.com]

Ha! Let the Right One In will be in my mailbox tomorrow. It's next in my queue.

[bottleimp.livejournal.com]

re: "Let the Right One In:"

So. Good.

So. Very. Very. Wrong.

[sparkgrrl658.livejournal.com]

wasn't that kind of the point though? i didn't think at any point we were really trying to sympathize with that weasel.

[lepidosiren.livejournal.com]

You offend weasels! That man was a "vaginal cleanser."

[sparkgrrl658.livejournal.com]

you offend lady parts soap everywhere!

[bottleimp.livejournal.com]

You mean he was "an originally-intended use for Lysol?"

[sparkgrrl658.livejournal.com]

bah! you made me squeeze my leggies together!

[panzerkunst.livejournal.com]

Well, I agree up to a point but it kind of felt like we were supposed to cheer when he was in that battle suit. Pig catapult!

[sparkgrrl658.livejournal.com]

oh, you mean iron man?

[panzerkunst.livejournal.com]

Now you're just being silly.

[sparkgrrl658.livejournal.com]

8D

[adaptively.livejournal.com]

They're also renaming it "Let Me In," because US audiences have never heard of Morrissey. :P

I really liked [REC.] and I really dislike John Carpenter's daughter, so I'm skipping Quarantine. (I know they replaced Spanish costume-effects coat hanger Javier Botet with Doug Jones, which makes sense, but apparently Marfan's syndrome is required to play the undead these days.) El Orfanato was pretty awesome if you ask me, though.

Speaking of Doug Jones, he's doing a meet-and-greet at Rock & Shock this year...

[shnells.livejournal.com]

el orfanato scared the crap out of me. especially the scene near the end when shes playing knock on the door and the children are coming up behind her. i almost wet myself.

what's REC?

if you want Let the right one in, make sure you watch the one with theatrical subtitles. any other subtitles take a lot of the nuances out of the movie and completely destroy the humour and irony and sometimes even the meaning of the dialogue. we got LTROI on blu ray and realized it had the wrong subtitles. we were so pissed. we're waiting to buy it again with theatrical subtitles.

[shnells.livejournal.com]

never mind ;) ill just read your previous post :)

[bottleimp.livejournal.com]

No one with young children should watch "El Orfanato." Not unless they have nerves of steel. Horrible to contemplate. pardon me while I cringe and shudder again.