@Matthewnh If you have a little over an hour to kill and are interested in hearing some more about the making of The Last of the Mohicans, the ‘What Went Wrong’ podcast just released an episode covering it. In a Mann double header, they’ll be covering Heat on the next episode.
“Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.” -C.S. Lewis
I do remember hearing one story about the making of Last of the Mohicans.
They were filming the scene with the night siege, of the fort. And they had been there all night. And then this light started creeping into shots. So, Mann is furious. Yelling “what’s that light? Put that light out!”
The director of photography has to remind him, “Uh, Michael, that’s the sun”.
Apparently the story is true, or at least based in fact. The french army did lay siege to Fort William Henry in 1757, and the commander Lt Col George Monro, survived the siege. The column was ambushed by Huron Indians, on way back to Albany. However, Colonel Monro did in fact survive the ambush, and returned home to Scotland. These events were the inspiration for the novel.
@Matthewnh Yes, Michael Mann is quite the character by all accounts, and they do touch on that anecdote. I know nothing about the book so it’s interesting to hear that it is based in fact. I suppose I’m not too surprised what with Mann’s notorious attention to detail and the great pains that were taken to bring this story to life.
“Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.” -C.S. Lewis
@seinfeldfanatic City of the Dead? It's from the 1960's. It also went by Horror Hotel in some regions. After that the director moved onto TV shows, I haven't seen that movie in years. For a moment I thought you meant Witchfinder General but that's Vincent Price, where did you watch City of the Dead?
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@GirlVersusGame yes City of the Dead aka Horror Hotel which i am busy watching from Joe Bob Briggs's Last Drive In Season 7.
ive seen the movie once many years ago when my brother got me a tin box dvd collection of old black and white horror movies and Horror Hotel was one of them
I watched Barbarian on Halloween night because I had heard that Zach Cregger will be directing the new Resident Evil movie. I really enjoyed it and I don't normally watch horror movies. For some weird reason I can deal with horror in games better than horror movies.
@McSavage I'm the opposite - when I'm playing I have a stake (pun intended) in the game (again, intended) and that makes me way more tense than watching a horror movie. I can't remember the last time a horror movie made me feel tense or uneasy, but I've been paralysed by horror games, not wanting to move forward for fear of what might jump out at me
Horror games in VR? Not happening, no way, José! That's a heart attack waiting to happen
I really enjoyed "Barbarian", but I loved his latest, "Weapons", even more. Can I assume you've already caught that one?
@FuriousMachine No, I haven't seen Weapons yet so I'll stick that one on the list.
To be fair I did try Resident Evil Village in VR briefly and even though I had completed the game several times at that point, I found myself panicking at the first encounter. It was like I had never played the game before!
@McSavage I consider "Weapons" my favourite movie of the year. It doesn't really feel like a horror movie, though (except in maybe a few parts) and it is surprisingly funny at times. Cregger is truly a filmmaker to watch!
I tried the RE Village demo on PSVR2 and after the tutorial I couldn't even get myself to leave the safety of the opening crash site! 😅
@FuriousMachine Mine would be either be Weapons or Sinners. Though I did recently watch Black Phone (better late than never) and really liked it. I knew I'd like Weapons, I didn't know I'd love it. My worst would probably be Borderlands, with Jeepers Creepers 4 coming as a very close second. Next up is The Running Man, another red carpet event. Probably the last one of the year, ticket sales have been very good so far. Fairly chunky guest-list too. I wish it had been Badlands, the last one was Downtown Abbey. I've never seen the show and had just gotten off the road from festival season, I think I actually fell asleep at one point.
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@GirlVersusGame "Sinners", "28 Years Later" and GdT's "Frankenstein" all came very close to claiming the top spot, but "Weapons" still holds it for me (seen it three times already ). My cinema year is far from over, though, so others may claim the spot, but the most likely candidate was "Frankenstein". Osgood Perkins' "Keeper" is a dark horse, though. Seeing that at the end of the month.
Outside of that, I have tickets to see "Orwell 2+2=5" (tomorrow), "Good Boy" (Friday), "Predator: Badlands" (Sunday) and then "The Running Man" and "Zootopia 2" further on.
And those are just the ones I've booked tickets for!
@FuriousMachine How much are tickets over there for a new release like Frankenstein? I'm guessing they have member prices etc? I forgot you hadn't seen Good Boy yet. I think I removed it from my memory because it did such a job on my nerves. And that was only a week ago. The dog was one of the best actors I've seen all year. 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple should be coming on the 12th of December. The first half was pretty good, getting out of the city gave it such a different feel. But if I remember correctly there was an awful lot of zombie dongs and such in that movie, which is an odd complaint but I kept laughing so much that I couldn't take it seriously when they did attack and you could see it all. I guess all their clothes deteriorated over those years. Did you ever see Shallow Grave? it's also from Danny Boyle. It netted him the funding he needed for Trainspotting. I think it was Ewan McGregor's first movie, I'm not sure how well it did outside of the UK but I know most of my American friends had never heard of it.
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@GirlVersusGame Tickets are around £15 with current exchange rates, but I have a movie pass for £23 a month (unlimited viewing), which is just a fantastic deal for cinema lovers like me
"Bone Temple" doesn't open here until January; will hopefully catch it then. Zombie dongs aside, the true strength of the first "28 Years Later" rests with stellar performances from Comer and Fiennes, in my opinion (Aaron Taylor Johnson was good too, but those two were next level).
I did indeed see "Shallow Grave" before Boyle was a household name. Was my first encounter with both McGregor and Christopher Eccleston. It wasn't well known here, but being a movie fan I rented pretty much every VHS at my local video store in my youth. Went through quite a few movies, good and bad, in the early to mid nineties. "Shallow Grave" was one of the memorable ones
@FuriousMachine PG-13 ..Tame, oh no. I want my Predator 2 levels of gore and goodness. I think 2 really captured the novels and graphic novels better than any of the other movies. It propelled my love of Art Deco and Mayan Revival architecture (the same style was used for Blade Runner) I've probably watched it more than any other Predator 2 movie. Even talking about it now makes me want to watch it again, I might. Or fire up some Predator audiobooks while I play Satisfactory.
@seinfeldfanatic Dog Soldiers is so bloody good. I showed it to someone for the first time a few weeks ago and they loved it. The scene with the blade between his teeth was burned into my mind and now lives there rent free.
Next up for me is The Running Man then Friday it will be Black Phone 2. I might also check out The Long Walk and House of Dynamite. I also need to watch The Strangers 2, I really liked the first one.
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@GirlVersusGame Yeah, I would prefer the Predator movies to be deserving of an R-rating, but I'll give it a fair shake. I'm not as big a fan of "Predator 2" as you are, but it was fine (and sure beats hunting down the last remaining Mercer spheres ).
I quite enjoyed "The Long Walk" and "House of Dynamite" was fine, too, though the latter didn't quite live up to my expectations. A lot has been made of the ending, but I didn't mind it at all.
After "The Strangers 2" got eviscerated by reviewers I've kind of let it fall by the wayside. I liked the previous one, but didn't feel it was anything special (I liked the original better), so I'm not that invested. Still, would love to hear your thoughts on it, may push me to actually check it out
This seems to have been the fastest selling steelbook of the year, so far. Lightening fast. So I thought it was worth asking if it was on anyone's radar?
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@Ravix I loved that movie. It's funny because after seeing you all talk about 4K and steelbooks 'Talk to Me' was one that almost went into my basket. Have you watched it? For a while it was on Netflix, it still might be.
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