There Should be more Movies about..
Submitted by bertie on Thu, 08/19/2004 - 06:59
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- Going to Antarctica and finding aliens there.
- Getting shipwrecked, rowing a dinghy to a fishing village for help, and finding that the villagers worship a seamonster god and are all turning into sea monsters and want to horribly slaughter any outsider.
- Building your own spaceship so you can go to the moon and eat cheese.
- Morons who defeat the bad guy then leave him to recover so he can stage a sudden comeback.
- All kinds of weird shit that can happen to you when someone messes with your memory [nearly forgot that one].
- 90 minutes long.
ha! i love the moon one, great!
I wonder if there is cheese on the moon? maybe, i hope so lol
The moon *is* cheese, silly, but I am not sure what type. It's like no cheese I've ever tasted...
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
It's Swiss cheese, of course. Whaddya think all those holes are?
I've seen precendents for all these themes except the "seamonster god" one. What movie are you referring to?
If I had to venture a guess, Jim, I'd say Stuart Gordon's "Dagon".
That's the one, H.P.Lovecraft's DAGON. Much better than I expected it to be. Or maybe I was just in the mood for a story set in Tourist-Hell-By-The-Sea.
90 minutes long... I love that one! It seems most movies from the 20s to 40s were about 90 minutes or less, even 'epic' ones like King Kong. There's gotta be a way to compress more stories into shorter running times. Directors just like to have too much fun and do too much, sometimes. The most obvious recent offender being Magnolia.
Hey hey hey... I'll defend PTA's three-hour magnum opus to within an inch of my life. If you wanna pick on a film that would have been good had it been 90 minutes shorter, why not mess with "Meet Joe Black"?
Because Magnolia is an even more terrible offender.
Yes, I think that back in the days when a movie *had* to be about 90 mins long it must have added some beneficial discipline to the movie making process - or at least to the movie editing process. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying *all* movies should have a strictly limited running time.
I caught Magnolia on cable one night and really enjoyed it. I only later discovered that instead of only missing the opening credits, I had actually missed about half of the film. When I finally watched the film entire, I realized just how much padding pulls this film down.
But then, Altman films run long, so darn it, Magnolia had to as well...
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
Yeah, I think Altman films are another group that would benefit from a shorter length, though I've only see a few of his so far.
I think lbangs said that because "Magnolia" is supposed to be a tribute to Altman, especially his "Nashville" and "Short Cuts."