Screening Log
This new site feature is a collective effort to summarize our viewing habits. Occasionally, you will find titles here that are coming to a theater near you, in addition to films viewed on television, and even films viewed in piecemeal. The screening log is archived each month; to view past entries select a month in the menu below.
February 2006 activity
Total Log Entries: 47
- Adam (3)
- Andrew (0)
- Chet (0)
- Chiranjit (0)
- David (0)
- Eva (0)
- Evan (0)
- Ian (6)
- Jenny (1)
- Katherine (0)
- Leo (10)
- Megan (0)
- Rumsey (12)
- Teddy (0)
- Thomas (3)
- Timothy (0)
- Victoria (0)
Total Comments: 35
- Curse of the Cat People (0)
- Munich (0)
- Elephant (0)
- Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey (0)
- The Wicker Man (1)
- New York Doll (0)
- Winter Passing (3)
- The New World (4)
- Date Movie (2)
- The Lost World (0)
- Transamerica (0)
- Paths Of Glory (0)
- Dark City (0)
- What Time is it There? (0)
- Crime Wave (2)
- Syriana (0)
- Batman Begins (6)
- How To Lose A Guy In Ten Days (0)
- Four Brothers (0)
- Munich (0)
- Little Fish (0)
- The Ballad of Cable Hogue (0)
- Out of the Past (0)
- Wind Across the Everglades (6)
- Rebel Without a Cause (0)
- The Lusty Men (0)
- Ghostbusters (0)
- Manderlay (0)
- The Rite (1)
- Neil Young: Heart of Gold (0)
- Mutiny on the Bounty (0)
- Breaking Away (1)
- Hero (0)
- Day For Night (0)
- Secret Defense (0)
- Over The Edge (0)
- Darkman (2)
- Ryan (0)
- Rubber Johnny (0)
- The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada (0)
- Little Otik (0)
- Elizabethtown (0)
- Peeping Tom (1)
- Hellboy (0)
- The 40 Year-Old Virgin (0)
- Monterey Pop (0)
- Badlands (6)
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Darkman / USA / 1990
Darkman is an amalgamation of Evil Dead II’s manic cinematography and Danny Elfman’s score for Batman, which is to say: pretty awesome. Here, the infamous eyeball shot from Evil Dead II is replicated with the same wild urgency in an iron rivet (which, I should note, does not land in someone’s mouth), but the finale isn’t as great a leap in plausibility as in the older film. But this is a Sam Raimi film, so we find the hero (Liam Neeson!), his woman (Frances McDormand!), and the second villain jumping around gridiron studs somewhere around the sixtieth floor of an unfinished building. It is for the viewer’s immense pleasure that none of the involved stopped to consider the safety of this location.
by Rumsey Taylor | Source: Sundance Channel
10 Feb 2006 11:24 AM | Comments (2)
leo / 10 February 2006 / 8:49 AM / URL
This movie blew me away when I saw it upon its theatrical release 16 (!) years ago. Its tasteful, even sympathetic, use of gore and a heartfelt, maniacal, and literally self-effacing performance by Neeson easily eclipse the occasionally rudimentary special effects in a manner similar to that found in Robocop, another film which Darkman mirrors in obvious ways. And the near-fascistic total-immersion of modern special effects makes me yearn for this more humble, running-in-the-backyard-with-toy-pistols variety.
But the one thing I don’t get about Darkman is how he pronounces p’s and b’s.
Rumsey / 10 February 2006 / 9:32 AM / URL
No idea, and you just reminded me of this film’s most obvious Evil Dead II reference: compare this to this.