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.
January 2008 activity
Total Log Entries: 53
- Adam (8)
- Andrew (0)
- Chet (0)
- Chiranjit (0)
- David (12)
- Eva (2)
- Evan (0)
- Ian (4)
- Jenny (0)
- Katherine (0)
- Leo (2)
- Megan (0)
- Rumsey (12)
- Teddy (1)
- Thomas (2)
- Timothy (0)
- Victoria (3)
Total Comments: 41
- Land of the Minotaur (0)
- Don’t Go in the Woods (0)
- Road House (0)
- There Will Be Blood (18)
- Vixen! (0)
- Cloverfield (0)
- Prisoners of the Lost Universe (0)
- Firing Line (0)
- Blue Skies (1)
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail (0)
- Wild at Heart (1)
- Gone Baby Gone (1)
- The Shop Around The Corner (0)
- La Vie En Rose (0)
- No Country For Old Men (0)
- Die Hard With A Vengeance (5)
- Coal Miner’s Daughter (0)
- Charlie Wilson’s War (0)
- Tenebre (0)
- Voodoo Black Exorcist (0)
- Death By Dialogue (0)
- WR: Mysteries of the Organism (0)
- Saved! (0)
- Thank You For Smoking (2)
- Wall Street (0)
- Dreamcatcher (1)
- Halloween (2)
- Fearless (0)
- Atonement (1)
- Youth Without Youth (0)
- Dans la Ville de Sylvia (0)
- Offside (3)
- Scoop (0)
- The Man From London (0)
- The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (0)
- RoboCop 3 (0)
- The Devil Wears Prada (0)
- For Your Consideration (0)
- Eraserhead (0)
- Prime Time (0)
- The Manipulator (0)
- Silent Night, Deadly Night (0)
- No Country For Old Men (0)
- Flash Gordon (0)
- I Am Legend (3)
- Week End (0)
- Southland Tales (0)
- No Country For Old Men (0)
- Wild Hogs (0)
- Futurama: Bender’s Big Score (0)
- Charlie Wilson’s War (3)
- Epic Movie (0)
- The Elephant Man (0)
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Halloween / USA / 2007
Rob Zombie endeavors to make a new ice-cream sundae, and the result is, in its own way, edible and arguably delicious. But it’s still not an ice-cream sundae.
David’s thoughts / Leo’s thoughts
by Rumsey Taylor | Source: Dimension Films DVD
10 Jan 2008 12:46 PM | Comments (2)
rob / 10 January 2008 / 11:06 AM / URL
This was a film I grappled with a lot at first, in large part because I wanted to be fair to it, i.e., to NOT compare it to the original. That it can’t compare to Carpenter’s almost goes without saying in my book, but after revisiting it on DVD I am now convinced that Zombie got to something worthwhile in his own efforts. Clumsy at times, and I find the acting to be a little to hammy to really support the film’s exploitative thrust, but as far as slasher horror goes, this is one of the most ferocious films I’ve ever seen. In my mind, Carpenter’s Myers is evil manifest, period. Zombie has more of a post-Columbine study going on, and though its not a full-on success, I think it falls on the pro-remake side of the argument. Plus, I think that the “Love Hurts” montage is absolutely brilliant – had the whole film hit the proverbial nail on the head that hard, I think we’d have a new horror masterpiece.
Rumsey / 10 January 2008 / 11:24 AM / URL
I realize that’s the fair approach to this film, and it’s something David and Leo have done a much better job of than I. But for me that would be disingenuous for a few reasons I should note: first, the film uses Carpenter’s original score rather liberally. Zombie’s at his most deft, arguably, in his usage of pop music (one of the things I most admired in The Devil’s Rejects), and that he uses the iconic score is an example of either homage or obligation—neither supports his ingenuity as a filmmaker. Second, and more significantly, this is the third in string of remakes of Carpenter’s films, and like the others, for me, it just evidences how brilliant John Carpenter is in the first place.
To Zombie’s credit, at least he didn’t helm a Halloween sequel.