****Weird Film Draft # 2 Official Thread****

[Zeno]

Originally Posted by John Cole

Hell, if you're talking, Zeno, . . . .

That's not talking; that's typing. (with thanks to Truman Capote)

[hotdogfallacy]

Round 7, Pick ??

for the

A movie whose title includes the name of a non-human monster

category, i pick the first one which popped into my head... which is



I Walked With a Zombie

It is directed by Jacques Tourneur and i don't remember much about it, except that i enjoyed it a great deal. It was scary and the atmosphere was very creepy.

The Wages of Fear - Car
A Star Is Born (1954) - Musical
Rio Bravo - Dean Martin
Seven Samurai - #
Cool Hand Luke - Florida
The Navigator - Water
La belle noiseuse -Boobs
It Happened One Night - Writer
I Walked With a Zomnbie - Scary thing in the name

[nunnehi]

Originally Posted by Dominic

lol...

being as this is your first draft, I will give you a break.

This makes me extra relieved I got The Dirty Dozen, because the only other Sutherland movie I had was Uprising, which was a TV movie, and I was wondering whether you would allow those. The answer, technically, was no.

I actually edited and mixed the pretty cool commentary for It, over a very long weekend, so he is right that it was packaged as a regular movie albeit one that was originally on TV.

[nunnehi]

Originally Posted by hotdogfallacy

Round 7, Pick ??

for the


category, i pick the first one which popped into my head... which is



I Walked With a Zombie

It is directed by Jacques Tourneur and i don't remember much about it, except that i enjoyed it a great deal. It was scary and the atmosphere was very creepy.

The Wages of Fear - Car
A Star Is Born (1954) - Musical
Rio Bravo - Dean Martin
Seven Samurai - #
Cool Hand Luke - Florida
The Navigator - Water
La belle noiseuse -Boobs
It Happened One Night - Writer
I Walked With a Zomnbie - Scary thing in the name

Yes! I love that movie, Jacques Tourneur, and Val Lewton who was David O. Selznick's Ass. Prod. as he put on his desk and door I believe, before becoming the great Producer he was.

The music was awesome in that movie.

[John Cole]

Originally Posted by Dominic

I don't agree with John on this, but since the Bride is a monster, I guess I'll let it stand!

My picks are forthcoming

Keep the title in mind, though. It's not Bride of Dr. Frankenstein or Bride of Frankenstein's Monster.

[Dominic]

Lol...do you want me to disallow your pick??

[John Cole]

Movie About a Writer: Last Pick

Critics are often unfairly maligned because many just suck and have no taste in movies, but the great critics--Pauline Kael, Roger Ebert, James Agee, Truffaut in his early years, Anthony Lane, and a host of others--can bring to the general audience a love of movies, an excitement about their experience, that opens up film for all sorts of viewers. They, at their very best, tell us exactly what they see and feel, and, to paraphrase Emerson, do it so easily that their ideas come back to us as our own.

I have a fondness for academic critique--and anybody who's listened to Annette Insdorff's commentary on The Double Life of Veronique should realize that academics can also tell us everything we want to know--but academic criticism just doesn't work for most people. So, instead, we depend on those who just love movies.

Of course, not all critics are very nice people, and some great writers have led less than moral lives, despite the breadth and quality of their work. And when writers become the most corrupt, they become, at least in the old days, gossip columnists, nothing more than frustrated critics. I give you J. J. Hunsecker, gossip columnist, in a great American classic, The Sweet Smell of Success.

[John Cole]

Originally Posted by Dominic

Lol...do you want me to disallow your pick??

.
No, because if you do, I'm picking Monolith Monsters. The "monsters" are slabs of rock that grow and then fall over and wreck things.

[Dominic]

Originally Posted by John Cole

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No, because if you do, I'm picking Monolith Monsters. The "monsters" are slabs of rock that grow and then fall over and wreck things.

That sounds brilliant. I must see it.

[Dominic]

About time someone picked Sweet Smell of Success.

[I_AM_EVIL]

edit: deleted my post so it doesn't give anyone any ideas.

[mrbaseball]

Originally Posted by Zeno

Best monster ever, even better than King Kong. Godzilla is just out for blood, guts, smashing the whole human race into oblivion and the bad PR that comes with his King of Monsters Destiny. Everyone else picked wimpy-assed monsters; Godzilla simply stomps the sh*t out all those other pretenders (except perhaps Joan Crawford, and yes; she is a non-human monster).

King Kong says: HUH?

[John Cole]

Originally Posted by Dominic

That sounds brilliant. I must see it.

It is not brilliant.

The Monolith Monsters trailer

[MSchu18]

lol... I have a soft spot for monolith monsters. nice pick.

[Ryan Firpo]

Originally Posted by John Cole

It is not brilliant.

If only I could travel back in time and make movies in the 50's. I'd be like Marty McFly at the high school prom X 1000.