Chris Rock is writing and starring in the upcoming Saw reboot…?
I can get behind this as I’ve probably watched most of the films as an annual October/Halloween ritual in real brick and mortar theatres without sneaking through fire escapes, and while I enjoyed the sequels as queasy thrill-rides strung together by overarching ridiculousness I can still pretend that the original film was a pretty decent attempt at a Se7en-style thriller.
What I remember thinking is that a one-room escape game put on by a psychopath was extremely cool and interesting, Cary Elwes was a bad actor, and the “cops try to find the killer” B-plot was abysmal
These opinions brought to you by a 19 year old CubaLibre
I can respect this but 19 year old Cuba forgetting that the B-plot had Danny Glover is poor form.
Edit 1/2: please don’t ban me
Edit 2/2: I watched Wishmaster on a whim yesterday and can confirm that Andrew Divoff brought a very special camp to the titular character while every other directorial decision stank it is probably more deserving of a reboot (that is, IF we have to petition for things to be remade at all).
i watched all the saws on my computer and i fastforwarded to all the gorey parts in filthy wet rooms. the plot is just whodunnit right
That’s probably the most sensible way to engage with it all yes. The whodunnit aspects were all last-minute concessions to people who were too drunk/stoned enough to care and are all laughably overblown and in-your-face about it, not to mention amusing in ways not intended.
When is there going to be a Cube/Saw crossover, goddamnit
Trailer NSFW
Masatoshi nagase is in a new movie next month. He looks great as always. The rest is uh…
Losing my mind how there’s a movie coming out that’s an adaptation from a Lovecraft book about an unknown, mysterious, impossible to grasp colour, and in the movie they just made that color a final boss-ish purple. The movie stars Nic Cage and the main actress from Nip / Tuck and has a 85% rotten tomatoes score
yeah, i just watched it on wednesday. it was fine.
in addition to ruling, Richard Stanley’s Hardware might prove he has a thing for reddish-purple hues
I hope the relative success of Color out of Cage means Richard Stanley can buy a few extra pirate shirts.
I’m pretty sure he wears the same one for his sit-downs in Jodorowsky’s Dune and the one about his Island of Dr. Moreau going to pot.
Maybe different arrays of jewelry though?
Anyway Dust Devil has a really good head explosion and his alleged documentaries are ok to fall asleep to and I think he deserves more ruffles in his closet.
It just occurred to me that–as a practicing magicman–Richard Stanley might have a particular pirate shirt he considers a locus of particular power? One that he made a point of wearing for both these films about doomed movie projects?
My whole premise could be based on a misapprehension.
Richard Stanley’s sartorial life is like a wardrobe you open thinking you’ll find coats but soon there you are in a snowy wood beneath a bright light post and a satyr in a scarf comes capering through the woods and the scarf is just barely hiding the goatman’s weird dick wrapped in tinsel. You silently hope that here in this magical world it is never Christmas.
Color Out Of Space was great. I need to rewatch Die Monster Die, and reread the short story as it’s been years since I’ve done both.
The screening I went to had clip of a q and a with Stanley and the cast afterward, and he’s a perfectly likable guy. Island of Dr. Moreau is super rad and I’m not just saying that because of Fairuza Balk.
very excited that there’s finally a new richard stanley feature, even if i’m not that into the lovecraft stories. if you haven’t seen it, he used to run a blogspot site called “terra umbra - empire of shadows” because of course that’s what it was called.
I haven’t wanted to go and see a movie in a theater in like, a decade. But damn skippy I’m going to see this sometime this weekend
technically by disney
It’s a real bummer to me that that’s technically by Disney
Goddamn I’m hungry for it
I know what everyone is thinking.
Is the axe which gets its own shot the Green Knight’s axe? What about the one held by Patel in the following shot, that gigantic unit that dwarfs the inexplicably howling fox? Are they the same axe? Was it a deliberate choice on the part of the filmmakers to make what looks like a sort of combo between a Dane axe and a tabar? Did they want to lean tabar to reflect the ethnicity of their lead? Was this a conscious decision in recognition of the fact that most Big Dumb Fantasy Axes seem to be based on extant Indo-Persian examples, even in fantasy based in pseudo-European Medieval settings?
I too await possible answers re: these prop speculations, and more, when more axe footage from this film is available or possibly even when the film comes out! Sometimes you just have to be patient re: more axe data.
