House of Wax (and other horror movies)

[Glyde]

Who watches Movie Life: House of Wax or is going to see it. I'm going to see it on Saturday. I saw the commercial and it looks real scary.
Of ocurse I want to see Amityville Horror also.

[ZFGokuSSJ1]

Usually, remakes are horrible (See Dawn of the Dead). I'm not sure about House of Wax and Amityville Horror though.

Go see Land of the Dead on June 24... it's gonna be the best movie this year!

[Reaverguy Rises]

I saw Amittyville Horror. It was pretty good. I have no high hopes for House of Wax. The original House of Wax was brilliant though.

[Glyde]

You don't think Dawn of the Dead was good? I thought it was scary

[Reaverguy Rises]

Dawn of the Dead was awesome. Very well done. House of Wax just looks like another slasher to me.

[Fire Griffin]

I have a feeling House of Wax is going to be another pile of suck, much like "Boogeymen" (or man, whatever - there was one in the whole movie anyway) and "Alone and the Dark." Oh yeah, and "Cursed" too. That one should have died in production as well.

Okay, I'm a little shaky about plugging this, especially to a bunch of youngins like you (considering your parents will have to take you - go bum off an older friend, you'll thank me for it) but, if you don't mind a little nudity, over-the-top violence and that, go watch "Sin City" instead. Feels like a comic book (you can almost see the speech bubbles - and I, having been a bit of a comic book junkie as of late, rather liked it) but story-wise, more worth your time. I found the selectively-colorful-but-mostly-black-and-white style a treat and it's, even with the crazy-even-pointless-violence, intelligent. It's how a comic book adaptation should be done, unlike "Constantine," which is even pronounced wrong despite being addressed in the source comic*.

Please don't waste (most likely) your (folks'/friend's) money on this coming trainwreck.

*Even more insult? Please compare this picture of Keanu Reeves to that snooty looking blond man right there. Do they look alike? DO THEY LOOK ALIKE? DID THE PEOPLE WHO MADE THAT MOVIE FAIL SESAME STREET OR SOMETHING?

Ahem. Okay. Back to the point of this post. Houes of Wax more than likely will suck. I have little to no faith in Hollywood these days. The "good" movies are not my favorite genre and therefore have no appeal to me.

[Reaverguy Rises]

Sin City was awesome . I loved how it was done. Boogeyman and Cursed were pretty good to me. I love werewolves. They're awesome!

Who knows though. House of Wax might be good. All the movies mentioned are better than Freddy vs Jason. I can't call that a horror movie. The whole point was for them to fight and they gave you a even more pointless wait.

Van Helsing is a great movie. I has great action, and and characters with a good plot.

[ZFGokuSSJ1]

Have you seen the original Dawn of the Dead? Oh my God, the film is FANTASTIC. It's definitely in the top 10 horror movies ever.

[Glyde]

Nope, only the remake. Sin City looks pretty good, it looks just like a comic book! People told me Amnityville Horror was very scary also.

[Fire Griffin]

Wow. Well, I dragged my mom (we were driving around town and she suggested a movie) to the flick and I'm amazed she pulled through it. Okay, so we both looked beween each other, making little comments under our breath about sluts with guns and "OH NO BOOBS" and smiled. She was never much of a stickler for that "violence is the devil" thing; we both enjoyed it. Funny thing that none of the men of the family went, which was what the movie seemed to be intended for I'm guessing.
Girls who read comic books and enjoy movies like these tend to be cooler than "normal" girls - shhhh. My bias is totally of the scratch and sniff variety.

Up to your parents and that. Rotten Tomatoes says it was good and it's often right on, unless you like stuff of the film's genre in question, what is crap and what is not. They deem a lot of movies (rightfully) rotten.

Anyway, I don't know. I'm kind of upset with Hollywood and miss being a stupid little kindergartener that loved anything that happened to be moving and animated. I miss 2-D animation, really.

Speaking of that, I wonder about the latest Miyazaki...

[Glyde]

Well you can't win them all. Thiers bound to be bad movies and good movies. You just have to look for them.

[ZFGokuSSJ1]

rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19790504/REVIEWS/905040301/1023

[Fire Griffin]

Erm, um... Couldn't you have linked us to the article instead? The message space here is very, very limited - only 10,000 characters per post last time I checked, hence why I had to triple post over at that dusty drabble topic.

Anyway, when you have to look painfully, squintilly hard for something that isn't dreck, even something that appears brilliant on the surface, something is wrong. Hollywood has this talent of taking a terrific, appealing concept with so many possibilities and narrowing the scope into a pile of, well, suck. For example, Hellboy had potential as a comic book adaptation in hindsight, but it didn't "fill," satisfy, me. Sin City gave me that "fill" movies seldom give me.

Hmmm... Maybe my standards are too high or I am too specific. I don't know. I have no problem watching a cheezebawl slasher like Jason X (a ... SPACESHIP...?) on cable at night but spending a ridiculous lot of money to watch it in a nice theater?

HAAAAAAAAW!

[ZFGokuSSJ1]

Fire Griffin -- I felt the same about the huge flop, The Adventures of Pluto Nash. To me, it's just a movie you watch on TV once, then you're done.

What you said about comic books, Dawn of the Dead is pretty much a comic book, the blood is comic book red (plenty of it! Really, really gory... But if you want ALOT of gore, watch Romero's 'Day of the Dead'), there's alot of humor (What's better than throwing pies in zombies faces?), and the camera-angles.

[Glyde]

Hmmmm, I still have a feeling House of Wax is going to be good. I'm going to see it tommarow. I like many movies, I think I set my standards too low.