Comments on: Movies You Shouldn’t Watch at 2am http://www.sinistertrout.com/139/movies-you-shouldnt-watch-before-bed/ The Observations of A Disgruntled Fish Sat, 31 Jul 2010 23:34:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Jane Brooks http://www.sinistertrout.com/139/movies-you-shouldnt-watch-before-bed/#comment-100 Jane Brooks Mon, 01 Sep 2008 07:25:20 +0000 http://www.sinistertrout.com/139/movies-you-shouldnt-watch-before-bed/#comment-100 @S.Trout I was in college, home for the summer, so it would have been 1988 or so, and I would have been 22. You should see it. Mann's films are very visual and stylish, so the look he carefully crafted might look a little dated - but you should endeavor to get past that. The deceptive bright, pretty-ness of the film works in its favor, as the ugliness is that much more stark in contrast. Its major weakness (IMO) is that he removed a lot of the William Blake imagery that was in the book. I understand Red Dragon used a lot of it, but I haven't been able to make myself watch a Thomas Harris movie since Hannibal so thoroughly broke my heart. :) @Bree I haven't seen Return to Oz - must see it now - but I have seen Zardoz... which is scary in its own right. Saw that one at a drive-in with my dad and it haunted me. Big floating head. Distopian half-naked women. CONNERY. :) J @S.Trout I was in college, home for the summer, so it would have been 1988 or so, and I would have been 22. You should see it. Mann’s films are very visual and stylish, so the look he carefully crafted might look a little dated - but you should endeavor to get past that. The deceptive bright, pretty-ness of the film works in its favor, as the ugliness is that much more stark in contrast.

Its major weakness (IMO) is that he removed a lot of the William Blake imagery that was in the book. I understand Red Dragon used a lot of it, but I haven’t been able to make myself watch a Thomas Harris movie since Hannibal so thoroughly broke my heart. :)

@Bree I haven’t seen Return to Oz - must see it now - but I have seen Zardoz… which is scary in its own right. Saw that one at a drive-in with my dad and it haunted me. Big floating head. Distopian half-naked women. CONNERY.

:)
J

]]> By: S.Trout http://www.sinistertrout.com/139/movies-you-shouldnt-watch-before-bed/#comment-99 S.Trout Mon, 01 Sep 2008 07:13:44 +0000 http://www.sinistertrout.com/139/movies-you-shouldnt-watch-before-bed/#comment-99 @Jane Brooks How old where you when you saw it? I don’t remember much about that movie - how scary it was or who was in it. But I know many consider it superior to Lambs. I need to give that movie another look. Thanks! @Bree You're right - Return to OZ deserves some street credit. Anything OZ is probably best viewed during safe daylight hours. Thanks for reading! @Jane Brooks

How old where you when you saw it? I don’t remember much about that movie - how scary it was or who was in it. But I know many consider it superior to Lambs.

I need to give that movie another look. Thanks!

@Bree

You’re right - Return to OZ deserves some street credit. Anything OZ is probably best viewed during safe daylight hours.

Thanks for reading!

]]> By: Bree http://www.sinistertrout.com/139/movies-you-shouldnt-watch-before-bed/#comment-91 Bree Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:41:45 +0000 http://www.sinistertrout.com/139/movies-you-shouldnt-watch-before-bed/#comment-91 Stemming from my younger days, I would have to add Return to OZ. The whole "pick a head" scene alwayz creeped me out. I would dream that someone was running after me with a guillotine to harvest my head. Stemming from my younger days, I would have to add Return to OZ. The whole “pick a head” scene alwayz creeped me out. I would dream that someone was running after me with a guillotine to harvest my head.

]]> By: Jane Brooks http://www.sinistertrout.com/139/movies-you-shouldnt-watch-before-bed/#comment-90 Jane Brooks Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:03:02 +0000 http://www.sinistertrout.com/139/movies-you-shouldnt-watch-before-bed/#comment-90 Let me add the earlier, weirder Thomas Harris movie Manhunter (directed psychedelically by Michael Mann) to the list. I caught it <em>accidentally</em> in the middle of the night on cable many years ago, pre-Lambs, and I was riveted... and apoplectic with terror. I couldn't go to bed. Family woke up to me, trembling, surfing infomercials to clear my head. This was pre-IMDB so I had no idea what I'd seen. I just knew that I'd never be able to wash off the yuck. Flaming. Guy. In. Wheelchair. Zooming. Down. Parking. Ramp. [shudder] Jane Let me add the earlier, weirder Thomas Harris movie Manhunter (directed psychedelically by Michael Mann) to the list. I caught it accidentally in the middle of the night on cable many years ago, pre-Lambs, and I was riveted… and apoplectic with terror. I couldn’t go to bed. Family woke up to me, trembling, surfing infomercials to clear my head. This was pre-IMDB so I had no idea what I’d seen. I just knew that I’d never be able to wash off the yuck.

Flaming. Guy. In. Wheelchair. Zooming. Down. Parking. Ramp.

[shudder]

Jane

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