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    Not for nothing, but responsibility for the crapstorm of music in this movie falls squarely on the shoulders of Trevor Horn and occasionally Hans Zimmer but mostly Trevor Horn. Tori Amos and Thomas Dolby and Wendy & Lisa (and Seal) perform on the album, but the songs are all written and produced, such as they are, by Horn, who produced all of Seal's albums, was in Yes, and was the Buggles ("Video Killed The Radio Star"). So blame that guy!

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    I saw this in the theater with a large group of friends — our takeaway was a tendency, after anybody made a pun that we felt was exile-worthy, to make a "whooshing" motion with our hands, indicating that we'd like the punner to join the Forgotten. However, yes, this was a terrible movie. Or rather, it was an hour and a half of decent suspense with a shitty resolution that made no sense.

     

    One thing about this movie is that when it hit pay channels, they used a cut with a different ending from the theatrical version, that still made no sense.

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    I bought House when it came out on DVD because I remembered enjoying both movies when I was a kid, and I annoyed my girlfriend all the way home ("Look! Not only did they include House 1, but House 2! So I have House 2! And all I thought I was getting was House 1! But now I have House 2, too! Ha! House 2, too! But also, is what I meant. I have House 2 also."), then drove her full-on insane the next morning when I said, "You know, watching it now, House 2 actually sucks."

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    This movie has great WTF-factor, but not nearly as much as the Japanese movie Hausu that I'm convinced that it is based on, or even the second one, which is next-level insane because it tries to make the House franchise family-friendly.

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    Straight up, Dreamcatcher should have been done already. I think we're all in agreement about that being far and away the weirdest thing to come out of the Stephen King machine, and the weirdest thing is how very true to the source material it is. Reading the book I kept having to look back to make sure it was all the same story. Insane.

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    LOVE the AC/DC score. You can see the whole movie on YouTube, btw.

     

    Tiny amounts of digging turn up great stuff here! From Wikipedia:

    "The "Dixie Boy"
    was a full-scale set constructed ten miles west of
    , on US Highway 74/76. The exact location was just outside of
    . It was convincing enough that several
    tried to stop in and eat there, and some tried to refuel. Eventually the producers had to put up several signs informing the truckers the set was fake and not a real truck stop. The producers also put announcements in local papers saying that the "Dixie Boy" was just a movie set.
    After filming wrapped up (and the set had been partially demolished by explosives), some locals bought the set of the "Dixie Boy" and transformed it into a working truck stop. It was fully functional for three or four years, until it went
    and was torn down sometime in the late 1980s. Some signposts for the Dixie Boy still remain, however."

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    I know it's not a Halloween movie, but I can't believe it hasn't been suggested, because Prince's Graffiti Bridge is just fucking bananas.

     

    It's the sequel to Purple Rain, but whereas Purple Rain had the benefit of professional filmmakers helming the writing and direction, Graffiti Bridge is an auteur project. Without a doubt it's the weirdest presentation of some of the best music you'll ever hear. Every time Morris and Jerome from the Time interact, it's pure gold. I watched it about a million times when I was a kid, both because it's incredibly compelling musically and because the emotional torrent of it is exactly what going through puberty is like.

     

    Even if you don't do an episode on this, you HAVE to see this movie. Cool As Ice wishes it could be this insane.

     

    http://www.youtube.com/XjpM46Plwps

     

    (ETA: Nominated for FIVE RAZZIES.)

     

    (EATA: There is a five-star Amazon review entitled "GREATFITTI BRIDGE.")

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    I'm kind of beside myself that they didn't at some point draw the Superman 3-Spiderman 3 connection of superheroes who, in contact with forces of pure id, just become superdouches. I love that that's as bad as they can become, that writers just don't have the heart to make them truly evil.

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    I'll bet he ate lots of real pies in preparation for that shot. Just to get an idea of what a person enjoying pies feels like when he's enjoying pies. Also, he probably watched lots of other people eating pies in the same research jaunt. "No, keep eating. Don't mind me. Just keep.... eating...."

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    Ellen Greene:

     

    - was Audrey I in Little Shop of Horrors, a role she perfected on Broadway before she was asked to bring it to the screen

    - was the 'cool' teacher in the cult teen classic Pump Up the Volume

    - guests and features frequently (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0338746/)

    - worked most recently on Pushing Daisies and the Young and the Restless

     

    That movie was all about the impressive curves for 10 y.o. me, too, but still, Ellen Greene has given us plenty to say "DAMN" about.

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    Yes, Yes, Yes.

     

    OK, you know how with King adaptations, it's usually a matter of the movie not doing the book true justice? This adaptation goes to pains to be exactly the same story as the book, and it makes exactly as much sense as the book does. This book, and movie, are both aimless and bat-crap insane.

     

    Oh, man, please do Dreamcatcher. Please do Dreamcatcher.

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