6ixStringJack: Sam Neill is GREAT in this movie, especially in the 3rd act. But I should probably warn you that it's also somewhat Lynchian in that it's a movie you're probably going to walk away from with unanswered questions too... hehe  I hope you enjoy it. |
| 6ixStringJack: But movies somewhat based off his Mythos turn out great, IMO, and John Carpenter was so good at it. He did it with ITMOM and to a lesser extent with The Thing with Kurt Russel too. |
| 6ixStringJack: I meant not everyone is down with Lovecraft. Oops. |
| 6ixStringJack: That being said, I know Lovecraft ain't down with Lovecraft too. He's a terribly boring read like Tolkien with that oldschool prose, but I've always been fascinated by the Lovecraftian "Mythos". Though they've been able to put his stories inside newer video games, which are interactive, to great effect, nobody has ever made a good movie based off his work (Dagon probably being the only exception, but still not a great flick). |
| 6ixStringJack: Now... In the Mouth of Madness you might actually find a bit scary. We're talking John Carpenter now, one of the masters of horror. I stand fully behind this one. If you don't like it, we don't have much overlap outside of Jurassic Park and Twister, I'm afraid. |
6ixStringJack: Oh. I thought maybe he said some dumb shit and you all just disowned him.  |
| 6ixStringJack: I think I saw that Merlin TV movie you're talking about with Sam Neill. I'm sure I remember at least the commercials. |
| Brenda: Thanks for the tip on the Sam Neill movie. |
| Brenda: Some one of my cousins went and did some digging into his family is all. His last name is spelt like my grandfather's but that is it. |
| Brenda: I really don't think I have read his books or if I have it was years ago and I don't remember. |
| Brenda: Yeah, Sam Neill is great. Loved him in the first JP movie. One thing I saw him in was a tv movie written around Merlin and King Arthur's court. He was Merlin and at the end he said, "No more magic in the world." As we know Merlin was a sorcerer and he was going to put himself into suspended animation. |
| 6ixStringJack: What did he say that made you say he wasn't related to you. |
| 6ixStringJack: I've only read 2 or 3 Crichton books, but they were all great reads. I know I read JP2 and Airframe for sure. I may have also read Andromeda Strain too, but that would have been ages ago and I honestly don't remember. |
| 6ixStringJack: I saw that first one so many times. What an awesome flick. Those special effects still hold up today while half of the CGI they put in these new ones look instantly outdated. Sam Neil was great in anything I've seen him in. In the Mouth of Madness was awesome and he was great in it. That's the best "Lovecraftian" movie I've ever seen and it wasn't even taken directly from a Lovecraft story. |
| Brenda: Some of my thing with JP is I get curious to see what they are going to do next. And I know the last ones haven't been great. The first one though was wow! And of course Sam Neill. |
| Brenda: Funny thing. I don't think I've ever read one of his books. My family has tried to claim him as one of ours for a long time when his books first started coming out. Then the family heard him talk or someone read something about him and nope. Not related to us. |
| Brenda: Nope, this is my first time seeing it. I didn't think much of the ads when it came out. Maybe that's why I never saw it. |
| 6ixStringJack: After that, I've never seen the 3rd original movie, and then I did watch whichever one was the first of this new batch, but don't remember much of it and never watched any more of them. You just go back and watch that first one and it was so good. CGI can't compete with that, and they're just not putting great stories into these high budget blockbusters so I can't really be bothered. |
| 6ixStringJack: JP2: The Lost World was mid. I ruined it by reading the book first though. There was no possible way I was going to go into that movie liking it more than a Michael Chriton book. Wasn't even a fair fight. |
| 6ixStringJack: Oh... wow. That's your first time watching Twister then? Good for you. I'm sure you enjoyed it then. Prolly saw that one 3 times in the $1 theater with my brothers and my old man, once or twice on video after that with friends, and probably my mom and step-dad too. That's just one of those movies I figure everybody saw by now. |