What's with all the remakes?

[Leslie Daher]

*YAWN*

[filmmaker2]

Originally posted by Vodstok
I think setting has a lot to do with it. i dont think dog soldiers is particularly frightnening, but the first time i saw it, my wife and i were watching it in bed at night, with the window wide open, with all of the lights off, when the werewolf crawled in through the window, i looked at ours and said "fuck this, im kinda cold..." and closed it.

Alfred Hitchcock insisted that theater owners play along with his little pranks that he wanted to spring on the audience to create more impact. I think the horror genre would be well served if they still did things liek that.


I bet if theaters were willing to play ball, they would increase their profits exponentially. Think about it, if the same horror movie was paying at 2 places, and one of them you Knew was going to pull some weird shit during the movie, whihc would you go to?

i think many casual horror fans would become hardcore with that kind of experience.

I am much in agreement with that thinking. Go William Castle on they ass!

[urgeok]

the problem now is the idiots that go to the shows would be wrecking stuff .. especially if the did get scared.

something dragged on a wire brushing past their legs .. (during a rat scene for example) would get grabbed and yanked out of its workings ..


i can see this kind of thing happening in an specialty IMAX type setting, but not a regular theatre ..

[AUSTIN316426808]

Originally posted by urgeok
IMAX

this is off topic but...

I went to the IMAX theatre a couple days ago and saw a 3-D dinosuar movie.

of course we're in two different countries and I don't know if it's shown up there but you're kid would love it.

[urgeok]

he probably would for sure ..

there wasnt a dino movie playing at ours, it was either natural disasters/underwater volcanoes/or coral reefs ... we saw the reef one ...


i think he'd want to see the dino one but he'd be scared shitless because of the magnatude of the sound and screen ...
He feels safer at home ... i guess it would depend on how scary it was ...

[AUSTIN316426808]

Originally posted by urgeok
he probably would for sure ..

there wasnt a dino movie playing at ours, it was either natural disasters/underwater volcanoes/or coral reefs ... we saw the reef one ...


i think he'd want to see the dino one but he'd be scared shitless because of the magnatude of the sound and screen ...
He feels safer at home ... i guess it would depend on how scary it was ...

in that case you better pass if it does come up. just my opinion of course but it might be a bit much for a 4 year old.

[urgeok]

Originally posted by AUSTIN316426808
in that case you better pass if it does come up. just my opinion of course but it might be a bit much for a 4 year old.

thats what i'm thinking ... wont be long though ..
he'd watch the video version at home no problem.

There's an excellent series from the BBC called 'Walking With Dinosaurs' he loves .. it gets gruesome too .. but its 'smaller' :)

[Vodstok]

Walking with dinosaurs was the jurrasic park of documentaries. that thing was incredible. I got that for my neice a couple of years ago for christmas, then i got her the walking with prehistoric beasts one as well.

[Jade]

I guess they run out of ideas so they use other people's ideas.

[urgeok]

Originally posted by Vodstok
Walking with dinosaurs was the jurrasic park of documentaries. that thing was incredible. I got that for my neice a couple of years ago for christmas, then i got her the walking with prehistoric beasts one as well.

i want that prehistoric beast one too !! the dinosaur one was terrific ..