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SabreSpud
I am a big fan of the oldtime Screen Comedy Teams; whether the Brothers Marx,Moe, Larry and the changing third member of the 3 Stooges, or Stan and Ollie.
Not to mention the Pythoners (I said not to mention them!)
Music fills the Sab-Air in the house, sometimes jazz, blues, rock, country, folk, classical.
Movies also are a big part in the SabreSpud domain; in addition to comedy; dramas, SF, Horror, Animation, both old and contemporary grace our screens.
Random Titles from my collection that I seem to like more than most:
Whale Rider
Watership Down
Rabbit-proof Fence
Never Cry Wolf
Gregory's Girl (And the whimsy of Bill Forsythe in general)
Benny and Joon
The Chaney Jr 'Mummy' movies
ZULU!
Where Eagles Dare
The Quick and the Dead (Sam Raimi)
Falling Down
The most important thing in life is to be able to laugh...or at least smile, as often as possible!
Some may think they knew me in another life...or two...or three...ehhh, ye may be right!
Reviews
The Fog (2005)
Potential...IGNORED
I tried; I REALLY tried to act like I had never seen the John Carpenter masterful ghost story.
I tried to look for any bright spots in this remake. Really.
*Here there May Be Spoilers*
It tried...once. To expand on the original story of the Ill-fated ELIZABETH DANE, the clipper ship of lepers that was trying to establish an isolated community on some prime Oregon (originally California) Real Estate. We got about ten minutes of sporadic flashbacks to Captain Blake and his doomed maritime colony...gratuitous flashes of potentially leprous individuals...many absurd off-camera killings. In short, it COULD have shown, using the technology Carpenter didn't have, leprous-ghosts seeking revenge; a flashback story behind Captain Blake, his wife and colony and the greedy, frightened '4' ancestors... But it didn't. And what in the heck was with the ending???
What it did do, was take what was originally a well-fleshed story, with characters in peril...and turn it into a diseased, pustulant, rotting corpse that didn't even have the nerve to bombard us with gore, FX, or nudity to camouflage the dung-heap it was. I saw it on a Free Cinemax Preview...and still wanted my money back.