The Coli Movie Club: The Frighteners
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StraxStrax
I'm selling these fine leather jackets
C'mon horror
My soul is a small child
I can't take it
My soul is a small child
I can't take it
U mad?
if you gonna bytch, then don't participate, it's that simple. People cry over everything
OP, good pick, very entertaining movie
Roaden Polynice
Superstar
Despite being confusing and predictable at points, The Frighteners is admittedly a fun movie that keeps you intrigued for the entire running time. It keeps you intrigued because it introduces several different strands that keep you guessing as to how they are going to tie everything up.
It’s great to go back into Peter Jackson’s oeuvre and see where he was at in his career before the Lord of the Rings trilogy, King Kong, and The Hobbit. I initially began to write about how some of the scenes brought up too many uncomfortable truths that are more apparent given the benefit of hindsight. It’s too easy to muse about this being one of Michael J. Fox’s last roles before his career slowed because of his disease, especially in the scene when he is being interrogated by Dammer’s and his hands are shaking. But that’s too much to think about really. It’s better to just watch the film and let it tell its story without trying to infuse too much misty-eyed sentimentality into it.
Odds and Ends:
TO BE SURE, logic inconsistencies does not necessarily mean it is a bad movie. Not at all. I actually enjoyed this quite a bit. I just wanted answers to all that shyt.
It’s great to go back into Peter Jackson’s oeuvre and see where he was at in his career before the Lord of the Rings trilogy, King Kong, and The Hobbit. I initially began to write about how some of the scenes brought up too many uncomfortable truths that are more apparent given the benefit of hindsight. It’s too easy to muse about this being one of Michael J. Fox’s last roles before his career slowed because of his disease, especially in the scene when he is being interrogated by Dammer’s and his hands are shaking. But that’s too much to think about really. It’s better to just watch the film and let it tell its story without trying to infuse too much misty-eyed sentimentality into it.
Odds and Ends:
- BESIDES all that, this movie really had me like
at some of its logic. But then I was reading the Wikipedia page and the IMDB page on it and apparently there is a Director's Cut that explains a lot of questions that I had about everything, like:
- Peter Jackson said in the Director's Cut there is a scene that shows Bartlett and Patricia placing a log on the road which caused Frank and his wife to swerve off the road. That information would've been helpful during the film I reckon.
- Did Patricia's mom kill herself or did Patrica kill her?
- Why can the ghosts manipulate solid things only sometimes?
Do bullets hurt them or not. - I can't think a more irritating character that I've seen recently than fukking Agent Dammers
Like, I really hated this nikka. The extreme close-ups whenever he was on screen (which was probably to signify his close-mindedness and suppressive nature, but ffs it was annoying as fukk). Every time he was on screen I was just like, "Shut the fukk up dude " - And how the fukk did Agent Dammers know to go to the old hospital at the end and to the chapel?
- And the ending was just one convenient story point after another: Frank able to grab Patricia's soul out of her body from nowhere . Bartlett and Patricia going to hell . Frank coming back to life because "the authorities" said it wasn't his time
- MJF did how own stunts
TO BE SURE, logic inconsistencies does not necessarily mean it is a bad movie. Not at all. I actually enjoyed this quite a bit. I just wanted answers to all that shyt.
U losers try way too hard. I told the fakkit I'll skip this week and gave a suggestion for next week and u clowns still sitting here crying like hoes. Go suck a dikk fukkboyif you gonna bytch, then don't participate, it's that simple. People cry over everything
OP, good pick, very entertaining movie
Seems from your post history you are often in threads crying and bytching...you are what you repeatedly do is what I always say :smugmalone:
So stop bytching :smugmalone:
Yeah okay shythead just shut the fukk up and wait for me to bytch next week then when u fakkits pick "what's eating Gilbert grape"
Yeah okay shythead just shut the fukk up and wait for me to bytch next week then when u fakkits pick "what's eating Gilbert grape"
@ your smiley game today
Young Bishop
Piff Poster
Roman Brady
Nobody Lives Forever
Such an underated flick, the soundtrack, the theme,special effectz at the time this was such an underappreciated classic. The art of making a black comedy is such a lost art nowadays. You see this movie and casualties of war and you wonder why studios didnt offer fox more serious leading roles 
Seen it already and didn't care to much for it. I did like the whole ghost mythos and such. It kinda got slow in the middle but i liked the ending. This directors cut sounds interesting. Might watch it again with that version to get things in a better perspective.
Cabbage Patch
The Media scene in V is for Vendetta is the clue
Agreed. One of those 'wish there were more about the characters' type movies, but I understand why the story ended and I'm okay with that, too. Very underappreciated.