--- Well, it is as we feared would happen - Director Adam Green's entertaining ode-to-80s-slashers, Hatchet, got slapped with NC-17 rating. Meanwhile I watched a woman's eyeballs be thumbed out at the local cineplex on the morning of Mother's Day over the weekend in long, excrutiating detail. Logic? Anyone? Hatchet had nothing worse violence-wise than I've seen in any mainstream horror film of the past five years, and it at least had a sense of humor about it.
--- "It's fun to be a witch." - that's about the only positive sentiment dragged out of Helena Bonham Carter in this interview at The Telegraph in reference to shooting the latest Harry Potter flick; otherwise it sounds like she spent 9 weeks sitting in her trailer to get like six lines of dialogue. It's a fun interview though; she talks about Sweeney Todd and Coversations With Other Women, co-starring Aaron Eckhart, which is just opening, as they say, across the pond.--- Incredibly lovely - The Film Experience shares some photos from Ang Lee's Brokeback follow-up called Lust, Caution, starring Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Joan Chen. Looking very very pretty (and I don't mean only Leung).
--- Three hours of bunny rabbits and Laura Dern's terrifying O-face - not to mention Justin Theroux - David Lynch's insanity-inducing Inland Empire is hitting DVD on August 14th, sayeth TwitchFilm..
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How was 28 Weeks Later? I'm a big fan of the original and wanted to see that.
I'm a fan of the first film, though for some reason my enthusiasm for it has waned a little bit with time. The sequel's good, but not great. For some reason it felt a little flat to me, like I'd already seen it before. Curse of being a sequel, I guess; if this film had come first, I
d probably have been crazy about it. I have to sort my thoughts out on it a bit more, obviously. It has some great, disturbing moments.
The MPAA pulls BS like this over crap like human blood quantity as much as the cringe-worthiness of the horror itself (which is why the first Evil Dead films have so much green and white blood). I try to shut movies like Hostel out of my mind, but if memory serves me, as gory as they were, there weren't hoseloads of blood all over the screen, which for the MPAA makes the torture of torture porn somehow less gruesome (which is ridiculous)
I'm in agreement that the nsize of Hatchet's studio contributes to its having less clout at convincing the MPAA otherwise, which is so tiringly tinring.
I must say - Hatchet is TERRIFICALLY bloody. Bringing up Evil Dead is probably is probably a good comparison, because it has moments of blood spraying so over-the-top as to compare, only Hatchet's blood is indeed all naturally colored, i.e. red. But it's so ridiculous and silly the MPAA taking it seriously just proves what total imagination-deprived dullards they are.
No argument from me there, JA, none at all.
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