Taking Sides: Texas Chainsaw Massacre Vs Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2

Quite fond of that film. Finley appears in at least 3 Hooper films but I don't remember him in this one, always good to see him.

He's the whiskey-swigging magician who pretends to nail a stake into his daughter's heart; he's got this banter with the audience that's great (and Hooper includes, at a very low volume, some of the background heckling--captions help).

god, TCM3 was bad. gets off to such a good start atmospherically, and then sits in a holding pattern it never escapes forever.

also got tired of all the new family members turning up. at least Chop Top in TCM made sense as he was likely fighting IN Vietnam at the time, but didn't they have at least one relative who like wanted to be a Senator or something

also in watching TCM again, god Franklin gets bullied so hard, Sally totally lost his knife

awful lot of raspberry blowin in this ting

So I remembered the funniest line from TCM2 being “I’m fallin’ apart on ya, honey” but IMDb says it’s “I’m fallin’ hard for ya, honey.” The way I heard it makes more sense I think…?

i just watched it and I thought it was the former too

Cause skin is literally falling off of him as he says it

Yea that's why I thought that's what it was! Corny meta humor

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Me, nine years ago in this thread: "This is my age speaking, but I now question why I'd want to see it more than once." It was playing at a nearby rep tonight--4K restoration, what a gimmick; the print I saw nine years ago was also a restoration--so I of course was there, just so I could see it with an audience.

I've come to know the guy who runs the theatre a bit, so I was glad for him that it was almost full. I've crossed that too-many-times point with room to spare; my admiration for the film was even more detached than last time.

On the way home, though, I was thinking there's a book in the endings to some of the most prominent American films of 1974: TCM, Chinatown, The Godfather Part II, The Conversation, California Split, The Parallax View. They all speak directly to the tumult and exhaustion of the previous decade: the apocalyptic violence of the first two, the numbness and spiritual depletion of the next three, and the way The Parallax View comes full circle to how it begins, the sense of time in a loop.

oh wow, the texas chainsaw massacre! that's one of my favorite chainsaw massacres.

doesn't hold a candle to Poughkeepsie's annual massacre

rally for the deer

"Night Moves" has another very '70s ending. Literally left going around in circles, iirc.

'75, but very much in line with the others I mentioned (plus the famous line about one side losing more slowly than the other).