Has anybody seen Poltergeist 2?

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That's one shitty movie.

― Party_Pants, Friday, 25 June 2004 05:38 (twenty-one years ago)

yes.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 25 June 2004 05:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Isn't it about Mormons or something?

― spittle (spittle), Friday, 25 June 2004 05:41 (twenty-one years ago)

No. It's just a shitty movie.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 25 June 2004 05:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Are you saying that Poltergeist 3 wasn't shitty?

― Huk-L, Friday, 25 June 2004 06:29 (twenty-one years ago)

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But the ghosts are from some pioneer religous cult, aren't they? I remember a preacher. It is a shitty movie, for sure. But Craig T. Nelson had the glories of "Coach" just around the corner.

― spittle (spittle), Friday, 25 June 2004 06:31 (twenty-one years ago)

As I recall, the creepy pioneer guy was way creepier when he was just some old guy who kept knocking on their door than when he revealed himself as undead or whatever.

― Huk-L, Friday, 25 June 2004 06:35 (twenty-one years ago)

but...

massive hipster props for featuring Julian Beck of the Living Theater as the scary guy...

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG01/mincks/brief.html#Life,%20Revolution

and he was pretty damn creepy in that movie...

and he died during it's filming...

now start Poltergeist curse discussion...

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 25 June 2004 06:36 (twenty-one years ago)

God hates bad movies.

― Huk-L, Friday, 25 June 2004 06:38 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.hollywood-north.net/hwsleeq.htm

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 25 June 2004 06:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Man, the Tequila worm thing was really scary.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Friday, 25 June 2004 09:27 (twenty-one years ago)

ten months pass...

It still is.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Monday, 2 May 2005 21:40 (twenty-one years ago)

you people are all fucking insane

― strng hlkngtn, Monday, 2 May 2005 21:42 (twenty-one years ago)

any film that can make me tolerate craig t. nelson is doing something right

― strng hlkngtn, Monday, 2 May 2005 21:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought that house was cleansed.

― Aaron A., Monday, 2 May 2005 21:45 (twenty-one years ago)

did you see the incredibles strongo?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 2 May 2005 21:51 (twenty-one years ago)

or a certain tv show called COACH?!

― darn it luther (slutsky), Monday, 2 May 2005 21:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't think of another sequel with as sharp a drop-off in quality from the charter film.

― Eric von H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 01:27 (twenty-one years ago)

HIGHLANDER 2

― kingfish maximum overdrunk (Kingfish), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 02:15 (twenty-one years ago)

The third one was all about mirrors. Presumably the effects department discovered 12 cool things to do with mirrors the night before the script was written.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 02:23 (twenty-one years ago)

9.34pm: "omg we can do cool stuff with mirrors awsum"
10.23am [next day]: Begin Poltergeist 3 script
10.27am: Poltergeist 3 script complete

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 02:24 (twenty-one years ago)

i just mentioned this movie yesterday on ile. i'm not doing it again. but i love it. i love all the poltergeists.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 02:58 (twenty-one years ago)

ugh coach

― strng hlkngtn, Tuesday, 3 May 2005 03:02 (twenty-one years ago)

perhaps the most unappealing tv of all time

― strng hlkngtn, Tuesday, 3 May 2005 03:03 (twenty-one years ago)

if i ever meet craig t. nelson, he's gonna get such an indian burn

― strng hlkngtn, Tuesday, 3 May 2005 03:04 (twenty-one years ago)

i have seen every episode of coach. twice.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 03:14 (twenty-one years ago)

What about Exorcist 2? I like the part where the bees came out of James Earl Jones' mouth....

― A homunculus of Darby Crash, .... created for the purposes of *EVIL* (ex machina, Tuesday, 3 May 2005 03:15 (twenty-one years ago)

All part 2's are great.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 03:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Poltergeist II makes Poltergeist III look like Return of the King. OK, no, not really. But it's USA Up All Night thriller sheen of glass and steel sort of makes it far enough removed from everything I love about the first film that I can take it under completely segregated terms. Whereas the second sequel is an inadequate sucessor on every count.

(I sort of remember liking the second Exorcist. Though not holding the first sacred probably helps.)

― Eric von H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 03:35 (twenty-one years ago)

What did Coach follow on the primetime lineup? I remember it ruining the afterglow of a sitcom I liked.

― Eric von H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 03:36 (twenty-one years ago)

The Burt Reynolds sitcom that was on around the same time as Coach was even more unappealing.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 03:42 (twenty-one years ago)

that's cuz burt's show had gay mr.noodles on it and he was creepy. (R.I.P.)

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 03:47 (twenty-one years ago)

ts: luther vs. dobber

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 04:25 (twenty-one years ago)

HIGHLANDER 2

-- kingfish maximum overdrunk (jdsalmo...), May 3rd, 2005.

i love how in Highlander 2, after the end of the first movie where christopher lambert is the last immortal left and has supposedly become human again, suddenly we're whisked away and it's "meanwhile on the highlander's home planet...", without any warning or inkling in the previous movie that the immortals are from outer space..

plus, this movie has some of the most glaring FX errors i've seen in a theatrically released film. in the big battle sequence on the highlander planet, right when this one guy is supposedly being hurled into the air by an explosion, you can see the tip of a launch ramp propelling the stuntman at the bottom of the screen.

― latebloomer: But when the monkey die, people gonna cry. (latebloomer), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 04:39 (twenty-one years ago)

ts: coach vs. arli$$

― strng hlkngtn, Tuesday, 3 May 2005 11:40 (twenty-one years ago)

has there ever been a good sports-related sitcom? i know i'm forgetting something.

― strng hlkngtn, Tuesday, 3 May 2005 11:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Kane is one of the best 16 movie villians of all time. You people are abject crack smokers.

― A / F#m / Bm / D (Lynskey), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 11:47 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.hollywood-north.net/jbeck.jpg VS http://www.crestlinehauntedvillage.com/images/Phantasm2-TallMan10.jpg

― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 11:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm sure I saw a DVD called "blair witch 3" in the record shop the other day.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 12:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I haven't seen "poltergeist 2" btw, or blair witch 1 or 2 either.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 12:03 (twenty-one years ago)

so what you're trying to say is that you WERE NOT scared when the kid got attacked by his braces? that scene is like the ESSENCE OF FEAR!

― gunther heartymeal (keckles), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)

No, because it followed a cheesy shot of zombie ghost reaching out for Robbie in the mirror. It could've been creepy, but it just looked like actors wearing make-up.

― Eric von H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

man, original poltergeist is still great

― Dominique (dleone), Monday, 15 January 2007 03:39 (nineteen years ago)

I was thinking about it the other day, actually. There's a couple of sequences I'd bet I still would never want to see again.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 15 January 2007 03:44 (nineteen years ago)

the scene where craig t nelson is reading the Reagan book, while Jobeth Williams is getting high and talking about sleep walking into some guy's car. I love that scene

― Dominique (dleone), Monday, 15 January 2007 03:47 (nineteen years ago)

i was thinking about this movie last night, and how superb it all is.

the second one wasn't half as bad as the third one, mainly because Kane was just so great.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 15 January 2007 09:30 (nineteen years ago)

three years pass...

Zelda, no, not yet!

― queen frostine (Eric H.), Thursday, 28 January 2010 00:38 (sixteen years ago)

four years pass...

saw this (or rather the first poltergeist) again last night, probably first time i'd watched it since the 80s. holds up remarkably. somehow more spielberg touch than i assumed going in (and i assumed alot) but it works even though you'd think it would work against it, the wonder and curiosity that are there are great and make the terror more real when it comes and the spielberg humor works fantastically here. jobeth williams and craig t nelson are fantastic in this, really one of the better, more recognizable portrayals of a marriage i can think of, the kids are great too, for some reason i had this memory or assumption that carol ann would be too cute in that movie kid way but she's a normal kid weird in the normal way all kids are not esp precocious or wise or whatever. i love that by the time dad gets home she's already bored w/ the ghost moving the chair and immediately goes to dad whining that mom didn't make dinner. another odd thing about this is that nobody actually dies in this movie. i'm not sure how many other great horror movies you can say that about (i mean even scatman buys it in the shining). it feels a weird counterpoint to the shining also, both haunted house movies that are actually about family.

― balls, Monday, 26 May 2014 02:22 (twelve years ago)

also would like to defend part 3, it is entertaining although also dire. so watchable.

― erry red flag (f. hazel), Monday, 26 May 2014 02:55 (twelve years ago)

xp truth

― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Monday, 26 May 2014 03:05 (twelve years ago)

yes but what about tequila worm?

― riot grillz (contenderizer), Monday, 26 May 2014 03:50 (twelve years ago)

five months pass...

Saw an archival print of Poltergeist tonight -- a true flipside of E.T., it's true. The second climax is annoying structurally, but I like it bcz it reveals that the Zelda Rubinstein paranormal fixer is A TOTAL INCOMPETENT!

(Does all that "Go toward/go away from the light" shit make any sense either? She just seemed to be fucking with the Freelings.)

But yes, Jobeth Williams' performance has real force and heart.

― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 1 November 2014 04:05 (eleven years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/IzKZmZX.gif

― pplains, Saturday, 1 November 2014 04:27 (eleven years ago)

Killer braces:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ng5gx6fLg2o

― MaudAddam (cryptosicko), Saturday, 1 November 2014 16:35 (eleven years ago)

three months pass...

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2015/02/04/poltergeist-sneak-peek-horror-reboot/22774531/

"Guys I don't really feel like audiences of the original understood the whole 'TV people' thing, can we have hands on the other side of the screen to really bring it home? We can? Awesomesauce."

― Οὖτις Δαυ & τηε Κνιγητσ (Phil D.), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 19:17 (eleven years ago)

Damn, this reboot's going to make me appreciate Poltergeist 2, isn't it.

― Eric H., Wednesday, 4 February 2015 19:29 (eleven years ago)

five years pass...

But yes, Jobeth Williams' performance has real force and heart.

Yes, one of the great performances in '80s American movies for sure.

― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Monday, 28 September 2020 01:12 (five years ago)

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