and dario argento is merely an okay filmmaker.
― bass braille (....), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 10:27 (nineteen years ago) link
Is there any one else on ILX who prefers Reposessed to The Exorcist?
― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 10:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― charleston charge (chaki), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 10:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― C-Man (C-Man), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 10:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― bass braille (....), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 11:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 11:46 (nineteen years ago) link
Jesus.
― C-Man (C-Man), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 11:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― bass braille (....), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 11:50 (nineteen years ago) link
Have you seen Argento's Bird With the Crystal Plumage or Deep Red?
Yes. As well as Tenebrae.
Dressed to Kill aint even fit to lick the boots of that let alone Raging flipping Bull.
Wrong. It stands shoulder with the best of the year, nevermind if that entails being compared to Raging Bull or to The Shining or to Inferno.
There is at least one OTM comment on the thread as of late, though. Bass is absolutely right that responding to Calum is just that easy. But calling Argento sub-okay at best is astonishingly wrong. (It is possible to see worth in both Argento as well as De Palma.)
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 17:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 17:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 17:58 (nineteen years ago) link
Calling Argento sub-okay is an astonishing lapse in taste, I agree. His best work is superior to virtually ever other foreign filmmaker at the time.
― C-Man (C-Man), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 18:03 (nineteen years ago) link
Re: Dressed to Kill and the De Palma vs. Argento angle, I see the surface similarities, and understand that both directors' fetishizing of surfaces does sort of put their similarities to the forefront, but I don't think that even at their most similar (Cain of Tenebrae) they're aiming at the same thing. Argento sees the human body as an extention of architecture, and typically the destruction of the body is parcelled out along with and frequently by the destruction of masonry, windows, so on. De Palma's take on psychology is far more social than Argento. I can't remember where I read it but someone once said De Palma is the strict Freudian and Argento the Jungian. Or something to that effect. I'm not saying I agree with the statement, but do accept it as evidence of the two's stylistic divergences.
Dan, if that's all you said, you haven't said anything wrong yet. I was being flippant anyway.
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 18:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― C-Man (C-Man), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 23:30 (nineteen years ago) link
Cripes, they have nothing to do with each other. I mean, why don't you compare it to Kramer vs. Kramer and a driver's ed film while you're at it?
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 00:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― shookout (shookout), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 01:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 01:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 05:53 (nineteen years ago) link
Ugh. Worst. Night. Of. My. Life. I can't even think of that movie without retching now.
― Allyzay Dallas Multi-Pass (allyzay), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 05:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 09:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― C-Man (C-Man), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 09:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― C-Man (C-Man), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 09:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 10:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― C-Man (C-Man), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 11:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 11:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 11:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― C-Man (C-Man), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 11:30 (nineteen years ago) link
admittedly se7en spawned much worse movies, but then there wouldnt be se7en without argento.
― bass braille (....), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 11:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― C-Man (C-Man), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 11:51 (nineteen years ago) link
all lucky strikes by hack directors. argento had nothing but misses.
― bass braille (....), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 12:01 (nineteen years ago) link
You're a bit misinformed and stupid really.
― C-Man (C-Man), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 12:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― bass braille (....), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 12:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― bass braille (....), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 12:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― C-Man (C-Man), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 12:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― bass braille (....), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 12:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― C-Man (C-Man), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 12:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― bass braille (....), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 12:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― bass braille (....), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 12:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― C-Man (C-Man), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 12:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― bass braille (....), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 12:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― C-Man (C-Man), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 12:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― bass braille (....), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 12:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― bass braille (....), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 12:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― C-Man (C-Man), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 12:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― bass braille (....), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 13:03 (nineteen years ago) link
Calum, IIRC from my childhood, the house was torn down by a suburban real estate developer and built into a new house on the lot, because no one wanted a house that dorky asswads like my ex-roommate kept coming to harrass. I could very well be wrong about this, but if I'm wrong, the entirety of Long Island is wrong too.
― Allyzay Dallas Multi-Pass (allyzay), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 15:42 (nineteen years ago) link
I'd definately seek it out.
― C-Man (C-Man), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 15:54 (nineteen years ago) link
The other issue being that there's about 10 houses on that block that look quite similar to it so really I have no idea how anyone would find it anyway.
― Allyzay Dallas Multi-Pass (allyzay), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 15:56 (nineteen years ago) link
the omen ain't no exorcist, but it's still completely awesome. and the decapitation scene is funnier than anything i've ever seen in any charlie chaplin film.
― KARLOR CAN FUCK ANYTHING! AND HE WILL AND HAS!!! (Eisbaer), Sunday, 3 July 2011 11:50 (twelve years ago) link
In what kind of bizarre world is Cruising or Dressed to Kill even fit to lick the shoes of Raging Bull? Have you seen Argento's Bird With the Crystal Plumage or Deep Red? Dressed to Kill aint even fit to lick the boots of that let alone Raging flipping Bull.
And Cruising is merely an okay film.
― C-Man (C-Man), Tuesday, February 8, 2005 5:22 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark
c-man was mostly a twat, but here he speaks the Gospel truth.
― KARLOR CAN FUCK ANYTHING! AND HE WILL AND HAS!!! (Eisbaer), Sunday, 3 July 2011 11:52 (twelve years ago) link
i'm with TV Cream http://www.tvcream.co.uk/?p=12585
― piscesx, Sunday, 3 July 2011 12:17 (twelve years ago) link
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― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 05:17 (six years ago) link
I need to know what wins in the end! Is it the hardcore fucking that takes place in the next panel?
― The Wetting Planner (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 24 October 2017 12:27 (six years ago) link
Man, I hated Calum in this thread.
― Anne of the Thousand Gays (Eric H.), Tuesday, 24 October 2017 12:45 (six years ago) link