Why doesn't Kermode ever show up at Frightfest? He's not particularly anti-horror, is he?
Or maybe he has... I've certainly seen him at festival screenings, but maybe that was the London Film Festival.
IIRC, Kermode has said he just likes spending the bank holiday weekend with his family rather than going to another film festival. Alan Jones said he's definitely invited every time...The Soapmaker wrote:Why doesn't Kermode ever show up at Frightfest? He's not particularly anti-horror, is he?
Or maybe he has... I've certainly seen him at festival screenings, but maybe that was the London Film Festival.
FD, you've hit the nail on the head right there!fd wrote:I must admit that I'm finding the discussions about the film extremely interesting. I've posted before that my opinion is not good.
However, it seems an awful lot of people are focusing on the "He was joking when he said new genre of horror and people only disliked it because of that". Particularly when a number of horror cliches were used (Faust legent "shock jump" in the bathroom, it was all a dream/hallucination, etc, etc) the statement is laughable. Unfortunately for me, the statment alone being the problem with not liking the film is not the case.
It's alright with a few likable moments, but it's just not even approaching "great". As I said before, I'm so glad that this maudlin film did not end the festival. If it was in the middle and there was no great parade about it before-hand I would have thought "It's OK, I've no need or wanrt to ever see it again though".
As a comparison, look at the beautifully shot Hierro (it's probably the best comparison I can make for placement in the middle of the festival schedule and the general "feel" of the movie). The opening was just incredible and a number of shots/set-ups in the film were really well done, but an awful lot of people complained about it being a path well trodden. I enjoyed it and was glad it was in the line-up. However, if it was shown as the penultimate film I may have disliked it more.
Well summarised FD - spot on.fd wrote:I must admit that I'm finding the discussions about the film extremely interesting. I've posted before that my opinion is not good.
However, it seems an awful lot of people are focusing on the "He was joking when he said new genre of horror and people only disliked it because of that". Particularly when a number of horror cliches were used (Faust legent "shock jump" in the bathroom, it was all a dream/hallucination, etc, etc) the statement is laughable. Unfortunately for me, the statment alone being the problem with not liking the film is not the case.
It's alright with a few likable moments, but it's just not even approaching "great". As I said before, I'm so glad that this maudlin film did not end the festival. If it was in the middle and there was no great parade about it before-hand I would have thought "It's OK, I've no need or wanrt to ever see it again though".
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*starts to hoover up the dust so Mr O will come back into the thread*orlovsky wrote:FD, you've hit the nail on the head right there!
Like the Giallo discussion - I'm going to bow out of the Heartless threads until the dust has settled.