Blue Ruin

[Jesse Gooch]

Somebody else who doesn’t hate The Mist! I always loved the story when I was younger and when they made a movie out of it I was pretty dubious, but it ended up being pretty good. 

On 4/1/17, 11:16 PM, "Mark Thibodeau" <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com> wrote:

    Ah yes, the infamous IT pre-teen underground shit-pipe gangbang.
    Cocaine is a hell of a drug.
    
    And yes, the closer the films have hewn to the original tales, the
    more suction they have tended to generate, generally speaking. I mean,
    the best film ever made from his books is the one he hates the most
    (The Shining).
    
    Other good ones (out of literally dozens) are:
    
    Carrie
    The Dead Zone
    Misery
    Shawshank Redemption
    Stand By Me
    The Mist
    
    Pet Sematary is passable, with good stuff and bad.
    
    The rest? Icky.
    
    Jerky
    
    On Sat, Apr 1, 2017 at 9:43 PM, Jesse Gooch <jlgooch at hotmail.com> wrote:
    > Right?  Can’t get excited to see it get done again. I could never even sit through the first one with Tim Curry.  Somebody told me it’s supposed to be really faithful to the book. I haven’t read that book in a really long time, but isn’t it rather longish to fit into a movie, and isn’t there a scene where all of the kids have sex in the sewer?  And don’t all the King adaptions that try to stay true to the novel (aside from Misery) end up being dreck?
    >
    > On 4/1/17, 8:38 PM, "Mark Thibodeau" <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com> wrote:
    >
    >     Hey, no worries on the friendly dissenting! You're not ruffling my
    >     feathers or anything.
    >
    >     I could probably be convinced that Blue Ruin is a legit Noir or Neo
    >     Noir. It certainly is interesting and original, and I could totally
    >     understand someone finding it to be a bracing breath of cinematic
    >     fresh air. I just personally didn't find it as compelling and
    >     propulsive as Green Room (by the same director).
    >
    >     But I'm weird. Everyone I know is freaking out about the new trailer
    >     for IT. It's even broken records and stuff. Me? Even though King was
    >     my first favorite contemporary author (after cutting my prodigal teeth
    >     on Baum, Verne, Wells, Stevenson, and expurgated, teen-friendly
    >     versions of Frankenstein and Moby Dick), I think the new trailer is
    >     silly, boring, and not at all enticing. Except maybe for the score.
    >     The whole "kids saying things in a creepy voice" thing hasn't worked
    >     on me since the 80's, and I can't understand why people are freaking
    >     out.
    >
    >     Jerky
    >
    >
    >     On Sat, Apr 1, 2017 at 8:21 PM, Charles Albert <cfalbert at gmail.com> wrote:
    >     > I'm gonna dissent..
    >     >
    >     >
    >     > The rec made me curious and the Rotten Tomatoes rating obliged me to find it
    >     > (free, btw) on Amazon Prime...I thought it was very good...never considered
    >     > the possibility  that a movie with even less dialog than the verbally
    >     > sparse, Derzu Uzala, could be made.
    >     >
    >     > Appeared to me to check the necessary Noir boxes.
    >     >
    >     > love,
    >     > cfa
    >     >
    >     > On Apr 1, 2017 3:27 PM, "Mark Thibodeau" <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com> wrote:
    >     >>
    >     >> I thought it was... okay. Don't see the "noir" aspect though, as it's
    >     >> anything but stylish/stylized. It felt more verite' to me. Noir
    >     >> doesn't just mean grim and depressing with an all but silent anti-hero
    >     >> now, does it?
    >     >>
    >     >> I preferred his Green Room, but then again, I like watching Nazis die
    >     >> horrible deaths.
    >     >>
    >     >> Jerky
    >     >>
    >     >> On Sat, Apr 1, 2017 at 1:52 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
    >     >> > Funny:  I was at my local library this AM randomly looking at the DVD
    >     >> > shelves, thinking to randomly find something good.  I saw Blue Ruin, and
    >     >> > liked the name, but didn't pick it up.  Next time I will.
    >     >> >
    >     >> > David Morris
    >     >> >
    >     >> > On Sat, Apr 1, 2017 at 12:32 PM Jesse Gooch <jlgooch at hotmail.com> wrote:
    >     >> >>
    >     >> >> Who’s seen Blue Ruin?  I liked this quite a bit.  Came across it in an
    >     >> >> article about neo noir and enjoyed it.  Good pacing and the protagonist
    >     >> >> was
    >     >> >> interesting.
    >     >> >>
    >     >> >> Not so much a fan of the other 2 movies the guy made (Murder Party and
    >     >> >> Green Room) but this one is good.
    >     >> -
    >     >> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
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