Blue Ruin

Sun Apr 2 02:23:44 CDT 2017

The Mist is great. A seige movie that succeeds in convincing you the
attackers could be... anything. Very Lovecraftian.
Also Logan is worth watching but they deliberately went for whatever the
adults-only rating is in the US, from what I hear. Patrick Stewart's
performance was amazing in this one too, really nailing the 80-year-old's
rage as his failing body increasingly betrays him.

On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 1:22 PM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I LOVED The Mist.
>
> It might be the best straight-up monster movie of the new millennium so
> far.
>
> Jerky
>
> On Sat, Apr 1, 2017 at 11:20 PM, Jesse Gooch <jlgooch at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.
> >     >     >> -
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> >     >
> >     >
> >
> >
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