Movie Chat

Sounds like one I might like, Letty.

I tried to watch Van Helsing with Hugh Jackman last night. It held my attention for about ten minutes.

The boss tried to lend me Van Helsing. I said "No thanks."

edgar, is was very confusing in the beginning, because I had trouble separating the characters. Where's Mr. Wizard? Maybe he saw it.

eoe, I watched all of Van Helsing, but I was really disappointed. Too many monsters.

I had the same experience eoe, I think I managed about 10 mins as well.

Don, Are you familiar with the J. Arthur Rank Productions?

Yes Letty I am why do you ask?

Sorry, Don. I was thinking of Hammer films. Grrrrrrrrr. I just looked up J.Arthur Rank and was amazed at his background.

Anyway, Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing made, in my opinion, some of the best horror movies ever. Wasn't Cushing always Van Helsing?

(ISP keeps bumping me)

They were very, very, very cool. Christopher Lee was Dracula so PC had to be Van Helsing, right?

Yes he usually played the part of Van Helsing, I found it amusing when I once met him in the grand hotel in brighton, he was this scary figure on screen but in real life he was so tiny a chap my 10 year old daughter could have kicked his arse.

Ah, the silver screen. I was recalling seeing both Cushing and Lee in The Hound of the Baskerville. Best one of those ever.

eoe, yep, Cushing was Van Helsing. Always beating the bats.

Hound of the Baskervilles. Used to be a fvorite tale of mine.

I loved all of Arthur Conan Doyle's novelettes and short stories.

I also.

My word. The Mummy is on TBS right now. Even FX couldn't make that version as good as the house of Hammer. Brendan Frazier is okay, but it's just not Karis.

Y' know, I've never seen a mummy film, just a few trailers. Same with Wolfman. Just not all that curious.

I saw A Werewolf in London, not bad, either.

edgar when I was a kid, I saw all them scary things. To tell you the truth, it's been some time since I have seen a really GOOD creature feature.

Good grief. I just remembered Wolf with Jack Nicholson. I believe that all those movies had some basis in truth. The history fascinates me.

I got some "creature" films from a friend not long ago - Frankenstein, Creature From the Black Lagoon and such. I had grown up thinking the reason I couldn't stay all that interested in The Creature was because I was too young to catch it all. Trying to watch it a few weeks ago was an ordeal. I slept through the middle half and barely allowed it to run til the end.

My first viewing of King Kong terrified me. I was used to cowboy films, Little Rascals and such, then without warning it was placed on the screen before me. No other film has ever had that same effect.

You're right, edgar. We've become jaded, I guess. Frankly I think that Alfred Hitchcock broke all the rules with Psycho. From that point on, everything escalated too rapidly until the core became corrupt. I think that may be one of the reasons that I don't read much any more.

Texas Chainsaw Massacer was another "groundbreaking" list in that direction, Letty. A girl I was simply driving around with one evening noted that it was being shown at a drive-in. "Oh, I've got to see it just so I can say I have." I watched it with a detached revulsion. I don't get the attraction to such fare, frankly.