And we all Shine on

#20 – The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Signs, and The Village
These are all similar enough for me to group them…I would close my eyes and pick one out for Halloween viewing, honestly. They are all good choices. Some people will tell you the The Village sucked, but I think they’re wrong. The key to that one is that it illustrates what a powerful weapon on influence fear can be. It is fascinating, at least from a psychological point of view (I won’t tell you how I figured out the truth, in case any of you haven’t seen it. But I knew the secret pretty quickly).
Best Lines:
Sixth Sense: Do you know why you're afraid when you're alone? I do. I do.
Unbreakable: It's hard for many people to believe that there are extraordinary things inside themselves, as well as others. I hope you can keep an open mind.
Signs:
Tracy Abernathy: I swore 37 times in the last month. I said the 'f-word' a couple of times, but it was mostly 'shit's and 'bastard's. Is 'douche bag' a curse?
Graham Hess: I suppose it would depend on the context.
Tracy Abernathy: How about "John you're a douche bag for kissing Barbara"?
Graham Hess: It's a curse.
Tracy Abernathy: Oh, well then it's not 37 times it's 71 times.
The Village: We have always had a gentle understanding with the creatures that live in the woods.

 

#21 – Jaws
daaaaaaaa-dum. daaaaaaaa-dum. Let me tell you a little story. Once I was kayaking in the ocean- I got out very far and was capsized by a wave. It was very far- I thought the coast guard would have to come for me. I tried to swim, but was hindered by the kayak in one hand and paddle in the other, plus I was still wearing the spray skirt. I would swim for a few minutes, then rest. Over and over. Then something hard and blunt bumped into my thighs under the water, pushing me up into the air a few inches. A few seconds later there was a dull thudding noise and the boat surged up out of the water from a bump.
You can damn well bet that besides my heart beating too hard, the other thing I could hear sounded like “daaaaaaaaa dum…daaaaaaaaa dum.”
Best Line: Fellows, let's be reasonable, huh? This is not the time or the place to perform some kind of a half-assed autopsy on a fish... And I'm not going to stand here and see that thing cut open and see that little Kintner boy spill out all over the dock.

#22 – The Shining
One of the most-spoofed horror films of all time, this is yet another fantastic Stephen King adaptation. It is Jack Nicholson playing Jack Torrance- the role he was born to play and Shelley Long being generally freaky (looking) and screaming her fool head off. Check out The Simpsons spoof and the Bunnies spoof.
I’m not a huge Kubrick fan (and only Kubrick would have put that naked rotting woman in that bathtub), but this is a great film.
Trivia: Only interesting to me, perhaps, but The Overlook hotel’s interiors were made almost identically to those at the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite. My uncle and I visited the hotel in 2000, and I was astounded by how much it reminded me of the Overlook.
Best Line: Little pigs, little pigs, let me in. Not by the hair of your chiny-chin-chin? Well then I'll huff and I'll puff, and I'll blow your house in.

#23 – Double Creature Feature! Anaconda and Lake Placid
This is the classic tale of some researchers (park rangers) who are systematically stalked and eaten by a mysterious, gigantic creature. To their horror, they discover an unnaturally large and predatory anaconda (alligator) is living in the water, and that guest star John Voight (Betty White) knew about it the whole time! The anaconda (alligator) continues to eat the personnel whole, even jumping down a waterfall (pulling down a helicopter) at one point to score a meal. But love blossoms between Jennifer Lopez and Eric Stolz (Bridget Fonda and Bill Pullman), so all is not lost.
Seriously, these came out the same year and are very nearly the same film. And I love them both.
Best Line (Anaconda): Is it just me or does the jungle make you really, really horny?
Best Line (Lake Placid): (PS- this line is delivered by Betty White, folks.)
If I had a dick, this is where I'd tell you to suck it!

Comments

[TomC]

OK, I'm going to Netflix to add Anaconda and Lake Placid to this list. These sound so bad I need to see them.

[RushWife]

Regarding The Shining - Maybe only interesting to me ;-) The exterior scenes were filmed at historic Timberline Lodge which is 1.5 hours from Portland and one of my favorite places to ski and drink hot toddies. http://www.williamjosephgallery.com/images/Artworks/GeddisjpgEmailReady/Geddis%20Timberline%20Lodge%20Mt%20Hood%20Winter%20Morning%202%2072x4.JPG

[RushWife]

Regarding The Shining - Maybe only interesting to me ;-) The exterior scenes were filmed at an historic ski lodge 1.5 hours from Portland and one of my favorite places to ski and drink hot toddies. http://www.williamjosephgallery.com/images/Artworks/GeddisjpgEmailReady/Geddis%20Timberline%20Lodge%20Mt%20Hood%20Winter%20Morning%202%2072x4.JPG

The first time I went there as an adult was after I had seen The Shining. I went into the lodge expecting to recognize it from the movie, but boy was it different. Now I know where the interior came from...Thanks for the useless trivia that is actually interesting to the both of us ;-)

[RushWife]

oops! Sorry for the double post...I didn't think the first one worked and I also wanted to add the stuff about the interior. Happy Halloween all! :-)

[Jack]

My favorite line from "The Shining" is "Here's Johnny!!"....But my favorite scary scene is when the wife finally looks at her would be author husband's manuscript and finds page after page of "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" repeated ad infinitum...The sheer horror on the wife's face is got to be one of the top 10 scary moments of film history...

Oh, and a small correction, the wife is played by Shelley Duval, not Shelley Long.

Really like your movie ratings, keep 'em coming.

Jack
ASU 75