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26th June 2001 at 10:42 am #42258
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Originally posted by FX:
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[i]kind of cringed when dt dissed the fly too, but i have to add i loved both versions, which are very different and very good…[/i][/b]

Oh I’m with you on that. I think the original is great. The “unmasking” is just as good as the parallel scene in Chaney Sr.’s original [i]Phantom of the Opera[/i]. Scared the bejeesus out of me as a tyke.

quote[quote][b][i]still not my favorite cronenberg though, and i am not sure cronenberg would be bad movies,or good bad movies, he is just….different…trying to decide if i like videodrome better than dead ringers, but then i keep thinking about scanners and the brood and just can’t make up my mind…[/i][/b][/quote]

[i]The Brood[/i] all the way. At least that’s how I feel today. It, along with [i]Shivers[/i], aka [i]They Come From Within[/i], are his most underrated films, IMHO. Oh, and there’s [i]Rabid[/i]…

quote[quote][b][i]still think basket case is in the top ten for best bad movies [img]http://www.sadgeezer.com/ubb/smile.gif[/img][/i][/b][/quote]

Oh, you can’t pass on the “bad” judgement you’ve used before on this one…Okay, so the acting isn’t great. So the effects (and yes, that includes the wig) aren’t spectacular (but, then, it was made for something like $2.50). But you can’t deny that this little baby [b]works[/b]. It just chugs along and there’s no stopping it until Duane is hanging from a fire escape. It gives that special “Times Square”-in-its-ugly-glory feeling to people who haven’t even been there. And you want originality in your plot turns…Sure, it may be a standard “taking revenge on those that wronged us” plot, but how many of these plots involve a mutant former siamese twin living in a large picnic basket, with the strength of 10 men, the ability to communicate telepathically with his brother and eat mass quantities of hamburgers, and whose comeuppance comes about because he wants to get funky with his brother’s new girlfriend? Oh, man, it ain’t nothin’ but sweet. One of the finest motion pictures to emerge from the exploitation/horror boom of the early ’80s. Kiss it square on the lips and buy it in every format in which it’s released (and the Special Edition DVD will be out soon!!! IT WILL BE MINE!!!).

–Aleck