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Post by Mara on Apr 18, 2007 16:04:32 GMT -5
The car's alive... or is it? Anyway... another favorite movie of mine, I don't know why. Maybe at the time I first saw it (about ten years ago or so) I thought it'd be really cool to have a car with a mind of its own.
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Post by xkamelx on Apr 21, 2007 3:01:51 GMT -5
Christine is kind of cheesy by today's standards, but when it was released it was pretty good! Overall I think it is a good movie. I saw it when I was a kid and swore I'd grow up and buy a car just like her and name it Christine, lol. I still like this movie, I think I sat up late one night last summer and watched on SciFi. Good memories.
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Post by Bones on Apr 22, 2007 20:35:37 GMT -5
I had a fixation on Stephen King Movies as a kid & pre-teen {The Shinning, Carrie, Firestarter, Samelm's Lot, It, Christine, Children of the corn etc} so yeah i loved this film. When i first saw it as a kid the end freaked me out when: After the car was crushed and was being a wheeled away as a compact steel cube, that rock n roll music started again and you just had to wonder if it was still alive! Plus great ending with a bit of the metal falling dow, or was it trying to piece itself back together?
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Post by Mara on Apr 23, 2007 14:53:07 GMT -5
Oh, indeed.. the ending really makes you think.... perhaps it'll keep on going on and on....
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Post by xkamelx on Apr 24, 2007 1:58:50 GMT -5
I had a fixation on Stephen King Movies as a kid & pre-teen {The Shinning, Carrie, Firestarter, Samelm's Lot, It, Christine, Children of the corn etc} so yeah i loved this film. When i first saw it as a kid the end freaked me out when: After the car was crushed and was being a wheeled away as a compact steel cube, that rock n roll music started again and you just had to wonder if it was still alive! Plus great ending with a bit of the metal falling dow, or was it trying to piece itself back together? I was the same way, I loved all of those Stephen King movies. Do you remember Cat's Eye? That was one of my favorites, and today I still like it, especially the Quitters Inc. segment. And Children of the Corn; "He who walks behind the rows will shed his blood for the corn" - or something like that. My friends and I would always quote Malachi.
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Post by Bones on Apr 24, 2007 3:18:42 GMT -5
Children Of The Corn was one of the first ones i saw when i was 10 or 11, actually possiblly 9 as we still lived at our first house. My sister and i loved it and still have on-running jokes about that film, It's one of my favourites, and not just favourite hoor films but favourite films, i have it on DVD. Cat's eyes was another HUGE favourite of mine especially the story with the troll and Drew Barrymore, the troll who steal's kid's breat. Plus the cat was a motif and i love them which is allso why i loved it as a kid. My greatest memory was of the troll spinnning around on the record player to the tune of Every Breath You Take by The Police. I was very lucky to see it on TV again last year and it only heightened my appreciation for Cat's eye. I also loved the quit smoking story {as it was 3 stories} and the middle one were some tennis guy was introuble so this this mafia type guy said he could have his life if he walked around the very thin foo-width ledging around the building, which was very high up!
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Post by xkamelx on Apr 24, 2007 3:28:24 GMT -5
The 80's really was a good time to grow up, I'm sure you'll more than agree with me! I have Cat's Eye on VHS somewhere, it's probably with the V: The Final Battle" VHS tapes that I cannot find. I was telling my daughter scary stories the other night, and told her about General the cat, and the troll who was stealing a little girl's breath. Once I told her it was a movie she begged to see it, but I'm still unable to find it. I haven't seen it since before she was born, so it's been about 9 years, I'm anxious to watch Cat's Eye again. I always thought that little troll was a bit scary, lol. The part that was scary in the Quitters Inc. segment was when James Woods threw the golf club (was it a golf club?) back into the closet and heard the man grunt from being hit with it. If that happened to me in real life I'd be a little bit more than afraid, lol. I do not like heights at all, so the segment with the man on the ledge was a little unnerving to me, especially when the pigeons were pecking at his ankle and he almost fell. Cat's Eye is a classic movie, I love it so much! I haven't seen Children of the Corn for a long time either, but remember as a kid in school a few friends and I would only see each other in art class, and we'd always get in trouble because the teacher was kind of a push-over so we'd act like the corn kids until she finally had enough. She had never seen the movie so naturally she thought we were trying to be satan worshipers. lol, good times.
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Post by valderra on May 12, 2007 5:03:16 GMT -5
I was the same way, I loved all of those Stephen King movies. There is hardly a Stephen King book that has been made into a film, where I thought the film was even half decent - not after reading the story. I much prefer to watch the film if I haven't read the book first - I won't get too disappointed then. Christine was the first book I read by Stephen King, and it was the first book I read in English - about 25 years ago. It was a great story, and incredibly spookie. Again, using my own imagination has made me enjoyed the book far more than watching the film.
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Post by Bones on May 26, 2007 17:49:22 GMT -5
The 80's really was a good time to grow up, I'm sure you'll more than agree with me! I have Cat's Eye on VHS somewhere, it's probably with the V: The Final Battle" VHS tapes that I cannot find. I was telling my daughter scary stories the other night, and told her about General the cat, and the troll who was stealing a little girl's breath. Once I told her it was a movie she begged to see it, but I'm still unable to find it. I haven't seen it since before she was born, so it's been about 9 years, I'm anxious to watch Cat's Eye again. I always thought that little troll was a bit scary, lol. The part that was scary in the Quitters Inc. segment was when James Woods threw the golf club (was it a golf club?) back into the closet and heard the man grunt from being hit with it. If that happened to me in real life I'd be a little bit more than afraid, lol. I do not like heights at all, so the segment with the man on the ledge was a little unnerving to me, especially when the pigeons were pecking at his ankle and he almost fell. Cat's Eye is a classic movie, I love it so much! Cat's Eye was on TV again tonight. It was an umbrella he put back in the wardrobe when the man grunted. There were other freaky things also like when he checked the wardrobe the next morning, nothing there, but then he saw the footprints on the floor! Also the party at his house where everyone was smoking there were freaky eyes in a painting. But i think my favourite bit in Quiiters Inc. was when he had a crafty fag in the car whilst waiting for a bridge to come back down. All the traffic had moved on when he looked up (after being crouched down in his car for the smoke), all the traffic but this one by the side of him - he'd been caught! Great moment! Then he drove home frantically to see if they'd taken his wife to be put in the "box" for electric shocks. I also liked how Barrymore played the multiple roles, as the girl who also guided the cat throughout.
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Post by xkamelx on May 28, 2007 17:38:16 GMT -5
I never did find my VHS copy, I'm going to have to Netflix it.
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Post by rustyhicks on Jun 8, 2007 11:42:50 GMT -5
Now I'll have to look for it. You've peeked my interest in it again. I haven't seen it in so long. I remember it was a damn good movie though. So was Christine. A lot of his earlier movies were in that 80's b horror movie type of a deal. I just recently picked up Children of the corn and that little kid Issac always creeped me out. So did the music. It really set the tone. Creepshow is another good Stephen King movie that is sort of like Cat's eyes, four short stories to curl your hair
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