Peter Pan advances

Aladdin wins. Somebody check the status of Serg.

And Halloween should be second in this tourney. Pet Sematary wins.

How many creepy midgets were in Exorcist? EXACTLY!

Except you're wrong, because they're not dead.



;-)

I haven't seen Dog Soldiers but I've been meaning to for awhile. I like werewolf films and I haven't seen many good ones. Now that I have my DVR I'll be on the look out for it. I feel like I see it on the schedule every once and awhile so hopefully I'll catch it.

I don't much care about critics either. I rarely read any of them. I think Ebert is amusing and very fair. And he has the unique ability to judge a movie for what it is and not what he likes. He'll watch a decent horror and say "It was gory, mediocre story and acting, and not my thing. But if you're a horror fan and don't mind the gore it was a good mood piece with some good effects." Outside of him I don't care. I just bring it up because I sometimes look to critics as a whole just to get a sense of how a film is being received. If you have 80 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and have a 89% positive rating that's pleasing a LOT of people. And critics tend to be really bitter assholes. Especially internet ones. So I'm not saying "good reviews=good movie." But when I see a movie I wouldn't expect to review well get good reviews it makes me raise an eyebrow.

BTW, since we brought up Cursed I think I watched it 3 times desperately wanting it not to suck. I don't even know why. I like Ricci, I love Craven, and it felt like it could be good. But everytime I watched it I just hated it more and more. But I had to keep giving it chances. I'll probably give it another one just because I want it to...

Oh wait, what's that?


Yeah, ok. That makes more sense.

And this is just weird:


Yeah, why did I give this movie more chances? And how did I manage to miss that it was Williamson with Craven and all those damn Teen Beat actors? If I had just made that connection I could have saved myself so much more time.

Full circle, baby.

While I haven't seen Cat in the Hat I can't argue it being worse than Batman & Robin. Because at least from Batman & Robin, you were able to get this awesome clip:

Cool!

I was just joking about the B&W thing. I mean it might have explained something but I really do think Psycho's just ruined for you. Kubrick and Hitchcock are different directors and the two films play on different styles. Suspense is pretty much Hitchcock's foundation. Take that away and you lose a lot. This has been something that's pissed me off about Simpsons, Family Guy, and all the parody entertainment for a long time. Its also something that I really noticed a few years back when I was watching Bravo's "100 Scariest Movie Moments." Bravo sometimes really seemed to go out of its way to build up the moment but not show it to you. Other times it basically said "the film builds to THIS" and then tells/shows it. They just ruined it for me. And it sunk in that anyone who hadn't seen all those other ones I had would be getting that a lot.

Yeah, Night of the Living Dead was colorized. 3 times. The most recent one doesn't look bad but the B&W is still the best. The first colorization had green zombies. Then for the 30th Anniversary Romero's former partner Russo added new scenes and recut it. Russo had split from Romero a long time ago and made the Return of the Living Dead movies but retained half ownership of Night. And its been remade twice. The 1990 version was by Tom Savini, Romero's makeup and effects guy, and Romero produced it. It was basically a gorey version with a stronger female lead. Then it got remade a year or two ago by... someone. Night of the Living Dead is now officially public domain so if you want, you can remake it.

The most recent one does appear to however star Sid Haig so I guess I have to see it.

Oh, fuck. I screwed that up. That's what I get for doing these polls half awake.

Hoorah for Sexy Sonny Corleone advancing!

Should have closed this almost 24 hours ago. Life got crazy. Silence of the Lambs runs over Night of the Living Dead. Silence is a great film and all but I still have to say this.

BOOOOOOOO! BOOOOOOOOOO!

Night deserved better.

Should have closed this almost 24 hours ago. Life got crazy. Ash is out of the tourney all together and Freddy moves onto the 2nd round.

Should have closed this almost 24 hours ago. Life got crazy. Ring and Ringu caused so much hassle in this tournament and they both get crushed. This one to Poltergeist. Good.

Should have closed this almost 24 hours ago. Life got crazy. Hopefully this one didn't get screwed up by that but if it did, every poll had the same extension. The Exorcists NARROWLY sneaks by Shaun of the Dead. Its a great comedy and all but THE EXORCIST. At least that spoilers is out now and we can get to business.

Should have closed this almost 24 hours ago. Life got crazy. Action over SciFi. One of my favorite of all time falls to Jaws. Bastards.

Should have closed this almost 24 hours ago. Life got crazy. I'm surprised although I probably shouldn't have been. I expected the recent work to advance. But Carrie has a fairly easy go of it against the Sixth Sense and advances.

Should have closed this almost 24 hours ago. Life got crazy. Noone cares about how badly Scream hurt us. It tops Blair Witch 9-7.

Should have closed this almost 24 hours ago. Life got crazy. The Shining rolls over Devil's Rejects. Kubrick > Zombie? Go figure.

Batman advances to face Cat in the Hat.

Cat in the Hat advances to face Batman.

Shenanigans, says I!

Lady and the Tramp moves on.