Comments on: Douglas Buck: What a Fucking Cunt™!

By: Chelsea Rae

Chelsea Rae — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 16:24:06 +0000

I’m so glad I’m not the only person who hated this movie. I’m honestly ashamed to say I watched the entire thing. By the end, I kind of wanted to stab my eyes with the fork on my night stand, but then I couldn’t finish watching the train wreck that is Sisters. Obviously, you can see my dilemma.

By: Marky

Marky — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 15:47:21 +0000

I can’t wait for your round-up of the year’s best films you haven’t seen!

By: Dru

Dru — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 17:13:32 +0000

Cricket9- animals falling on hard times make me cry too. But I’m with you on the giant rats, crazy bees and piranhas- I can take a monster movie or two (Godzilla), but as horror-film material, they’re useless. Humans are scarier than anything else the animal kingdom could come up with.

(in case you’re ever in the mood for it, the film I was watching last night was Pulse(2001))

By: Cricket9

Cricket9 — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 00:13:55 +0000

Dru, I love horror movies, but not blood and dismemberment for the sake of it. “Rosemary’s Baby” is csary enough, especially creepy husband. Giant rats, crazy bees, piranhas etc – no appeal whatsoever. Joseph Campbell is great, and I sob my heart out when animals fall on hard times. The Human Centipede? I’m scared enough of a regular centipede, thanks!
@Mr. Duff: that play by The Bard is rather insufferable; I’m guessing that the outcome will be: everyone dies in a horrible way, some people are baked in a pie and eaten by their unsuspecting relatives at a banquet. Applause!

By: Srenna

Srenna — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 22:00:29 +0000

That line about Lou Doillon! Aha haha!

As far as this director and his heinous films: I don’t understand why “talent” like this is encouraged.

By: Dru

Dru — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 20:06:13 +0000

Also, as Artful Lawyer mentions, good, classic mythic stories tend to reel us in- I’m a sucker for Joseph Campbell’s ideas. But a formula is still a formula, and it’s possible to fuck up its use and make a boring waste of space out of it (e.g. the dreadful, derivative Star-Wars ripoff Eragon)

By: Dru

Dru — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 20:03:28 +0000

Artful Lawyer- interesting you mention Alexandra Sokoloff, I read a book by her last month that made me think she should stick to screenwriting (and the book in question dealt with dark, nastay stuff and was boring, as most novelisations-of-movies tend to be)

Cricket9- do see it if you can, my five-year-old memory might not be v. accurate but I remember liking it a lot, the otter goes through a tough time though. When I grew up, I read that the film was based on a book whose author was a WWI veteran- he had a horrible time in the trenches and retreated to the English countryside afterwards, and wrote there.

annemarie and damaia- that is one of my favourite movies ever. Why bother with a weapon when you can simply haul the bastard over the threshold and use the door, ha!

Constance- I actually like Lou’s looks too. I’ve never thought of her as an actress, though I looked this one up online and she seems to have some decent reviews (the film got panned though).

In defence of the dark and nasty stuff- I love horror movies, I’m about to pop one into my computer to watch just now and I expect to be scared witless. And good horror movies can be fantastic. I just don’t think I’ll ever be strong enough to watch stuff like Saw or The Human Centipede, their appeal escapes me even if they’re technically fantastic in terms of plot, performances etc. But nastiness for the sake of nastiness is never worth watching on screen.

(apologies for the epic length of the comment)

By: Constance

Constance — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 16:32:06 +0000

I like Chloe and I think Lou is beautiful, so i honestly would no mind seeing this movie just to look at them, but I guess the vehemence of your hate for the film must be a sign for me to stay clear of it…

By: David Duff

David Duff — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 14:41:52 +0000

You lot simply do not understand film-making. The character with no hands, Ms. Lavi Andronicus, is going to the Post Office to post a really important letter upon which the whole plot depends. Unfortunately, she faces the difficutly of how to stick the stamp on the envelope without any hands! The tension of this moment is one of the most famous scenes in the history of film-making. Will she lick it? and how will she stick it? are the two questions which keep audiences on the edge of their seats. I refuse to divulge the outcome, you will just have to see it for yourselves, but ‘wonderful’ isn’t the word!

Finally I would like to wish all you FoS (Friends of Sis) a splendid Christmas and New Year. As for you, Sis, I wish you a steady resupply of courage, just in case the almost inexhaustible stocks of the virtue which you obviously possess, runs short.

By: Artful Lawyer

Artful Lawyer — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 14:20:25 +0000

Nickie’s dad ROCKS.

I am working through Alexandra Sokoloff’s great Screenwriting Tips for Authors (available on Kindle, or google her for her website). Good movies, novels, stories of any kind are structure, structure, structure and humans love a good, classic mythic story – Star Wars being one of many examples (the save the world/chosen one/hero’s quest storyline being really resonant to most of us). Dark filth merely for the sake of being dark and nastay shows a lack of creativity and understanding of human art and culture.