(One aside: it is located on the top shelf which the owner refers to as
the “erotica” shelf. Heck, I’m over 21, way over. )

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I must have my eyesight tested

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Tim -you are spooking me out big time! I just bought this lovely Goldfrapp CD at the weekend, been playing it ever since. It's bloody lovely isn't it? Very Morricone-esque in places, Barry-esque in others - pretty good combination...

Superb album!...any idea if Goldfrapp has done anything else?

The film is just plain WEIRD. Don’t expect it to be like the other Phantom
of the Opera movies. This is the first Argento movie I’ve seen and didn’t
know that he was into horror. This movie was really into “gag/upchuck” horror.
Not scary, just gross.
Lots of body parts being ripped out, lots of blood, and fairly
graphic sex and nudity. I kind of kept hoping it would get back to the opera
stage and the music. Rather inane dialogue. Still Morricone, as always,
provides an interesting score.

I think my favorite Phantom in terms of music is the
one staring Claude Rains as the Phantom.

(To my “boys:” Shawn, Timmer, JJH, Jeron and the rest of you...you’re NOT
old enough to watch this film according to mom. )

If only I had arrived sooner, I could have saved you Joan from this abomination of a 'film'. This movie is just awful, and such a pale shadow of Argento's better films.

As Pete predicted, I must warn everyone to get the DRG CD of the Maestro's score(although I have yet to myself) and avoid this turkey....we can only hope that NONHOSONNO is better....

I finally got the DVD of DEEP RED last week, and while the violence may be off-putting to Miss Joan it sure is a great film. Involving plot, wonderful visuals....a horror film must. And if you're going to frag me because of 'questionable' acting in these films, get lost. How can you not be engrossed when David Hemmings walks down that hallway, trying to remember the forgotten clue at the end, and the shock when he does.

So there! Now I'm going to read the rest of this thread

NP:Small Soldiers(Goldsmith)Dunham Edition Bravo J!

A more uninvolving rendition of PHANTOM will never be seen.....

OHMSS76, I'm far from delicate( ) and don't mind violence at all in a movie if it contributes to the film. I just don't care for gore for gore's sake; it isn't scary, and I love horror movies that scare me. Recommend some Argento movies you think are good. I'll see if Deep Red is around.

Thanks for all this great information.

Didn't mean to imply anything of the sort....my tastes are just rather jaded.

The thing about Argento is that he typically makes the same movie each time, reconfiguring the setting and characters. His masterpiece is arguably SUSPERIA, with a great(and cited by FSM as one of 100 Great Scores on CD!) score by Goblin. The movie is very violent, but visually hypnotic and involving. For me it blends surrealist,silent, and avant garde film techniques, along with traditional 'scary movie' plot trappings. His other films are more along the lines of standard 'whodunnit' plotting. His animal trilogy (The Bird with the Crystal Plumage,Cat o' Nine Tails,Four Flies on Grey Velvet) level out the violence a bit, focusing more on atmosphere and tension so that may be a good place to start. They all have alternatly eerie/tonal scores by Ennio Morricone.
The (somewhat unfinished) Three Mothers Trilogy(Susperia,Inferno, and either Tenebrae or Phenomena) are more gruesome, but visually stunning and form a sort of Gothic-Operatic arch. Inferno boasts a wonderful score by Keith Emerson for piano,orchestra, and chorus, while the other two films have more standard(but still excellent IMO) synth scores by various people.

Hope this very brief thumbnail sketch of Dario Argento helps a bit

I'm interested to know what other people think on this topic...and dismissive "It sucks" posts are unwelcome

Please pass the breadsticks!!

My two cents or ramblings on violence in movies.

How most audiences react to violence often depends on the NOVELTY
or uniqueness of its employment in a scene. The original Psycho shower scene
stunned, shocked, and really scared audiences AT THAT TIME. By today’s
standards, it is pretty tame because the envelope on violence has been pushed
a lot further. Bonnie And Clyde is another movie whose ending once shocked
the audience. The bullets became a metallic wall holding up their already dead
bodies. It was an odd combination of beauty and grotesqueness, and that end
scene served to show how truly paranoid the law was about these criminals.
(Historically not an accurate movie.) Peckinpah broke new ground with his
alternating edits and slow motion shots making violence an alluring ballet in
The Wild Bunch. (Great Fielding music too.) However, his choreography of
death and mayhem has been mimicked many times muting the
shock value.

I think some movies must show violence, or they’ll lose the impact
of their themes. How can a movie portray man’s inhumanity to man without
seeing the effects of our actions? Schindler’s List must show us the horror
of genocide. Could we really appreciate the sacrifice our grandfathers made
at Normandy in SPR if Spielberg had tamed the realism of the invasion? A poem, a painting, a photo, a song, a movie or any art form sometimes needs graphic gore.

On the other hand, when it comes to horror or scary movies, I appreciate the
director who empowers the audience’s fears by leaving some things to our
imaginations. The most frightening aspect of fear resides in our ability to imagine
what is taking place. For me, one of the scariest movies is Alien. It broke new
ground by having the creature burst out of the man’s stomach. Bloody, gory,
novel and scary.
But Ridley Scott didn’t pursue blood baths throughout the film. When the alien
towards the end corners the girl and man, we see its tail going around her leg
and hear their screams through Ripley’s earphones. Truly one of the scariest
scenes. I can still hear the lady gulping and pleading and imagine that scene.
First attack in Jaws is another fine example. Really scary. What is dragging
her? What is pulling her under? Her panicked breathing is frightening. By the
end we get to see the full meal deal. I find these movies a lot scarier than
say The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which I’ve yet to watch in its entirety.

I say yes to violence in many cases. Even Disney movies don’t avoid violence.
Daddy lion died in The Lion King. I just think it should be judiciously employed
and serve some purpose other than a gag reflex.

Meandering over.

NP Day of the Dolphins

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