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Spring: Before Sunrise The Sci-Fi\Horror Movie
Posted on 12/29/15 at 10:53 am
Posted on 12/29/15 at 10:53 am
So I watched this recently:
I actually dug it quite a bit. It takes a pretty well-worn premise, the international romance, and throw in Lovecraft/Dracula/Science and all sorts of weird implications. It's a little slow moving, but I thought the leads carried the film well. Unique, and although classified as horror, they mean that very loosely.
Anyone else catch it?
I actually dug it quite a bit. It takes a pretty well-worn premise, the international romance, and throw in Lovecraft/Dracula/Science and all sorts of weird implications. It's a little slow moving, but I thought the leads carried the film well. Unique, and although classified as horror, they mean that very loosely.
Anyone else catch it?
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Posted on 12/29/15 at 11:03 am to Freauxzen
I've watched it 3 times and I absolutely love it.
Convinced my gf to watch it(she hates horror) and she also loved it.
The chemistry between the leads is great and I love how genre bending it is.
Benson's other film, Resolution is similar in that it's a genre bender and it's also excellent.
The score is also pretty beautiful and some of those shots of Italy are gorgeous.
Just an all around great film
Convinced my gf to watch it(she hates horror) and she also loved it.
The chemistry between the leads is great and I love how genre bending it is.
Benson's other film, Resolution is similar in that it's a genre bender and it's also excellent.
The score is also pretty beautiful and some of those shots of Italy are gorgeous.
Just an all around great film
Posted on 12/29/15 at 11:04 am to Freauxzen
I watched it a 6 or so months back and really enjoyed it. They did a pretty decent job on the effects considering they were obviously working on a budget.
super short thread about it
super short thread about it
Posted on 12/29/15 at 11:06 am to yurintroubl
For people who really like Spring, Monsters is another film I'd recommend. Gareth Edwards got a lot of praise for it and it earned him the Godzilla directing job.
Posted on 12/29/15 at 11:16 am to Pilot Tiger
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Just an all around great film
It really is. And it just kind of lingers, still thinking about it today. And the ending was great.
Posted on 12/29/15 at 11:20 am to Freauxzen
in case anyone is wondering, it's on Amazon
(i just added to my Watchlist)
(i just added to my Watchlist)
Posted on 12/29/15 at 11:35 am to SlowFlowPro
you better like it
Posted on 12/29/15 at 11:37 am to Freauxzen
quote:yep, I had the same reaction. The trailers don't do it justice.
And it just kind of lingers, still thinking about it today.
It's very heartfelt. I love the old man and the conversations he and Evan have and how Italy is basically another character.
Thinking about this movie taking place in the US just doesn't feel as special
Posted on 12/29/15 at 12:07 pm to Pilot Tiger
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Thinking about this movie taking place in the US just doesn't feel as special
Most definitely and....
SPOILERS
As much as this film works on different levels. It's also an inversion of the Dracula myth. The old, seasoned person with the young, naive virginal representation, but this time the ancient one is Female. It flips the gender roles but not in a superficial/overt way.
Posted on 12/29/15 at 8:10 pm to Pilot Tiger
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the tracking shot with this song is great
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Ah, good call on that one.
Posted on 1/23/16 at 9:17 am to Freauxzen
watched this last night and it was pretty good
and i came to post this review
***SPOILERS***
quote:
As much as this film works on different levels. It's also an inversion of the Dracula myth. The old, seasoned person with the young, naive virginal representation, but this time the ancient one is Female. It flips the gender roles but not in a superficial/overt way.
and i came to post this review
***SPOILERS***
quote:
For all her protestations, her transformation process is interrupted by love. She is mortal now. Because she is in love with Evan. For the first time in two millennia. So she was either consciously lying before about not being in love, which doesn’t make any sense. Or she was unconsciously lying, denying to herself that she was in love with Evan. Either is uncomfortably close to suggesting that women cannot be trusted to tell the truth about their emotions, or about what they want. Her mouth said no, but her body said yes.
Disgusting.
Posted on 1/23/16 at 10:49 am to SlowFlowPro
I watched this movie because of this thread a few weeks back. I thought it was really good. Jesus that person who wrote that is insecure and has a stick up the arse. It's about people and the mysterious nature of love. There's an interplay of maybe the man is just naive and his love may be superficial and the woman is jaded after millennia of life and doesn't even really want love. But the power of love overcomes her desire to live forever and proves more important. It is something that a person can not consciously overcome.
You have to be looking for a reason to be offended to pull the bull shite in the review out of it. You have to be inherently sexist and only looking at them as a man and woman rather than two people to get that out of it. Jeez.
You have to be looking for a reason to be offended to pull the bull shite in the review out of it. You have to be inherently sexist and only looking at them as a man and woman rather than two people to get that out of it. Jeez.
Posted on 1/23/16 at 10:54 am to Peazey
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Jesus that person who wrote that is insecure and has a stick up the arse.
well when you are part of a belief system that looks for rape everywhere, you will find rape everywhere
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But the power of love overcomes her desire to live forever and proves more important. It is something that a person can not consciously overcome.
yeah but i can just as easily write this up as "independent woman who has made it on her own for 2,000 years gives up everything for a man who gives up nothing", thus showing the inequality of the sexes and the extra demands on women in our patriarchal society
and i wouldn't call this movie horror at all. i'd call it something like a sci-rom or something more scifi than horror
Posted on 1/23/16 at 10:59 am to SlowFlowPro
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well when you are part of a belief system that looks for rape everywhere, you will find rape everywhere
It would seem to me that the very idea of a relationship between a man and a woman offends her.
Posted on 1/23/16 at 11:05 am to SlowFlowPro
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and i came to post this review
***SPOILERS***
Saw that linked from somewhere else too. SFP's crusade against Feminism. Keep going. That review was insane. Literally.Posted on 1/23/16 at 11:21 am to SlowFlowPro
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yeah but i can just as easily write this up as "independent woman who has made it on her own for 2,000 years gives up everything for a man who gives up nothing", thus showing the inequality of the sexes and the extra demands on women in our patriarchal society
Also, I think it is likely that if the narrative was the opposite, say a man gives up everything for a woman who gives up little, then the same sort of position of the woman who wrote the review would claim that is indicative of a society who thinks that men are valued more than woman, and woman do not have as much to offer a man in a relationship. I think it is funny how her critique of this inverse narrative assumes the opposite that woman are inherently more valuable than men.
The fact is that this narrative in particular regardless of the roles of the woman and man relies on one party to give up more than the other. That 1 party gives up less creates the conflict that it is unknown whether love is there or that it exists at all. If both give up equally a lot then there isn't this same internal conflict of doubt and fear of not knowing the mind of another, although there can be external conflict. If both parties don't give up anything at all then there is no conflict and no story.
Posted on 1/23/16 at 12:32 pm to SlowFlowPro
quote:holy shite
watched this last night and it was pretty good
Posted on 1/23/16 at 12:33 pm to Pilot Tiger
Posted on 1/23/16 at 12:39 pm to SlowFlowPro
I'm surprised you thought it was pretty good
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