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So. Who here is buying THE MIST on DVD?
I don't suppose anybody here is buying the 2-disc special edition of THE MIST?
Because only on the 2-disc version is there also a black and white version of the film, director Frank Darabont's original vision, which is supposedly fifteen times more awesome than the theatrical color version.
I haven't seen the film either way, and have heard seriously mixed. But Frank Darabont is an old-school monster-movie geek with deserved Oscar cred, and is one of the very few people to excellently adapt Stephen King to film (King's strength is as a storyteller, not in his plots nor characters). The dude co-wrote both NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 3 and THE BLOB remake (thus scarring me for life by creating one of the most enduring nightmares to this day) as well as directing SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION. He's earned my trust and curiosity.
Netflix only has the regular edition (while somehow also having the second disc?), and even if I can figure out how to adjust the color on my TV screen to black and white, I somehow suspect it won't be the same. Or maybe it will.
Or perhaps THE MIST just blows no matter what color it's in. But I'd still like to see this black and white version.
So, yeah. Anyone in my area buying the 2-disc special edition, so that I may bum it off you?
EDIT: Ooh, it turns out that the second disc from Netflix DOES have the black and white version! Never mind. The one review there says "I've seen both versions and I'll go ahead and say that I'll probably never watch the film in color again. The b&w version is the way to go. Incredible!" Consider me doubly-intrigued.
Because only on the 2-disc version is there also a black and white version of the film, director Frank Darabont's original vision, which is supposedly fifteen times more awesome than the theatrical color version.
I haven't seen the film either way, and have heard seriously mixed. But Frank Darabont is an old-school monster-movie geek with deserved Oscar cred, and is one of the very few people to excellently adapt Stephen King to film (King's strength is as a storyteller, not in his plots nor characters). The dude co-wrote both NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 3 and THE BLOB remake (thus scarring me for life by creating one of the most enduring nightmares to this day) as well as directing SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION. He's earned my trust and curiosity.
Netflix only has the regular edition (while somehow also having the second disc?), and even if I can figure out how to adjust the color on my TV screen to black and white, I somehow suspect it won't be the same. Or maybe it will.
Or perhaps THE MIST just blows no matter what color it's in. But I'd still like to see this black and white version.
So, yeah. Anyone in my area buying the 2-disc special edition, so that I may bum it off you?
EDIT: Ooh, it turns out that the second disc from Netflix DOES have the black and white version! Never mind. The one review there says "I've seen both versions and I'll go ahead and say that I'll probably never watch the film in color again. The b&w version is the way to go. Incredible!" Consider me doubly-intrigued.
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No one believes me when I tell them how I'm still kinda freaked out by the Blob (so much so that I occasionally get wary around sink and shower drains... GHOSTBUSTERS II probably didn't help either), but that's because they never saw the 80's remake!
Usually when I describe it to them, and get to the part of the guy's screaming till his dissolving jaw dislodges inside the Blob, that's usually the point where they go, "Okay, okay, stop now, I get it!"
The 80's truly were. The 70's were the golden era for cinema in general, but for geeks and lovers of genre film, the 80's was OUR golden era. I never realized that until just now.
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I saw what happened to Anthony Perkins in CRIMES OF PASSION (where he menaced Jessica Rabbit with a lethal dildo)...showers are safe for me.
It's glaringly obvious that Dean Koontz, America's Least Original Horror Writer, was rewriting THE BLOB when he wrote PHANTOMS.