Saw a Takashi Miike picture called The Great Yokai War. "Yokai" is a Japanese term for monsters from folklore, as opposed to the more familiar kaiju. It's a kids' picture, about a young boy from Tokyo sent out to live in the countryside with his older sister and his intermittently senile grandfather. When a vengeful spirit appears, the boy gets caught up in a war between warring groups of yokai and must find his courage to become the "Kirin Rider", the hero who will set everything to rights. It's not a bad picture - nothing deep, but an amusing story. Some of the yokai are really trippy, Japanese folklore can get pretty "out there", apparently.
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It's really something to see those old films at a drive-in, in particular. We're lucky to have two within a short drive of us (one outside of town and another an hour away outside a Lake Huron tourist town). The nearest one only does first-run, but maybe the practice will catch on.
The big screen really does nothing to enhance the cheesy 1950s F/X, but everything else holds up quite well, and those F/X are a part of Them!
This has nothing to do with those "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" movies I watched last week, but we came across it while searching for them. then it came up on TCM during the week: a sign. It stars both Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, which came as a surprise to us because I thought we had seen all of the movies they did together. this is a really good one, very moody, very suspenseful.
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Never seen it on a big screen. That must have been awesome.
It's really something to see those old films at a drive-in, in particular. We're lucky to have two within a short drive of us (one outside of town and another an hour away outside a Lake Huron tourist town). The nearest one only does first-run, but maybe the practice will catch on.
The big screen really does nothing to enhance the cheesy 1950s F/X, but everything else holds up quite well, and those F/X are a part of Them!
Never been to a drive-in. Not a lot of them around here.
The effects are fine for 71 years ago.
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This has nothing to do with those "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" movies I watched last week, but we came across it while searching for them. then it came up on TCM during the week: a sign. It stars both Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, which came as a surprise to us because I thought we had seen all of the movies they did together. this is a really good one, very moody, very suspenseful.
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