MOUTH OF MADNESS is great, the only movie I've seen so far to really capture Lovecraft's vibe.

PRINCE OF DARKNESS feels a little like a Lovecraft short story, too -- though that's damning it with faint praise, as Lovecraft's stories are meandering weirdnesses that don't lend themselves well to movies in themselves. They can form the seeds of inspiration for more developed stuff, though. They should've left THE THING alone and seen what they could make of POD instead.

Although come to think of it, I think the good modern version of POD might be CONSTANTINE.

THEY LIVE is mostly just silly.

Hmm... If you assume the humans can ever win, yes I love Prince of Darkness for the whole idea that God exists in the anti-mater side of things, and thus is evil to us. Puts a nice spin on things. Music is good, too.

Carpenter considers The Thing, Prince of Darkness, and Mouth of Madness to form a sort of trilogy, so maybe you guys should do all three.

Well, yes. Like I said, it's fun. It's the more pop-corny of the two, to be sure.

Sure, but I want you to put on these sunglasses first...

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They Live is exactly the type of movie it makes sense to remake: a small film with an idea that wasn't explored completely and which a new writer/director can really play with. It still will probably suck, but you never know

In the same vein, Kingdom Of Heaven could be fun.

It might be a prequel but it looks like a shot for shot remake with Kurt Russell replaced by... Lucy McClane from Live Free or Die Hard? Wow, yeah that sounds really bad. But i'll wait till i see it before calling it crap. Not a lot of sf movie coming out these days.

Also, everyone knows the Alien prequels are dead, right?

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You're a better man than me, I got no desire to see it

Birth of a Nation? That movie may have been groundbreaking in its time as a directorial tour-de-force, but those lessons have been learned and applied ever since. Meanwhile, its treatment of its subject is just jaw-droppingly, horrendously, brain-bogglingly idiotic.

At first it's hilarious. And then you stop and think: this fucker really bought into this shit. And a whole bunch of other fuckers rebuilt the KKK based on its inspiration.

Well anything Alien related will be better then AVPR!

I've seen Birth of a Nation exactly once, in film school.  (Every semester BOAN alternated with Intolerance as the "required viewing DW Griffith classic", and thus I've never seen Intolerance.)

It was impressive on the groundbreaking first-time-anybody-ever-did-that level, but yeah, it's a bit of a grind to sit through.  And certainly gets uncomfortable at the finale, when you find yourself thinking "Gee, I hope the noble Klansmen get there before those evil darkies rape the white women".

So for me, the best commentary there could ever be for BOAN has already been done - when the lights went up after that one viewing, the instructor got up in front of the class and said, "And now you have watched Birth of a Nation, which means you never have to watch it again."

please don't make me watch Kingdom of Heaven again... I've wasted 6 hours of my life on that film, and that's enough.  You haven't done Bladerunner yet.  You need to do that one. 

You guys haven't tackled anything Kurosawa yet.  You guys should do Seven Samurai!  Talk about some of the techniques used in that film like the axial cut.