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Posted 24 May 2012 - 03:40 PM

And yet you hate Cape Fear. Which to me is almost identical to Shutter Island.

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Posted 24 May 2012 - 03:55 PM

None of those movies were really very good. Yet, Cape Fear had De Niro--either completely hammy, completely brilliant, or both.
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Posted 24 May 2012 - 04:02 PM

I just love the humid and sticky aesthetic of those movies. The atmosphere is dense and sweaty, a bit like Body Heat; and the scores seem to revel in it. I like that sort of stuff.

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Posted 24 May 2012 - 04:10 PM

And yet you hate Cape Fear. Which to me is almost identical to Shutter Island.

Cape Fear is nothing like Shutter Island, nothing like it at all. Shutter Island is never vile and is always better than Cape Fear. Cape Fear fails on so many levels, first of which is being a remake it fails to even touch the quality of the original. Cape Fear is an A-lister remake of a B movie that stoops the the level of a bad Z-grade hack and slash film.
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Posted 24 May 2012 - 04:14 PM

Vile, lol

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Posted 24 May 2012 - 04:36 PM

Gangs Of New York and Cape Fear do have the same over-the-topness.
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Posted 24 May 2012 - 04:38 PM

The former doesn't look sweaty and greasy, though. So I don't associate them.

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Posted 24 May 2012 - 04:57 PM

But that's due to the different subjects, not the storytelling.
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Posted 24 May 2012 - 05:24 PM

Pretty much.

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Posted 25 May 2012 - 01:25 AM

Many people hated the movie but I'm one of the few who likes Daredevil. That and Evanescence (we like to play it in our band).

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Posted 25 May 2012 - 01:40 AM

Many people hated the movie but I'm one of the few who likes Daredevil. That and Evanescence (we like to play it in our band).


I used to work with Amy Lee.
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Posted 25 May 2012 - 01:49 AM

Cool!

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Posted 29 May 2012 - 06:01 PM


Many people hated the movie but I'm one of the few who likes Daredevil. That and Evanescence (we like to play it in our band).


I used to work with Amy Lee.


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Posted 29 May 2012 - 10:04 PM

I love evanescence's lacrymosa.

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Posted 30 May 2012 - 03:59 AM

Their first album was great all the way through. Second album had a few good songs surrounded by forgettable garbage. Third album was terrible from note 1
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