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Bill-Lee
11/18/09

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"they wanted to see [the character] in agony and suffer a lot more..."Is there a shortage of movies about agony and suffering?
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Starwatcher
11/18/09

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[Deleted due to embarrassing impulsive post without bothering to read the article.]
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0kami
11/17/09

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I thought that the death provided the perfect sense of closure with the irony of the icicle. #thelovelybones
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bookling
11/17/09

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Thank god, I thought the story was going to be that people wanted Susie's rape and murder to be more violent. O.O #thelovelybones
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92BuickLeSabre
11/17/09

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MOAR! #thelovelybones
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Nasdaf
11/17/09

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"contained a scene that simply was violent enough."

was or wasn't? #thelovelybones
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Tony Longworth
11/17/09

@Nasdaf: Neither. The scene had precisely the level of violence that the audience wanted. Paradoxically, they didn't care for that. #thelovelybones
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acrobatic rabbit
11/17/09

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SPOILER: (if you haven't read the book)

I thought the icicle-death of George Harvey was alright in the book. I mean it had meaning, from the gifted kids' camp that Lindsey went to and Susie's hypothesis of the "perfect crime". however, it did make me wish he suffered more. #thelovelybones
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RandomFrequentFlierDent
11/17/09

@acrobatic rabbit: I was immensely annoyed by it. Although the universe of the book has a heaven (and presumably a hell) I personally don't believe in either. I think my belief that bad people only pay for their misdeeds during their lifetimes affected my feelings on the ending. So my problem with it lies in being unable to separate my own beliefs from the fictional world of the book. I just . . . wanted to see him caught and put on trial and sent to jail and apply for parole only to be turned down year after year, finally dieing completely alone after a miserable life.

I probably wouldn’t make a very good writer. #thelovelybones
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omgwtflolbbqbye
11/17/09

@acrobatic rabbit: Yea, it sounds like Jackson tried to make it more violent than that even, with 'falling off a cliff' or at least brutal.

And I liked the innocuous nature of the icicle death cause it sort of showed that really, Mr. Harvey was just a nobody in the grand scheme of things.
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omgwtflolbbqbye
11/17/09

@omgwtflolbbqbye: And instead of innocuous I obviously meant anti-climatic, cause I certainly wouldn't totally misuse a word like that...

right? #thelovelybones
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Adah
11/17/09

@RandomFrequentFlierDent: I had mixed feelings about that scene. Yeah, I wanted the guy to face justice. But so many families never get that chance. In retrospect, I think I like that the family had to come to terms with the fact that they never knew exactly waht happened to Susie, and that no one ever faced justice for what happened to Susie. Sometimes our criminal justice system fails, sometimes life doesn't turn out the way we want, sometimes the body of the little girl is never found. How we live with that is a more emotionally resonant story to many people than bringing the killer to a courtroom, which has been done time and time again. #thelovelybones
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Wookie1972
10/30/09

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I'm very, very disappoined that you didn't mention this. #ghostbusters
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Bootknife-Jackson
10/30/09

@Wookie1972: PUTTTTIN ONDA RITTTTZZZZZZZZ!!!!!!!! #ghostbusters
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MonkeyT
10/30/09

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And the ultimate horror comedy, "Arsenic and Old Lace"! (Too bad they couldn't actually get Karloff for the film. They did get him for the audioplay. It rocked.) #ghostbusters
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Julius Seizure - Gall Bladder Free
10/30/09

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Oh, please don't forget "Frankenhooker." ... OK, it was completely forgettable except the VHS box* had a button which, when pushed, would have a screechy voice yell "Wanna Date!" I almost had to sleep on the couch once for pushing it once too often

* Yes, angels, movies used to come on cassettes full of tape - magnetic tape that encoded the image in electromagnetism. No, I'm not making this up. #ghostbusters
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Sproing
10/30/09

@Julius Seizure - Canuck: Put that way, it does sound like mad science, doesn't it? #ghostbusters
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Bootknife-Jackson
10/30/09

@Julius Seizure - Canuck: hey i got your back man, in fact my sister just gave me a new VCR for my birthday, and just today i dropped 20.00 on a huge bag of rockin VHS gems at the Goodwill. who wants to kick it 90's style!? #ghostbusters
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RollsRoyceRevenge
10/30/09

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My vote goes to Disney's "Legend of Sleepy Hollow." Hilarious animation and a savage social satire (which was Irving's intent), it preserves the feel and some of the language of the original short story and has a quite overpoweringly awful phantom.

The moment where the dunderhead Ichabod looks directly into the Headless Horseman's empty collar and is blasted with a round of wicked laughter hits funny and scary right on the dividing line. #ghostbusters
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MonkeyT
10/30/09

@RollsRoyceRevenge: Not to mention a soundtrack with a rockin' cover of The Legend of The Headless Horseman sung by Thurl Ravenscroft (the voice of "Tony the Tiger"). Much harder edged than the gussied-up Bing Crosby version in the film and absolutely my favorite Disney tune.

FOUND IT! Of course, the video is patched together, but the audio is the tune that haunted my childhood (and first got me interested in guitar).

[www.youtube.com]
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SeeingI
10/30/09

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One of the best horror comedies of all time was "The Old Dark House," starring Charles Laughton and Boris Karloff, directed by James "Frankenstein" Whale. Seriously, check it out, it's a hoot.

And I promise that at your next dinner, you'll be sneering "Have a potato" like Ernest Thesiger. Just watch the movie, you'll see. #ghostbusters
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Hamslicer
10/30/09

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One of my favorite comedy scenes is from the original Dawn of the Dead.
Where upon refueling an idling helicopter, our hero searches for his gun to dispatch an approaching zombie. Said zombie steps up on a curb, lifting the top of his head within range of the rotating blades, cutting off the top of his head and saving our hero, who slowly looks upwards at the rotating blades.
-scene- #ghostbusters
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Dirk Anger
10/30/09

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Shaun of the dead being a RomCom with zombies is hardly a stretch #ghostbusters
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tbrunner
10/30/09

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I don't think any discussion of horror-comedy is complete without mentioning Transylvania 6-5000. #ghostbusters
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