No need to add water. It's included in the montage. And don't look for any sharks, sea monsters or squids. The clips only include our murderous human companions. And probably best to let it load all the way before playing. Enjoy.
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Good to the last drop!
Loren Eiseley, you are avenged!
Before Bill gets in a dismissive jab like "Hey, where's the raft scene from Creepshow 2!", let me saw well done!
The Diabolique death scene is one of my favorites.
Can you leak (water pun!) to me what the drowning hockey kids is from? I instantly wanna see that.
That shore was good!
Fox - That's from The Dead Zone. What the hell, man.
Fox, let me answer that by first responding to Arbogast: If only Johnny Smith had been there to tell Loren's dad that the ice was "gonna break!"
There. Now go look up the names and you'll get it. As long as you're in the Zone that is.
Damn you Bill! I wanted Fox to look it up!
Hey, wait a minute - are you not at work today because you always say you can't watch video at work.
I shore am oar-fully shore-y!
PS - Gene Tierney is cold.
There are a couple of clips I can't identify, such as the one of the pretty young thing who gets her head shoved down into the bathtub. I really loved hearing that song again; it put me in a hippie dippie (get it?!) good mood that seeing people killed didn't diminish in the least.
No, I'm at work. That weird glitch seems to be a thing of the past.
Yeah, I couldn't identify that clip, either, Arbo. It was rather disturbing. She had this look on her face like she hoped he wasn't going to do it, but she knew that if he did, she wouldn't be able to stop him.
The more I watch this, the more I'm convinced that the dead chick floating face down next to the empty milk jug has an ass that won't quit.
The more I watch this, the more I'm convinced that the dead chick floating face down next to the empty milk jug has an ass that won't quit.
God Bless the pause button. And it's come so far from those early days of VCRs when you tried to pause the tape during the best parts of My Tutor.
p.s. Bill's not gonna quit with the water puns, is he?
Sorry to disappear but stupid, dumb, jerkwad work intervened, as it will again shortly. Work sucks. Can't they just pay me to blog?
Anyway, the tub girl is Lisa Langlois from John Huston's Phobia. It's not Huston's finest hour. It was on cable a lot in the early eighties so I remembered that scene when going through drowning scenes in my head to use for this. She does a great job with her facial expressions there. I really feel for her. And not that anyone cares but... SPOILER... she doesn't immediately freak out because it's her psychiatrist who is supposed to be helping her with her fear of drowning phobia that is doing the killing. None other than Paul Michael Glaser.
Unfortunately Arbo, her ass did quit, as it slowly bloated, then festered, then was eaten away by water rats.
I wasn't gonna say anything about that girl's ass, but yeah. She must have had a chewing gum walk: very wrigley. When she was alive, I mean.
Lisa Langlois turned up recently in some awful Sci-Fi Channel thing about a fire-breathing I don't even remember. She plays a nosy news reporter who is momentarily possessed by the fire demon, cuts her camerawoman in half with her fire eyes, and then falls dead in one of the most laughably ungainly falls in movie history - the literal definition of ass over tea kettle. (Well, minus the kettle.) I felt bad for her, considering how hot she was back in the day. Well, life is a short glass of water.
Langlois' first two big films were directed by Claude Chabrol and then shortly thereafter, John Huston. True, Phobia may be his worst movie but still, Chabrol and Huston. And then ... nothing. Her career never went anywhere.
And yes Bill, Tierney is cold as hell in Leave Her to Heaven. Until I finally saw it a few years ago on cable I had always thought it was romance soap opera. I mean, it has a soap opera kind of a feel, but I had no idea she was going to be leading little boys to their drowning deaths.
I just realized I forgot to load this up to my YouTube page. Oh well, I'll do it when I get home. Home... away from this stupid job that pays me and expects me to work for it! Jesus they're presumptuous!
Great job, Jonathan. Wow. I love the last two scenes you chose to end the montage with ... the struggle is now over, death has arrived, and all is still.
Really good job.
Thank you Sheila! I'm glad you liked it. Sunset Boulevard and Night of the Hunter were two clear choices when I started. I hemmed and hawed over what else to include but knew from the get go I wanted to end with those two.
You mean "from the wet go."
You mean "Dew stream 'from the wet go'".
You mean from ... oh wait we're talking about me.
I had tidal wave of puns earlier but now I'm coming up dry. I guess that's just how these things ebb and flow.
Lapper... that's the second time you've used the "tidal wave" pun today! (see below post) Come on, bro!
p.s. You know, you're playing with fire when introducing "wet" vs. "dry" puns... especially with pervs like Arbo and Bill in the house.
Arbo and Bill? You mean you! Oh and I figured puns were allowed to be used at least once on every post hence the double usage. And I just figured it would tide everyone over until I could come up with something better.
Shore will!
Shore.
BILL! That's the fourth time you've used "shore" today! (and don't reply back with "Are you shore about that??"!)
You shore are right that I've used it a lot today, Fox, but I'm pretty shore i've used it more like five or six times (not counting this post)
I love these videos. I'm always amazed by how many film clips you manage to get into them. I kept waiting for The Creature from the Black Lagoon to show up but I think I missed him. Nice song choice too!
Wat-er you guys doing here?
Oh yeah, I'm using that every day from now on.
fox,
love the ass that won't quit bit about the dead chick. You could chip a tooth on that cold dead ass.
dr. orlapper,
May I say that this is a wonderful piece. I can only imagine your wife running around with all your kids whilst you toil over the computer editing these clips together. Unless you have your kids do it for you in a sweatshop kind of way and if that's the case I say, brilliant.
And thank you ever so much for the Leaver Her To Heaven clip. I so love that movie.
Again I say, well done.
Countess, glad you could make it. As I said in the brief written intro, just humans no sharks, creatures, monsters or otherwise. But fear not, the creature figures quite prominently in tomorrow's post and banner. It's a double creature feature!
And Atlantis by Donovan is pretty catchy once you get past the unintentionally hilarious spoken intro, which by the way I never skip over when listening to, it's too entertaining. It just didn't fit this. But as Donovan says at the end of his spoken intro, "Hail Atlantis!"
I think you "missed the boat" by not including Open Water. The plunge beneath the surface of the sea would have been like an exclamation point at the end of the film.
Otherwise, you had my favorite - Night of the Hunter.
Thank you Evil Clown. You nailed it with the sweatshop guess. Right now they're at home working on a montage comparing the different versions of Oliver Twist through the years. If they get it finished in less than a week they get an extra bowl of gruel.
And in a montage about drowning deaths (primarily) you gotta have Leave Her to Heaven.
Mer-Marilyn - Sorry, I haven't seen Open Water. You know me, I've seen 10 percent of all movies made in the last ten years. As such, it wasn't on my radar for this. But Night of the Hunter sure was. And I chose not to do the closeup only because I'm using that part for a banner.
In all honesty I wasn't sure if the memo was totally serious (all the humor around here lately is throwing me off) since in my mind Jason is a monster and not exactly human. My apologies for the confusion! I will say that I was happy no giant sharks were in the clip but I guess they'll arrive tomorrow.
Since I just mentioned giant sharks . . .
Did anyone else see South Park's jab at Lucas and Spielberg last night? I think I busted a gut laughing.
I wish Seahunt had been a movie - all those underwater knife fights would have been naturals for this.
Go see Open Water. t's so scary, it'll make you wet your trousers.
p.s. No doubt women's groups and Lucas/Spielberg are going to go ballistic over the South Park epsiode so I suspect it will never be shown again.
Go see Open Water. It's so scary, it'll make you wet your trousers.
Dang Marilyn, you is easy!
p.s. No doubt women's groups... are going to go ballistic over the South Park epsiode
I love it already.
Does anyone remember the South Park episode where they spoofed "truthers"? Afterwards, Alex Jones lost it and called them every name in the book ("collaborators", "plants", Jews, etc.) and posted calls for boycots and such on all three of his websites. I think like 11 people followed his orders.
Another vote for Open Water. I have the DVD if you want to send one of the kids over to pick it up.
Can you imagine if we did live that close?
Mer-Marilyn - I like your description so much I had to quickly throw together a banner. I'm fast with banners. Enjoy!
By "kids" you mean me and Bill, right?
Countess - I'm going to check that out online. You've got my curiosity up!
Open Water is, indeed, very good. It really got to me. The ending that so many people found so objectionable was brilliant.
And I saw South Park last night. The spoof of The Accused was...wow.
Close? Who care? They're sweatshop labor. I'll put one on a bus today. I'll even give him an extra thermos of gruel.
Anyone know what movie my Open Water banner is from?
Oh, and Fox - I hope you'll be happy to know that early next week you, yes you, are name-checked in one of my banners. Hope you like it.
OK, since three of my respected colleagues actually have endorsed Open Water (aka poop ice cream), I am going to take a one hour leave and hope the topic moves on ... ok, maybe just a 5 minute leave.
Good work, Doc! Definitely the right spirit.
I'm surprised there haven't been any tasteless Natalie Wood jokes yet. Fox?
Natalie Wood peed herself? In that case, Jonathan, your Open Water banner must be from Rebel Without a Cause. It's from the famous "peeing" scene.
Natalie Wood was too sweet. I'm certainly not going there. And don't worry, Fox has probably never heard of her.
Natalie Wood! OMG... she is so messed up and vulnerably HOT in Splendor In The Grass!
I also don't want to get into any Natalie Wood jokes, but did you guys know Christopher Walken was on that boat, too? That's nutty.
Hold up... why is Natalie Wood off limits? Did we finally breach the area of bad tastes on THIS blog??
Lapper-
Is the banner from a Hitchcock movie?
Jokes about death are fine. I rarely find jokes about the deaths of real, decent human being funny, however. But if you want to make a joke about Hitler having to shoot himself twice because he was such a dang dummy, have at it. That guy was a jerk, no two ways about it.
I found Open Water terribly depressing. That's not really for or against it I guess.
Lapper,
I need a nice sweater and hat for the upcoming months. Can you get your kids on that for me?
Sweatshop Humor = FINE
Natalie Wood Humor = OFF-LIMITS
I HATE YOU GUYS!!!
Your banner's from Deliverance maybe?
And good grief I never want to see Phobia again. I didn't realize it was in your montage until I read all the comments. Not Huston's finest hour but it was still better than Tentacles. Thankfully Huston only appeared in Tentacles and wasn't responsible for directing it.
A collection of some clips from the new South Park can be found here but the entire episode really needs to be seen in.
Oh come on Fox, you can see the difference. Making a joke about a purely fantastical situation, like my kids sweatshopping my movies is fine. Making jokes about some real child somewhere forced into labor, well that's different. And as for known figures, I think Bill supplies a pretty good rule of thumb.
Speaking of which,
Evil Clown - What size?
The top banner is Deliverence but I meant the Open Water banner in the comments. And now I have to go unfortunately. I'll check out those links as soon as I'm home Countess. Thanks.
You can watch the full versions of every South Park, including last night's, here:
www.southparkstudios.com
There's so many banners around here, I'm obviously getting confused!
And I have to agree with Evil Clown about Open Water. I'm afraid that I'm not as fond of the movie as everyone else is. I'd personally rather watch Dark Water again (the remake and the original) instead.
p.s. Thanks for the tip about South Park, Bill! I had no idea you could watch entire episodes online. Please ignore my link everyone and go right to the source.
No problem, CDW! I did a lot of catching up with South Park on that website, which is fairly new, I think. I saw some hilarious episodes, and some that still give me nightmares (like the episode about Satan's Sweet Sixteen birthday party...).
Egad, Countess, I'm imagining you and me (in an alternate universe where we're not married to our better halves) on a nightmare double feature first date of The Descent and Open Water. The dust up in the parking lot would have been something to see.
You forgot to add Robert Hartford-Davis's Corruption to our list of disagreements! I love that movie and you don't.
Open Water and The Descent are not particularly bad movies by any means. They just didn't rock my world. High expectations probably played a part since both movies were hyped. I don't really see Open Water as a horror film either. In my mind it's more a survival story with two characters I didn't care too much for (maybe like Deliverance but nowhere near as good?) and as evil clown said, I also found it "depressing" instead of frightening. By the way, someone has uploaded Open Water to Youtube in 9 parts.
I will say that I probably liked Open Water more then The Descent to some degree. I've got serious issues with The Descent that I still need to work out with a second viewing but I'm not eager to revisit it.
I keep forgetting how to spell my name. That's just sad.
I found Open Water to be a brilliant study of something-terrible-happening that is no one's fault, really, but everything to do with personal choices... from the desire of the protagonists to be left alone by the world (be careful what you wish for) to the 5 minutes of alpha dog asshole-ishness on the part of one of their tour companions that ultimately dooms them. Horror without villainy - you just don't get that very often.
Yep, I'm with Arbogast. Add to that some really haunting musical choices, some really beautiful photography (or, I guess, videography), and a naked lady in a bed, and you've got a winner on your hands.
You know Kimberly, you could also be the Contessa. But I don't know if you're wearing shoes or not so I won't get Humphrey Bogart involved.
I liked Descent myself but I have not seen Open Water. I'm extremely bad at seeing movies made within a decade or so of the present date. There are about 10,000 from the sixties on back that I still haven't seen so I always end up giving those the priority. I just checked my Netflix queue out of curiosity and indeed, not counting the movies the kids have in their the most recent one I have in The House the Dripped Blood. I'm sure most people would find that pathetic or even "irresponsible" for a movie blogger but I don't care. Hitting my cinephiliac prime in the seventies and eighties I've seen tons of movies from those decades and up to about 1996 or so saw most everything that came out and then I started filling in the gaps historically and I still haven't stopped. All that said though, I've heard great things about Open Water and would like to see it but I'm sure it won't be anytime soon.
Arbo - After reading your thoughts about Open water I think we somewhat agree on a few things except I don't remember feeling much of anything for the two protagonists except sad for them when it ended. But did I deeply care for them? Not particularly. Maybe you really have to care about the film's stars to love the movie? If someone can relate to the couple and their problematic marriage then I think they'll probably be drawn into the film more.
I obviously felt sorry for the couple to some degree from the get go and their final outcome didn't surprise me. It just sort of depressed me. I was more sad then anything else when it finally ended and somewhat relived, which is why I agreed with evil clown.
And I do believe "survival" is an incredibly important element of the film. Someone could make a great argument about Open Water being entirely about the survival of the couple's marriage/relationship as well as the survival of hope in the face of adversity (or in a not so sunny post 9/11 reality?). Everything else in the film (the sharks, the water, etc.) could easily be seen as filler or obvious metaphors representing the couple's separation fears and anxiety about the loss of personal identity after marriage. Survival is key here.
As I said before, it's not a bad film. I just didn't personally find it particularly frightening or horrific. Naturally sharks and deep water bring out a primeval fear in most people but the shock of that wore off rather quickly for me. For others, that fear was obviously carried throughout the whole film.
I do hope Jonathan gives it a look himself though.
I'm thinking we should be discussing this on your blog (you should write about the movie) so my apologies to Jonathan for taking over this thread.
Apologies? Absolutely unnecessary. Have you seen what happens to these comment threads? Please, I welcome thoughtful discussion like this. I'm glad for any in depth movie discussion here. I'm just sorry I'm so sucky about seeing new movies. I just have very limited time so I go with the older stuff for now but that won't last forever.
Now it's my turn to say no apologies necessary! I don't watch a lot of new movies either. Horror movies are the only exception. I watch almost everything. I even watch the crappy sci-fi channel horror movies that play on Saturday night.
I've walked into a movie theater twice this year. Once to see Cloverfield and the other film I saw was Mongol because I'm a history nerd who loves Tadanobu Asano. I have been begging my man to take me to see Quarantine or W this weekend but I don't know if I can convince him that they're worth the ticket price. In all honesty 75% of the movies currently playing hold no interest for me.
In all honesty 75% of the movies currently playing hold no interest for me.
Yeah, that pretty much sums it up for me too.
I obviously felt sorry for the couple to some degree from the get go
You mean "from the wet go."
Well that went swimingly . . .
Meanwhile, I'm just made about Saffron . . .
That's something because it turns out Saffron's mad about me. Oh by the way, I should introduce myself: They call me Mellow Yellow (quite rightly I might add).
And they have from the wet go!
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